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Black Earth Podcast

Black Earth Podcast

Black Earth is an interview podcast celebrating nature and black women leaders in the environmental movement. Join us for inspiring, informed and authentic conversations on how we can make a positive impact for people and nature worldwide. Episodes out every Wednesday. Connect with us online @blackearthpodcast on Instagram, LinkedIn and Tiktok. Hosted by Marion Atieno Osieyo. Healing our relationship with nature, one conversation at a time.

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43:11

Voix de la paix du bassin du Congo: femmes...

Black Earth Podcast ·

2025/12/18

Dans cet épisode émouvant de Black Earth, notre hôte, Marion, reçoit Mireille Kayijamahe, fondatrice de Terra Mucho.Terra Mucho est un podcast et une plateforme qui met en avant le leadership des femmes africaines dans la région du bassin du Congo à travers un partage de témoignages, de mentorat et de bien-être.Mireille travaille dans l'une des régions les plus riches en biodiversité de la planète, un territoire trop souvent réduit à des extrêmes dans les médias. Certaines parties de cette

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43:10

Voices of Peace from the Congo Basin: African Women,...

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2025/12/11

In this moving episode of Black Earth, our host, Marion, is joined by Mireille Kayijamahe, founder of Terra Mucho. Terra Mucho is a podcast and platform uplifting African women’s leadership across the Congo Basin through storytelling, mentoring and well-being.Mireille works in one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, a place too often reduced to extremes in the news. Parts of this region, including her place of heritage, the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shaped by decades of conflict

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46:23

How Trees Remember Us: Stories of Black Heritage,...

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2025/11/26

In this deeply moving episode, Marion meets diaspora archaeologist, Dr. Alicia Odewale, to explore an extraordinary idea: trees remember us.Alicia is the creator of the Black Heritage Trees Project, a groundbreaking effort to map the trees who have become witnesses and companions to Black heritage, belonging and joy around the world. Together, Marion and Alicia explore:🌳 What makes a tree a Black Heritage Tree🌳 Who are Spirit Trees and how they protect and accompany Black communities🌳

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49:13

Quilombola Wisdom from Brazil: Lessons on Land,...

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2025/11/05

Nearly 500 years ago, African survivors of the transatlantic slave trade built communities of refuge and resistance in Brazil and across Latin America. Today, those same lands, known as quilombos, are also some of the most biodiverse places on Earth, thanks to generations of care and knowledge by quilombola communities.In this special Black Earth episode, our host, Marion, meets with Fran Paula, an inspiring quilombola researcher from Brazil. Fran documents and shares the life-giving

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36:43

The Untold Story of Extreme Heat: Africa’s First...

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2025/10/15

As the next climate conference (COP30) approaches, we turn to one of the most urgent and overlooked climate stories of our time: extreme heat.Eugenia Kargbo, Africa’s first Chief Heat Officer, joins our host, Marion Osieyo, to explore how communities, nature, and social inequality are reshaping how we live and adapt in a warming world. From Freetown, Sierra Leone to the global stage, Eugenia shares lessons on climate leadership, equity, and resilience. She reminds us that those most

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39:40

Why Seed Sovereignty Matters: Restoring Culture, Care...

Black Earth Podcast ·

2025/09/24

For thousands of years, humans have had a deep relationship with seeds. Seeds are our ancestors. They carry life, culture and memory. But today, the situation is drastically changing. Across Africa and the world, the corporate capture of agriculture is threatening native seeds and the communities who have nurtured them for generations.In this inspiring and enlightening episode of Black Earth Podcast, Marion speaks with Mashudu Takalani of the EarthLore Foundation about seed sovereignty

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36:52

Redefining Climate Entrepreneurship with Mandy Nyarko...

Black Earth Podcast ·

2025/09/10

What does it take to create access and opportunity for more diverse founders in the climate and sustainability space?In this episode of the Black Earth Podcast, Marion speaks with Mandy Nyarko MBE, a leading climate and sustainability investor, about the power of entrepreneurship to drive solutions for a changing world.Together they explore: 🌱 What climate entrepreneurship really means 👩🏾‍💼 Why there are so few Black women entrepreneurs in the UK climate and sustainability sector 💡 How

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54:10

Technologies of Care: How Black Women Are Creating...

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2025/08/27

Who gets to create the future? In this inspiring episode of Black Earth, Marion Atieno Osieyo sits down with Tracee Worley, founder of Radical Futures, to discover how communities, especially Black women, are using radical imagination and care to reimagine climate futures and environmental justice.✨ In this episode, we explore:🌍 Why futures thinking matters for Black-led climate and environmental action🌍 Lessons from Tracee’s work with the survivors of the 1921 Black Wall Street massacre

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53:32

How Black Mothers Are Leading Change for Clean Air...

