Harriet A. Washington [part 2]: Understanding the 'deadly monopolies' of the medical-industrial-complex (podcast interview)
In this podcast episode, Harriet sheds light on what the medical-industrial-complex is and how it's been crossing the lines in finding things to profit off of; how public health threats to people of color really should concern everybody in a society; and more.
Harriet A. Washington [part 1]: How environmental racism persists through de facto segregation (podcast interview)
Harriet sheds light on why environmental injustice is not just a matter socioeconomic status but also about race; how standardized tests such as the IQ test, created by the western education system, have been used as tools to perpetuate institutionalized injustice; and more.
Jerry Yudelson Of The Godfather Of Green: Sustaining activism through cultivating a practice of eco-spirituality (podcast interview)
In this podcast episode, Jerry sheds light on his experience as a long-time environmental activist and what we can learn from the past decades of the environmental movement; how he sees the relationship between spirituality, mindfulness, and sustainability; and more.
James Mcsweeney Of Compost Technical Services: Closing the loop of 'food waste' with community-scale composting (podcast interview)
In this podcast episode, James sheds light on our ‘food waste’ crisis, the challenges we face in implementing decentralized composting systems and scaling composting facilities, and more.
Maxine Bédat Of The New Standard Institute: Setting new standards for 'sustainability' in the fashion industry (podcast interview)
In this podcast episode, Maxine sheds light on how the New Standard Institute is going about setting a new standard for the fashion industry, especially when words such as sustainable and eco-friendly are not standardized and often are used as a greenwashing tool; why recycled microplastic fibers used in so-called eco athletic wear or swimwear, might not be as eco-friendly as it's made out to be; and more.
Tilke Elkins Of Wild Pigment Project: Cultivating place-based relationships through wild botanical and mineral pigments (podcast interview)
In this podcast episode, Tilke sheds light on how synthetic pigments came to dominate the industry of color; how working with place-based, wild-harvested pigments transforms our perceptions of color as consumers, creatives, or as artists; and more.
Willow Defebaugh Of Atmos: Exploring the intricate balance between the flourishing and decay of life (podcast interview)
In this podcast episode, Willow sheds light on what it means to understand nature as a divine mirror; what we can learn from the inevitable relationship between decay and growth in the living world; and more.
Gina Rae La Cerva: How our collective shift from eating wild to domesticated foods transformed our landscapes (ep245)
In this podcast episode, Gina Rae sheds light on how colonialism has disrupted and shifted our relationship with wild nature and wild foods—and by extension transformed our landscapes; the line between building reciprocity in relationship with our living world versus commodifying the wild; and more.
John Perkins: How economic hitmen perpetuate imperialism globally (ep244)
In this episode, John sheds light on what his work as an economic hit man entailed and how economic hitmen, to this day, perpetuate modern-day imperialism and colonialism; how we can transform our current death economy into a life economy, and what that might look like; and more.
Cristina Mittermeier Of Sealegacy: Inspiring care for our oceans and shared humanity with conservation photography (ep243)
In this podcast episode, Cristina shares how the theme of ‘enoughness’ has shown up in different ways and evolved throughout her lifetime; how integrating the immeasurable sacred ecology into our work in sustainability—otherwise focused on the technical details and numbers denoting impact—might deepen our sense of connection and purpose to support our overarching goals; and more.
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin: Decolonizing the food system through integrative agriculture (part 2)
In this podcast episode, Reginaldo shed light on the projects he has been working on to support regenerative agriculture; what we can do to help re-indigenize our perspectives and our food system; and more.
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin: Reindigenizing our myopic views of poverty for true wealth (ep241)
In this podcast episode, Reginaldo sheds light on the dominant western culture's myopic view of poverty; why it's dangerous to presumptively want to help ‘lift’ materially poor communities out of economic poverty while holding an incomplete worldview that is not universal; what the coronavirus pandemic reveals about what wealth really means in the face of a crisis; and more.
Lonny Grafman: Building community resilience with decentralized resources and systems (ep240)
In this podcast episode, Lonny sheds light on why it's so important for charity work to be community-centered and community-driven; how we can begin to rebuild more resilient systems with distributed resources rather than centralized ones; and more.
Falling In Love With : Our diversity of native bees and pollinators (interview with brigit strawbridge howard, author of dancing with bees)
In this podcast episode, Brigit sheds light on all of the different and unique species of wild bees out there besides the honeybee; how we've exploited honeybees as monocultures in order to uphold our industrialized, monocultural food systems; why we need to go beyond single-species conservation efforts for a more holistic approach; and more.