Best Tobin Mitnick Podcasts (2024)

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12. An Honest Conversation with a Redwood 18:03

9M ago18:03

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Tobin and a Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) engage in an honest, thought-provoking, and, at times, uncomfortable conversation about what it's like to be the tallest tree in the world. Follow Tobin @jewslovetrees on Instagram and Tiktok. Get Must Love Trees: An Unconventional Guide. Questions? Comments? ITCOTpod@gmail.com…

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11. What is the Horniest Tree? 25:53

9M ago25:53

25:53

Tobin sets out on a quest to discover the world's horniest tree--using empirical data, that is. Works cited: "Wood for the Trees", by Harriet Nix "Branching Habit and the allocation of reproductive resources in conifers", by Andrew B Leslie "Pollen production of the genus Cupressus", Hidalgo et al. "Pollen production in anemophilous trees", Molina …

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10. Gabrielle Cerberville Loves Foraging. Chaotically, that is. 54:36

9M ago54:36

54:36

Gabrielle Cerberville, who you may know as @chaoticforager on social media, is a wild person. In addition to her intense and borderline disturbing level of knowledge and excitement when it comes to mushrooms and foraging, she is a musician and an artist and so many other things that Tobin doesn't have time to type here. Gabrielle and Tobin talk abo…

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9. On Visiting the 9/11 Survivor Tree 13:12

9M ago13:12

13:12

Tobin reads his essay, "On Visiting the 9/11 Survivor Tree: The Limits of Living Memorials in Times of Grief" and gives some context as well. It was originally published on his substack, the JewsLoveTrees Newsletter. Please subscribe! Follow Tobin @jewslovetrees on Instagram and Tiktok. Get Must Love Trees: An Unconventional Guide. Questions? Comme…

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8. David Allen Sibley wrote the book on Trees. And Birds. 1:00:57

9M ago1:00:57

1:00:57

Casey Clapp from Completely Arbortrary joins Tobin to chat with the man, the myth, the Sibley. David Allen, that is! David is a world-renowned ornithologist and author of The Sibley Guide to Birds and many other birding books, but also the author of Casey and Tobin's favorite tree guide, the inimitable Sibley Guide to Trees. Tobin, Casey, and David…

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7. Jon Kung almost died on Influencer Mountain 58:00

9M ago58:00

58:00

Chef Jon Kung, who is prepping next week's launch of his first cookbook, "Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third Culture Kitchen", has led one of the more interesting lives on planet earth. And, in between advocating for induction stoves and new ideas about cultural and culinary identity, he still manages to scandalize the old-timers on t…

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6. This Week in Trees 10-19 21:17

10M ago21:17

21:17

Tobin provides history, context, and commentary on three news stories this week: the person(s) who chopped down the Sycamore Gap Tree remains at large, the White House has selected its Christmas Tree, and dendrochronology shows us that a massive solar flare took place 14,300 years ago. Follow Tobin @jewslovetrees on Instagram and Tiktok. Get Must L…

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5. Justin Davies prefers his Trees with a side of Nudity 1:00:53

10M ago1:00:53

1:00:53

Justin Davies, the Tiktok phenom who has chosen to craft the entire world out of the trees that grow in each part of it (starting with his legendary state tree map), is in denial that he was completely nude during a particularly meaningful experience atop a Utah Juniper. But that's ok, because he's still a great conversationalist who loves trees ju…

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4. Bonsai Eulogies 26:49

10M ago26:49

26:49

Tobin opens by addressing a difficult question: how can nature possibly comfort us when faced with horrors like this past weekend in Israel? And the horrors to come for those in Gaza? He concludes the opening with a recitation of the Hebrew prayer "Eitz Chayim" (The Tree of Life). He then speaks directly to four bonsai trees that he lost this past …

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3. Casey Clapp once broke up with his Girlfriend for a Tree 1:09:31

10M ago1:09:31

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Casey Clapp, master arborist and co-host along with Alex Crowson of the inimitable Completely Arbortrary: the podcast about trees and other related topics, joins us to discuss the ways in which the natural world invades our personal life. This includes romantic intrusions, being unable to enjoy film and television because of arboreal mistakes on-sc…

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2. Tyler Gaca adores some Gentle Chaos 47:23

