Earth Cast

🎙️S5E49 | Farming for the Future 🎙️In this episode Olivia Taylor speaks to Rushdah Kannemeyer and Tom Murray from Woolworths about the Farming for the Future programme, barriers to scaling sustainable solutions across South Africa’s commercial farms, their ideal future for South African farming in the next 20 years, and so much more!  #farmingforthefuture  🌍 Season 5 | Farming for the Future 🎙️ T...

🎙️In this episode of season 4, Freediving in Africa, Olivia Taylor speaks to Egyptain freediving record holder Ranalina Alim about balancing fear & bliss during competitions, the Dahab freediving community, Rana's freediving workshops, and so much more! 🌍 Season 4 | Freediving in Africa 🎙️ This podcast was produced by the team at Zapods Podcast Agency: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.zapods.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Con...

🎙️In this episode of season 4, Freediving in Africa, Adrian Ndayambaje speaks to George Amado about living and learning next to the ocean in Ghana, coral conservation, Ghana’s freediving and diving scene, and so much more! 🌍 Season 4 | Freediving in Africa 🎙️ This podcast was produced by the team at Zapods Podcast Agency: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.zapods.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Connect with Olivia & Adrian: Inst...

🎙️In this episode of season 4, Freediving in Africa, Olivia Taylor speaks to Khaled ELGammal about living and training in Dahab, his techniques for over coming fear and supporting students, the power of meditation, the history of freediving in Dahab, the greatest challenges for Egyptian divers, and so much more! 🌍 Season 4 | Freediving in Africa 🎙️ This podcast was produced by the team at Zapods...

🎙️In this episode of season 4, Freediving in Africa, Olivia Taylor speaks to Muhamago Gomate about his music composition and how soundscapes can promote biodiversity, the history of freediving in Mozambique, the role that freediving can play in marine protection efforts in Africa, how to support local divers, and so much more! 🌍 Season 4 | Freediving in Africa 🎙️ This podcast was produced by the...

🎙️In this episode of season 4, Freediving in Africa, Olivia Taylor speaks to Zandile Ndhlovu about her ocean exploration, global storytelling, the Black Mermaid Foundation, conquering fear, marine careers and conservation, the free fall, shark week, and so much more! 🌍 Season 4 | Freediving in Africa 🎙️ This podcast was produced by the team at Zapods Podcast Agency: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.zapods.com⁠⁠⁠...

🎙️ In this thought-provoking episode of season 4, Freediving in Africa, Olivia speaks to John McCarthy about his observations of the Sodwana dolphins, the humpback whale migration off the coast of South Africa, freediving as play, passion and purpose, and so much more! 🌍 Season 4 | Freediving in Africa 🎙️ This podcast was produced by the team at Zapods Podcast Agency: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.zapods.com⁠⁠...

🎙️ In this exciting episode of season 4, Freediving in Africa, Adrian speaks to Matt Stow about his journey of becoming a professional deep safety competition diver and his top tips for keeping safe in the water. Matt talks about what he has learnt from the vibrant diving communities in Egypt and South Africa, spearfishing, and so much more! 🌍 Season 4 | Freediving in Africa 🎙️ This podcast was p...

🎙️ In this thought-provoking episode of season 4, Freediving in Africa, Olivia speaks to Dr Nasreen Peer and Dr Nelson Miranda. They discuss their marine work through Argonaut Science, the 2024 AIDA freediving World Cup in Sharm el Sheik, the importance of ocean inclusivity, the greatest barriers to recreational freediving, and so much more! 🌍 Season 4 | Freediving in Africa 🎙️ This podcast was p...

🎙️ Meet the dynamic 3x freediving national record holder from Cape Verde 🇨🇻 Tatiana Mendes! Adrian Ndayambaje hosts Tatiana and discusses everything from learning how to swim at age 20, competing in her first freediving competition, imposter syndrome, setting records, addiction recovery and, so much more! "I decided to compete, despite being terrified, to give homage to my Cape Verdean herita...

In this powerful episode of season 4, Freediving in Africa, Adrian Ndayambaje interviews Bevin Reynolds about resilience, finding your 'why', performance anxiety, rest and recovery, and so much more! Bevin is a 9x South African freediving record holder, peak performace coach, and a member of the Molchanovs Athlete Team 2024. This podcast was produced by the team at Zapods Podcast Agency: ⁠...

🎙️ In celebration of World Oceans Day 2024, Earth Cast (Olivia Taylor) spoke with trail-blazing Rwandan freediving champion, Adrian Ndayambaje, about his journey from first learning to swim, to inspiring others to jump into the water.  In this episode, we talk about the importance of accessibility and inclusivity in pools and the ocean, the intersection of freediving and climate change, and hear s...

