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 4, 2022 | Alan
I recently had the pleasure of appearing on Bob Gatty’s Lean to the Left podcast show to have a chat about the Captain Polo Climate Academy. For many years, Bob worked as a writer, editor and communications consultant, focusing on government and politics....
by Alan J. Hesse | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
I recently had the pleasure and honour of being a guest on the podcastFeed Me Serotonin, hosted by Alex Knott. We discussed insightful questions about anthropogenic climate change, its causes and effects on global society, and the importance of staying optimistic. I...
by Alan J. Hesse | Dec 3, 2021 | Alan
‘A fire-side chat with Authors & Educators on a Mission’ is the name of an online event hosted by WildHub, a thriving online conservation community. This event was inspired by the lead-up to COP26, this year’s important climate conference that...
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 | Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Intelligent questions that allow me to divulge the WHY and HOW behind using graphic novels as teaching tools. Alan J. Hesse was born in Lahore, Pakistan. As a kid, he loved playing football and read a lot. He is the author and illustrator of five non-fiction graphic...
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 | 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...
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