The Carbon Connection

SUMMARY

In this episode of The Carbon Connection, we learn from Andra Yeghoian, the Chief Innovation Officer at Ten Strands, a non-profit organization in California that works with schools, government, and stakeholders to enhance environmental literacy in California schools.

In this conversation with Ian Shanahan, the host of Talking with Green Teachers, Yeghoian discusses her trauma and climate research and how to lead a trauma-informed classroom.

LINKS

Talking with Green Teachers

The Carbon Almanac

CONTRIBUTORS

Special Acknowledgment: Ian Shanahan, Host of Talking with Green Teachers

Senior Producer: Tania Marien

Supervising Producer: Jennifer Myers Chua

Music: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, Musicbed

Episode Art: Jennifer Myers Chua

Network Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARY

In this edition of The Carbon Connection, we feature an episode of the CarbonSessions podcast. Co-hosts Katherine Palmer and Brian D. Tormey speak with Kate Field, the co-founder of Leap Farm, a carbon-positive farm in Tasmania, Australia. In addition to speaking about climate and farming-related topics, Palmer, Tormey, and Field talk about regenerative agriculture, the limits of reforestation, carbon capture, methane, and more.

LINKS

Leap Farm

CarbonSessions

The Carbon Almanac

CONTRIBUTORS

Special Acknowledgment: 

CarbonSessions Producers - Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington, Rob Slater

Production Team: Barbara Orsi

Senior Producer: Tania Marien

Supervising Producer: Jennifer Myers Chua

Music: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, Musicbed

Episode Art: Jennifer Myers Chua

Network Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARY

In this episode of The Carbon Connection, we learn how volunteers created the community and culture of The Carbon Almanac Network. Host Jennifer Myers Chua speaks with contributors Louise Karch, Eva Forde, and Diane Osgood. They discuss working with team members, celebrating each other's strengths, and building a movement that helps to create the conditions for conversations about our changing climate.

How did strangers from six continents come together to create a movement?

Let's find out.

You can learn more about how volunteers from around the world built The Carbon Almanac Network in this article in Fast Company magazine (December 2022).

Lessons from a project with no managers, no boss, and everyone is a leader

LINKS

• The Carbon Almanac
• The Carbon Almanac Collective podcast
• The Carbon Almanac receives recognition as the Most Insightful Data Book 2022

CONTRIBUTORS

Special Acknowledgment: 

Jennifer Myers Chua, Host/Producer, The Carbon Almanac Collective

Louise Karch, Eva Forde, Diane Osgood

Senior Producer: Tania Marien

Supervising Producer: Jennifer Myers Chua

Music: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, Musicbed

Episode Art: Jennifer Myers Chua

Network Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARY

In this episode, Dr. Cara Ooi speaks with artist and educator Manon Doran about her work with teens. They also discuss Manon's work as a contributor to The Carbon Almanac, how some teens and adults experience eco-anxiety, and how it can lead to paralysis and inaction. They propose steps and small daily shifts that can lead teens and all of us to concrete climate actions.

To learn more about eco-anxiety, go to the Footnotes section of The Carbon Almanac website and enter "eco-anxiety."

In the results, you'll find links to a five-part series about eco-anxiety initially published in The Daily Difference newsletter.

In the search results, you will also find a link to the resources used to write the page about eco-anxiety in The Carbon Almanac.

LINKS

• The DECODE Project Podcast
• The Carbon Almanac



CONTRIBUTORS

Special Acknowledgment: Dr. Cara Ooi, Sleep Doctor and host of the DECODE Project Podcast.

Production Team: Julie Desmarais

Senior Producer: Tania Marien

Supervising Producer: Jennifer Myers Chua

Music: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, Musicbed

Episode Art: Jennifer Myers Chua

Network Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARY

The Carbon Almanac Network features podcasts for both kids and adults.

On this show, we've learned about CarbonSessions and The Carbon Almanac Collective. Today we’ll listen to the podcast for kids. This podcast was created for kids ages 6-10. A cohort we’re calling Generation Carbon.

On this podcast, Gen C changemakers are asked to help grownups learn about the environment and save the planet.

Each episode revolves around a question submitted by a Generation Carbon Changemaker.

Today we’re showcasing the episode where curious changemakers Julian and Aaron wonder…

Poop. Why does it stink so much?

What’s it good for?

And how can we use poop to restore the environment?

What did our guest expert have to say?

Let’s find out.

LINKS

• Generation Carbon podcast
• The Carbon Almanac

CONTRIBUTORS

Special Acknowledgment: Julian, Aaron and Clara

Senior Producer: Tania Marien

Supervising Producer: Jennifer Myers Chua

Music: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, Musicbed

Episode Art: Jennifer Myers Chua

Network Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARY

In this episode of The Carbon Connection, we hear from Heather McTeer Toney, who shares a story about a situation needing her attention after she was elected mayor of Greenville, Mississippi, in 2004.

