All Episodes

Episode 44 | World-Renowned Climate Expert Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd Breaks Down Resiliency, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, Community Co-Creation and the "Kitchen Table" Realities of Climate Change

Episode 43 | No Flowers, No Food | Dee Hall Goodwin on Teaching Climate Through Flowers, Building Black Flower Farmers & Beautifully Disrupting an Aesthetic Industry

Reflection Moment | PODCAST SPRING BREAK ANNOUNCEMENT

Episode 42 | Serge Attukwei Clottey is a Ghana-based global artist weaving plastic waste to unpack migration, expose global systems and build community while advancing environmental justice.

Episode 41 | Meteorologist Alesha Ray is Making Climate Make Sense - From Data to Daily Life

Episode 40 | Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso: Sustainability Begins at Birth: A $45M Investment in Maternal Health, Environmental Racism & Brooklyn’s First Data-Driven Comprehensive Plan

Episode 39 | Sustaining Us: Diamond Spratling, Detroit Roots & the Rise of Climate Sisterhood

Episode 38 | Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Haitian Moringa & Castor Oil Built a School, a Farm & a Vertical Beauty Blueprint in Brooklyn

Episode 37 | From Civil Rights to Climate Justice: OG Environmentalist Catherine Coleman Flowers on America’s Planned Obsolescence, the Disaster Economy & Why We’re All Environmental Stewards

Episode 36 | “I’m Done Being Poor & Popular” - Christa Barfield (FarmerJawn), Founder of the Largest Black Woman-Owned Regenerative Farm in the U.S., on Agricultural Profitability, Wealth Strategy & Creating a Family Office Using a Trust

Episode 35 | Heather McTeer Toney on the Pervasiveness of Plastics, Storytelling as Renewable Energy and Deconstructing Mainstream Sustainability

Episode 34 | Latham Thomas Unapologetically Goes In on Survival and Sustainability Through Black Matriarchy, Afrofuturism and Weapons of Consciousness

Reflection Moment | The Practice of Radical Care

Episode 33 | Kevin “The Plant Papi”: Showing Others That They Can - Growing Through Wellness, Joy, Vulnerability & House Plants

Episode 32 | You Cannot Talk About Climate Without a #FreeCongo: Maurice Carney on the Foundations of Capitalism, the Silent Genocide Fueling the Global Green Tech Economy & Why Agro-Liberation Rooted in the Congo Basin Rainforest Is Essential

Episode 31 | Ciara Imani May of Rebundle Building Patented Climate Solutions Inside the $19 Billion Hair Extension Industry

Episode 30 | The Black School: A Copper-Colored Schoolhouse Rooted in Self-Determination, Joy, Art & Radical Black Education in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward

Episode 29 | From Red Bottoms to Rich Soil: Niya Brown Matthews on Healing Through Growing, Building Community and Finding Your “Why” as a Self-Taught First-Generation Farmer in ATL

Episode 28 | Jordan King: A 23-Year-Old Jamaican Scientist With a Master’s in Biology Doing Climate Research in the Everglades While Rockin’ a Nature Grill

Episode 27 | Coochie, Culture & Colonialism: Jasmine Duke Remixes the Alchemy of Herbal Women’s Wellness

Episode 26 | Stories Make Markets: Sherrell Dorsey on Strategies for Funding Futures and the Politics of Climate Tech

Episode 25 | Dawn Richard on the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina: Ancestral Stories, Modern Colonization & Sustaining Our Power!

Episode 24 | She’s Been Fighting for the Planet Since She Was 8 — Now Maya Penn’s Environmental Animated Short Is In Collaboration with Viola Davis & Whoopi Goldberg

Episode 23 | Abena Boamah-Acheampong Ain’t Here for Ashiness: Leading Ethical Beauty with Ghanaian Shea Butter & Radical Supply Chain Care

Episode 22 | From Woodwork in Trinidad to Vine Work in Japan: Franklyn Hutchinson’s Beautiful Story of Becoming A Grape Farmer in Yamanashi

Episode 21 | Cory Elliott on Youth Development, Violence Prevention, Healing in Nature & Building The Black Neighborhood

Episode 20 | What If You Gave the American Dream the Finger? From a Decade of Van Life to Building a Desert Homestead, Naomi Grevemberg Chooses Slow, Nomadic Living & Radical Joy—on Her Own Terms

Episode 19 | A Must-Watch: Frida Lidbom’s Powerful Doc Exposes the Toxic Truth of Waste Colonialism—While Honoring the Radical Brilliance of Ghana’s Secondhand Artisans

Episode 18 | Black Land Back Is Non-Negotiable! Author & Activist Brea Baker on Reparations, Nature-based Healing and Reclaiming Community Power

Episode 17 | Brooklyn, Brilliant, and Already Sustainable: Hekima Hapa on Teaching Black Girls to Sew

Episode 16 | Are Any of Your T-Shirts Made by Black Cotton Farmers? Tameka Peoples on Building Global Black Cotton to Textile Ecosystems

Episode 15 | From Driving Policy to Gettin’ the Coins: Ivy Walls on the True Cost of Feeding the Block as Co-Founder of a Thriving Farmer-Owned Grocery Store in Houston

Episode 14 | Brownie Brown: This Native Nigerian Turned New Yorker is a Couture Upcycler and Helps People Reclaim Their Closets —and Their Self-Worth

Episode 13 | Kiki Jordan Is Building Oakland’s 1st Full-Spectrum Birth Sanctuary — and Divesting from White Supremacy to Reclaim the Midwifery Model of Cultural Care

Episode 12 | Beats, Bloodlines & Black Cotton: Julius Tillery on Reclaiming Cotton and Powering a New Era of Black Farmers

Episode 11 | 30-Inch Buss Down or Fresh Braids? Dr. Raven Baxter on the Toxic Truth Behind Synthetic Hair

Episode 10 | The Cost of Paradise: Dahvia Hylton on Climate Injustice & Colonial Greed in Jamaica

Episode 9 | 27-Year-Old Kenyan Designer Wanjiku Is Pioneering Sustainable Fashion for the Visually Impaired—And Advancing A Movement for Disability Inclusion

Episode 8 | Generational Legacies in Bloom: Chelsea Murphy on Raising Kids Outdoors and Inspiring Her Parents to Reclaim Nature

Episode 7 | Birthing on Our Terms: Sustainability, Home Birth & Black Liberation with Nicole JeanBaptiste

Episode 6 | From Oakland to West Africa: Akintunde Ahmad Weaves Cultural Preservation, Transparency & Decolonization into Global Fashion Systems

Episode 5 | Rooted & Relentless: Rue Mapp on Black Joy in Nature with Outdoor Afro

Episode 4 | Wild Gina: The World’s Top Selling Black Woman Nature Photographer Unpacks Her Ancestral Connections While Urging A More Intentional Connection To Art and Earth

Episode 3 | The Fabric Alchemist: Mahdiyyah’s Mission to Weave Ancestral DNA Technology Into Fashion, Education and Community Care

Episode 2 | Sustainability, Soul & Shaking Up Luxury: Nia Thomas on Fashion with Integrity

Episode 1 | Afro, Acrylics and Re-Indigenizing Black Marine Science: Dr. Tiara Moore’s Global Impact Across 34 Countries

Compost, Cotton & Cornrows Trailer