The Butterfly Effect

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Dr. Hugh Ross. Dr. Ross is an astronomer and the founder and president of Reasons to Believe. He is also the author of Weathering Climate Change. In this episode you will hear about any connection if any between astronomy and climate change, climate stability, the ice-age cycles, what we can do to keep the climate stable while preparing for the upcomin...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Holly Worton. Holly is an author, podcaster, and speaker. She writes nonfiction books about her adventures to inspire people to get outdoors and reconnect with nature as a way to reconnect with themselves. Holly enjoys spending time outdoors, walking and running long-distance trails, and exploring Britain’s sacred sites. She’s originally from Californi...

You are at the right place, this is The Butterfly Effect. This butterfly is excited to be speaking again, and this time in Hebrew with Maya Jacobs. If you are looking for the episode in English, check out Episode #26. פרק בונוס בעברית של אפקט הפרפר עם מאיה יעקבס. מאיה יעקבס, מנכ"לית עמותת צלול, הארגון המוביל בישראל להגנת הים, נחלים ומים. מאיה מובילה את העמותה עוד מעט עשר שנים, במהלכן העמותה הובילה...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Ariana Ivan. Ariana has built social-impact businesses from fashion to education and today her mission is to create models that make forests profitable, without cutting or degrading them. You will hear about what are some potential profitable business models for forests (besides logging), the role of a forest caretaker, the long term and short term pro...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Pablo Restrepo Meza. Pablo is a designer and artist focused on regeneration and peace through the aesthetic experience. He has a BA in International Relations from the University of Exeter and The University of Hong Kong. He worked in Fashion during 5 years building networks for the reintegration of former combatants as part of the Colombian Peace proc...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Maya Jacobs. Maya is CEO of Zalul environmental association, one of Israel’s leading environmental NGOs, dedicated to marine preservation, focusing on eliminating pollution from the Mediterranean and Red Seas, from Israel’s streams and rivers, and water preservation. She has over 20 years of experience in media strategies and influencing public opinion...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Ross O'Ceallaigh. Ross is an Urban Design and Planning Consultant based in London. When he's not helping clients create better urban environments, he hosts the Green Urbanist Podcast. This show explores how planners, architects, nature lovers and policy makers can make cities more sustainable, healthy and happy. Ross believes that urbanists have a uniq...

Breno Veiga is an agroforester that has been developing ways to promote the knowledge surrounding agroforestry systems throughout communities. He is the co-creator of the documentary film O Elo Perdido (The Lost Connection) that is seeking the reconciliation between man and nature, through the lens of agroforestry. Breno is also the Co-Founder of Ekonavi, a new platform that helps facilitate this...

Tim Kovar is a Master Tree Climbing Instructor with 30 years of teaching experience. His love and respect of nature, coupled with his wanderlust spirit, led him to metaphorically and literally take the vertical path less traveled. A path that has led him into the remote jungles of the world in pursuit of his vision to help connect others to our natural world. In 1993, Tim began his career at Tree...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Harry Justice. Harry is a senior at the Berkeley Carroll school in Brooklyn, NY, originally from Jersey City, NJ. He engages with environmentalism and sustainability by co-leading his school’s environmental club, conducting independent science research on sustainability, and promoting advocacy and social justice through personal research and advocacy w...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Ceara Carney. Ceara is a 27 year old activist and actor from Dublin, Ireland. She grew up in the countryside and has been passionate about the environment and animal rights from a young age. Her eyes were opened to the deforestation and pollution happening on a mass scale after being vegetarian and vegan for many years and being conscious of what she c...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Dr. Kenneth Lacovara. Dr. Lacovara has unearthed some of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the earth, including the massive 65-ton Dreadnoughtus. He is a recipient of The Explorers Club Medal, previously awarded to pioneers such as Neil Armstrong, Jane Goodall, and Sir Edmond Hillary. His 2016 TED talk has been viewed by over two million people, and h...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Katie Mills. Katie is a London-based nature connector, a qualified Forest School Leader and forest bathing guide, and a campaigner and social entrepreneur. She is the founder and Director of Forest & Family, which is a London forest school and nature connection organization promoting the links between nature, health and wellbeing. She is also the f...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Josh Whiton. Josh Whiton creates participatory movements that empower people worldwide to directly contribute to planetary repair. At the age of 23, he founded a tech-startup that got people out of cars and onto public transit, creating jobs while reducing fossil fuel emissions and the carbon footprint of millions. For his positive impact on people and...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Schi-Lee Smith. A 25 years old animal and nature lover from Texas. Schi (pronounced Ski) is the host of the Wildlife Weirdos podcast, which is an educational podcast about animals. On her show she tries to find out all the cool, weird, and interesting things there are about animals and share it with her audience. In this joined episode, she is sharing...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Jurgis Didžiulis.  Jurgis is an artistic activist, corporate Edutainer, inspirational troubadour, and a motivational musician. Jurgis seamlessly mixes his passion for music and social phenomenon to enlighten individuals, businesses and organizations on the intrinsic power of human capital and the potential of properly aligned values. He uses comed...

