Episode 28

Animals On The Edge Of Extinction and How Trees Communicate

Episode Summary: In this episode, we talked about what we can do to help preserve animals and learn how trees communicate and what humans can learn from their way of communication 

Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson, Rod Aparicio and Inma

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves. 

Rod is a strategy advisor for indie brands. Rod is from Lima, Peru, living in Frankfurt, Germany

Imma is from Cádiz in the South of Spain, living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Imma is a sommelier, a poet, a podcaster, a mother, a slow food advocate, and an animist activist.

In the first conversation, Jenn and Rod discussed endangered animal species, how human pressure on resources and the destruction of their natural habitats threaten the survival of some animals, and what we can do about it. For example, a few years ago, Jenn’s son bought her for Christmas a year sponsorship of a …baby elephant.

In the second conversation, Inma talked about a ted talk by Suzanne Simard on ‘How Trees Talk To Each Other’, how learning from their way of communication helped Inma deal with eco-anxiety and how she went from the state of hopelessness to being hopeful again. 

For more information on the project and to order your copy of the Carbon Almanac, visit thecarbonalmanac.org

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Visit thecarbonalmanac.org/podcasts and send us a voice message on this episode or any other climate-related ideas and perspectives.

Don’t Take Our Word For It, Look It Up!

You can find out more on pages 13 and 154 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 367 and 252

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

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