CarbonSessions

Episode Summary: If you want to live a more sustainable lifestyle, you can start the journey right at home. Lori Sullivan, a contributor to the Carbon Almanac, has written a book to guide you in doing so.

Lori Sullivan is a personal development and career coach who has a strong passion for sustainability. She writes about green living, career development, and achieving personal goals. With over 25 years of business experience and knowledge gained from books, podcasts, and life itself, Lori aims to share her learnings in a simple and easily digestible format.

In this episode, we delve into various aspects of Lori's experiences and insights from her book, including:

• The inspiration behind writing the book
• How she selected the topics and structured the content
• Tips for responsibly disposing of paint and brushes after use
• Feedback from readers
• Key lessons Lori learned throughout her journey
• The importance of taking that initial step towards change

Join us as we explore Lori Sullivan's valuable wisdom and discover how starting small can make a significant impact on living a more sustainable life.

To order Lori’s book One Shade Greener at Home: A Room by Room Guide to Reduce Toxins, Lighten Your Environmental Footprint, and Live Simpler

To contact Lori, go to oneshadegreener.com

For more information on the project and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac (one of Amazon best-selling books of the year!), visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Want to join in the conversation?

Visit thecarbonalmanac.org/podcasts and send us a voice message on this episode or any other climate-related ideas and perspectives.

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang and Jenn Swanson.

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and podcaster from Paris, France. 

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and community Connector, helping people help themselves. 

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

Episode Summary:  This episode is an excerpt from a past episode on Commercial Space Travel (and Green Energy)

The possibility of people who can afford to travel into space seems very exciting, at least for them. The impact on the planet is something that seems to be being overlooked.

Jenn and Olabanji came together to discuss the issues around commercial space travel with multi-fuel rocket engines 

For more information on the project, and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac (an Amazon Best-Selling book of the year!), visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Listen to the full episode: Commercial Space Travel (and green energy)

For more information on the project and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac, visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Want to join in the conversation?

Visit thecarbonalmanac.org/podcasts and send us a voice message on this episode or any other climate-related ideas and perspectives.

Don’t Take Our Word For It, Look It Up!

You can find out more on pages 82, 91-98, 226, 232, 238 & 605 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website, you can tap the footnotes link and type in 226, 232, 238 & 605

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson and Olabanji Stephen

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves. 

Olabanji is a Creative Director and visual designer that helps brands gain clarity, deliver meaningful experiences and build tribes through Design & Strategy. He founded Jorney - a community designed to help people stay productive, accountable, and do their best work

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

Episode Summary: If you are listening to this podcast, you are probably a solarpunk. The Solarpunk movement envisions a future where sustainable technologies, renewable energy, and nature-inspired aesthetics coalesce to create vibrant, decentralised communities that prioritise ecological harmony and social well-being.

In this conversation, we are joined by Joe Hines, the co-host of youtube channel ‘Solarpunk Life’ as he discusses various aspects of the solarpunk lifestyle, including : 

• practical examples of impactful everyday actions, 
• the notion of 'never let perfect become the enemy of good enough,' 
• the role of tool libraries and garbage collection,
• being a member of ‘buy nothing’ groups.
• Solarpunk and capitalism,
• the significance of 'choose kindness,'
• and how helping others helped Joe overcome worrying.

Check out Solarpunk Life, Joe’s channel

Other channels on the same topic The Solarpunk Scene and Andrewism

Some books mentioned during the conversation:

Humankind: A Hopeful History

Doughnut Economics

For more information on the project and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac (one of Amazon best-selling books of the year!), visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Want to join in the conversation?

Visit thecarbonalmanac.org/podcasts and send us a voice message on this episode or any other climate-related ideas and perspectives.

Don’t Take Our Word For It, Look It Up!

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang, Brian Tormey, Olabanji Stephen and Jenn Swanson.

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and podcaster from Paris, France. 

Brian is a Real Estate Title Insurance Professional and Goat Farmer in the US. 

Olabanji is from Lagos Nigeria. He’s a Creative Director and visual designer that helps brands gain clarity, deliver meaningful experiences and build tribes through Design & Strategy. He founded Jorney - a community designed to help people stay productive, accountable, and do their best work.

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and community Connector, helping people help themselves. 

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

Episode Summary:  This episode is an excerpt from a past episode on animals that might go extinct due to human activities

In the first conversation, Jenn and Rod discussed endangered animal species, how human pressure on resources and the destruction of their natural habitats threaten the survival of some animals, and what we can do about it. For example, a few years ago, Jenn’s son bought her for Christmas a year sponsorship of a …baby elephant.

