Projects

What Baratunde is up to now, organized by three relationships: with technology, with each other, and with the planet.

Technology

How we live well with our machines.

Baratunde Thurston speaking on a conference stage with large tech lettering behind him

Life With Machines

A public interest media company exploring how we live well with technology, not just endure it. Across the Webby-winning video podcast, the newsletter, and short-form video, it brings clarity, critique, curiosity, and some comedy to the AI discourse, and keeps asking the question underneath it all: who decides?

Visit lifewithmachines.media

Democracy

How we live well with each other.

Baratunde Thurston in conversation with President Barack Obama at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum

Nature

How we live well with the planet.

Baratunde Thurston in a beanie and work jacket, looking out over mountains

America Outdoors

The award-winning PBS series Baratunde hosted and executive produced that tells the wide-ranging stories of diverse peoples deeply connected to nature.

Watch on PBS

Hope In The Water

The Emmy-nominated PBS docuseries about feeding a growing planet while saving our waters. Baratunde reports from Puerto Rico while other episodes are hosted by Martha Stewart, Shailene Woodley, and chef José Andrés

Watch on PBS

National Forest Foundation

A short-form series on what the Great American Outdoors Act means for our public lands.

See the series