Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Hina Kneubuhl: RISE UP! for Haleakalā as a sacred mountain

RISE UP! It’s time to organize for the lands, waters, and living communities who nurture us, who sustain our breath. In this call-to-action episode, Hina Puamohala Kneubu

Abby Martin: Revolutionary optimism amid systems of mass destruction

What should we know about the Pentagon’s environmental impacts? What does it mean that the emissions from military activity are exempt from global climate discussions and

Norma Kawelokū Wong: Deepening into the discipline of care

What does it mean to practice detachment while staying deeply engaged in the work of collective transformation? What is the significance of cultivating a discipline of ca

Adrian Sutherland: Honoring the land through the work of our hands

How do we hold the tension between automation advancements intended to make everyday life easier, with the intimacy that can only come through the work of our hands? What

Carry Somers: Remembering fiber and textiles as sacred

What do we know about the oldest surviving textiles of the world? How might learning about the biocultural history of fibers transform how we relate to fashion? And what

Kirsten Bradley: Cultivating active hope through small daily actions

How do we cultivate active hope through engaging in small, daily actions? What can we learn about social organizing and community building from looking at it through a pe

Joseph Whitson: The colonial marketing of outdoor recreation

How does the outdoor industry profit off of “the wilderness” as an extractive, consumable experience? How have outdoor apparel companies benefited from sanitizing the his

Maria Pinto: Misbehaving toward our fungal futures

"There is an uncanniness, a way in which [fungi] were not behaving perfectly, in which it's hard to study them in a petri dish… They upset that wish that everything would

Sophia Kai: Finding belonging within a fractured world

What does belonging mean within a fractured world? How do we liberate ourselves from systems that attempt to turn us into mere cogs in a machine? What can sitting with th

Anton Treuer: Revitalizing Indigenous languages to disrupt colonial thinking

What is the role of language in shaping our worldviews and webs of relations — beyond simply serving as tools of communication? How can the revitalization of Indigenous l

Solaris J. Capehart: Turning toward one another amid times of crisis

How do we navigate questions around staying to resist, versus relocating to find home — in a time when certain places may no longer feel safe for certain bodies? What mig

Zach Weiss: Restoring watersheds, revitalizing community

What is the “watershed death spiral” that has led to the vicious cycle of more droughts and floods at the same time? How might learning about the water cycle expand our p

Vanessa Machado de Oliveira: Sensing into collapse and what it is asking of us

 How do we sit with our fears and discomforts around collapse? What might we miss when we demand quick fixes, takeaways, and summaries — without allowing our bodies to fe

Matthew Wolf-Meyer: Unsettling disgust and how it keeps us apart

Where do our senses of disgust come from? What does it mean to interrogate and unsettle the ways that our senses of disgust may have been shaped? And how has the Standard

Manulani Aluli Meyer: Nurturing untaxable relationships of mutual sharing

Why have the majority of coconut trees across the Hawaiian islands not been allowed to bring coconut fruit into maturity? What does it mean to nurture communities of shar

[BONUS] Dean Spade x adrienne maree brown: Nurturing relationships within resistance movements

Today, we are doing an episode swap with Dean Spade's podcast, Love in a F*cked Up World, featuring his conversation with adrienne maree brown! Dean’s show rests on this

Dean Spade: Radical love and solidarity in the face of growing repression

What does it mean to bypass formalized structures of change-making and to engage in mutual aid? How does the philanthropy-nonprofit-industrial complex itself discourage s

Dr. Jennifer Mullan: Decolonizing healing and honoring our sacred rage

How do we stay rooted when experiencing stories of injustice, one after another, while navigating a world that often wants to suppress our grief and anger? What is sacred

Ixchel Lunar: Decolonial time and reclaiming flow as a birthright

What have been the impacts of colonial time on individual well-being and community dynamics? What does it mean to reclaim the state of flow as a birthright? And how can r

Thomas Parker: Taste as biocultural, relational, and experiential

Why is it that cuisines have historically been dismissed as a serious field of study? How have social factors, such as cultural norms and class, influenced people’s perce