Season 1

16. Standing Up for Environmental Justice

Peggy Shepard has spent decades standing up for environmental justice for BIPOC communities who are disproportionately affected by environmental threats.

15. Working to Avert Another Covid19

Onkuri Majumdar has been working to stop illegal wildlife trafficking to make sure that a disease like Covid19 is not able to happen again.

14. Preventing a Poaching Pandemic

Anna Rathmann is leading the initiative Project Ranger in hopes of providing emergency anti-poaching funding to support those on the front-lines of conservation.

13. Making Lion Conservation about People

Resson Kantai from Ewaso Lions talks about helping to protect large carnivores in Northern Kenya through inclusion, innovation, and putting people first.

12. Aligning Nonprofits’ Events with Their Missions

The Food for Thought program aims to help animal shelters, environmental and wildlife NGOs, and social justice groups host mission-aligned plant-based events.

11&61. Recycling to Keep Our Seas Trash Free with Ryan Hickman

10-yr-old Ryan Hickman (now 12 years old!) is already an old pro at recycling. As CEO of his company, Ryan’s Recycling, he’s on a mission to keep our land and seas trash free.

10. Using Regenerative Agriculture to Revive the Land

Irene Montes and her family switched from a conventional farm to utilizing regenerative agriculture methods to bring balance back to their ecosystem.

9. An Influencer for Positive Change

Anne Therese Gennari is an entrepreneur, activist, and a great example of how you don’t have to be in the environmental field to make a difference.

8&63. Protecting the World’s Penguins

Pablo Borboroglu uses science, policy, education and an indomitable spirit to protect penguins in the furthest corners of the world.

7. Changing the Narrative to Hope

Dr. Nancy Knowlton, cofounder of Earth Optimism and #oceanoptimism, created a movement by just switching her environmental narrative from problems to solutions.