This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Ceara Carney.

Ceara is a 27 year old activist and actor from Dublin, Ireland. She grew up in the countryside and has been passionate about the environment and animal rights from a young age. Her eyes were opened to the deforestation and pollution happening on a mass scale after being vegetarian and vegan for many years and being conscious of what she consumes. She is involved with activist group Extinction Rebellion in Ireland and is also the host of an eco-friendly living podcast, the Book of Leaves.

In this episode you will learn about fairies, leprechauns as well as other mythological creatures and how they help preserve the environment in Ireland, the work Ceara is doing with Extinction Rebellion, and more.

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More about 1treellion, Treecovery Ireland initiative, and The Book of Leaves podcast.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Dr. Kenneth Lacovara.

Dr. Lacovara has unearthed some of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the earth, including the massive 65-ton Dreadnoughtus. He is a recipient of The Explorers Club Medal, previously awarded to pioneers such as Neil Armstrong, Jane Goodall, and Sir Edmond Hillary. His 2016 TED talk has been viewed by over two million people, and his book, Why Dinosaurs Matter, published by Simon & Schuster, is a winner of the Nautilus Book Prize. Lacovara discoveries have landed him three times in Discover magazine's 100 Top Science Stories of the Year, and he has appeared in over 13 television documentaries.

Currently, he is researching the extinction of the dinosaurs. He is the founding dean of the School of Earth & Environment at Rowan University, and is Director of the Edelman Fossil Park, where he and his team are building a $75M museum designed to connect people to deep time, the contingencies of natural history, and the fragility of our planet.

In this episode you will hear about his discovery of Dreadnoughtus schrani, a massive, plant-eating dinosaur, some of the misconceptions about dinosaurs,  why the study of dinosaurs matters for climate change, and more.

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More about 1treellion & Dr Kenneth Lacovara.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Katie Mills.

Katie is a London-based nature connector, a qualified Forest School Leader and forest bathing guide, and a campaigner and social entrepreneur. She is the founder and Director of Forest & Family, which is a London forest school and nature connection organization promoting the links between nature, health and wellbeing. She is also the founder of Forest Bathing London, which is dedicated to promoting and supporting forest bathing in London and for Londoners.

She works as a trainer, speaker and forest therapy coach and diploma mentor and with a wide range of partners and clients providing nature connection training and services.

Katie is one of over 50 London National Park City Rangers, a role that falls under the London national park city movement which is all about making the city greener, wilder and healthier – London is in fact the world’s first National Park City!!

Katie holds degrees in Poverty Reduction and Development Management, and Theology and Religion, and before nature connection she worked in international development and for many years in higher education at several leading universities in the UK. She lives in London with her husband, two young daughters, two rabbits and in a few weeks… also a dog called Storm.

In this episode you will hear about what is forest bathing, its benefits, and much more.

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More about 1treellion, Katie Mills, and Forest Bathing London.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Josh Whiton. Josh Whiton creates participatory movements that empower people worldwide to directly contribute to planetary repair.

At the age of 23, he founded a tech-startup that got people out of cars and onto public transit, creating jobs while reducing fossil fuel emissions and the carbon footprint of millions. For his positive impact on people and planet Josh was named a Champion of Change by then president Obama. Josh’s company was also named one of the most innovative companies in transportation by Fast Company before being acquired by the Ford Motor Company to form Ford Smart Mobility.

Josh also co-founded one of the first urban farms in the southeastern United States. Still in operation today, the one-acre urban farm helps thousands of people each year to participate in a more beautiful food system.

His latest planetary innovation is MakeSoil.org.

In this episode you will hear about his work, what it means to be a soil maker, why is it so important, and more.

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More about 1treellion & MakeSoil.

How to make a compost bin, useful information.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Schi-Lee Smith. A 25 years old animal and nature lover from Texas.

Schi (pronounced Ski) is the host of the Wildlife Weirdos podcast, which is an educational podcast about animals. On her show she tries to find out all the cool, weird, and interesting things there are about animals and share it with her audience.

In this joined episode, she is sharing her knowledge with us.

In this episode you will learn about the Blue Morpho Butterfly, its magnificent wings, i’s habitable, its part in the ecosystem, among other cool things.

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More about 1treellion & Schi-Lee Smith and the Wildlife Weirdos podcast.

Some of the facts mentioned: The morpho butterfly, Butterflies and plants designers tropical rainforest pharmacology, more on biodiversity.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Jurgis Didžiulis. 

Jurgis is an artistic activist, corporate Edutainer, inspirational troubadour, and a motivational musician. Jurgis seamlessly mixes his passion for music and social phenomenon to enlighten individuals, businesses and organizations on the intrinsic power of human capital and the potential of properly aligned values. He uses comedy, academic insight, and musical interaction to engage them emotionally and demonstrate how to identify, attune and seize latent "human assets" for social innovation, more relevant CSR, improved HR, sincere PR, a heightened sense of community, and a more socially and environmentally aligned perspective of day-to-day activities and strategic objectives. His diverse background ranging from Eurovision to EU consultant, to corporate Edutainer allows him to bend formats and shape-shift to guarantee a stimulating and enlightening experience. Jurgis also make people sing and dance because it’s more fun like that. 

In this episode you will hear about his work, his music, his time in the jungle in Columbia with the indigenes people... you will even hear him sing. 

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More about 1treellion & Jurgis Didžiulis. 