For more information on the project, and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac (an Amazon Best-Selling book of the year!), visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Listen to the full episode: Animals on the Edge of Extinction

For more information on the project and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac, visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Want to join in the conversation?

Visit thecarbonalmanac.org/podcasts and send us a voice message on this episode or any other climate-related ideas and perspectives.

Don’t Take Our Word For It, Look It Up!

You can find out more on pages 13 and 154 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 367 and 252

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson and Rod Aparicio

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves. 

Rod is a strategy advisor for indie brands. Rod is from Lima, Peru, living in Frankfurt, Germany

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

Episode Summary: for the 100th episode of Carbon Session, we are thrilled to be joined by one of the most acclaimed best-selling authors Seth Godin, the ‘Host’ of the Carbon Almanac book. This influential project birthed numerous offshoot endeavours, including this very podcast!

In this insightful and intimate conversation, Seth touches on a wide range of topics including:

• how The Carbon Almanac is a project that has changed Seth “almost at the molecular level”
• his observations of what is going well and not so well in the realm of climate change
• how to elevate conversations when there are valid disagreements on both sides
• two significant changes that he's realised have an enormous impact on climate change (cows and flying)
• the need for creating cultural change that is focused on resilience and equity in addressing climate issues
• why it might be necessary to seek out solutions that require considerable effort and aren't always convenient
• what keeps Seth up at night (climate refugees and the global food system)
• how personal action can trigger systemic change (leaf blowers and community action)
• the concept of “page 19 thinking”
• strategies for challenging and changing the status quo (exemplified in the field of dentistry)

To listen to the episode on The Carbon Almanac Origin Story, Idea to Project in 24 Hours and Coming Together in Community to Change Culture

For more information on the project and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac (one of Amazon's best-selling books of the year!), visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Want to join in the conversation?

Visit thecarbonalmanac.org/podcasts and send us a voice message on this episode or any other climate-related ideas and perspectives.

Don’t Take Our Word For It, Look It Up!

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang, Brian Tormey, Olabanji Stephen, Steve Heatherington, Jenn Swanson, Rob Slater, and Kristina Horning 

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert, and podcaster from Paris, France. 

Brian is a Real Estate Title Insurance Professional and Goat Farmer in the US. 

Olabanji is from Lagos Nigeria. He’s a Creative Director and visual designer that helps brands gain clarity, deliver meaningful experiences and build tribes through Design & Strategy. He founded Jorney - a community designed to help people stay productive, accountable, and do their best work.

From a  beautiful valley in Wales, UK, Steve is a Podcast Coach, Producer, and Alpaca Shepherd. Steve is fascinated by the ideas of regeneration beyond sustainability and is still a biologist at heart. 

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer, and community Connector, helping people help themselves. 

Rob is from Birmingham in the UK, he is an orthodontist, triathlete, coach, and podcaster.

Kristina is working on design theory and using the design process in everything. Currently in Prague (that it is where she is originally from) and her base is US.

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington, and Rob Slater.

Episode Summary:  This episode is an excerpt from a past episode on Urban Heat Islands

In this episode, Inma and Leekei discussed how cities are becoming increasingly hotter and what we can do to cope with it

Like most cities in the world Paris, Aberdeen and Seville are witnessing increasing temperatures in the summer months. During this conversation, Leekei and Inma talked about the initiatives that are implemented by the municipalities of the cities they live/have lived in as well as personal initiatives to cope with scorching high temperatures.

For more information on the project, and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac (an Amazon Best-Selling book of the year!), visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Listen to the full episode: Urban Heat Island

For more information on the project and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac, visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Want to join in the conversation?

Visit thecarbonalmanac.org/podcasts and send us a voice message on this episode or any other climate-related ideas and perspectives.

Don’t Take Our Word For It, Look It Up!

You can find out more on page 77 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 359

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang and Inma Lopez

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and a podcaster from Paris, France.

Imma is from Cádiz in the South of Spain, living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Imma is a sommelier, a poet, a podcaster, a mother, a slow food advocate, and an animist activist.

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

Episode Summary: Over billions of years, nature has amassed an extensive amount of knowledge. In this conversation on biomimicry, the hosts share some fascinating findings. They explore tactics developed by other living organisms, including plants, animals, and fungi, which have enabled these organisms to evolve, adapt, and thrive on our planet.

