Coffee & Geography

Kit and Louise Wilson sip some L’Or Classique chatting about studying river flow (hydrometry), squash, fossil hunting, amongst other things!

Louise is Hydrometry and Telemetry Team Leader for the UK’s Environment Agency. A true child at heart, if there is a puddle to jump in then she’s on it! Louise loves nothing more than a paddle in the river or sea, collecting stones/rocks/fossils/shells and taking them home to clean up!

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

- Vicar of Dibley Puddle Sketch (https://youtu.be/gWKUeV5B4ml)

- River Great Ouse Drainage Basin (https://waterways.org.uk/waterways/discover-the-waterways/river-great-ouse/)

- Irn Bru (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru)

- The UK’s Environment Agency (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment/)

- Bewdley on the River Severn hydrometry timelapse (https://twitter.com/farsondigital/status/1496436451600384003)

- Young Fossil Fan finds Mammoth Tooth (https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/young-fossil-fan-unearths-mammoth-find-on-winterton-beach-876888)

- Fake Archaeoraptor finds (https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/feb/07/features11.g22)

- Quartz vein alphabet rocks (https://imgur.com/gallery/3n6PNyI)

Expand your geography network and connect with Louise at louise.wilson(at)environment-agency.gov.uk).

==About Coffee & Geography==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink!

Music: 'Spark of Inspiration' by Shane Ivers (www.silvermansound.com/)

Coffee & Geography is sponsored by the World Energy and Meteorology Council. WEMC is an international organization focused on weather and climate data to support energy transition, and we work with educators too! WEMC have created Teal, an easy-to-use free visualisation tool that enables you to explore climate variables for the past 70+ years. Get started at https://tealtool.earth and follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/wemcouncil!

==How you can support the podcast and continue the conversation==

• Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/CoffeeGeogPod.

• Rate, review (https://ratethispodcast.com/coffeegeogpod) and subscribe to the podcast via your preferred platform.

• Donate via https://ko-fi.com/kitrackley

• Switch your energy provider to Good Energy via this link: (check back soon!) and sign up to Clim8 via https://bit.ly/CoffeeGeog-Clim8 to invest money ethically. Any referral rewards will go towards Geogramblings education efforts.*

*Good Energy and Clim8 are not sponsors of the podcast and have not endorsed these links. The referral links have been posted in a personal capacity to help raise funds to keep Geogramblings educational work sustainable. Your choice to invest money through Clim8 doesn’t come without risk, so make sure you make an informed decision to sign up.

Kit spends a morning with Suzanne, Faye and Jan, three cooperative members of the Natural Foodstore Cooperative in Diss, Norfolk, UK. They chat about the store, its products and what it means for the community.

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

- Wilkinson's of Norwich (https://www.wilkinsonsofnorwich.co.uk/)

- NatureFlex (https://www.natureflex.com/uk/)

- Anglian Organics (https://www.anglianorganics.co.uk/)

- Crone's Organic Cider & Apple Juice (http://crones.co.uk/)

- Mani Organic (https://mani-organic.co.uk/)

- Naturland Fair (https://www.naturland.de/en/producers/fair-en.html)

- Soil Association (https://www.soilassociation.org/)

- Salt of the Earth (https://saltoftheearth.info/)

- Earth Conscious (https://www.earthconscious.co.uk/)

- Ocean Saver (https://www.ocean-saver.com/)

- Festival of Dangerous Ideas Podcast - Lee Vinsel & Tyson Yunkaporta - A gradual decline into disorder (https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/podcasts/vinsel-yunkaporta/)

- Seeds for Change - Consensus Decision Making (https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/consensus)

Expand your geography network and connect with the Natural Food Cooperative via their website (https://nfs.coop/), Instagram (http://instagram.com/natural_foodstore) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thenaturalfoodstore).

==About Coffee & Geography==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink!

