CarbonSessions

Episode Summary: In this episode, Katherine and Brian discuss regenerative agriculture with Kate Field, a Climate Positive farmer from Tasmania, Australia

10 years ago, Kate Field and her husband Ian bought a farm in Tasmania to raise goats. Their mission is to produce the highest quality food and improve the ecology of the landscape while ensuring the best health and happiness of their animals.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Kate, Katherine, and Brian share their experience with goat breeding and share ideas and experiences with regenerative agriculture, limits of reforestation, carbon capture, ecological footprint, methane, labels and certifications, carbon farmers, and waste among other climate and farming related topics.

To find out about Kate’s farm, check out https://www.leapfarm.com.au/

Resources mentioned in the episode:

Let’s Have a Think: Regenerative Farming

Josh Spodek Website

https://www.sacredcow.info/book

Footprint Network - Ecological Footprint Test

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You can find out more on pages 76, 116, 119,121,124, 200, 202, 205, 214, 216, 229, 231, 234 and 260 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 022, 598, 067, 069, 600, 569, 243, 218, 215, 214, 212, 107, 219, 105 and 119

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Katherine Palmer and Brian D Tormey

Katherine is an Aromatherapist and Workshop Coordinator from Canada. Brian is a Real Estate Title Insurance Professional and Goat Farmer in the US.

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

Episode Summary: This episode is focused on a discussion about the problem of plastic recycling. It is selected from episode 13 (The Octopus’ Gardens) 

Like many of us, Tonya, Kristy, and Katherine thought that cleaning plastic containers and putting them in the recycling bin would help mitigate the negative impact created by the use of plastic. 

It’s only after they’ve been working on the Almanac that they realised that they got it all wrong! While recycling plastic is an important habit, its impact is tiny compared to the magnitude of plastic pollution created at all stages of the plastic lifecycle.  

This focus is selected from episode 13 (The Octopus’ Gardens) where Tonya, Kristy, and Katherine discussed the marine environment and plastic pollution and how humans are creating problems for them.  They talk about projects that are trying to solve these problems and how personal responsibility is just a part of this.

To listen to the full episode of Octopus’ Gardens go here

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

You can find out more on page 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

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Tonya Downing, Kristy Sharrow, and Katherine Palmer.

Tonya is from Durham in North Carolina, she is involved in Personality-driven digital marketing for small businesses in the US.  Kristy is a journalist turned marketer and Katherine is an Aromatherapist and Workshop Coordinator.

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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 with Juan Coronado, the co-founder of the first b-corp certified Tequila company in the world

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.

Juan, Leekei and Olabanji talked about the tequila industry and the complexities of producing the product.  Juan clearly has a passion for his work and has made a name for himself both in producing Tequila sustainably, while helping his community. 

To find out more about their approach to sustainability, listen to the podcast with Elise Som, Juan’s co-founder

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

Episode Summary: Microplastics from Tyres and Running Shoes

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.

In this episode, Olabanji and Leekei discuss the issue of plastic materials coming from running shoes, and tyres of all kinds, leaching into the biosphere.  They also discuss the production of methane by cows, through various methods and how some agencies are working to control this.

source: European Parliement

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You can read about Methane on pages 3, 27, 51 and 76 of The Carbon Almanac or look up the footnotes 003  013 and 022:  https://thecarbonalmanac.org/?s=methane

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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 talked about our recent shopping experiences and how brands can develop more sustainable products that customers would want to buy

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.

Jenn shared her experience of purchasing distilled water in a shop and raised concerns about a growing trend of greenwashing. Leekei shared a similar recent experience with bathroom cleaning products. They all agreed that there is a growing demand from consumers for products that are more sustainable. 

This is maybe an opportunity for brands to do better, maybe by developing new products and working more closely with consumers.

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

You can find out more on page 160 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 089

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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, Katherine and Olabanji have a long conversation on food, recipes, leftovers, food culture and gleaning.

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang, Katherine Palmer and Olabanji Stephen

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

 From the great outdoors of Vancouver in Canada, Katherine is a Copywriter and Brand Designer for Small Eco-Businesses, an Aromatherapist, and Workshop Coordinator.   

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

Leekei, Katherine and Olabanji talked about the culture around food and leftovers, exchanged recipes and shared ideas on how food waste can be reduced at various levels of the production and consumption value chain

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

You can read about food in relation to this episode, in The Carbon Almanac on pages 116, 201 and 121. 

Or look in the footnotes sections:

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/067/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/599/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/the-problem-with-leftovers/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/260/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/eating-our-way-forward/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/022/

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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 convenience when shopping.

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.

Leekei and Olabanji talked about plastic bottles and how we used to get money back from glass bottles, how the food industry has chosen not to use glass because it is more convenient to use plastics.  

Olabanji talked about the reuse of plastic bottles. Then they came to the realization that the way we shop has been mainly designed for convenience which does not leave a lot of room for sustainability.

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You can read about the full article on Tyranny of Convenience by Tim Wu on pages 6-9 of The Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 008

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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 alternative solutions to petroleum-based plastics

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.

Jenn, Leekei, and Olabanji talked about what bioplastics are, what they are made of, how we use them, and how to dispose of them after use. Bioplastic sounds like a great substitute for traditional plastic. The concept is promising for bags and cutlery but the industry and society need to think thoroughly about its entire lifecycle to make the best of use of it. And these usages are only the tip of the iceberg of our plastic problem… 

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

Episode Summary: In this episode Leekei, Mary Elizabeth and Cat have a long conversation on food, cooking and sustainability.

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang, Mary Elizabeth Sheehan and Cat Barnard.

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

Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Mary Elizabeth is an author and maker of things, including clothing, adventures, and food and a pie maker extraordinaire.

Cat is a small business owner living near London in the UK, her work developed from a concern about Climate Change and she advises businesses on the case for Carbon Reduction at Work.

Leekei, Cat and Mary Elizabeth talked about Food, Food Waste and Sustainability and how their individual journeys have been influenced by their parents and how the Second World War and later events had a bearing on how their parents both respected and developed a thriftiness for food.

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

You can read about food in relation to this episode, in The Carbon Almanac on pages 116, 201 and 121. 

Or look in the footnotes sections:

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/067/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/599/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/the-problem-with-leftovers/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/260/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/eating-our-way-forward/

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/022/

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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 take part in a food quiz hosted by Leekei.

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.

Jenn and Olabanji answered questions prepared by Leekei which were both interesting but also revealed that very often a simple question doesn’t give the whole picture.  It was also clear that some foods eaten commonly in some parts of the world are not in others.  

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 source for the quiz: https://www.foodunfolded.com/

The book Leekei mentioned was “Eat Like a Fish” by Bren Smith https://www.greenwave.org/

Wageningen University https://www.wur.nl/en/dossiers/file/dossier-seaweed.htm 

https://time.com/5848994/seaweed-climate-change-solution/

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

You can find out more on pages 66, 76, 119 and 139 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 013, 022, 676 and 069

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