Sophie Ackoff: Decentralizing power in agriculture to support the next generation of farmers
In this podcast episode, Sophie sheds light on the challenges that young people—especially Black, Indigenous, and young people of color—uniquely face when trying to become farmers; the distinction between farmworkers and farmers and who really produces our food; and more.
Acadia Tucker: Seeding resilience through growing perennial and victory gardens
In this podcast episode, Acadia sheds light on the difference between growing annual and perennial plants in our gardens or community spaces; using gardening as a form of activism and rebellion against the current dominant extractive and exploitative system; and more.
Kimberly Mcglonn: Questioning the criminalization of poverty and struggle that perpetuates systemic injustice
In this podcast episode, Dr. McGlonn sheds light on the connections between climate justice and mass incarceration; why we need to go beyond demonizing individual ‘criminals’ to contextualizing isolated events with the greater system; and more.
Lauren Baker: Preserving seed diversity to strengthen human health and ecological resilience
In this podcast episode, Dr. Baker sheds light on the importance of seed diversity; what true-cost-accounting is, and why it's necessary; and more.
Owen Wormser: Regenerating life and landscapes by turning lawns into meadows
In this podcast episode, Owen sheds light on how meadows can be low-maintenance, low-cost, and wildlife-friendly alternatives to lawns; how we can help turn public green spaces into meadows if we don't have the space for a meadow ourselves; and more.
Guillaume Pitron: Unmasking 'green' energy's social injustice and environmental costs
In this podcast episode, Guillaume sheds light on why green and clean energy and technologies are not entirely green nor clean; what we can learn from the history of our energy infrastructure transitions; how moving to ‘green’ energy may actually worsen environmental injustice in some ways; and more.
Teresa Coady: Redesigning built environments for life rather than machines
In this podcast episode, Teresa sheds light on why we need to go beyond thinking about wellness through an individualistic lens to looking at it through a systemic lens; how we've largely been designing our built environments for machines rather than for life and ecological health; and more.
Maurie Cohen: Looking past individualism to seeing consumerism through a systemic lens
In this podcast episode, Maurie sheds light on what we can learn from viewing conscious consumerism, not through an individualistic lens, but a more collective one; the limitations and cautions against seeing localization as our path forward; and more.
Sasha Duerr: Natural colors and the convergence of slow food and slow fashion
In this podcast episode, Sasha sheds light on how the creative industry's obsession with Pantone's colors of the year reflects our dominant culture; the potential of medicinal plants, when used as dyes on our clothing, to aid in our healing and wellness; and more.
Jeff Tkach: Connecting functional medicine and regenerative agriculture for our collective health
In this podcast episode, Jeff sheds light on the relationship between functional medicine and regenerative agriculture; how regenerative farming may impact our public health and social justice; and more.
Mikaela Loach: Distinguishing ecofascism and dismantling white supremacy in environmentalism
In this podcast episode, Mikaela sheds light on the dangers of what can happen when white supremacy seeps into environmental activism, thus perpetuating ‘ecofascism’; how narratives framing global population growth as environmental harms can perpetuate racism and economic injustice while overlooking the actual roots of our ecological breakdown; and more.
Charles Eisenstein [part 2]: Reintegrating our humanity into the tribe of all life on earth
In this podcast episode, Charles sheds light on how the responses of various governments to the coronavirus pandemic, such as lockdown, quarantine, surveillance and tracking, censorship of misinformation—justifiable or not—have been authoritarian, and why we should remain critical of these approaches even if we understood their immediate-term purpose; how our dominant use and acceptance of the meaning of certain words, such as 'privilege' to mostly mean financially well-off, cis-gendered, able-bodied, or white, feed into implicitly upholding the same value systems we're trying to dismantle; and more.
Charles Eisenstein [part 1]: Beyond the war mentality against climate change, criminal justice, coronavirus
In this podcast episode, Charles sheds light on how our shortsighted war mentality against climate change parallels with our dominant approaches to combating the coronavirus pandemic as well as crime in our criminal justice system; whether it's possible to be ethical within an unethical system or sustainable in an exploitative and extractive system; and more.
Jared Ball: Critically examining impact over optics to support black liberation
In this podcast episode, Dr. Ball sheds light on how the state and corporate worlds have shaped our educational institutions and the subject areas getting the most funding; how the myth of Black buying power has been used to blame Black communities for their own poverty based on squandered economic opportunity; and more.
Vandana Shiva: Seeding freedom in this time of oneness vs. The 1%
In this podcast episode, Dr. Shiva sheds light on what philanthrocapitalism is and how this form of charity may not lead to a net benefit for our humanity and ecological wellbeing; how Bill Gates has shown, by his work, that he may be on a quest for a new type of colonization that concerns all of life; and more.