TALATERRA
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.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 143
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Mindi Rosser, Establishing Credibility as an Independent Professional
Today my guest is Mindi Rosser.
Mindi helps business owners and subject matter experts have conversations with their LinkedIn audience, peers, and prospects.
Mindi helps people establish a presence bas…
Jim Folsom, Botany In Context
Jim Folsom is the creator and host of @BotanyInContext, a fun and fascinating channel on TikTok about the plants we engage with and see in our daily lives. Jim is a teacher, a gardener, a botanist, a…
Marijke Hecht, Establishing a Naturalist's Identity in Community Programs
Dr. Marijke Hecht is an Assistant Professor at Penn State whose research of urban greenspaces involves the interaction between humans and more-than-human nature. In 2019 I read Dr. Hecht's paper abou…
Brad McLain, Professional Identity of Informal Science Educators
Dr. Brad McLain is a social scientist interested in the nature and psychology of identity development, learning, and leadership.
He is the Director of the Center for STEM Learning at the University of…
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CREDITS:
- Producer: Tania Marien
- Music: So Far So Close by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License;
- SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by…
Dina Falconi and Wendy Hollender, Wild Food Cookbook
Dina Falconi and Wendy Hollender discuss how they wrote and illustrated their award-winning book, "Foraging and Feasting: A Field Guide to Wild Food Cookbook." They also discuss how they launched a …
Eleanor Chaney, The Library of Nature
Eleanor Chaney is a freelance artist and educator. She is also the founder and creative director of The Library of Nature, an online resource for children. In this episode, Eleanor and I discuss how …
Rebecca Kling, Stories for Advocacy and Social Change
Today my guest is Rebecca Kling.
Rebecca is an educator, performer, community organizer, storyteller, and advocate for social change.
Rebecca is also an advocate for transgender rights, is involved in …
Earth Stories by StoryCenter
Today we are joined by Amy Hill, Yakuta Poonawalla, and Cassidy Villeneuve, creators, and facilitators of a new workshop experience at StoryCenter, the founders of the digital storytelling movement. …
Susan B. Inches, Storytelling and The Art of Advocacy
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…
Gretchen Halpert, Visual Science Communication (2019)
Scientific illustrator and science communicator, Gretchen Halpert, discusses how she entered the field of science illustration, shares a story about the time she demonstrated the value of drawing at …
Miguel Cruz - Culture, Environment, Education
Environmental and cultural educator, Miguel Cruz, prepares to launch environmental education programs in Mexico and to learn Otomi, his family's indigenous language.
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Tami Cole, Blooming Hope Project and Prison Food Systems
Tami Cole and her family established Optimistic Orchard to create sustainable and healthy food systems in prisons.
How are they doing?
Let's find out.
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Anne Armstrong: Let's Talk About Climate Change
This summer, I have the wonderful opportunity to be involved with projects addressing conversations around climate change. I couldn't do this work without revisiting the book "Communicating Climate C…
Drew Dumsch, The Ecology School
The Ecology School in Saco, Maine began as a seasonal outdoor camp in a rented facility. Today it is an established institution on a 105-acre working farm and is about to open two of the greenest bui…
The First EE Forward Summit
A recap of the first EE Forward Summit, a professional development and partnership-building event for independent environmental education professionals and community partners.
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Choose nature, not "hurry sickness"
Our preoccupation with time has led to an affliction author Christian McEwen calls "hurry sickness." As we kick off a new summer season, here are three suggestions to help you wind down and leave tim…
Start Fixing Your Freelance Problem
Time.
Money.
Liveable wage.
To be taken seriously.
Be more visible.
More opportunities.
These are things independent educators have told me they want.
And this is only a partial list.
The items on this li…
Announcing the EE Forward Summit
There’s a new event designed with the independent environmental education professional in mind.
What’s it about?
Let’s find out.
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More about the EE Forward Summit
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- Producer: Tania Marien
- Musi…
Susan Chung, Biophilic Design Meets Graphic Storytelling
During the past month, we’ve been able to learn about biophilic design and how graphic narratives can be used as effective learning tools.
My conversations with biophilic designer Sonja Bochart and il…