Listen & Learn: 15 Podcasts on Nature-Based Solutions
If you're all about harnessing the power of nature for a greener world, here are our top 15 podcast recommendations. They explore different areas of nature-based solutions, rewilding and climate change. Whether you're an experienced NBS professional or you're relatively new to learning and understanding nature-based solutions, these podcasts are your gateway to insights, expertise, and success stories that align with your journey. There is something for everyone!
If you feel we have missed a great podcast or podcast episode below that other readers might find interesting, please comment at the bottom of the article or drop us an email at [email protected] so we can add it to this list.
1. Talks 4 Action
Talks 4 Action will bring you on a journey to highlight how nature is playing an important role in climate talks. Each episode will focus on different ways that nature-based Solutions contribute to increasing disaster and climate resilience. You will hear a wide range of perspectives from around the world on how nature is being applied as a solution to pressing climate and disaster issues.
Recommended Episodes:
- E5 Nature-Based-Solutions: spotlight on social, equity, and finance on scale.
- E1 Nature-Based Solutions: through a humanitarian lens.
- E3 Women and Nature-Based-Solutions #BreakTheBias
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2. Internet of Nature
Can nature and technology — long viewed as opposing forces — work together to create liveable cities and improve public health? Internet of Nature Podcast is on a mission to find out.
Recommended Episodes:
- S4 E8 — Why We Need Technology To Rebalance Urbanization and Nature with Giulio Boccaletti of Water: A Biography
- S3 E1 — The 3-30-300 Rule for Healthier and Greener Cities with Cecil Konijnendijk of the Nature Based Solutions Institute
- S2 E6 — How IoT Sensors Protect Urban Trees with Andrew Hirons of Myerscough College
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3. The Rewild Podcast
Join James Shooter, host of The Rewild Podcast, as he travels across Europe discovering inspiring stories of rewilding across the continent. Produced in collaboration with Rewilding Europe.
Recommended Episodes:
- E2 Seawilding - Scotland
- E3 Iberian Highlands - Spain
- E6 Grote Netewoud - Belgium
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4. Outrage + Optimism
Face the climate crisis head on, but understand that we have the power to solve this. From former UN Chief Christiana Figueres and the team who brought you the Paris Agreement, this podcast about issues and politics will inform you, inspire you and help you realize that this is the most exciting time in history to be alive.
Recommended Episodes:
- E209 Powered by Nature
- E205 How To Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen
- E182 Cop15: Nothing Without Nature!
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5. Regreen Podcast
The REGREEN podcasts explore the concept of nature-based solutions, and how these solutions can help accelerate the transition towards equitable, green, and healthy cities in Europe and in China.
Recommended Episodes:
- E3 Nature-based solutions and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- E6 Kids and nature learning - how young people can be involved in the regreening of our cities
- E8 ULL Beijing - the green side of a huge city
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6. Conversation Beneath the Trees
Conversations beneath the Trees is a series of 9 episodes looking at agroforestry in Ireland. Recommended to us on Twitter by Catherine Cleary (Co-Founder of PocketForests.ie), this podcast brings together scientists, farmers and innovators from all around Ireland to share their ideas and experiences of farming with trees. The different episodes bring fascinating insights and experiences from farmers in Ireland and go beyond agroforestry to look at regenerative farming as a whole.
Recommended Episodes:
- E3 The way ahead for agroforestry
- E5 Farming innovation
- E8 Dairy farming, trees and wildlife
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7. Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
A show for professional growers who want to increase quality and yield by learning about the science and principles of regenerative agriculture systems. Hosted by John Kempf.
Recommended Episodes:
- E2 Social Impacts of Regenerative Agriculture with Gabe Brown
- E85 The Opportunities That Come From Regenerative Agriculture with Steve Tucker
- E90 Scaling Regenerative Supply Chains with Anthony Corsaro
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8. The Regenerative Agroforestry Podcast
This podcast is a space where hosts Dimitri Tsitos and Etienne Compagnon investigate the possibilities of agroforestry, share experiences and analyse different strategies, tools and techniques. They bring you quality, in-depth content so that regenerative agroforestry systems can be built!
Recommended Episodes:
- E46 How can regenerative agriculture be scaled into the food industry supply chain?
- E21 How to get started farming with Matteo Mazzola, Koen van Seijen and Dimitri Tsitos
- E8 Paying farmers for positive ecological outcomes with Regen Network
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9. Sustainable Futures: Designing Green Communities and Buildings
Sustainable Futures: Designing Green Communities and Buildings explores the many ways we can utilise the natural world and nature-based solutions to combat climate change, enhance resilience, and improve communities
Recommended Episodes:
- E1 Cooling the Urban Heat Island
- E5 Bringing Agriculture Home to the Roof
- E8 Food, Social Justice, and Community Healing
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10. Creating Green Cities
Creating Green Cities is a podcast on urban-nature-based solutions, explained through stories of inspiring innovators from across Europe who have used their passion and creativity to make cities greener. We talk to guests from Barcelona, Budapest, Malmö and Utrecht to find out why green roofs are so cool, what happens when you start talking to hundreds of people about trees, and why it is more difficult to run a community garden than to start one. The focus of the podcast is on initiatives that bring more nature to the city or enhance existing green urban areas to deliver multiple benefits to the local population.
