In this episode we are joined by Dr Emma Ferranti and Prof. Rob Mackenzie from the University of Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFOR), where we talk about the role and importance of trees and plants in tackling the climate crisis and explore their experiments looking at how plants are responding to an artificial atmosphere based on what we think our woodlands will face in the future. 

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In this episode we are joined by Dusty Gedge President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB), where we will be talking about, you guessed it, green roofs! But also about how we need to rethink urban centers, urban ecology, and how people interact with city spaces.

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About People Place & Nature: PPN aims to bring important environmental conversations to the public and share current ideas, innovations, and issues surrounding the climate and our ever-changing world. Through the often inaccessible or private nature of most industry conversations and environmental data, PPN holds at its core the belief of spreading awareness and making these topics more accessible to the public.

Our guest Anna Dela Vega and host Niall Williams discuss the world of worms, why they are important, and what they can do for us!

About Anna: Anna is a wormologist from the Urban Worm: 

https://theurbanworm.co.uk/ 

She is helping lead the discussion in the UK and beyond on the importance of worms and what they can do for us!   

In this episode we talk all about how important worms are, there roles, how we work with worms across the world, how they can tackle the climate crisis, increase food production and help create more sustainable livelyhoods!   

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About People Place & Nature: PPN aims to bring important environmental conversations to the public and share current ideas, innovations and issues surrounding the climate and our ever-changing world. Through the often inaccessible or private nature of most industry conversations and environmental data, PPN holds at its core the belief of spreading awareness and making these topics more accessible to the public. 

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Trees belong in forests, or do they? Ted Green and Jill Butler are two of the founding members of the Ancient Tree Forum, an organisation dedicated to the securing the future of our ancient and veteran tree ecosystems. These two have an immense wealth of knowledge on our trees, the impact they've had on forming society as we know it and the huge importance that ensuring we preserve these ecological treasure troves.  

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About the Ancient Tree Forum:

The Ancient Tree Forum seeks to secure the long term future of these our Ancient and Veteran tree ecosystems through promoting best management and conservation practice, lobbying governments over their recognition and protection, encouraging research, and increasing people’s enjoyment of old trees. As with all conservation work, raising awareness and increasing the understanding of the value and importance that these trees have is vital to their success. 

Web: ancienttreeforum.org.uk

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How do we create vibrant, healthy cities and what can be done to enable full ethnic participation in the environment? We sit down with Judy Ling Wong to discuss her work on these topics and more in this insightful episode of the podcast.

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About Judy:

Judy Ling Wong CBE is an incredible woman whose career has taken her from artist to activist.

For many years, Judy invested her energies into changing the world, putting her artistic endeavours aside. She poured all her creativity into her work as Director of the charity Black Environment Network. During these years, Judy took the voluntary environmental sector from a position of zero involvement with ethnic minoirities to 100%. In 2000, Judy was honoured with an OBE for pioneering ethnic minority environmental participation, and in 2007 a CBE followed, for services to heritage.

Judy is a vision caster and a major voice on policy towards social inclusion. Over the years, her contribution has included membership of the DCMS Historic Environment Executive Committee, ODPM Urban Green Spaces Task Force, National Trust Council for England and Wales, Wales Assembly Government Environmental Strategy Reference Group, Scottish Museums Council National Access and Learning Steering Group, and the IUCN/WCPA Urban Specialist Group.

She is now devoting her energies again to art while still playing a role in contributing to the advancement of society.

Twitter: @ling_judy

Web: judylingwong.co.uk and ben-network.org.uk

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How do we care for and utilise our landscapes to enhance our resources, improve our quality of life and boost education? Our guest Merrick Denton-Thompson has a vast wealth of knowledge through his career in the landscape profession and we took the opportunity to tap into this knowledge in the beautiful surroundings of Loch Tay, Scotland.  

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About Merrick:  

Merrick Denton Thompson is a past president of the Landscape Institute, a founding member of the Learning Through Landscapes trust. He has had a long and fruitful career where he worked tirelessly to care for our landscapes and utilise them for the wonderful resources that they are, he was also awarded an OBE for services to Education in 2001 after years of pushing the importance that access to nature has on young minds.

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The climate crisis effects us all and, as we have all seen with demonstrations across the globe, the younger generations are quickly becoming the most vocal in their support to save the environment. In this episode we're speaking to George Hassall about gardening at home through lockdown and how the next generation of climate activists are shaping the world.

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About George: 

George is a bright young man who's passion for gardening and wildlife made him the RHS's first young ambassador in 2015 (at just 10 years old!) and has since made appearances on TV shows such as Blue Peter and The One Show to promote more people into Gardening and taking an interest in the conservation of the natural world.

Twitter: @GreenFGeorge

Instagram: @greenfingeredgeorge

Web: greenfingeredgeorge.com

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What is "Water Neutrality", and how does it impact new housing developments? In this episode, we're chatting with Tapiwa Gavaza about some of the challenges we face in providing housing and water for an ever-expanding population.

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About Tapiwa:

Tapiwa Gavaza is the Technical Director - Water Neutrality Strategist at Water Offsets Ltd. With over 20 years of experience working in Property and Development, stretching back before he started his studies as a Civil Engineer, Tapiwa has now turned his wealth of expertise to address the Housing Crisis. He believes that collective and concerted action will help solve this problem, a view we share.

Instagram: @tapiwagavaza

Web: 300000homes.org

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In this episode we're with Dr Daniel Stewart, co-founder and CEO of ViridiCO2, an innovation driven start-up, producing disruptive catalytic technology to the chemical industry. We discuss Daniel's leap from PhD project to CEO and how his technology has the potential to transform our view on CO2 from a harmful byproduct into a valuable resource.

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Dr Daniel Stewart, Chief Executive officer, ViridiCO2 Ltd.

Daniel graduated with a Masters in Chemistry with first class honours from the University of Southampton in 2015. After a short break, he returned and joined the research group of Professor Robert Raja in 2016 to undertake a PhD exploring technologies capable of directly utilising carbon dioxide to synthesise high-value chemicals. Completing his PhD in 2020, Daniel’s work culminated in the award of a Research Fellowship through which Daniel explored the commercialisation potential of his PhD research. This work was widely recognised for its potential to transform the Carbon Capture Utilisation (CCU) landscape, and was named winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s prestigious Emerging Technology Competition 2020 in the Energy and Environment sector. Following this, Daniel secured a highly-competitive, £300,000 grant which supported the spinning-out of ViridiCO2 Ltd., attracting a further £560,000 of equity investment from private investors, and being one of four SMEs promoted by the Royal Society of Chemistry during the international climate conference, COP26.

Twitter: @ViridiCo2

Instagram: @ViridiCo2

Web: viridico2.co.uk

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Welcome to the first episode of the People Place and Nature Podcast! In this episode, we talk with John Little on a wide range of topics from how we need to rethink designing for ecology, why complexity is vital for eco-systems and how we can make simple changes through design and management to make places better for people and nature. 

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About John: 

Twitter: @grassroofco 

Instagram: @grassroofco 

Web: https://www.grassroofcompany.co.uk/ and https://greenroofshelters.co.uk/

Winners - CIRIA BIG Biodiversity Challenge 2018 - Innovation Award  

Winner - CIBSE - Green Infrastructure Design Challenge - EcoBuild 201  

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