Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Jad Daley, the 40th president and CEO of American Forests, the oldest forest conservation organization in the states, to discuss the unprecedented $1.5 billion federal investment for the U.S. Forest Service’s Urban and Community Forestry Program, how the investment will give priority to projects that benefit underserved communities, address extreme heat, and low-canopy populations, and how Jad and the team at American Forests have estimated that the cash influx, com...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Andy Lederer, Principal Arboriculture Officer for Oxfordshire County Council, to discuss how he got involved with trees despite growing up in North London, how data-driven decision-making is revolutionizing urban forestry, how his perspective on data has changed over his nearly two-decade-long career, how Andy has harnessed PlanIT Geo 's tree inventory and asset management software in Oxfordshire County (UK), the surprising way his team of tree officers reacted to...
May 31, 2023•56 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tom Ebeling, Community Arborist at Openlands, to discuss how we can ensure the trees that are planted today will still be there in 10, 20, 50, and 100 years' time, why urban tree mortality statistics are all over the map, and how Openlands' highly successful TreePlanters Grant and TreeKeeprs program may hold the secret to transforming tree-planting campaigns into tree-growing campaigns. This podcast episode is brought to you by PlanIT Geo . Follow Nadina and the Int...
May 24, 2023•59 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Brett KenCairn, the City of Boulder’s Senior Policy Advisor for Climate Action and the city’s Natural Climate Solutions team lead, to discuss the vital link between municipal climate change policy and urban forestry policy, how they complement each other to achieve sustainable urban forest planning, and why most city governments haven’t yet connected the dots – at least not all the way. This podcast episode is brought to you by PlanIT Geo . Follow Nadina and the Int...
May 17, 2023•49 min•Season 5Ep. 7
This week, Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Leslie Berckes, Executive Director of the Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA), to discuss the skilled labor shortage in arboriculture and urban forestry, her experience igniting passion in young minds to participate in tree planting and tree care at Trees Forever, her groundbreaking vision to build a sustainable urban forestry workforce, and practical career tips for entering the field of tree care. This podcast episode is brought to you by PlanIT Geo . ...
May 10, 2023•57 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Vivek Shandas, Professor of Climate Adaptation at Portland State University and founder of CAPA Strategies, a global climate consulting firm, to discuss how urban forestry can revolutionize the way we think about promoting health and wellness, why it's different from the traditional "ecosystem service" model, and how it can appeal to non-traditional stakeholders, such as general physicians, health departments, educators, and the wider community. This podcast episode...
May 03, 2023•58 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Alex Hancock, urban forestry consultant at PlanIT Geo, to discuss private tree ordinances, a hot regulatory topic as municipalities work to protect and manage trees on private land, how emerging technologies may offer new solutions, and the ethical line between using technology to help with management while also respecting citizens' rights. This podcast episode is brought to you by PlanIT Geo . Follow Nadina and the Internet of Nature Podcast on all social platforms...
Apr 26, 2023•51 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tobin Mitnick, actor, comedian, and naturalist, widely known on social media as @jewslovetrees, to discuss "treefluencers", a new breed of social media influencers that use trees as their subject matter of choice, how his widely popular @jewslovetrees account has garnered over 500,000 followers, the need for new, effective leadership in urban forestry, and how pioneering "treefluencers" like Tobin play a critical role in elevating awareness towards the many wonders ...
Apr 19, 2023•58 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dan Lambe, CEO at Arbor Day Foundation, to discuss Dan's start in trees and urban forestry, the history of Arbor Day and the Arbor Day Foundation, the world’s best urban forests, what we can learn from the most successful examples around the world, Dan's favorite urban forest, and how new forms of data and technology play a critical role in the protection of urban forests. This podcast episode is brought to you by PlanIT Geo . Follow Nadina and the Internet of Nat...
Apr 12, 2023•53 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ian Hanou, Founder & CEO at PlanIT Geo, to introduce Season 5 of the Internet of Nature Podcast, taking listeners on a journey through the current state of urban forestry, its prospects for growth in 2023 and beyond, the most pressing issues affecting urban forestry today, and introducing listeners to the topics and guests they can expect on Season 5 of the show. This podcast episode is brought to you by PlanIT Geo . Follow Nadina and the Internet of Nature Po...