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You are at the right place, this is The Butterfly Effect. This butterfly is excited to be speaking again, and this time in Portuguese with scientist Pedro H.S. Brancalion. If you are looking for the episode in English, check out Episode #10.

A very special thank you to Leonardo Silva that will be conducting this interview for me in Portuguese. Leonardo is an Agronomist, Master in Crop Production. He is a PhD candidate in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies at the University of Lisbon, where he researches climate risks to ecosystem services and their impacts on the agroforestry sector. He is also an advisor to the 1treellion movement.

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Pedro Brancalion é Professor de Silvicultura Tropical da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil, e vice-coordenador do Pacto pela Restauração da Mata Atlântica. Sua pesquisa se concentra no desenvolvimento de abordagens inovadoras de restauração florestal em paisagens tropicais modificadas pelo homem, com o objetivo de transformar a restauração em um uso da terra economicamente viável com maior potencial para contribuir para a conservação da biodiversidade e o bem-estar humano. Tem formação como Engenheiro Agrônomo e trabalhou em estreita colaboração com proprietários rurais, empresas agrícolas e ONGs de conservação que desenvolvem programas de restauração em grande escala, bem como os formuladores de políticas no Brasil para desenvolver novos instrumentos legais e planos estratégicos para restauração. A maior parte de sua pesquisa tem se concentrado nas regiões da Mata Atlântica, Cerrado e Amazônia do Brasil. Ele trabalhou como autor principal e editor de revisão na Plataforma Intergovernamental de Política Científica sobre Biodiversidade e Serviços Ecossistêmicos (IPBES), como membro do conselho científico do Plano Nacional de Recuperação da Vegetação Nativa do Brasil e da iniciativa Regenera Brasil. Publicou mais de 170 artigos revisados por pares e 7 livros, e recebeu o Prêmio Bunge 2018 por sua contribuição para a promoção de serviços ecossistêmicos na agricultura.

Você ouvirá sobre sua última pesquisa Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration”, onde mergulharemos para falar sobre biodiversidade, carbono do solo, o significado de “Brasil” e muito mais.

Sobre o apresentador convidado Leonardo Silva. Leonardo é Engenheiro Agrônomo, Mestre em Produção Vegetal e Doutorando em Mudanças Climáticas e Políticas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável na Universidade de Lisboa, onde pesquisa riscos climáticos aos serviços ecossistêmicos e seus impactos no setor agroflorestal. Leonardo também atua há mais de uma década na recuperação de terras degradadas pelo uso da terra ou desastres socioambientais, bem como na restauração de florestas tropicais em projetos de larga escala. Ele atua como especialista em uso sustentável da terra pela  Fundação Renova, e assessora a 1treellion em projetos de restauração florestal ao redor do mundo para combater os efeitos das mudanças climáticas e melhorar a qualidade de vida das comunidades envolvidas.

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More about 1treellion, Pedro Brancalion, and Leonardo Silva.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Irina Fedorenko. Irina is a serial tech entrepreneur. She co-founded an innovative forestry start-up that uses drones for forest restoration, and is currently the  Managing Director of the Caux Dialogue on Environment and Security, an Initiatives for Land, Lives and Peace program.

This program brings together senior policymakers, project managers and social entrepreneurs to examine best practices of land restoration, climate change mitigation and peacebuilding.

Irina has a PhD in Geography and the Environment from the University of Oxford.

Her academic interests focus on entrepreneurship in Russia and China, and the use of technology for social and environmental change.

In this episode you will hear about her work of planting with drones, democratizing planting for the community using blockchain, and more.

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More about 1treellion & Irina Fedorenko.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Kate Belew, a Brooklyn based writer from the Midwest. In addition to being a poet, Kate teaches poetry and studies plants.

In this poetic episode you will hear about her work and it’s connection to nature, her inspiring places to write, Emily Dickinson, essential herbal plants for you to have, and more.

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More about 1treellion, Kate Belew & Pandemic Poems.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Alexander Verbeek. Alexander is a Dutch environmentalist, public speaker, diplomat, and former strategic policy advisor at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Over the past 30 years, he has worked on international security, humanitarian and geopolitical risk issues, and the linkage to the earth's accelerating environmental crisis.

Currently, Alexander is Policy Director at the Environment & Development Resource Centre (EDRC) in Brussels. He is also an independent advisor on global issues related to climate, security, water, food, energy, and resources. He collaborates with governments, businesses, think tanks, and civil society agencies to create solutions for the planetary challenges of the 21st century.

Alexander served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Netherlands Navy and was a diplomat for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1992 until 2016. His last position was Strategic Policy Advisor on Global Issues in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He had postings in Vienna (OSCE), Bonn, and London. At MFA headquarters in The Hague, he also worked in the Middle-East Department, twice in the Security Department, and for several years in the Asia department.

Alexander founded the Institute for Planetary Security and developed the Planetary Security Initiative, leading the team that prepared the first Planetary Security Conference in the Peace Palace in The Hague in November 2015. From 2016 until 2018 he was the Chairman of the Board of Advisors of this initiative.

Alexander is a World Fellow at Yale University and has been an associate or fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the Stockholm International Water institute (SIWI), a Visiting Fellow at the Peace and Conflict Department of Uppsala University in Sweden, and he is on the board of advisors of several international environmental initiatives. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

In this episode you will hear about the direct and indirect effects of climate change, what countries can do, what you can do, and more.

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