Angela Gallego-Sala joins us in this episode to discuss their peatland research. This episode is being on International Bog day which is on the 24th July. Angela is a professor at the University of Exeter and is a specialist in peatlands. Angela is working to understand why peatlands form in certain places and other places not and is working towards improving the mapping of peatlands globally. Peatlands are wet, carbon rich ecosystems where dead plant material, or OM, is not given the...

This is a queer coming of age story about Jacq's journey into weed and women. The Northern Ireland peatlands are the backdrop during this defining journey and we discuss the role of their home soil, these beautiful and windswept landscapes. Jacq Doherty is a local expert in cannabinoid edibles around Amsterdam. The pilgrimage to become the head baker of weed edibles has been inseparable from their inner and outer journey exploring queer women. Amsterdam coffee shop recommendations: La...

Yoshi Maezumi has completed a huge amount of research comparing two major fire drivers - humans and climate change. And spoiler alert! Humans always win. Yoshi’s work has focused on the Holocene, the most recent geological period. The Holocene is a warm period, that follows the highly variable Pleistocene and begins about 11,500 years ago. Yoshi has done a huge amount of work to understand fire behaviour in South America. Yoshi has worked on understanding the role of fire in human crop...

Dave van Wees uses satellite data to produce world class fire emission estimates and has even found novel new uses for this method - such as estimating the carbon sink capacity over time. 50% of global land area burned by fire during an average year occurs on the African continent. Indonesian peatland fires can be equivalent to ALL anthropogenic emissions in 1 year! That’s a lot of emissions! Land and ocean sinks continue to sequester carbon at the same rate (compared to 60 years ago) despite...

In this episode I interview Stefanie Wells. Stephanie wells is a champion of Sextinction Rebellion, working in the Erotic Department of Extinction Rebellion Amsterdam. As well as being a hardcore climate activist, Stefanie Wells is a fabulous anti-fashion-designer from the Netherlands. We speak about the XR erotic calendar that has been produced for 2022. In this episode, Stefanie gives us a how-to on how to become an anti-fashion-designer and we touch on ways to make trash fabulous. This...

We review the outcomes of the COP26 thus far.  Short-term GHG emissions reduction targets (proposed policy enacted before 2050) will lead to 2.4 degrees of warming by 2100.  Long-term GHG emissions reduction targets (proposed policy enacted before 2070) will lead to 1.9 degrees of warming by 2100. Global Checkpoints to become annual. The next checkpoint will occur in late 2022. This is to motivate governments and industries to work to reduce emissions before 2030. We review the net-zero GHG...

We are in the lead up to the 26th Conference Of the Parties. The aim of COP26 is to produce a text outlining what happens next in regards to climate change. The previous major meeting in Paris, led to the Paris Climate Accord; the strongest, firmest international climate agreement ever. The good news: The corporate world, governments, and civil society generally agree that climate change is happening and that we need to do something about it. More countries have net zero emissions targets...

The IPCC Assessment Report 6 (AR6) Working Group I (WGI) report was published last month. The first assessment report (AR6) was published in 1990. WGI reports the Physical Science Basis and will be followed by Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (WGII), and Mitigation of Climate Change (WGIII). AR6 WGI delivers this report with much higher urgency. In this episode, I provide an overview of 3 key messages, followed by the 17 key scientific points. For the die hards out there, I then read...

Erica (ADM's Green Ass Garden), Samantha (SharesGarden Community, De Luwte, Rijkshemelvaartdienst), and Shoko (GreenTribe) share their tips and tricks of a successful squatted community garden. We digest, compost, and decompose experiences in squatted Amsterdam gardens. In our rainy, summerless, sunless, Amsterdam environment; in our city where the rich peat soils have been converted into building sites and rubbish tips, these abandoned building sites and rubbish tips are our homes and our...

Two-Spirit genders & urban herb foraging  with Bear Silver (he/they), and masharu (they/them) We began this episode by asking Bear about what it was like to live as a queer person on Paiute Shoshone reservation. How I describe Two-Spirit: Two-Spirit is a modern, umbrella term that unites diverse and distinct gender roles and responsibilities that are culturally embedded in some Indigenous cultures. For some Indigenous peoples, Two-Spirit describes a spiritual identity, having...

Beyla and Tanya each share a self-authored poem about composting. After this, they read from the Queer Farmers Network zine. Beyla is interested in ways we can cultivate the world, from the heart. Beyla is an art student at the Rietveld Art Academy Amsterdam and spends their time in the garden, cooking, foraging, nurturing relationships, painting etc. etc. In the future, Beyla hopes to make a queer feminism anti-capitalist, pro-natural-world porn film. instagram: @larizzabeyla This episode...

4 guests (Pablo Vanneste, Shoko Nagamachi, Hans Pruijt, Debra Solomon) come together to discuss and digest food forests, squatting, public space, and the commons concepts. i.e. the squatted eco-village. “You’re not dependant on making demands to the authorities. In normal protests, you demonstrate and petition in the hope that someone will listen. But in squatting you don’t need this. You can do it on your way. You can build something. You can create something.” Hans Pruijt. “Hardin and...

What's a volcanic eruption got to do with a tree core? got to do with a soil ball? got to do with a peat core? got to with a ceramic oven? a violin? Amsterdam? What's the true difference between art and science? This episode was broadcast live by radiopatapoe.nl on 11th June 2021 from the Amstelpark. Eline Kersten https://elinekersten.nl/ Jacqueline Heerema https://lxwxdxtime.world/