Thank you so much for tuning into Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast. In this season, we have been meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. In this season finale, Black Earth team, Marion and Anesu, reflect on their changing relationships with nature as well their key take-aways from Season 3. We also discuss what is to come for Black Earth Podcast. Although Season 3 has completed, we have some upcoming plans that you can get involved in that we will be announc...
Jul 17, 2024•44 min•Ep. 27
‘How do we practice this revolution in a way that embodies the best of what we have as humans and the best of what we can observe in other species?’ - Marion In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. Today we meet Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs from North Carolina, United States. Alexis is a queer black feminist, love evangelist and an aspirational favourite cousin to all living beings. They are also the author of numerous...
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 26
In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. In this episode, we meet Dr. Mfoniso Antia who is a scientist and Programme Manager at the Health of Mother Earth Foundation in Nigeria. Health of Mother Earth Foundation is a pioneering ecological think tank advocating for environmental justice and food sovereignty in Nigeria and Africa at large. Dr. Mfoniso is from the Niger Delta in Nigeria, which is a culturally and resou...
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 25
In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. In this episode, we meet the amazing Etta Madete. Etta is an architect, advocate and real estate developer from Kenya. As the founder of Zima Homes, her passion and life’s work is building affordable, inclusive and sustainable housing for communities who need it the most. In our conversation, we unpack what affordable and sustainable housing means, why spatial justice is impo...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 24
Welcome to Black Earth Podcast! Today, we have a special treat for you! In Season 3, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. In last week's episode, we met Bryony Ella. Bryony is an inspiring artist-researcher who creates immersive and engaging public artworks that help us reimagine our relationship with nature. This episode is taken from her project, The Colour of Transformation. The Colour of Transformation is a documentary and artist film that cel...
Jun 05, 2024•9 min•Ep. 23
In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. In today’s episode, we meet Bryony Ella. Bryony is an inspiring artist-researcher who creates immersive and engaging public artworks that help us reimagine our relationship with nature. In this episode, Bryony talks to us about her incredible artistic practice and how an emerging idea called embodied ecology can help us reconnect with nature and rediscover ourselves as nature...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 22
Today is World Biodiversity Day!! It's a day for us to celebrate the incredible diversity of life on our beautiful planet. Biodiversity is all about the variety and interconnectedness of life on Earth, from the soil beneath our feet to the birds above and everything in between. Instead of a regular Black Earth episode, we want you to spend one hour this week listening to nature. Have a listen to the episode to find out why biodiversity is so important and also really, really good for your wellbe...
May 22, 2024•5 min•Ep. 21
In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. In this episode, we meet Dr Melissa Sikosana. She is a biomaterials scientist who is passionate about connecting art, science and design to solve society’s problems. Dr Melissa speaks with us about an exciting discipline called biomimicry. Biomimicry is the art and science of learning how nature creates life in order to redesign a more regenerative and resilient world. Dr Mel...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 20
In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women creating innovations inspired by nature. In this episode we meet Tinuke Chineme. Tinuke is an inspiring scientist and innovator based in Calgary, Canada. She is working with black soldier flies and African Indigenous Female Entrepreneurs to develop a new economic model that transforms organic waste into wealth. Join us for this enriching conversation as we learn how to create economies that promote dignity, wellbeing and su...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 19
Hello Black Earth fam! We are so excited to be back for Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast!! The theme for this season is 'Innovation Inspired by Nature'. Join us for this juicy and world changing season as we meet incredible black women inventors, scientists and artists who are building new worlds with the genius of mama nature. Check out the trailer to find out more. Make sure to subscribe wherever you listen to your favourite podcast and connect with us on Instagram, Tiktok and LinkedIn @blackea...
May 01, 2024•2 min•Ep. 18
Season 2 is complete! In this episode, the Black Earth team, Marion and Anesu, reflect on their highlights and lessons from Season 2. We reflect on how our relationships with nature are evolving, the importance of radical imagination and re-defining community. We also discuss what active hope means in a world undergoing immense change and crises. Thank you for being part of our amazing listener community from more than 110 countries! See you in Season 3, which will bloom early 2024. In the meant...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 17
In our final conversation of Season 2, Environmentalism Reimagined, we meet with Atwooki, creator of Yuniya. Named after her grandmother, Yuniya is a storytelling platform using African mythology to educate children, parents and caregivers about climate change and Earth care. Join us in this inspirational conversation as we explore how African mythology and storytelling is making climate action and ‘joyful activism’ more relatable, empowering and culturally relevant. Through reclaiming African k...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 16
Valerie Novack is an incredible policy researcher working at the intersections of disability justice, emergency management response and inclusive city design. In today’s episode, we dive deep into disability justice and the connections with Earth care. We explore some core elements of disability justice including rest, sustainability, the ability to learn and interdependence and why they are key to helping us reimagine the environmental movement. Valerie also explains why our definition of commu...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 15
Wanjiku 'Wawa' Gatheru is the pioneering Executive Director and Founder of Black Girl Environmentalist. Black Girl Environmentalist is a U.S. organisation dedicated to addressing the leadership pathway and retention issue in the climate movement for Black girls, women and gender-expansive people in the United States. In this inspiring episode, we explore the mission and vision of Black Girl Environmentalist and its impact in the world. Wawa and I discuss important elements to help you create an ...
