Season 5 Wrap-Up - The Conversations That Stuck With Us

Season 5 closes the way the best conversations do, by looking back at who was in the room. This wrap-up gathers the guests, the surprises, and the moments that stuck, and it marks a first: the season that welcomed a new co-host to the show. What comes through is how often an interview stopped being an interview. The real turn is the moment a guest feels seen and the pressure drops away, and suddenly everyone is just talking.The season gets replayed through its people. Nancy Zavada of MeetGreen, still trying to get freezer strawberry jam into the right hands. Vin Valentino, who could drop an F-bomb and still make a complex idea land in a single a-ha. Jake Kheel, whose island world of coral, indigenous history, and invasive sargassum turned a problem word into a resource. Andrew Shakman and his spreadsheets. Angela Huffman on food systems and the change they need. Josh Lloyd on the hidden logic behind how things get built. The season also hands out its own superlatives, before turning to what comes next.Season 6 keeps both hosts and moves the show into a conference partnership. Green Champions is teaming up with MORPC, the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, based in Columbus, Ohio, around the event it hosts each fall. The gathering is about how communities plan their shared spaces for better systems, from transit and pathways to the local economy and even the political sides of the conversation. Across the season the show will spotlight key voices heading to the conference and capture what happens there in Green Champions style.Send us a message!