10M ago47:23

47:23

Tobin chats with his friend and fellow nature lover Tyler Gaca, aka GhostHoney on social media, who has just released his first book Gentle Chaos: Poems, Tales, and Magic. They dive into the joys(?) of putting moths in your freezer, natural imagery from your youth, the relationship between religion in your childhood and ritual in your adulthood, Ty…

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1. On the Personality of Trees 27:15

10M ago27:15

27:15

For the premiere, Tobin gives a little background about the pod, then launches into an issue that concerns us all: the failure to properly anthropomorphize trees. Using an English Oak (Quercus robur) and a Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), he shows us how to bring out the multitudinous character of trees in a way that honors their complexit…

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Trailer: In The Company of Trees 0:53

10M ago0:53

0:53

Coming soon from JewsLoveTrees creator Tobin Mitnick, "In the Company of Trees" will seek out the ways in which our experiences with nature stay with us even after we've gone home for the day. Mitnick will bring the same humor and off-beat energy from his social media videos to this long-form podcast, which will Mondays and Thursdays. Interviews wi…

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S5E10 ⁠— If Money Grows on Trees, Where is Urban Forestry Funding? with Jad Daley of American Forests 1:25:52

1y ago1:25:52

1:25:52

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Jad Daley, the 40th president and CEO of American Forests, the oldest forest conservation organization in the states, to discuss the unprecedented $1.5 billion federal investment for the U.S. Forest Service’s Urban and Community Forestry Program, how the investment will give priority to projects that benefit underserve…

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S5E9 ⁠— The Data-Driven Decision-Making Revolutionizing Urban Forestry with Andy Lederer of Oxfordshire County 56:21

1y ago56:21

56:21

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Andy Lederer, Principal Arboriculture Officer for Oxfordshire County Council, to discuss how he got involved with trees despite growing up in North London, how data-driven decision-making is revolutionizing urban forestry, how his perspective on data has changed over his nearly two-decade-long career, how Andy has harn…

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S5E8 ⁠— Don’t Tell Me How Many Trees You Planted, Tell Me How Many Are Still There After 20 Years with Tom Ebeling of Openlands 59:06

1y ago59:06

59:06

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tom Ebeling, Community Arborist at Openlands, to discuss how we can ensure the trees that are planted today will still be there in 10, 20, 50, and 100 years' time, why urban tree mortality statistics are all over the map, and how Openlands' highly successful TreePlanters Grant and TreeKeeprs program may hold the secret…

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S5E7 — How Can We Align Urban Forestry and Municipal Climate Change Policy? with Brett KenCairn of the City of Boulder 49:08

1y ago49:08

49:08

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Brett KenCairn, the City of Boulder’s Senior Policy Advisor for Climate Action and the city’s Natural Climate Solutions team lead, to discuss the vital link between municipal climate change policy and urban forestry policy, how they complement each other to achieve sustainable urban forest planning, and why most city g…

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S5E6 — Where Have All the Young Urban Foresters Gone? – And How To Get Them Back with Leslie Berckes of Society of Municipal Arborists 56:35

1y ago56:35

56:35

This week, Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Leslie Berckes, Executive Director of the Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA), to discuss the skilled labor shortage in arboriculture and urban forestry, her experience igniting passion in young minds to participate in tree planting and tree care at Trees Forever, her groundbreaking vision to build a sustai…

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S5E5 — Does Good Health Grow on Trees? with Vivek Shandas of CAPA Strategies 57:46

1y ago57:46

57:46

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Vivek Shandas, Professor of Climate Adaptation at Portland State University and founder of CAPA Strategies, a global climate consulting firm, to discuss how urban forestry can revolutionize the way we think about promoting health and wellness, why it's different from the traditional "ecosystem service" model, and how i…

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S5E4 — Faster than We Can Plant Trees On Public Land, We’re Losing Them on Private Land with Alex Hancock of PlanIT Geo 50:47

1+ y ago50:47

50:47

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Alex Hancock, urban forestry consultant at PlanIT Geo, to discuss private tree ordinances, a hot regulatory topic as municipalities work to protect and manage trees on private land, how emerging technologies may offer new solutions, and the ethical line between using technology to help with management while also respec…

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S5E3 — Who Are the Treefluencers of Tomorrow? with Tobin Mitnick of @jewslovetrees 58:18