Apr 05, 2023•58 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Richard Louv, best known as the author of Last Child in the Woods , The Nature Principle, Our Wild Calling, and more, and founder of the Children and Nature Network, to discuss his 2005 bestseller that coined the phrase nature-deficit disorder, how his work sparked an international movement to examine the health benefits of spending time outdoors, why politics should keep its hands off nature, why rewilding cities is crucial to humanity’s future, why he’s not “anti-...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Max Lerner, director of the Emerging Technologies team at the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and founder of GROW (Green Revitalization Outreach Workforce) Externships, to discuss his upbringing in New York City, how he cultivated his love for nature, his decades of experience developing green roofs and urban farms, how his passion for technology led him to establish NYC Parks’ Emerging Tech team, how it grew to a think tank of over a 100 scientific visionari...
Jun 28, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Giulio Boccaletti, author, scientist, and co-founder of Chloris Geospatial, to discuss his unconventional career path, from physicist to climate scientist to McKinsey partner to The Nature Conservancy’s chief strategy officer to writing his new book, Water: A Biography , we discuss his views on using technology as a force for good, especially for resource management, if we should take up biodiversity in the constitution, the danger of making environmentalism politic...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Monica Olsen and Jennifer Walsh, creators of the Biophilic Solutions Podcast, to discuss what connecting to nature means to them, how biophilic design can unlock an alternative method of suburban development like the Serenbe community near Atlanta, Georgia, how the pandemic changed people’s relationship with the natural world, and the technologies working to connect people to nature that they’re most excited about. Follow Nadina and the Internet of Nature Podcast on...
Jun 15, 2022•59 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Robert Zarr, board-certified pediatrician, founder, and medical director of Park Rx America (PRA), to discuss how seeing Richard Louv speak on his book, Last Child in the Woods, changed the course of his medical practice, why and how he prescribes nature to his young patients and their families, how technology can make nature-rich areas accessible to all, and why spending time in and around nature is the single most important first step to improving both human a...
Jun 07, 2022•55 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tim Beatley, Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia and founder of “Biophilic Cities” to discuss why being in nature must be a daily, easy practice, his efforts to make every city in the world a “biophilic” one, fascinating stories of rewilding in cities, from the world’s largest urban bat colony in Austin to the world’s largest roost of swifts in a Portland elementary school, and how nature is all around us, if only we open our eyes. Thi...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Matthew Browning, founder of the Virtual Reality & Nature Lab at Clemson University, to discuss how growing up near nature shaped him, how working as a park ranger sparked an interest in academia, why he’s prioritizing nature exposure for his family, and recent research including how nature-based virtual reality is beneficial for people who cannot access the outdoors, why people who live in greener areas tend to have lower health care costs, and why deserts can ...
May 25, 2022•49 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tim van Dam, co-founder and director of Smart Parks, to discuss how a chance encounter with a rhino sparked a career in wildlife conservation, the technologies he’s working on to arm park rangers in their fight against illegal poaching, how to prevent human-wildlife conflicts in cities and villages, anecdotes from his time in the field from collaring an elephant to tracking cats with Covid-19, how he stays motivated in the face of tragedy, and why he hopes his techn...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ben Wilinsky, Director of Partnerships and Innovation at the Arbor Day Foundation, to discuss how the Arbor Day Foundation is planting 500 million trees in five years to celebrate its 50th anniversary, how they’ll target their tree-planting efforts in neighborhoods and forests of greatest need, the role NatureQuant’s NatureScore™ data will play, why Ben is optimistic about greening communities, and which technologies he thinks will realize the Arbor Day Foundation’s...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Can nature and technology — long viewed as opposing forces — work together to stabilize our climate, sustain our urban environments, and benefit our health? Internet of Nature Podcast is on a mission to find out. Join me every Wednesday as I interview top CEOs & innovators on their technologies for building greener, healthier, and smarter communities. Each episode contains powerful stories behind the entrepreneur, delves into questions usually shied away from, and explores where the internet...
