All Episodes
Listen Up: More Music as a Voice for Climate Action
We sit down with the two musicians behind Eco Soul Entertainment, which uses original soul, funk, and R&B songs to encourage adults and kids to take care of our precious planet.
Women Climate Innovators Band Together
We speak with a co-founder of The Greenhouse, an online community of women climate innovators turning their business ideas into reality. Along with two members of this online community, we discover the inner workings of how these women entrepreneurs are overcoming many obstacles by offering each other practical and emotional support.
Cycling and Walking: Emissions – and Guilt-Free Transportation Solutions
We sit down with two Bay Area bicycle advocates to discuss how to make cycling and walking part of our everyday lives. We learn how our guests have made that shift, in part, to curb their contributions to the climate crisis. And they share information about how a number of cities are creating infrastructure to make it easier to get around by biking and walking.
Neighbors Build Climate Resilience in Their Watersheds
We speak with guests from the Watershed Project, an organization protecting and restoring our landscapes that drain into waterways: creeks, rivers, and the San Francisco Bay. We’ll learn how they work with thousands of neighbors to envision, build, and celebrate “green infrastructure” and clean water projects that use nature-based solutions, such as trees and native plants. Teachers and young people benefit from their education and internship programs.
Cultivating Their Own Sustainable Food Systems: Indigenous and Black Communities
Meet folks in the San Francisco Bay Area and Detroit, Michigan who’re reclaiming the right to feed themselves and own their communities’ ecologically sustainable food systems. They’re restoring cultural and spiritual ties with the Earth, building their local economies, and healing historical traumas. Their work is tied to broader movements for climate justice, land justice, and water justice, with implications for resilience and ecological health.
Partner Interview: ‘We the Children’
In this special episode, we speak with the 12-year-old host of another climate podcast – called ‘We the Children’. Our guest, Zach Fox-DeVol, discusses what inspires him to engage other kids. We get to hear an excerpt of his podcast episode on our oceans and plastic pollution. He also suggests how kids can get involved.
What We Learned in Season 1 : co-host conversation
Hear three of our co-hosts (Dalya Massachi, Sean Mendelson, and Ellisa Feinstein) talk about what we’re learning in our conversations with community members here in the San Francisco Bay Area. We share what stands out for us, and why we’re doing this work to create a “homegrown supplement to the mainstream climate news.” We also hear from listeners like you.
Raising Children During the Climate Crisis
We discuss the personal impact that climate change-fueled fires had on our guest and her young child. She also explains, from a therapist’s perspective, the steps parents (and others) can take to deal with the growing problem of climate anxiety in themselves and in their families. We share many helpful resources.
Indigenous-Led Climate Justice
We speak with Shaandiin Cedar, a tribal member of the Navajo Nation and an advocate for indigenous-led climate action. Shaandiin discusses how Indigenous communities can help lead the way to addressing our climate crisis. We learn about the intricacies involved with climate justice for Native peoples, including both climate impacts that are already happening and avoiding or lessening future harms.
Hands-On Climate Education and Action In Elementary Schools
We explore hands-on climate education and action at elementary schools: featuring McDowell Elementary in Petaluma, CA. Third grade teacher Angela Werner has incorporated a slew of climate education activities into her curriculum – from creek restoration to visiting local wetlands to cultivating a school garden. She and her former student, Sherlyn Deras Ramos, reflect on their experiences and encourage other schools to get involved in nature-based programs.
Reducing Plastic Pollution in Oakland
We discuss proposed legislation to drastically reduce plastic pollution in Oakland, CA. As demand decreases for fossil fuels as a power source, the production of plastics is actually *increasing*. But California is pushing back. As a member of Reusable Oakland, our guest explains the proposed city ordinance to limit food and beverage containers, and his own story of why he works so passionately on this issue.
1st Anniversary Special: Meet the Podcast Team
In this special episode, we celebrate our first anniversary with you! Get a peek behind the scenes and meet the folks involved in producing the first year of Everyday Climate Champions. We are all “everyday” people concerned about the climate crisis, who want to be part of the solution. In this first year, we have also started to hear from YOU, our listeners.