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Dr. Sparsha Saha has my deepest respect, she has helped create an episode that is so valuable on an educational and awareness level.

One that summarizes a few of the most important points about the costs of animal agriculture and beyond.

This is an excellent introduction or further immersion into the environmental, social and humanitarian crisis surrounding the animal industry as well as certain parts of our economies.

Sparsha is a lecturer at Harvard University and teaches the first course there on the costs of animal agriculture! The very first one at Harvard that even touches this subject!

Sparsha has impressed me greatly during our 1.5 hours of Talking, exploring, sharing and ranting🌞

She has helped create an honest, matter-of-fact, eye-opening episode full of useful information that is easy to retain and connect.

I hope that you enjoy listening to her as much as I did and I want to leave you with a powerful quote by her on the current economic situation, on what she believes is the root cause of all our problems and why we need a redistribution of wealth:

🌍"People at the top just keep getting richer and richer and richer and they need to understand that they are accumulating the future - that's what they're doing. They're holding the future hostage by not giving everyone else a chance to thrive."🌍

I hope you enjoy this Talk!

Feel free to find Sparsha via Twitter to keep up with recent academic work and news around food sustainability🌿

Thank you for listening🌱

I appreciate your eager ears👋🏼

Cheers,

Stella

Eric Rosso is a yoga teacher and one of the owners of  Yoga Room Hawai'i. He has been living 

on the island for the last few decades and is joining me in exploring the topic of how a yoga practice that goes beyond

physical practice and includes a spiritual one, can benefit in connecting people to nature and making us realize that we are interconnected in the most elemental ways.

Through earth, water, fire, breath.

We talk about how yoga, with it being an ancient and very elemental practice that connects us to ourselves and creates

more mindfulness, can make us more aware of our surroundings and our environment.

This is a very different episode to previous ones, but I think that the emotional aspects in our relationship to nature and within the climate crisis are too important to discount or not to include into these conversations.

Especially with yoga I find that, because you connect to yourself and the present moment, it can make you emotional, calm your mind, set thoughts free, 

spark ideas and also question life in fundamental ways.

It is also a practice that I find people can associate with or feel drawn to practice in nature

and being conscious of ourselves and the world around us in addition to the impacts we have on other beings and earth is

more important than ever.

🌿You can visit Yoga Room Hawai'i here if it has sparked your interest

📸check out Eric's yoga photography here if you enjoy yoga/nature pictures or if you are in the area and would like to work with Eric

Thank you for listening👋🏼

I appreciate your eager ears🌿

Cheers,

Stella

If a country has good waste management and things get recycled, how does even some of that trash end up in the ocean?

What does it mean when plastic "breaks down", what does it "break down" into and where does it go? 

Dr. Imogen Napper, is joining me in this episode to give us a clearer picture on some of the plastic mysteries that we might be wondering about.

She takes us with her to her work in the lab, back in time to a grade school ceremony involving plastic balloons which prompted her think about where plastic ends up 

and to the river Ganges in India - where plastic pollution is a very tangible issue.

We explore the journey the durable/ useful /polluting material, plastic, takes after it has been picked up by the garbage truck and

who is doing what to tackle this prevalent issue🌊🛒🚚

And because greenwashing is always an issue in every environmental field, Imogen shares what she has seen happen to "biodegradable" bags in

comparison to "regular" plastic bags, when buried in soil🌱, eroding away in the ocean🐳, or just hanging out under the sun☀,

in controlled research experiments that can tell us more about what really happens to those bags that are sometimes labeled as "the solution to plastic pollution".

📢Imogen mentions two charities that are dear to her heart:

💧Surfers against Sewage

💧Marine Conservation Society

Thank you for joining us👋🏼

I appreciate your eager ears🌿

Cheers,

Stella

No likes, no follows, no echo chambers...

Could you imagine? What if social media didn't have this toxic, addicting quality to it?

What if you saw what everybody else saw and the spread of misinformation and polarization suddenly came to a halt?

What if everybody had to verify their sources and we would use social media for the purpose of educating, building social impact movements, signing petitions and mobilizing online to take our action offline?

That would be...

A social network, REIMAGINED

I am excited to be joined by Karl Brown, co-founder of the social impact platform CURV.

Karl tells us the story about how CURV was born and how it is meant to radically change the way we use and are affected by social media

platforms. 

He shares the ins and outs of CURV and introduces us to a new form of social media that can aid in making us more productive change makers online.

I was lucky to be one of the first 100 to be part in testing CURV and now is YOUR chance.

Visit CURV to become part of this incredible community🌱🌍🌿

Thank you for listening👋🏼

I appreciate your eager ears🌿

Cheers,

Stella

In this episode Michelle Magdalena Maddox, who is the founder of Magdalena Magazine, is sharing the podium with me.

Today she is sharing parts of her story with us. Michelle invites us to hear about the path that lead her to storytelling, activism and the connection she has with earth and people today.

We Talk about the importance of community, what hers looks like and how she envisions the future of community and localization.

If you are somebody who is working hard at bringing a passion project to life - then this episode is worth listening to. 

