We Need to Act, hosted by Dr. Sara Rego, dives into the biggest questions shaping our planet’s future. From climate change and biodiversity loss to social justice and environmental degradation, each episode unpacks what sustainability really means. Through candid conversations with activists, scientists, Indigenous leaders, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, we explore the roots of today’s crises—and the bold actions needed to build a just, resilient, and regenerative world.
We Need to Act
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We Need to Act, hosted by Dr. Sara Rego, dives into the biggest questions shaping our planet’s future. From climate change and biodiversity loss to social justice and environmental degradation, each episode unpacks what sustainability really means. Through candid conversations with activists, scientists, Indigenous leaders, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, we explore the roots of today’s crises—and the bold actions needed to build a just, resilient, and regenerative world.
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July 8, 2026
Do Not Try to Save the Earth - The Earth Is Here to Save You | Paul Hawken
<p>What if the climate narrative itself is the problem?</p><p>Paul Hawken is one of the world's most influential environmentalists, entrepreneurs, and authors. Founder of Project Drawdown and Project Regeneration, and New York Times bestselling author of nine books — including The Ecology of Commerce, Drawdown, Regeneration, and his latest, Carbon: The Book of Life (2025) — he has spent over 50 years working at the intersection of ecology, commerce, and regeneration.</p><p>In this conversation with Sara, Paul challenges the very language of the climate movement — the word "sustainability," the phrase "climate crisis," the idea that we can "fix" the Earth. He argues that treating nature as something "out there" to be saved or managed — what he calls "othering" — is not just intellectually wrong. It is why, after 50 years of knowing exactly what to do, less than 1% of the world is doing anything about it on a daily basis.</p><p>He talks about carbon not as a villain but as the source of all life itself — present in 10 billion molecules in every cell of your body. He speaks about indigenous languages as the deepest ecological teaching humanity has ever produced. He introduces the Parliament of Earthlings — the idea that there are 3.9 trillion voices on this planet, most of which we never listen to. And he shares the <a href="https://theallianceforearth.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Alliance for Earth</a>, a new global platform connecting regenerative communities across 105 languages.</p><p>But beneath all of it runs one conviction: that the largest movement in human history is already arising — quietly, everywhere, in small communities dedicated to restoring life. And it closes with a line that will stay with you long after the episode ends.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>"Do not try to save the Earth. The Earth is here to save you."</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><ul><li>Why the climate narrative has failed — and what "othering" nature really means</li><li>Why carbon is not a villain but the source of all life — and what we lost by demonising it</li><li>Why "sustainability" is a meaningless word — and what to say instead</li><li>How Western noun-based languages keep us separate from the living world — and what indigenous verb-based languages teach us</li><li>Why capitalism cannot deliver regeneration — and what natural capital would actually look like</li><li>The Parliament of Earthlings: what it means to listen to 3.9 trillion voices</li><li>Elephants communicating through concrete walls, and mother bats naming their children</li><li>The Alliance for Earth: connecting regenerative communities across 105 languages</li><li>Why the largest movement in human history is already happening — and why we can't see it</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>About Paul Hawken:</strong><br>Paul Hawken is a renowned environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author committed to the regeneration of nature and humanity. Founder of Project Drawdown and Project Regeneration, he is the author of nine books — six of them New York Times bestsellers — including The Ecology of Commerce, Blessed Unrest, Drawdown, Regeneration, and his latest, Carbon: The Book of Life (Viking/Penguin, 2025). He has received six honorary doctorates and lives in the Cascade Creek watershed with his wife Jasmine — alongside coyotes, foxes, bobcats, ravens, red-tail hawks, and pileated woodpeckers.</p><p><br></p><p>We Need to Act is a podcast about the people, ideas, and movements shaping a better now.</p><p><br></p>
