Field Notes
by A Rocha
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Ep 65: Júlio Reis – Hopeful stories from the Friends of A Rocha…
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About this podcast
Field Notes explores the themes of conservation and hope through a wide lens. Our guests include a moth-er, a wine theologian, Hebrew scholar, an environmental historian and a linguistic philosopher among others. Soundtrack – Jill Phillips & Andy Gullahorn: ‘Only Say the Word’ (instrumental track) from the album ‘The Good Things.’ Used with kind permission. www.andygullahorn.com – www.jillphillips.com
Episodes
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- Ep 65: Júlio Reis – Hopeful stories from the Friends of A Rocha Network · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 65When A Rocha began back in 1983, environmentalism was considered a slightly geeky niche interest by the world at large, and in the Church, if considered at all, as a distraction…
- Ep 64: Debra Rienstra – The significance of surviving remnants · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 64In a time of mass ecological collapse, the ecological concept of refugia offers a lifeline of hope and gives meaning to even small-scale effort. First coined in the mid-19th…
- Ep 63: Simon Stuart – A life in conservation · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 63Dr Simon Stuart is one of the world's leading conservation scientists, best known for leading the development of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species into the world's most…
- Ep 62: Autumn Ricksecker & Flo Wright – Life-building in a time of ecological crisis · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 62What 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…
- Ep 61: James Khoo – Bug-eyed wonder · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 61For 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…
- Ep 60: Anita George – In praise of the sponge · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 60Sponges 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…
- Ep 59: Anna Radkovic – Messy glorious conservation · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 59For 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…
- Ep 58: David Anderson – Sorrow and joy · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 58If 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…
- Ep 57: An anthology of hope · 1 h 1 minCreation 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…
- Ep 56: Thomas Chhoa – Plastic pollution to possibility · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 56Plastic 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…
- Ep 55: Peter Harris – Why does nature matter? · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 55Peter 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…
- Ep 54: Verónica Godoy - Battling Bull Creek's invasive species · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 54Verónica 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…
- Ep 53: Jacynthia Murphy and Silvia Purdie – Aotearoa New Zealand’s women in creation care · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 53Rev 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…
- Ep 52: Jasmine Kwong – Food, faith and a flourishing world · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 52There 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…
- Ep 51: Jayaprakash Bojan – Up close with an Orangutang and his maker · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 51Jayaprakash 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…
- Ep 50: Jeremy Lindsell – Lessons in conservation · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 50While 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…
- Ep 49: Sylvia Muia – Gen Z, journalism and fighting for the future · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 49Growing 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…
- Ep 48: Jo Herbert-James, Rick Faw & Jo Swinney – The Whole Easter Story · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 48Jo 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…
- Ep 47: Tim Stojanovic – Whose oceans to gain from and govern? · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 47This 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…
- Ep 46: Cindy Verbeek – The costly calling of a conservationist · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 46Cindy 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…
