The EcoCiv Podcast

The EcoCiv Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode #39 – Natalie Foster: Reframing Labor for an Ecological Civilization
November 23, 2021

Andrew Schwartz talks with Natalie Foster. Natalie is the co-chair and co-founder of the Economic Security Project, a network to support exploration and experimentation of a guaranteed income and reig

Episode #38 – Richard Dunne: Education, Food, & Farming for an Ecological Civilization
November 14, 2021

Andrew Schwartz speaks with Richard Dunne. Richard is Director of Education for The Harmony Project at the Sustainable Food Trust in the UK. The Sustainable Food Trusts work on Harmony in food and fa

Episode #37 – Bridget Mugambe: Agroecology for Ecological Civilization
October 14, 2021

Andrew Schwartz talks with Bridget Mugambe. Bridget is a social scientist with over 15 years of work experience with NGOs in management, strategic planning, budgeting, fundraising, and gende

Episode #36 – Vandana Shiva: Changing Global Food Systems
October 03, 2021

You can also listen to this episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Andrew Schwartz talks with Vandana Shiva about why the world’s farmers are going hungry. Vandana is an internatio

Episode #35 – Salva Dut: Water for South Sudan
November 05, 2020

Ellie Leaning speaks with Salva Dut, who is the founder and chief strategy director for Water for South Sudan. Salva was born in a rural village in southwestern Sudan to the Dinka tribe. At 11 years old, the Sudanese Civil War reached his village and sep

Episode #34 – Lauren Ornelas: Food Empowerment Project
August 07, 2020

Ebony Bailey speaks with Lauren Ornelas. Lauren is the Founder and President of Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice nonprofit that promotes veganism, fights for workers, and works

Episode #33 – Jayson Maurice Porter: Race, History, and the Environment
July 17, 2020

Ebony Bailey speaks with Jayson Maurice Porter, who is a PhD candidate in history at Northwestern University and recent Fulbright-García Robles Scholar. His dissertation focuses on Mexican environmental history and political ecology, and he teaches

Episode #32 – Larry Swatuk: Rethinking Our Relationship to Water in Cities
June 19, 2020

In this episode, EcoCiv’s strategic partnerships coordinator, Ellie Leaning speaks with Larry Swatuk, who is a professor of international development at University of Waterloo. Larry’s expertise blends technical hydrological knowledge and freshwater gove

Episode #31 – Zack Walsh: Relational Commoning
June 06, 2020

Jeremy Fackenthal speaks with Zack Walsh, who works at the One Project as a senior researcher of economics and governance. The One Project is a recently launched think-tank that is rooted in relational ways of thinking about ecology, economics, democracy

Episode #30 – The Next Economy: Dialogue on Global Systems Change
May 10, 2020

As the socio-economic effects of coronavirus worsen, the deep failures of our global economic order are being revealed. Is this the end of the neoliberal era? What will the economy look like after COVID-19? Can our next economy promote the overall well-b