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We Need to Act
We Need to Act, hosted by Dr. Sara Rego, dives into the biggest questions shaping our planet’s future. From climate change and biodiversity loss to social justice and environmental degradation, each episode unpacks what sustainability really means. Through candid conversations with activists, scientists, Indigenous leaders, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, we explore the roots of today’s crises—and the bold actions needed to build a just, resilient, and regenerative world.
Episodes
We Need to ActEl Agua en Chile es Privada y las Comunidades Pagan el Precio con Jorge Morales
¿Qué pasa cuando el agua que necesitas para vivir ya tiene dueño?Jorge Morales Trincado lleva 14 años defendiendo el agua y el territorio en el Valle del…
We Need to ActOur Lands Are Who We Are: Indigenous Science, Ecological Grief and Decolonising Research with Dr. Jessica Hernandez
What happens to your sense of self when the lands that define you are taken away?Dr. Jessica Hernandez is an Indigenous environmental scientist, author, and…
We Need to ActThe Fashion Industry Is Broken And Ghana Is Paying the Price with Yayra Agbofah
What does your wardrobe have to do with a beach in Ghana covered in discarded clothing?Yayra Agbofah grew up trading secondhand garments at Kantamanto Market…
We Need to ActEnvironmental Law and Climate Change: Why Collective Action Is Our Most Powerful Tool with Daniel Farber
What happens to environmental law when the federal government turns its back on climate action?Dan Farber is the Sho Sato Professor of Law at UC Berkeley and…
We Need to ActSix Years Without Salmon: Sámi, Europe's Only Indigenous People on Climate Change with Áslat Holmberg
What does it mean to watch the river that shaped your entire life fall silent?Áslat Holmberg is a former member of the Sámi Parliament of Finland and former…
We Need to ActDo Not Try to Save the Earth - The Earth Is Here to Save You with Paul Hawken
What if the climate narrative itself is the problem?Paul Hawken is one of the world's most influential environmentalists, entrepreneurs, and authors. Founder…
We Need to ActAbejas Meliponas: Ciencia e Identidad en la Amazonía Peruana con Ornella Muñoz, ARI
Aquí está:¿Sabías que las abejas meliponas polinizan hasta el 80% de la flora amazónica — y que la mayoría de la gente ni sabe que existen?Ornella Muñoz creció…
We Need to ActWhales Are Our Ancestors - Dr. Mere Takoko on Legal Personhood for Whales
What if whales are not just animals — but ancestors?Dr. Mere Takoko is a Māori Ocean and Climate conservationist from Aotearoa New Zealand and one of the…
We Need to ActThe Golden Age of Sustainability Hasn't Happened Yet with John Elkington
What does the godfather of the global sustainability movement think is coming next?John Elkington has been working at the intersection of business…
We Need to ActCoal Kills: How Young Ghanaians Stopped a Power Plant and Built a Movement with Portia Adu-Mensah
What does it take to stop a coal plant from being built in your community — when you're young, when the government is pushing it, and when the promises of jobs…
We Need to ActThere Is No Environment: Māori Philosophy, Interconnection, and the Roots of the Ecological Crisis with Carl Mika
What if the environmental crisis is really a crisis of worldview? In this episode, Sara sits down with Professor Carl Mika — Professor of Māori and Indigenous…
We Need to ActNature’s Last Dance: Falling Back in Love with the Natural World with Natalie Kyriacou
What does it actually take to make someone fall in love with nature? Not lecture them, not overwhelm them with data, but genuinely make them fall in…
We Need to ActGoldman Prize 2026: defender el agua desde el corazón de Colombia con Yuvelis Morales Blanco
Yuvelis Morales tiene 25 años, creció pescando en el Río Magdalena y hoy es la voz más joven y potente de la lucha antifracking en Colombia. Ganadora del…
We Need to ActWe Are Kapwa: How We Forgot to Belong and How to Remember with Lana Jelenjev
What does it mean to truly belong - not as an individual seeking acceptance, but as part of an interconnected whole?In this episode, Sara Rego speaks with Lana…
We Need to ActIntentional Communities: A Path to Connection and Belonging with Cynthia Tina
In this episode of We Need to Act, Sara Rego speaks with Cynthia Tina, intentional community expert, author of Intentional Community, and founder of…
We Need to ActArte y Naturaleza: El Poder del Asombro con Carolina Castro Jorquera
En este episodio conversamos con Carolina Castro Jorquera, artista e investigadora chilena, sobre el arte como una forma de vida, de conocimiento y de conexión…
We Need to ActWhy We Ignore Climate Change (and How to Fix It) with George Marshall
Most climate communication has failed to inspire the urgent climate action we need. What if the key to environmental change is not just science but how we…
We Need to ActTurning the Tide: From Corporate Career to Ocean Activism with Fynn Hedrich
In this special episode of We Need to Act, Sara joins Podcasthon, the world’s largest podcast charity initiative, to spotlight a cause that affects us all…
