About a year ago, we discussed podcasts about living green.
Please don?t waste your time searching online for green podcasts! A Google search today for ?green living podcasts? has the two highest ranked results as a TLC article which must be old because many of its links are expired, and a discontinued podcast. The same search on iTunes provides equally anemic results. The only way to find a decent podcast for living sustainably is to try them. I?ve listened to all of these podcasts and give you a short list; if you know of others then let me know.
The podcast universe is fluid, and many of the podcasts mentioned in our last post about this are gone, and some survive. I still spend lots of time alone on the car, so I sought out others.
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- More Hip Than Hippie ? inactive
- Founders moved on to other ventures. According to this Facebook post, ?We ended the show in February after Val closed Greenfeet as it was the major sponsor of the show.?
- Here on Earth ? cancelled
- After nearly 30 years on Wisconsin Public Radio, Jean Feraca, host of Here on Earth, has retired. But you can listen to the final episode here.
- Living Green Podcast ? inactive
- TreeHugger Radio ? inactive
- Content ? who cares? If it?s overly technical or academic, I?m not always listening. If the topic is too esoteric, it might also lose me.
- Quality ? does it sound like a bad phone call? I can?t hear what you have to say if it is painful to listen.
- Opinionated ? does it have a voice? If it?s just news, I?m yawning; I read that elsewhere. But if it?s a rant or in-depth discussion about the news, I?m listening.
Here are the green living podcasts I?m listening to these days, with specifics about each, including links to their Web pages and iTunes pages as well as Facebook and Twitter.
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Personality: Jill Cloutier
What it Is
The focus here is permaculture, and the podcast discusses topics involving homesteading, gardening, and other earth-connecting practices. Jill is enthusiastic and easy to listen to, while her guests are an interesting and diverse lot. The most recent episode was in November, but the blog is active so I suspect a new episode soon.
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?In Their Own Words
Jill Cloutier is an environmental educator, freelance writer, and videographer. Jill has been producing Sustainable World Radio since 2004. After surviving her early 20?s,? as a militant vegan, (?How could you eat that!?), and a ?Voice of Doom?, (?Lester Brown says that we have 8 years left.?), Jill realized that it was much more fun to educate through laughter and positive energy than through guilt, fear, and gloom.
What is Permaculture?
Larry Santoyo (LS)- Coined in the early 1970s by Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, Permaculture is a contraction of the words ?permanent? and ?culture.? Permaculture is a highly developed Art, Science, and a Philosophy- all in one.? Permaculture Design is a Community Planning and Land Use Planning system that mimics nature. It offers a natural, practical and inherently economical way to model the way we build and operate our homes and communities.
Recent Episodes
- All Good Things Organic Seeds- A Conversation With Organic Farmer Justin Huhn
- The REAL Green Revolution In Africa: Permaculture in Zimbabwe With Julious Piti
- Urban Homesteading- Heirloom Skills and Permaculture
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Personality: Gina Murphy-Darling
What it Is
Gina Murphy-Darling started talking green in 2008, motivated by a speaker at a conference. This growing podcast started (and remains) on the radio as a weekly local 30-minute show. Mrs. Green?s World has expanded, now with a newsletter, blog, videos, and social media presence. The podcast has about 1,400 downloads each month. While there is a local southern Arizona-based slant to some of the discussions, the messages are applicable all over.
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In Their Own Words
?Welcome to Mrs. Green?s World where we don?t tell you what to think, we just want you to. Join us each week to learn everything from simple tips to live green to living life in balance. You will hear cutting edge leaders from around the world share exciting information about energy, technology, automobiles, healthy living, fashion and so much more. Listen to Mrs. Green?s World live every Saturday at noon.?
Recent Episodes
- A Planetary-wide Blueprint for the Future ? Daniel Rirdan, author of The Blueprint, Averting Global Collapse
- What Can You Learn from an Octopus? ? Rafe Sagarin, PhD, Institute of Environment, University of Arizona
- Southwest Airlines: Operating with the Green Filter ?Laurel Moffat, Outreach Communication, Southwest Airlines
What it Is
If you like public radio, you?ll like Living on Earth. It?s coverage is broad and deep, and goes beyond what 4,174 people like PRI?s Living on Earth on Facebook. The podcast delves into the science of sustainability and ecology, more than most of the others.
The Stats
- 57 ratings on?iTunes?(52 5-star)
- 4196 likes on?Facebook page
- 590 Twitter followers @livingonearth
In Their Own Words
Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is the weekly environmental news and information program distributed by Public Radio International. Every week approximately 300 Public Radio stations broadcast Living on Earth?s news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.
Recent Episodes
- Chemicals That Promote Obesity Down the Generations
- A Troubling Climate Assessment
- Working Woodlands for Carbon and Cash
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Personality: Keith Snow
What it Is
Chef Keith Snow talks about food, with a slant towards homesteading. He discusses using natural ingredients to make simple recipes. He promotes using food grown locally. There is a cookbook and a PBS TV show?Harvest Eating with Chef Snow.?Keith?s podcast style is friendly and informative, tying in his personal experiences with the local food messages.
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In Their Own Words
Welcome to The Harvest Eating weekly audio podcast. We discuss all things Harvest Eating and provide lots of encouragement for people getting into seasonal cooking with local foods. We?ll discuss what I am doing on the farm, new recipes and videos that are yet to be posted on the website and also career updates. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast in i-Tunes and leave a review.?
