Building a new environmental majority through honest conversation.
A podcast and participatory dialogue initiative exploring the defining environmental challenges and tradeoffs shaping our shared future.
The Young Ike Project
The Young Ike Project is a podcast and community dialogue platform that explores the defining environmental issues shaping our future through thoughtful, multi-perspective storytelling. It pairs those conversations with the Podclub model—turning listeners into participants through real-world discussions that bring people together around complex environmental questions.
Podcast
One project, two series.
The Young Ike Project produces two original podcast series designed to deepen environmental understanding and bring these conversations into the real world.
Our flagship Podclub Series is a quarterly deep dive into the defining environmental issues, tradeoffs, and tensions shaping our shared future—featuring a range of voices whose perspectives help tell the fuller story, and extending beyond the episode through live community discussions.
Alongside it, Climate Future Makers is a monthly series spotlighting the people actively building real-world climate solutions, from entrepreneurs and engineers to organizers and innovators—moving beyond the doom-and-denial cycle to focus on what’s being built right now.
Podclub
Turning listeners into participants.
The Young Ike Project’s Podclub Model transforms podcast content into ready-to-run, in-person community experiences.
Built around our quarterly Podclub Series, groups listen ahead of time and then gather for a guided discussion using a curated facilitation guide and proven framework.
In a moment when environmental issues are often reduced to online noise, Podclub creates space for real conversation, helping organizations boost engagement, strengthen community, and host meaningful dialogue around the issues that matter most.
“Harnessing the power of podcasting to spark conversations that move beyond earbuds. ”
About
The Young Ike Project is a podcast and community dialogue platform exploring the defining environmental questions of our time through long-form conversation, storytelling, and real-world engagement.
Founded by Griffith Pugh following the 2024 election cycle, the project grew out of a belief that many environmental conversations have become flattened into shallow talking points and increasingly disconnected from place, community, and genuine dialogue.
Griffith is a student at Haverford College and holds leadership roles with the Izaak Walton League of America. He helped build Minnesota’s award-winning Green Crew initiative, worked as a Superior National Forest guide in the Boundary Waters, and has interviewed experts, policymakers, advocates, and builders across environmental and civic life.