We Need to ActRebuilding the Future with Feminine Values and Indigenous Wisdom with Osprey Orielle Lake
In this powerful conversation, Osprey Orielle Lake—founder of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)—shares her personal journey into climate…
We Need to ActUnmasking Greenwashing: How Companies Mislead And What Can You Do with John Pabon
In this episode of the We Need to Act podcast, we welcome John Pabon, greenwashing expert, author of The Great Greenwashing, consultant, and speaker. John…
We Need to ActAmar, Cuidar y Transformar: Hacia una Nueva Economía con Diego Isabel la Moneda
En este episodio conversamos con Diego Isabel La Moneda, cofundador y director de la Fundación Foro NESI, sobre la urgencia de transformar el modelo económico…
We Need to ActVoices from the Arctic: Inuit Leadership in Global Change with Dr. Sara Olsvig
In this episode of the We Need to Act podcast, we are honored to welcome Sara Olsvig, Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), representing around 180,000…
We Need to ActIndigenous Agriculture: Lessons From The Hopi Tradition with Michael Kotutwa Johnson
In this episode of We Need to Act, host Sara Rego sits down with Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a 250th-generation Hopi farmer and Assistant Professor at the…
We Need to ActEmpowering Minds: The Role of Education in Sustainability with Prof. Jonathan Jansen
In this enlightening conversation, Professor Jansen discusses his journey from aspiring biochemist to a dedicated educator, emphasizing the importance of…
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Hope Is Something We Build | Reframing Sustainability: Our 2025 Wrap-Up & the Road to 2026
As we close out 2025 and step into 2026, this episode is a moment to pause, reflect, and look ahead.In this special year-end wrap-up of We Need to Act, host…
We Need to ActEntre Poesía y Tierra: Manteniendo la Cultura Mapuche con María Isabel Lara Millapan
Este episodio es una conversación íntima con la poeta mapuche María Isabel Lara Millapán sobre memoria, lengua y territorio en tiempos de desconexión…
We Need to ActFrom Global to Local: Redefining Progress with Helena Norberg-Hodge
In this episode of We Need to Act, host Sara Rego speaks with Helena Norberg-Hodge—one of the world’s most influential voices on localization and the new…
We Need to ActTransformando el Dinero para la Justicia Ambiental con Isabel Felandro (Cool Earth) y Carlos Adrián Pérez (Equal Right)
En este episodio, nos asociamos con Cool Earth, una organización cuya misión es proporcionar dinero y datos directamente a las personas que viven en la selva…
We Need to ActTransforming Money for Environmental Justice with Isabel Felandro (Cool Earth) and Carlos Adrián Perez (Equal Right)
In this episode, we partner with Cool Earth, an organization whose mission is to provide cash and data directly to people living in the rainforest so they can…
We Need to ActHawaiian Wisdom on Sustainability with Kimokeo Kapahulehua
"Yesterday the word was not sustainability. Yesterday the word was life. And today we have to learn how to be life." - Uncle KimokeoIn this episode, we welcome…
We Need to ActVoces de los Andes: un viaje de defensa de los derechos indígenas en el Perú con Tarcila Rivera Zea
“Yo vengo de una comunidad que hasta ahora trata de no depredar lo que tiene; entonces, cuida. Cuida la vida de las personas, pero también cuida la vida de su…
We Need to ActThe Power of Place: Insights on Land and Identity with Professor Anne Poelina
"We, in terms of Indigenous people, come from a holistic society. We don't come from a dichotomous society that cuts everything out. So land, water, people…
We Need to ActEco-Action: Transforming Sustainability with Play and Creativity with Katie Patrick
"Behavioral psychology is key to effective sustainability programs. Understanding the psychology of people is crucial to communicate and manifest change in…
We Need to ActDerecho ambiental: qué es y su importancia para el planeta y la sociedad con Mauricio Madrigal
"El derecho que tenemos todas las personas a vivir en un ambiente sano, y para poder vivir en ese ambiente sano, necesitamos —llamémoslo— un desarrollo…
We Need to ActBreaking the Illusion: How Indigenous Systems Thinking Can Awaken Us with Tyson Yunkaporta
"When we remove freedom from people, it's a social death. We are killing them. We are killing their relatedness to the world because we are closing them off…
We Need to ActA Woman in Tech’s Journey: From Silicon Valley to Leading Nature Analytics with Megan Pillsbury
Can technology save us from the environmental crisis? For Megan Pillsbury—engineer, entrepreneur, and innovation leader—the answer is more complex than a…
We Need to ActDe la Desconexión a la Armonía: Explorando los Vínculos Bioculturales con Tomás Ibarra
Ante las crisis ambientales que enfrentamos, todavía hay mucho que desconocemos sobre nuestra relación simbiótica con la naturaleza y el impacto positivo que…
We Need to ActFrom Breakdowns to Breakthroughs: the Path to Thriving with Prof. Wayne Visser
We are living in a polycrisis with multiple interconnected crises converging into a complex situation that is difficult to resolve. From environmental issues…
