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Conversations that go deep on the environment, the climate crisis, and the solutions
Conversations that go deep on the environment, the climate crisis, and the solutions
For People and Planet
The Mother Earth Podcast brings you conversations with extraordinary people who inform, inspire and empower us on the fundamental issue of our time: our relationship with the natural world.
Host Matt Pawa goes deep with environmental writers, policy experts, young activists, wise elders, environmental justice advocates, entrepreneurs in renewable energy, artists, environmental lawyers, sustainability economists, unsung heroes in communities battling for clean water and clean air, plant-based food enthusiasts, and many others. Each episode will be accompanied by show notes directing you to resources where you can learn more, get involved and take action.
The solutions to the climate crisis and other pressing environmental problems are at hand. We need only join together with courage, resolve and cooperative spirit to do what we already know must be done. It will not be easy but by thinking big and acting with focus and determination we can bring humanity into balance with the natural environment. And by doing so, we can rescue our economy and create millions of good jobs.
Join us around our virtual campfire for information, inspiration and empowerment. For People and Planet, thank you for listening.
Host Matt Pawa
Matt with Rhode Island Senator Whitehouse at the People’s Climate March, NYC
Host Matt Pawa is an internationally-recognized environmental attorney. Over the past twenty-five years, Matt has been involved in many of the nation’s most important environmental cases. He has defended Greenpeace U.S.A.’s right to protest Shell’s Arctic drilling and obtained a dismissal of all criminal charges against climate protesters Ken Ward and Jay O’Hara in the Lobsterboat Blockade case. Matt also represented the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Environmental Defense Fund against the automobile industry in cases that upheld state greenhouse gas laws in California, Vermont and Rhode Island. His thirteen-year lawsuit against more than a dozen oil companies for polluting New Hampshire groundwater resulted in the largest verdict in state history and Matt’s recognition as a 2013 Massachusetts Lawyer of the Year. He worked with a group of eight state attorneys general and the City of New York in taking on the nation’s largest coal-burning electric utilities in the first climate change tort case, launched in 2004. Matt is a frequent speaker at law schools and bar association events and regularly appears in national news stories. Prior to attending law school, Matt worked as a river guide on raft trips in the western U.S. and studied environmental science at Cornell University’s SUNY College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Matt believes that humans beings are happiest and healthiest when living in harmony with nature. He founded the Mother Earth Podcast to give voice to people who are defending and healing our planet, engage leading experts in solutions-oriented conversations, and share compelling stories of people whose personal journeys have made them champions of a cleaner, greener, healthier world. With these stories of people and planet, Matt hopes to inform, inspire and empower listeners so that together we can bring humanity back into balance with nature.
Matt is married and a proud father of two adult children. When not lawyering or podcasting, Matt can be found training for triathlons and rafting rivers.
Maddie Zampanti is a freelance audio producer and avid environmentalist out of Minneapolis, MN. Becoming a producer was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream and being able to contribute to The Mother Earth Podcast has been an exciting opportunity to blend her passion for both the environment and audio. To hear more of her work, visit her website: www.conceptualpodcasting.com.
Associate Producers assist in the research and development of The Mother Earth Podcast. The show couldn’t run without our team of hard-working and driven Associate Producers, all of whom collaborate regularly to make sure each episode and all of its supplemental content is consistently produced and of the highest quality possible.
Our current group of Associate Producers are Desa Bolger, Ally Edwards, Jake Maranda, Nora Massie, Ebbie Shim, Orly Strobel, and Katie Zimmerman.
Tony Oposa and Gabriella Palko assisted in the development of the mission and launch of The Mother Earth Podcast in collaboration with host Matt Pawa.