Recommended Episodes:
- E1 Bringing Nature Back into Cities
- E2 Urban trees and gardens: How good are they really for you?
- E4 Valuing nature: Can money really grow on trees?
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11. Rewilding the world by Ben Goldsmith
Join Ben Goldsmith as he speaks to some of the most influential people behind the most exciting and dramatic rewilding projects across the globe.
Recommended Episodes:
- E2 Reintroducing wolves and bears to Spain with Deli Saavedra
- E6 Protecting millions of acres in Chile and Argentina with Kristine Tompkins
- E8 What is Rewilding? With Isabella Tree and Alastair Driver
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12. Knepp Wildlife Podcast
Join Knepp ecologist, Penny Green, and experience some of the wildlife wonders encountered, the secrets uncovered and the remarkable people who are part of the Knepp Wildland project.
Recommended Episodes:
- E17 The Rainbow Chaser
- E10 The Stockman
- E3 The Bee Buckets
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13. [IPBES Podcast] Nature Insight: Speed Dating with the Future
Join Rob and Brit as they ‘speed date’ with the future! Each week, they will introduce you to people with unique insights into the values of nature and our relationship with it. Learn how to make better choices about protecting all life on earth. Speed dating is about having a short time to communicate things that could change your life. That’s exactly what we’re doing on this podcast, by introducing you to people with unique insight into our relationship with nature.
Recommended Episodes:
- E3 Brigitte Baptiste: Show Me the Value(s)!
- E6 Your Challenge…and Mine: The Sustainable Use of Wild Species
- E11 Widening the IPBES Tent: Stakeholder Diversity for Better Science and Policy
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14. The Lookfar Podcast: Voices from the Wild
The Lookfar Podcast tells the stories of conservation leaders from around the world working on the front lines to defend our planet's wild and wondrous places. The Lookfar Podcast is hosted by Scott Stone and Marlies Quirino of Lookfar Conservation
Recommended Episodes:
E3 Grace Lee - Preserving National Parks Today and Creating Park Stewards for Tomorrow
E7 Clara Rowe - Empowering Ecological Restoration
E18 Regenerative Agriculture - Sustaining Livelihoods, Uplifting Communities, and Safeguarding Health
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15. Copy This: Think Big Local
Can local projects create massive change? Can unexpected partnerships help tackle the climate crisis? Can a more environmentally friendly community be a healthier, fairer and more resilient one? Get answers, first hand, from those taking action. The “doers” who prove what’s possible when you think big, locally. Join series hosts Ric Casale (Trustee, Carbon Copy) and Amanda Carpenter (Host, Planet Pod Podcast) with guests from some of the boldest and most impactful climate action projects across the UK.
Recommended Episodes:
E1 Achieving The Impossible Dream
E2 Blue Green City Of The Future
E3 From Seed To Solar
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If you listen to any podcasts that you feel others might find interesting or useful, please add it to the comments or drop us a message on the platform. We plan to add to this list over time and build a member-informed resource of NBS-relevant podcasts. Even if it's just an episode from a broader podcast series or a case study episode from a project you're involved in, please let us know and we will be happy to include it.
With that in mind here are some podcast episodes we simply couldn’t leave out!
This episode is from Nov 2020 but so much of what is discussed still holds true and is almost more relevant today in a post-COVID world. The panelists discuss the future of tourism in a COVID-impacted world and how regenerative tourism can be a strategy for healing and sustaining an industry that is vital to New Zealand, and one that underpins our unique advantages and clean, green image.
This episode offers an incredible insight into regenerative tourism and fills us with hope - we hope you enjoy it too! Guests include the amazing Anna Pollack from Conscious Travel, Elkie Dens from Visit Flanders, Tina O'Dwyer from The Tourism Space.
If you are into carbon credit, business, agriculture, product & business model innovation, or simply scaling up your team, this is the right episode for you. Robin Saluoks is the CEO & co-founder of eAgronom. eAgronom is a platform which brings economic benefits to sustainable farmers. Farmers get paid for improving their soil and sequestrating carbon.
Finally, Oliver Dauert from Wildya has created a Spotify Playlist of Podcasts for Nature Lovers that goes broader than nature-based solutions and has some great listens on there. Check it out via the link above!