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S1E62 Ep 62: Autumn Ricksecker & Flo Wright – Life-building in a time of ecological crisis
What is it like to be in your late 20s and making major life decisions in today’s world? Studies show young people understand themselves to be living in a highly unstable world where biodiversity…
S1E61 Ep 61: James Khoo – Bug-eyed wonder
For many people, a close encounter with an insect leads to a quick departure by one or both or a summary execution, most often of the non-human party. If you recognise these scenarios from your own…
S1E60 Ep 60: Anita George – In praise of the sponge
Sponges are not only a great help in the shower, but some of the oldest, simplest animals on earth. If you haven’t yet discovered how fascinating and vitally important to a healthy planet they are,…
S1E59 Ep 59: Anna Radkovic – Messy glorious conservation
For Anna, no two work days at A Rocha Kenya are the same. She may be underwater doing a bit of coral gardening, helping scouts from Dakacha forest think through a Christian response to a machete…
S1E58 Ep 58: David Anderson – Sorrow and joy
If you have lived longer than five minutes on this planet you will have realised pain and delight, suffering and consolation, anguish and ecstacy co-exist. For a conservationist and pastor like David…
Ep 57: An anthology of hope
Creation is groaning with ever increasing distress. Those at the frontlines of the fight to reverse the frightening trends need strategies for staying strong. Each episode of Field Notes concludes…
S1E56 Ep 56: Thomas Chhoa – Plastic pollution to possibility
Plastic has a rather dirty reputation these days. There are few places on land or underwater where you won’t find discarded plastic waste causing harm and havoc. Thomas Chhoa has spent his life in…
S1E55 Ep 55: Peter Harris – Why does nature matter?
Peter Harris founded A Rocha in the early 1980s and has given his life since to the cause of nature conservation. He has long known the vital importance of the question of how and why to value…
S1E54 Ep 54: Verónica Godoy - Battling Bull Creek's invasive species
Verónica is a transplant to the USA from Argentina. As a plant molecular and cellular biologist and a plant lover, she soon began getting to know the fora of her new home, discovering the extent to…
S1E53 Ep 53: Jacynthia Murphy and Silvia Purdie – Aotearoa New Zealand’s women in creation care
Rev Jacynthia Murphy is of Māori descent and serves in a Pākehā parish. In this conversation with Rev Silvia Purdie and the Field Notes hosts she discusses her indigenous perspective on faith and her…
S1E52 Ep 52: Jasmine Kwong – Food, faith and a flourishing world
There is little in life with more direct environmental impact than food - how and what we produce, where we source it and how it gets there, how we prepare it and what we do with the waste. How do we…
S1E51 Ep 51: Jayaprakash Bojan – Up close with an Orangutang and his maker
Jayaprakash Bojan (JP)’s photo of a giant male orangutang peeping at him from behind a tree in a Borneo river won him National Geographic’s Nature Photographer of the Year in 2017. The image was seen…
S1E50 Ep 50: Jeremy Lindsell – Lessons in conservation
While the outlook for biodiversity is rather bleak, all the evidence says conservation works - we just need to do it well and do it more. It sounds simple, but often well-intended interventions have…
S1E49 Ep 49: Sylvia Muia – Gen Z, journalism and fighting for the future
Growing up, Sylvia spent a lot of time on the family farm just outside Nairobi, Kenya. Where she remembers a wide open landscape, there are now blocks of flats and a hospital. Reliable rains have…
S1E48 Ep 48: Jo Herbert-James, Rick Faw & Jo Swinney – The Whole Easter Story
Jo and Rick are joined by Jo Herbert-James to discuss the themes in Jo Swinney’s Lent book, “The Whole Easter Story: why the cross is good news for all creation.” What does our relationship with God…
S1E47 Ep 47: Tim Stojanovic – Whose oceans to gain from and govern?
This is the United Nations Decade of the Ocean, bringing an increased focus on caring for the ‘blue’ bit of the planet. Governing marine and coastal areas involves convening a multitude of groups -…
S1E46 Ep 46: Cindy Verbeek – The costly calling of a conservationist
Cindy Verbeek left her city life for a rural Eden in northern BC, Canada, where the air was clean, bears nonchalantly wandered along the local high street and preserving nature was hardwired into…
S1E45 Ep 45: Cyrie Sendashonga – The politics of protecting nature
To halt and reverse the terrible trends in nature loss and climate change requires collaboration at international levels. With every country coming to the table with its own interests and agenda, it…
S1E44 Ep 44: Dorothea Seeger – Marine biology & motherhood
The choice to start a family is always a great act of faith, hope and courage. In these unprecedented days of biodiversity collapse, climate change and societal upheaval, all the more so. Doro is a…
S1E43 Ep 43: Caroline Pomeroy – Stewarding the climate in turbulent times
Is carbon offsetting just something to make us feel a bit better about our climate-harming behaviours? How does it actually work and is there good science behind the numbers? Caroline leads Climate…
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