Follow Your Current: Rivers, Resilience, and When to Swim Upstream
From Resilience Gone Wild (WinWinWin Mindset) by Jessica Morgenthal & Kai M Sorensen
May 25, 2026 · 1h 9m · Season 2 · Episode 69
About this episode
The episode explores the journey of rivers and resilience with insights from river conservation experts.
Follow Your Current: Rivers, Resilience, and When to Swim Upstream With Matthew Best & David Stormer of Riverkeeper Jessica Morgenthal travels the long arc of rivers — from the chaotic, sediment-laden flows of an early Earth to the great waterways that built civilization, to the modern story of dams, levees, and recovery. To navigate these waters, she's joined by two river champions from Riverkeeper, the organization that helped bring the Hudson River back from the dead: Matthew Best, a fish biologist whose love of migratory species reveals rivers as living circulatory systems, and David Stormer, Riverkeeper's Habitat Restoration Director, who is literally returning rivers to the courses they've always sought. Together they offer a vision of a river that remembers her path — and a resilience practice for the parts of us that remember ours.
People in this episode
Host: Jessica Morgenthal
Guests: Matthew Best, David Stormer
Topics covered
- rivers
- resilience
- environmental restoration
- migratory species
- habitat conservation
Keywords
- rivers
- resilience
- Riverkeeper
- Hudson River
- habitat restoration
- migratory species
- environment
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Riverkeeper
Places: Hudson River
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