We Need to ActThe vital role of wetlands for biodiversity and climate change with Alexander Kornelsen
Did you know that approximately 6% of the Earth's land surface is covered by wetlands? These vital ecosystems are under threat, yet many people are unaware of…
We Need to ActConstruyendo Resiliencia Frente al Cambio Climático con Marcia Toledo
Vivimos graves crisis ambientales que nos colocan en situaciones extremas, como el aumento de las temperaturas y de desastres como sequías, inundaciones…
We Need to ActWe are Nature Itself with Casey Camp-Horinek
We are all natives to some land, but Indigenous peoples have long been stewards of Nature, protecting her rights and preserving their cultural ways of living…
We Need to ActConservation, messaging, and the power of social movements to drive change with Charlie Gardner
How critical is it to recognise the interconnectedness of climate change and biodiversity loss? How does our economic system struggle to identify the true…
We Need to ActInnovar para la Acción Climática con Ignacio Chanzá Bango
En este episodio, hablamos sobre los desafíos urgentes del cambio climático con Ignacio Chanzá Bango, quien destaca la importancia de la innovación, la…
We Need to ActBiophilic Design and how to incorporate it into your living spaces with Dr. Fiona Gray
We have transformed our cities into vast concrete jungles,designing nature literally out of our lives. How can architecture and urban design bring us back into…
We Need to ActSustainable Development, symbiosis, and regenerative futures with Marc Buckley
Are Sustainable Development Goals achievable and why are we failing to reach them? How can we regenerate our world and what will be next on the sustainability…
We Need to Act¿Cómo afecta nuestra dieta al cambio climático? con Nico Muzi
¿Cómo afecta nuestra dieta al cambio climático? ¿Cuál es elimpacto del consumo de carne en las emisiones globales y por qué es tan difícil el cambio? ¿Qué…
We Need to ActRestoring our relationship with Earth through regenerative systems change with Ryan (Ra) James
How is our relationship with Earth? Are we honoring the gifts we've received and taking responsibility to reciprocate? Currently, we exist in a hierarchical…
We Need to Act¿Qué es la ecoansiedad y cómo combatirla? con Francisco Cáceres
Cada vez más personas se ven afectadas por la ecoansiedad,pero ¿qué significa esto? ¿Cómo podemos entender estas emociones? ¿Y qué se puede hacer para reducir…
We Need to ActFind a purposeful career through regenerative worklife with Alisa Murphy
The concept of regeneration is gaining momentum nowadays in various fields, but have you ever thought about a regenerative career? How does it connect to…
We Need to ActCommunity, behavior change and communication with Katelan Cunningham
What power does the community have in helping us make informed decisions and change behaviors? How can we make our message more relevant to people and inspire…
We Need to ActAgricultura regenerativa con Mauricio Castro Schmitz
Nuevo año, nuevo episodio y más conocimiento sobre el tema de la sostenibilidad y cómo alcanzarla. Vivimos tiempos desafiantes con problemas como el cambio…
We Need to ActBONUS - Meditation to ease eco-anxiety feelings with Faye & Erik Krippner
After our last episode featuring Faye and Erik Krippner, where we discussed the connection between nature and our well-being, we want to help you start 2025 in…
We Need to ActThe connection between Nature and well-being with Faye and Erik Krippner
New Year, new podcast episode! This time, it's wrapped in a special gift: a bonus meditation. We want you to kick off the new year feeling re-energized…
We Need to ActClimate activism with Nyombi Morris
What is the role of youth in the fight against climate change? How can young African activists raise their voices and demand more from global leaders? Is there…
We Need to ActColaboración, Educación y Sostenibilidad con Dr. Rosalía Arteaga
¿Somos realmente conscientes de que somos parte de la naturaleza y que sin ella no podemos vivir? ¿Cómo podemos colaborar en este mundo global para encontrar…
We Need to ActOjibwe teachings and Sustainability with Anton Treuer
Can we find different and better ways to relate to one another? What can traditional Ojibwe teachings tell us about our place on Earth, the interconnectedness…
We Need to ActThe intersection between Spirituality and Sustainability with Asha Frost
We don’t often talk about it, but it isn’t possible to separate spirituality from sustainability because spiritual or religious beliefs about creation shape…
We Need to ActSalvar la Amazonía con Julio Andrés Rozo
Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a este primer episodio en español, el primero de muchos en este idioma, para que este podcast pueda llegar a más personas. Estoy muy…
We Need to ActNudging and Sustainability with Marta Santos Silva
This week, we are participating in a festival dedicated to promoting sustainability and sustainable behaviors in Portugal, the Greenfest, and we decided to…
We Need to ActCommunicating Climate Change with Eleanor Ross
In previous episodes, we mentioned the complexity, vagueness, and amplitude of the sustainability concept and how it shapes how we communicate, especially…