Stay Up on Sustainability: 26 of Our Favorite Podcasts and Newsletters

Presented by our friends at 1% for the Planet¹, this sleek podcast profiles movers and shakers who are shaping the climate response, from climbers and athletes to scientists and business veterans.

Former Irish president and lifelong humanitarian Mary Robinson joins comedian Maeve Higgins to profile the female creators, change agents, and grassroots operatives on the climate front lines.

Some of our favorite climate heroes, from Greta Thunberg to naturalists David Attenborough and Jane Goodall, have appeared on this weekly podcast. Tom Rivett-Carnac, Christiana Figueres, and Paul Dickinson host.

Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., president and founder of Hip Hop Caucus, discusses the importance of race, justice, and equity in climate change with interviews of leading voices in climate justice and civil rights.

Meet the women building purpose-driven companies, from SunRun solar panels to EILEEN FISHER fashion, on this podcast from sustainable business specialists Conscious Company Media.

Green business journalists meet the folks who are making corporations more sustainable and discuss ideas from the circular economy to geoengineering on this weekly podcast.

This British green business website offers global coverage. Customize your newsletter to suit your location and industry sector.

Learn how they “do business better” with philosophy and philanthropy in this biweekly newsletter from Conscious Company.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is important to us at Bank of the West. So we love the Greenbuzz weekly newsletter from Greenbiz—with specialist offerings on niches, including energy.

Fresh, new voice Emily Atkin shares her passion—and, yes, rage—for what’s happening to our beautiful world through newsletters, original reporting, and her new podcast.

How to express your green soul and live your best life—a practical newsletter from the Sierra Club, San Francisco’s original environmentalists.

This comedy podcast from two young British environmentalists sifts through the greenwashing to track down what they call climate villains.

Activists Mary Anne Hitt and Anna Jane Joyner talk through the challenging feelings climate change provokes on this podcast—ideal for anyone who’s feeling stuck.

Business journalist Stephen Lacey and venture capitalist Shayle Kann dive deep into the nitty-gritty of financials, technology, markets, and policy that are shaping the energy transition.

UK-based climate publisher Carbon Brief rounds up news stories, scientific studies, and essential comment pieces in a to-the-point daily newsletter. The weekly version features their own journalism, too.

Greentech Media’s Stephen Lacey, consultant Katherine Hamilton, and entrepreneur-academic Jigar Shah interrogate the week’s big news stories through the lens of energy, cleantech, and climate.

Environmental journalist and activist Bill McKibben has worked the climate beat since the ’80s and is one of the most well-known climate activists of our time. His New Yorker newsletter shares climate news with passion.

Irreverent, thought-provoking, and often original daily newsletters from an organization that’s been working on climate and social justice since last century. They even have a daily “Climate in the Time of Coronavirus” letter.

The weekly newsletter from this Pulitzer Prize-winning website delivers compelling reporting from the front lines of climate change, be that locust swarms or wildfires.

So often the news isn’t as inclusive as it should be, even when it comes to climate. Hot Take’s Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt put an intersectional spin on climate coverage, in conversation with everyone from David Wallace Wells to COVID-19 researchers.

The “Nexus Hot News” newsletter delivers a daily roundup of top stories and headlines, organized by topic, so you never miss a beat.

The veteran science publisher’s top stories, studies, and analysis on the science behind climate change and its cure, are all wrapped up in one weekly email.

New Scientist’s weekly newsletter provides some reasons to be cheerful: new developments in science and tech that could help combat climate change.

From the Yale School of Environment and Forestry Studies, this weekly update covers the environmental science, studies, and analysis on their E360 environment platform.

Another don’t-miss Yale publication, this weekly wrap ties up the news, reviews, and miniature radio broadcasts on the Yale Climate Connections site, showing how climate change is changing lives.