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
Kate Field, Regenerative Farming
Kate Field is a co-founder of Leap Farm, a 300-acre award-winning family farm in Tasmania. Together with her husband, Kate implements regenerative farming techniques to produce their signature cheese…
What is environmental education for?
Next week Talaterra Cowork will host Breakthrough! - Purpose of Environmental Education.
This Breakthrough! session will be the first of many monthly conversations to encourage dialogue between indepe…
The Future of Work
The future of work is uncertain.
What does this mean to independent professionals like you and me?
We can talk about it if you want.
How?
Let’s find out.
LINKS
Talaterra announces Breakthrough!
Last week I had the opportunity to meet with a group of environmental educators. Participants logged in from California, Oregon, Wisconsin, Maine, Mexico, and Costa Rica.
What did I learn?
What is Tala…
How did you begin in informal education?
“(A) lack of environmental education opportunities in our daughters’ elementary school.”
“Through work I was doing with scientific journals and museum publications.”
“(An) internship with an organic fa…
Mark and Crystal Mandica: Amphibian Foundation Launches New Initiative for Families
This week we meet up with Mark and Crystal Mandica, founders of The Amphibian Foundation. When Mark and Crystal launched the Foundation in 2016, they had to get creative when it came to funding becau…
Alice Merry: Museo Wak'a Pop-up Museum
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 l…
Janice Kelley: Nature Detectives and Podcast Update
Janice Kelley is an author and the founder of an afterschool program called Nature Detectives. This week we revisit my conversation with Janice because she recently launched a podcast series based on…
Tina Demirdjian: Poetry in Nature
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…
Engagement
While reviewing survey results collected in the early stage of The Freelance Project, I was struck by the questions about place and responses educators provided. I know it is our current challenge wi…
Donna Cravotta: Thoughtful Social Media
Donna Cravotta is the founder and CEO of Social Pivot PR. Donna's passion is to inspire people to rethink their approach to social media. I invited Donna to the show today because she achieved the im…
Bethan Burton: International Nature Journaling Week
Bethan Burton is a teacher, avid nature journaler, and founder of International Nature Journaling Week, an online global celebration occurring June 1-7, 2020.
When did Bethan decide to make journaling…
Doors Open
As some of you already know, last week I opened the doors to Talaterra Cowork, the coworking space that was established for independent professionals working in our field. If you are an independent p…
Roundtable Discussion: Where is your audience?
How do you find "the others?"
This question was the focus of a conversation I had earlier this morning.
Today I had the opportunity to participate in the Ruckus Makers Roundtable, hosted by Scott Per…
Kathryn Parsley: Plant Blindness
Kathryn Parsley is a Ph.D. candidate whose specialty is plant blindness and botanical literacy. She is creating tools to asses plant blindness in students and hopes to make her tools available to tea…
Erica Fielder: Designing Interpretive Displays
Erica Fielder is the owner of Erica Fielder Studio, an interpretive studio that creates interpretive displays for parks and visitor centers. Erica has worked with over 50 creative partners during the…
Freelance EE: Perspectives on the field of freelance environmental education
Episode 45: Introducing Freelance EE
February 20, 2020
Tania Marien 0:00
Freelance environmental education? That's a thing? Yes, it is. I've had more than one conversation with people who weren't awa…
Claudia Diaz Carrasco: Engaging with diverse audiences
Today’s episode addresses this question:
How can freelance educators learn to engage with diverse audiences and develop intercultural competence?
This question kicked off my conversation with Claudia D…
Kimberly Beck: Rewilding and Nature Therapy
Hello and welcome to February.
How is your year going?
Has it been nonstop busy since the holidays?
For me this year, January went the same way it went last year — busy, busy, busy — but lots of good …
Coworking for Freelance Environmental Educators
This week’s episode is about the launch of Talaterra Cowork, a coworking space for freelance environmental educators. What’s it all about?
Let’s find out.
LINKS
Talaterra Cowork (cowork.talaterra.com)