Green Tea: Episode Six: What makes a birder? Why birds? And what do they mean? James and Brendan, avid birders themselves, discuss the importance of birding, keeping track of taxonomy, making lists and the environmental significance of such an activity. Brendan and James have over 1000 species between the two of them. Stick around to get some non-birding advice from these campus expert birders!

Green Tea: Episode Five. Climate strike, activism, how to affect meaningful change: all this and more addressed in Green Tea’s fifth episode with Bowdoin Professor Laura Henry. Diego and Marie ask about the September climate strike and the long-term efficacy of the Sunrise Movement, an international climate movement, from Laura Henry’s expert position of an extensive history in social movement theory and research.

Green Tea: Episode Four. Diego and Marie speak with the Director of Sustainability at Bowdoin College, Keisha Payson, about on-campus environmental and sustainable initiatives. Though sustainability at Bowdoin did not begin with the office, the office began with Keisha’s hiring and she has been at the heart of many of Bowdoin’s sustainability efforts since then. Get a sneak peak into the process behind Bowdoin’s sustainable plans for the future!

In Green Tea’s third episode, Diego introduces Marie’s interview with Ayana Harscoet, class of 2021, about her sustainability work on campus. The two discuss sustainability from the lens of ecology, science as an institution and productivity of structures based on western science. Ayana also describes what activism means to her in the environmental realm.

Green Tea: Episode Two. Marie and Diego have the privilege of speaking with the Outreach Coordinator of the Bowdoin Sustainability Office, Bethany Taylor who has been at the college since 2016. Bethany does the almost impossible job of coordinating sustainable initiatives and events on Bowdoin’s campus through an army of student workers. This is a job she is incredibly excited to share more about. Look forward to this uplifting conversation about the future of sustainability at Bowdoin and beyond!

Green Tea: Episode One. In our first episode you’ll hear a behind-the-scenes interview: a conversation between the Green Tea show’s two hosts so that you have a clearer idea of where they come from in producing this show, asking the questions they have and choosing the guests that the show has the opportunity to host. Marie and Diego ask each other about their respective histories within the realm of sustainability, what that word evokes for each, and what the two are looking forward to seeing at Bowdoin and beyond. Green Tea will explore a lot of the themes addressed within this show in more depth in future episodes.