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The fossil fuel industry is responsible for 89 % of GHG emissions and continues to rapidly expand at a time

where climate scientists are stressing the fact that in order for us to have a livable future we must keep ALL remaining fossil fuels in the ground.

So how do we dismantle the fossil fuel industry that seems so untouchable and forms the baseline for the world's current economic system?

Jack and Noah have actually conducted intensive research and created an emergency response framework with 8 main points that include steps on how to rapidly dismantle the fossil fuel industry in the Global North,

how to roll out renewables to replace fossil fuels in a de-growth framework to meet key decarbonization targets as well as 

looking at our agricultural systems along with other important steps that form an emergency response in a time of climate and ecological collapse, building towards a just, habitable world.

This all might sound pretty heavy and not something a lot of us necessarily want to be dealing with in our spare time, but knowledge truly is power and can help relieve so much uncertainty and anxiety around all of these important questions that are the big fat elephants in the porcelain shop that is this incredible planet earth that we are all living on together.

It felt incredibly good talking to Jack and Noah and hearing their conviction, passion and visions for a post-capitalist world was

inspiring and soothing all the same.

#anotherworldispossible and WE #united will never be defeated🌊☀🌱🦋

If you want to hear more from Jack and Noah I can highly encourage you to

add their podcast "The Climate Vanguard Podcast" to your 'favorites' list - you won't regret it :))

Thank you for listening to this Talk🌍🌊☀

which came alive through the voices of

Jack Johnson, Noah Herfort

and your host Stella Sage🌿

Mama and I sat down to Talk about what it was like growing up in the 70s and experiencing this rush of economic prosperity and the carefree mentality she and her friends experienced pre 2000.

She often shares stories with us and other than personal problems or certain worries that we are all bound to encounter in life, most of it always sounded pretty care free in comparison to our youth, who are growing up in a world where above everything there seems to be the looming topic of the climate emergency.

I enjoyed this podcast so so much! I am particularly biased on this one I must say :)) but the first part of this Talk is very very wholesome, with my mother sharing snippets of what daily life was like for her as a kid, local grocery shopping, washing dishes by hand, not owning a car...

Where and how they grocery shopped, which amenities they had at home, the foraging they did with their grandfather, how it was crazy luxurious to have a car, dishwasher or washing machine and how the introduction into society of so many items, that we now consider "basics", went about.

She also reminisces on how different big world events were felt where she lived, like the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the acid rain phenomenon and the major issues regarding the Ozone layer.

It was very interesting to explore how different this time was regarding mentality and awareness towards environmental issues, with a lust for economic growth, the birth of overconsumption, the marketing by industries and change in behaviors as well as the first COP meetings, campaigns to save the Amazon rainforest and organizations like Greenpeace gaining traction.

Towards the end it got a little emotional because sharing stories with your mother for over an hour and Talking about

your climate-crisis-fears will do that to you :) but this episode felt really good and I hope that you find some value in it🌿🌿

PS: I have a new Intro and Outro which feel more like what I want to say, what do you think?

Thank you for listening to this Talk🌍🌊☀

which came alive through the voices of 

Andrea Sage

and your host Stella Sage🌿

Nyombi Morris is a 24 year old climate justice activist from Uganda who I came in touch with over a post on his socials. 

The post was about new gold being discovered in Uganda which is rich in that resource. Nyombi wrote under this article about the discovery "dead - now we're dead". I asked him to explain and quickly realized that Nyombi faces personal threats engaging in activism and that although this post referred to environmental destruction, he and other activists in Uganda do their work at great personal risk.

Nyombi has been physically threatened, his phone has been confiscated, his twitter account suspended and he even relocated to another place of residence to be safer.

To support his activism you can donate to his gofundme here 🦋

In this episode we Talk about the work he is currently doing, which entails tree planting projects, FridayForFuture Activism, educating children and other students and providing educational material to spread awareness about the climate crisis in Uganda which is not wide-spread there.

Nyombi shares some insight about the destructive industries that are dominating in Uganda and which steps

must be taken in order for him and other young people to be able to have hopes of a bright, livable future.

Please do consider donating to Nyombi´s Gofundme to support him in raising voices in a place where they are

trying to be silenced 🌱

Thank you for listening to this Talk🌍🌊☀

which came alive through the voices of 

Nyombi Morris

and your host Stella Sage🌿

The 'Save Soil' campaign has gained international attention along with its self proclaimed "godman", Jaggi Vasudev - also known as 

'Sadhguru'.