Like many in the South, her community had a brown water problem, meaning that when you turned on the tap, the water was tinged with rust and sediment that were both public health issues and a deterrent to economic development. What started as a commitment to helping her community with a basic need evolved into a lasting commitment to environmental justice.

Heather McTeer Toney served under President Obama as the regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency's Southeast Region. Today she continues her work as the Climate Justice Liaison at the Environmental Defense Fund. She is a senior advisor to Moms Clean Air Force, where her work engages parents and caretakers in developing culturally responsive solutions to the climate issues that affect our children's future.

• Southern Environmental Law Center
• Broken Ground: Season 4 - Women of Environmental Justice
• The Carbon Almanac
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Moms Clean Air Force

CONTRIBUTORS

Special Acknowledgment: 

• Erin Malec, Director of Communications, Southern Environmental Law Center
• Southern Environmental Law Center

Production Team: Jennifer Simpson

Senior Producer: Tania Marien

Supervising Producer: Jennifer Myers Chua

Music: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, Musicbed

Episode Art: Jennifer Myers Chua

Network Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARY

How can adults talks about climate change with children?

This question is at the heart of this conversation between psychotherapist Caroline Hickman and host Verity Sharp.

Caroline Hickman is a climate psychologist and teaching fellow at the University of Bath in England. In this thoughtful conversation, Hickman offers guidance to parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers, and all adults interacting with children.

Hickman shares she sees anger over the climate emergency expressed more than eco-anxiety and speaks about supporting children instead of only talking to them.

She also shares practical solutions and what she learned from her conversation with a six-year-old child when she asked the child how she wants adults to talk to her about serious topics.

Useful Resources

• Children & Climate Change by the Climate Psychology Alliance
• The Carbon Almanac

CONTRIBUTORS

Special Acknowledgment: 

• Verity Sharp, Climate Crisis Conversations
• Rachael Webster, Climate Psychology Alliance

Senior Producer: Tania Marien

Supervising Producer: Jennifer Myers Chua

Music: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, Musicbed

Episode Art: Jennifer Myers Chua

Network Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARY

It's time for some interesting food facts.

In this episode of The Carbon Connection, we join hosts Leekei Tang, Jenn Swanson, and Olabanji Stephen as they discuss fun facts about the food we eat, the food we may think twice about eating, and the impact our food choices can have on the climate.

CarbonSessions features carbon conversations for every day, with everyone, from everywhere in the world. It is part of The Carbon Almanac Podcast Network.

Show notes for Quiz on Food and Climate

The Carbon Almanac

CONTRIBUTORS

Special Acknowledgment: Leekei Tang, Jenn Swanson, and Olabanji Stephen, hosts of CarbonSessions.

Episode Producer: Tania Marien

Production Team: Leekei Tang and Robert Slater

Senior Producer: Tania Marien

Supervising Producer: Jennifer Myers Chua

Music: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, Musicbed

Episode Art: Jennifer Myers Chua

Network Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARY

In this episode of The Carbon Connection, we learn about solutions.

Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, hosts of Your Undivided Attention, a podcast in the TED Audio Collective, speak to science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson about his latest novel, Ministry of the Future. They discuss the relatable realities of the book’s dramatic opening scene to Stanley’s optimistic message about people working together to reduce the impacts of our changing climate. They also discuss how the science fiction genre can help us imagine a new reality.

Your Undivided Attention

The Carbon Almanac

CONTRIBUTORS

Special Acknowledgment: 

Co-hosts, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin and the team at Your Undivided Attention. This show is produced by the Center for Humane Technology and is part of the TED Audio Collective.

Episode Producer: Tania Marien

Production Team: Richard Bliss Brooke

Senior Producer: Tania Marien

Supervising Producer: Jennifer Myers Chua

Music: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, Musicbed

Episode Art: Jennifer Myers Chua

Network Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARY

In this episode of The Carbon Connection, we learn from Dr. Edward B. Barbier, a distinguished professor of economics at Colorado State University.

Dr. Barbier is an expert in environmental economics and environmental policy. In this conversation with hosts Monica Olsen and Jennifer Walsh, Dr. Barbier discusses why individuals and businesses can not separate themselves from nature and explains what happens when natural resources are not priced appropriately.

Dr. Barbier also takes a moment to share a pattern observed in countries with and without green economies.

Biophilic Solutions

Dr. Edward B. Barbier

The Carbon Almanac

CONTRIBUTORS

Special Acknowledgment: Monica Olsen and Jennifer Walsh, co-hosts of Biophilic Solutions

Senior Producer: Tania Marien

Supervising Producer: Jennifer Myers Chua

Music: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, Musicbed

Episode Art: Jennifer Myers Chua

Network Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen