Hi Everyone,

Yesterday I had a great interview and conversation with Dr. Heidi Hutner about her work and passion, teaching young adults about sustainability and ecofeminism. Her story is personal and very moving, and was her inspiration in becoming a researcher and delving into the topic of environmental contamination, sustainability, and ecofeminism. When asking her what ecofeminism was, she said it was a movement to raise the voices of women who have been working on environmental issues since Rachel Carson’s, Silent Spring, and to re-calibrate environmental safety standards to represent women and children. The current standards are all based on men, who are bigger and weigh more than most women, and for children , who are smaller, are closer to the ground and more susceptible to toxins.

Dr. Heidi Hutner is a professor of Sustainability and English at Stony Brook University and a scholar of nuclear and environmental history and eco-feminism.  Her current project is writing the book that will accompany the film she is working on,  ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN; The Women of Three Mile Island!  The book, ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN: VOICES OF WOMEN AND NUCLEAR DISASTERS will accompany the documentary and forms the basis of the film series.

If you missed our interview, you can listen to it below.

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