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A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast

062: Environmental Education at Any Age with The Earth Lady Izolda Trakhtenberg

A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast

Marjorie Alexander

Society & Culture, Science, Nature

4.6 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Born in Moldova, Izolda Trakhtenberg learned how to communicate in multiple languages through a year-long immigration process. Today, Izolda facilitates workshops that inspire people to tap into and master their leadership, creativity, and communication skills. She worked as an educator for the National Geographic Society. Later, she traveled the world as a NASA environmental education trainer. Additionally, she is the author of five books, including Speak From Within: Engage, Inspire and Motivate Any Audience. She is also the host of the Tell Your Story Better and The Creative Kind podcasts. Izolda, her husband, and their two cats live in Maryland.

In this episode we cover:

  • Is there a difference between educating children and adults?
  • Why is NASA interested in studying Earth?
  • The most effective way to educate those around you about earth-friendly habits
  • A great free resource for teachers and everyday people that want to study Earth's ecology and atmosphere

Izolda Trakhtenberg Online:

Suggestions & Resource from Izolda:

Books:

 

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0:00.0

This is A Sustainable Mind, episode 62.

0:05.1

Today's conversation features one of my favorite people, my friend and mentor, Isolda Tractenberg, who happens to be a former environmental educator for NASA, which is pretty cool.

0:16.0

But before we get into that, I wanted to take a moment to thank our ongoing donors.

0:23.0

Shout out to Amanda from Wyoming, Belinda from Carnegie, Australia, Zane from Washington, Elizabeth from Illinois, Vincent

0:31.0

from Nevada, and Jessica from Kansas. Thank you all so much. If you are interested in supporting a Sustainable Mind podcast, we are now a 501C3 charitable organization and your donation is tax deductible. Also, I'm very excited to share that we will be holding our first live event this spring 2019. And while the event will be free to attend, there are a limited number of seats available so donors as a thank you for your support you will be getting first dibs if you would like to support a sustainable mind click the donate tab at the top of our home page at a sustainable mind.com or click the link on any of our social media.

1:14.1

Welcome to A Sustainable Mind, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful

1:19.7

environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental changemakers

1:26.1

of tomorrow. I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander.

1:30.3

Zolde Tractenberg facilitates workshops that inspire people to tap into and master their leadership,

1:41.3

creativity, and communication skills.

1:44.7

She's worked as an educator for the National Geographic Society, and later she traveled

1:49.5

the world as a NASA environmental education trainer.

1:53.1

Additionally, she is the author of five books, including Speak from Within, Engage,

1:58.2

inspire, and Motivate Any Audience, and also has a couple podcasts.

2:03.1

So please welcome Azolda to the show, and we did have a lot of pre-interview conversation,

2:08.4

so we're literally just going to dive right into the middle of the conversation.

2:12.3

So I start every interview with the same question.

2:16.7

Okay.

2:17.1

And that is, how did nature the environment and

2:20.2

sustainability play a role in your childhood growing up? Wow. Yeah, you know, it's really funny that

2:30.8

you ask that question in this way because my childhood is different

2:38.3

than most people who were born in this country.

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