🎙️Season 3 | A Manifesto for Surgical Health in Africa *SEASON FINALE* 🎙️In this episode,  ⁠@olivia_earth⁠  and Professor Bruce Biccard discuss the learnings from season three. Bruce talks about what he did not expect from his guests, the positive responses regarding tackling this topic, strategies for advocacy, and so much more! Bruce's work in surgical outcomes in Africa has shown him that u...

🎙️In this episode, Bruce speaks to Professor Salome Maswime and Dr Tinashe Chandauka about health strengthening, a manifesto for safe surgery, the principles on how to get people involved in activities in surgical care and, so much more!   🎙️To comment on the book please visit ⁠https://asos.org.za/index.php/book⁠ . Salome Maswime is the Professor and Head of the Global Surgery Division at the UCT;...

🎙️In this episode, Bruce speaks to Professors Lydia Cairncross and Wayne Morriss about advocacy for safer surgery and anaesthesia for all. They address the concerns of financing for the health care sector and political leverage - how do we make governments accountable and what strategies should we use to communicate surgical needs to politicians?   🎙️To comment on the book please visit https://aso...

🎙️In this episode, Bruce speaks to Professors John and Emmanuel about resource constraints regarding Africa-wide surgery (focusing on safe anaesthesia), climate adaptation, pandemic preparedness and, so much more! 🎙️To comment on the book please visit https://asos.org.za/index.php/book . Emmanuel Malabo Makasa is an Adjunct Professor of Global Surgery, a Public Health Epidemiologist and an Orthopa...

🎙️In this episode, Bruce discusses ‘collective competency’ and leadership with Dr Nicky Kalafatis and Professor Rupert Pearse. The discussion takes these concepts outside of the surgical space and into environmental health and sports and leadership. Part 2 of the book proposes a surgical quality of care model which Bruce has called the ‘inside-out’ model. This model is based on a sequential approa...

🎙️In this episode, Bruce discusses experiences of working in Africa with Professor Sue Fawcus and Adjunct Professor Agya Prempeh. The stories they recount provide a tapestry for discussing surgical health in Africa, health equity, the ‘inverse care’ law, the relationship between surgery and primary healthcare, and its place in health systems resilience, especially in light of the profound impact o...

🎙️Season 3 | A Manifesto for Surgical Health in Africa 🎙️In this episode,  @olivia_earth  speaks to Professor Bruce Biccard about his personal journey to advocacy for safe surgery and anaesthesia in Africa. His work in surgical outcomes in Africa has shown him that until such time as people have access to safe surgery and health equity, any attempts to address climate change and sustainability in...

🎙In S2E30, Delicia Govender and Olivia Taylor (@olivia_earth) host a season finale Q&A with Chief Etienne Davids and Nthabiseng Msingatha from episodes 28 and 29. 🎙In celebration of Mandela Day 2023, Earth Cast collaborated with Push Local Ventures and recorded a live webinar at the Zapods Podcast Production studio in Cape Town. This three-part season, Social Enterprise Stories, follows the jo...

🎙In S2E29, Delicia Govender and Olivia Taylor (@olivia_earth) speak to Chief Etienne Davids, the Co-Founder of SpringBean Media - a proudly indigenous IXam or Khoi and Sān Social Entrepreneurship Enterprise. Etienne focusses on self-sufficient, sustainable solutions backed by ancient knowledge and indigenous wisdom. Chief Etienne discusses how he is creating micro-cities or bushman cities which fo...

🎙In S2E28, Olivia Taylor and Delicia Govender speak to Nthabiseng Msingatha about how she is focused on driving Human Capital Development for a Just Energy Transition in South Africa. Nthabiseng credits her empowerment of young people, to develop an informed career identity, to her big risk appetite, resilience in the face of adversity and, tapping into her entrepreneurial passion Nthabiseng is th...

🎙In S1E27, Olivia Taylor speaks to Dr Chantal Naidoo about climate finance and the unique funding needs for financing just energy transition investment portfolios in South Africa. Chantal unpacks options and concerns regarding how to accelerate the JET, and about how her company, Rabia Transitions Initiative, is enabling financial actors to finance and contribute to a just and inclusive transition...

🎙 In S1E26, Olivia Taylor speaks to John Belizaire about how energy poverty came about, and its uneven distribution across communities, the biggest challenge facing the energy transition, energy poverty, wasted energy & crypto, innovative technologies, the future of the grid, and so much more! Since the age of 14 selling floppy discs in high school, John has had an entrepreneurial spirit...

🎙In S1E25 Olivia Taylor (@olivia_earth) speaks to Bathandwa Vazi about the impact of decommissioning coal mines on the South African economy, and unpacks the employment concerns and opportunities surrounding the transition to renewables. Bathandwa explains energy access and poverty, and dives into the topic of the decentralisation of power, and the role that trade unions could play in the just ene...