Hi everybody and welcome to the Kylie Cast. I'm Kylie Griswold, managing editor at The Federalist.

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you can do so at Radio at the Federalist.com. I would love to hear from you. Today, I am so pleased

to welcome to the show, Claire App. Claire is a Christian mom, and she's also the founder of a brand

new nonprofit called Vita at Tara, which seeks to bring a conservative Christian pro-life approach to the topic of conservation.

I think a lot of people tend to think of conservation more in terms of environmentalism, which seems like a very left-wing project.

But conservation is actually super important for Christians. God has given us this earth to have dominion over and to cultivate and to care for.

And Claire's going to help us learn how to do that.

So without further ado, please welcome to the show Claire Aff. Claire Ath, it is so good to have you on the Kyliecast. Thanks for joining me today.

Yeah, thank you so much, Kylie.

It's really a pleasure. For listeners who maybe are not familiar with your work, why don't

you start just by filling them in on who you are, where you your work, why don't you start just by

filling them in on who you are, where you come from, and how you got into the work you're

doing? Yes. So I'm really excited to announce that this week I'm launching a new Catholic

nonprofit called Vita at Terra, which stands for Life and Earth. And we're an organization

that really is just dedicated

to pushing back against this narrative from the secular left

about the environment and about creation

and that views people as pollution.

A little about myself is that I've spent probably

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