The Common Room Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Do you find yourself clueless about what to do to save our planet? Well, you're not alone! Hosted by Niranjana Balram, a recent environmental science graduate who remains clueless three years and one degree later, the Common Room podcast aims to give a voice to different stories, journeys, ideas and prototypes of solutions for a more sustainable world. Every episode invites someone new so stay tuned and be prepared to make a change.
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Welcome to the final episode of Season 1! In this episode we will be talking to none other than Cameron Humphrey, an Environmental Management graduate from Yale on the road to being a civil rights warrior. We walk through his journey from wanting to be a civil rights lawyer, to studying Environmental Management at the Yale School of the Environment and to becoming a philantrophy fellow at UC Berkeley.
Our guest Cam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cam_hump/
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Music: 'Home' produced by Lukrembo.
Dunja Trifunovic is the chair of the Climate and Youth in Agriculture, a delegate at the Youth4Climate Summit, a Global Peace Ambassador, but also a whole lot more! In this episode Ninja talked to her about how and why she became an environmental activist and that labels don’t have to be exclusionary.
Our guest Dunja: https://www.instagram.com/dunjatrifunovicc/
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In this episode of the Common Room Podcast Ninja talks to Haja about how she taught herself to sew reusable sanitary pads for her business Uman4Uman, how environmentalism can be elitist and why it is important to provide alternatives for people who want to be more sustainable.
Our guest Haja: https://www.instagram.com/fula_feminist/
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Music: 'Home' produced by Lukrembo.
At the age of only seventeen, Yohelinna already started her own sustainability platform where she provides tips for people that want to get started in environmentalism. In this episode of the Common Room podcast we talk about her story, unintentional sustainability, environmentalism in Malaysia and get some great advice!
Our guest Yohelinna: https://www.instagram.com/simplypasha.in/
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In episode 4 we explore the story of Nived Dharmaraj, a recent graduate of Flame University in India, where he talks about the comfort of labels that come with being part of the LGBTQ+ community and whether or not he would also label himself an environmentalist. He also talks about the power of community and his experiences with environmentalism. This is a very special episode and we hope Nived’s stories resonate with you in some way!
You can also watch this episode as a video on our YouTube channel now: https://youtu.be/pYuDVFtyASs.
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Episode 3 explores the stories of Percy, Marina and Jorge and whether they consider themselves environmentalists, all over dinner and some 🍷
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In this episode, we talk to Claire Waterreus about her environmental journey. She describes how she decided to become an environmentalist, her hobbies and passions including formula 1, and her dream to one day make formula 1 more sustainable! She also mentions that you don’t have to be the perfect environmentalist but just do what matters and works for you.
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In our very first podcast episode, Sammy Xie an environmental science student at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands shares her personal journey with environmental sustainability from why she chose to study it and her deep passion for activism. Listen in to find out what she is doing to save our planet and get some inspiration for what you can do too!
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We are essentially a community that applies design thinking to prototype solutions to more sustainable futures through conversation. We aim to give everyone an equal voice, including you!
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