A PEOPLE'S CLIMATE
About The Award-Winning Podcast
Climate conversations about real, grassroots action that puts power back in the hands of the people.
This isn’t climate talk as usual. This is environmental justice.
The climate crisis is here — and the solutions being pushed? They’re failing. Tech gimmicks, shallow policy fixes, and corporate greenwashing won’t save us.
What will? People power.
The communities on the frontlines are fighting for their lives and our future. They’re the ones with real solutions — not just for the 1%, but for everyone.
Host Shilpi Chhotray has spent nearly a decade alongside these communities. Her guests have gone toe-to-toe with the biggest polluters on the planet, built movements in the millions, and restored entire ecosystems.
The future we need is being built from the ground up. Not by corporations. Not by billionaires. By us. The people demanding justice, reclaiming power, and rebuilding what’s been broken.
Season 2 Coming Fall 2026
Awards
The Webby Awards
Best Podcast, Sustainability & Environment: Nominee
Creative Climate Awards
Winner
The NYC Podcast Awards
Best Society & Culture Podcast: Winner
The NYC Podcast Awards
South Asian Excellence in Sound & Audio Storytelling: Winner (Shilpi Chhotray)
The NYC Podcast Awards
East Asian Excellence in Sound & Audio Storytelling:
Winner (Mindy Ramaker)
The NYC Podcast Awards
Latino Excellence in Sound & Audio Storytelling:
Nominee (Dennis Maxwell)
Impact Media Awards
Nominee: Shilpi Chhotray & Mindy Ramaker
Our Team
Host
Shilpi Chhotray is an award-winning advocate, journalist, media strategist, and the Co-Founder and President of Counterstream Media. Her work spans nearly 15 years, from global campaigns on plastic pollution to building platforms for movements that challenge extractive systems and reclaim the narrative. She is also the creator and host of People over Plastic, a podcast that ran for five seasons.
Executive Producer
Mindy Ramaker leads the podcast’s editorial vision and production — shaping stories, guiding interviews, and crafting each episode from concept to final cut. As Head of Creative at Counterstream, she oversees the brand, creative strategy and execution of its media initiatives. She is passionate about using her artistic vision and wide-ranging expertise to connect people, culture, and the arts to drive positive change in our world.
Engineer
Dennis Maxwell
Engineer
Ameeta Ganatra
Project Manager
Asia Simms
Recording Engineer
BZ Lewis
”
A People's Climate is the kind of podcast our movement has been waiting for — rigorously grounded in climate science, deeply attuned to working-class struggles, and unafraid to challenge the corporate and political forces blocking real change.
- Bhaskar Sunkara
President, The Nation
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A People's Climate is amazing and a wonder. You will be surprised by something in every episode and the interviewees are not only knowledgeable, often they're poetic!”
- Listener, Apple Podcasts
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A show on climate issues that touch us all, done with love and care.
- Listener, Apple Podcasts
