Mother Earth Podcast
42 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -For People & Planet. Conversations that go deep on the environment, the climate crisis, and the solutions.
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Suzanne Simard
December 10, 2021 07:00 - 53 minutes - 98 MBIn 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 and forest regeneration as the climate changes. Suzanne lets us in on her personal journey from a simple, rural upbringing in the British Columbia forests to world famous scientist and author. And she opens up about the challen...
Madeleine Jubilee Saito
November 18, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutes - 91.4 MBThis 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 crisis take us out of the language of science and into the language of feelings and emotion. In our conversation, we discuss the role of feelings, emotion and human connectivity in solving this crisis. Madeleine’s art ...
Dan Esty
November 04, 2021 06:00 - 46 minutes - 86.2 MBIn 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 over pollution and clean air. So what has changed? In today’s episode of the Mother Earth Podcast, guest Dan Esty discusses the necessity to modernize environmental policy. He argues the 20th century policy has not failed us, but rather the policy and law o...
Deeohn Ferris
October 07, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes - 65.6 MBIn 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 they bring together key stakeholders--factory owners, workers, government leaders, NGOs, and folks at the grassroots level--to tackle the critical issues of making the transition to renewable energy, enhancing resiliency, reducing pollution, and ...
Jeff Golden
September 23, 2021 06:00 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MBOne 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 people. Much of the devastation occurred in the district of state Senator Jeff Golden, Chair of the Oregon Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfire Recovery. Senator Golden is a rare political animal: a progressive Democrat and e...
Amanda Surgeon
September 09, 2021 06:00 - 38 minutes - 53 MBIn 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 alignment with nature. Her buildings have windows that open for fresh air and allow you to see the changing sunlight throughout the day. Biophilic design makes us happier, healthier, and more productive. Students learn better...
Amanda Sturgeon
September 09, 2021 06:00 - 38 minutes - 53 MBIn 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 alignment with nature. Her buildings have windows that open for fresh air and allow you to see the changing sunlight throughout the day. Biophilic design makes us happier, healthier, and more productive. Students learn better...
Bren Smith
August 18, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 89.2 MBWhen 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 life of restarts, Bren began experimenting with ocean farming. Fast forward ten years: Bren is now recognized as the founder, leader and trailblazer of the regenerative ocean farming movement - a proven way of growing food that helps solve the climate crisis by sequestering carbo...
Mike Calabrese of Lake Street Dive
August 05, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 60.9 MB“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 of the climate crisis. But music has the power to lift us up. And in a world where we're constantly being divided, music also has the power to bring us together. In today’s episode of the Mother Earth Podcast, we sit down with drummer Mike Calabrese...
Episode 13: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
July 22, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBThis 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 and not-so-old fixtures with lead that are still found in many cities and homes across the country. Dr. Mona is the author of a critically-acclaimed book on the Flint water crisis, a recipient of Time Magazine’s 100 Most influential People award, and has become a national activist and sp...
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
July 22, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBThis 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 and not-so-old fixtures with lead that are still found in many cities and homes across the country. Dr. Mona is the author of a critically-acclaimed book on the Flint water crisis, a recipient of Time Magazine’s 100 Most influential People award, and has become a national activist and sp...
Episode 12: Michelle Wu
July 08, 2021 09:30 - 46 minutes - 107 MBCould 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 in this special episode of the Mother Earth Podcast. In our conversation Michelle discusses her far-reaching vision of Boston as the world’s leading green city and her detailed Boston Green New Deal plan that takes an integrated appro...
Michelle Wu
July 08, 2021 09:30 - 46 minutes - 107 MBCould 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 in this special episode of the Mother Earth Podcast. In our conversation Michelle discusses her far-reaching vision of Boston as the world’s leading green city and her detailed Boston Green New Deal plan that takes an integrated appro...
Episode 11: Nathaniel Stinnett
December 18, 2020 10:30 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBNathaniel Stinnett on how to make our leaders protect the environment: turning non-voting environmentalists into voters by the droves. A Special Bonus Episode. 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 EVP knows EXACTLY how to find non-voters who rank the environment as their top electoral pr...
