“Green Minds: Journeys Towards Ecoliteracy” is an engaging podcast series featuring eight episodes that explore insightful conversations with educational experts on developing eco-competences. Throughout the series, we explore the critical importance of developing eco-competences and examine how these professionals integrate eco-competence development in their practices.
Tune in to gain valuable insights and inspiration as we launch these episodes towards the end of 2025!
Do you want to explore eco-competences together with practitioners and professionals who have been working in this field for many years?
Join us as we dive deeper into how people develop these competences, what you can do to strengthen your own ecoliteracy, and how you can support your students or participants on this journey. Each episode features in-depth interviews, real-life stories, and practical tools you can start applying right away. Green Minds is designed for educators, youth workers, and anyone eager to build a more ecologically conscious mindset.
This year, every episode is dedicated to one eco-competence — such as exploratory thinking, holistic awareness, promoting nature connection, degrowth perspectives, and many more. Come along, enjoy our conversations, and get inspired by insightful discussions with remarkable experts.
The podcast series is part of an Erasmus+ partnership dedicated to promoting ecological thinking across learning environments in Europe.
In our opening episode, host Esther Vallado dives into holistic awareness with educator and shepherd Sebastian Burch — beyond theory, into lived experience.
In this episode, evolutionary biologist Dr. Zsóka Vásárhelyi explores exploratory thinking, showing how curiosity and noticing connections—from citizen science to everyday life—help us understand ecological change and imagine better futures.
In this episode of Green Minds, Logan Strenchock shares a grounded, hopeful take on degrowth, drawing on community-based food systems and lived experience to show how moving beyond endless growth can lead to greater wellbeing, connection, and more sustainable futures.
In this episode of Green Minds, Kriszta Vásárhelyi talks with social artist and Souldom founder Gábor Tóth about individual initiative as a key eco-competence, exploring how inner questions and small actions can lead to meaningful social and ecological change.
In this episode, host Esther Vallado explores the eco-competence of Supporting Fairness with inclusion and diversity expert Henrique Gonçalves — highlighting justice, equity, and meaningful participation in sustainability.
In this episode, forest therapy guide Dagna Gmitrowitz explores what promoting nature truly means—remembering that we are part of the living world and how small, everyday moments of connection can transform how we feel, live and care.
In this episode, host Esther Vallado explores futures literacy with international trainer and facilitator Anita Silva — uncovering how imagination, uncertainty, and agency help us design more hopeful and sustainable futures.
In this episode, host Esther Vallado explores self-sufficiency as an eco-competence with Max, founder of El Mandala — uncovering how meeting our basic needs with our own hands can restore meaning, freedom, and connection with nature.
In our opening episode, host Esther Vallado dives into holistic awareness with educator and shepherd Sebastian Burch — beyond theory, into lived experience.
In this episode, evolutionary biologist Dr. Zsóka Vásárhelyi explores exploratory thinking, showing how curiosity and noticing connections—from citizen science to everyday life—help us understand ecological change and imagine better futures.
In this episode of Green Minds, Logan Strenchock shares a grounded, hopeful take on degrowth, drawing on community-based food systems and lived experience to show how moving beyond endless growth can lead to greater wellbeing, connection, and more sustainable futures.
In this episode of Green Minds, Kriszta Vásárhelyi talks with social artist and Souldom founder Gábor Tóth about individual initiative as a key eco-competence, exploring how inner questions and small actions can lead to meaningful social and ecological change.
In this episode, host Esther Vallado explores the eco-competence of Supporting Fairness with inclusion and diversity expert Henrique Gonçalves — highlighting justice, equity, and meaningful participation in sustainability.
In this episode, forest therapy guide Dagna Gmitrowitz explores what promoting nature truly means—remembering that we are part of the living world and how small, everyday moments of connection can transform how we feel, live and care.
In this episode, host Esther Vallado explores futures literacy with international trainer and facilitator Anita Silva — uncovering how imagination, uncertainty, and agency help us design more hopeful and sustainable futures.
In this episode, host Esther Vallado explores self-sufficiency as an eco-competence with Max, founder of El Mandala — uncovering how meeting our basic needs with our own hands can restore meaning, freedom, and connection with nature.