1+ y ago58:18

58:18

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tobin Mitnick, actor, comedian, and naturalist, widely known on social media as @jewslovetrees, to discuss "treefluencers", a new breed of social media influencers that use trees as their subject matter of choice, how his widely popular @jewslovetrees account has garnered over 500,000 followers, the need for new, effec…

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S5E2 — What Can We Learn from the World’s Best Urban Forests? with Dan Lambe of Arbor Day Foundation 52:42

1+ y ago52:42

52:42

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dan Lambe, CEO at Arbor Day Foundation, to discuss Dan's start in trees and urban forestry, the history of Arbor Day and the Arbor Day Foundation, the world’s best urban forests, what we can learn from the most successful examples around the world, Dan's favorite urban forest, and how new forms of data and technology p…

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S5E1 — Launching Season 5 on the Future of Urban Forestry with Ian Hanou of PlanIT Geo 57:57

1+ y ago57:57

57:57

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ian Hanou, Founder & CEO at PlanIT Geo, to introduce Season 5 of the Internet of Nature Podcast, taking listeners on a journey through the current state of urban forestry, its prospects for growth in 2023 and beyond, the most pressing issues affecting urban forestry today, and introducing listeners to the topics and gu…

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S4E10 — The More High-Tech Our Lives Become, The More Nature We Need with Richard Louv of the Children and Nature Network 1:13:57

2y ago1:13:57

1:13:57

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Richard Louv, best known as the author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, Our Wild Calling, and more, and founder of the Children and Nature Network, to discuss his 2005 bestseller that coined the phrase nature-deficit disorder, how his work sparked an international movement to examine the health benefit…

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S4E9 — Growing the Next Generation of Ecohustlers with Max Lerner of NYC Parks 1:06:13

2y ago1:06:13

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Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Max Lerner, director of the Emerging Technologies team at the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and founder of GROW (Green Revitalization Outreach Workforce) Externships, to discuss his upbringing in New York City, how he cultivated his love for nature, his decades of experience developing green roofs and urban fa…

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S4E8 — Why We Need Technology To Rebalance Urbanization and Nature with Giulio Boccaletti of Water: A Biography 1:03:33

2y ago1:03:33

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Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Giulio Boccaletti, author, scientist, and co-founder of Chloris Geospatial, to discuss his unconventional career path, from physicist to climate scientist to McKinsey partner to The Nature Conservancy’s chief strategy officer to writing his new book, Water: A Biography, we discuss his views on using technology as a for…

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S4E7 — Nature Has the Answers with Monica Olsen and Jennifer Walsh of Biophilic Solutions 59:01

2y ago59:01

59:01

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Monica Olsen and Jennifer Walsh, creators of the Biophilic Solutions Podcast, to discuss what connecting to nature means to them, how biophilic design can unlock an alternative method of suburban development like the Serenbe community near Atlanta, Georgia, how the pandemic changed people’s relationship with the natura…

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S4E6 — Meet the Doctor Prescribing Nature for Anxiety, Depression, Obesity, and More with Dr. Robert Zarr of Park Rx America 54:44

2y ago54:44

54:44

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Robert Zarr, board-certified pediatrician, founder, and medical director of Park Rx America (PRA), to discuss how seeing Richard Louv speak on his book, Last Child in the Woods, changed the course of his medical practice, why and how he prescribes nature to his young patients and their families, how technology can …

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S4E5 — Why Daily Doses of Nature in the City Matter with Tim Beatley of Biophilic Cities 1:05:47

2y ago1:05:47

1:05:47

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tim Beatley, Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia and founder of “Biophilic Cities” to discuss why being in nature must be a daily, easy practice, his efforts to make every city in the world a “biophilic” one, fascinating stories of rewilding in cities, from the world’s largest urban bat c…

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S4E4 — Why Technology is Not the Antithesis to Nature with Matthew Browning of the Virtual Reality & Nature Lab at Clemson University 48:58

2y ago48:58

48:58

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Matthew Browning, founder of the Virtual Reality & Nature Lab at Clemson University, to discuss how growing up near nature shaped him, how working as a park ranger sparked an interest in academia, why he’s prioritizing nature exposure for his family, and recent research including how nature-based virtual reality is ben…

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S4E3 — Leveraging Sensors and AI in the Fight Against Global Wildlife Poaching with Tim van Dam of Smart Parks 1:07:44

