Rolling Hills, Green Pastures
A new podcast by Carmen Aguirre
Produced by Electric Company Theatre
Presented as part of Climate Change and Other Small Talk — a theatrical podcast series created by Sunny Drake and produced in association with Why Not Theatre and 9 companies around the world.
With a satirical tone, Core Artist Carmen Aguirre’s episode Rolling Hills, Green Pastures, probes the US Army’s “going green” initiatives. Esperanza Soto welcomes new recruits to a U.S. drone centre. Run entirely on wind energy, the centre is part of the U.S. Army’s Green Military Movement. One of the drone operators is a climate refugee from Vancouver. What choices will they make when climate refugees attempt to cross the border from Mexico?
On May 29, 2023, we hosted a live activation event in partnership with The Cultch, The Wilderness Committee and DogwoodBC. Carmen and environmental academic, writer and host of the podcast the Anti-Empire Project, Justin Podur, met to speak about a number of topics around climate and how we can make changes.
Listen to the entire series below and on RePlay Series, hosted by our partners The Cultch.
Special thanks to BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver Cultural Services, Canada Council for the Arts, Monarch Studios, and Progress Lab 1422.
Community Partners
The Wilderness Committee is people-powered wilderness preservation for a wild future. Founded in 1980 as a registered non-profit society and federal charity, 60,000 supporters, volunteers, and activists from coast to coast to coast work together to preserve wilderness, protect wildlife, defend parks, safeguard public resources and fight for a stable and healthy climate. Our head office is in Vancouver, with field offices in Victoria, Winnipeg and Toronto.
DogwoodBC is a people-powered organization driven by a shared love of place. We bring together people across the political spectrum to work on the urgent challenges facing our home. Our staff work in places across B.C., anchoring volunteer organizing teams in dozens of key ridings. The goal is to build a grassroots base of engaged citizens ready to take action outside of the existing political party system.
