Season 5 is coming very soon and this season, we're talking about the thing that's on everyone's mind (whether we like or not) — money.

Maybe you've heard that Native American proverb, “Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.”

But, the way we spend our money matters, and as a mindful consumer, financial decisions can feel like a burden — especially when we don’t have much control over them. We can often choose where to spend our money, but we can’t choose what companies do with that money.

Our society doesn’t run on money, it runs on the earth— water, soil, plants, air. As of late — we’ll call it the past 300 years — we’ve had a pretty one-sided relationship with these essentials we need to live and that largely has to do with the fact that what we value and the way we value it is measured in dolla dolla bills.

This season we’re talking about —

• How the rising cost of groceries is threatening food security in ways you might not expect
• If giving our money to offsets is actually worth it
• The companies that are lobbying for fossil fuels
• How everyday people are footing the bill for data centers
• Decades of war propping up the fossil fuel industry, and how that extends to our front lawns.
• What it’s going to take to get proper investment in sustainable aviation fuel

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Episode Credits

• Editing and engineering: Evan Goodchild‍
• Hosting and production: Katelan Cunningham