Nature in the Movies: Hoppers

Nature With Lauren

Episode 51, Nature With Lauren 🐍 🐢 🌾 🛶 🥾 Lauren's mission is to spark wonder, foster empathy, & inspire the next generation of environmental stewards to defend, protect, & conserve natural spaces & their inhabitants - a mission she works towards every day as Manager/Educator of the Phillip Merrill Environmental Education Center program at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Episode Highlights: nature's unpredictability, strengthening a passion for nature in adulthood, mindfulness, climate anxiety, creating your 'nature community' 💬⭐️ "We are not apart from nature, we are a part of it."

Nature in the Movies: Hoppers

Episode 50, Nature in the Movies: Hoppers is out now 🦫🐛🐸🪿🐟🐍 Co-host Jackson & I enjoyed exploring the plethora of environmental themes in Pixar's newest film🦎 Episode Highlights: protecting places we love, activism with local government, keystone species, environmental messaging in children's movies, connecting with people about nature 💬⭐️ " There is so much that we can do just in our sphere of influence. We forget about that because we try to fix the entire world. And sometimes to fix the entire world, you need to start with fixing your little glade." Hoppers was written by Jesse Andrews and directed by Daniel Chong. Watch it now on Disney+! 💚🎬

Nature With Maretta

Episode 49: Nature With Maretta is out now 🌻🌿 Maretta is a 7th grade teacher who loves spending time outside. She considers herself an environmentalist and is always willing to educate herself and learn more about different environmental impacts 📚 Episode Highlights: reflective thinking in nature; artificial intelligence - use in education, water consumption, impact on creative thinking; enjoying the rain " The things that you do will affect not only the environment, but how other people are able to live as well."

Nature With Heather

Episode 48, Nature With Heather 🌻🌿Heather hopes to one day be tackling our environmental pollution issue at a larger scale & her current thesis work is definitely pushing her to do just that! She is looking at quantifying PFAS, or you could say forever chemicals, from non-point sources across land use areas in central Maryland. Episode Highlights: Running in nature, PFAS & why it’s research is important, Reflecting on a changing relationship with nature, Connecting climate change with health, food, migration, & more💬⭐️ "You should be conscious of what you’re taking in [and] with your decisions of what you buy."

Nature With Diyor

Diyor has spent a lot of her time exploring the outdoors in her own way. She's gotten into hiking and traveling more recently, and now it's a part of her routine and something that grounds her. She's not the typical outdoorsy person, but she's learned that you don't have to fit a certain mold to belong outside. And now she spends her days preaching that online as @planetdiyor 💚