How Technology and Nature Intersect

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	It might sound antithetical to exploring nature becoming a naturalist, but technology can
0:18.5	help.
0:19.5	And we're going to discuss how that could be the case today.
0:21.6	I mean, I know for a fact, we have Rachel Tancock back on the show, the Nature Educator
0:26.7	on social media, social media, of course, being a product of technology.
0:30.3	And a lot of people, Rachel, I think have found your account and been inspired to then
0:35.7	go into the wild and experience it firsthand, whether they're bringing a phone or not.
0:40.6	So it's kind of this weird catch-22 of, you know, if you don't have that experience
0:45.9	growing up, how would you know about it unless you're someone's telling you, right?
0:50.4	And it seems like that's the whole focus of what you're up to.
0:54.1	Yeah, so my account, I started it actually during COVID because everything shut down, even
1:01.0	some of the parks where I live were closed, which is like really a whole interesting topic
1:05.8	in itself.
1:06.8	But so yeah, I started my account to kind of provide that educational nature information
1:14.2	through social media, because people are on social media anyways, so why not kind of provide
1:20.5	some fun facts about nature and, yeah, I encourage people to get outside and pay attention
1:26.7	to what's around them and maybe look for the thing that I was talking about, or just
1:30.5	be more aware of like the biodiversity that's around you, so.
1:33.7	Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think for me, we both obviously have quite a bit of time spent
1:41.3	on social media, I would imagine, maybe more on the creating side than the consuming side,
1:45.7	although I would say I could certainly dial back my consumption, depending on the week,
1:49.9	which just depends on where you catch me.
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