Music: 'Spark of Inspiration' by Shane Ivers (www.silvermansound.com/)

Coffee & Geography is sponsored by the World Energy and Meteorology Council. WEMC is an international organization focused on weather and climate data to support energy transition, and we work with educators too! WEMC have created Teal, an easy-to-use free visualisation tool that enables you to explore climate variables for the past 70+ years. Get started at https://tealtool.earth and follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/wemcouncil!

==How you can support the podcast and continue the conversation==

• Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/CoffeeGeogPod.

• Rate, review (https://ratethispodcast.com/coffeegeogpod) and subscribe to the podcast via your preferred platform.

• Donate via https://ko-fi.com/kitrackley

• Switch your energy provider to Good Energy via this link: (check back soon!) and sign up to Clim8 via https://bit.ly/CoffeeGeog-Clim8 to invest money ethically. Any referral rewards will go towards Geogramblings education efforts.*

*Good Energy and Clim8 are not sponsors of the podcast and have not endorsed these links. The referral links have been posted in a personal capacity to help raise funds to keep Geogramblings educational work sustainable. Your choice to invest money through Clim8 doesn’t come without risk, so make sure you make an informed decision to sign up.

Kit chats to Rebecca Nestor & Caroline Fernandez about tacking climate anxiety, active hope through conversations, knitting, TV box sets amongst other things!

Rebecca is a climate activist and climate psychologist, and a recovering doctoral student at the University of Essex. She works mostly through the Climate Psychology Alliance, where she is on the board of directors and lead on climate cafes, but also a freelance organisational consultant and facilitator. Rebecca’s work is about supporting those facing the climate crisis. She lives in Oxford and regularly splashes about in the Thames.

Caroline is Project Coordinator for sUStain. She is a networker, food grower, environmentalist and chirpy ex Londoner, now living in Norfolk. Eldest of eight siblings, Caroline loves to travel the world through food, loves speaking German, and has family in India.

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

- UEA Climate of Change (https://www.uea.ac.uk/climate-of-change/eco-anxiety)

- Young people’s climate anxiety revealed in landmark survey ((https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02582-8)

- UEA Project Change for students and teachers (https://projectchange.uea.ac.uk/)

- Norfolk & Waveney Mind: sUStain project (https://www.norfolkandwaveneymind.org.uk/getdoc/58ba1a30-b784-4557-85cc-b2832a1a6651/sustain-project)

- Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone (https://www.activehope.info)

- Age of Stupid movie (https://www.spannerfilms.net/films/ageofstupid)

- Climate Change is a School Safeguarding Issue (https://geogramblings.com/2021/04/25/school-safeguarding-policy-should-consider-climate-change-and-eco-anxiety/)

Expand your geography network and connect with these geographers via Twitter at https://twitter.com/RebeccaClimate and https://twitter.com/norfolkmind

==About Coffee & Geography==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink!

Music: 'Spark of Inspiration' by Shane Ivers (www.silvermansound.com/)

Coffee & Geography is sponsored by the World Energy and Meteorology Council. WEMC is an international organization focused on weather and climate data to support energy transition, and we work with educators too! WEMC have created Teal, an easy-to-use free visualisation tool that enables you to explore climate variables for the past 70+ years. Get started at https://tealtool.earth and follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/wemcouncil!

==How you can support the podcast and continue the conversation==

• Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/CoffeeGeogPod.

• Rate, review (https://ratethispodcast.com/coffeegeogpod) and subscribe to the podcast via your preferred platform.

• Donate via https://ko-fi.com/kitrackley

• Switch your energy provider to Good Energy via this link: (check back soon!) and sign up to Clim8 via https://bit.ly/CoffeeGeog-Clim8 to invest money ethically. Any referral rewards will go towards Geogramblings education efforts.*

*Good Energy and Clim8 are not sponsors of the podcast and have not endorsed these links. The referral links have been posted in a personal capacity to help raise funds to keep Geogramblings educational work sustainable. Your choice to invest money through Clim8 doesn’t come without risk, so make sure you make an informed decision to sign up.

