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These feats of conservation and sustainability hold countless examples of people following their passions for protecting our planet. Let your curiosity guide you as you explore fascinating corners of our environments and discoveries that are moving us toward a greener future.
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Healing the Planet by Transforming Sand Back to Soil with Rodger Savory (Episode #174)
In our rush to solve problems, we often overlook simple logic that holds the key to enormous progress. When it comes to turning the man-made desert wastelands of our planet back into the lush, productive forests and grasslands they once were, Ecologist Rodger Savory has one of those transformational observations that the world could be embracing.
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A City Dweller’s Adventure on Canada’s Rugged Fundy Footpath
Have you ever been inspired to embrace a passion for something and then quickly realized you don't have the training to enjoy it as you imagined? Maybe what we can appreciate is something very different than what we had in mind, and that makes the adventure even better.
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Turning Stinky Invasive Seaweed into Hurricane-Proof Homes
Every morning at dawn, beachcombers along the North American coastlines are raking up forty tons of the smelly, invasive seaweed known as sargassum. This insane amount of seaweed is a burden to most, but one man saw it as a resource, and what he did with it is inspiring a whole new wave of innovation around the world.
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Shifting the Climate Change Narrative: Fearful, or Full of Possibility? with Anne Therese Gennari (Episode #162)
“Climate Optimism.” Now those are two words you don’t see together very often! In this episode, Anne Therese Gennari (mercifully) gives us a fresh perspective on how we can carry our concern about climate change. In her new book, The Climate Optimist’s Handbook, she moves our mental chatter from the gloom of anxiety and guilt, to the thrill of possibility and enthusiasm for all that is happening to improve the future.
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Creating a Safer World for Urban Sloths, One Photo at a Time
In Costa Rica, a collaboration between conservation and photography is having a profoundly positive impact on the growing dangers faced by one of our slowest furry friends, helping the country remain one of the few places in the world where sloths are not endangered.
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Solutions to the Tension Between Convenience and Sustainability with Brandi Parker (Episode #158)
Brandi Parker has some uplifting and even “freeing” new ways for us to think about our lives as consumers (with less guilt and shame.) She’s helping us all—industry included—get clarity about who should be responsible for the things we need to “throw away.” Instead of consumers bearing the burden for the “end of life” for everything we buy, she is proposing that the brands we love should be responsible for what they’ve made and put out into the world. And we can push them to do that!
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These Tiny Wooden Robots are a Future Forest Falling From the Sky!
Get ready to discover your new favorite (well, maybe second favorite) corkscrew! The best scientific breakthroughs are often inspired by nature, and today we’re exploring a game-changing innovation that was inspired by nature, for nature. Prepare to be wowed as we propel ourselves deep into the origins of a new self-seeding robot that is tackling deforestation from the sky above!
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How Mountain Biker & Artist Sarah Uhl Finds Inspiration in Motion
Artist, activist and adventurer, Sarah Uhl, aids us in discovering our environments in the name of finding our flow in life!
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Turn Your Sustainability Sacrifices into a Joyful Game with Claudia Ruane (Episode #149)
Dr. Lynda sits down with Claudia Ruane from an amazing company, Do Nation, that is turning the loss and sacrifice model of “living sustainably” on its head and making it possible for people to change habits and feel expansive, important, and energized. Do Nation is connecting businesses and all of us as individuals—each in our own way—to small acts that can really move the needle in mitigating climate change and putting a spring back in our steps.
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Your Local Bees Need a Place to Stay: Shifting Spotlight to Native Bees Near You
The honey bee came to America with European colonialists, and has stolen the show in bee conservation. 4,000 other bee species have been calling America home for far longer, and are vital to the health of the American biosphere. Our local bees need our help too—and here’s how you can be their eco-hero!
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Find Work That Matters: Sustainability-Focused Companies Want Your Talents with Hannah Phang (Episode #147)
Doing work that matters—work that really lights you up—can impact your health and longevity so much that the goal of creating that kind of working-life is fast becoming a central theme in the new world of work. People seek work that matters, but for the longest time there hasn’t been a place dedicated to helping people find that work. To solve this problem, Hannah Phang co-founded The Now Work, a platform that connects people who have world-changing skills and aspirations with world-changing work and companies who are just waiting for the right talent to come along.
Read MoreFind Work That Matters: Sustainability-Focused Companies Want Your Talents with Hannah Phang (Episode #147)Zaria Forman’s Massive Glacier Portraits Inspire Love for Unseen Landscapes
This isn't a photograph of the Getz Ice Shelf, its a drawing! Zaria Forman creates large-scale depictions of glaciers, and NASA's Operation IceBridge invited her on a trip to get even closer to them. Here's that story and the gorgeous creations that came from it!
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