by Alan Hesse | Jul 15, 2023 | Alan
Captain Polo is back in the kitchen at the 2nd Climate-friendly Food Fair, teaming up with the Ecuadorian Montessori school, SKAS Despertar. This time, the school took the initiative to include the Captain Polo Climate-friendly Food Project as part of their existing...
by Alan Hesse | Jul 8, 2023 | Alan
Climate change is a pressing global issue that affects various sectors, including agriculture. In the vulnerable and impoverished regions of northern Peru, cacao farmers and their families face the brunt of climate change’s impact. Recognizing the need for...
by Alan J. Hesse | Oct 7, 2021 | Alan
I recently had the pleasure of chatting to Derval Barzey, host of The Climate Conscious Podcast, about championing climate action in the Global South. Like myself, Caribbean-based Derval is a resident of the Global South and she knows what I’m talking about when...
by Alan J. Hesse | Sep 25, 2021 | Alan
For a good two years now I have been networking intensely with other authors, educators, creatives, communicators and anyone who shares my concerns and sense of urgency regarding the state of our natural environment, global society and planet. The COVID pandemic has...
by Alan J. Hesse | Aug 16, 2021 | Alan
In this interview We The Species podcast host Calvin Schwartz and I talk about climate education, conservation and storytelling with The Adventures of Captain Polo. Calvin convinces me to give some of the back story to how I got into conservation, a tale that...
by Alan J. Hesse | Apr 15, 2021 | Alan
A chat with Drunk On Porpoise is a conversation about conservation, climate change, education, humour, satire and graphic novels. These subjects may seem an eclectic mix, yet they all come together very naturally in this interview. Another topic covered in this...
by Alan J. Hesse | Feb 26, 2021 | Alan
The Adventures of Captain Polo: Pole to Pole is the 4th book of the series, and like it’s predecessors, it explores different aspects of our era’s most critical existential crisis. However, Pole to Pole is much more than just another...
by Alan J. Hesse | Dec 29, 2020 | Alan
An interview by Paul Lafferty from #32alltheway means having an informal chat, a rich dialogue rather than an interview as such. There are no superfluous, silly questions here. This is all about an exchange of thoughts and experiences focused on the topic of what...
by Alan J. Hesse | Nov 21, 2020 | Alan
I first met Gloria Barnett, aka The Weird Fish Lady, at the annual conference of the Association for Science Education where I launched my first comic book about climate change in 2019. I’ve since tracked her down and we had a fascinating chat all about the...
by Alan J. Hesse | Oct 30, 2020 | Alan
Solutions for the climate crisis is a topic that is deservedly growing in importance, and urgency. My friend Neil Kitching, Geographer and Energy Specialist, has published Carbon Choices, a book that homes in on the common-sense solutions to our climate and...
by Alan J. Hesse | Oct 11, 2020 | Alan
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to do a Wisdom of the Ages podcast interview. Hosted by best-selling and award-winning author Ayn Cates Sullivan, Wisdom of the Ages is a show that taps into the many expressions of universal, ancestral and personal wisdom to...
by Alan J. Hesse | Sep 18, 2020 | Alan
I recently had the privilege of interviewing Guy Walton, aka @climateguyw on Twitter, about his journey as both a professional meteorologist and children’s book author. Guy shares my passion for education and creating characters that bring home the message about...
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