CarbonSessions

Episode Summary: In this episode, Leekei, Jenn and Kristina shares ideas about new products and ideas on how to maintain ourselves and our homes clean while respecting the environment

Our bathrooms and kitchens are filled with cleaning products that are contained in plastic containers. It doesn’t really make sense for the environment.

Luckily with ancient wisdom, tips and new products, there are multiple ways to maintain a high level of hygiene.  

Research has shown that in order to achieve the Paris Agreement, we need human agency: Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook: The plausibility of a 1.5°C limit to global warming - social drivers and physical processes

There is an urgency for society, and businesses to rethink the way we consume, interact, and produce.

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

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

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

Kristina is working on design theory and using design process in everything. With a background in architecture, civil engineering and education, she 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 with Inma and Jemm discussing the first myth about climate change

Having contributed to many areas of the Carbon Almanac, Jenn and Imma came together to discuss a number of different environmental issues.

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? 

Listen to the full episode here 

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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.

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

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.  

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

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

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

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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 with Inma and Olabanji discussing … compostable jeans

Compostable Jeans or Non-Compostable Jeans, do you know if the jeans you are wearing are compostable? 

Imma and Olabanji came together to discuss the problems of the fashion industry and how a compostable product has become a non-compostable product, but things are changing as the industry starts to respond to calls for change.  

Listen to the full episode here 

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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. 

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: In this episode Jenn Swanson, Brian Tormey and Leekei Tang talk about a new milestone on the road to nuclear fusion

In December 2022, the nuclear fusion research effort reached a major breakthrough whereby the reaction generated more energy than it consumed

After sharing their understanding of the subject and why this news set a milestone for a future of clean energy, Jenn, Leekei and Brian toyed with various scenarios of possible tomorrows where energy is in abundance.

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

Brian is a Real Estate Title Insurance Professional and Goat Farmer in 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 with Inma and Olabanji discussing the many benefits of a food forest and how to grow your own food forest in your backyard

Why not convert your lawn into a food forest? 

In this 2-part conversation, Olabanji and Inma talked about the many benefits for the environment, the animals and your finance of getting rid of your lawn and growing a food forest instead. 

In the 2nd part, Olabanji and Inma shared some tips and personal experiences of growing a food forest in Nigeria and in Scotland.

Listen to the full episode here 

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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. 

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: In this episode Jenn Swanson, Brian Tormey and Leekei Tang talk to Jason Angell who has created his personal and professional life centred around ecological living.

They discuss how Jason and his wife Jocelyn came about launching the Long Haul Farm, a community-supported agriculture farm which serves food to the community and trains new farmers. 

Jason and his wife also started The Ecological Citizens Project, which connects the work they’re doing to the wider Hudson Valley community.

They talked about the role of municipalities in helping communities live a more sustainable life as Jason is running for the Town Board of Philipstown.

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From Garrison, Philipson on the east coast of the US, Jason practises sustainable living and agriculture, including running a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program and diversified, free-range livestock program, and making, baking, canning, pickling, cutting, cooking, growing and mending various things.

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

Brian is a Real Estate Title Insurance Professional and Goat Farmer in 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: in this episode, we are joined by Rob, one of Jenn’s neighbours, to talk about his experience and the benefits of permaculture. 

In this conversation, Rob introduced some of the principles of permaculture design as well as the foundational ethics of this movement. He shared his experience and profound emotions from his relationship with his garden and its ecosystem. He also discussed connectedness and resilience.   

Rob is a permaculture advocate who 20 years ago completely transformed his garden after he took a permaculture design course and never looked back. Rob also lives in Langley, in British Columbia, Canada.

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

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and a 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: In this episode, Leekei and Jenn talk about Insects and their value as a source of protein.

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson and Leekei Tang.

Jenn and Leekei talked about how insects are being used as a food source to reduce our carbon footprint.  Different forms have already been used, including Cochineal in shakes and powdered forms in pet foods.  They also discussed producing alternatives to meats by growing them in the laboratory.  

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You can also find find the Cricket Burger Hamburger in the free download of The Carbon Almanac For Kids (available in English and 21 other languages!)

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

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: In this episode, Jenn Swanson and Olabanji Stephen discuss the importance of preserving wetlands and marshes

Marshes and wetlands are disappearing everywhere around the globe. However, they play a role in absorbing carbon and host diverse animal species that cannot be found anywhere else. It is important to save wetlands and marshes for biodiversity and fight against climate change.

Olabanji shares a success story of the community organisation that lobbied against a project that aimed to build a road on the marshland. Thanks to the lobbying effort of the community a bridge was built instead, and the marshland was saved.

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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.