Empowering Changemakers: A Conversation With Nick Mucha On 'Tools To Save Our Home Planet'
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Changemakers from the grassroots are the most inspiring people out there, but they need the right support to do their job well and make our home planet much better. Nick Mucha, Director of Environmental Issues and Strategy at Patagonia, talks about his latest book that explores how to empower intergenerational activism. Together with Corinna Bellizzi, he explains how to use art in elevating small actions against climate crisis and what it takes to boost skill-based volunteering. Nick also discusses the danger of monetizing public lands and why the smallest communities will be adversely affected by such a decision.
About Guest:
Nick Mucha is one of the editors of Tools to Save Our Home Planet. He serves as the Environmental Capacity Building Director at Patagonia. In this role, Nick leads Patagonia’s efforts to focus and deliver strategic grantmaking support to Patagonia’s grantee organizations while enhancing the effectiveness and durability of nonprofit partners. His work is born out of a deep appreciation for the vitally important role that nonprofit organizations play in tackling our most vexing environmental, social, and economic issues. Nick has 15 years’ experience leading conservation and community development programs throughout the world. His interest in this work was born while he and his wife served as Peace Corps volunteers in Honduras from 2004-2006. From that experience Nick founded his own organization supporting coastal communities that were grappling with booming surf tourism in southern Nicaragua. After running that organization for 7 years, Nick served as Director of Programs for Save The Waves Coalition with a focus on protecting surf ecosystems worldwide. Nick holds a B.A.in political science from UC Santa Barbara. Outside of work, Nick is usually serving up dad jokes to his three kids or scheming to get in a quick surf, trail run, or weekend adventure off-grid.
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-mucha-95a6964
Guest Website: https://www.patagonia.com
Show Notes: Raw audio
00:03:02 - Nick’s Journey To Environmental Activism
00:07:56 - Motivation And Inspirations Behind The Book
00:14:03 - Helping Activists Avoid Burnout
00:23:26 - Making The Book Fresh And Relevant
00:26:32 - Protecting And Supporting Public Lands
00:33:07 - Supporting The Noble Mission Of Patagonia
00:40:19 - Picking Your Starting Point And Taking Action
00:52:54 - Taking Care Of Yourself
00:56:57 - Episode Wrap-up And Closing Words
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| 0:00.0 | So Aaron Hill, who is the last author in this essay, he is taking that baton, so to speak, from his dad, who was a very effective advocate and activist. |
| 0:11.7 | And so that intergenerational nature shows up in here, too, that it's not something, this work isn't 10 or 20 years. |
| 0:18.8 | It is more enduring. |
| 0:19.9 | It lasts a long time, lifetimes. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:31.8 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:37.1 | You'll learn how you can make a difference. |
| 0:39.0 | Vote with your dollars and get involved today. |
| 0:42.0 | Here's your host, Karina Belizzi. |
| 0:45.7 | Hello and welcome to Care More Be Better, the podcast where we explore paths to regeneration of the planet, of our systems, and of ourselves. |
| 0:53.4 | As part of our commitment to environmental regeneration, |
| 0:56.4 | we're proud to collaborate with forestplanet.org. |
| 0:59.1 | We're planting a tree for every new subscriber, |
| 1:02.3 | be it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, |
| 1:05.8 | and also on our newsletter at care more be better.com. |
| 1:09.2 | That means up to four trees could be planted for you. |
| 1:12.9 | Now to date, we've already planted 8,400 trees roughly so far this year with our aim to |
| 1:19.2 | reach 20,000 by year's end. For all our longtime listeners and brand new subscribers, I just want to |
| 1:25.2 | thank you for being a part of this journey. Today, I'm proud to be joined by Nick Muka. |
| 1:30.1 | He is the director of environmental issues |
| 1:32.7 | and strategy at Patagonia and the editor of a new book, |
| 1:36.3 | Tools to Save Our Home Planet, a Change Makers Guide. |
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