Nathaniel Stinnett
December 18, 2020 10:30 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBIn 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 EVP knows EXACTLY how to find non-voters who rank the environment as their top electoral priority and turn them into voters. Nathaniel founded the Environmental Voter Project in 2016 to turn millions of non-voting environmentalists into voters. And h...
Leah Stokes
October 29, 2020 09:30 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBIn 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 to the climate crisis. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any other podcast app with the links on our website. Leah is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California at Santa Barbara and runs the ENVENT Lab. She researches public opinion...
Episode 10: Leah Stokes
October 29, 2020 09:30 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBLeah Stokes on What the Voters Really Want A Special Bonus Episode. 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 to the climate crisis. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any other podcast app with the links on our website. Leah is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California ...
Rev. Lennox Yearwood
September 10, 2020 09:30 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBThis 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 of the civil rights movement to bear on the climate crisis. In our conversation with Rev, we discuss his Zero Emissions Manifesto for the Climate Justice Movement in which he calls for a rapid transition off of fossil fuels, the role of music in social movements...
Episode 9: Rev. Lennox Yearwood
September 10, 2020 09:30 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBThis 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 of the civil rights movement to bear on the climate crisis. In our conversation with Rev, we discuss his Zero Emissions Manifesto for the Climate Justice Movement in which he calls for a rapid transition off of fossil fuels, the role of music in social movements...
Episode 8.5: Bracken Hendricks - Part 2
August 27, 2020 09:30 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBBracken Hendricks on the Evergreen Action Plan 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. And he explains how we can do so using the policies in the Evergreen Action Plan that he and his colleagues recently released. Bracken was the co-author of the groundbreaking climate plan for Governor Jay Inslee's ...
Bracken Hendricks - Part 2
August 27, 2020 09:30 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBDo 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. And he explains how we can do so using the policies in the Evergreen Action Plan that he and his colleagues recently released. Bracken was the co-author of the groundbreaking climate plan for Governor Jay Inslee's presidential campaign, which quickly became the go-...
Bracken Hendricks - Part 1
August 20, 2020 09:30 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBIn 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 a climate plan that seriously upped his game. It is the most comprehensive and far-reaching plan to tackle the climate crisis by a major party nominee. But is it enough? Bracken and host Matt Pawa discuss key provisions in the Bi...
Episode 8: Bracken Hendricks - Part 1
August 20, 2020 09:30 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBIn 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 a climate plan that seriously upped his game. It is the most comprehensive and far-reaching plan to tackle the climate crisis by a major party nominee. But is it enough? Bracken and host Matt Pawa discuss key provisions in the Bi...
Episode 8: Bracken Hendricks
August 20, 2020 09:30 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBIn 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 a climate plan that seriously upped his game. It is the most comprehensive and far-reaching plan to tackle the climate crisis by a major party nominee. But is it enough? Bracken and host Matt Pawa discuss key provisions in the Bi...
May Boeve
August 06, 2020 09:30 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBIn 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 campaigns that she is helping to lead, 350's determination to win the moral battle in this "can't lose" decade on the climate crisis, the importance of unions and frontline communities in the climate movement, and, most importantly, how everyone can get inv...
Episode 7: May Boeve
August 06, 2020 09:30 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBMay Boeve leads 350.org into the critical decade. 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 campaigns that she is helping to lead, 350's determination to win the moral battle in this "can't lose" decade on the climate crisis, the importance of unions and frontline communities in the climate movem...
Zygmunt Plater
July 23, 2020 09:30 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBThe 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 seeking to save an endangered fish, a free-flowing river full of trout, family farms, and the ancestral Cherokee homeland. You may have heard about the Tennessee Snail Darter and Zyg’s famous lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority that went all the wa...
Episode 6: Zygmunt Plater
July 23, 2020 09:30 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBThe 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 seeking to save an endangered fish, a free-flowing river full of trout, family farms, and the ancestral Cherokee homeland. You may have heard about the Tennessee Snail Darter and Zyg’s famous lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority that went all the wa...