Kit and Alexis Bahn chat about growing up with wolves, comparing Montana to Texas and the Netherlands, psychological impacts on sleep post Hurricane Harvey, reading and writing fantasy novels, amongst other things!

Alexis was raised by wolves, but now she studies the brain! Alexis love questions about how we learn, what happens while we sleep, and how our emotions effect... all of it! She has lived and studied in the mountains of Montana, the deserts of Texas, and the rolling hills of the Netherlands (but the mountains are her favorite).

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

- The Howlers Inn (https://www.howlersinn.com/)

- Ode to Kiowa, the alpha female of the Howlers Inn (https://geogramblings.com/2019/04/08/inspiring-geography-stories-part-2/)

- Kit’s high school students visit the Howlers Inn in 2012 (https://youtu.be/BtdR3uuFvPA?t=776)

- Cycle bridges in the Netherlands (https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/?s=bridge)

- Sleep Disturbances and Delayed Sleep Timing are Associated with Greater Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Youth Following Hurricane Harvey (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360021052_Sleep_Disturbances_and_Delayed_Sleep_Timing_are_Associated_with_Greater_Post-Traumatic_Stress_Symptoms_in_Youth_Following_Hurricane_Harvey)

- Fostering empathy in the teaching of natural hazards article (https://www.geography.org.uk/Journal-Issue/6d72a4c8-4c64-4241-a563-b8132514e220)

- The Sweet True Story Of A Wolf Who Befriended Dogs (https://www.thedodo.com/a-true-lone-wolfreview-of-a-wo-1001852146.html)

- Public warned after pack of wolves released into Suffolk countryside (April Fools) (https://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/pack-of-wolves/)

Expand your geography network and connect with Alexis via Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/alexis.c.b/).

==About Coffee & Geography==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink!

Music: 'Spark of Inspiration' by Shane Ivers (www.silvermansound.com/)

Coffee & Geography is sponsored by the World Energy and Meteorology Council. WEMC is an international organization focused on weather and climate data to support energy transition, and we work with educators too! WEMC have created Teal, an easy-to-use free visualisation tool that enables you to explore climate variables for the past 70+ years. Get started at https://tealtool.earth and follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/wemcouncil!

==How you can support the podcast and continue the conversation==

• Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/CoffeeGeogPod.

• Rate, review (https://ratethispodcast.com/coffeegeogpod) and subscribe to the podcast via your preferred platform.

• Donate via https://ko-fi.com/kitrackley

• Switch your energy provider to Good Energy via this link: (check back soon!) and sign up to Clim8 via https://bit.ly/CoffeeGeog-Clim8 to invest money ethically. Any referral rewards will go towards Geogramblings education efforts.*

*Good Energy and Clim8 are not sponsors of the podcast and have not endorsed these links. The referral links have been posted in a personal capacity to help raise funds to keep Geogramblings educational work sustainable. Your choice to invest money through Clim8 doesn’t come without risk, so make sure you make an informed decision to sign up.

Kit and Esther Lemmens drink fresh mint tea, chatting about swapping Holland for Norfolk, gender identity and conformity, being a first-time published author, switching to natural washing products, amongst other things!

Esther (she/they) is a creator, artist, podcaster, budding writer, truth seeker, gentle activist, and queer mystic. Generally non-conforming, she likes to refer to herself as a ‘rebel with a cause.’ Her motto is “do YOUR thing, YOUR way,” and she passionately believes that authentic, unapologetic and at times radical self-expression is the most important gift we can give to ourselves – and to the world. Esther is the founder and host of the Fifty Shades of Gender podcast and contributing author to the best-selling book 'Sacred Redesign – How to free yourself from society's standards and create heaven on earth.'

