Young, Loud and Green

Young, loud, green and 20 episodes in 🎙️ For this milestone, it’s just the two of us behind the mics looking back at the moments, the guests, and the absolute chaos that got us here. 🎬 If you take one thing away from our first 20 episodes, let it be this: Don’t wait for the perfect circumstances to take action, because they will never exist. We have to create them ourselves.

War is a human tragedy first, but it is also an ecological one. How do we talk about the environment without losing sight of the devastating human cost? 👥 In this episode of Young, Loud, and Green, we’re joined by Vishnu Sunil, a climate scientist who has spent his 20s in the field, from the high-altitude forests of South Asia to the jungles of Borneo. We tackle a topic that is often sidelined be...

In a world hit by energy crises and inflation📈, how do small businesses stay afloat? The answer might be greener than you think 🌱. This week, we’re joined by Miruna and Adelina from Social Innovation Solutions to discuss about the practical side of the green transition in Central and Eastern Europe. ​🛡️The Inflation Shield: Why smarter resource management is the best defense against the current...

“We don’t want money. We want a seat at the table”. In our latest episode, we’re zooming out of the European bubble to talk climate power with Michael Kakande, founder of @Resilient40. Michael dropped some mind-blowing reality checks that we can’t stop thinking about: 📊 The Leadership Gap: The median age in Africa is 19, but the median age of its leaders is 65. How do we bridge a 46-year gap in c...

The Planetary Plate: Mindful Eating for a Changing Climate 🎙️ What if the secret to a sustainable planet was already on your plate? 🍽️ This week on Young, Loud and Green, we’re sitting down with Sofia Botelli to reframe the conversation around healthy eating 🥗 - moving beyond weight loss to focus on planetary impact. We dive into the three pillars of a “Planetary Health Diet”: Eating Local, Eatin...

More than Words on Paper: The Eco-Manifesto 🎙️ Starting an environmental NGO in Bulgaria isn’t just about protecting the scenery - it’s about breaking through a wall of inertia. 🧱🌱 With the founder of ManEco, Vihren Mitev, we’re going behind the scenes of the Ecological Manifesto. We discuss the real-world barriers of launching a movement where the topic was once non-existent, and why we need a...

Spilling the Tea (and the River): Hydropower 101 🎙️ Hydropower is usually sold as the “ultimate” green energy - but is it actually a win for the planet, or just a win for the people building the dams? 🌊🤔 This week, with Redon Katroshi, Chair of YCDF Albania, we’re looking past the marketing to see what’s really happening in the Balkans. We’re breaking down the physics, the finances and the frict...

“Just Transition” is the phrase on everyone’s lips, but who is it actually for? In this episode of Young, Loud, and Green 🎙️, we sit down with Nikoleta to look past the buzzwords and get back to the roots of the movement. We dive deep into the messy origins of the term -born from labor organizations- and tackle the elephant in the room: Can we truly achieve a “just” transition within a capitalist...

Individual responsibility, climate anxiety, collective activism, and touching grass all in one episode. 🌿 This week we’re joined by Eva Iliadi, Corporate Relations Officer at We4All, a tree-planting NGO that has already planted 3 million trees worldwide. 🌳🌍 We talk about: ✨ Why policy must center the most affected communities ✨ Why you do matter - even when it feels like you don’t ✨ How tree...

Young, Loud and Green is back for 2026 with a new episode that’s sure to inspire you. ⚡️ We sit down with Danielle Lanyard, the founder of Climate Quilt, to explore why this moment in history is unlike any other, and why youth are at the very center of climate solutions. Danielle speaks emotively about why today’s social movements can only succeed by bringing together generations, cultures, and b...

Our 10th and final episode of 2025 is here ✨ Since August we’ve been building this community one conversation at a time - and we saved this one for last. We came across Global Nation this October in Romania at the Climate Change Summit - reshaping how we think about solidarity, activism, and the future we’re stepping into. 🌍 Together, with Anna Hope, we explored generational tensions, how climat...

From self-organized energy communities to reclaiming collective agency 💥, this episode dives into what hope looks like when institutions fail. A conversation about networks, community power, and why democracy sometimes starts with your neighbors. 🧍‍♀️🧍

What’s the difference between climate and environmental justice and what does it really mean in Southeast Europe - a region caught between ambition and inequality? In this conversation with UNICEF, we dive deep into environmental justice, youth activism, and the quiet contradictions of the green transition. From climate gentrification to the myth of “leaders of tomorrow,” we ask: Who’s carrying th...

As the world gears up for COP30 in Brazil, we’re diving deep into what this Conference of the Parties really needs to achieve and who actually gets a seat at the table. In this episode, we unpack: 🌍 The priorities of COP30 and why they matter. 🏝️ How small states like Tuvalu and Barbados have made global waves - and why the Balkans could be next. 🧠 Why some young leaders unintentionally gatekeep...

As the Youth Climate Diplomacy Forum marks its first full year of operations and ahead of its 2nd Regional Conference, we sit down with Professor Emmanuella Doussis, Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Climate Diplomacy, under whose auspices the YCDF operates. 🌱 In this insightful conversation, Professor Doussis unpacks how language shapes our understanding of the climate crisis, what solutions ar...

From coffee shop chats to climate action. ☕️🌿 In this episode, we sit down with Florent Demelezi, Chair of YCDF Kosovo who organized the YCDF Café workshop at the Western Balkans Youth Forum 2025, organized by RYCO within the Berlin Process, to unpack how young people from across the Balkans turned flipcharts, quizzes, and maps into powerful conversations on pollution, policy, and cross-border c...

What does the world need now more than ever? Hope ✨. That’s why we invited Başak Almaz, Research Assistant at Istanbul Aydin University and Chair of Turkiye’s Local Council 🇹🇷, to join us and share how hope can reshape the way we think about climate change 🌱. This might not be Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism album 🐬, but it’s packed with fresh perspectives to lift you out of climate doom and into a...

🌱 Climate as a Bridge: Rethinking the Balkan Future 🌱 What if climate action could do what politics never has-bring the Balkans together? Join us as we speak with a young NGO founder reshaping the region’s future, turning environmental challenges into opportunities for cooperation, peace, and youth-led change.

🌎 Who’s really leading the fight for our planet and who’s being left out? This podcast dives into ecofeminism, climate justice and gendered power, asking why women are on the frontlines but absent from global negotiations. Bold questions, uncomfortable truths, and a fresh lens on the climate movement 🌿🎀.

🎙️ SEE-ing Green: Youth Climate Diplomacy in Southeast Europe Young, Loud and Green is here, crossing borders and spotlighting the unstoppable rise of youth voices in climate diplomacy. From what even is youth climate diplomacy (and why it matters) to whether young people should work within broken systems or build new ones from scratch, we’re asking the bold questions and getting real answers. We...