CarbonSessions

Episode Summary: In this episode, Jenn, Brian and Leekei took turns sharing a recent climate conversation that made them hopeful again

Brian shared his recent conversation with Joshua Spodek and his unique method for coaching individuals to live in a more sustainable way, coming from a place of fun, joy, freedom and connection.

Leekei shared her conversation with an heirloom vegetable shop owner and the moment of epiphany when during the conversation, he realised that his work is in connection with the endeavour against climate change. 

Jenn shared a conversation she had at work about the organisation of a big event where she managed to convince the group to replace bottled water with water in jugs. It might sound trivial but it was an important win.

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Brian D Tormey, Jenn Swanson and Leekei Tang

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

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: This discussion on bicycling is an excerpt from a previous episode ‘Bicycling and Kids Climate Action’ 

Leekei and Rick talked about the freedom that cycling gives children, as well as cognitive development and how biking can help kids take climate action. They discussed opportunities there are for children as young as 18 months start to use a bike and how infrastructure influences the uptake of cycling.

To listen to the full episode of this conversation, go here 

Urban cycling fans? Listen to another episode of CarbonSessions with Julie from Ottawa, Canada, discussing urban cycling, pathways and infrastructure among other topics. 

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You can find out more on page 166 and 274 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 234 and 139

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang and Rick Holt. 

Rick is a cycling enthusiast, part of his local school cycling patrol and a certified cycle instructor, teaching adults and kids. Rick is from Cincinnati, Ohio.

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 Leekei and Jenn talk about how companies use labelling on their products.

Jenn and Leekei talked about some of the tactics that companies use when labelling their products, what can be misleading and also how products change with time.  As well as looking at labelling they discussed the changing of labels signifying something changing about the product and should we always trust what it says on the tin.  

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You can find out more on page 216 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 212

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson and Leekei Tang.

 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: This discussion on toothbrushes is an excerpt from a previous episode ‘Toothpaste, Dentistry and Plastics’ 

Have you ever thought about the environmental impact of your daily habit of taking care of your teeth?

Jenn, Leekei and Rob discussed the environmental impact of taking care of our teeth as well as plastics contained in toothbrushes and dental floss.

To listen to the full episode of this conversation, go here 

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You can find out more on pages 78 and 79 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 027 and 346

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Rob Slater, Jen Swanson and  Leekei Tang

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

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 and Olabanji have a discussion with Julie about cyclable cities

Julie is an avid cyclist from Ottawa, Canada, who believes that even the smallest gesture counts and would eventually have an impact to help solve the climate crisis. An easy way for each of us to contribute is cycling (or reducing idling)

They went on to talk about urban cycling and pathways, the many health and mental benefits of cycling and how citizens and municipalities should work together to have more cyclable cities.

Similar to Europe, cycling has become more widespread in Canada: on one of her rides, Julie even saw Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau cycling on the road! 

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You can find out more on pages 166 and 244 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 234 and 125

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Julie, Jenn Swanson and Olabanji Stephen

From Ottawa, Canada, Julie is a mom, lawyer, educator, bilingual in French and English, Canadian, nature lover, reader, climate change activist who wants to leave a better world behind.

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

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.

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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 previous episode about Carbon Almanac's contributors' own experiences of signs that the climate is changing

Today’s episode is another conversation on Climate and Weather with contributors from all over the world. They discuss what factors seem to have changed over their lifetimes.  Ecology of animals, agriculture and water usage and wine crops producing twice a year are all discussed from real-life experience.  

To listen to the full episode of this conversation, go here 

For more information on the project and to pre-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. 

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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 Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington, Tania Marien and Olabanji Stephen.

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

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. 

Tania is from southern California, France, she is a podcaster and independent environmental education professional with experience connecting educators and bringing attention to the work of freelance professionals. 

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.

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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, Jenn and Olabanji talk about adaptation to climate change.

Topics discussed as well as lobbying, heat pumps, community initiatives and insurance.  Different parts of society have different abilities to adapt depending upon what is being done, underlining the importance of systemic 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 222 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 111

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

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. 

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.

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

Episode Summary: In this episode, Olabanji and Leekei discuss the trap of plastic recycling and look for ways to take action  

Only 9% of plastics ever produced has actually been recycled knowing that the world has been producing plastic for over 70 years… The entire lifecycle of plastic is bad for the environment, from production to its disposal. We’ve been lured to that recycling plastic is a sustainable option so we can keep producing and using more and more plastics. It is not true. It is a trap.

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

You can find out more on pages 78 and 79 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 027 and 346

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang and Olabanji Stephen

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

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.

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

Episode Summary: Brian and Olabanji discuss sustainability leadership, intrinsic motivation, and systemic change with Joshua Spodek

Joshua Spodek PhD MBA hosts the award-winning This Sustainable Life podcast, a four-time TEDx speaker, bestselling author of Initiative and Leadership Step by Step, professor at NYU, published in the New Yorker, and leadership coach.

He holds a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate and helped launch a satellite (having emerged from some of Philadelphia’s most dangerous neighborhoods). 

His mission is to help change American (and global) culture on sustainability and stewardship from expecting deprivation, sacrifice, burden, and chore to expecting rewarding emotions and lifestyles, as he sees happen with everyone he leads to act for their intrinsic motivations.

To connect with Josh Spodek, go to https://joshuaspodek.com/ 

Resources mentioned in the episode:

“Quit Like A Woman” by Holly Whitaker https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45434420-quit-like-a-woman

“Lincoln” with Daniel Day Lewis by Steven Spielberg https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/plotsummary?ref_=ttfc_ql_stry_2#summaries

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.

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Brian D Tormey and Olabanji Stephen

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. 

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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 discuss our own experiences of Lego, its use as a toy, sustainability, and plastics.

Jenn and Rob discuss Lego, the Tokio incident, plastics washed up on our beaches, calls to action, and different factors around the sustainability of the toy.

This focus is selected from episode 19 (PLastics and Lego In The Sea). To listen to the full episode go 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 pages 78, 79 and 162 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 027, 346 and 256

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson and Rob Slater.

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.

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