Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Episodes
Dean Spade: Radical love and solidarity in the face of growing repression
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to bypass formalized structures of change-making and to engage in mutual aid? How does the philanthropy-nonprofit-industrial complex...
Dr. Jennifer Mullan: Decolonizing healing and honoring our sacred rage
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we stay rooted when experiencing stories of injustice, one after another, while navigating a world that often wants to suppress our grief and a...
Ixchel Lunar: Decolonial time and reclaiming flow as a birthright
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What have been the impacts of colonial time on individual well-being and community dynamics? What does it mean to reclaim the state of flow as a birth...
Thomas Parker: Taste as biocultural, relational, and experiential
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it that cuisines have historically been dismissed as a serious field of study? How have social factors, such as cultural norms and class, influ...
Darcia Narvaez: Cultivating nestedness for children and future generations
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to cultivate “nestedness” for young children, infants, and future generations? What can we learn from how other species care for...
John Protevi: Towards rhizomatic acts of mutual empowerment
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are the psychological aspects of how military combat personnel are often socialized in training to feel more comfortable with carrying out acts o...
Tiokasin Ghosthorse: Learning from the Earth as an Elder
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to focus on learning from Earth, as opposed to learning about the earth? How might learning Ianguages of Indigeneity invite us into ...
Stacy Alaimo: Sinking into our entanglement with the deep seas
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How have the deep seas already been altered by industrial human activity? What is the relationship between art and science within the world of ocean c...
Melinda Adams: Cultural fire and the longings of the land
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does historical processes of colonization relate to the increasing prevalence of more intense, destructive wildfires? How can Indigenous-led cultu...
Sasha Davis: What do we do when protests and elections fail?
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we navigate the overwhelm that comes from staying informed about the world’s many interconnected crises — many of which may feel extremely ...
Mike Albertus: Reshuffling land, reconfiguring power
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to look at power through the lens of land stewardship and ownership? How have different social factors influenced how the “reshuff...
[LIVE RECORDING] Dr. Rupa Marya: What are we willing to risk for collective liberation?
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This original, un-edited recording is from kaméa's Substack live interview early July of 2025 with Dr. Rupa Marya, who was fired by her employer for ...
Sophie Strand: Glitching towards a return to each other
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do we need to interrogate about our dominant culture’s obsession with “wellness” — as well as its discomforts when confronted by illness?...
Tyson Yunkaporta: Shifting from ‘health & wellness’ to communities of care
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to reject the monocultural delusion of separation and endless growth, and to nurture systems that honor context and the brilliance o...
[REPLAY] A. Naomi Paik: Immigration, deportation, and military recruits of the disenfranchised
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a replay from May 2022 on Sanctuary for All, Sanctuary Everywhere — on the deportability of workers as labor discipline, immigration policy ...
Paul Hawken: Carbon is the flow of life
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is there to question about the dominant framing of “climate crisis”? What does it mean to understand carbon not just as an element but as the...
Kazu Haga: Building "Beloved Community" and becoming healers of collective trauma
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does sensing into our zones of stretch, comfort, and panic help us to expand our capacities for love and nonviolence — in their more radical ite...
Abby Reyes: Engaging ‘the slow work’ in the face of urgency and crises
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999, Terence Unity Freitas, the partner of our guest today, along with two other Indigenous activists Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa and Lahe’ena’...
Mitch Anderson: Join the Amazon’s resistance against oil expansion
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ecuadorian government is currently planning to auction off 8.7 million acres of the Amazon rainforest to oil interests.What is at stake — for th...
[ES/UNTRANSLATED] Nemonte Nenquimo: Listen to the voices of the Amazon Rainforest
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
(By request, this is the raw, untranslated version of our interview with Nemonte Nenquimo — in which you will hear Nemonte's original responses in S...
Nemonte Nenquimo: Listen to the voices of the Amazon Rainforest
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What has been the historical relationship between missionary work and the development of the oil industry in the Ecuadorian Amazon? What does it mean ...
Prentis Hemphill: Becoming strange to the normalcies of this world
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is at stake if we bypass the “inner” work of personal transformation while we rally forward in the “external” work of dismantling systemi...
Serene Thin Elk: An invitation into collective, generational healing
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of people seem to be struggling with our senses of belonging.So many people have been uprooted and forcibly displaced. Many have chosen out of f...
Sandor Katz: Fermentation as catalyst for social transformation
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to recognize that so much of the world has become “anti-microbial”? Why is it that some bacteria make us sick while others are v...
Joseph Oleshangay: Honoring nomadic, pastoral, and communal land relations
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is the Maasai community continually being displaced and disenfranchised in the name of “wildlife conservation”? What are some of the common pr...
