My guest today is Dani Burton, Sponsorship Manager at 11th Hour Racing – a Newport, Rhode Island-based organization working at the intersection of ocean health, behavior change, and community action through sport, storytelling, and grantmaking. The organization supports ambassador networks, funds coastal restoration grantees, and develops free tools like MarineShift360 to help the maritime industry measure and reduce its impact. This weekend, 11th Hour is sponsoring Newport Rhode Races as a live model for what genuinely sustainable event design looks like – and a demonstration that those practices can scale to any size event.Newport Rhode Races — this Saturday, April 18 in Newport, RI 11th Hour Racing Protect Our Winters

Jes Parker is the founder of Take2Trail, a used and overstocked trail running gear marketplace she built from scratch. Jes is a self-described “glitter and dirt” person: someone with genuine high standards for quality who also spent a decade rolling through obstacle courses in mud, water and fire. That combination – high-touch, deeply embedded in the trail community, and unwilling to cut corners on condition – is exactly what makes Take2Trail different from other peer-to-peer resale sites.

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This week, we head back to the WTCTA Substack. Addie reads (and comments on) her recent article "The Diary of a Weatherwoman's Daughter" on Substack. Buckle up, we're going to Maine! (and Micronesia, and New York City, and back to Maine again...)

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Our guest this week on the Where The Climate Things Are podcast is Bart Mihailovich. Bart is the Director of Waterkeeper Membership Services at Waterkeeper Alliance – a global network of 300 waterkeeper groups protecting watersheds across 47 countries. Each chapter is autonomous, place-based, and licensed to protect a specific watershed, doing everything from water quality monitoring and litigation to habitat restoration and challenging polluters directly. Bart’s job is to hold the whole ecosystem together: connecting groups, building shared infrastructure, and making sure a waterkeeper in South Carolina and one in Senegal can learn from each other.

Full show notes available at wtcta.substack.com

A rundown of a few recent events: Big Alta heatwave, UTMB's Tenerife cancellation, the LA Marathon's 18-mile medal, and the recent Paralympic temperatures/conditions.

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This week, climate scientist, polar explorer, and former international rower Susana Hancock joins Where The Climate Things Are to talk about what happens when science, sport, and global policy collide.

Susana works at the intersection of cryosphere science and international climate negotiations — studying glaciers, ice sheets, and the communities around the world that depend on them. But her work isn’t just inside research institutions or negotiation rooms. It’s also on skis, in expedition tents, and across some of the most remote ice on Earth.

This conversation explores how storytelling, science, and sport can all play a role in shaping climate action.

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This week Olympic marathon bronze medalist and ultrarunner Molly Seidel joins Where The Climate Things Are for a conversation about the environmental side of her story - one that rarely gets airtime in traditional running-focused interviews.Growing up in rural Wisconsin surrounded by land conservation work, Molly developed an early relationship with environmental stewardship long before becoming a professional athlete. In this episode, we talk about climate anxiety in the outdoor community, how travel and training shape our understanding of environmental change, and why athletes don’t need to be perfect advocates to participate in climate conversations.This discussion moves beyond performance and podiums to explore identity, place, and what it means to protect the landscapes that shape who we are.
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This week, Addie is joined by Shannon Jade - an environmental scientist, poet, and author based in Australia whose work sits at the intersection of climate science and storytelling. Shannon’s debut novel-in-verse, A Song for the Earth, follows one young woman’s journey across the planet’s biomes, weaving ecology, grief, hope, and action into poetry that feels both grounded in science and deeply human. We talk about growing up with bushfires and drought, taking the path from creative writing into environmental science and back, and why hope - not doom - is a deliberate choice when communicating climate.

You can find additional show notes under the Shannon Jade article at wtcta.substack.com

Addie talks about the major climate themes throughout the 2026 Winter Olympics, in addition to the endangerment finding reversal that arrived today. It's all connected.

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A climate channel posting about this? Absolutely. Because it's all connected.

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