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Down to Earth Podcast

This is a podcast about extraordinary ideas for a better world. We ask questions about the greatest sustainability challenges facing our planet today, then track down experts to help answer them.

Episodes

How to Protect Africa's Great Lakes

This episode introduces you to the African Great Lakes and explains why they matter to so many people.

Podcast

July 15, 2021

How to Achieve a Fossil-Free Recovery

This episode is about one of today's biggest challenges: recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic in a way that helps build a resilient and fossil-free economy.

Podcast

June 10, 2021

How to Deal with Climate Change Without Getting Depressed

This episode explores the impacts of climate change on mental health, and what we can do about it.

Podcast

August 3, 2020

How to Turn Fast Fashion into Sustainable Fashion

This episode is about sustainability in the clothing industry and how years of over-consumption and unsafe manufacturing has led to a counter-industry striving to do better.

Podcast

July 27, 2020

How a Great Green Wall is Bringing Life Back to the Desert

This episode is about an initiative covering 780 million hectares in Africa to combat climate change, desertification, poverty, and food insecurity.

Podcast

July 20, 2020

How Farmers in Zanzibar Are Tackling Climate Change From the Ground Up

This episode reveals how farmers on a small island off Tanzania are finding creative ways to regenerate the local ecosystem and adapt to climate change.

Podcast

July 13, 2020

How to Protect Fresh Water from Oil Spills

This episode looks at what freshwater scientists are trying to accomplish by spilling oil into a remote lake and the unusual solution they've found to help clean up future oil spills.

Podcast

July 6, 2020

Down to Earth: Trailer

Hear a preview of our podcast, focused on extraordinary ideas for a better world. Each episode tackles a different sustainability challenge.

Podcast

July 31, 2020

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