Green Champions
From energy to agriculture, retail to tech — Green Champions tells the stories of real people building sustainable solutions across every industry.
Hosted by Dominique Hadad and Christy Cook, each episode provides that progress is already happening and environmental work takes many forms. New episodes every Tuesday.
Green Champions
Latest Episodes
JR Diaz-Hernandez - The World's Too Big of a Place to Be Bored
JR Diaz-Hernandez goes by the initials of two men. The J is his great-grandfather. The R is Roberto, the grandfather who helped raise him through his first nine years. He is now the air quality and sustainability program manager at MORPC, prote...
Brandi Whetstone - Steal This Playbook for a Sustainable 2050
For some communities, the word "sustainability" itself is the hurdle, tangled up in politics and easy to dismiss before the real work even starts. Brandi Whetstone spends her days getting past that. As director of sustainability at the Mid-Ohio...
Brandi Whetstone - From a Toy-Factory Town to MORPC
Brandi Whetstone is the director of sustainability at the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, or MORPC, where she has spent 16 years helping Central Ohio communities plan for a healthier, more livable future. The MORPC miniseries opens by tr...
Season 5 Wrap-Up - The Conversations That Stuck With Us
Season 5 closes the way the best conversations do, by looking back at who was in the room. This wrap-up gathers the guests, the surprises, and the moments that stuck, and it marks a first: the season that welcomed a new co-host to the show. Wha...
Josh Lloyd - What It Takes to Be the Number One Green Builder
Buildings carry carbon long before anyone turns on a light, locked into the steel and concrete it took to put them up. Josh Lloyd's job is to drive that number down. As Regional Sustainability Manager at Turner Construction, the firm ranked the...
