WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT?

Rewind: Connecting the dots on climate and democracy 🔄 with Stacey Abrams

First, happy 2nd birthday to What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures (the book version). Thank you for welcoming it into the world so warmly (NYT bestseller!

Clean energy super PAC says “don’t mess with solar” ☀️💰, with Tom Matzzie

The clean energy industry is getting aggressive, Super PAC style. And, honestly, it’s pretty exciting. Our guest this episode is Tom Matzzie, founder and CEO of Clean Ch

How the climate movement can build political power 🌎💪🏽 with Nathaniel Stinnett

The environmental movement has a voter turnout problem: 11.2 million environmental voters did not vote in the 2024 election. Over 11 MILLION! That’s over half of the peop

Climate hushing, EVs 🔌 and creating “The Carbon Wave,” with Leah Stokes

Welcome to Season 5 of What If We Get It Right? 💫 While it may seem counterintuitive given the electoral subject matter, Bill McKibben and I are having a blast gabbing wi

Trailer: Ayana and Bill McKibben are teaming up as podcast co-hosts! ✨

Season 5 of the What If We Get It Right? podcast is dedicated to environmental issues in the midterm elections — what’s at stake and how the planet can win. We are going

On reciprocity, photosynthesis, and berries 🍓 with Robin Wall Kimmerer

Earlier this month at College of the Atlantic, I was over the moon to speak alongside the one and only Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist, teacher, Earth lover and legendary a

What climate leadership looks like in Maine 🌲, with Hannah Pingree

This conversation had an odd effect on me. I found it... relaxing? To hear a politician speaking competently, calmly, clearly, practically and with nuance about climate p

Climate Wayfinding 🧭 with Dr. Katharine Wilkinson

Today’s conversation is a special one. I’m joined by someone who’s been a collaborator and a dear friend in this work: Katharine K. Wilkinson. And tomorrow, May 5th, is

An Ocean Love Story 🐠

In the spirit of the What If We Get It Right? paperback launch, sharing an excerpt of the audiobook. The heart of this audiobook is 20 interviews with people who have sha

Rewind: That time we made a Climate Variety Show. 🤪

Back in September 2024, on the day my book What If We Get It Right? was published, I did one of the most absurd and delightful things I’ve ever done. I co-hosted an over-

For the love of nature, culture, and the future 💖 with Dr. Heidi Roop

Hello Earthlings, we are back with a new episode of the What If We Get It Right? podcast. This is the first episode of Season 4, which will be a short season — maybe 6 ep

Winning the narrative battle 🎥, with dream hampton

Hello Earthlings! Welcome back to What If We Get It Right? While you and I know that we already have most of the climate solutions we need — it’s more a matter of how qu

Earth is our only shareholder 🌏, with Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert

What if businesses got creative to unleash funding, political influence, and cultural clout to address our environmental challenges? What if corporations were driven not

The Current Politics of Food and Farming 👨‍🌾 with Dave Herring

About a third of our climate problem is caused by agriculture and land use. So, what are we gonna do about it? One key solution is shifting to regenerative agriculture,

How to deal with the heat 🌎🥵 with Jainey Bavishi and Jeff Goodell

Today’s episode is all about HEAT, that climate change bummer from which so many other impacts ripple out. The Earth is hotter now than at any other point in all of human

How do you convince a room full of influential people to care about climate change… in 6 minutes? 🎤

Last week, I received the TIME Earth Award at the TIME100 Next gala. I worked really hard on my acceptance speech because it was an opportunity to recruit those 100 cultu

Climate hushing, fart jokes, and love. 😝 John Marshall on how to market climate action.

For those of us trying to advance climate solutions (go team!), there’s always the question of how to be more impactful, how to bring more people along with us into this

Presenting — Sabotage: The Splat 🥫🖼️

Almost exactly three years ago (Oct 14, 2022) a couple of climate activists hurled tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Sunflowers.” It got a whole bunch of press.

What now for climate law? ⚖️ Abigail Dillen has answers.

This week I’m chatting with environmental lawyer Abigail Dillen, president of Earthjustice, a nonprofit law firm whose tagline is “because the Earth needs a good lawyer.”

Climate Change vs. Coffee, Wine, and Chocolate ☕️🍷🍫 with Sam Kass

Food is a major driver of our environmental problems. It uses ~38% of Earth’s land, drives ~70% of our water use, and emits ~22-34% of our greenhouse gas pollution global