Earthworks

Civic engagement doesn't have to feel like homework! Meghna Jayanth and Joost Vervoort are making the game All Will Rise, a narrative deck-builder where you play a climate lawyer prosecuting a billionaire for the murder of a river.

Most of us will never go scuba diving on a healthy coral reef. Dr. Erika Woolsey, National Geographic Explorer, marine scientist, and co-founder of The Hydrous, is trying to fix that. In this episode, we talk about the time she was a dive buddy for for 450 people in headsets in Washington, DC; what healthy coral reefs actually sound like (spoiler: not silent); why she thinks of motherhood and the...

The environmental movement has more tools than ever, and also more burnt out people than ever. Brigid McCormack lives on both sides of this story. In this episode, the former executive director of Audubon California and current California Environmental Voters board member answers questions from listeners about what’s happening right now in climate and conservation organizations, why they need more...

Rosanna Xia is an environmental reporter at the LA Times, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of California Against the Sea , and first-time documentary filmmaker. In sixteen years of covering California's coast, she's developed a philosophy of storytelling that seeks to help readers not just learn something, but do something.

What if the answer to climate anxiety isn't more data, but more play? Lil Milagro Henriquez is the founder and executive director of Mycelium Youth Network, where she's helping young people build climate resilience through radical imagination. What I’m taking away from this episode: Dreaming isn't frivolous. In this moment of collective failure of imagination, making space to dream huge isn't a lu...

Join us for a funny, fascinating reminder that the most powerful environmental stories focus on characters and plot, not lectures. Today's guest is award-winning novelist, former beekeeper, and accidental farmer Julie Carrick Dalton. Takeaways and Try-Its from This Episode Let your characters work it out. Julie hands off her big existential climate questions to her fictional characters and let's t...

Come explore a world of music, art, and environmental hope with Sarah Kraning. Sarah is a painter with synesthesia whose work bridges contemporary art and music cultures. In her ongoing project with global wildlife nonprofit Re:wild, she's fusing the colors, rhythms, and movements of nature with the emotional palette of popular music. In our conversation, we get into: Painting wildlife soundscapes...

Christa Avampato shares how she created Secrets and Lies, a live storytelling game show that brings secret New York City history to life. After surviving an apartment fire, cancer, and COVID shutdowns, Christa relaunched her show at Climate Week NYC with a focus on nature in the city. In this conversation, we explore what it takes to bring a creative vision to life when you've never done it before...

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