Field Notes Podcast
1) Ep 53: Jacynthia Murphy and Silvia Purdie – Aotearoa New Zealand’s women in creation care
Rev Jacynthia Murphy is of Māori descent and serves in a Pākehā parish. In this conversation with Rev Silvia Purdie and the Field Notes hosts she discusses her indigenous perspective on faith and her ...Show More
2) Ep 52: Jasmine Kwong – Food, faith and a flourishing world
There is little in life with more direct environmental impact than food - how and what we produce, where we source it and how it gets there, how we prepare it and what we do with the waste. How do we ...Show More
3) Ep 51: Jayaprakash Bojan – Up close with an Orangutang and his maker
Jayaprakash Bojan (JP)’s photo of a giant male orangutang peeping at him from behind a tree in a Borneo river won him National Geographic’s Nature Photographer of the Year in 2017. The image was seen ...Show More
4) Ep 50: Jeremy Lindsell – Lessons in conservation
While the outlook for biodiversity is rather bleak, all the evidence says conservation works - we just need to do it well and do it more. It sounds simple, but often well-intended interventions have u...Show More
5) Ep 49: Sylvia Muia – Gen Z, journalism and fighting for the future
Growing up, Sylvia spent a lot of time on the family farm just outside Nairobi, Kenya. Where she remembers a wide open landscape, there are now blocks of flats and a hospital. Reliable rains have been...Show More
6) Ep 48: Jo Herbert-James, Rick Faw & Jo Swinney – The Whole Easter Story
Jo and Rick are joined by Jo Herbert-James to discuss the themes in Jo Swinney’s Lent book, “The Whole Easter Story: why the cross is good news for all creation.” What does our relationship with God h...Show More
7) Ep 47: Tim Stojanovic – Whose oceans to gain from and govern?
This is the United Nations Decade of the Ocean, bringing an increased focus on caring for the ‘blue’ bit of the planet. Governing marine and coastal areas involves convening a multitude of groups - of...Show More
8) Ep 46: Cindy Verbeek – The costly calling of a conservationist
Cindy Verbeek left her city life for a rural Eden in northern BC, Canada, where the air was clean, bears nonchalantly wandered along the local high street and preserving nature was hardwired into comm...Show More
9) Ep 45: Cyrie Sendashonga – The politics of protecting nature
To halt and reverse the terrible trends in nature loss and climate change requires collaboration at international levels. With every country coming to the table with its own interests and agenda, it i...Show More
10) Ep 44: Dorothea Seeger – Marine biology & motherhood
The choice to start a family is always a great act of faith, hope and courage. In these unprecedented days of biodiversity collapse, climate change and societal upheaval, all the more so. Doro is a ma...Show More