Season 5

July 22, 2025

Small Steps, Big Waves: How You Can Help Protect Our Oceans with Katie Day

What if we told you that simple, meaningful action starting today can help protect the world’s oceans? In this hopeful and eye-opening episode, Monica sits down with Katie Day, Senior Manager of Science and Policy at the Surfrider Foundation, to talk about the practical steps we can all take to saf…
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. ...