As we head into a season marked by consumerist excess in the mainstream, potter Amelia Wrede Davis reflects on the work small business owners can do to cultivate anti-capitalism and challenge environmental despair in this conversation with Loam Creative Director Kate Weiner.

To explore Amelia’s musings on holistic sustainability and transparency in business, follow @ameliawrededavis.

What does home mean in the context of a rapidly changing climate? Amirio Freeman of Being Green While Black offers rich insight into home as a verb in this illuminating conversation with Loam Creative Director Kate Weiner.

Follow @beinggreenwhileblack for a digital archive devoted to reclaiming the greenness of blackness.

For artist and therapist Chelsea Call, creativity is our birthright. In this conversation with Loam Creative Director Kate Weiner, Chelsea shares creative practices with us to help infuse our everyday with meaning, nourish resilience, and process climate grief.

Follow @chelsea_call for art therapy offerings.

During these dark days, functional mushrooms can be a unique ally in nurturing our resilience. Mycologist Danielle Ryan Broida shares the possibility and power inherent in herbalism in this engaging and educational conversation with Loam Creative Director Kate Weiner.

To dive deeper into the magic of functional mushrooms, follow Danielle on Instagram.

How can music help us strengthen our connection to people and place? Singer-songwriter Lea Thomas explores the creative process at the heart of the collaborative ambient folk album Blue of Distance in this conversation with Loam Creative Director Kate Weiner.

Follow Lea @lealeathomas for album updates as well as inspiring explorations of activism and art.

In this episode for Loam Listen, climate change communications strategist and Zen practitioner Lucía Oliva Hennelly reflects on impactful messaging, identity politics, and mindfulness in conversation with Loam Creative Director Kate Weiner.

Follow @re_constitute on Instagram to learn more about Lucía’s work transforming consciousness and culture for a just, equitable, and ecologically vibrant world.

In the inaugural episode for Loam Listen, environmental educator Kailea Frederick of Earth Is 'Ohana explores mothering into the anthropocene, the relationship between our digital selves and democracy, and sustainable activism in conversation with Loam Creative Director Kate Weiner.

Visit Earth Is ‘Ohana as well as follow @earthisohana to learn more about Kailea’s vision for a regenerative future.

Recommended Resources:

Zucked by Roger McNamee

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

How To Not Always Be Working by Marlee Grace