12 Sustainability-focused Podcasts to To Better Your Understanding this Earth Month
Hot girls listen to podcasts, we don’t make the rules! Next time you’re on your Hot Girl Walk, commuting to work, or just at home staring into the void, consider listening to a podcast to accompany your daily grind. We’ve curated a list of some of our favorite podcasts that cover topics related to sustainability, including sustainable fashion, providing you with a wealth of information and stimulating conversation that you can pause and come back to later!! ;)
Reported and produced by Kendra Pierre-Louis, How to Save a Planet is a show about climate change that aims to leave the listener energized instead of overwhelmed. Sadly, their last episode went live in October of last year, but their archivearchive of episodes contains smart, inspiring stories about our environmental predicament and how we can get out of it.
2. Cool to Care
The Cool to Care podcast wants everyone to know… it’s cool to care about the planet! Sustainable streetwear apparel brand Cool to Care sits down to discuss sustainable fashion, owning a small susty business, and fostering honest conversations around the nature of sustainability. Our very own CEO and founder, Jazmine Rogers was featured on their latest Sustainable Fashion in NYC episode.
The Conscious Style Podcast ponders the question “What will it really take to create a more sustainable and equitable future for fashion?” Hosts Elizabeth Joy and Stella Hertantyo interview figures in the fashion world from labor activists to slow fashion entrepreneurs to explore this very question.
From the climate crisis to racism to activism and resisting oppressive systems, the news that makes us say “yikes” can get very overwhelming. The YIKES Podcast leans into this news to break it down in an accessible, intersectional, and nuanced way that makes it less overwhelming and more actionable. The YIKES Podcast is hosted by Mikaela Loach and Jo Becker.
5. TED Climate
We’re all prone to softening at an inspiring TED Talk (even if it feels like everyone’s doing one these days). We’re all prone to softening at an inspiring TED Talk (even if it feels like everyone’s doing one these days). Host Dan Kwartler unpacks the problems and issues behind big systemic climate issues into under-fifteen-minute episodes. From conversations around product material traceability to imagining a world without humans, TED Climate covers it all w while also providing tips to make susty changes in your daily life.
Created by Emily Stochl in 2018, the Pre-Loved Podcast is the first-ever vintage fashion interview podcast! Pre-Loved Podcast opens up conversations about vintage style and secondhand fashion with guests who are seasoned in the thrift and vintage fashion-verse.
Hosted by Kestrel Jenkins, Conscious Chatter reimagines the narrative around sustainability, explores the importance of resourcefulness, questions the idea of the idea of conscious consumerism, and works to deconstruct how oppressive systems impact the sustainable fashion space.
Dr. Dr. Jane Goodall, if you’re reading this,, we want you to know you’re an OGn OG sustainable baddie. The ICON Dr. Dr. Goodall studies a a new subject onon The Jane Goodall Hopecast… humans! This podcast takes listeners on a journey as they learn from Dr. Goodall's extraordinary life and hear from change-making guests from every arena.
Hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson, along with their guests, share the latest news acrossacross science, business, finance, politics, and culture and look to expand their understanding of the climate crisis. They share their expert opinions with equalequal healthy dosess of outrage and optimism.
International fashion journalist Tamsin Blanchard speaks to researchers, supply chain experts, garment workers, politicians, and activists on the Fashion Revolution Podcast to investigateto investigate the hidden stories behind the clothing we wear. Through interviews and investigations, the podcast explores the intersection of sustainability, ethics, and transparency in the fashion industry.
11. Idealistically
Hosted by Tolmeia Gregory, Idealistically inspires people to start creating radical visions of the future to balance out the often difficult conversations around the current state of our world, whether it’s focusing on the climate crisis or social injustices. Gregory sits down with activists, artists, scientists, and influencers and asks them what they would want in an ideal world.
12. As She Rises
As She Rises brings together local poets and activists from all over North America to share poems about the effects ofshare poems about the effects of climate change on their home and their people. Centering the voices of native women and women of color, As She Rises personalizes the magnitude of climate change. Season three will be hosted by the founder and author of Intersectional Environmentalist, Leah Thomas.
Which susty podcasts are you loving right now?