CarbonSessions

Episode Summary: In this episode, we discuss architecture and sustainability.

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jo Petroni, Jenn Swanson and Olabanji Stephen

Jo Petroni is from Cordes-sur-Ciel in France, she is a Bioclimatic Architect and helps non Architects get back to the basics of what makes a good home.  

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.

Jo, Jenn and Olabanji talked about Jo’s experience designing new homes with sustainability in mind, as well as what people can do with their current dwellings, without spending as much money as you might think.

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You can link up with Jo if you want to find out more here:

https://jopetroni.substack.com and https://myvisual.substack.com

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You can find out more on pages 218, 219, 220, 222, 223, 224 and 225 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 213, 229, 265, 111, 222, 235 and 247

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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 access to Climate Education and Leekei’s participation in environment-related Workshops.

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 Leekei’s experience in different climate workshops. She found out about plastic production in comparison to the carbon footprint of air travel as well as many other gems.

They then discuss the different climate education initiatives in their communities and countries.

Here are the links to the Workshops:

• on oceans https://fresqueoceane.com/
• on plastics https://fresqueduplastique.fr/
• on climate https://climatefresk.org/ 

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

Episode Summary: In this episode, Professor Ioannou discusses the challenges and opportunities for businesses and corporations to lead the path to a more sustainable future

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributor Jenn Swanson and Professor Ioannou 

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

Prof. Ioannou is a leading strategy scholar whose research focuses on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). 

Drawing from his 13 years of experience researching and advising top executives around the world, Prof Ioannou is at the forefront of how the business world and corporations are leveraging the power of sustainability in their development today. 

He went on to explain how implementing corporate responsibility practices leads to complex transformation and often requires companies to become industry disruptors. 

Towards the end of the conversation, Prof Ioannou reminded us that each of us is a consumer, an employee, an investor and an advocate. This combination of roles provides us with a multidimensional power that we can exercise to drive change and build a better future.

You can find out more about the work of Prof Ioannis Ioannou here

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You can find out more on pages 251, 252, 254, 248, 288 and 291 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 836, 124, 133, 131, 141 and 136

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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 some of the good news around climate change activities in different parts of the world.

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 how sustainable use of plastics, legislation in Paris to reduce food wastage and to encourage composting, the adaptation of highways to encourage the use of electric vehicles amongst other things are part of the good news about what is happening on the planet that we need to preserve.

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

To find out more about Gary, beach cleaner in Bali check his IG account  

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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 the recent gifting of the clothing brand Patagonia.

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 how the clothing company Patagonia has been given away by billionaire owner Yvon Chouinard, to fight climate change. Hopefully, this gift to Nature will inspire other organisations to do the same.

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

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

You can find out more on pages 162, 288 and 291 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 101, 141 and 136

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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 Estella Struck’s marketing agency and how she has actively used her influence to work on climate change.

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributor Jenn Swanson and guest Estella Struck.

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

Estella is based in New York and is CEO and founder of Viviene, a Gen Z Marketing Agency working with sustainable brands.

Jenn and Estella talked about how Estella has developed her company, her business life and how sustainability has affected her personal life.   

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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 what we can do to help preserve animals and learn how trees communicate and what humans can learn from their way of communication 

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson, Rod Aparicio and Inma

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

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.

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.

In the second conversation, Inma talked about a ted talk by Suzanne Simard on ‘How Trees Talk To Each Other’, how learning from their way of communication helped Inma deal with eco-anxiety and how she went from the state of hopelessness to being hopeful again. 

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

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

Episode Summary: In this episode, we discuss Online Shopping, which became something of a thing during Covid and Regenerative Agriculture and its effect on the soil.

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson, Imma Lopez and Olabanji Stephen

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.

Jenn and Olabanji talked about how online shopping can be convenient but we are not always buying from one place and this has an effect on our Carbon footprint.  

In the second half, Jenn and Olabanji talk about how Regenerative Agriculture is important and while it can be more expensive, just buying some organic goods is a step in the right direction. 

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

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

You can find out more on pages 6, 119 and 210 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 069 and 218 and also you can look up Slow Shopping on the website.

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

Episode Summary: In this episode, Inma and Olabanji discussed how we could better consumer fashion to limit its impact on climate change

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Olabanji Stephen and Inma Lopez. 

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.

Why not change our fashion consumption habits to limit its impact on the environment? In this 2-part conversation, Olabanji and Inma talked about practical solutions to buy fewer fashion items and make them last longer, tapping into some principles of circularity, personal pledge and shared ownership in a community.

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 162 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 101.

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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 Activism in relation to an interview on British Television.

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors, Leekei Tang and Imma Lopez.

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

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.

Imma and Leekei talk about the pressing problem of using fossil fuels and how pressure from Activists poses problems which can be seen from different viewpoints.  They talk about the take-home messages and how they lobby at Government level.

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?

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

You can find out more on pages 242-243, 246-247, 249, 267, 274-275 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 121 or 127.

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