The Carbon Connection

SUMMARYJeanette Bronée is a Carbon Almanac Network member and helped facilitate partnerships. In this episode, she offers insight into team building and how to create the conditions that sustain corporate teams in their climate work. Community-based organizations can also apply Jeanette's principles.Jeanette Bronée is a global keynote and two-time TEDx Speaker, culture strategist, and author of The Self-Care Mindset.Jeanette is rethinking self-care in the workplace as the foundation for peak performance, engagement, and a culture where people belong and work better together.As an internationally recognized self-care mindset expert, she has spoken at the United Nations, given keynotes across the US, and spoken to audiences on five continents. She shares the tools to reclaim agency and cultivate the human connection that helps us communicate and collaborate with curiosity and care to navigate challenges, innovate, and grow stronger together in our constantly changing reality. She gives us the C.A.R.E.-driven framework so we can change our relationship with self-care at work in order to be busy and healthy at the same time, cultivating a culture where people create impact and sustainable success together. Her clients include IBM, BlackRock, Lockheed Martin, Kaiser Permanente, Genentech, Microsoft, Facebook, ebay, Siemens, and more. Her new book, "The Self-Care Mindset, Rethinking How We Change and Grow, Harness Well-Being and Reclaim Work-Life Quality," is a book of tools to harness our human advantage to grow through adversity.  LINKSJeanette BronéeThe Carbon AlmanacThe Carbon Almanac Podcast NetworkCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Jeanette BronéeSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYToday we're trying a new format for this podcast.When The Carbon Connection launched one year ago, the objective was to highlight climate conversations happening around the world. The plan was to collaborate with hosts and producers of other podcasts and highlight their conversations with guests. Click on the link in the show notes to see the conversations we've been able to share, thanks to the independent podcasters and teams with which we've had the opportunity to collaborate.Moving forward, we will continue to highlight climate conversations. This time we're sitting down with partners of The Carbon Almanac Network.In the podcast's new format, we'll speak with partners to learn more about their community engagement efforts, what has worked for them, what hasn't, and what they've learned. We begin this new journey by speaking with Dr. Rob Slater, founder of One Devonshire Place, a specialty orthodontics practice in England.Rob is also a podcast producer and contributor to The Carbon Almanac Podcast Network.In today's episode, Rob and I discuss sustainability in dentistry. We discuss how Rob started his practice and what he has learned about making his practice more sustainable. Rob shares his successes and challenges and offers insight into how patients can enter conversations about sustainability with their family dentist.LINKSOne Devonshire Place is a Friends partner of The Carbon Almanac NetworkView The Carbon Connection catalogBritish Lingual Orthodontic SocietyBritish Orthodontic Society - Corporate Social ResponsibilitySustainable Dentistry (American Dental Association)Sustainability in Dentistry: A Multifaceted Approach Needed (Journal of Dental Research)CONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Dr. Rob SlaterProducer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYThis episode of The Carbon Connection is about ecological awareness. Michael Hawk, host of Nature's Archive, and Dr. Doug Tallamy, the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, discuss oak trees' critical role in ecosystems. They also discuss Homegrown National Park, a movement started by Dr. Tallamy that helps people see the connection between food webs, ecosystems, and the urban landscape.LINKSNature's ArchiveNature's Archive podcastThe Carbon AlmanacThis episode aligns with the following spreads in The Carbon Almanac:TreesBiodiversityGardeningCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Michael Hawk, Nature's ArchiveProduction Team: Jeremy CôtéSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn this episode of The Carbon Connection we learn from Greg Peterson, host of The Urban Farm Podcast, and Christine Lance a Master Gardener in Colorado. They discuss how to plan, fund, and establish a community garden.LINKSThe Urban Farm PodcastThe Carbon AlmanacThe Daily Difference NewsletterDo you wonder how you can weave the topic of gardening into conversations about climate change? Consider The Daily Difference to:Help you use community gardens as a vehicle to tap into the power of local government.Start a tool library.Consider this as a way to begin conversations about our changing climate in non-threatening ways.CONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Greg Peterson, The Urban Farm PodcastSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYExplore more carbon connections at https://thecarbonalmanac.org/connect-the-dots.CONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Jennifer Myers Chua, Producer, Generation CarbonProduction Team: Edie, Callie Caterpillar, Penelope Opossum, Luna the BearSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn this episode of The Carbon Connection, hosts Olabanji Stephen and Leekei Tang speak with Juan Coronado, co-founder of Mijenta Tequila, the first B-corp tequila company in the world.You’ll learn how traditional tequila is made and how it differs from the approach taken by Mijenta Tequila. You’ll also learn about how the company’s works with their community.CONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: The CarbonSessions podcast teamProduction Team: Leekei Tang, Olabanji StephenSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn this episode of The Carbon Connection, we learn about insurance and its role in recovering after a climate disaster. Host Greg Dalton speaks with guests with deep knowledge about how US emergency services and the insurance industry work. They discuss how FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) distributes aid