Ep. 12: Betsy Mortensen and Harrison Goodale - Meet the Co-Founders of Sustain

Welcome back to Songscapes! This week, meet Betsy and Harrison, the husband-and-wife team who co-founded Sustain. Their backgrounds are from opposite ends of the nonprofit’s driving forces -- music and nature -- which allows them to support each other’s strengths to build up Sustain. Listen in to hear about Betsy’s work in Tanzania with chimpanzees, Harrison’s time in the band Parsonsfield, and how that led them to where they are today. They also reveal their favorite public lands moments, and how they’re trying to reframe the common gloomy approach of the environmental movement. Make sure to tune in and meet the duo that is making music a force for nature!

Thanks for listening and don’t forget to review, share and subscribe to the podcast! Learn more about nonprofit Sustain Music and Nature’s work to make music a force for nature at: www.sustainmusicandnature.org

You can find Betsy and Harrison on their Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/sustainmusicandnature/ or on their website at https://www.sustainmusicandnature.org/

Host: Charles Coplin

Producer: Sustain Music & Nature

Editor: Harrison Goodale

Media Researcher: Lindsay Johnson

Theme Music: Harrison Goodale

Featured music: “Hold Me To Ya" by River Whyless, "Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge" by Conner Youngblood, "Step into the Music" by The Burroughs