Martín Prechtel: Relearning the languages of land, plants, and place
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, kaméa chayne is joined by Martín Prechtel, who speaks to us from Northern New Mexico where he presently lives with his family ...
Ferris Jabr: Re-rooting science in the aliveness of the Earth
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do the biological life forms of the Amazon rainforest — from pollen grains, fungal spores, to microbes — play active roles in their regional w...
Nathalie Kelley: Sporing more regenerative stories in media and entertainment
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean that Hollywood and the entertainment industry are increasingly relying on AI and consumer data to make decisions about the stories t...
adrienne maree brown: Sowing seeds of love in our “garden of ideas”
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we navigate friendships in the context of social change and increasing political divides? What does it mean to ground ourselves in concepts tha...
Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Echolocation as a practice of collective care
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What can we learn from marine mammals in their practices of echolocation? What is the difference between identification as a colonial tool of control...
Bruce Pascoe: Respecting and falling in love with the land
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How is the common portrayal of Australia’s first peoples as hunter-gatherers who lived on empty, uncultivated land misguided, and wrong? What does t...
Laura Marris: Sensing into our longings and "the age of loneliness"
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How might we listen to our hearts more and tune into this “age of loneliness”? What are some vital connections between our public health crises, t...
Nick Estes: Expanding activism beyond electoral politics
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to expand political action beyond the voting booth? What are some ways that colonialism and imperialism persist today? And what is t...
Sadiah Qureshi: Healing histories of division, racialization, and extinction
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sadiah Qureshi invites us to unravel histories of science, race, and empire to understand the social dynamics that we have inherited ...
Bethany Brookshire: Rethinking “pests” and the ways they challenge power
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean that the labeling of “pests” often relate to how they challenge power and order? How do the ways that “pests” are often targ...
Joseph Gazing Wolf: Re-grounding democracy in traditional ecological knowledge
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to expand our perceptions of wealth — and question what it means to build freedom and security in life? How might we re-ground our...
Rasul A. Mowatt & Too Black (P2): Building movements and navigating funding in systems of complicity
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it actually mean to build “movements” — understanding this word not as a loose terminology overarching certain causes but as a substan...
Rasul A. Mowatt & Too Black (P1): Exposing the laundering of Black rage
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to understand laundering in the context of how Black rage often gets converted to fit the interests of capital — against the very ...
Ben Goldfarb: Road ecology and the normalized violence of transport systems
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With a significant part of the global population now reliant on paved road systems for the daily functioning of our lives, it is easy to overlook the ...
Camille Sapara Barton: Tending grief and rebuilding our capacities to sense more deeply
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to sit with and tend to our grief as a regular practice rather than something to “get over” — so we can continue to sense and ...
Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo & Blake Lavia: Returning to each other and the remembrance of “Water is Life”
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to remember ourselves as representatives of our rivers, oceans, and other earthly bodies of water? Why is it vital to recognize the ...
Juanita Sundberg: Challenging "human exceptionalism" and institutions of change
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation with Dr. Juanita Sundberg, we explore how our relationships with the more-than-human world are often shaped by our institutions a...
Amanda Janoo: Wellbeing economics for planetary flourishing
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we recalibrate the metrics of mainstream politics, such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) often used to define a nation's “success” — and r...
Sophy Banks: Grief tending and collective pathways to healing justice
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sophy Banks shares her rich wealth of knowledge, teachings, and experiences about what it means to truly support ourselves and others...
Jessica J. Lee: The entangled histories of human and plant migration
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do the terminologies we often use to describe plants reveal about human and human-plant relations? How is the current landscape of the plant worl...
Niharika Sanyal: Returning to the longing in our hearts and intuition
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we show up as sensitive, creative and intuitive beings in a system that does not honor the uniqueness of our spirits? How can we stay true to o...
EVERGREEN | Vanessa Andreotti: Allowing the earth to dream through us
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“We consume not only stuff but also knowledge, experiences, critique. And this consumption, many times, is not even digested. It is the consumption ...
Perdita Finn: Sitting with the wisdoms of darkness, death, and decay
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What could it mean to heal our relationship with the dead, the decaying, and the dark in order to move towards more liveable futures? What possibiliti...
AM Kanngieser: Enlivening our responsiveness through embodied listening
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, geographer, writer, and sound artist AM Kanngieser invites us to reconsider the diverse ways in which we register both sound and sile...
Hamza Hamouchene: Rising up to true climate justice
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why is the North Africa and Middle East region so vital to center in discourses on climate justice? How does the current global energy transition rein...
Lindsay Naylor: Who does "fair trade" really serve and benefit?
