The Green Dream with Dana Thomas Celebrates Its First Anniversary as the "Podcast of Hope"

PARIS, FRANCEJun 21 2023Content Syndicate

The optimistic, Eco-Minded Podcast, The Green Dream by Award-Winning Journalist Dana Thomas celebrates its one-year anniversary of uplifting exchanges with global experts, creators and changemakers from politics, business, and the arts. Oliver Jeffers, Amber Valletta, Shaunak Sen, Nancy Birtwhistle, and Dan Barber are among her guests, with regular contributors from Bloomberg, Time, and Penguin Random House. The fortnightly podcast, and its accompanying Substack newsletter, highlight sustainable advancements across many fields, including fashion, entertainment, travel, and the automotive industry, and offer easy, practical solutions to climate change, inviting listeners to “green up” their lives.

“As an avid podcast and public radio listener, I felt there was a dearth of informative, uplifting, and engaging audio programs on the environment and humanity,” Thomas says. “To fill that gap, I created a podcast of sexy stories about fascinating changemakers who are somehow making the planet a kinder, greener place.”

For The Green Dream’s first-birthday episode, Thomas invited back two guests from her inaugural season: Ukrainian sustainable fashion designers Ksenia Schnaider and Ivan Frolov, to see how they’re faring one year after Russia invaded their homeland. At the time of their initial conversation, titled, “Praying for Peace,” Schnaider, her husband, and their young daughter were refugees in Germany, while Frolov remained with his team in Kyiv. Now they are both working in Kyiv, and presented their collections during the London Fashion Week in February.

It’s inspiring to “see life, see people working,” Schnaider tells Thomas. “There’s some energy there still.” During blackouts, “We had to sew by hand,” Frolov explains in the new episode, of making stage looks for Beyoncé. “They finished all the costumes on time, without light, without electricity. Then I understood there is nothing impossible for Ukrainians.”

Dana Thomas’ “Podcast of Hope” provides inspiring and motivating stories about the many facets and innovation of Sustainability and the efforts that one can make and join.

“Climate change is bearing down on us like a mighty hurricane. And it’s scary as hell. But it doesn't have to be,” insists Thomas in each episode.

All episodes are available on TheGreenDream.Studio, Substack, and all major podcast platforms.

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