Earth Day 2026
Drama Queens
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 24K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
An Earth Day episode that skips the doom spiral and actually tells you what to do? Yes, please! From nervous system hacks that prevent burn-out, to a climate scientist throwing literal dance parties for solutions, this is the mindset shift you didn’t know you needed. Plus, practical tips to help convince people in your orbit to care about the planet, too.
Related reading:
Five Simple Shifts for Climate Communication in 2026: https://potentialenergycoalition.org/2026-climate-change-communicators-guide-five-key-shifts/
Later is Too Late: Global report: https://potentialenergycoalition.org/later-is-too-late-global-report/
Potential Energy Coalition That's Interesting newsletter:
https://potentialenergycoalition.org/newsletter/
Talk like a human communication guide: https://potentialenergycoalition.org/talk-like-a-human-save-the-world/
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s book, dance parties and create your climate action Venn diagram: https://www.getitright.earth
Project Drawdown – an independent nonprofit driving science-based climate action: https://drawdown.org
Urban Ocean Lab – a think tank for the future of coastal cities: https://urbanoceanlab.org
Learn more about Kelly Corrigan: https://www.kellycorrigan.com
Learn more from Gabby Bernstein: https://gabbybernstein.com
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hey, everyone. It's Sophia. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome back to Work and Progress this week, friends, and happy Earth Day. |
| 0:26.6 | I know that the world can feel a bit stressful, but also the world, as in our planet, is a pretty magical place. |
| 0:34.3 | And I don't know about you, but after watching that Artemis mission and listening to our |
| 0:40.1 | incredible NASA astronauts talk about what it felt like to be in space and just look back |
| 0:44.3 | at the oasis of this place that we all live, it made me weepy. |
| 0:49.4 | It made me feel so inspired. |
| 0:50.9 | It made me feel so passionate. |
| 0:52.8 | And so I wanted to mobilize that feeling and gather |
| 0:56.4 | us for a special Earth Day episode to honor our planet as a real invitation to reconnect |
| 1:04.6 | and reimagine and get inspired and really be reminded about what tools we have in our toolkit so we can take meaningful |
| 1:13.2 | action together for this planet we all share. |
| 1:17.3 | I know that that can feel really tough these days because climate headlines feel relentless |
| 1:22.5 | and everywhere you turn there's a fire, a flood, a blizzard, some sort of crazy extreme weather. |
| 1:28.7 | It's really easy to swing between urgency and exhaustion. And I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel like |
| 1:34.0 | just putting my head in the sand and having a good cry. I care deeply, but I don't always feel like |
| 1:39.1 | I know where to put that care first. And that's what made me want to speak to our first guest today. She actually does |
| 1:46.9 | research on constant vigilance and the toll that that takes on our minds and bodies. And if we're in |
| 1:54.2 | this for the long game, which, hello, I hope we all live a long time, so we better be, we need |
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