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who does “fair trade” as a certification program speaking to conscious consumers really serve? How might it fall short of what it promises—suppo...
Audra Mitchell: Rethinking conservation, biodiversity, and extinction
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to recognize the limitations of “biodiversity” as a gauge of planetary wellbeing? How do we make sense of the heads of big corpo...
Jared Margulies: Succulent collection and extinction from the illicit trade
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“What we’re talking about are plants that people desire for ornamental collection and will oftentimes go to great lengths to get them. Sometimes, ...
Vivien Sansour: Palestinian seeds of survival, shelter, and subversiveness
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What can grief teach us about being truly alive? And how might seeds, and the compassionate acts of tending to them, be the “helpers and teachers”...
Anna Guasco: Justice, histories, and narratives of gray whale migration
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What might the histories of human and gray whale relations show us in terms of how the stories we tell shape the texture of our relationships to our m...
BONUS: Imagination, escapism, and disorientation in stretching alternative possibilities
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a behind-the-scenes conversation with Gabes Torres, a contributor and the program advisor of alchemize, and Green Dreamer's team members Anisa...
Ang Roell: Collective care and responsiveness in the hives of honeybees
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“One in four bites of our food is pollinated by honeybees, but at what cost in the system that we are in now? How could that look different if our a...
Hilding Neilson: Astro-colonialism and honoring the stories of our night skies
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Green Dreamer's episode 413, we welcome Dr. Hilding Neilson, who shares with us his knowledge of the night skies and expertise as an astronomer tra...
Laurie Palmer: Lessons from lichen worlds
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by A. Laurie Palmer: a writer, artist, and author of the book The Lichen Museum. In paying attention to lichen, Laurie ...
Dekila Chungyalpa: Engaging faith leaders for planetary healing
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome our guest Dekila Chungyalpa, who reminds us of our intra-dependant existence with all of life. Traced by a lineage of Tibe...
Zoe Todd: Embodied listening for freshwater fish futures
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“My life goal is to get our governments to understand that Indigenous sovereignty and freshwater fish futures are completely linked.”In this episo...
Charlotte Wrigley: Respecting permafrost and moving beyond their stories of apocalypse
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome our guest Charlotte Wrigley, who invites us to contemplate the upheaval of extinction as a discontinuous process—a becom...
Siv Watkins: Intimacy with the microbial world
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Once folks start to pick away at that scab of understanding how much of a role microbes play in the lives of other things in good ways and bad ways...
Patricia Kaishan: Lessons from fungi as queer companions
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Patricia Kaishian, a mycologist, writer, and educator who gestures to mycology as a queer discipline. Situated a...
Eshe Lewis: Black anthropology and streamlining storytelling
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the episode, we welcome Dr. Eshe Lewis to discuss her life and learnings as an activist, anthropologist, and storyteller. Eshe walks us through gli...
Lama Khatieb: Reclaiming local knowledge for food interdependence
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“[...] The United States started to heavily invest in subsidizing growing wheat for exporting purposes. That resulted in flooding international mark...
Danel Ruiz-Serna: Living territories and the ecological violence of war
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome anthropologist Daniel Ruiz-Serna, whose work, situated in the Choco region of Colombia, aims to expose the entanglement of...
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: The political questions of science and technology
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“I think the bigger question is not necessarily specifically about physics, but generally speaking, about how we culturally engage with science and ...
Aparna Venkatesan: Protecting space as ancestral global commons
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“The legacy of Earth colonization… is still [in its] early days. We can protect this shared environment and also what I see as the intangible heri...
Melissa K. Nelson: Living in storied and moral landscapes
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s very important that we translate how different knowledge systems have been privileged and others have been marginalized and repressed and er...
400) Anand Giridharadas: Expanding empathy and breaking political binaries
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For Green Dreamer’s 400th episode, we welcome Anand Giridhardas, a writer and journalist whose books include The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of t...
399) Vince Beiser: The global sand trade and how it remade 'modernity'
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Hundreds of people have been murdered over sand in the last few years. Even though most of us barely ever think about it, sand is actually the most...
398) Helena Norberg-Hodge: Artisanal futures and economics of happiness
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Once you start rebuilding more localized systems, they are almost without exception, going to be kinder to the environment and kinder to people str...
397) Rosamund Portus: A preemptive mourning of bee decline
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“When I talk about extinction as a bio-cultural process, what I’m seeing or what I’m talking about is the fact that there’s lots of different ...
396) Staci K. Haines: Somatics for trauma healing and transformative justice
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“If we’re soaking in all these default practices that are power-over practices that are reflected to us through the media, through our families an...