Episode 5: Phil Shabecoff
July 09, 2020 10:00 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MB“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 the Mother Earth Podcast, we sit down for a deep discussion with Philip Shabecoff -- the first major reporter to treat environmental news as its own beat in its own right. As the environmental correspondent for the New York Times from 1977 to 1991, Philip rang the alarm be...
Phil Shabecoff
July 09, 2020 10:00 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MB“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 the Mother Earth Podcast, we sit down for a deep discussion with Philip Shabecoff -- the first major reporter to treat environmental news as its own beat in its own right. As the environmental correspondent for the New York Times from 1977 to 1991, Philip rang the alarm...
Episode 4: Saul Griffith
June 25, 2020 09:30 - 1 hour - 67.5 MB“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 the Mother Earth Podcast, we hear from America’s leading energy expert, entrepreneur and inventor, Saul Griffith, who sits down with host Matt Pawa for an in-depth conversation on the Green New Deal. Saul has a powerful message: the Green New Deal is not only possible, it will provide enormous ...
Dr. Robert Bullard
June 11, 2020 09:30 - 1 hour - 81.2 MB“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 so the justice part was at the core, the equity part was at the core. Theft of wealth and theft of health, these are basic civil rights and human rights. African Americans and other people of color made that connection and still make that connection even today.” - Dr. Robert Bullard This...
Episode 3: Dr. Robert Bullard
June 11, 2020 09:30 - 1 hour - 81.2 MB“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 so the justice part was at the core, the equity part was at the core. Theft of wealth and theft of health, these are basic civil rights and human rights. African Americans and other people of color made that connection and still make that connection even today.” - Dr. Robert Bullard Thi...
Episode 2: Jamie Margolin
May 21, 2020 09:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MB“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 more. No more destruction of our environment and planet, no more violence in our communities, no more discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, or ability. Be the one who dares to imagine and create better possibilities, solutions, and ways of living in place of those old sys...
Episode 2: Bill McKibben - Part 2
May 14, 2020 09:30 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB“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 wrongness and evil about it is stronger than it was 30 years ago." -Bill McKibben America’s most prominent environmentalist continues his conversation with the Mother Earth Podcast. Bill McKibben was the first American author to warn the general public of the dangers of climate change in his 1989...
Episode 1.5: Bill McKibben - Part 2
May 14, 2020 09:30 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB“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 wrongness and evil about it is stronger than it was 30 years ago." -Bill McKibben America’s most prominent environmentalist continues his conversation with the Mother Earth Podcast. Bill McKibben was the first American author to warn the general public of the dangers of climate change in his 1989...
Bill McKibben - Part 2
May 14, 2020 09:30 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB“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 wrongness and evil about it is stronger than it was 30 years ago." -Bill McKibben America’s most prominent environmentalist continues his conversation with the Mother Earth Podcast. Bill McKibben was the first American author to warn the general public of the dangers of climate change in his 1989...
Bill McKibben - Part 1
May 12, 2020 09:00 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MB“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, the economic and political ground rules.” - Bill McKibben America’s most prominent environmentalist sits down for a deep talk with the Mother Earth Podcast. Bill McKibben was the first American author to warn the general public of the dangers of climate change in his 1989 bo...
Episode 1: Bill McKibben - Part 1
May 12, 2020 09:00 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MB“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, the economic and political ground rules.” - Bill McKibben America’s most prominent environmentalist sits down for a deep talk with the Mother Earth Podcast. Bill McKibben was the first American author to warn the general public of the dangers of climate change in his 1989 bo...
Season 1 Trailer
May 03, 2020 15:09 - 4 minutes - 8.37 MBThe 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. Catch these snippets of our first run of guests including May Boeve, Saul Griffith, Jamie Margolin, Phil Shabecoff, Robert Bullard and Zygmunt Plater. Episode One launches May 11th - subscribe wherever you listen. Le...
Trailer
May 03, 2020 15:09 - 4 minutes - 8.37 MBThe 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. Catch these snippets of our first run of guests including May Boeve, Saul Griffith, Jamie Margolin, Phil Shabecoff, Robert Bullard and Zygmunt Plater. Episode One launches May 11th - subscribe wherever you listen. Le...