Green Tea 3.3: Toby Tarpinian, Morning Glory Natural Foods by Bowdoin Sustainability Office

Marie and Holden talk to Kate Holcomb at Canopy Farms, an aquaponics greenhouse in collaboration with Tao Yuan Restaurant in Brunswick.

For this first episode of Green Tea's third season, we say farewell to Diego, introduce our new co-host Holden, and check in on sustainability on Bowdoin's campus in the COVID era.

In the potentially last episode of this season of Green Tea, Diego and Marie interview Kate Toll, Bowdoin class of 2020, about her efforts to make her chemistry lab on campus more sustainably-minded. Why are labs inherently difficult to implement these policies in? What is the ultimate value of science at the cost of the environment? What happens to our waste products when we finish using them? All these questions and more addressed in this week's episode.

Olivia Griset of Maine Environmental Educational Association speaks about the value of teaching the younger generations how to care for their surroundings, environmental policy agendas and the meaning of environmental education to indigenous groups. What is the meaning of environmental education and who has access to this western concept?

As a continuation of last week’s Green Tea episode on the nexus of spirituality and the environment, Diego and Marie speak with Lauren Hickey about her Bowdoin Orient column titled “Spiritousness, Religuarity and the Search for Meaning,” published biweekly in the Bowdoin Orient, online and in print. Lauren shares her own religious background and how she sees the effect of her own history on environmentalism and what sustainability means to her.

Episode 2 Eduardo Pazos Palma - Spirituality and the Environment

In a discussion that extends beyond the usual confines of environmentalism, sustainability and what it means to live a green life, Eduatrdo Pazos Palma, Director of Religious and Spiritual Life at Bowdoin College explains the nexus between the environment and spirituality. Pazos elucidates his own experience and the readings and research he has done within the realm of spirituality and religion to discuss the moral, ethical and philosophical implications of what leading a sustainable life truly means.

Green Tea Season 2 Episode 1: Captain Paul Joyce, former Marine Patrol Officer.

Green Tea: Episode Eight. Colby Santana is leader, rapper, singer, producer extraordinaire of eco-band sensation The Sustainers! Diego and Marie chat with Colby about his music and the power of lyrics in accessing different demographics about the effects of climate change and living sustainability. In the final episode of Season 1, listen in to two of Colby’s eco-tunes which you can find on Soundcloud and Spotify. Also, keep up with the band on Instagram.

Green Tea: Episode Seven. “I think stories create the world.” Self-described "hippie weirdo" Gary Lawless, poet, book publisher and owner of Gulf of Maine Books, gives two readings of his own work in an interview held in the bookstore after closing hours. Gary talks about his own history of nature writing, the role education and reading serves in inspiring activism, as well as the importance of local bookstores. You’ll hear the voices of Green Teas’s hosts much more in this episode, giving structure to the interview.