Sustainability and The Sea

"I want to be friends with people who want to clean up trash on a Saturday." This episode is for listeners that are just beginning their sustainability journey, and want to #Unlittertheirhabits and l…

How did you spend World Ocean Day? FutureSwell founders, Alex and Carissa, sit down to share with you all of our WOD adventures with the work we did with community organizations! FutureSwell first jo…

“If you’re in a position to do something, you have to do something.” Today we sit down with Max Kushner, a diver and ocean conservationist based on Hawai'i Island. We talk through what is needed to m…

Today we share and discuss three examples of ocean conservation solutions that could be replicated and applied elsewhere, including sea turtle conservation campaign in Palau, a bottom-up marine prote…

“You don’t have to confine yourself to one type of expression.” Today Carissa sits down with Max Sano, a Gen Z founder of Greenzine, an interdisciplinary, intersectional and multimedia storytelling p…

"It was the soft skills all along." Sit down with us while we dish out the most valuable advice for future ocean conservationists over some late morning coffee. We had to learn all these lessons the …

“If weʻre compassionate and care about the environment and future generations, we need to ask ourselves if we are living every day in a way that allows our values to shine through? And voting.” We si…

"We are all the ocean." Learn about the value of attending climate conferences as an early-career professional, how to make the most out of your experience, and how to get there in the first place. I…

"I cannot go on with the knowledge of whatʻs coming without doing everything I can to stop it. I canʻt look away from this, and frankly, I donʻt understand people who can." Join us for a conversation…

"Seek out opportunities to explore our ocean as much as you can." Carissa interviews her friend and colleague Dr. Adam Pack, a researcher who has been studying dolphins and whales in Hawaiian waters …

"Get in the water." Blue mind is the area of research and understanding of the ways that water makes us more focused, centered, calm, present, creative, and content. Dr. Nichols pioneered this concep…

“Itʻs not just governments or nonprofits, businesses can have a huge impact on climate change.” Can we reach our climate goals globally if businesses donʻt change? Jenny Morgans works to help busines…

“It has always been trash for me.” Come listen to marine debris-ologist Lauren Chamberlain talk about how she has dedicated her life to protecting our oceans against plastic pollution, and what the b…

"What did we do this year? What didnʻt we do this year?" Alex and Carissa sit down over wine to review what exactly our team did this year at The Conservationist Collective. From the projects we supp…

“Young people might think they canʻt get a job in marine conservation, but they CAN. Now is the time.” Dr. David Vaughan is a coral restoration expert, founder of Plant a Million Corals, and passiona…

Made by ocean people, for ocean people. Led by two marine conservationists committed to building bridges, Sustainability & The Sea is a collection of conversations about saving our ocean - what are t…

“Ask those who know more than you, ask questions to people you believe have the answers, and ask yourself what you can bring to the table for our ocean.” After returning from COP27 in Egypt, Bodhi Pa…

"Apply yourself early and often, and get what experience you can - it is going to be applicable in some way or another." Carissa and Alex sit down to share how they got where they are now, and answer…

"No matter what your field was in, you can still get into coral restoration. Don't lose faith, there's so many more opportunities coming in this decade." Today we sit down and talk with the magnifice…

"All of us there were unified because we dedicated our lives to the natural world, and care and value discovery and exploration." In this episode Alex interviews Carissa about the National Geographic…