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Johannes Fritz - Flight School For Birds
Meet Johannes Fritz, a maverick biologist and conservationist who is reintroducing the endangered Northern Bald Ibis across Europe. Using an ultralight aircraft, Johan...
Chesca Colloredo -Mansfeld - 'Miracle' Treatment For 80,000+ Kids
Meet Chesca Colloredo Mansfeld, a social entrepreneur who co-founded Miracle Feet: a low-cost, non-surgical treatment that has made an extraordinary impact on the live...
Ronni Abergel - The Library Where You Borrow People
Meet Ronni Abergel, founder of the Human Library Organisation where, instead of books, real people are on loan to readers. For over two decades, this global movement h...
Flora Vano - Rising Seas, Women Rising
Meet Flora Vano, a climate activist who has rallied a female-led response to the climate crisis in Vanuatu. Fighting climate change with female empowerment, Flora has ...
Aidan Reilly - How One Truck Can Change The World
Meet Aidan Reilly, one of the cofounders of the Farmlink Project. In 2020, Aidan and his friends rented a U-haul with an idea to help their local food bank. Today, the...
Season 2 Trailer
Welcome back to Hope Is A Verb! This season we'll bring you a new chapter of stories from the people who are mending our planet and tending to some of our biggest glob...
Rutger Bregman- We're Better Than We Think We Are
To celebrate the end of our first season of this podcast, we're delighted to share this conversation with Rutger Bregman- the person who inspired this project. Rutger ...
Bala Amarasekaran- The Accidental Conservationist
Meet Bala Amarasekaran, an accountant turned conservationist who founded the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone and empowered local communities to play thei...
Christine Figgener- The Sea Turtle Biologist
Meet Christine Figgener, a marine biologist who sparked a global movement against single-use plastic when her YouTube video of a turtle having a straw removed from its...
Tarek Loubani- 3D Printing Emergency Healthcare
Meet Tarek Loubani, an emergency doctor who has created open-source, 3D printed medical supplies to solve critical shortages in war zones like Gaza and Ukraine. In th...
Wanjira Mathai- A New Story For Africa
Meet Wanjira Mathai, the Managing Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute who is empowering communities to restore landscapes and local economies through ...
Tony Rinaudo- Reforesting The Desert Without Planting A Tree
Meet Tony Rinaudo, an agronomist who has helped local communities in Niger reforest six million hectares of desert, without planting a single tree. It's one of the gre...
Jessica Wade- The Untold Stories Of Wikipedia
Meet Jessica Wade, an experimental physicist in London who has written 1,997 Wikipedia biographies for unrepresented female and minority scientists to encourage more d...
Felix Brooks Church- The Small Machine That Could End Malnutrition
Meet Felix Brooks Church, a social entrepreneur who co-invented a small machine known as a "dosifier," which adds lifesaving nutrients to the staple food of communitie...
Shabana Basij Rasikh- Educating The Future Of Afghanistan
Meet Shabana Basij-Rasikh, the founder of SOLA, Afghanistan’s first and only boarding school for girls who evacuated and relocated the entire school community from Kab...
Season 1 Trailer
What does it take to change the world? It’s a question we started asking in August 2020 when we set out on a simple mission to find one human every week who was maki...