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Once Upon a Planet — 93 episodes

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What Does It Take for a Manufacturer to be "Good" in our Industry? Human Active Technology Shares.

2

Can Farm to Furniture Help Our Planet Heal?

3

A Toolbox and a Prayer

4

Beware the Easy Button!

5

Our Eternal Optimist

6

Funeral Homes and Furniture--Caution, the contents of this episode are HOT!!

7

Good Design is a Healthy Diet!

8

Eric Cory Freed Me From the Boredom!

9

The Messy Middle

10

More than Checking a Box: Designing for people and the planet

11

Breaking More Dishes with Friends at Greenbuild 2025! Episode 2

12

Breaking Dishes with Friends at Greenbuild 2025! Episode 1

13

The Final Smash: Women, Design, and the Future We Want

14

Climate Activism and Gender Justice: A Conversation with Ayshka Najib

15

Less Friction, More Flow — Evolving Design Materials Evaluation & Communication

16

Women at the Frontlines of Climate Justice

17

Unlabeling the Future: Gender, Work & The Climate Challenge

18

Rethinking the Hero: A Creative Conversation with Ayse Birsel

19

Beyond the Classroom: Gender, Learning & Leadership at UT Arlington

20

The House By The Sea, Eileen Gray and Other Women History Forgot

21

Breaking Barriers with architect, designer and trailblazer, Lauren Rottet

22

From Products to Planet: Jane Abernethy’s Mission

23

Prowl Breaks Barriers: Gender, Design & Sustainability

24

Crunching the Numbers: Women in Design with ThinkLab

25

Beyond Patriarchy: Indigenous Perspectives for a Sustainable Future

26

Accidental Activists and Citizen Designers

27

Lost Corners: Understanding Climate Migration through Empathy and Advocacy

28

Lessons from Space: What an Astronaut Learned About Life on Earth

29

Climate Complexities with the Queer Brown Vegan

30

If You Can't Fly With the Eagles, You Can Soar With the Ibis

31

Can Baya be a playa? You betcha!

32

He Saved His Community When He Saved Himself—The Story of Domingo Morales

33

Davies Re-Does It

34

One Man’s Battle with Plastic Pollution

35

Take a Seat on the Climate Beat

36

Good Neighbors Make Good Rebels

37

Shaping Sustainable Minds: Empowering Young Designers with Lisa Tucker

38

Designing with Purpose: Pioneering change with Linda Sorrento

39

Breaking the Mold: Interior Design Impact with Jenn Chen

40

Championing Change: Trailblazing Sustainable Design with Ken Wilson

41

Earth Day: Activate Accordingly

42

Roundtable: Climate, Health, and Equity

43

Creating with wonder and rigor.

44

Building to better: LIVE from Greenbuild 2022

45

New Year, New Dishes To Break

46

Sustainability at Sea: LIVE from the Cruise Ship Interiors Expo

47

From Scientist to Climatist.

48

How to raise your climate voice.

49

Can a design firm save humanity?

50

LIVE from NeoCon: Part 2 - Deconstructing design for a better tomorrow

51

LIVE from NeoCon: Part 1 - Designing for the future.

52

Design for Good is Good for Design

53

Don't "Unwaste" our time!

54

Please take a Reseat.

55

Can accountants save the planet?

56

Sea Shells by the Sea Shore...and Concrete.

57

What's in Your Product?

58

The Humanity of Humanscale

59

Winter is Not Coming.

60

A look into the crystal ball for 2022.

61

So, A Designer and an Activist Walk into a Bar...

62

Our Planet Needs More Heirlooms!

63

Our Industry Has a Long Overdue Climate Pledge!!

64

Mind Your Materials!

65

Material Transparency and Toxicity-Let's Talk About It!

66

"Corporate Complicity" is a thing folks.

67

Can Cofffee Drinkers Save the Planet?

68

Weaving Culture into Environmental Activisim

69

The Godfather of Hand Printing

70

From the Belly of a Fish to the Belly of a Camel

71

Some Time With Doug

72

Breaking Dishes with the Master!

73

The Evolution of Truth in Design

74

The Legacy of Trees

75

Act Like an Activist!

76

Mango's a Go Go!!

77

Blooming Algae with Sole!

78

Can MIIR Empower a Better Future?

79

We're officially "Air Heads"

80

Design From Scrap

81

The Missing _Ink!

82

The Concrete Culprit

83

Pandemic Podcasting

84

The Aesthetics of Ethics

85

Carbon takes a seat!

86

Carbon's New Kryptonite

87

Carbon Has a Hot Body!

88

Everybody needs a Lonely Whale

89

The Surfrider Foundation and the "Bag Monster".

90

Forensic Design is a Thing!

91

One man's fishing net is another man's skateboard.

92

Who said packaging can't be sexy and smart?

93

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