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

- Gender identity (https://genderspectrum.org/articles/understanding-gender)

- The Gender Census (https://gendercensus.com/)

- Sacred Redesign: How to free yourself from society's standards and create heaven on earth (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60863047-sacred-redesign)

- Rhassoul clay (https://www.healthline.com/health/rhassoul-clay-2)

Expand your geography network and connect with Esther via Twitter (https://twitter.com/50ShadesGender) and the Fifty Shades of Gender Podcast (https://www.fiftyshadesofgender.com/).

==About Coffee & Geography==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink!

Music: 'Spark of Inspiration' by Shane Ivers (www.silvermansound.com/)

Coffee & Geography is sponsored by the World Energy and Meteorology Council. WEMC is an international organization focused on weather and climate data to support energy transition, and we work with educators too! WEMC have created Teal, an easy-to-use free visualisation tool that enables you to explore climate variables for the past 70+ years. Get started at https://tealtool.earth and follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/wemcouncil!

==How you can support the podcast and continue the conversation==

• Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/CoffeeGeogPod.

• Rate, review (https://ratethispodcast.com/coffeegeogpod) and subscribe to the podcast via your preferred platform.

• Donate via https://ko-fi.com/kitrackley

• Switch your energy provider to Good Energy via this link: (check back soon!) and sign up to Clim8 via https://bit.ly/CoffeeGeog-Clim8 to invest money ethically. Any referral rewards will go towards Geogramblings education efforts.*

*Good Energy and Clim8 are not sponsors of the podcast and have not endorsed these links. The referral links have been posted in a personal capacity to help raise funds to keep Geogramblings educational work sustainable. Your choice to invest money through Clim8 doesn’t come without risk, so make sure you make an informed decision to sign up.

Kit and Cat Poh sip a brew chatting about accessibility in education, ADHD, George Michael, amongst other things!

Cat Poh is a Geography Teacher who big on environmental philosophy, critical, feminist and Indigenous geographies. She has always felt very sensitive to the environment around her, be it built or grown. Weather, climate, birds, buildings, light and trees have always changed how Cat feels in the world and therefore who she is in it. The shifts in Cat's senses from subtle chances in the seasons, from smells of spring and sounds of swifts in the summer have always evoked changes in her too. Being in this close relationship to the environment has made Cat curious to explore and understand it on a personal level.

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

- Cost of housing crisis (https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2021/mar/31/uk-housing-crisis-how-did-owning-a-home-become-unaffordable)

- ADHD (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/)

- Autism (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/autism/)

- George Michael (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Michael)

Expand your geography network and connect with Cat via Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/cat_poh).

==About Coffee & Geography==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink!

Music: 'Spark of Inspiration' by Shane Ivers (www.silvermansound.com/)

Coffee & Geography is sponsored by the World Energy and Meteorology Council. WEMC is an international organization focused on weather and climate data to support energy transition, and we work with educators too! WEMC have created Teal, an easy-to-use free visualisation tool that enables you to explore climate variables for the past 70+ years. Get started at https://tealtool.earth and follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/wemcouncil!

==How you can support the podcast and continue the conversation==

• Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/CoffeeGeogPod.

• Rate, review (https://ratethispodcast.com/coffeegeogpod) and subscribe to the podcast via your preferred platform.

• Donate via https://ko-fi.com/kitrackley

• Switch your energy provider to Good Energy via this link: (check back soon!) and sign up to Clim8 via https://bit.ly/CoffeeGeog-Clim8 to invest money ethically. Any referral rewards will go towards Geogramblings education efforts.*

*Good Energy and Clim8 are not sponsors of the podcast and have not endorsed these links. The referral links have been posted in a personal capacity to help raise funds to keep Geogramblings educational work sustainable. Your choice to invest money through Clim8 doesn’t come without risk, so make sure you make an informed decision to sign up.

This is the Coffee & Geography Podcast's 50th episode! Kit celebrates by reflecting on some of the conversations they have had over the past year or so, discussing them with an audience. What can we learn from such 'everyday conversations'?

