Shows
What Works: Conversations on Nonprofit Leadership with Marla MoodySE01E02 - Leadership is about Courage, Love, and Listening to the Community | With Marc YaggiIn this episode of What Works, host Marla Moody speaks with Marc Yaggi, CEO of Waterkeeper Alliance, about the importance of clean water and the organization's mission to protect waterways globally. They discuss the challenges faced by communities in accessing clean water, the power of local action, and the significance of building strong teams within nonprofits. Marc shares inspiring stories of community empowerment and resilience, emphasizing the need for collective action to address the global water crisis. The conversation also touches on strategic planning, leadership lessons, and the importance of staying true to core values in the face of...
2025-10-0737 min
Equity In Every Drop - A Waterkeeper Alliance PodcastThe Nexus of Water, Climate, and Environmental JusticeThis first episode of 'Equity In Every Drop' features discussions with Marc Yaggi, CEO of Waterkeeper Alliance, and the Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley, a human and civil rights advocate, on the vital work of Waterkeeper Alliance and the intersections between water, climate change, and environmental rights. Marc shares insights on Waterkeeper Alliance's mission to unite over 300 local Waterkeeper groups worldwide to protect waterways against pollution and climate change, emphasizing their global impact and community-based advocacy approach.Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley reflects on his journey from the civil rights movement to environmental advocacy, highlighting the...
2024-03-2059 min
Equity In Every Drop - A Waterkeeper Alliance PodcastEquity In Every Drop - Season One TrailerThis podcast features the diverse voices, experiences, and perspectives of our global movement of Waterkeeper groups, impacted community members, and leading experts. Join us for meaningful conversations about critical issues threatening our waters and the actions, policies, and solutions we need to promote environmental equity, advance environmental justice, and protect everyone's right to clean water.Whether you're a seasoned advocate or new to the cause of clean water, join us to listen, learn, and amplify the demand for equity in every drop.WHAT TO EXPECT IN SERIES 1Hosted by Thomas Hynes, Waterkeeper Alliance
2024-03-2000 min
Rising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #88 – Marc Yaggi is a WaterkeeperToday we speak with Marc Yaggi, Chief Executive Officer of the Waterkeeper Alliance, the world’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of clean water. We’ll talk about his and his organization’s history going back to exploring and protecting watersheds including the one that provides New York City with its drinking water. We’ll review some of this boat-based group’s victories from Atlanta to coastal Senegal and some of the ongoing challenges we all face from Supreme Court rulings to pollutants in our water and our blood. Still, be prepared for some hope.
2023-07-3128 min
What About Water? with Jay FamigliettiChemical Cocktails: What's in our Groundwater? with John CherryIf it's not stuck in glaciers or polar ice, 99 per cent of the world's freshwater is groundwater. Water underground supplies nearly half of the world's drinking water. But what happens when dangerous chemicals and waste – polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), oil, gasoline and road salts – percolate down into that supply? On this episode of What About Water? Jay sits down with the father of contaminant hydrogeology, Dr. John Cherry, to talk about the water under our feet, and how we can better monitor it. In the 1970s, Cherry wrote the foundational textbook on groundwater with his colleague, Al Fre...
2023-01-1830 min
Healthy Living Healthy Planet RadioEP 116 - Urban Waters/WaterwaysUrban waterways, also known as living streams or urban streams are waterways that pass through an urban area or receive storm water runoff from an urbanized catchment. They play a key role in liveable cities by sustaining plants and animals, providing social and cultural connection and supporting economic development through tourism and agriculture.
The health of urban waterways is heavily influenced by urbanisation. Vegetation clearing, road and building construction and polluting activities all increase the frequency and volume of polluted storm water flowing into waterways and significantly degrade their health.
Water quality touches all of...
2022-04-0247 min
Go Green RadioThe New 'F' Word in Water Public Policy: FlintOn today's episode of Go Green Radio, we will talk to Marc Yaggi, Executive Director of Waterkeeper Alliance (www.waterkeeper.org), about how- in 21st century America- a town of 100,000 people in Flint, Michigan was exposed to extremely high levels of lead in their drinking water. We will talk about the public policy failures, the actions taken by policymakers, how individual residents will be affected, and lessons that every community in America should learn from this disaster. Waterkeeper Alliance is the world's fastest growing environmental movement, with over 270 Waterkeeper Organizations protecting rivers, lakes and coastal waterways on 6 continents. The organization's...
2016-01-2956 min