Recent Topics
- Black Lentil Soup
- Power of Kale
- Making Beef and Chicken Stock
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Personality: Adam Pearson
What it Is
Recently started, in Oct 2012, Stanford University is the backdrop for Green Grid Radio that focuses on renewable energy. The students are intelligent and find some great guests to interview, asking some excellent questions.
The Stats
- iTunes??- no ratings/reviews
- 45 Twitter followers @greengridradio
In Their Own Words
The goal of Green Grid Radio is to provide a local and regional perspective on the Californian and American transition to renewable electricity sources. We seek to inform the broad public, as well as to showcase the work of our academic, industry, and student speakers.
The program is a weekly interview, panel, and news show that will explore different components of sustainable electricity networks, regenerative systems, and technological efficiency. Some of our show topics will fall under the umbrellas of utility-scale wind, solar, and geothermal facilities, energy efficient buildings, and transportation. Guests on the show will run the gamut from Stanford professors to industrial professionals to environmental conservationists.
Green Grid Radio airs every Thursday from 6-7 pm PST, on KZSU Stanford 90.1FM
Recent Episodes
- Taking on Climate Change Through Education and Grassroots Action
- Wildlife Challenges and Opportunities with Wind Energy (with Justin Allegro of the National Wildlife Federation)
- Climate Change in the US after Superstorm Sandy (with Dr. Philip Duffy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories)
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What it Is
KEXP is a service of the University of Washington, who holds the station?s FCC license. So the podcast had a northwest U.S. perspective with a focus on interviews to shed light on pressing environmental issues.
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In Their Own Words
The Sustainability Segment presents one-on-one interviews with inspiring leaders and grass roots activists on a variety of environmental, social, and economic issues affecting life and the future of our planet.
Recent Episodes
- Guests Ivy Sager-Rosenthal, Campaign Director, and Erika Schreder, Science Director, Washington Toxics Coalition, speak with Diane Horn about toxic flame retardants and discuss the Toxic-Free Kids and Families Act.
- Guest Dennis Canty, Pacific Northwest Director, American Farmland Trust, speaks with Diane Horn about the report ?Planting the Seeds: Moving to More Local Food in Western Washington.?
- Guest April Linton of the Fair Trade Association speaks with Diane Horn about her book ?Fair Trade from the Ground Up: New Markets for Social Justice.?
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Personality: Jisung Park
What it Is
Sense and Sustainability looks at the research around sustainability from a broad perspective, with in-depth discussions and expert opinions.
The Stats
In Their Own Words
Sense and Sustainability?is a?podcast, a blog, and an online community devoted to translating the research frontier on sustainable development to the general public.
We seek to provide a forum for rigorous yet accessible, incisive yet balanced conversations about a broad range of issues pertaining to global sustainable development ? to students, researchers, professionals and practitioners in the field.
We also pitch a broad tent when it comes to defining what ?sustainability? means; in other words, we?re not just another environmental blog. We believe that truly sustainable development requires practical solutions to a wide range of interconnected problems that are by no means limited to the environmental sphere.
Sense and Sustainability?is a collaborative effort with?Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
Recent Episodes
- Faith-Based Environmentalism
- Why Should Businesses Care about Sustainability?
- Aldo Leopold and ?Sustainability Through a Historical Lens
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Personality: June Stoyer
What it Is
June?s podcast has an extensive history and following, with a focus on organic living, as the title suggests. There are interesting topics and a diversity of guests. My only complaint is the sound quality; June sometimes sounds as if she?s on a bad phone connection.
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In Their Own Words
?The Organic View Radio Show??is a unique, live, interactive, internet talk-radio show that features key leaders, innovators and educators who work within industries that involve organics, environment, politics, living green and sustainability. Host, June Stoyer, explores the background and mission of each guest.?
June Stoyer, is a native New Yorker, born on Long Island and raised on a private organic farm in the Catskill Mountains. Her father?s passion for organic farming provided the perfect foundation for which she now thrives as an educator and an activist.
After working 12 years in Corporate America with technologies that focused on supermarket retail, consumer packaged goods and consumer behavior marketing, she decided to take the plunge as an entrepreneur. June owned and operated an organic specialty foods retail business as well as a culinary instructional business, teaching over 900 culinary, nutritional and horticultural programs for all ages.
Recent Topics
- Jackie Wilkinson Discusses How She Won Gold
- Creating Biodiveristy by Bringing Nature Home
- The Role of Pesticides in Honey Bees
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Personality: Jason Aubrey
What it Is
Jason considers himself an ?entrepreneurial sustainable conservative? and has an entertaining podcast. However, many in the green movement might be taken aback by Jason?s frank discussions and open criticisms of the status quo in the world of living green. He attacks organic and vegans, for example. He asserts, and I agree, that the economic elements of sustainability are important ? his slant on green is applying business sense. Jason thinks that everybody in green is promoting an agenda. This podcast is a bit different from the others, in that it?s positioning may not align with many in the green movement. Yet there are valuable perspectives and tips, backed up by extensive show notes on his Web site.
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In Their Own Words
Jason formed Nourish the Planet Enterprises to bring business development into the greenspace and deliver quality content to the growing segment of ?pro-sumers?.?? He has spent his career in business development and startups. A consultant, former commercial lending officer, marketing director, sales manager, and special projects coordinator, he brings a unique perspective to a changing business landscape and how companies communicate their message.
Recent Episodes
- Green Gifts
- Alternatives to Big Food
- Toxins
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That?s all folks ? happy listening!
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