Host John Whidden welcomes Gokul from Kerala, India. Gokul connects cultural practices to science and explains youth climate organizing through YOUNGO’s local, regional, and global Conferences of Youth ahead of COP. A final-year Ayurveda student, he describes how climate change disrupts Indigenous/traditional medicine by affecting medicinal plants, potency, treatment protocols, and trust, with implications like antimicrobial resistance. He presents Govardhan, an app envisioned as a global repository and “social media for biodiversity” to share medicinal plant uses across countries, and Climate Entertainment, a youth-friendly way to translate UN climate language. He also mentions COP participation via Ukraine and Egypt accreditation, advocates protecting nearby species through turtle-egg protection in Kerala, and says hope comes from engaged audiences who share and support climate content.

00:00 Welcome to the Show

00:29 QuickFix Yard Cleanup

01:10 Traditions and Turmeric

03:04 Kerala Roots and Youngo

04:33 Ayurveda Meets Climate

05:56 Govardhan Plant App

08:08 Climate Entertainment Project

09:18 Indigenous Medicine at Risk

13:24 Ukraine COP Connection

14:36 Climate Action and Hope

16:42 Final Thanks and Subscribe

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