You are at the right place, this is The Butterfly Effect. This butterfly is excited to be speaking again, and this time in Portuguese with scientist Pedro H.S. Brancalion. If you are looking for the episode in English, check out Episode #10 . A very special thank you to Leonardo Silva that will be conducting this interview for me in Portuguese. Leonardo is an Agronomist, Master in Crop Production....

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Irina Fedorenko. Irina is a serial tech entrepreneur. She co-founded an innovative forestry start-up that uses drones for forest restoration, and is currently the  Managing Director of the Caux Dialogue on Environment and Security, an Initiatives for Land, Lives and Peace program. This program brings together senior policymakers, project managers...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Kate Belew, a Brooklyn based writer from the Midwest. In addition to being a poet, Kate teaches poetry and studies plants. In this poetic episode you will hear about her work and it’s connection to nature, her inspiring places to write, Emily Dickinson, essential herbal plants for you to have, and more. Some notes... More about 1treellion , Kate Belew...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Alexander Verbeek. Alexander is a Dutch environmentalist, public speaker, diplomat, and former strategic policy advisor at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Over the past 30 years, he has worked on international security, humanitarian and geopolitical risk issues, and the linkage to the earth's accelerating environmental crisis. Currently, A...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with David Wadström. David is co-founder of Solvatten.org, a social enterprise with a mission to give people clean and hot solar water at home to reduce the burning of wood or charcoal. In this episode you will hear about his mom’s (Petra Wadström) invention, what it has to do with former US president Barack Obama, the connection to trees, and more. Some no...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with scientist Pedro H.S. Brancalion. Pedro Brancalion is a Professor of Tropical Forestry at the University of São Paulo, Brazil and vice-coordinator of the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact. His research focuses on the development of innovative forest restoration approaches in human-modified tropical landscapes, aimed at transforming restoration into an ec...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with novelist Jennie Fields.  Born in Chicago, Jennie is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the author of five novels. Her last novel, The Age of Desire was a New York Times Editor's Choice and has just been optioned for film. Her new book, Atomic Love is being translated into nine languages.  After many years in New York, Jennie now liv...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Siddhant Desai. Siddhant is a junior at the Academy for Math, Science, and Engineering in Rockaway, NJ. Siddhant understands the warming and nature crisis the Earth is facing, and is trying to use his knowledge and skills in computer science, programming, and engineering to make a difference in the world. You will hear about his AI program that identif...

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Chad Hanson, a forest and fire ecologist with more than 17 years experience in this field. His Ph. D. research focused on forest and fire ecology and the rare wildlife species that depend upon post-fire habitat in forests of the Sierra Nevada and elsewhere in the western U.S.. He has published an impressive list of scientific research papers on forest...