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🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Porpo's Omniak. |
0:17.0 | Today we're joined by Andrew Conboy and we discuss the fascinating world of urban landscapes. |
0:23.6 | Andrew is an ISA certified arborist who's made his presence known in the Philadelphia area. |
0:29.6 | Also known as Andrew the Arborist on social media, he's deeply passionate about educating others about the importance of integrating nature into our daily |
0:39.4 | lives. So we dive into the important questions. What trees should be in urban spaces? Why are we not |
0:47.1 | planting more fruit trees? And what does climate change have in store for us? Further, we talk about |
0:53.0 | his nonprofit canopy trees, which he's a founder of, |
0:56.5 | and the role it plays in clearing invasives and keeping the invasives at bay in his local community. |
1:03.3 | So take a listen. Let us know what you think. |
1:09.4 | Andrew, thanks so much for joining us. |
1:11.2 | Can you tell us a little bit about your background and what exactly you do as an arborist? |
1:16.2 | Sure, Andy, yeah, thanks for having me on. |
1:18.0 | I'm excited to chat a little bit more about urban trees and see where that takes us. |
1:22.3 | So I work part-time as an urban forester, which may be kind of a weird term for some folks, but I guess in more |
1:29.1 | urban areas or dense regions, there's more and more of a need for folks to manage and |
1:37.8 | try to improve trees in our urban setting. |
1:42.3 | So I work mainly with municipalities and cities and stuff to try and |
1:47.0 | manage and help improve the urban forest. So street trees, park trees, just trying to green |
1:53.9 | up where we can. I do that part time. I also run an ecological restoration, nonprofit organization in Southeastern PA. So we |
2:05.0 | kind of work to improve natural areas, and we work with municipalities on that as well, |
2:10.9 | removing invasives, planting native species that are supposed to be there and things like that. |
2:16.3 | And I also create content online about a mix of these topics, |
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