EARTH SAVING with Shah Selbe
4/16/202627 min
Let’s get ready for Earth Day with this uplifting chat about saving the planet with some well-intentioned technology. Conservation Technologist Shah Selbe fills us in on all the ways in which sensors, drones, recycled smartphones and real-time data reporting can help conserve species, spaces and communities that are threatened. Hear inspiring tales of travel, art, adventure, and putting engineering to good use from a former rocket-science turned professional do-gooder.
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Check out his non-profit FieldKit.org
Full-length (*not* G-rated) Conservation Technology episode + tons of science links
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
We know that weeknights are not for the weak.
Speaker 20:02
[dog barks] Mom.
Speaker 10:03
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Shah Selbe· Guest0:43
Oh, hey. It's your weird lady uncle who sometimes finds Reese's Pieces in the pockets of blazers she hasn't worn in weeks and eats them, Ally Ward.
Alie Ward· Host0:54
Oh, hi. It's Smologies. This is an episode about conservation technology. You are listening to it via technology. I'm talking into a microphone. I'm using an SD card to capture the data. It's being broadcast through various means depending on how you're listening. So technology can be good for so many things. How can we use it to save the world? We're about to listen to that. It's exciting. Who knew that fish need tech sometimes? So let's talk about it. Oh, and by the way, if you're new here, these are Smologies. They're shorter, kid-friendly episodes of Ologies that