Oct 18, 2023•58 min•Ep. 14
Evie is a writer, a domestic abuse survivor and specialist, and the founder of Peaks of Colour. Peaks of Colour is a nature-for-healing community group by and for people of colour in England. In this powerful episode, Evie and I reflect on their experiences as a domestic abuse survivor and specialist and their journey of healing through reconnecting with nature. We explore abolitionist visions for earth care through Peaks of Colour group. We discuss important elements for abolitionist Earth care...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 13
Derval Barzey is the creator of the Climate Conscious podcast, which amplifies the Caribbean perspective on climate change and sustainable development. She's also a leader and expert on the just energy transition in the Caribbean. In today's episode, we explore what it means to build a homegrown movement in the Caribbean that fosters sustainable development, empowers all people, and ensures meaningful progress on climate justice. We discuss what a just energy transition looks like in the Caribbe...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 12
Indigenous Peoples make up around five percent of humanity’s population and yet they are some of the world’s best stewards of nature. Their scientific knowledge and ways of living are rooted in a respect for all life on Earth that informs the way they take care of nature. Indigenous Peoples are leading a new revolution in humanity’s relationship with nature. In this episode, we meet the inspiring Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim. Hindou is an Indigenous leader from the Mbororo peoples of the Sahel region,...
Sep 27, 2023•41 min•Ep. 11
Poppy is a Nigerian-British ecological home grower. Her fundamental belief that we are nature informs her work inspiring and educating millions of people on how to grow food, plants and herbal medicines in their gardens. Join us in this inspiring conversation as we explore Poppy’s journey from fashion modelling to gardening, and what it means to grow in harmony with Earth. We also discuss how gardening helps us re-imagine the environmental movement and our relationship with nature. Resources men...
Sep 20, 2023•59 min•Ep. 10
Welcome back to Black Earth Podcast! In Season 2, we are re-imagining the environmental movement. Join me in conversation with the leading voices of our time, as we learn about the ideas, solutions, and collectives led by Black women, that are transforming the way we live, we love, and we act for nature. Support Black Earth Podcast Connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn and Tiktok: @blackearthpodcast Visit our site: https://www.blackearthpodcast.com/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.co...
Sep 13, 2023•2 min•Ep. 9
Season 1 of Black Earth podcast is complete! In this episode, the Black Earth team (Marion and Anesu) reflect on their highlights from Season 1, and what it means to re-member our place and relationship with nature. We are joined by three listeners of the Black Earth Podcast community, Amber, Samia and Marjahn, who also share their highlights. Thank you for rocking with us and see you in Season 2 which will bloom mid-year 2023. In the meantime, you can stay updated by subscribing to our podcast ...
Apr 05, 2023•40 min•Ep. 8
Nature loss and climate change are driven by values that people hold about themselves, other people and nature. So what can we do? In this episode, I speak with Ife Kilimanjaro about her work with The Wind and The Warrior collective, where she is integrating spirituality, healing and environmental activism. Throughout our conversation, we explore the values necessary to healing our relationship with nature such as living as nature, balance, honouring our ancestors, justice, and uprooting hierarc...
Mar 22, 2023•48 min•Ep. 7
Marjahn is a climate change scientist, educator, and activist. Through her work, she addresses the impacts of severe weather in our changing climate, especially for island nations and communities. In this moving episode, we speak with Marjahn about how climate change is affecting severe weather in the Caribbean, how social inequality affects the way people are impacted by hurricanes, and what climate justice means for the Caribbean region. Episode timestamps 01:12 Marjahn’s relationship with nat...
Mar 15, 2023•52 min•Ep. 6
Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka is an award-winning wildlife vet and the founder of Conservation through Public Health. For more than 20 years, Dr. Gladys has helped local communities and mountain gorillas in Uganda to live healthily and peacefully alongside each other. In this inspiring episode, we speak with Dr. Gladys about her work with local communities and gorillas, the connection between human health and animal health, and the lessons she has learned as an African woman in nature conservation....
Mar 08, 2023•44 min•Ep. 5
Climate reparations has become an important and often misunderstood issue in climate justice. Whilst much of the discussions focus on paying money to countries that are unjustly impacted by climate change, reparations is so much more than paying compensation for harms done to Earth and communities. In this episode, we speak with Esther Stanford-Xosei, a leading reparations and law scholar working on reparations policy, research and movement-building around the world. Esther shares with us what r...
Mar 01, 2023•41 min•Ep. 4
Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol farmer, mother, soil nerd, author, and food justice activist from Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York. She co-founded Soul Fire Farm in 2010 with the mission to end racism in the food system and reclaim black people’s ancestral connection to land. In this episode, I speak with Leah about her personal journey into farming and what it means to cultivate a healthy and just relationship with land through farming. Throughout this inspiring conversation, we celebrate th...
Feb 22, 2023•43 min•Ep. 3
Jennifer Uchendu is an ecofeminist and sustainable development advocate from Lagos, Nigeria. She is the founder of SustyVibes, a youth-led organisation making sustainability actionable and relatable for young Africans. Jennifer is also a pioneering researcher in eco-anxiety, and most recently launched The Eco-Anxiety in Africa Project. In this episode, I speak with Jennifer about what eco-anxiety is, how power and anti-blackness shape our emotions of eco-anxiety and practical things we can do to...
Feb 15, 2023•38 min•Ep. 2
In this episode, we meet Rosamund, a clean air advocate from South London. She has been named by Vogue as one of the most influential women in the UK. In 2013, Rosamund’s nine-year-old daughter, Ella Roberta, died from toxic levels of air pollution 25 metres from their home. In this powerful episode, Rosamund shares with us her personal journey of turning the injustice of her daughter's death into purpose. We discuss the causes and effects of air pollution on our health and the health of the env...
Feb 08, 2023•27 min•Ep. 1
Welcome to Black Earth Podcast. Listen to our trailer to find out what's in store for you!
Jan 25, 2023•3 min•Ep. 1
