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Dr. Sparsha Saha has my deepest respect, she has helped create an episode that is so valuable on an educational and awareness level. One that summarizes a few of the most important points about the costs of animal agriculture and beyond. This is an excellent introduction or further immersion into the environmental, social and humanitarian crisis surrounding the animal industry as well as certain p...

Eric Rosso is a yoga teacher and one of the owners of  Yoga Room Hawai'i . He has been living  on the island for the last few decades and is joining me in exploring the topic of how a yoga practice that goes beyond physical practice and includes a spiritual one, can benefit in connecting people to nature and making us realize that we are interconnected in the most elemental ways. Through...

If a country has good waste management and things get recycled, how does even some of that trash end up in the ocean? What does it mean when plastic "breaks down", what does it "break down" into and where does it go?  Dr. Imogen Napper , is joining me in this episode to give us a clearer picture on some of the plastic mysteries that we might be wondering about. She takes us with her to her wo...

No likes, no follows, no echo chambers... Could you imagine? What if social media didn't have this toxic, addicting quality to it? What if you saw what everybody else saw and the spread of misinformation and polarization suddenly came to a halt? What if everybody had to verify their sources and we would use social media for the purpose of educating, building social impact movements, signing petiti...

I am joined by Olly Baker and Fi Quekett who are both incredible human beings fighting for a better today and tomorrow by taking part in actions that our governmnets do not (yet) appreciate and may even punish,  because they are seeing that there is a #codered for humanity and the climate crisis, as an umbrella crisis, encompasses many other crisis like housing, food, energy, racism, social justic...

In this episode Michelle Magdalena Maddox, who is the founder of Magdalena Magazine , is sharing the podium with me. Today she is sharing parts of her story with us. Michelle invites us to hear about the path that lead her to storytelling, activism and the connection she has with earth and people today. We Talk about the importance of community, what hers looks like and how she envisions the futur...

The world is having enough problems with imminent natural disasters like floods, fires, hurricanes, droughts, wars - but it seems that there are much lesser known ecological processes going on that are unfolding much more slowly and seem less significant than others.  What Paul from the Pleistocene & Permafrost NGO is telling us today is definitely not insignificant but very important and...

In this episode I am ranting, laughing and philosophizing with Maria Serra. Maria is an activist from Spain who is currently studying in Barcelona and busy being EU climate ambassador, attending COPs, creating an activism course for anyone who wants to acquire more tools to raise their voices and be confident to take on activism and attending one protest after another. Maria's path to activism sta...

In this episode I am Talking to Jennifer who works at the Lower East Side Ecology Center in New York City. The center has been pioneering urban sustainability since 1987 and the work done there from education to the compost drop off and stewardship of the East River Park is of the utmost importance to keep the city green and its inhabitants healthy and connected to nature. Jennifer tells us about...

In this episode I am Talking to Jack from Jack's Patch , a regenerative, no-dig, permaculture farm outside of London. He tells me the story about how life lead him to become passionate about growing food and working with nature. It always comforts me to Talk to people who care for the earth, who know and work to heal nature and that is a big part of this conversation, since Jack shares some of the...

You look for some information on a single topic and end up with 10.000 hits on the internet... We all know that situation. But who is to know what is reliable and trustworthy information? Who has done the research you are looking at? Who has sponsored it and who may benefit from putting that information out there? So many questions with sometimes not so clear answers, but at least we have Leonie S...

In this episode I am Talking to Anders the founder of agoodcompany which is a 100 % sustainable, social impact company from Sweden. I myself have loved and trusted them for many years because they are completely transparent, thought-through and have the future in mind, aiming to change standards and create a positive impact. We Talk about the sustainability in production, the use of local material...

If you have never listened to "The Overview Effect with James Perrin" - then you definitely should. His podcast includes inspiring conservations with influential thinkers, humanitarians, environmentalists and business people about the problems we are currently facing, views, inventions and awakenings from very inspirational and passionate people. James told me about how he wants to rebrand his pod...

Sometimes I lay awake in bed and think of the speeches I would give to  room of world leaders, CEO's, politicians, . . . Maybe you have that too. That urge to create change, to make your voice heard - to move something. And maybe you don't -or you know someone who doesn't. Someone who regards the climate crisis as something that is only for those to worry about who label themselves as activis...

In this episode I am Talking to Emma De Saram a climate activist from the UK who is part of Green New Deal Rising ,   about her story in activism, how she integrates it into her life, her experience at COP26, what it felt like to attend the conference and how she personally felt being in that environment, as well as what she took away from it. We touch on the topics of mental health in activi...

In this episode I am Talking to my sister Sarah. We're exploring the topics of education about the climate crisis in schools, what she feels she has learned about these important topics there, how her friends perceive it, how she started to realize that it is important to become aware and also change personal habits no matter how insignificant they may seem on a global scale and the conversations...

Insulate Britain is relatively young but has reached public recognition from zero to 77 % in just three weeks. They are a civil resistance movement, demanding that the UK government take real climate action at this pivotal point in history by insulating Britain's homes to save thousands of lives and prevent economic and social collapse. In this episode I am Talking to the wonderful Zoe Cohen, &nbs...

Steven Donziger's unique case has been discussed in the media and made headlines in newspapers even though, still not enough in my opinion. Steven was the key lawyer on the team that won the 9.5 $B judgement against Chevron in Ecuador after Chevron - formerly Texaco - dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste into the Ecuadorian Amazon, poisoning the ecosystem, rural communities and indigenous peo...

One of the people and organizations I have learned most from in my "environmental journey" is Helena Norberg-Hodge and Local Futures. In a world where systems and structures seem to be so complex and inextricable and where making essential changes to create more just, healthy and connected structures seems insurmountable it sounds almost condescending to say that the answers to the question of how...

In this episode I am Talking to Micah Landon-Lane about the hungerstrike he along with some other people organized in his home of Tasmania for a duration of 7 days and how he came to join Extinction Rebellion (https://rebellion.global/). We Talk about the different stages of the strike, who visited it, what was achieved, where the idea came from, the discourse that was had with people who stopped...

Part 2 of the Talk We're Talking some more about Professor Smith's work at the arboretum, why it is a gateway to natural settings especially for children and which projects are in the works there. We also dive deeper into the topic of herbicide use as a method to protect forests that have been heavily manipulated and changed by human activity and how these ecosystems can fall apart when foreign, d...

Part1 of the Talk Professor Sanford S. Smith is a Professor in Forest and Natural Resources & Youth Extension Specialist at Penn State College of Agricultural Science. In this episode he is telling me all about forest management, the work he does with land owners to help them  manage their properties, some of his teaching methods and the differences between teaching different age groups a...

Sustainable Shane your #localsustainabilityexpert. What a guy - he started composting, gardening and  volunteering before he even knew what the word sustainability meant and is now using his voice to help others become more sustainable humans as well! In this episode Shane and I talk about his journey to individual sustainability, why individual action does matter,  how he makes a living...

I'm Talking to Linda Veress who works at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. It was founded in 1872, becoming the first National Park. From geysers and hundred year old trees to bison, elk, bats and the Yellowstone River there is much to see. Therefore it is not surprising that millions flood the Park gates every year, proving human's fascination and connection to nature and fellow creatures of...

Celia Leverton lives on a permaculture farm in Tasmania where she is constantly working on achieving better water infiltration, regenerative grazing practices and keeping wallabies off the grounds :))  She is a farmer, rural journalist, permaculture designer as well as the president of Regenerative Agriculture Network Tasmania which aims to r egenerate perennial grasslands, cropping land and...