Starting as a pandemic ‘comfort project’ but growing into something so much more, Coffee and Geography was a podcast where I simply chatted to people. These chats led to exploring connections and intersections through a geographical lens, but also helped to broaden my horizons, check my own privilege, and bring back some faith in humanity. Bring a brew and come and find out what I’ve learnt, which can be useful anecdotes and aids in the classroom, from these ‘everyday’ conversations.

Download the transcript for the audio clips here: https://bit.ly/3LLymlS

Clip 9: Eli - Experiencing local changes in the environment

Clip 8: Adil - Human connection to nature

Clip 7: Ro - Visibility, representation and challenging stereotypes

Clip 6: Louis - What is 'third culture'?

Clip 5: Daryl - Cultural code-switching

Clip 4: Keston - Unique perspectives and expertise enabling links

Clip 3: Alistair - We’re not just “us’uns” and “them’uns”

Clip 2: White Raven Woman Candice - Reconnecting with the land

Clip 1: Akhera & Chantal - Listening and connecting to marginalized voices in the curriculum

Presented at the Geographical Association Hybrid Conference 2022 at the University of Surrey (12th April 2pm). Thank you to all those who participated and gave their consent for the session to be recorded.

==About Coffee & Geography==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink!

Music: 'Spark of Inspiration' by Shane Ivers (www.silvermansound.com/)

Coffee & Geography is sponsored by the World Energy and Meteorology Council. WEMC is an international organization focused on weather and climate data to support energy transition, and we work with educators too! WEMC have created Teal, an easy-to-use free visualisation tool that enables you to explore climate variables for the past 70+ years. Get started at https://tealtool.earth and follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/wemcouncil!

==How you can support the podcast and continue the conversation==

• Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/CoffeeGeogPod.

• Rate, review (https://ratethispodcast.com/coffeegeogpod) and subscribe to the podcast via your preferred platform.

• Donate via https://ko-fi.com/kitrackley

• Switch your energy provider to Good Energy via this link: (check back soon!) and sign up to Clim8 via https://bit.ly/CoffeeGeog-Clim8 to invest money ethically. Any referral rewards will go towards Geogramblings education efforts.*

*Good Energy and Clim8 are not sponsors of the podcast and have not endorsed these links. The referral links have been posted in a personal capacity to help raise funds to keep Geogramblings educational work sustainable. Your choice to invest money through Clim8 doesn’t come without risk, so make sure you make an informed decision to sign up.

Kit and Shanique Harris sip some Jamaican mint bush tea, chatting about inclusion in geography education, being catholic, amongst other things!

Shanique is the protagonist of her life. Energetic and curious, and loves to set herself challenges. Shanique centers herself around God and fitness as she knows that by doing that she can be spiritually and physically prepared to face her life as a working single mother to two children. Shanique is a lover of learning aiming to learn something new in her daily encounters with people and places. She also says she is far from perfect!

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

- Jamaican Maroons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_Maroons)

- Nanny Falls (http://simplylocal.life/maroons-nanny-falls/)

- Royal Geographical Society “Geography For All” Project (https://www.rgs.org/schools/geography-for-all/)

- Decolonising Geography (https://decolonisegeography.com/)

- The Science of the 10 Plagues (https://www.livescience.com/58638-science-of-the-10-plagues.html)

- “Lighter” by Tarrus Riley ft. Shenseea, Rvssian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Pavo7eCmI)

- The Doctor Bird, national bird of Jamaica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-billed_streamertail)

Expand your geography network and connect with Shanique via Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/geogshanique).

==About Coffee & Geography==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink!

Music: 'Spark of Inspiration' by Shane Ivers (www.silvermansound.com/)

Coffee & Geography is sponsored by the World Energy and Meteorology Council. WEMC is an international organization focused on weather and climate data to support energy transition, and we work with educators too! WEMC have created Teal, an easy-to-use free visualisation tool that enables you to explore climate variables for the past 70+ years. Get started at https://tealtool.earth and follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/wemcouncil!