Rohan John Antony and Manpreet Kalra wrote an article about the campaign together that goes into detail about why 

" 'Save Soil' won´t save us", you can read the full article here.

I myself had seen the 'Save Soil' campaign on social media and thought that it´s quest to save soil around the world looked honorable.

I was a bit taken aback when I read the article by Rohan and Manpreet but at the same time it was like a veil had been lifted - suddenly I saw everything that was wrong with 'Save Soil' and was quite embarassed that I had not done more research and not looked at the campaign more closely, because as soon as I did take it under the lens all it's faults quite literally jumped up at me.

In this episode Rohan is helping us shed a light on the campaign, its stakeholders, background, purpose and Sadghuru himself (like what actually qualifies this man to educate the rest of the world about soil health).

He very clearly explains the faults of this campaign based on evidence and research into the campaign, as well as some tips on how we can try to avoid falling into the trap of putting our time, trust and support into campaigns that use the emerging environmental consciousness to pursue their own agendas.

Rohan and Manpreet have reminded me of the importance to not neglect thoroughly researching in this time of quick swipes and first glances.

This was an important lesson for me and I am definitely changing my approach when taking in information, reposting or forming an opinion about something.

I can highly recommend the library of articles that is present on the 'agrowingculture' website!

🦋Rohan has accumulated some questions we can ask ourselves when assessing the true intention of a movement/organization - this will be available as a post on my Instagram account @thrive_bynature 

Thank you for listening to this Talk🌍🌊☀

which came alive through the voices of

Rohan John Anthony

and your host Stella Sage🌿

Jessica and her family, which is her husband and her two beautiful boys, moved out of the city to the Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia, in 2019

to live and work on a piece of land they had fallen in love with.

They are now regenerating a rainforest & learning to farm a native food forest on Bundjalung land 🌳🌲

In this short time their lives have completely changed and I am so glad we are getting to hear this story from the beautiful, kind soul

that is Jessica Dressler.

Jess shares how her family found the property and what the process of moving and settling into a new life looked like.

She takes us on a tour of the entire property, from vegetable garden, orchard to the water tanks and compost system.

She takes us along on her everyday responsibilities, the tools that are used to support the work,

what days look like during harvesting season, as well as how her relationship to nature has changed now that 

she is working and living with nature´s rhythm and cycles.

If you want to follow her journey you can follow Jess on Instagram by clicking her highlighted name above or

follow `byronbushfood´ on Instagram where you will be able to follow this wonderful journey soon 🦋🌿🌹

As times and awareness are changing, more and more people are inclined to go out into the country,

get a piece of land and become as independent and resilient as possible by growing their own food,

connecting with the land, strengthening their community and forging bonds with like-minded, skilled people to live in more sustainable,

natural and holistic ways. 

The people doing some of it are all around you and we have the ability to all share stories, learn from one another,

guide and inspire each other 🌿

I hope that Jess´ story inspired and touched you the same way it did me 🌹🌹

Thank you for listening to this Talk🌍🌊☀

which came alive through the voices of

Jessica Dressler

and your host Stella Sage🌿

'The Ethical Butcher' sells meat from regenerative farms, they are showing that meat doesn't have to cost the earth.

I talked to Glen Burrows in this episode and was happy to be able to have him as a conversation partner which made this Talk (in which we also questioned and discussed different information each of us had on certain topics) very comfortable.

🌱🍖This episode is not about carnivorism or veganism per se. It is not about the right or wrong diet or even in particular about if it is right or wrong to kill animals.

This episode is supposed to explore how farming regeneratively, working in alignment with nature and adopting sustainable grazing practices etc. can actually regenerate soil and revitalize ecosystems.

Many of us hear "cattle", "meat" or even just the word "cow" and think "climate crisis" or "GHG emissions".

🌱This could not be further from the truth when it comes to regenerative farming. Meat and animal products will not be eliminated from this world and cattle will not be eliminated - and that is not what we need anyway.

There are methods that allow us to farm in ways that align with nature's cycle, where the loop is closed and we neither destroy soil and strip it of all living things nor create tons of "waste products" like polluted water, emissions or animal waste.

There are ways to create life and biodiversity, to grow on moist, dark soil that lives and breathes, where worms and billions of microorganisms 🐛🦋 are benefitting the ground and soil is not reduced to yellowish, dry clumps of nothing.

🌍🌿There is not only one answer to the world's problems,

neither in agriculture nor anywhere else.

There are different minds, different approaches, needs and experiences involved and if

they honor health, prosperity and most importantly the rhythm of the natural world - then no matter how much 

we agree with them I think it is always always worth listening.

