Environment
These feats of conservation and sustainability hold countless examples of people following their passions for protecting our planet. Let your curiosity guide you as you explore fascinating corners of our environments and discoveries that are moving us toward a greener future.
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Restoring the Rainforest by Helping Locals Become Eco-Entrepreneurs
Can you make an impact on saving a rainforest, even though it may be far from your front door? With this nonprofit, you can do just that and help save the rainforest from your couch!
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The 2,000-Pound Vegetarians Slowing Climate Change
Some of our best environmental engineers when it comes to winning the race to slow climate change have turned out to be these natural (and very cute) prairie-preserving specialists! Here’s how bison are restoring a previously destroyed landscape and keeping tons of carbon out of our atmosphere along the way.
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Weeds are a Good Thing! Why the Biodiversity in Your Backyard Matters
It's difficult to fully comprehend the stunning complexity and diversity of life on our planet, and even more difficult to understand how deeply that complexity and diversity matters. Ready for a deep dive into why biodiversity matters? Read on to see how you can help the planet by starting in your own backyard!
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Growing a Revolution: How Community Gardens are Changing Your Neighborhood!
To leave a legacy that helps the world, you need only go as far as your local empty lot! By bringing gardens back to the empty spaces in NYC's neighborhoods, Hattie Carthan and Liz Christy started a movement that brought life to formerly desolate spaces, and their work is still flourishing all around the city's residents today.
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The Remarkable Organization Saving Kenya’s Orphaned Elephants
Meet the remarkable people behind one of their most successful (and adorable) programs protecting the world's remaining wildlife, the Elephant Orphanage. For over 40 years the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has been transforming and inspiring hearts and minds!
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Oh Dam! How Beavers are Master Environmental Engineers… and Might Just Save the World
Imagine if we had millions of eager, highly skilled, environmental engineers, ready to devote their lives to fight drought, forest fires, and flooding — 24/7, 365 days a year — never asking for payment, just wanting to be left in peace. Wouldn’t we want to welcome them to our communities? Well, you don’t have to hope they show up, they’re already here! They just aren’t people, they’re beavers.
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Carbon Isn’t the Villain?! Change How You See the World with Paul Hawken (Episode #212)
Entrepreneur and climate change innovator Paul Hawken joins us for a warm, candid chat as much about the poetry of life as it is about the science of carbon. Paul may be an expert in his field, but in this podcast episode we’re just two ordinary people, unraveling the mysteries of the universe together.
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This Forester’s Radical Ideas Could Save Our Ecosystems! with Ethan Tapper
This Forester’s Radical Ideas Could Save Our Ecosystems! with Ethan Tapper The title of Ethan Tapper’s book, ‘How to Love a Forest,’ would lead one to believe that it is, in fact, about forests, but there is so much more…
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Swimsuit Heroines: Meet the Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage!
Let’s dive in and learn how Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage are making a splash cleaning up Cape Cod’s ponds, and beyond!
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This Garden In a Pool Helps Put an End to Food Scarcity
What if an unused pool could be our blueprint to a more abundant future? It turns out that if we're a little creative, we can breathe new life into almost anything and build everything we need in fascinating close-looped systems! Here's one great example of a movement to revitalize our human ingenuity!
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Light Pollution is Stealing Our Stars–Here’s How We Can Take Them Back
Discover how light pollution is stealing our stars and learn practical steps you can take to help bring back the night sky for future generations.
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Fixing and Hanging on to the Things You Cherish
Broken but cherished items you can't bear to throw away? A local repair cafe can help you bring those memories back to life.
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