🌳 Emmanuel and Teresa Odeke's commitment to a better life is flourishing into a fruit farm, and inspiration for other farmers of Eastern Uganda 🇺🇬
Learn from their story today on the Nature Answers Podcast
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well that went way deeper than I was expecting
Just a girl making her annual pitch that Wrestling Day should be extended to the whole country: www.wltribune.com/local-news/w...
“Merriam-Webster clearly has a pro-dictionary bias that’s preventing it from considering all words equally,” lexicographer Alison Nielsen wrote in a widely shared social media post that lambasted the Merriam-Webster editorial team
I don’t want anymore sportsing!
I’m actually gonna get out of my replies and use this story to highlight something that I haven’t for a while: the complete lack of transparency and communication from our public agencies in B.C./Canada. So here’s a thread
THIS! 100x THIS!
As a British Columbian in Ontario, few things grind my gears more than this.
Getting voters to care about foreign aid is a tough sell, I know. But Trump's decimation of USAID is going to make the world poorer, more dangerous, and sicker. Other countries need to step up. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Hey! Sure I'd love to chat about that! Want to send me an email at tsprickerhoff @ farmradio.org?
So yeah, take a listen to Nature Answers, be inspired by all these communities this #EarthDay, and check out what you can learn from them in how to adapt to climate change! farmradio.org/earth-day-cl...
Many rely on the climate for their food and their livelihoods, and instead of giving up and calling it quits, they are looking climate change in the face and saying "What can I do?"
And better yet, what they are trying is legitimately working. And we just get to tell these stories.
These episodes are genuinely a joy to edit. I get to hear from the voices from all these rural communities that @farmradio.org is working with, who are actively taking their future into their own hands.
Simon, a Ghanaian man, stands knee deep in water that looks like it is at the edge of a lagoon. he grabs a piece of dirt and is lifting it out of the water.
In this week's episode, you'll meet a community in Ghana that is literally using the land to save the land.
And they are using ancestral knowledge to do it.
It's Earth Day! 🌍 Looking for something to make yourself feel better about the state of the world? Nature may just have the answer...
Okay, okay, cheesy, but what if I said there's a whole podcast that shows how nature herself holds the key to adapting to climate change. lnk.to/natureanswer...
It’s interesting to see how people in PG and Kamloops feel equally annoyed by this - as a former WL resident I always felt like this situation resulted in PG or Kamloops voters getting 2-3 representatives and rural communities getting none because of population concentrations.
It was way more fun to watch election results come in when people had to count them slowly by hand…
In any case, find a way to celebrate this darling, intimate, imaginative, life-changing medium — no matter how you listen!
OR! You can listen to a radio program about a radio program that helped a group of women adapt to a drought — and made their community take them seriously along the way (I recommend this option).
lnk.to/natureanswer...
If you’re in #Ottawa, you can register for our World Radio Day event, to be held at Carleton University with @ckculitnews.bsky.social and the NCRA. www.eventbrite.ca/e/world-radi...
But back to how to celebrate:
@unesco.org has some amazing resources for broadcasters on their website: www.unesco.org/en/days/worl...
When I was evacuated due wildfires in 2017, one of my clearest memories, despite working for a newspaper at the time, was how important the radio was for us through the evacuation.
I wrote about that, here: farmradio.org/from-wildfir...
This year’s theme is Radio and Climate Change. Seems appropriate given how present climate change is in our lives… and how necessary good information is whether you’re in a climate emergency or just trying to figure out how to deal…
I love #radio. Does that make me the odd millennial out?
Well, yeah.. probably.
But guess what! It’s #WorldRadioDay this week, so you’re just gonna have to deal with it.
And boy, do I have some suggestions on how to celebrate!
So listen up for an inspiring season with people who are harnessing the power of nature to adapt, thrive and heal the planet. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
And did I mention that the latest episode features the COOLEST LOOKING BIRD EVER. Seriously. Check it out. lnk.to/natureanswer...
A Ugandan broadcaster with a shirt marked "press" and a Canadian journalism student wearing headphones hold microphones up to a Ugandan man sitting at a desk outside.
It's been truly a pleasure to work with journalism students at @carletonu.bsky.social as they partnered with broadcasters in Ghana, Uganda, Cote d'Ivoire and Zambia to tell these stories.
Joseph, a young Ugandan man, stands wearing a camp button up shirt. In the background is a large tree, some boats and the entrance to a wetland.
We have so much to learn about how people like Joseph (featured here) are convincing their friends, families and elders - even the church - to make a change for the better and adapt to climate change in a way that benefits everyone - including the planet!
A community listening group in Zambia stands in a field where they are planting tree seedlings at sunset
I work at the nexus of communication, climate change and international cooperation, and what is absolutely clear is that while North Americans are just beginning to feel the real impact of climate change on their lives, rural communities across the world have been facing this issue head on for years
I'm so happy to announce the latest season of Nature Answers. This podcast examines how nature its(her?)self can help us tackle the challenges of our changing world... and it does it via the stories of rural communities in Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Zambia & Uganda who are facing climate change head on.