2y ago1:07:44

1:07:44

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tim van Dam, co-founder and director of Smart Parks, to discuss how a chance encounter with a rhino sparked a career in wildlife conservation, the technologies he’s working on to arm park rangers in their fight against illegal poaching, how to prevent human-wildlife conflicts in cities and villages, anecdotes from his …

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S4E2 — Planting 500 Million Trees in Five Years in Neighborhoods and Forests of Greatest Need with Ben Wilinsky of the Arbor Day Foundation 1:01:07

2y ago1:01:07

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Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ben Wilinsky, Director of Partnerships and Innovation at the Arbor Day Foundation, to discuss how the Arbor Day Foundation is planting 500 million trees in five years to celebrate its 50th anniversary, how they’ll target their tree-planting efforts in neighborhoods and forests of greatest need, the role NatureQuant’s N…

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Trailer: Internet of Nature Podcast 2:33

2y ago2:33

2:33

Can nature and technology — long viewed as opposing forces — work together to stabilize our climate, sustain our urban environments, and benefit our health? Internet of Nature Podcast is on a mission to find out. Join me every Wednesday as I interview top CEOs & innovators on their technologies for building greener, healthier, and smarter communiti…

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S4E1 — How the "Steve Jobs of Ecology" is Building the "Google Maps for Nature" with Thomas Crowther of Crowther Lab 44:36

2+ y ago44:36

44:36

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Thomas Crowther, founder of Restor and the Crowther Lab at ETH Zürich to discuss why his early obsession with snakes sparked a fascination with ecology, why he struggled in school, how one professor changed the trajectory of his career, why publishing the notorious "trillion tree paper" was the "best and worst week…

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S3E10 — Meet the Woman Behind Halifax’s Viral Text-A-Tree Initiative with Julietta Sorensen Kass of Our Nature 1:01:21

2+ y ago1:01:21

1:01:21

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Julietta Sorensen Kass, Founder of Our Nature, to discuss what a tree would say if it could talk, why people find it easier to open up to trees rather than other people, how text messaging can be used to promote human-nature relationships, the ins-and-outs of her viral Text-A-Tree initiative that saw 3,000 Haligonians …

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S3E9 — How Blockchain Can Value and Protect Our Urban Trees with Mark Bode & Willem de Feijter of TreeCollective 52:52

2+ y ago52:52

52:52

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Mark Bode and Willem de Feijter, Co-Founders of TreeCollective, to discuss what happens when you combine an urban forester and a business developer, why trees make an essential and valuable contribution to our dense cities, how blockchain technology and tokenization can register the value of trees, monitor their ROI, a…

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S3E8 — How AllTrails Got 30M+ People in 200 Countries Outside with Ron Schneidermann of AllTrails 51:35

2+ y ago51:35

51:35

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ron Schneidermann, CEO of AllTrails, to discuss how AllTrails grew its community to 30M+ registered users across 200 countries, how COVID-19 supercharged the "outdoors trend" and accelerated the app's growth, how the responsible use of technology can help foster human-nature relationships—and what its limitations are, …

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S3E7 — Beyond Carbon: Why We Can't Plant Our Way Out Of Climate Change with Carlotta Conte of Dark Matter Labs (TreesAI) 51:24

2+ y ago51:24

51:24

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Carlotta Conte, Lead of TreesAI and the Nature-based Solutions Mission at Dark Matter Labs, to discuss what urban forestry gets wrong about carbon sequestration, why trees are assets, not liabilities, how to change "tree accountancy", and how Dark Matter Labs' Trees As Infrastructure (TreesAI) is establishing nature as…

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S3E6 — Why Sensors Alone are Not Enough to Grow Urban Trees with René Voogt of ConnectedGreen 56:34

2+ y ago56:34

56:34

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by René Voogt, Founder of ConnectedGreen, to discuss the problems facing newly planted urban trees, why overwatering trees is just as damaging as underwatering trees, why a nuanced understanding of soil biology is critical to applying sensors correctly, and how nearly 2,000 sensors across the Netherlands and beyond are he…

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S3E5 — Why Leveraging "NatureTech" Can Scale-Up Nature-Based Solutions with Lucy Almond of Nature4Climate 39:25

2+ y ago39:25

39:25

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Lucy Almond, Director of Nature4Climate, the world’s first coordinated effort to address the totality of natural climate solutions — across forests, farms, grasslands, and wetlands, to discuss the case for "nature tech", why technology should be applied to help enable, accelerate, and scale-up nature’s ability to comba…