Black Earth Podcast ·

2025/08/12

Welcome back to Black Earth with me, Marion Atieno Osieyo. In each episode, I speak with pioneering Black women from around the world who are re-imagining our relationship with Earth and each other.This is the first episode of our new season, Season 4, and you can watch the video version on our new YouTube channel here!! Today, I meet Agnes Agyepong, founder of Global Child and Maternal Health, for a deep, urgent, and hopeful conversation about air pollution, pregnancy, and environmental

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43:54

Black Earth Podcast - Season 3 Finale

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2024/07/17

Thank you so much for tuning into Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast. In this season, we have been meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature.In this season finale, Black Earth team, Marion and Anesu, reflect on their changing relationships with nature as well their key take-aways from Season 3. We also discuss what is to come for Black Earth Podcast.Although Season 3 has completed, we have some upcoming plans that you can get involved in that we will be

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80:51

Season 3: Uncolonising nature with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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2024/06/26

‘How do we practice this revolution in a way that embodies the best of what we have as humans and the best of what we can observe in other species?’ - MarionIn Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. Today we meet Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs from North Carolina, United States. Alexis is a queer black feminist, love evangelist and an aspirational favourite cousin to all living beings. They are also the author of

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61:07

Season 3: Understanding energy justice with Dr....

Black Earth Podcast ·

2024/06/19

In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature.In this episode, we meet Dr. Mfoniso Antia who is a scientist and Programme Manager at the Health of Mother Earth Foundation in Nigeria. Health of Mother Earth Foundation is a pioneering ecological think tank advocating for environmental justice and food sovereignty in Nigeria and Africa at large.Dr. Mfoniso is from the Niger Delta in Nigeria, which is a culturally and

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61:15

Season 3: How to build affordable, inclusive and...

Black Earth Podcast ·

2024/06/12

In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature.In this episode, we meet the amazing Etta Madete. Etta is an architect, advocate and real estate developer from Kenya. As the founder of Zima Homes, her passion and life’s work is building affordable, inclusive and sustainable housing for communities who need it the most. In our conversation, we unpack what affordable and sustainable housing means, why spatial justice is

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9:17

Season 3 Mini-sode: The Colour of Transformation...

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2024/06/05

Welcome to Black Earth Podcast! Today, we have a special treat for you!In Season 3, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature.In last week's episode, we met Bryony Ella. Bryony is an inspiring artist-researcher who creates immersive and engaging public artworks that help us reimagine our relationship with nature.This episode is taken from her project, The Colour of Transformation. The Colour of Transformation is a documentary and artist film that

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62:41

Season 3: How art can transform our relationship with...

Black Earth Podcast ·

2024/05/29

In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature.In today’s episode, we meet Bryony Ella. Bryony is an inspiring artist-researcher who creates immersive and engaging public artworks that help us reimagine our relationship with nature. In this episode, Bryony talks to us about her incredible artistic practice and how an emerging idea called embodied ecology can help us reconnect with nature and rediscover ourselves as

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5:06

It’s World Biodiversity Day! Join us to celebrate...

Black Earth Podcast ·

2024/05/22

Today is World Biodiversity Day!!It's a day for us to celebrate the incredible diversity of life on our beautiful planet. Biodiversity is all about the variety and interconnectedness of life on Earth, from the soil beneath our feet to the birds above and everything in between.Instead of a regular Black Earth episode, we want you to spend one hour this week listening to nature.Have a listen to the episode to find out why biodiversity is so important and also really, really good for your

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69:16

Season 3: Learning from nature how to design a...

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2024/05/15

In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature.In this episode, we meet Dr Melissa Sikosana. She is a biomaterials scientist who is passionate about connecting art, science and design to solve society’s problems.Dr Melissa speaks with us about an exciting discipline called biomimicry. Biomimicry is the art and science of learning how nature creates life in order to redesign a more regenerative and resilient world. Dr

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77:28

Season 3: Designing economies in service of life with...

Black Earth Podcast ·

2024/05/08

In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women creating innovations inspired by nature.In this episode we meet Tinuke Chineme. Tinuke is an inspiring scientist and innovator based in Calgary, Canada. She is working with black soldier flies and African Indigenous Female Entrepreneurs to develop a new economic model that transforms organic waste into wealth.Join us for this enriching conversation as we learn how to create economies that promote dignity, wellbeing and

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Season 3 Trailer - Innovation Inspired By Nature

Black Earth Podcast ·

2024/05/01

Hello Black Earth fam!We are so excited to be back for Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast!!The theme for this season is 'Innovation Inspired by Nature'. Join us for this juicy and world changing season as we meet incredible black women inventors, scientists and artists who are building new worlds with the genius of mama nature. Check out the trailer to find out more.Make sure to subscribe wherever you listen to your favourite podcast and connect with us on Instagram, Tiktok and LinkedIn

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62:21

Celebrating the end of Season 2: Radical Imagination,...

Black Earth Podcast ·

2023/11/22

Season 2 is complete! In this episode, the Black Earth team, Marion and Anesu, reflect on their highlights and lessons from Season 2. We reflect on how our relationships with nature are evolving, the importance of radical imagination and re-defining community. We also discuss what active hope means in a world undergoing immense change and crises.Thank you for being part of our amazing listener community from more than 110 countries! See you in Season 3, which will bloom early 2024. In the

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