Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Galina Angarova is a longtime advocate for Indigenous people's groups and the Executive Director of Cultural Survival, which is a nonprofit organization that fights for Indigenous Peoples' rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures, and political resilience. In this podcast episode, Galina sheds light on how the diversity of cultures and languages impact biodiversity;...

Austin Whitman is the CEO of Climate Neutral, a new platform helping brands measure, reduce, and offset their entire carbon footprint in a comprehensive manner. He oversees all aspects of the organization in its mission to drive investment into greenhouse gas reductions, and brands that work with Climate Neutral and meet their standards can attain their label, Climate Neutral Certified. In this po...

Jason Bradford is a biologist, farmer, and the Board President of the Post Carbon Institute, an organization that provides individuals and communities with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated ecological, economic, energy, and equity crises of the 21st century. He notably authored The Future is Rural: Food system adaptations to the great simplification , which present...

Ane Alencar is the Director of Science for the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, a scientific, non-governmental, nonpartisan, and nonprofit organization that has worked for the sustainable development of the Amazon since 1995. In this podcast episode, Ane sheds light on the ongoing issues of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest; how the manmade forest fires have been changing its bioregio...

Rob Greenfield (previously featured in episode 98) is an activist and humanitarian dedicated to sustainability, equality, and justice. He just spent an entire year growing and foraging all of his own food, so we invited him back to tell us how his experience went! In this podcast episode, Rob sheds light on the key motivations behind his bold decisions to voluntarily earn no more than the federal...

Ezra Silk is the co-founder of The Climate Mobilization and the author of the organization's 108-page Victory Plan, which is an influential exploration of how the federal government can organize and implement a mobilization to save civilization from the Climate Emergency and ecological crisis. In this podcast episode, Ezra sheds light on what it means to push for a World War II-scale mobilization...

Ronnie Cummins is the co-founder of the Organic Consumers Association and its affiliate in Mexico, Via Organica, as well as a member of the Steering Committee at Regeneration International. His latest book is Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal. In this podcast episode, Ronnie sheds light on his path towards building a grassroots movement of millions...

Ashleigh Brown is the co-founder of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, which is a grassroots nonprofit organization that builds research, training and innovation centers for ecological restoration all around the world. If you're wondering how you can get your hands dirty to help restore degraded lands, enrich ecosystems with biodiversity, and sequester soil carbon, this conversation is one not to be mis...

Christopher D. Cook is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of the acclaimed book, Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis . His writing has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, The Economist, The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other national publications. In this podcast episode, Christopher sheds light o...

Dr. Daphne Miller is a family physician, science writer, research scientist, author, and Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco. She is also the author of Jungle Effect and the founder of the Health from the Soil Up Initiative , where she studies the connections among health, culture, and agriculture, with the goal of building a healthier and more resilient food system fr...

Dr. Christopher Ryan is a psychologist, the podcast host of Tangentially Speaking , and the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships . His latest book—a fascinating read which critically and inquisitively examines how civilization has affected our livelihoods and wellbeing as humans—is Civilized to Death: The Pric...

Shaun Chamberlin is the founder of Dark Optimism, a not-for-profit, research and activist organization that is positive about the kind of world humanity can create while being realistic about how far we have to go to create that future. Shaun was also one of the first Extinction Rebellion arrestees, is the co-author of the book, Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath...

Pierre Paslier is an innovation design engineer and the co-founder and co-CEO of NOTPLA an innovative, eco-conscious packaging startup. His company's main and most well-known invention is Ooho, an edible water packet made of seaweed. In this podcast episode, Pierre sheds light on how he learned from biomimicry to develop and fine-tune his idea to package drinks in edible packets; the difference be...

Rebecca Burgess is the Executive Director of Fibershed, Chair of the Board for Carbon Cycle Institute, and the author of Harvesting Color and Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy. In our concluding part 2 of our 2-part conversation, Rebecca sheds light on why the real solutions we need for our ecological crises will likely be undervalued...

Rebecca Burgess, previously featured in episode 61, is the Executive Director of Fibershed, Chair of the Board for Carbon Cycle Institute, and the author of Harvesting Color. Her newest book is Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy.  In this episode, Rebecca sheds light on how we came to globalize our fashion system; the known and unknown...

Dory Trimble is the Executive Director of Honnold Foundation, a nonprofit organization started by Alex Honnold, the professional rock climber and star of the Oscar and Emmy award-winning documentary Free Solo . The Honnold Foundation works to reduce the world's environmental impact while addressing social inequalities by providing solar power access to those who need it most—both in the United Sta...

Josué Rivas is the founder of Natives Photograph and a visual storyteller and educator working at the intersection of art, journalism, and social justice. He's been a long-time collaborator of youth climate activist and hip hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (featured in EP41), and his work aims to challenge the mainstream narrative about Indigenous peoples, build awareness around issues affecting Na...

Amy Lewis is an award-winning non-profit leader, environmental policy scholar, and Vice President of Policy & Communications for WILD Foundation, an organization that has been protecting wilderness, wildlife, and people through collaboration and connection since 1974. In this podcast episode, Amy sheds light on some surprising lessons regarding the relationship between policy and science; why...

Steven Marquardt is a community organizer and Hub Coordinator Fellow with Sunrise Movement Chico, a chapter of the notable youth-led climate activist organization Sunrise Movement. In this podcast episode, Steven sheds light on why he wasn't initially interested in getting political and what changed his mind; how you can get started with taking and leading community-based action; and more.   Featu...

Entomologists Kristie Reddick and Jessica Honaker are the co-founders of The Bug Chicks. They teach about arthropods (and Social-Emotional Learning) using educational programs and videos that are positive, fun, and that promote girls as role models. In this podcast episode, Kristie and Jessica shed light on whether there are evolutionary reasons behind our fear and aversion to bugs; how arthropods...

Pete Gombert is the founder of the GoodWell Certified label and a co-founder of indieDwell, a Public Benefit Corporation focused on building durable, healthy, affordable, and energy-efficient homes to help address our housing crisis. In this podcast episode, Pete sheds light on what it means for companies to meet GoodWell's minimum ethical standard for the treatment of their employees; how afforda...

Dr. Mark Vossler is a full-time cardiologist in Seattle, Washington and serves as the President of the Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), a movement of physicians championing climate action, social equity, and environmental justice. As the President of the Washington PSR chapter, Mark regularly visits Washington, D.C. to talk with the U.S. Congress about climate poli...

Elizabeth Whitlow is the Executive Director of the Regenerative Organic Alliance, which is a nonprofit that is leading the Regenerative Organic Certification (ROC), a holistic, high-bar certification that encompasses soil health, animal welfare, and social fairness. In this podcast episode, Elizabeth sheds light on how we can tell regenerative agriculture apart to support it with our purchases thr...

Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali is an internationally renowned thought-leader, strategist, policymaker, and activist committed to the fight for environmental justice and economic equity. He helped to lead environmental justice efforts at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for 24 years, and in 2017, he resigned to join Hip Hop Caucus, a nonprofit linking culture and policy to make our...

Michael Brune is the Executive Director of Sierra Club, one of the most enduring and influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States. He is also the author of 'Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal.' In this podcast episode, Michael Brune sheds light on why we cannot forget about exploring and enjoying nature as a part of our environmental work; the rol...