The Climate Vanguard Podcast

We're back. After a four week hiatus, we have a jam-packed episode on everything we've been up to: social media launch, report on dismantling the fossil fuel industry, our first grant (👀), partnering with a youth climate campaign...only up from here! Let's get into it. 

Our world is in crisis. And the ruling class is driving us deeper into the abyss. With so many crises ricocheting around the world, it can be difficult to make sense of it all. 

Feelings of disempowerment and dismay can easily grip us and cause our inward retreat. We need to cope with terminal disaster in our own way, but it's also vital that we take a sober stock of where we are now as a species and civilization. 

In this episode we discuss three crises: the cost of living scandal, monkeypox, and environmental breakdown. We highlight current impacts, their causes, and where we go from here. 

Dana Oyarzabal of Jóvenes Por El Clima Argentina joins the podcast to discuss all things climate activism. Together, in conversation, we learn about Dana's inspirational climate journey and the intricacies of the global climate movement. Hopeful, informative, relaxed - tune in. 

You heard that right: Climate Vanguard is strapping in and preparing for launch THIS JUNE. Tune in to hear our big plans. Insider scoop: we drop the juiciest details at the end.  

In this episode, we discuss getting arrested as part of Just Stop Oil, a coalition of ordinary people who are demanding that the UK government stop all future fossil fuel projects. Fossil fuels are already killing people, funding war, and destroying our future. 

And yet, the UK government plans on approving 42 new fossil fuel projects by 2025. At a time when the UN Secretary General has confirmed that "we are on a fast track to climate disaster," the UK government's continued complicity in the breakdown of our life support systems is an utter betrayal of young people and those already on the frontlines of environmental catastrophe. 

We urgently plead that everyone who cares about us and the future of humanity joins the climate movement. Because the reality is that no one is coming to save us. We must resist for life itself. If not you, who?

Jack and Noah bring it back to the roots by discussing the progress of Climate Vanguard. We pull back the curtain and get personal, offering our hopes, dreams, and worries about Climate Vanguard's future. Tune in and find out what your favorite climate duo has been up to. 

The barbaric Russian invasion of Ukraine bears testament to our era of chronic crisis, from Donald Trump to Brexit and COVID-19. Yet these are not disparate events. They are inextricable from the larger meta emergency of environmental breakdown. Here to tease out these intimate connections is Nikita Artamonov, third flatmate, Russian specialist, and Climate Vanguard sounding board. 

Climate Vanguard team member Reese Waters joins the podcast to offer a second sneak peak into a key research area: a land and agricultural revolution. Combining statistics, history, personal experience, and passionate imagination, this episode offers a compelling wealth of knowledge and a whole lot of heart. Tune in. 

So what is Climate Vanguard actually proposing? We introduce our research framework and drop a delicious sneak peak into one of eight radical environmental policies that are implementable in the short-term. The full policy guide will be out THIS SPRING when Climate Vanguard launches. Watch this space. 

Friday's For Future activist Gil Hortal Janer joins The Climate Vanguard Podcast for a discussion on the 5th Ecosocialist Encounters in Lisbon and the state of the youth-led climate movement. Insightful, honest, and thought-provoking, we offer our candid reflections and forceful advocacy for a post-capitalist strategy. 

How does Climate Vanguard catalyze radical change? Weaving through history, research, and theory, Climate Vanguard team member Grace Brady joins the podcast to provide the breakdown. 

Jack and Noah invite Climate Vanguard team member Nadja Vitorovic to their London studio (also known as our living room). We dive into Nadja's climate journey and let organic discussion sweep us away. Come join for a cozy fireside chat that will fire you up on climate action!

Jack and Noah meet with one of their idols to discuss the severity of environmental breakdown and the catalytic potential of Climate Vanguard. Tune in for the behind the scenes story and much more!

Jack and Noah go back in time and discuss how climate action became their primary passion in life, a winding journey through reading, education, work, activism, and finally- to the doorstep of Climate Vanguard. Tune in for the scoop on your favorite climate duo and some exciting news on our progress! 

Navigating frustration, anger, disbelief, and hope, Jack and Noah break down the results from COP26 in Glasgow and offer a reinvigorated vision for a global Climate Vanguard that brings all voices to the table in the spirit of solidarity, equity, and justice. We also re-define what we mean by the word "radical" and update our listeners on the exciting progress we've made over the past weeks. Tune in!

In this first episode Noah and Jack introduce Climate Vanguard, a youth-led think tank that educates young people on the drivers of the climate crisis and the radical solutions needed to arrest climate breakdown and ecological collapse. We discuss where the idea came from, the inadequacy of mainstream climate solutions, and the dire need for system change. Tune in and join us on the Climate Vanguard journey!