Episodes

July 8, 2025

Nature Has The Answers: Lessons Learned After 100 Biophilic Conversations

Over the past few years, we've had the privilege of sitting down with visionaries, scientists, designers, farmers, poets, and policymakers. Each conversation has expanded our perspective, encouraging us to see the world through a broader, greener lens. For our 100th episode, we’re hitting pause to …

June 24, 2025

Rooted in Wisdom: Indigenous Voices and the Amazon Rainforest with Dr. Tracey Osborne

Today, we’re diving into one of the most urgent and complex challenges of our time: how to truly and equitably mitigate climate change, starting in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. This conversation spans a web of critical...

June 9, 2025

The Future Is Local: Rebuilding Economies and Healing the Earth with Helena Norberg-Hodge

Time and again, we've examined how the challenges we face – poverty, inequality, environmental degradation, and more – are deeply intertwined. Understandably, it can start to feel pretty overwhelming. But here’s the encouragi...

May 27, 2025

Miki Agrawal on Motherhood, Nature-Inspired Business, and Mushrooms That Eat Plastic

Let’s face it. Our waste habits are, well, pretty wasteful. Every single day, more than 27,000 trees are cut down just to make toilet paper. Meanwhile, the average disposable diaper takes over 500 years to decompose in a land...

May 13, 2025

What Nature Teaches Us About Belonging with Radha Agrawal

On today’s episode, we’re delving into the growing epidemic of loneliness, examining its root causes, far-reaching impacts, and what it will take to rebuild our social fabric. For this important and timely conversation, we we...

April 29, 2025

A Wild New Way To Work with Megan Leatherman

For many people, work simply isn’t working anymore. Wages have stagnated while the cost of living continues to rise. Endless hours in front of a screen leave us burnt out. More often than not, the labor we do feels disconnect...

April 15, 2025

Designing Landscapes of the Future with Superbloom

Today, we’re exploring the landscapes of the future with Stacy Passmore and Diane Lipovsky, co-founders of the award-winning landscape architecture studio, Superbloom. Stacy and Diane are redefining the role of landscape arch...

April 1, 2025

Douglas Rushkoff on Reclaiming Our Humanity with Nature & Collaboration

We’re living in an era largely defined by consumerism, social media addiction, climate change, and political unrest. Given all of that, it’s really no surprise that many of us feel overwhelmed, burned out, and disconnected. T...

March 18, 2025

Seasonal Wisdom: Learning from Nature’s Cycles

This week, we’re sitting down with Rebecca Magee to discuss the importance of seasonal living, the need to honor periods of rest, and how reconnecting with nature can lead to a more thoughtful and invigorating way of life. Re...

March 4, 2025

Biophilia in Turbulent Times

As we launch Season 5, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the vital role of nature in uncertain times. Our connection to the natural world isn’t just about aesthetics – it profoundly shapes our mental health, strengthens com...

Feb. 26, 2025

Introducing Season 5 of Biophilic Solutions

Season 5 of Biophilic Solutions premieres on Tuesday, March 4th! This season, we're taking a broader approach to biophilia—going beyond architecture and design to examine nature’s role in culture, politics, and spirituality. ...

Dec. 10, 2024

Less Rush, More Cheer: What We’re Reading This Winter

This year, we’re embracing the slower pace of winter and our mantra is less rush, more cheer. More time with family and friends, more warm cups of tea, more long walks in the woods, and of course more time spent curled up wit...

Nov. 26, 2024

A Darker Wilderness with Erin Sharkey

Does the natural world bear witness to history? What lessons can nature teach us about survival, adaptation, and connection? This week, we’re exploring those questions and so much more alongside Erin Sharkey. Erin Sharkey is ...

Nov. 12, 2024

Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves with Dr. Howard Frumkin

This week, we’re diving deep into the interconnectedness of human health and planetary health. We know that nature provides us with a myriad of health benefits, both as individuals and socially. However, challenges like clima...

Oct. 29, 2024

Redefining Wildness with 'Wild Souls' Author Emma Marris

Is the idea of pristine, untouched nature a misguided fantasy? Are any animals truly wild on a planet so dominated by human impact? And while we’re on the topic - what do we mean by wildness in the first place? Join us for a ...

Oct. 22, 2024

What Do We Owe Animals? With ‘Meet the Neighbors’ Author Brandon Keim

We know that many animals possess “human-like” qualities: the ability to play, sustain friendships, mate for life, and even reflect on the past. But what should we actually do with that information? That’s the crucial questio...

Oct. 8, 2024

A Thriving City is a Walkable City with Jeff Speck

With the rise of suburban sprawl and city planning that has prioritized car travel above all else, modern American cities seriously lack comfortable walking and biking infrastructure. It’s a massive issue - but solutions do e...

Aug. 20, 2024

Mushroom Hunting and the Joy of Discovery with Emily & Gregory Han

Mushrooms are fascinating. They’re not quite plants and they’re not quite animals. Unique and charming mushroom caps are just the fruit of a massive, interconnected mycelium network. And there are millions of mushrooms specie...

Aug. 6, 2024

Social Prescribing and Nature as Medicine with Author Julia Hotz

What would you think if your doctor wrote you a prescription to take a walk outside? To visit an art museum? To take a yoga class? It may sound unconventional, but the practice of prescribing nonmedical interventions to impro...

July 23, 2024

Author Talk: Wellness Architecture and Urban Design with Dr. Phill Tabb

Wellness is a buzzword that gets thrown a lot these days - but at its core, what does wellness really mean? And how do we design homes, towns, and entire cities where the wellness of residents is a top priority? In this speci...

July 9, 2024

The Mini-Forest Revolution with Hannah Lewis

Today’s guest, Hannah Lewis, is on a mission to restore biodiversity in our towns and cities by planting native trees, pollinators, and shrubs on abandoned lots, degraded land, and in backyards. In her acclaimed new book, Min...

June 25, 2024

Biophilic Leaders Fireside Chat: Ryan Gravel, Michael Phillips & Steve Nygren

In this episode of Biophilic Solutions, we are presenting a Fireside Chat recorded live at the 2024 Biophilic Leadership Summit, a multi-day conference for leaders in the Biohpilic world to come together, share ideas, and lea...

June 11, 2024

Biophilic Summer Reading: Our 2024 Picks

Hello! Monica and Jennifer here, back yet again with some of our favorite books from the past year. We think that there is no better way to enjoy the summer months than by unwinding with a good book and we've got just that. O...

May 28, 2024

Beauty, Awe, and Biodiversity in Old Growth Forests with Joan Maloof

Old Growth Forests, natural forests that have grown undisturbed over a long period of time, offer a wide variety of benefits including storing more carbon and nitrogen than typical forests, providing a unique structure that s...