Mother Earth Podcast

Mother Earth Podcast episodes:

• 12.10.2021

  Suzanne Simard

  In our conversation with Suzanne, she explains her groundbreaking findings and we hear about the controversy her findings have stirred up. We also discuss the Mother Tree Project, which is researching forest renewal practices that protect biodiversity, carbon storage...

  
• 11.18.2021

  Madeleine Jubilee Saito

  This week’s episode of the Mother Earth Podcast features our first visual artist on the podcast, Madeleine Jubilee Saito. Madeleine addresses the climate crisis through poetry comics, an artform that combines drawings with words. Madeleine’s poetry comics on the climate...

  
• 11.04.2021

  Dan Esty

    In the face of such grave climate threats, why has environmental policy failed us? Why has an issue that once enjoyed broad bipartisan support become a source of deep division? The 60s and 70s saw swift and effective legislation...

  
• 10.07.2021

  Deeohn Ferris

  In this episode of the Mother Earth Podcast, we sit down with Deeohn for a conversation about the indispensable role of community-based environmental change. Deeohn and her team work in cities in China, India, Bangladesh and the United States, where...

  
• 09.23.2021

  Jeff Golden

  One year ago, catastrophic wildfires devastated communities in southern Oregon, including the rural towns of Talent and Phoenix. The fires destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, raced ahead of people trying to escape in their cars, and killed eleven...

  
• 09.09.2021

  Amanda Sturgeon

  In today’s episode of the Mother Earth Podcast, we sit down for an inspiring and hopeful conversation with world-leading sustainable architect and planner Amanda Sturgeon. Amanda is the founder of the biophilic design movement, which designs buildings and communities in...

  
• 08.18.2021

  Bren Smith

  When Hurricanes Irene and Sandy wiped out Bren Smith’s traditional oyster farm in the Long Island Sound two years in a row, he knew it was a wake-up call on the climate crisis. Starting yet again from scratch in a...

  
• 08.05.2021

  Mike Calabrese of Lake Street Dive

  “As human beings, it’s not just survival of the fittest. We’re also social animals and we thrive when we share.” -Mike Calabrese It can be hard to remain hopeful when we're relentlessly inundated with bad news about the ever-present threat...

  
• 07.22.2021

  Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha

  This week on the Mother Earth Podcast we sit down with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha to get the back story on the Flint water crisis, her own remarkable life journey and how we can all stay safe from old lead pipes...

  
• 07.08.2021

  Michelle Wu

  Could Boston become the greenest city in the world? Leading Boston mayoral candidate and city council member Michelle Wu believes it can. Michelle may very well be America’s most important municipal climate leader. She joins us for an illuminating conversation...

  
• 12.18.2020

  Nathaniel Stinnett

  In this second of two special bonus episodes to Season One of the Mother Earth Podcast, we sit down for a timely conversation with Nathaniel Stinnett.  Nathaniel is the founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project. The...

  
• 10.29.2020

  Leah Stokes

  In this special bonus episode to Season One of the Mother Earth Podcast our guest is Leah Stokes. Leah burst onto the scene in recent years as America’s leading expert on voting behavior and public policy as they relate...

  
• 09.10.2020

  Rev. Lennox Yearwood

  This week on the award-winning Mother Earth Podcast, we have a deep and compelling conversation with the Reverend Lennox Yearwood, founder and president of the Hip Hop Caucus. “Rev” is bringing both Hip Hop culture and the tools...

  
• 08.27.2020

  Bracken Hendricks - Part 2

  Do you need hope on the climate crisis? In this episode of the Mother Earth Podcast, policy expert Bracken Hendricks issues a stirring call to action for Americans to join together in common purpose to solve the climate crisis....

  
• 08.20.2020

  Bracken Hendricks - Part 1

  In this episode of the Mother Earth Podcast, America's leading policy expert on the climate crisis gives a candid and insightful assessment of Joe Biden's climate policy. Joe Biden officially became his party's nomination for President just weeks after he released...

  
• 08.06.2020

  May Boeve

  In this episode of the Mother Earth Podcast, 350.org Executive Director May Boeve joins us for a conversation on the grassroots movement to stop the climate crisis. May shares with us her thoughts and ideas on climate divestment and other...

  
• 07.23.2020

  Zygmunt Plater

  The Greatest Fish Tale Ever Told This story may very well be a movie someday. In this episode of the Mother Earth Podcast we sit down with Professor Zygmunt Plater of Boston College Law School, who recounts his extraordinary journey...

  
• 07.09.2020

  Phil Shabecoff

  “I learned that these kind of people can be resisted, if there are resistors to do it.” -Philip Shabecoff The dean of environmental journalism calls on Americans to stop a regime bent on destroying the planet. This week on...

  
• 06.25.2020

  Episode 4: Saul Griffith

  “If we committed to the Green New Deal with the vervor that we did for World War Two, we could do this in about a decade.”  -Saul Griffith. The Green New Deal is easier than we think! This week on...

  
• 06.11.2020

  Dr. Robert Bullard

  “For many of us who came out of civil rights, we didn’t separate the right to live in a clean environment or the right to breathe, or the right to not be dumped on as a strictly environmental issue. And...

  
• 05.21.2020

  Episode 2: Jamie Margolin

  “It’s time to live out youth to power in all its forms. Be the one who stands up and speaks truth to power, even when it is difficult and unpopular. Be the one who draws the line and says, No...

  
• 05.14.2020

  Bill McKibben - Part 2

  “I really understand at some deep level now that the iron law of climate change is that the less you did to cause it, the sooner and the harder you get hit. And so that sense of injustice and just...

  
• 05.12.2020

  Bill McKibben - Part 1

  “I always say the most important thing an individual can do is be a little less of an individual and come together with others to form the kind of movements big enough to change the basic underlying ground rules here,...

  
• 05.03.2020

  Season 1 Trailer

  The Mother Earth Podcast brings you conversations with extraordinary people who inform, inspire and empower us on the fundamental issue of our time: our relationship with the natural world.  Join us around our virtual campfire for information, inspiration and empowerment....