May 09, 2022•3 min
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Thomas Crowther, founder of Restor and the Crowther Lab at ETH Zürich to discuss why his early obsession with snakes sparked a fascination with ecology, why he struggled in school, how one professor changed the trajectory of his career, why publishing the notorious "trillion tree paper" was the "best and worst week" of his life, what he's learned about nuanced yet effective science communication, and how his Restor platform, the "Google Maps for Nature", will cr...
May 04, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Julietta Sorensen Kass, Founder of Our Nature, to discuss what a tree would say if it could talk, why people find it easier to open up to trees rather than other people, how text messaging can be used to promote human-nature relationships, the ins-and-outs of her viral Text-A-Tree initiative that saw 3,000 Haligonians send nearly 11,000 texts to 15 different trees, and the tree-texts that still bring her to tears. Follow Nadina and the Internet of Nature Podcast on ...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Mark Bode and Willem de Feijter, Co-Founders of TreeCollective, to discuss what happens when you combine an urban forester and a business developer, why trees make an essential and valuable contribution to our dense cities, how blockchain technology and tokenization can register the value of trees, monitor their ROI, and help transfer “tree ownership”, and why trees need a business model, now more than ever. Follow Nadina and the Internet of Nature Podcast on all so...
Mar 02, 2022•53 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ron Schneidermann, CEO of AllTrails, to discuss how AllTrails grew its community to 30M+ registered users across 200 countries, how COVID-19 supercharged the "outdoors trend" and accelerated the app's growth, how the responsible use of technology can help foster human-nature relationships—and what its limitations are, how AllTrails hand-curates each of its 300,000+ trails, Ron and Nadina's favorite trails, and why everyone needs the outdoors, now more than ever. Fol...
Feb 23, 2022•52 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Carlotta Conte, Lead of TreesAI and the Nature-based Solutions Mission at Dark Matter Labs, to discuss what urban forestry gets wrong about carbon sequestration, why trees are assets, not liabilities, how to change "tree accountancy", and how Dark Matter Labs' Trees As Infrastructure (TreesAI) is establishing nature as a critical part of urban infrastructure, alongside bridges, roads, and rail, enabling investment, profitability, and sustainability. Follow Nadina an...
Feb 16, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by René Voogt, Founder of ConnectedGreen, to discuss the problems facing newly planted urban trees, why overwatering trees is just as damaging as underwatering trees, why a nuanced understanding of soil biology is critical to applying sensors correctly, and how nearly 2,000 sensors across the Netherlands and beyond are helping landscaping companies, municipalities, nurseries, and water boards transform from reactive to proactive tree care. Follow Nadina and the Interne...
Feb 09, 2022•57 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Lucy Almond, Director of Nature4Climate, the world’s first coordinated effort to address the totality of natural climate solutions — across forests, farms, grasslands, and wetlands, to discuss the case for "nature tech", why technology should be applied to help enable, accelerate, and scale-up nature’s ability to combat climate change, and the biggest nature-technology trends she sees for 2022, including drones, AI, blockchain, and genomic sequencing. Follow Nadina ...
Feb 02, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Josh Behounek, Business Development Manager at The Davey Tree Expert Company, to discuss how arborists and urban foresters can embrace technologies for tree care, which technologies hold the most promise, the history of The Davey Tree Expert Company and its entrepreneurial spirit, why he likes to go by "theoretical arborist", the favorite parts of his job, and hard lessons he's learned when experimenting with 360-degree cameras, sensors, LiDAR, and more. Follow Nadi...
Jan 26, 2022•50 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Jared Hanley, co-founder and CEO of NatureQuant, to discuss why nature exposure makes people healthier, why living near nature could make you live longer, the patent-pending technology he developed to leverage nature's impact on public health, how he created "NatureScore", which rates nearby nature for any location and "NatureDose", a groundbreaking nature prescription app that monitors time inside, outside, and exposed to nature to improve health, and why two hours...
Jan 19, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Clara Rowe, CEO of Restor, to discuss why ecosystem restoration and conservation are crucial for protecting Earth’s biodiversity and achieving climate mitigation goals, how restoration has the potential to draw down about 30 percent of accumulated global carbon emissions, why the biggest impacts are felt at the local scale, and why with the right data, along with full transparency, local restoration projects can now connect to the world's first open-source platform ...
Jan 12, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 2
