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TALATERRA

TALATERRA

Tania Marien

Environmental interpretation happens everywhere. On this podcast, you'll hear conversations with independent professionals who facilitate connections between people and the outdoors. Our guests work in diverse fields and take their own approach to environmental awareness and education. What they share in common is their commitment to nurturing the public's relationship with the outdoors and their status as independent professionals. Who are these professionals? What do they do? How do they contribute to lifelong learning in communities? Let's find out.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best TALATERRA episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to TALATERRA for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite TALATERRA episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Today we get to learn from Diane Wyzga, story strategist, guide, and founder of the practice called Engaged Storyism.

Diane is also the creator, host, and producer of Stories From Women Who Walk, a much-loved and listened-to podcast that has spread wisdom and touched hearts worldwide.

I reached out to Diane so you and I could think about story. Not in an MBA/marketing sort of way, but in a real way. A way that reflects who we are as individuals and professionals.

What is your story?

How do you find it?

Let’s find out.

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Quarter Moon Story Arts

Stories From Women Who Walk

Camino de Santiago

Receive updates about the story workshop with Diane

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TALATERRA - Sarah Johnson, The COP26 Experience
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02/11/22 • 46 min

Sarah R. Johnson is a landscape-based environmental educator. As a freelance science educator, she is focused on climate change, public lands, watershed science, civics, and geography, and teaching and learning through her business, Wild Rose Education. She designs and facilitates educator professional development workshops, teaches public lands courses, teaches International Arctic Buoy Program STEM programs, and facilitates a Colorado cohort of climate change educators. Sarah has created and facilitated numerous environmental education programs including the award-winning Youth Water Leadership Program.

Sarah is currently a PolarTREC educator, Spirituality and EE eePro Group Moderator, Guidelines for Excellence eePro Group Moderator, and also a student of the Living School at the Center for Action and Contemplation. Sarah has been based in western Colorado working to protect rivers and public lands through education since 2004 where she enjoys playing outside during all seasons, gardening, and making music.

Follow Sarah’s Arctic Expeditions

Learn more about and join the U.S. ACE Coalition

Read more about Sarah’s UNFCCC COP26 experience through her blog.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

More about Sarah and how she founded Wild Rose Education

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Susan B. Inches is an author, educator, and environmental advocate. In this episode, we discuss her career and new book, “Advocating for the Environment: How to Gather Your Power and Take Action.”

How did Susan become an independent advocate?

What is the difference between advocacy and direct action?

How can advocates connect with decision-makers?

Let’s find out.

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Susan B. Inches - Author, Educator, Environmental Advocate

Pine Tree Amendment

Frameworks Institute

Buy "Advocating for the Environment" *

*Note: Talaterra is a Bookshop.org affiliate.

Theme music for the podcast is provided by:

Jason Shaw, Audionautix, CC By 3.0 US (Episodes 1 - 15)

Jahzzar, So Far So Close, CC By 4.0 US (Episode 16 - onward)

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Dr. Lee Ann Woolery is a researcher, naturalist, educator, and artist. She is also the founder of EcoArt Expeditions and the Citizen Artist project. In this episode, Dr. Woolery and I discuss her interdisciplinary approach to ecological field research and the Train-the-Trainer pilot program that will launch in the new year.

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EcoArts Expeditions

Art-Based Perceptual Ecology

Knowing the Language of Place Through the Arts

Dr. Woolery's publications on ResearchGate

Contact Dr. Woolery

Maria Sibylla Merian, Smithsonian Institution

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Students in the United States like studying animals more than plants.

People tend not to pay attention to the plants in their surroundings.

These are only two factors contributing to a condition described as "plant blindness" in the botany and science education literature. In this episode, I speak with Dr. Elisabeth Schussler, one of the two botanists who coined the phrase in 1999. I also speak with Kathryn Parsley, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Memphis, whose specialty is botanical literacy. In a paper written for the journal "Plants People Planet," Kathryn makes a case for replacing the phrase "plant blindness" with Plant Awareness Disparity. Find out why formal and informal educators should consider doing the same.

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Links to Kathryn Parsley's websites and projects

Dr. Elisabeth Schussler, University of Tennessee

Article - Plant Awareness Disparity: A Case for Renaming Plant Blindness

Article - Preventing Plant Blindness

Botanical Society of America

American Society of Plant Biologists

Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary (Harris & Harris)

Ed Yong, Science Journalist

Besley Framework

Episode 47: Kathryn Parsley, Plant Blindness

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TALATERRA - Alice Merry: Museo Wak'a Pop-up Museum
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05/01/20 • 53 min

Alice Merry is a co-founder of Museo Wak'a, a pop-up participatory museum delighting communities in Lima, Peru. I spoke with Alice to learn more about Museo Wak'a and how it contributes to lifelong learning in communities.