Briam will explain how insights from cows’ digestive systems can be mirrored to design more cost-effective and environmentally-friendly sewage systems, and how camel nostrils might inspire energy-efficient cooling for buildings.

Kristina explores the potential of mimicking the carbon sequestration mechanism used by fungi to address human needs.

Drawing on the self-cleaning properties of lotus leaves, Leekei will trace the journey from understanding this natural wonder to applying it within an industrial ecosystem to scale innovation.

To listen to 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter

To access New Skin open innovation testbed

For more information on the project and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac (one of Amazon best-selling books of the year!), visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Want to join in the conversation?

Visit thecarbonalmanac.org/podcasts and send us a voice message on this episode or any other climate-related ideas and perspectives.

Don’t Take Our Word For It, Look It Up!

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Brian Tormey, Kristina Horning and Leekei Tang

Brian is a Real Estate Title Insurance Professional and Goat Farmer in the US. 

Kristina is working on design theory and likes to use the design process in everything. Currently in Prague (where she is originally from) and her base is the US

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and podcaster from Paris, France. 

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

Episode Summary:  This episode is an excerpt from a past episode on Myths about climate change

In this episode, Inma talks about how one of the myths is that climate change is nothing new because the climate is always changing. 

The real myth is that it is not a problem but how many record-breaking years of rising temperature will it take to change this view? 

For more information on the project, and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac, visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Listen to the full episode: Myth 1 and 2 about Climate Change

For more information on the project and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac, visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Want to join in the conversation?

Visit thecarbonalmanac.org/podcasts and send us a voice message on this episode or any other climate-related ideas and perspectives.

Don’t Take Our Word For It, Look It Up!

You can find out more on pages 32 and 33 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 342.

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson and Inma Lopez

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves.  

Imma is from Cádiz in the South of Spain, living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Imma is a sommelier, a poet, a podcaster, a mother, a slow food advocate, and an animist activist.

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

Episode Summary: This podcast centres on the environmental, ethical and economic implications of chocolate consumption, emphasizing the value of purchasing ethically sourced, "bean-to-bar" chocolate despite its higher cost.

In this podcast, Leekei, Jenn and Kristina delve into the environmental and social implications of chocolate production, highlighting the potential of cocoa trees to act as carbon sinks in the fight against climate change. 

They explore the concept of "bean-to-bar" chocolate, acknowledging the higher cost but emphasizing its benefits in terms of ethical sourcing, support for traditional growers, and contribution to biodiversity. 

They discuss the challenges in navigating the chocolate market, from understanding labels to finding brands that align with ethical and environmental values. 

The conversation underscores the need for increased consumer awareness and responsibility in making sustainable chocolate choices.

Resources shared:

What is the Harkin-Engel Protocol

Watch The Dark Side Of Chocolate

To find out more about Demeter standard 

For more information on the project and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac (an Amazon best-seller of the year!), visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Want to join in the conversation?

Visit thecarbonalmanac.org/podcasts and send us a voice message on this episode or any other climate-related ideas and perspectives.

Don’t Take Our Word For It, Look It Up!

You can find out more on page 206 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 233

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang, Jenn Swanson and Kristina Horning

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and podcaster from Paris, France.  

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves.  

With a background in architecture, civil engineering and education, Kristina loves research, play and co-creating. Currently in Prague (that it is where she is originally from) and her base is US

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

Episode Summary:  This episode is an excerpt from a past episode on Relationships in a food forest

In this episode, Inma and Olabanji discussed the ecosystem and relationships in a Food Forest and the many benefits of a Community Gardens to grow foods even if you don’t have access to a garden

What do we need to grow a food forest? 

In this conversation, Olabanji and Inma talked about how plants and animals can grow harmoniously in a food forest.

Listen to the full episode here 

For more information on the project and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac, visit thecarbonalmanac.org

Want to join in the conversation?

Visit thecarbonalmanac.org/podcasts and send us a voice message on this episode or any other climate-related ideas and perspectives.

Don’t Take Our Word For It, Look It Up!

You can find out more on page 210, 213, 202, 122, 121, 120, 119 and 90 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 108, 250, 218, 599, 600, 579, 067, 069 and 034

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Inma Lopez and Olabanji Stephen

Imma is from Cádiz in the South of Spain, living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Imma is a sommelier, a poet, a podcaster, a mother, a slow food advocate, and an animist activist.

Olabanji is a Creative Director and visual designer that helps brands gain clarity, deliver meaningful experiences and build tribes through Design & Strategy. He founded Jorney - a community designed to help people stay productive, accountable, and do their best work.

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.