What 13 independent book reviewers taught me about climate education
Over the past month, Polo in Brazil has travelled on a virtual book tour, appearing on parenting blogs, children's book review sites and educational platforms. Like most authors, I naturally hoped people would enjoy the story. What I didn't expect was how consistently...
Can we teach children about climate change without making them afraid?
Over the past few weeks, Polo in Brazil has been making its way through a virtual book tour, with reviews appearing on children's book blogs and educational websites. Reading those reviews has been fascinating—not because they are about my book, but because of what...
From Captain Polo storybooks to climate action in rural Peru
From Captain Polo storybooks to climate action in rural Peru Three years ago, I visited a remote cacao-growing community in northern Peru. I went there expecting to talk mainly with farmers about climate change and sustainable agriculture. Instead, I found myself...
Captain Polo is back in the kitchen at the 2nd Climate-friendly Food Fair
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...
Empowering Cacao Farmers with Climate Literacy in Northern Peru
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 climate...
Championing climate action in the Global South
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 I say...
In conversation with Climate Optimists
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...
A chat about climate education
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...
A chat with Drunk On Porpoise
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....
A climate change graphic novel
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 children's book about climate...
An interview by Paul Lafferty
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...
An afternoon chat with The Weird Fish Lady
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 oceans and...