395) Andreas Weber: The ecological dimension of love
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Andreas Weber is a biologist, philosopher, and writer, whose work focuses on re-evaluating our understanding of the living and dying. Andreas prop...
394) Vijay Prashad: Reviving collective life and scaling small gestures of care
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Where is the space for a collective life? If you yell at the planet and say, ‘Why aren’t you acting collectively?’ You don’t understand thi...
393) James Bridle: Artificial intelligence and the fallacy of a computerizable world
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome writer, artist, and technologist, James Bridle. James’s artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions an...
392) Eben Kirksey: Boundless entanglements with the virosphere
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“I like thinking with viruses because they’re constantly infecting us, changing our nature. Some of them are even changing our genome. We’re con...
391) Enrique Salmón: Ancestral foodways that enrich local landscapes
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I came up with the idea of ‘Eating the Landscape’ because I was thinking about our Indigenous ancestral foodways. It’s not just about food. It’...
390) Rosetta S. Elkin: Troubling mass tree-planting and afforestation
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“What we might want to do is learn where the word desertification comes from and when it should be used and when it is ill-used, at least to move fo...
389) Dany Celermajer: Multispecies justice and more-than-human entanglements
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“I use the language of entanglement rather than interdependence because entanglement implies that what’s fundamental is relationships.” What are...
388) Daniel Immerwahr: Empire remade in form through technology
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“One thing that the United States got really good at doing was basically replacing all colonial products with synthetic ones—swapping technology i...
387) shakara tyler: Black farming as joyous, victorious, glorious
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“We often forget that Black farmers were the foundation of the civil rights movement. Actually, a lot of Black agrarian scholars and organizers, and...
386) Jen Telesca: The managed extinction of the giant bluefin tuna
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“What I find worth remarking upon is the fact that the vast majority of people are so alienated from the Bluefin’s life world that they don’t kn...
385) Thom van Dooren: The evolving cultures of the more-than-human world
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome Thom van Dooren, a field philosopher and writer. Thom is Deputy Director at the Sydney Environment Institute and teaches a...
384) Rebecca Giggs: The world as reflected in the whale
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome Rebecca Giggs, an award-winning author from Perth, Australia. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Emergence, the New Yo...
383) Gabes Torres: Re-rooting therapy and re-membering community
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“One of the introductions to Counseling Psychology teaches the Freudian concept of neutrality—when the patient’s social identity, when politics ...
382) Min Hyoung Song: From everyday denial to everyday attention
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Where our power comes from actually is in that space between the 'I' and the 'you'—that shared space. If we could tap into that, if we can find w...
381) Stacy Alaimo: Our bodies are the Anthropocene
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“All of these imaginings visually, as if we were in a spaceship and looking down on the Earth—whoever that we is, which is super problematic with ...
380) Loren Cardeli: Who really feeds the world?
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“For every $1 of aid Africa gets, $24 is taken out. We have to address something deeper, something more systemic, but we don’t want to talk about ...
379) Hi'ilei Hobart: Ambient sovereignty and the question of temperature control
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“When it comes to refrigeration, so many of us have just come to accept that that’s how things are done. But I think in the food sovereignty conve...
378) Asad Rehman: The end of imperialism in a radical green new deal
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Our economies globally have forced the Global South to be commodity-driven, export countries, with powerful multinationals. [The] profits that come...
377) Heather Davis: Living in 'Petrotime' and seeing plastic as grand-kin
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“What [the plastiglomerate] really highlights is the fact that plastic is now so incredibly ubiquitous that it can’t be taken out or removed. It i...
376) Craig Santos Perez: Poetry as therapy and political speech
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Poetry has always been a powerful space for healing, dealing with trauma, cultivating resilience in times of crisis or even depression..." In this ep...
375) Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen: Reclaiming 'traditional' and recovering nordic animist relations
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Mythology is a language that places knowledge of relation into relation with people—[in a] way that appeals to our emotions and imaginations. It ...
374) Sharon Blackie: Re-enchanting the earth through mythology
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Story helps us weave ourselves into the land and feel a sense of wonder and awe when we step outside. This re-mythologizing, restorying to me is a ...
373) Mark Rectanus: Reclaiming the arts from corporate influence
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"In many cases, corporations are using [the museum's cultural capital] to reaffirm their status in a local community... Artists are increasingly conce...
372) Sinegugu Zukulu: Resisting imposed development in the Wild Coast
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“So-called ‘development’, envisioned outside of the community, more often than not brings challenges to the community because it doesn't take in...
371) Brett Scott: Money consciousness and the war on cash
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"If you're looking at the broad trajectory of corporate capitalism, it's towards institutional intermediation in everything... This 'unbanked' concept...