Alice and co-founder Gustavo Florez Salcedo and team member Rolando Flores Vega launched Museo Wak'a three years ago in a garage after a flood. Since then, they received a grant from the Royal Society of Arts, formed partnerships with museums, and won the hearts of residents.

How did Museo Wak'a develop partnerships with traditional museums?

What has been Waka's most successful approach to sponsorships?

What's next for this community-oriented museum?

Let's find out.

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Museo Wak'a: A New Kind of Museum

Museo Wak'a on Facebook

Event photos on Facebook

Our First Few Interviews: Heritage, Shame, and Food

More Interviews: Make an Event of It

Alice on LinkedIn

Alice's podcast about women and financial inclusion (The Feminist Finance Podcast)

Data for Visitor-serving Organizations

A Beautiful Constraint

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TALATERRA - Tina Demirdjian: Poetry in Nature
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04/17/20 • 43 min

Tina Demirdjian is a poet, author, and teacher. Tina uses poetry and creative strategies to build sustainable partnerships. In this episode, Tina helps us see how poetry can be used to view the world in new and creative ways.

How does Tina use poetry as a tool for community building?

How does she work with multi-generational audiences?

Let's find out.

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Poetry Consults

Tina on Instagram

Two Dying Bees (poem)

Worm Biology (poem)

Mid-Afternoon (poem)

Talaterra on Poetry: Use Poetry to Engage with Your Subject, Your Audience, and Yourself

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TALATERRA - Interdisciplinary Learning Pathways
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09/26/19 • 6 min

The article A Learning Pathway to an Integrated Approach Involving Natural, Applied and Social Science, Humanities and Arts to Face Climate Change by Stephano Alessandri was written for non-scientists, scholars, students, and scientists whose fields do not involve the study of climate.

Alessandri, Stefano. (2019). A learning pathway to an integrated approach involving natural, applied and social science, humanities and arts to face climate change. Sustainability: The Journal of Record. 12(4): 199 - 214. Retrieved from https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/sus.2018.0040

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Building Community with Dr. Rupu Gupta, Part 1

Building Community with Dr. Rupu Gupta, Part 2

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My guest today is Jeffrey H. Ryan. Jeffrey is the author of Appalachian Odyssey and Blazing Ahead in his latest book, This Land Was Saved for You and Me.

Jeffrey introduces us to seven people who were key to forming and preserving America's public lands. Jeffrey tells how these individuals influenced and worked with each other and who they met during their careers.

He writes about the contributions made by Frederick Law Olmsted, Gifford Pinchot, Benton Mackaye, Theodore Roosevelt, Bob Marshall, Aldo Leopold, and Howard Zahniser.

Let's join the conversation.

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Jeffrey H. Ryan

Books by Jeffrey Ryan

Voices of the Wilderness

Wilderness Society

National Association for Interpretation

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TALATERRA - Wendy Nadherny Fachon, Story Walking
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03/08/24 • 41 min

Wendy Nadherny Fachon is an author, journalist, podcast host and environmental educator. Her work is published by Natural Awakenings Magazine, Sustainable Living News, and Dreamvisions 7 Radio.

After working many years in the healthcare industry, Wendy left her position to focus on children's health and wellness issues. She developed an afterschool walking program, which gave rise to her radio show, the Story Walking Radio Hour.

How did Wendy develop her afterschool program?

What is her radio show about?

How does she approach partnership building, which has been critical to her success?

Let's find out.

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Story Walking Radio Hour

Listen to the latest episode

Story Walking Website

Story Walking Radio Hour Facebook group

Nature Drawing Program

The Empowerment Factory's Trash to Treasures Short Video (YouTube)

Contact Wendy

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FAQ

How many episodes does TALATERRA have?

TALATERRA currently has 137 episodes available.

What topics does TALATERRA cover?

The podcast is about Poetry, Animals, Life Sciences, Photography, Conservation, Art, Teaching, Educator, Museum, Equity, Entrepreneur, Inclusion, Climate, Community, Environment, Botany, Freelance, Nature, Outdoors, Podcasts, Garden, Connection, Herbalist, Science, Business, Diversity, Teacher and Careers.

What is the most popular episode on TALATERRA?

The episode title 'Jerry Willenbring, Electrify California' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on TALATERRA?

The average episode length on TALATERRA is 34 minutes.

How often are episodes of TALATERRA released?

Episodes of TALATERRA are typically released every 13 days, 23 hours.

When was the first episode of TALATERRA?

The first episode of TALATERRA was released on Jan 15, 2019.

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