If you want to learn more about sustainability and climate change, listening to sustainability podcasts is a great start. Here are the best podcasts to listen to right now.
Podcasts are the present — and the future. They allow you to educate yourself on important topics (like sustainability) while commuting to work, folding laundry or cooking. If you want to learn more about sustainability issues and how to be more sustainable, listening to sustainability podcasts or watching environmental documentaries is a great place to start.
We’ll give you the top 21 sustainable podcasts worth listening to this year. Grab your headphones and give some of these a try!
Did you know that listening to podcasts not only gives your eyes a break from the screen but is more environmentally friendly than streaming tv shows and movies? Learn more in our guide: Why Online Streaming on Netflix Is Not Sustainable.
1. How to Save a Planet
This podcast is hosted by journalist Alex Blumberg, where he and his guests present a series of stories about climate change and what we can do to slow it down. How to Save a Planet breaks down the big issues related to environmentalism and sustainability in an understandable way for all listeners.
- Average episode length: 40 minutes
- Available on: Spotify
- Recommended episodes: We Can’t Solve the Climate Crisis Without Gender Equality. We’ll Prove It To You and Encore: The Fight to Stop Oil Pipelines: “For Water. For Treaties. For Climate”
2. Consciously Clueless
Consciously Clueless is a sustainability podcast focused on helping listeners live more sustainably in their day-to-day lives. Host Carly Puch discusses a wide variety of issues ranging from vegan activism to decolonizing yoga to factory farming. She interviews experts on every topic to help you broaden your understanding of environmentalism and how to live a happier, healthier life — without the need for perfection.
- Average episode length: 12-50 minutes
- Available on: iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and many others
- Recommended episodes: Nutrition and Mental Health and How Can African Philosophy Inform Environmentalism? with Shelot Masithi
3. Browngirl Green
This sustainability podcast is hosted by Kristy Drutman, a climate activist and speaker. Browngirl Green is focused on climate change, diversity and inclusion. In each episode, the host interviews different environmental activists. They talk about creative solutions to our climate crises and everyday ways to combat climate change.
- Average episode length: 50 minutes
- Available on: iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud
- Recommended episodes: Stopping Food Waste: From Plate to Planet and Self-Care in the Time of Climate Crisis
4. Sustainability Podcasts: Mindful Businesses
Hosted by Vidhya Iyer, Mindful Businesses shares sustainable innovations with entrepreneurs and introduces eco-friendly products to consumers. In each episode, she interviews different businesses. They talk about their eco-friendly journeys and discuss sustainability practices from each organization.
- Average episode length: 40 minutes
- Available on: Apple Podcasts
- Recommended episodes: Better Meat Co. – Plant Proteins for a Better Planet and Zero Grocery – Plastic-Free Grocery Delivery
5. Wardrobe Crisis
This podcast is part of a sustainable fashion platform that advocates for fairer, more sustainable fashion that respects the planet. Wardrobe Crisis is hosted by Clare Press, who interviews designers and other people from the industry about topics on fashion, ethics and sustainability.
- Average episode length: 40 minutes
- Available on: Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher
- Recommended episodes: How Eco-Friendly is Fashion Rental Really? and Fash Rev Special: A Conversation About Trees with Canopy’s Nicole Rycrof
6. The Minimalists
Hosted by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, this sustainability podcast focuses on minimalism and how it applies to different aspects of life. Whether it is about becoming minimalist, minimalist living, or even more abstract topics such as finding meaning and mental health, The Minimalists Podcast applies the minimalist perspective to all these other topics in everyday life.
- Average episode length: 40 minutes
- Available on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube and RSS.
- Recommended episodes: The Abundance of Minimalism and Environmental Minimalism
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7. Sustainability Podcasts: A Sustainable Mind
Hosted by Marjorie Alexander, this sustainability podcast includes interviews with influential people who are part of impactful organizations, campaigns and start-ups. Through the conversation between host and guest, A Sustainable Mind guides you through different topics, such as sustainable beauty products, climate change, sustainable healthcare and much more.
