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Hosted by Sara Rego · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 74 episodes
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We Need to Act, hosted by Dr. Sara Rego, dives into the biggest questions shaping our planet’s future. From climate change and biodiversity loss to social justice and environmental degradation, each episode unpacks what sustainability really means. Through candid conversations with activists, scientists, Indigenous leaders, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, we explore the roots of today’s crises—and the bold actions needed to build a just, resilient, and regenerative world.
Sara Rego hosts We Need to Act, a education show with 74 episodes published.
What happens to your sense of self when the lands that define you are taken away? Dr. Jessica Hernandez is an Indigenous environmental scientist, author, and founder of Earth Daughters — an Indigenous-led collective supp
What does your wardrobe have to do with a beach in Ghana covered in discarded clothing? Yayra Agbofah grew up trading secondhand garments at Kantamanto Market in Accra — one of the largest secondhand clothing markets in
What happens to environmental law when the federal government turns its back on climate action? Dan Farber is the Sho Sato Professor of Law at UC Berkeley and one of the most respected voices in US environmental and cons
What does it mean to watch the river that shaped your entire life fall silent? Áslat Holmberg is a former member of the Sámi Parliament of Finland and former President of the Saami Council — a salmon fisher, teacher, and
What if the climate narrative itself is the problem? Paul Hawken is one of the world's most influential environmentalists, entrepreneurs, and authors. Founder of Project Drawdown and Project Regeneration, and New York Ti
Aquí está: ¿Sabías que las abejas meliponas polinizan hasta el 80% de la flora amazónica — y que la mayoría de la gente ni sabe que existen? Ornella Muñoz creció en Dos de Mayo, a orillas del río Ucayali, en la Amazonía
What if whales are not just animals — but ancestors? Dr. Mere Takoko is a Māori Ocean and Climate conservationist from Aotearoa New Zealand and one of the leading voices behind the movement to grant whales legal personho
What does the godfather of the global sustainability movement think is coming next? John Elkington has been working at the intersection of business, environment, and society for over 50 years. He coined the Triple Bottom
What does it take to stop a coal plant from being built in your community — when you're young, when the government is pushing it, and when the promises of jobs and opportunity are pulling people the other way? For Portia
What if the environmental crisis is really a crisis of worldview? In this episode, Sara sits down with Professor Carl Mika — Professor of Māori and Indigenous Philosophies, and Head of School of Aotahi: School of Māori a
What does it actually take to make someone fall in love with nature? Not lecture them, not overwhelm them with data, but genuinely make them fall in love? That’s the question driving everything Natalie Kyriacou does. Env
Yuvelis Morales tiene 25 años, creció pescando en el Río Magdalena y hoy es la voz más joven y potente de la lucha antifracking en Colombia. Ganadora del Premio Goldman de Medio Ambiente 2026, el reconocimiento más impor
What does it mean to truly belong - not as an individual seeking acceptance, but as part of an interconnected whole? In this episode, Sara Rego speaks with Lana Jelenjev, a Filipina facilitator and systems thinker based
In this episode of We Need to Act , Sara Rego speaks with Cynthia Tina, intentional community expert, author of Intentional Community , and founder of CommunityFinders and Ecovillage Tours, about how intentional communit
En este episodio conversamos con Carolina Castro Jorquera, artista e investigadora chilena, sobre el arte como una forma de vida, de conocimiento y de conexión profunda con la naturaleza. Desde el Valle del Aconcagua, Ca
Most climate communication has failed to inspire the urgent climate action we need. What if the key to environmental change is not just science but how we talk, connect, and resonate emotionally with each other? In this
In this special episode of We Need to Act , Sara joins Podcasthon , the world’s largest podcast charity initiative, to spotlight a cause that affects us all: protecting our oceans. Today’s guest is Fynn Hedrich, entrepre
In this powerful conversation, Osprey Orielle Lake —founder of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) —shares her personal journey into climate activism and the deeper values that guide her work. Drawing fr
In this episode of the We Need to Act podcast, we welcome John Pabon , greenwashing expert, author of The Great Greenwashing, consultant, and speaker. John unpacks how greenwashing evolved from fossil fuel misinformation
En este episodio conversamos con Diego Isabel La Moneda , cofundador y director de la Fundación Foro NESI , sobre la urgencia de transformar el modelo económico para que vuelva a estar al servicio de las personas y del p
Natalie Kyriacou
award-winning environmentalist, writer, public speaker, charity director · My Green World
1 appearance on this show
Cynthia Tina
1 appearance on this show
Osprey Orielle Lake
author, activist, and changemaker · Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International
1 appearance on this show
John Pabon
sustainability author, consultant, and speaker
1 appearance on this show
Helena Norberg-Hodge
environmentalist, author and filmmaker · Local Futures
1 appearance on this show
Tyson Yunkaporta
Academic, Author, Indigenous thinker · Apalech clan (Wik) Lostmob Nungar
1 appearance on this show
Marc Buckley
Founder of ALOHAS Regenerative Foundation
2 appearances on this show
Anton Treuer
professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University
1 appearance on this show
Asha Frost
Indigenous Medicine Woman, best-selling author, speaker · Chippewas of unceded Nawash First Nation
1 appearance on this show
Eleanor Ross
Director of Game Design · Expert Theory
1 appearance on this show
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