July 2, 2026
Abejas Meliponas: Ciencia e Identidad en la Amazonía Peruana con Ornella Muñoz, ARI
<p>Aquí está:</p><p>¿Sabías que las abejas meliponas polinizan hasta el 80% de la flora amazónica — y que la mayoría de la gente ni sabe que existen?</p><p>Ornella Muñoz creció en Dos de Mayo, a orillas del río Ucayali, en la Amazonía peruana. Desde pequeña se preguntaba de dónde venía el aire fresco, cómo los árboles hacían posible la vida y por qué su comunidad dependía tanto de la naturaleza. Esa curiosidad se convirtió en vocación. Hoy es ingeniera forestal e investigadora en Amazon Research International, donde trabaja en la conservación de las abejas nativas sin aguijón y en la investigación forestal en Loreto, Perú.</p><p>En esta conversación con Sara, Ornella nos lleva al corazón de la Amazonía: a las comunidades remotas, a las colonias de abejas meliponas que sostienen la regeneración del bosque, y a los jóvenes investigadores indígenas que están transformando la relación de sus comunidades con la ciencia.</p><p>Hablamos de meliponicultura, conocimiento indígena, deforestación, y de dónde encontrar esperanza cuando la Amazonía sigue demostrando una capacidad de resiliencia extraordinaria.</p><p>"La conservación no es responsabilidad exclusiva de investigadores, gobiernos u organizaciones. Es una tarea colectiva."</p><p><br /></p><p>We Need to Act es un podcast sobre las personas, ideas y movimientos que están construyendo un presente mejor.</p><p><br /></p>
June 24, 2026
Whales Are Our Ancestors - Dr. Mere Takoko on Legal Personhood for Whales
<p>What if whales are not just animals — but ancestors?</p><p>Dr. Mere Takoko is a Māori Ocean and Climate conservationist from Aotearoa New Zealand and one of the leading voices behind the movement to grant whales legal personhood across the Pacific. A descendant of Māui and Paikea — the ancestor who arrived in New Zealand on the back of a whale — Mere holds what she describes not as a job, but an inherited sovereign duty: to protect her ancestors and rebuild the relationship between people and nature.</p><p>In this conversation with Sara, Mere explains why whales are the ocean's greatest climate engineers — each one capable of storing the carbon equivalent of over a thousand trees — and why restoring one million whales to the Pacific is not just an ecological goal, but a cultural and spiritual one.</p><p>She talks about authoring He Whakaputanga Moana, the declaration that confers legal personhood on whales under customary law, signed by paramount chiefs across Polynesia and championed by the late Māori King. She speaks candidly about the rise of "blue colonialism" — large conservation organisations moving into the Pacific and absorbing resources that rarely reach the Indigenous communities doing the actual work. And she shares her quiet concern about artificial intelligence falling into the wrong hands in the race to "communicate" with whales.</p><p>But beneath the critique is something rarer: a genuinely different way of seeing. Not nature as resource. Not whales as biomass. Kinship. Ancestry. A 22-generation-old covenant still being honoured today.</p><p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><ul><li>Why whales are the ocean's most powerful climate engineers — and what industrial whaling really cost the planet</li><li>The whale fall, the whale pump, and the science behind whale-driven carbon capture</li><li>He Whakaputanga Moana: the declaration granting whales legal personhood across the Pacific</li><li>The Āvei Moana voyage — a two-year, 6,000-mile expedition to protect ancestral sea roads</li><li>"Blue colonialism": why conservation finance rarely reaches the Indigenous communities doing the work</li><li>The concerns Pacific communities have about AI being used to "communicate" with — or control — whales</li><li>Why Mere believes restoring the relationship between people and nature is the real climate solution</li></ul><p><strong>About Dr. Mere Takoko:</strong><br />Dr. Mere Takoko is a Māori conservationist of Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-a-Apanui, and Rongowhakaata descent, and Executive Trustee of the Moananui Sanctuary. She is the author of He Whakaputanga Moana, the declaration granting legal personhood to whales across the Polynesian triangle, and Chief Executive of the Pacific Whale Fund, where she is leading efforts to establish a US$100 million biodiversity blue bond for marine conservation. A descendant of Māui and Paikea, Mere leads a global effort to recover one million whales across the Pacific.</p>
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