Life on Earth unfolds through complex, living relationships. Forests, oceans, animals and microorganisms sustain the cycles that make life possible, circulating oxygen, regenerating soils, and shaping climates.

Humans are part of these systems, not separate from them. Our lives depend on the integrity of these relationships, even as they exist far beyond us.

Yet the natural world is often treated as a resource, something to extract from, convert, and monetize rather than as a community of living beings with their own inherent rights. We have yet to learn how to live in true reciprocity within the Earth’s systems.

On this Wild For Change podcast, Natalia Greene, Director of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) joins us. GARN is an organization helping to reawaken a deeper truth: that nature is not something we own, but a living world we belong to, with rights of its own.

The Rights of Nature challenges us to rethink one of our most fundamental assumptions—that nature exists for us. Instead, it asks: what if we are part of a larger living system with its own rights? And what responsibility comes with that understanding? This is not just a legal shift—it’s a shift in perspective, in values, and in how we choose to live in reciprocity with nature.

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Step outside your front door for a moment… what do you notice?
Concrete, cars—maybe a few scattered trees.

Now imagine that same street alive with birdsong, pollinators, and wild nature woven into everyday life.
What if that transformation wasn’t just possible—but already within reach?

Today, we’re exploring how we can begin to rewild our urban spaces—starting right outside our own front doors.

Joining us is Sian Moxon, founder of Rewild My Street. She’s an Associate Professor of Sustainable Architecture and a researcher in urban biodiversity at London Metropolitan University’s School of Art, Architecture and Design. She’s also an architect, a climate change expert with the UK Universities Climate Network, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and the author of Sustainability in Interior Design.

Rewild My Street is a design-led toolkit helping Londoners transform their gardens and streets to support biodiversity and bring nature back into the places we live. By creating more green and blue spaces across the city, the initiative works to reverse the trend of urban environments becoming increasingly grey—fostering ecosystems that build climate resilience, restore nature, and support human well-being.

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On today’s Wild For Change podcast, we’re speaking with Laurent Lebreton, whose work focuses on ocean plastic research at The Ocean Cleanup.

In 2013, at just 18 years old, Dutch inventor Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup with an ambitious idea to remove plastic from the world’s oceans.

Today, The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit organization developing advanced technologies to rid our oceans and rivers of plastic — with a bold and refreshing mission: to put itself out of business.

Because what begins as litter on a street corner doesn’t stay there. It can travel through storm drains, into rivers, and eventually thousands of miles into the open ocean — where it’s ingested by marine life, entangles marine life, and disrupts ocean ecosystems.

Our oceans are downstream from all of us.

In this episode, we explore the scale of the plastic crisis, the science behind its impact, and the innovative solutions working to turn the tide.

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