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S3E4 — Technology for Arborists and Urban Foresters with Josh Behounek of The Davey Tree Expert Company 49:31

2+ y ago49:31

49:31

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Josh Behounek, Business Development Manager at The Davey Tree Expert Company, to discuss how arborists and urban foresters can embrace technologies for tree care, which technologies hold the most promise, the history of The Davey Tree Expert Company and its entrepreneurial spirit, why he likes to go by "theoretical arb…

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S3E3 — Why Time in Nature Helps You Live Longer and How to Get your "NatureDose" with Jared Hanley of NatureQuant 39:51

2+ y ago39:51

39:51

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Jared Hanley, co-founder and CEO of NatureQuant, to discuss why nature exposure makes people healthier, why living near nature could make you live longer, the patent-pending technology he developed to leverage nature's impact on public health, how he created "NatureScore", which rates nearby nature for any location and…

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S3E2 — How Open-Data Helps Enable and Accelerate Global Ecosystem Restoration with Clara Rowe of Restor 36:45

2+ y ago36:45

36:45

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Clara Rowe, CEO of Restor, to discuss why ecosystem restoration and conservation are crucial for protecting Earth’s biodiversity and achieving climate mitigation goals, how restoration has the potential to draw down about 30 percent of accumulated global carbon emissions, why the biggest impacts are felt at the local s…

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S3E1 — The 3-30-300 Rule for Healthier and Greener Cities with Cecil Konijnendijk of the Nature Based Solutions Institute 43:48

2+ y ago43:48

43:48

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Cecil Konijnendijk, co-founder of the Nature Based Solutions Institute, to discuss how he became one of the founders of the global urban forest movement, why he proposed the 3-30-300 rule to deliver clear criteria for the minimum provision of urban trees, and what he's learned after decades of working with internat…

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S2E10 — Urban Deforestation and What We Can Do About It with Matthew Wells of the City of Santa Monica 1:06:29

3y ago1:06:29

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Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Matthew Wells, Public Landscape Manager for the City of Santa Monica in Southern California, to discuss urban deforestation on public and private lands, why we're losing trees and the space to plant and grow new ones in cities, the differences between tree care in the USA and the UK, and Matt's frustration with the inh…

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S2E9 — How Sensing Forms the Foundation of Smart and Resilient Cities with Joe Glesta of Senscity 38:16

3y ago38:16

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Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Joe Glesta, CEO & Co-Founder of Senscity, to discuss building an urban climate intelligence platform to understand past, current, and future climate change risks, impacts, and performance, why Senscity is not (just) an IoT company, why there's room for every business in the fight to adapt to climate change, and why loc…

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S2E8 — How Machine Learning and Satellite Imagery are Preventing Wildfires with Indra den Bakker of Overstory 29:25

3y ago29:25

29:25

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Indra den Bakker, CEO & Co-Founder of Overstory, to discuss how his company applies machine learning to satellite imagery to reduce the risk of wildfires and power outages, how his work improves decision-making about the Earth's forests, why utility lines still cause so many wildfires and how AI-driven vegetation manag…

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S2E7 — How iNaturalist is Unlocking the World's Biodiversity, One Photo at a Time with Alison Young of City Nature Challenge 38:54

3y ago38:54

38:54

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Alison Young, co-director of the Center for Biodiversity and Community Science at the California Academy of Sciences, to discuss why she co-founded the City Nature Challenge, how iNaturalist can help people find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe, and why technology can be an aid, rather than a…

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S2E6 — How IoT Sensors Protect Urban Trees with Andrew Hirons of Myerscough College 39:05

3y ago39:05

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Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Andrew Hirons, senior lecturer in Arboriculture at Myerscough College (UK), to discuss his career journey from tree climbing arborist to arboriculture lecturer, his passion for tree biology (and why we need it to save urban trees), and his work on using IoT sensor technologies, from soil moisture to sap flow, to be…

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S2E5 — How Cities Force Animals, Plants, and Insects to Evolve with Menno Schilthuizen, Author of Darwin Comes to Town 47:01

3y ago47:01

47:01

Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Prof. Menno Schilthuizen, an evolutionary biologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, bestselling author of Darwin Comes to Town, and co-founder and co-director of Taxon Expeditions, which trains citizen scientists to document biodiversity in some of the world’s most biodiverse places. We discuss how urba…

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