- Average episode length: 45 minutes
- Available on: iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify
- Recommended episodes: Zero Waste Hair Salons and Sustainability in the Beauty Industry and Trash Academy – Communicating Consumption and Waste through Activism & Advocacy
8. Low Tox Life
Hosted by Alexx Stuart, the Low Tox Life podcast covers topics not only on sustainability but also on well-being and health. This sustainability podcast has episodes on psychological wellness, food and health, how shopping local helps with sustainability, and more.
- Average episode length: 1 hour
- Available on: iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, RSS
- Recommended episodes: Mood Food: The Connection Between Food and Health, Hope is a Verb: A Fresh Story to Serve our Planet and Helena Norberg-Hodge: Local Is Our Future
9. Sustainably Influenced
In this sustainability podcast, hosts Bianca Foley and Charlotte Williams interview experts on sustainability and ethical living. At Sustainably Influenced, they discuss different aspects of what it means to live a conscious lifestyle and how each of us can do our part to make a difference to the environment.
- Average episode length: varies
- Available on: Apple Podcasts
- Recommended episodes: Environmental Activism and Renewable Energy and Green Cleaning with Kyle Grant, founder of Oxwash
10. Sustainability Podcasts: Conscious Chatter
Hosted by Kestrel Jenkins, Conscious Chatter is a sustainability podcast focused on the fashion industry. Who makes our clothes? How are they made? Where do they come from? This podcast is a conversation between the host and people from the fashion industry, who discuss the environmental issues within fashion and how they are related to sustainability overall.
- Average episode length: 45 minutes
- Available on: iTunes, Stitcher, PodBean, PlayerFM
- Recommended episodes: Reimagining supply chains for *upcycling* & embracing sustainability and streetwear through reworked design and Botanical dyeing, sustainability as a collection of idiosyncrasies & the art of slowing down
Read more: What Is Modal Fabric and Is It Really Sustainable?
11. Sustainability Podcasts: Style & Sustain
This sustainability podcast, hosted by Amma Aburam, is also focused on fashion. She is a former fast fashion addict and talks about how she quit it to become a sustainable fashion advocate. At Style & Sustain, the host also interviews sustainable fashion innovators and discusses how we all can get involved in the massive change needed in the fashion industry.
- Average episode length: 40 minutes
- Available on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify
- Recommended episodes: 5 lessons not shopping for three months taught me, 3 ways to inspire people to dress more consciously, 3 reasons individual actions against climate change are key to a better world
More Fantastic Sustainability and Climate Change Podcasts to Check Out
12. Transformers | The Sustainability Change Makers: This sustainability podcast talks about climate solutions, government policies and economic stability. / Average episode length: 40 min
13. Mission First – Entrepreneurs for Future gives hands-on tips to entrepreneurs on how to build a sustainable company. / Average episode length: 1h 15min
14. Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors features inspiring stories of women in eco-business, environmentalism, and sustainability. / Average episode length: 20min
15. Pretty Good Business is all about green companies and organizations that are making a difference and putting sustainability as a priority. / Average episode length: 35min
16. Sustainability 101: This sustainability podcast discusses the benefits and fulfillment of an eco-friendly lifestyle. / Average episode length: 40 min
17. Adventures in Sustainability talks about stories of personal growth and discovery from the podcast host, regarding what it means to be sustainable. / Average episode length: 1h 30 min
18. The Green Podcast is a series of interviews between the host and climate change experts and sustainable business owners on how to live a more sustainable lifestyle. / Average episode length: 30min
19. Sustainable World Radio is a nature-oriented podcast with topics such as ecology, organic gardening and sustainability.
20. Advancing Sustainable Solutions showcases ongoing research on the transition to low-carbon and natural-resource economies.
21. Sustainably Geeky covers topics on how to live a more sustainable lifestyle. / Average episode length: 1 hour
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