Climate Hour Bob Grove

CLIMATE HOUR – A little community orchard provides an amazing number of benefits. First there’s basic carbon sequestration. Trees take carbon out of the air and reduce global warming. Then there’s food sovereignty. Trees give you control of your own food sources. In today’s corporate farming system, genetically modified foods are picked green, irradiated to prevent spoilage, then shipped half way around the world to high priced grocery stores. Food sovereignty means growing tasty, nutritious food that you can just walk up to the end of a block and pick from a tree. And then there’s community building. Bringing people together. Creating a shared work that builds relationships and creates a sense of accomplishment.















Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss the Amazing Impacts of the Little Community Orchard. Guests include:









* Erica Kratofil, Co-Executive Director, Giving Grove







* Florence Williams, Science Journalist and Author







* Matt Bunch, Horticulturalist, Giving Grove









To learn more, visit …









* https://www.GivingGrove.org







* https://www.FlorenceWilliams.com/







* https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6JPDD24









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CLIMATE HOUR – We’ve talked about climate education before. We’ve discussed how to teach children about climate, and we’ve talked about climate programs in higher education. But all of these programs need teachers who understand and are willing to add climate to their curriculum. How do we go about teaching teachers to teach climate change and how do we form the professional networks needed to support both formal and non-formal climate education? How do we teach teachers to teach climate?















Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss the Value of Teaching Teachers To Be Climate Teachers. Guests include:









* Marie Fargo, Senior Climate Change Instructional Resources Coordinator for Climate Generation







* Amy Frame, Director of Strategic Partnerships for Ten Strands







* Barbara Martinez-Guerrero, Executive Director of Dream in Green







* Seth Spencer, Team Climate Network Coordinator for Climate Generation









To learn more, visit …









* https://climategen.org







* https://tenstrands.org







* https://dreamingreen.org







* https://climategkc.org







* https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6JPDD24









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CLIMATE HOUR – When was the last time you talked about climate issues with a friend or family member? Studies find that the majority of people are concerned about climate but don’t talk about it. Why has something as universal as the climate conversation become such a political football that it’s a forbidden topic at family holiday gatherings?







In 2002, a prominent republican pollster circulated a strategy guide advising his candidates to talk about “climate change” instead of global warming. His research found that the concept of climate change was less threatening. Global warming was a crisis. Climate change was like taking a ski trip. He effectively created a talking point that de-escalated and delayed climate action for over 20 years.







So words do matter. Words can inspire hope and action. Or they can discourage and silence our voices. How do we find that balance between inspiring hope and addressing the urgency of a situation. How do we reframe the climate conversation?







Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss Reframing the Conversation. Guests include:

















* Adam Ratner, Director of Conservation Engagement, The Marine Mammal Center







* Hannah Phillips, Manager of Docents and Interpreters, Education Department, Saint Louis Zoo







* Kait Birghenthal, President & Project Coordinator, National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation (NNOCCI)







* Dr. Megan Ennes, Assistant Curator of Museum Education and Director of the Thompson Earth Systems Institute, Florida Museum of Natural History









To learn more, visit …









* https://MarineMammalCenter.org







* https://stlzoo.org







* https://NNOCCI.org







* https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/earth-systems/







* https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6JPDD24









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CLIMATE HOUR -- How do we prepare our college and university graduates to understand, survive and even prosper in this age of climate change? Some of this is expanding science degrees to address climate-related issues. But most of it is incorporating climate-related issues into ALL subjects; cross-cutting education to address the climate change we’re experiencing today and the climate reality that our graduates will face tomorrow.







The United Nations is calling for climate change studies to be a formal part of all curriculums in all schools by 2025. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has launched a project to re-Orient chemistry education globally toward sustainability. Climate Change is becoming core curriculum around the world.















Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss how to make higher education work for climate change. Guests include:









* Sarah Johnson, Founder, Wild Rose Education







* Shannon O'Lear, Professor of Geography and Director of the Environmental Studies Program, Kansas University







* Shari L. Wilson, Founder and Teaching Ecologist at Project Central









To learn more, visit …









* https://www.wildroseeducation.com/







* https://geog.ku.edu/







* https://www.projcentral.co/







* https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6JPDD24









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CLIMATE HOUR -- We know that deforestation, commercial farming, urban sprawl and other forms of defoliation contribute to climate change. But what about the other way around. What is climate change doing to trees and other plants? Destruction of plants reduce our planet’s ability to sequestor greenhouse gases and increase global warming. But what if global warming itself is effecting world forest growth and other plants?















Join host, Bob Grove, and Dr Rohan Shetti, Faculty of Environment, University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem, to discuss How Climate Change is Impacting World Forest Growth.







To learn more, visit …









* https://theenvironmentalanalytics.com







* https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6JPDD24









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CLIMATE HOUR -- For most of the world, food security – having enough to eat – is one of today’s greatest challenges. As climate change continues to disrupt today’s industrial farming systems, world leaders are reevaluating traditional regenerative farming practices which are more resistant to climate change. Practices which work with the environment instead of killing it the way today’s monocrop farming does.















Agroforestry is a specialized type of regenerative agriculture that involves growing food as part of a forest ecosystem, producing more food in less space. Polyforestry is a variation of agroforestry that reflects both the many (poly) ways to grow food in a polyforest, and the polynesian people who have used this traditional farming practice for centuries.







The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is partnering with indigenous communities across the U.S. to merge their traditional farming wisdom with modern computer technology and produce Climate Dashboards capable of increasing food production and food security.







Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss food security, polyforestry and and NOAA’s Climate Dashboard. Guests include:









* Tom DiLiberto, Climate Scientist, Public Affairs Specialist for NOAA Office of Communications







* Pua Kamaka, Coordinator, NOAA Pacific Islands Region Collaboration Team for the NOAA Regional Collaboration Network







* Justine Kamelamela, Project Director, Keaʻahuli ʻO Panaʻewa







* Maile Luʻuwai, President, Pana'ewa Farmers Association







* Makaʻala Rawlins, Community Outreach Coordinator, Keaʻahuli ʻO Panaʻewa









To learn more, visit …









* https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/pilot-project-to-build-resilience-support-akamai-smart-agriculture-in-hawaii







* https://www.keaukahapanaewafarmersassociation.com







* https://www.noaa.gov/regional-collaboration-network







* https://www.noaa.gov/regional-collaboration-network/regions-pacific-islands







* https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6JPDD24









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