Zoe Weil

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Richard Lang offers a simple invitation: look for yourself. Through the Headless Way, he helps us explore what it means ...
07/28/2026

Richard Lang offers a simple invitation: look for yourself. Through the Headless Way, he helps us explore what it means to be open to the world and each other rather than separate. This episode is a beautiful reminder that presence, compassion, and clear seeing may be among the deepest roots of solutionary change. Plus, we get to hear Richard’s joyful laugh, his melodious voice, and his recitation of a short poem so wise and true it’s stayed with me ever since I first heard him recite it.

Watch and listen to episode 22 of Solutionary Voices on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other streaming platforms.

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07/14/2026

Rahim Hirji reflects on writing a deeply personal letter to his daughter before she left for university. The reel centers on parenthood, time, failure, life advice, and the power of creating an artifact that can guide a child across different stages of life.

Watch or listen to episode 21 of Solutionary Voices on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other streaming platforms.

As AI becomes more present in our lives, Rahim Hirji invites us to ask a vital question: Are we using technology to beco...
07/14/2026

As AI becomes more present in our lives, Rahim Hirji invites us to ask a vital question: Are we using technology to become more thoughtful, capable, and humane, or are we slowly outsourcing our judgment?

In this episode of Solutionary Voices, Rahim explores the human skills we need most in this moment, including: curiosity, empathy, big picture thinking, principled innovation, and the agency to resist algorithmic drift.

His message is both practical and hopeful: the future does not have to make us less human, if we choose to design our lives and systems with intention.

Watch episode 21 of Solutionary Voices on YouTube or listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other platforms. Links below👇

Today is Peter Singer's 80th birthday. His book, "Animal Liberation," changed my life more than 40 years ago. His work h...
07/06/2026

Today is Peter Singer's 80th birthday. His book, "Animal Liberation," changed my life more than 40 years ago. His work has led to movement-building and norm-changing, humane policies and legislation, and countless people writing their own books, producing exposes and documentaries, and starting non-profits (including my own, the Institute for Humane Education)! I'm really excited to be interviewing Peter this week for my podcast Solutionary Voices, and meanwhile, I hope you'll take these words of Peter's to heart:

“What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.”

Happy birthday, Peter. I still treasure my first edition of "Animal Liberation" (along with all the other editions that I have, too!).

06/30/2026

Rae Sikora shares a story about approaching people wearing fur with compassion rather than confrontation. The reel highlights humane education as an invitation: helping people connect their stated values with the real-world impact of their choices.





Rae Sikora, Co-Founder of the Institute for Humane Education, reflects on humane education, compassion for all life, ani...
06/30/2026

Rae Sikora, Co-Founder of the Institute for Humane Education, reflects on humane education, compassion for all life, animal protection, environmental responsibility, human rights, and the practice of meeting conflict with love rather than contempt. This Solutionary Voices episode explores how values-aligned action, critical thinking, and everyday care can sustain hope even when social change feels slow.

Watch the 20th episode of Solutionary Voices on YouTube, or listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other streaming platforms.

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Thirty years ago today, Rae Sikora and I moved to Maine and co-founded the Institute for Humane Education (IHE). We had ...
06/26/2026

Thirty years ago today, Rae Sikora and I moved to Maine and co-founded the Institute for Humane Education (IHE). We had a vision and a dream: a future where people, animals, and nature could thrive. A world where we'd learned to live humanely, justly, and with integrity.

We also had a plan to get there: Build a humane education movement. Create the first graduate programs in humane education. Offer workshops and free resources and spread not just the vision but the practice.

Thirty years later, and in more than seventy countries, people are learning to be solutionaries. Hundreds of humane educators have graduated from our grad programs and are leading initiatives all over the world. Hundreds of thousands of people have downloaded a free resource, watched one of our videos, and planted their own seeds from what they've learned. And more young people than we'll ever be able to count have charted a new, more humane course, and cultivated their hope and agency in the process.

We have so far to go to fulfill our dream, but three decades later, I am so grateful for all that's unfolded and the extraordinary people at IHE (staff, board, faculty, advisors, supporters, friends) who are leading us into the next decade.

(Photo from our first year offering a residency experience for our soon-to-be graduate students)

06/23/2026

Educators carry invisible weight. Navin Amarasuriya reminds us that attention, wellbeing, and contentment are not extras in education. They are part of how teachers and students flourish.

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06/23/2026

Before Dotsie Bausch became an Olympic silver medalist, a bike helped her begin healing.

In this episode of Solutionary Voices, Dotsie shares how recovery, compassion, and purpose shaped the path that led her to launch Switch4Good.

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In a world of distraction, anxiety, and accelerating change, schools can and must be places where young people learn to ...
06/23/2026

In a world of distraction, anxiety, and accelerating change, schools can and must be places where young people learn to know themselves, care for others, and act with purpose. In this episode of Solutionary Voices, I speak with Nav Amarasuriya of the Contentment Foundation. Nav brings a deeply thoughtful perspective on educator wellbeing, contentment, and the power of cultivating compassion. I hope this conversation encourages us to see teaching as one of the most important ways we shape a more humane future.

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