Earth Exchange Café
Earth Exchange Café is a monthly online conversation with a pioneering artist, writer, educator, scientist or other changemaker whose work inspires that of Radical Joy for Hard Times. During the hour-long program Harriet Sams and Trebbe Johnson explore the kinds of deep questions that trouble and fascinate so many of us at this time of challenge on the Earth.
From March through June 2023 we’re offering a special series, “Spirit Spring,” featuring conversations with four different faith leaders: Druid, Christian, Jewish, and Native American, all of whom work with Earth-based ceremony and teachings.
The program is free and open to all, and there’s time in every program for your questions.
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Sofia Laine
Sofia Laine is a research professor at the Finnish Youth Research Society in Finland. Her methods of working with youth[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Elizabeth Poraj-Wilczynska
Elizabeth Poraj-Wilczynska is an artist whose work springs from a deep engagement with ancient places. She trained as an archeological[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Lizabeth Kashinsky
For over 25 years, Lizabeth Kashinsky has been working in the field of conservation in the Hawaiian islands, a place[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Will Falk
Will Falk describes his work as "life-centered writing." He is a writer, lawyer, and environmental activist, who believes that the[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Linda Sartor
Linda Sartor has faced wounded places in several ways, both professionally and personally. Since 9/11/2001, she has travelled internationally in[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Steffi Bednarek
Steffi Bednarek is the editor of the new book, Climate, Psychology, and Change: Reimaginaing Psychotherapy in an Era of Global[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Lily Yeh
Lily Yeh is a pioneering artist of community works of beauty and healing in hurt places from Philadelphia to Rwanda[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Francis Weller
Francis Weller is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist, who is renowned for his work helping people accept and move[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Jess Rassp
Jess Rassp (she/they) is a puppetry artist and producer who has worked independently with various theatre companies as a performer,[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Joanna Burgess
Joanna Burgess is a nurse at at ConvaTec, a company offering products and services in the areas of advanced wound[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Liv Torc
Liv Torc is a dynamic poet, performer, artist and project weaver, who explores the terrain of the human and planetary[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Day Schildkret
Day Schildkret is an earth artist, educator, and public speaker who teaches workshops internationally for communities, festivals, and corporations, as[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Sam Lee
Sam Lee is a British folk singer, song collector, activist, and conservationist, who brings nature into his music, and his[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Dr. Panu Pihkala
Panu Pihkala is an adjunct professor of environmental theology at the University of Helsinki, Finlandi. He has written widely on[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Rachel Fleming
Rachel Fleming is a co-founder of Animate-Earth, a British organization that explores our ancestors' relationship with the world around them[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Brigid Hopkins
Brigid Hopkins is the author of Love Letters to the Earth and other books. She also creates Impermasculptures, art works[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with LaUra Schmidt
LaUra Schmidt, along with her partner Aimee Lewis-Reau, is the cofounder of the Good Grief Network, one of the first[...]
Earth Exchange Conversation with Pat McCabe/Woman Stands Shining
As part of our Spirit Spring series, we welcome Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining). She is a[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Rabbi Ellen Bernstein
As part of our Spirit Spring series, we welcome Rabbi Ellen Bernstein. Ellen writes, teaches, speaks and consults about the[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Rev. Stephen Blackmer
Stephen Blackmer is founding executive director of Kairos Earth and chaplain of Church of the Woods in Canterbury, New Hampshire.[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Eimear Burke
Eimear Burke is the Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD). She lives in Kilkenny, Ireland[...]
Earth Exchange Café Dialogue: Harriet Sams & Trebbe Johnson
When our scheduled guest had to cancel because of illness, Earth Exchange Café hosts Harriet Sams and Trebbe Johnson decided[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Prof. Timothy Darvill
Professor Timothy Darvill of Bournemouth University, England, is an archeologist and prehistorian who has studied and written about Stonehenge and[...]
Earth Exchange Cafe Conversation with Meredith Little
Meredith Little and her husband Steven Foster, co-founders of Rites of Passage, Inc. in 1976 and The School of Lost[...]
Earth Exchange Cafe Conversation with Evgenia Emets
Evgenia Emets is a remarkable young artist, poet, calligrapher, and performance artist whose current focus interactive dance, poetry, and reflection[...]
Earth Exchange Cafe Conversation with Chris Johnstone
Chris Johnstone is a coach, mentor, author, and trainer who focuses on resilience, well-bring, and a new and timely way[...]
Earth Exchange Cafe Conversation with Craig Chalquist
Professor and author Craig Chalquist writes and teaches about the interconnection between nature, myth, and psychology. In his book, Terrapsychology,[...]
Earth Exchange Cafe Conversation with Eva Simms
Duquesne University professor Dr. Eva Simms has written about the invisibility of garbage, the importance of play, and undermined or[...]
Earth Exchange Café Conversation with Larry Hobbs
Larry Hobbs has led an extraordinary life, guiding eco-tours in Antarctica, studying whales and Irrawaddy dolphins, and taking groups of[...]
Earth Exchange Cafe Conversation with Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan's photographs of baby albatrosses who have died from ingesting plastic waste are stunning, startling, and strangely beautiful. "Beauty[...]
Earth Exchange Cafe Conversation with Carl Safina
Carl Safina is an award-winning author who is interested in learning about animal intelligence, not to compare it with human[...]
Earth Exchange Cafe Conversation with Jo Huxster
Jo Huxster, professor of environmental science at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, has been fascinated with learning about how[...]
Earth Exchange Cafe Conversation with David Powless
When Trebbe Johnson interviewed David Powless on the Oneida Reservation in 1987, he spoke of his realization that the steel[...]