Michelle gives us an insight into her journey to creating Magdalena Magazine (formerly Bohypsian Journal), the blood, sweat and tears that go into creating something unique and powerful that gives a voice to those stories that are often least heard in this world - the most important voices.

How from hardship and love, community and support from like minded souls as well as knowing, deep within that this is something you simply have to bring to life is the wave that will lead your personal ship into the harbor (even if it feels like you are operating oars of lead sometimes;))

Michelle's story is a moving and beautiful one and in her life she has talked to many people, visited many places and seen much of this world that is so beautiful, confusing, outraging and never for a lack of surprises.

🌱🌱If you want to order the latest issue of the magazine click here

📞If you feel called to support Michelle's quest in telling these stories and bringing them to life in print click here to connect to here

Thank you for listening💚

I appreciate your eager ears👋🏼

Cheers,

Stella

The world is having enough problems with imminent natural disasters like floods, fires, hurricanes, droughts, wars -

but it seems that there are much lesser known ecological processes going on that are unfolding much more slowly and seem less significant than

others. 

What Paul from the Pleistocene & Permafrost NGO is telling us today is definitely not insignificant but very important and YOU listening in and educating yourself on this is an excellent step and will help raise awareness.

Permafrost is soil that has been frozen for at least two years. A lot of it has been frozen for thousands and more years and guess what - global warming is melting a lot of this natural "ice box".

Paul is helping us understand what Permafrost is, how the Pleistocene Park is helping to reverse and prevent some of the damages, what some of those important projects in Siberia and Russia etc. are doing and how animals are restoring ecological traits to permafrost areas.

By the end you will understand why this topic is so important, how the thawing of permafrost affects earth and what YOU can do to support this cause❄❄

Here are a few resources to find out more:

Oxford Paper on Permafrost for some light reading;)

Impacts of Grazing on Permafrost soil

Preserving Permafrost Video

If you want to ask Paul some questions find his LinkedIN Profile here

Thank you for listening💚

I appreciate you eager ears🌿

Cheers,

Stella

In this episode I am ranting, laughing and philosophizing with Maria Serra.

Maria is an activist from Spain who is currently studying in Barcelona and busy being EU climate ambassador, attending COPs,

creating an activism course for anyone who wants to acquire more tools to raise their voices and be confident to take on activism

and attending one protest after another.

Maria's path to activism started early, when she was about 13 years old, caring about feminism and human rights which fairly quickly made her recognize that climate activism included justice for all of these matters she was passionate about.

This is an episode where we really just let the conversation take us to all different aspects of activism and politics in the current climate movement as well as the place and emotions of young people in all of this.

From the role that social media plays in our world, to "climate politicians" who don't keep their words, to eco-anxiety etc. - it's all here🌱

📱Click here to visit Maria's IG account 

📢here you can find her activism course if you want to join

🌍💚And here are some organizations and movements Maria recommends if you want to take your activism to the streets and meet fellow passionate folks

XR Rebellion

reearth

FridaysForFuture

I appreciate your eager ears💚

Thank you for listening👋🏼

Cheers,

Stella

In this episode I am Talking to Jennifer who works at the Lower East Side Ecology Center in New York City.

The center has been pioneering urban sustainability since 1987 and the work done there from education to the compost drop off and stewardship of the East River Park is of the utmost importance to keep the city green and its inhabitants healthy and connected to nature.

Jennifer tells us about the work that is done at the Center from Fishing & Waterfront Education to E-Waste Collection, composting, street tree care etc.

She tells us about how employees and volunteers work together to keep the Park healthy all year round and how anyone can get involved in making their city a greener, cleaner and healthier space.

We also Talk about the importance of nature in a city and how we can prevent or reduce different types of pollution in a city by urban greening, composting, providing bike lanes, . . .

Make sure to visit the Lower East Side Ecology Center's website here

and maybe even visit it if you are in NYC.

If you are a resident of the city (or any other city:)), make sure to inform yourself about composting and volunteering possibilities!

Thank you for listening💚

i appreciate your eager ears🌱

Cheers,

Stella

In this episode I am Talking to Jack from Jack's Patch, a regenerative, no-dig, permaculture farm outside of London.

He tells me the story about how life lead him to become passionate about growing food and working with nature.

It always comforts me to Talk to people who care for the earth, who know and work to heal nature and that is a big part of this conversation, since Jack shares some of the practices on his farm, how he tends to the soil and how we as humans really have the ability to heal nature and support natural processes instead of making life harder for us and the planet.

We Talk about the major impacts that industrial agriculture has on the planet and how Jack would reimagine a commercial farming operation to help the land flourish, rejuvenate and 

increase diversity.

He also shares his thoughts on the current agricultural system and how his personal outlook is on the future.

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If permaculture and food growing is something that interests you specifically, go and check out the podcast Jack runs with a fellow food grower, Chris, called  "The Food Grower Podcast" !

🌱If you would like to read up on the world's tops oil situation see the articles below:

https://washingtonianpost.com/magazine/technology/experts-warn-earths-topsoil-is-almost-gone/

https://soilerosion.com/soil-erosion-in-the-united-states/

🐳Click here to watch the video on aquaponics set up and how the concept works!

Thank you for tuning in today!

I appreciate your eager ears💚

Cheers, 

Stella