Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

How do we sit with our fears and discomforts around collapse? What might we miss when we demand quick fixes, takeaways, and summaries — without allowing our bodies to ferment and feel through the practices and experiences that could move us more deeply? And what does it mean to retune our literacy of the languages of the Earth?
In this episode, Green Dreamer’s Kaméa Chayne speaks with Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, whose latest book is Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion.
Join us as we hold up a mirror to reflect on questions of complicity and collapse — while sensing into what these fractured times may be asking of us.
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tune in and subscribe to Green Dreamer via any podcast app;
tap into our bonus extended and video version of this conversation on Patreon here;
and read highlights from these conversations via Kaméa’s newsletter here.
Song feature: Goodnight Moon Child by Beautiful Chorus

Where do our senses of disgust come from? What does it mean to interrogate and unsettle the ways that our senses of disgust may have been shaped? And how has the Standard American Diet limited curiosity while reinforcing certain social hierarchies?
In this episode, we welcome Matthew Wolf-Meyer, the author of American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within.
Join us as we explore the social and biological histories of our most visceral emotion, how disgust has been used as a tool of settler colonialism, and more.
We invite you to…
tune in and subscribe to Green Dreamer via any podcast app;
tap into our bonus extended and video version of this conversation on Patreon here;
and read highlights from these conversations via Kaméa’s newsletter here.
Song feature: “Peaches” by Isla Greenwood (@islagreenwood on Instagram)

Why have the majority of coconut trees across the Hawaiian islands not been allowed to bring coconut fruit into maturity? What does it mean to nurture communities of sharing and caring that are more relational, less transactional, and therefore less taxable? And how do Hawaiian ways of knowing — situating the intellectual and sensorial in the biocultural — fundamentally differ from Western epistemologies?
In this conversation, Green Dreamer’s kaméa chayne is joined by Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer, the author of Hoʻopono: Mutual emergence, and co-director of NiU Now!, a community cultural agroforestry movement emerging to affirm the importance of niu (coconut) and uluniu (coconut groves).
Tune in as we explore the biocultural significance of coconut groves in Native Hawaiian culture, how the ongoing work of revitalizing uluniu supports community food sovereignty in Hawaiʻi, and more.
We invite you to…
tune in and subscribe to Green Dreamer via any podcast app;
tap into our bonus extended and video version of this conversation on Patreon here;
and read highlights from these conversations via Kaméa’s newsletter here.
Song feature: “E ʻOlu” by Pohai (ft. Pulama), via Ohana Records

Today, we are doing an episode swap with Dean Spade's podcast, Love in a F*cked Up World, featuring his conversation with adrienne maree brown!
Dean’s show rests on this acknowledgment that social and resistance movements are rooted in relationships and are only as strong as they are — so he explores what it means to build the skills we need for creating and sustaining strong relationships.
If you enjoy this episode, please go check out his podcast, book of the same title, and Patreon as well where they do live events and some bonus content not shared on other more hostile platforms. You can learn more at patreon.com/deanspade
Thanks for tuning in, and I’ll look forward to catching you again next week with our regular programming!

What does it mean to bypass formalized structures of change-making and to engage in mutual aid? How does the philanthropy-nonprofit-industrial complex itself discourage systemic change? And how do we balance participation in immediate care response with the less visible, longer term, more mycelial work of rewiring community power?
In this episode, Green Dreamer’s kaméa chayne speaks with Dean Spade of Mutual Aid and Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together.
Join us as we explore what it means to honor difference and expertise in activism without replicating oppressive hierarchy, reflect on lateral conflicts within the messy terrains of movement building, and more.
We invite you to…
tune in and subscribe to Green Dreamer via any podcast app;
tap into our bonus extended and video version of this conversation on Patreon here;
and read highlights from these conversations via Kaméa’s newsletter here.
Song features: “Earth Dog” and “Peaches” by Isla Greenwood (@islagreenwood on Instagram)