Maggie Baird and WETA Washington, D.C., the leading public media organization in the nation’s capital, today announced a new original series called Climate Kitchen, slated to begin production later this year and premiere on public media nationwide in 2027.
Part cooking show, part lifestyle series, part docuseries, Climate Kitchen is where practical meets powerful, as Maggie explores, from around the country as well as in her own kitchen, how our daily choices are linked to some of the most urgent issues of our time, from chronic disease to food waste and environmental justice to affordability.
Providing recipes for sustainable living alongside delicious and affordable home cooked plant-based meals, Climate Kitchen will see Baird bring together some of the world’s most revered sustainable living experts, celebrity guests and members of her family to her kitchen, sharing stories and recipes that are both kinder to our planet and each other. Special guests include indigenous climate justice activist Xiye Bastida; longevity researcher and best-selling author of The Blue Zones Dan Buettner; multiple GRAMMY® and Academy Award-winning artists Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell; the iconic Martha Stewart; co-founder of the Farm Link Project Aidan Reilly; actor and Cyklar founder and creative director Claudia Sulewski; renowned oceanographer and Mission Blue founder Sylvia Earle; and many more.
Co-created by Executive Producer, host, and Support+Feed founder Maggie Baird — also mother to Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell — Climate Kitchen will provide actionable insights, exploring what and how we live and eat can help or hurt our planet, while sharing easy-to-implement, budget-conscious ideas and delicious plant-based recipes to try at home.
The series will be directed by award-winning filmmakers Kristin Lazure and Stephanie Soechtig of Atlas Films, co-produced by Support+Feed, WETA, and Atlas Films, and is part of Well Beings, the WETA award-winning, multi-year, multiplatform initiative addressing critical health needs in America, which is designed to raise awareness, provide educational resources, reduce stigma, and change the national conversation.
“I am excited to work with WETA to address a critical issue of our time: Finding ways to live more responsibly and being a steward of the natural world that surrounds us,” said Maggie Baird, Host and Executive Producer. “Living a more sustainable, earth-friendly lifestyle can seem all-or-nothing, overwhelming, and expensive, but Climate Kitchen is about embracing progress over perfection, debunking the myths around affordability and investment of time, and showing how small, simple behavior shifts can build toward lasting difference in our own health and the health of our planet. Plant-based food is not the only solution to climate change, but there is no solution without it.”
“Maggie Baird is an extraordinary partner for public media audiences,” said Tom Chiodo, Executive Producer of Special Projects in National Productions at WETA. “Climate Kitchen is dedicated to showing how every person can make a healthy difference in their own lives, as well as the lives of their family and community — one recipe, one meal or household hack at a time. Maggie’s relatable approach will be refreshing to audiences of all ages, meeting them where they are, and helping them to institute incremental changes that will make a difference for all of us, including future generations.”
Generous underwriters committed to educating audiences about health and wellness are making Climate Kitchen possible. Initial sponsors include Little Saint Healdsburg, Universal Music Group, Sam Ballmer, and the PATH Foundation.
Climate Kitchen Extends Impact as Newest Campaign from Well Beings
Climate Kitchen will include a national engagement campaign that will explore individual actions that can improve sustainability. This campaign will develop relationships with a large network of committed partners and public media stations for a dynamic digital experience and produce in-person and virtual engagement events and provide educational materials, among other resources, tailored to the specific needs of their unique communities.
Since launching in May 2020, the WETA Well Beings initiative has produced original digital-first content ranging from feature-length and short-form documentaries to animated explainer shorts; convened forums and discussion events, centering lived experiences; and created signature broadcast and streaming content, including the 2025 documentary Caregiving, about the state and stakes of providing care in America, from executive producer Bradley Cooper; and the 2022 documentary Ken Burns Presents Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness, A film by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers.
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