#2 Ajda, living in an organic farm (Zabočevo, Slovenia)

#4 Debby, Michael and Ian, urban community gardeners (Vienna, Austria)

In this episode I am in Vienna, Austria, and I have the pleasure to meet Debby, Michael and Ian, members of a lovely community garden by the Danube Canal. Of course we talked about gardening, but also about learning to do things yourself, disconnection from nature, the types of commitment and many other things! The garden has an Instagram @gartendonaukanal [https://www.instagram.com/gartendonaukanal/], a Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/gartendonaukanal] and a website [https://garten-donaukanal.at]. Then here are the references mentioned in the episode : River Cottage [https://www.rivercottage.net/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall], the Royal Horticultural Society [https://www.rhs.org.uk] and Wolfgang Palme [https://reasonstobecheerful.world/plant-vegetable-garden-winter/]. Enjoy! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

#3 Katja, Barbara and Jaka, from the Ecologists without borders NGO (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

In this episode I am in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and I have the pleasure to have three interviewees: Katja, Barbara and Jaka who all work for "Ecologists without borders". This NGO promotes waste reduction and deploys a broad range of actions for this purpose. We talked about the issue of waste, the history of the NGO, examples of its actions, the origins of their commitment, the misconceptions about zero waste and many other things! They are on Instagram @ekologibrezmeja (https://www.instagram.com/ekologibrezmeja/ [https://www.instagram.com/ekologibrezmeja/]), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Ekologibrezmeja/ [https://www.facebook.com/Ekologibrezmeja/]) and also have a website (https://ebm.si/glavna/web/ [https://ebm.si/glavna/web/]). Here is the link to their "Less is more" website: https://manjjevec.si/ [https://manjjevec.si/]. Then here follow the references mentioned during the episode: Zero waste Europe website (https://zerowasteeurope.eu/ [https://zerowasteeurope.eu/]), Bea Johnson "Zero waste home" book (https://zerowastehome.com/book/ [https://zerowastehome.com/book/]), "Trashed" full movie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNOHkOgHPtA [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNOHkOgHPtA]) and "Just eat it" trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkASAZGIuu0 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkASAZGIuu0]). Enjoy! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

#2 Ajda, living in an organic farm (Zabočevo, Slovenia)

In this episode I am in Zabočevo, Slovenia, and I have the pleasure to interview Adja. I spent 2 weeks wwoofing with her and her family in the Pr' Laškarju organic farm @eko_laskar [https://www.instagram.com/eko_laskar/]. Wwoofing (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) is working in a farm in exchange of learning, food and accommodation. Here is the link [https://wwoofindependents.org/fr/host/44402-mixed-farm-family-farm] to their farm if you are interested in trying wwoofing. We talked about organic farming, relationship with nature, zero waste, eco-anxiety and how to commit when you're a mother. I hope you will like it as much as I do and thank you again Ajda for your trust! Here is the Instagram of the NGO "ecologists without borders": @ekologibrezmeja [https://www.instagram.com/ekologibrezmeja/] and a link to the trailer of the movie "The Biggest Little Farm [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcQKWkpPB3U]". Thanks to my friend Claire Garrouste for her help with the editing and to the Tamburaši Borovnica band for letting me use their music. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

#1 Caterina Sarfatti, director of C40's Inclusive Climate Action programme (Milan, Italy)

In this episode I am in Milan, Italy, and I have the pleasure to interview Mrs Caterina Sarfatti. She works at C40, an NGO gathering mayors from all around the world who collaborate to tackle the climate crisis. Mrs Sarfatti leads the Inclusive Climate Action programme, which helps cities transition but also includes a social justice dimension. You will learn more about C40, some concrete actions they helped to implement in cities and why social justice has to be included to fight climate change. We also talked about environmental commitment in general, sexism, civil disobedience and what still lacks to address climate issues. Enjoy! You can find more detail on C40 on their website (https://www.c40.org/about-c40/ [https://www.c40.org/about-c40/]) and on Instagram @c40cities (https://www.instagram.com/c40cities/ [https://www.instagram.com/c40cities/]). Finally here is some information on the two people mentioned : Mr Alexander Langer (https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/alexander-langers-case-for-an-ecological-conversion/ [https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/alexander-langers-case-for-an-ecological-conversion/]) and Mrs Mariana Mazzucato (https://marianamazzucato.com/about [https://marianamazzucato.com/about]). ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.