Episodes

  • The Christmas Monks

    The Christmas Monks
    Dec 23 2021
    Seasons greetings listeners, and what a festive treat Tom and Sam have for you this episode. This week we welcome Lucy Siegle back to the studio, before listening to Brother Spirit and Brother Embrace, Zen Monks from Plum Village, as they impart wisdom on how we can reconnect with nature at this pivotal moment. They tell us stories of leading meditation circles with key negotiators at COP26 and how connecting our heads and hearts can help the climate movement. We also hear from this season's previous guests on what they want for the planet this Christmas and how we can help them achieve it. Socials: So Hot Right Now www.instagram.com/sohotpod Tom Mustill: https://www.instagram.com/tommustill https://twitter.com/tommustill Sam Lee: https://www.instagram.com/samleesong https://twitter.com/samleesong Picture Zero Productions https://www.instagram.com/picturezero Podmonkey: https://www.instagram.com/wearepodmonkey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    52 mins
  • The Activist

    The Activist
    Dec 16 2021
    Tzeporah Berman started her climate career cooking for activists at a camp protesting anti-felling in British Columbia. A year later she was arrested in the same place, microphone in hand, as one of the movements' leading climate defenders. Since then Tzeporah has become one of Canada's most prominent environmentalists, with a mission to inspire the next generation of activists. Sam and Tom managed to sit down with Tzeporah at COP26 to discuss her career, from negotiating the Great Bear Rainforest agreement, to co-directing Greenpeace's Global Climate and Energy Program, and now chairing the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. Socials: So Hot Right Now www.instagram.com/sohotpod Tom Mustill: https://www.instagram.com/tommustill https://twitter.com/tommustill Sam Lee: https://www.instagram.com/samleesong https://twitter.com/samleesong Picture Zero Productions https://www.instagram.com/picturezero Podmonkey: https://www.instagram.com/wearepodmonkey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    35 mins
  • The General

    The General
    Dec 9 2021
    It isn't often you meet a General, but this week retired four star US army General Stanley McChrystal shares his wisdom after a lifetime of military service. Sam and Tom sat down to ask hard hitting questions about the military and it's responsibility to the climate movement. Exploring the role the military plays within the climate crisis and how it's focus has shifted as environmental needs have gained attention and urgency, Tom and Sam listen to stories of climate wars of the past and how we can learn from them. Now an advocate for National Service, and a Leadership tutor at Yale, Stan explains what the environmental leaders of tomorrow need to mediate risk, and combat the environmental crisis in our age of misinformation. Socials: So Hot Right Now www.instagram.com/sohotpod Tom Mustill: https://www.instagram.com/tommustill https://twitter.com/tommustill Sam Lee: https://www.instagram.com/samleesong https://twitter.com/samleesong Picture Zero Productions https://www.instagram.com/picturezero Podmonkey: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    39 mins
  • The Indigenous Communicator

    The Indigenous Communicator
    Dec 2 2021
    This week Tom and Sam are joined by Shirley Djukurna Krenak, member of the Brazilian Krenak community, and a leading activist for Indigenous voices within the climate movement. Recorded at COP26, Shirley has travelled across the world  to increase awareness of the environmental impacts on small indigenous communities like her own. In 2015, the Krenak people were directly affected by Brazil's worst ever environmental disaster when a dam collapsed, unleashing tonnes of mining waste into their sacred Doce River, affecting the ecosystem for hundreds of kilometers. Shirley tells Sam and Tom about the effect it's had on her homeland, finding her voice, and the power of healing ourselves and nature. Socials: So Hot Right Now www.instagram.com/sohotpod Tom Mustill: https://www.instagram.com/tommustill https://twitter.com/tommustill Sam Lee: https://www.instagram.com/samleesong https://twitter.com/samleesong Picture Zero Productions https://www.instagram.com/picturezero Podmonkey: https://www.instagram.com/wearepodmonkey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    42 mins
  • The Negotiator

    The Negotiator
    Nov 25 2021
    Farhana Yamin is one of the most influential environmental lawyers and climate policy experts in Britain. This week she chats to Tom and Sam to talk through the past 30 years in the climate world, from convincing world leaders the climate crisis was real, to presenting the notion of zero emissions and campaigning with Extinction Rebellion. We discuss her time in UN boardrooms making etiquette faux pas, representing small islands against international powers, as well as her emotional experience of burnout and depression which has taken her back to nature, and reconnected her to her roots. Socials: So Hot Right Now www.instagram.com/sohotpod Tom Mustill: https://www.instagram.com/tommustill https://twitter.com/tommustill Sam Lee: https://www.instagram.com/samleesong https://twitter.com/samleesong Picture Zero Productions https://www.instagram.com/picturezero Podmonkey: https://www.instagram.com/wearepodmonkey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    43 mins
  • The March

    The March
    Nov 19 2021
    We're back! Listeners, welcome to Series 2, and boy do we have a series in store for you. This week Tom, Lucy and brand new host Sam are going to transport you to COP26. You've seen it all over the news but what actually goes on at COP? And what was it like to be there? Well, the team have been running around the streets of Glasgow to answer just that. From the blue zone to the green zone and out into the marches, we talk to Belgian bikers, climate lawyers and the children protesting for their futures, Tom door-steps (well, march-steps) Ed Miliband... and somehow Sam is taking song requests from John Kerry? All in pursuit of bringing you the most powerful climate stories from the conference. Socials: So Hot Right Now www.instagram.com/sohotpod Tom Mustill: https://www.instagram.com/tommustill https://twitter.com/tommustill Lucy Siegle: https://twitter.com/lucysiegle https://www.instagram.com/theseagull Sam Lee: https://www.instagram.com/samleesong Picture Zero Productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    47 mins
  • Introducing... Outrage + Optimism

    Introducing... Outrage + Optimism
    Aug 18 2020
    Socials: Lucy Siegle: https://twitter.com/lucysiegle https://www.instagram.com/theseagull Tom Mustill: https://www.instagram.com/tommustill https://twitter.com/tommustill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    16 mins
  • Pass The Mic

    Pass The Mic
    Aug 11 2020
    We have reached the finale of season one! Thank you so much for joining us on the journey so far. To celebrate, Lucy and Tom do something a bit different - they pass the mic to the next generation of nature and climate storytellers, photographers, reporters and filmmakers. We speak to young storytellers in a time of climate change and ecological catastrophe about how they feel, what they hope for and what they need. Starting with the talented and passionate students of Falmouth University, and then passing the mic abroad to young climate communicators across the world, with excerpts from the brilliant new book out this week; Together We Are Unstoppable. And if all that wasn't enough, there's room for a swim as well! Socials: Lucy Siegle: https://twitter.com/lucysiegle https://www.instagram.com/theseagull Tom Mustill: https://www.instagram.com/tommustill https://twitter.com/tommustill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 11 mins