Thank you for listening to this Talk🌍🌊☀

which came alive through the voices of

Glen Burrows 

and your host Stella Sage🌿

*please note that neither mine nor Glen´s entire views on animals rights, environmental and moral considerations or the science and politics behind diet, animal agriculture etc. were included in full, there are incredibly many nuances to these topics and none of that could ever be captured in one hour´s time, these are neither dietary guidelines nor is this a conversation about the only right way to do animal agriculture and the relationship between humans and animals

The investment industry is one that can be full of mysteries for "outsiders".

It is important not to discount the role that this industry and investors play in this ciris-rattled world, after all, behind every dirty project  

there is a dirty investment thus, behind every well-intentioned investment, there is a purpose, an impact.

Pascal Botteron is the CEO of Green Blue Invest, a company that acts as an investment advisor solely focused on ESG 

(Environmental, social & governance)

products.

From biodiversity funds, to solar panels and investments into vegan ventures there is much that can be invested in.

It is very important to change the narrative since the ones ruling the market are still "traditional investments", synonymous with the fossil fuel industry.

Pascal believes that governance is a way to change the scenario.

That a company which has good governance will have better social and environmental ranking and that this is also a way for governments to incentivize 'sustainable investing' instead of short-term, destructive hunts for profit.

He also tells us how to identify greenwashing and how it is identified at Green Blue with the help of a 8,000 word encyclopedia

to detect the sincerity of a company via analyzing the language that they are using to communicate about their services and products.

""Sustainable investing is not niche, but there is an urgency." ~ Pascal Botteron

Visit Green Blue Invest here to find out more 🌿🌿

thank you for listening💚

i appreciate your eager ears👋🏼

Yours,

Stella

In this episode I am joined by Liam from "WhatsGrowinOn".

He is sharing his story of getting into permaculture, starting on a farm halfway across the globe where he was left to his own devices, to growing

in a London apartment and finally moving to his own farm in Cornwall to get serious and make growing food his life.

Liam shares the ups and downs of farming, what he has learned throughout the years and how he is adapting to living in an isolated place in the countryside.

We explore the differences between grocery store and self-grown food and why it is incredibly confusing to know what the way to

"buy better" is, when we are standing in front of the produce shelves in a store.

If you are thinking of starting to grow at home🌱👨🏽‍🌾👩🏽‍🌾 Liam has a YouTube Channel and a TikTok account where he takes you through composting,

growing tomatoes, hydroponics, experimenting with Quartz and many other things that you may find incredibly helpful to start your own journey.

Moving away and leaving an "old life" behind to start your own business can be very challenging.

Farming is a hands-on job and we need so many more food growers out there that grow regeneratively, take care of the land and feed surrounding communities!

Let's take a moment to give it up for Liam's efforts and for putting a dream into action!

and if you want to really support him you can donate to his GoFundMe here to help him get the farm flourishing🌿🌿

Here is the Square foot garden technique Liam talks about - have fun 🌱

thank you for listening💚

I appreciate your eager ears👋🏼

Yours,

Stella

Everyone experiences the climate emergency differently. Everybody lives in different circumstances and has had different life experiences.

7.9 billion realities - you could say ;-)

Sidhant is a person who thinks a lot about environmental, climate justice and topics that regard corporate matters etc.

He has shared many thoughts over the last months with me and asked many thought provoking questions.

Him and me definitely live in extremely different realities - him in a city in India, me on the German countryside.

So we decided to get together to Talk about it.

Sidhant is very passionate about environmental issues and that not just because of the awareness he has acquired through educating himself but also from personal experience that came to him at an early age - having a father who still works at a steel plant in an industrial town in India.

This provoked Sidhant to think about systemic issues and the affects this pollution from the steel plant would have on his father alongside the other 5,000 workers at the plant - many who are in even less fortunate positions.

It can be incredibly humbling, help keep us aware and broaden our horizons to share stories, opinions and unique experiences.

To listen and to ask questions.

So if you have any questions for Sidhant after this Talk or would like to start a conversation with him, feel free to visit him here.

📢This episode's shoutout goes to "Environmentalist foundation of India". E.F.I focuses on real-time and result oriented Environment Conservation projects. As a wildlife conservation and habitat restoration group, E.F.I's efforts are tailored towards scientific and ecological projects. Feel free to learn about them or support their work here.

Thank you for listening🌱

I appreciate your eager ears👋🏼

Appreciatively,

Stella