The Response
A journey through a diverse collection of remarkable communities and movements figuring out how to build power, solidarity, and connection in a world beset by disasters — both natural and human-caused.
From hurricanes to wildfires to reactionary politics and more, The Response's audio documentaries and interviews highlight some of the most inspiring stories of response and pave a path towards the better world we know is possible.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 92
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Documentary #6: Reimagining Paradise in an age of climate disruption
In this age of climate disruption and record shattering mega-fires, hurricanes, and the many other disasters wrecking havoc around the world, how do you rebuild from scratch?
Allen Myers grew up in …
Bottom-up politics in urban landscapes: Interview with author Barbara Brown Wilson
Every element of a city’s design, from a neighborhood’s street lighting to a sidewalk’s drainage to the shape of the skyline, has politics behind it. It’s not always clear what those politics are, or…
Documentary #5: Inequality, structural racism, and the fight for justice after the Grenfell Tower fire
The Response revisits a disaster that has its roots in inequality, austerity, and institutional racism. On June 14, 2017, a fire started in a 24-story public housing apartment building in West London…
Preparing for climate chaos now: Interview with disasterologist Dr. Samantha Montano
When discussing climate change these days, it’s no longer suitable to simply imagine its impacts on “future generations.” It’s also not exactly appropriate to imagine the result of climate change as …
Transitioning from competition to collective resilience: Interview with Sebastien Maire, Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Paris
An in depth interview with Paris’s Chief Resilience Officer, Sebastian Maire, about what that city has been doing in order to build resilience in the face of the climate crisis.
The conversation cove…
Documentary #4: Fighting misinformation in the aftermath of the Mexico City earthquake
In the first episode of our second season, The Response travels to Mexico City and puts the focus on the 2017 Puebla Earthquake — a magnitude 7.1 quake that toppled over forty buildings, caused over …
Healing population-wide trauma from Gaza to Parkland: Interview with Dr. Jim Gordon of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Last month, Shareable writer Aaron Fernando spoke at length with Dr. Gordon, about his innovative approach to working with trauma caused by social, political, and environmental disasters.
From the o…
Extended Interview: Mara Ventura, UndocuFund and North Bay Jobs With Justice
Going beyond simply analyzing the dynamics of the 2017 Tubbs Fire and Undocufund, the interview explores the broader issues faced by the undocumented community in California, as well as the importanc…
Documentary #3: Uneven Burns in Northern California
The third episode of The Response travels to Northern California to provide a unique perspective on the topics of climate change and immigration. We put the focus on last year’s Tubbs Fire in Santa R…
Documentary #2: How Puerto Ricans are restoring power to the people through Mutual Aid
In this second episode of our new radio documentary series The Response, we shine a spotlight on Puerto Rico. When Hurricane Maria slammed into the island about a year ago, it resulted in thousands o…
Documentary #1: A Radical Approach to Disaster Relief
How do we respond to natural disasters? What comes to mind? Large relief organizations like the American Red Cross? Or perhaps the Federal Emergency and Management Agency? Well, those images are cert…
The Response Project
The Response from Shareable.net, is a documentary film, book, and podcast series exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters.
Climate-fueled disasters are ra…