Down to Earth: Tucson, Episode 60,  YWCA Southern Arizona’s mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. At the helm is the organization’s leader, Magdalena Verdugo, with a vision to build the YWCA into a premier one-stop location for bilingual integrated leadership, wellbeing, financial empowerment, workforce training and […]

Down to Earth: Tucson, Episode 59, The conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials without burning and no discharges to land, water, or air that threaten the environment and human health is what zero waste truly is (according to the Zero Waste International Alliance). […]

Impact Earth: Special Big Brain Series, Episode 1  This is the first episode in our three podcast series that we are calling our big brain series. We are going to explore the issues around climate, climate action and climate solutions through a variety of powerful lenses – what we call the big brain thinking lenses! […]

Down to Earth: Tucson, Episode 58,  Goodwill is a vital community partner when it comes to creating a resilient Southern Arizona community. What does sustainability look like at Goodwill of Southern Arizona? It looks like garments reused, water conserved, waste diverted from the landfill, carbon footprints reduced, and lifting the lives of others so that […]

Impact Earth: Energy, Episode 5, Powerful partnerships between businesses and community members are key to establishing resilient, healthy, sustainable communities globally. This podcast episode takes an in depth look at a power utility in Tucson, Arizona to understand the value they have placed on and the action they are taking to support local schools – […]

Down to Earth: Tucson, Episode 57,  Camila Martins-Bekat is back and we are visiting “tomorrow”! In February 2021, Camila joined us for an episode titled: Electric Vehicles Today and a Map to Tomorrow – today we are going to explore what a difference a year can make and what path we continue to journey on […]

Impact Earth: A Roadmap to Resilience, Episode 10, Art is powerful – beyond what many of us comprehend its power to be. Often, we see art and science as distinct from each other, when in fact, art is a form of research. It illuminates what we can’t see about ourselves, especially the habitual ways we […]

Down to Earth: Tucson, Episode 56, As we continue to live in the face of our global triple threat: climate, conflict and pandemics, it is essential that leaders set the pace and build resiliency within their businesses. This episode is a deep dive into that process for a Tucson, Arizona icon, Bookmans Entertainment Exchange. Click […]

Down to Earth: Tucson, Episode 55, The sun shines in Tucson, Arizona more days out of the year than not, thus providing the community grand opportunities to participate in generating renewable energy. If you are a customer of Tucson Electric Power, you are in a great position to go solar! Join us for a very […]

Impact Earth: A Roadmap to Resilience, Episode 9, The important work done by climate researchers, like Dr. Ladd Keith, provides the foundation to address the deadliest climate hazard in the United States: extreme heat. Climate change and the urban heat island effect are increasing the number of dangerously hot days in cities worldwide and the […]