The 2026 New York Festivals Radio Awards have announced that Cited’s fourth season, “Green Dreams” has been shortlisted in the education podcast category. This marks back-to-back years of recognizion by the New York Festivals, one of the industry’s most prestigious award ceremonies. In 2025, Cited won the education category.
Green Dreams was Cited’s fourth season, and it told social, political, and intellectual histories of contemporary environmentalism. Episodes covered a range of environmental thinkers and movements, from technologists who would have us move us into space, to eco-fascists, environmental saboteurs, green capitalists, and more.
As the series tagline read:
Accepting the reality of climate change is just the beginning. What comes next? In Green Dreams, we tell stories of radical environmental thinkers and their dreams for our green future. Should we make those dreams reality, or are they actually nightmares?
The season was produced by Cited Media producers Gordon Katic, Marc Apollonio, Alec Opperman, Jay Cockburn, with support from Nadeen Shaker. For more on Cited and its team, visit the podcast’s about page.
Cited Media shares New York Festival honours with other finalists from around globe, including the BBC, Al Jazeera, NPR, Bloomberg, and others. As a small independent podcasting house, we are especially proud that our programming continually reaches such high levels of journalistic excellence. We were only able to do so on account of Cited Media’s unique method of podcast co-creation, which partners journalists, scholars, and students in the production process. For Green Dreams, Cited Media producers worked with Dr. Imre Szeman of the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability and Dr. Tanner Mirrlees of Ontario Tech University, as well as media partners from the Harbinger Media Network, and the New Books Network.
Cited Podcast has a long history of producing award-winning journalism. Most recently, in 2025, the podcast was honoured as best legal podcast from the American Bar Association, best education podcast from the New York Festivals Radio Awards, and as a finalist for the National Association of Science Writer’s Science in Society Award.