Indigenous Earth Community Podcast

Today we talk to Sage Lacapa, Earth Ambassador and folk singer.  Sage shares an emotional acoustic guitar song he wrote for a friend that could not talks about their feelings since there is a lack of coping mechanism living on a reservation.  Sage then tell us how he was able to about earn the knowledge of traditional plants by getting involved with the elders, and how now, he passes that knowledg...

"We can't talk about deforestation in Mexico without talking about herbicides and the mowing of Milkweed in the US. Both are harming the Monarchs, and solving these problems will help bring their populations back up. We have to cooperate."⁣ In this episode I talk to Jose Luis Alvarez Alcala, a Mexican tree nurseryman, who has for decades been growing trees for reforestation projects. He tells me a...

Looking for inspiration to honor Mother Earth? In this episode, we hear from Indigenous youth, from grade school to college age, and their #EarthDayEveryDay efforts. Nathaniel Sayas, Zunneh-bah Martin, Shundeen-bah Martin, Nizhoni-bah Martin, and Atsa-bah Martin share their thoughts and efforts to participate in Earth Day and what it takes to create a strong and healthy community.  Learn about how...

My next guest is Nkusi Gerald, an eco warrior,  adventurer,  promoter of diversity, a youth ambassador for climate change, and a passionate travel guide in Africa. We talk about the challenge that people don’t necessary see the benefit of conservation, and the ways they we can adapt to the changing climate, turning  challenges into an opportunity, such as Nkusi is doing working on food security. H...

Today is a very special episode with Sky Wildcat from The Cherokee Nation, I meet Sky last year on UNITY's conference in Orlando, as Sky joined myself and other Earth Ambassadors to do some Eco Action cleaning a local spot of litter, and we organized, and did a presentation on learning to culturally care for the environment and water conservation.    In this episode, we talk about her experience r...

In today's episode, we will go all the way to the Northern part of Sumatra in Indonesia to speak to Ridanto Sembirign, part of the Karo people, and founder of the Indonesian Species Conservation Program. We start our conversation with a beautiful nature prayer, we talk about his efforts to bring local communities to appreciate and care for their local environment. His work to release wildlife back...

Happy to start our first episode with Zunneh-bah Martin. Zunneh-bah is an advocate for nonviolent social change, Indigenous/civil rights, and environmental protection. We catch up and talk about her experience going to the White House to promote indigenous rights, her living inside the Navajo reservation during the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, and ways we can give back to mother.