==How you can support the podcast and continue the conversation==

• Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/CoffeeGeogPod.

• Rate, review (https://ratethispodcast.com/coffeegeogpod) and subscribe to the podcast via your preferred platform.

• Donate via https://ko-fi.com/kitrackley

• Switch your energy provider to Octopus Energy via this link: https://share.octopus.energy/reed-foal-15. Any referral rewards will go towards Geogramblings education efforts.*

*Octopus Energy are not sponsors of the podcast and have not endorsed these links. The referral links have been posted in a personal capacity to help raise funds to keep Geogramblings educational work sustainable.

Kit and Jeremy Patrich share an iced tea, chatting about ‘backyard geography’, using geography education to enhance opportunities, Disney history, amongst other things!

Professor Jeremy Patrich is the Backyard Geographer. He has taught hundreds of geography and geology courses at Colleges and Universities across the State of California and has taken thousands of students on field trips to explore the geography in our backyards. The Pandemic changed the way educators interact and inspire their students, and with the help of friends and YouTube, he has found a new way to engage with students around the world. In addition to loving the Earth Sciences, he is also a Disney Historian and collector of Disney Art, Vintage Americana & Pop Culture items.

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

- The climate of California (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_California)

- The ‘Black Palm Springs’ (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-03-02-mn-28975-story.html)

- The Farralon “lost” tectonic plate (https://www.livescience.com/27994-lost-tectonic-plate-california.html)

- “Fostering empathy in the teaching of natural hazards” (Link TBC)

- St Francis Dam disaster (https://damfailures.org/case-study/st-francis-dam-california-1928/)

- Stories behind Disney Movies such as The Little Mermaid and Mulan (https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/general/original-disney-stories-films)

- Time “The Controversial Origins of the Story Behind Mulan” (https://time.com/5881064/mulan-real-history/)

- Lady Fu Hao (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Hao)

Expand your geography network and connect with Jeremy via YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfJeremyPatrich).

==About Coffee & Geography==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink!

Music: 'Spark of Inspiration' by Shane Ivers (www.silvermansound.com/)

Coffee & Geography is sponsored by the World Energy and Meteorology Council. WEMC is an international organization focused on weather and climate data to support energy transition, and we work with educators too! WEMC have created Teal, an easy-to-use free visualisation tool that enables you to explore climate variables for the past 70+ years. Get started at https://tealtool.earth and follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/wemcouncil!

==How you can support the podcast and continue the conversation==

• Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/CoffeeGeogPod.

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Kit and Francis Mpakati catch up about teaching high school in Malawi, importing cars into the country, the impact of global geopolitics, the tragic but incredible story of his uncle, amongst other things!

Francis is an ex-English teacher, teaching for many years at a secondary school in Dedza. Now he lives with his wife and children in the capital city Lilongwe and owns his own business importing cars for the Malawian market.

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

- A 2021 news article regarding the fuel price rises and the Automatic Fuel Price Mechanism (APM) in Malawi (https://www.nyasatimes.com/harsh-reality-we-suppressed-fuel-prices-for-so-long/)

- Economy of Malawi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Malawi)

- Impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Malawi (https://foodtank.com/news/2022/04/for-malawi-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-presents-both-challenges-and-opportunities/)

- Malawi’s Community Skills Development Centres (https://www.malawi.gov.mw/labour/index.php/training-institutions/community-skills-development-centres)

- Dr Attati Mpakati (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attati_Mpakati & https://www.mbc.mw/news/entertainment/item/9288-relatives-make-emotive-appeal-to-exhume-repatriate-remains-of-freedom-fighter-dr-attati-mpakati-from-zimbabwe-to-malawi)

- Malawi Lost History Foundation (https://www.facebook.com/Losthistoryfoundation/)

==About Coffee & Geography==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink!

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