Green Champions

About Green Champions

From energy to agriculture, retail to tech — Green Champions tells the stories of real people building sustainable solutions across every industry. Hosted by Dominique Hadad and Christy Cook, each episode provides that progress is already happening and environmental work takes many forms. New episodes every Tuesday.

Publisher

Dominique Hadad & Christy Cook

Category

business · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Feb 2024

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

135 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Melinda Vonstein - From Rollerblades to Regional Trails

   Melinda Vonstein leads the Greenways Planning Studio at MORPC, where she plans and expands Central Ohio's network of trails and works to connect communities across the region. Her origin story starts with a broken glass table. When it shattered in her backyard a little over a decade ago, her family dug up the grass instead of cleaning up the mess, built a patio, and never really stopped digging. A casual hobby turned into about an eighth of an acre of intentional ecosystem: grapevines overhea...

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   JR Diaz-Hernandez - Did You Breathe Air Today?

   The EPA can call it a good air quality day while your own street tells a different story. Residents across Franklin County kept saying exactly that, and it is why MORPC built the Community-Led Enhanced Air Quality Network, a set of sensors roughly the size of a baseball that plug into an outlet, find the Wi-Fi, and publish their readings where anyone can look them up. JR Diaz-Hernandez runs that work as MORPC's air quality and sustainability program manager, along with the daily forecasts and...

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   JR Diaz-Hernandez - The World's Too Big of a Place to Be Bored

   JR Diaz-Hernandez goes by the initials of two men. The J is his great-grandfather. The R is Roberto, the grandfather who helped raise him through his first nine years. He is now the air quality and sustainability program manager at MORPC, protecting public health across Central Ohio through forecasting, alerts, and neighborhood-level air monitoring. It started in Oak Cliff, a Dallas neighborhood where everything he needed sat within walking distance, where a Salvadoran family sold pupusas two...

Who has been a guest on Green Champions

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Shelly Douglas
• Carol Kauffman
• Kristi Eberhardt
• Zack Burns
• Susan VonderHaar

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

34 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

81

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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