and offer insight into the needs-based aid system in the United States. They also consider big questions such as:What might disaster aid look like if those impacted received a flat amount?Why does climate disruption make it more difficult to be insured?What role should insurance play in aiding recovery?LINKSClimate One podcastFEMAThe Carbon AlmanacConnect-the-Dots, an interactive resource by The Carbon Almanac Network linking issues to actions.CONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Greg Dalton, Climate OneProduction Team: Dr. Lynda UlrichSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn this episode of The Carbon Connection, Valerie Lucchesi speaks with Mathis Wackernagel, founder of the Global Footprint Network, a network dedicated to conversation and actions leading to the thoughtful management of natural resources. The network established Earth Overshoot Day. This day signals the day of a year that "humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year." Learn more about this estimated date and the methodology used on the Earth Overshoot Day website.In this conversation, Lucchesi and Wackernagel discuss what "overshoot" looks like in Switzerland.LINKS5th Switzerland podcastGlobal Footprint NetworkEarth Overshoot DayThe Carbon AlmanacCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Valerie Lucchesi, 5th SwitzerlandProduction Team: Lucia Speranza, Steve HeatheringtonSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn this episode of The Carbon Connection, we learn from Dr. Kayri Havens, the Medard and Elizabeth Welch, Director of Plant Science and Conservation at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Dr. Havens discusses how plant conservation techniques are changing in response to climate change and how the biggest challenge in plant conservation is getting the public to take plants seriously.She also offers insight into how conservation techniques used in zoos are applied to plant collections in botanic gardens.LINKSNegaunee Institute for Plant Conservation Science and Action at the Chicago Botanic GardenDr. Kayri HavensGreen Industry Leaders NetworkThe Carbon AlmanacRelated activity in The Carbon Almanac Educator's Guide (Seeing Plants, page 31; download here)CONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Chris Sabbarese, Green Industry Leaders Network presented by Corona ToolsProduction Team: Dr. Lynda UlrichSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn this episode of The Carbon Connection, host Dan Cumberland speaks with Paige NeJame, writer, business owner, and contributor to The Carbon Almanac. Paige led the team that created Generation Carbon, the almanac for kids. In this conversation, you'll learn more about these two almanac projects and how Paige balances full-time work with advocating for a healthy planet.LINKSThe Meaning Movement with Dan CumberlandThe Carbon AlmanacCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Dan Cumberland, The Meaning MovementProduction Team: Barbara OrsiSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn 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.LINKSTalking with Green TeachersThe Carbon AlmanacCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Ian Shanahan, Host of Talking with Green TeachersSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn 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.LINKSLeap FarmCarbonSessionsThe Carbon AlmanacCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: CarbonSessions Producers - Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington, Rob SlaterProduction Team: Barbara OrsiSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn 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 leaderLINKSThe Carbon AlmanacThe Carbon Almanac Collective podcastThe Carbon Almanac receives recognition as the Most Insightful Data Book 2022CONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Jennifer Myers Chua, Host/Producer, The Carbon Almanac CollectiveLouise Karch, Eva Forde, Diane OsgoodSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn 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.LINKSThe DECODE Project PodcastThe Carbon AlmanacCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Dr. Cara Ooi, Sleep Doctor and host of the DECODE Project Podcast.Production Team: Julie DesmaraisSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYThe 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.LINKSGeneration Carbon podcastThe Carbon AlmanacCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Julian, Aaron and ClaraSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn 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 CenterBroken Ground: Season 4 - Women of Environmental JusticeThe Carbon AlmanacEnvironmental Defense FundMoms Clean Air ForceCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Erin Malec, Director of Communications, Southern Environmental Law CenterSouthern Environmental Law CenterProduction Team: Jennifer SimpsonSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYHow 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 ResourcesChildren & Climate Change by the Climate Psychology AllianceThe Carbon AlmanacCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Verity Sharp, Climate Crisis ConversationsRachael Webster, Climate Psychology AllianceSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIt'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 ClimateThe Carbon AlmanacCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Leekei Tang, Jenn Swanson, and Olabanji Stephen, hosts of CarbonSessions.Episode Producer: Tania MarienProduction Team: Leekei Tang and Robert SlaterSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn 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 AttentionThe Carbon AlmanacCONTRIBUTORSSpecial 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 MarienProduction Team: Richard Bliss BrookeSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

SUMMARYIn 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 SolutionsDr. Edward B. BarbierThe Carbon AlmanacCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Monica Olsen and Jennifer Walsh, co-hosts of Biophilic SolutionsSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen