Internet of Nature Podcast
Episodes
S7E8: “A Nature-Blind Society Is a Sick Society” — On Ecological Illiteracy, Biophobia, and the Children We’re Raising Without Nature, with Prof. Hans Van Dyck of UCLouvain
03 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fewer than 23% of Flemish children between 8 and 17 can identify a blackbird. Less than 5% can name a peacock butterfly. The mole scores highest — n...
S7E7: “Public Space is the Secret Sauce” — Reimagining Fifth Avenue, 26 Blocks in Jackson Heights, and the Fight for a Culture of Yes with Ya-Ting Liu, New York City’s First Chief Public Realm Officer
26 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ya-Ting Liu became New York City's first-ever Chief Public Realm Officer in 2023 — a role created from scratch to focus City Hall's attentio...
S7E6: "The Child Who Never Goes Outside Won't Fight to Save It." — On Children, Nature & the Long Game with Laís Fleury of the Alana Foundation
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does a nine-month Amazon expedition have to do with a public school playground in São Paulo? More than you'd think.This week, Nadina speaks ...
S7E5: New York City's First Pocket Forest — 400 Strangers, 1,500 Trees, and the Japanese Method That Compresses a Century into a Decade, with Christina Delfico of iDig2Learn
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There's a statistic I keep coming back to: the average child can name more than 1,000 corporate logos, but fewer than 10 native plant species in t...
S7E4: "Does the Child Have a Problem, or is it the Environment?" — Green Schoolyards, Urban Childhood, and 12 Years of Turning Asphalt into Oases with Ian Mostert of IVN Nature Education
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A free-range chicken has more space than a child on a Dutch school playground. Ian Mostert has spent 12 years doing something about that.In this episo...
S7E3: “Housing Is Setting the Environment in Which People Live” — How Affordable Housing Becomes Health Infrastructure with Lauren Zullo of Jonathan Rose Companies
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Just because someone lives in an apartment doesn't mean they don't want to go outside and be in nature.In this episode, I sit down with Lauren...
S7E2: “Trees Don’t Make Cities Livable. They Make Cities Survivable.” — Why Urban Trees Are Public Health Infrastructure with Dr. Geoffrey Donovan of Ash and Elm Consulting
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There's a reason people write poetry about trees and not speed bumps.In this episode, I talk with Dr. Geoffrey Donovan — forest economist, 23-ye...
S7E1: “I Come Here Every Day and Never Noticed” — What Happens When a City Starts Paying Attention to its Nature with Nuno Curado of Wild Eindhoven
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most people walk through their city every day and never notice the nature around them.In this episode — the Season 7 premiere — I talk with Nuno C...
S6 Bonus Episode: “This Used to Be Concrete” — Lessons from One of London’s Most Unexpected Pocket Forests with Adrian Wong of SUGi
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you plant a forest where nothing should grow?In this bonus, end-of-season episode, I’m joined by Adrian Wong of SUGi inside a dens...
S6E10: “Mushrooms Aren’t a Death Sentence” — Fungumentals for Arborists Who Diagnose Before They Cut with Kyle McLoughlin of Ironwood Arboricultural
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A mushroom on a tree isn’t a verdict — but in arboriculture, it’s often treated like one.In this episode, Nadina Galle talks with Kyle McLoughli...
S6E9: Trees on Top — How Stress Tests, Substrate & Sensors Green “Impossible” Places with Daan Grasveld of The Urban Jungle Project
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a rooftop disguised as a public square outside Amsterdam’s public library, Nadina sits down with Daan Grasveld, co-founder of Urban Jungle Projec...
S6E8: “National Park City” — What If the Whole City Were a Park? with Mark Cridge of National Park City Foundation
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nadina meets Mark Cridge just off Oxford Circus, inside a quiet, plant-filled HQ that serves as the visitor centre for something radi...
S6E7: “Urban Acupuncture” — How Pocket Forests Heal Our Cities with Adrian Wong of SUGi
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nadina sits down with Adrian Wong, SUGi’s UK Forest Lead, in the middle of the Forest of Thanks—a 10,000 m² Miyawaki forest plan...
S6E6: Microdosing Nature with Pieter van den Braak of N8RLND
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmaker and N8RLND founder Pieter van den Braak joins the Internet of Nature Podcast for a walk through Eindhoven’s Philips de Jonghpark—a city ...
S6E5: Don’t Count Trees; Count Crowns with Jan Willem de Groot of Terra Nostra
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amsterdam’s trees haven’t “stopped growing” — they’ve stopped growing the way they should. Arborist-turned-CEO Jan Willem de Groot explain...
S6E4: The Garden That Listens — and Teaches: eDNA, Bioacoustics, and the Secrets of Urban Life with Dr. John Tweddle
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Tweddle joins the Internet of Nature Podcast to share how the Natural History Museum in London turned five acres of ornamental lawn into a living...
S6E3: The Tree Is the New Sewer System with Erwin van Herwijnen of New Urban Standard
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded in the heart of Tilburg—a Dutch city that has transformed from one of Europe’s hottest urban heat islands into a showcase of regreening—...
S6E2: Nature Is Waiting, It’s Time to Come Home with Tim Christophersen of Generation Restoration
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Christophersen joins the Internet of Nature Podcast to talk about his new book, Generation Restoration, and why nature isn’t a luxury—it’s ...
S6E1: Don’t Maximize Carbon; Maximize Life with Thomas Crowther of Crowther Lab & Restor
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Crowther returns to the Internet of Nature Podcast to open Season 6 with a simple provocation: don’t maximize carbon—maximize life. We revi...
S5E10 — If Money Grows on Trees, Where is Urban Forestry Funding? with Jad Daley of American Forests
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Jad Daley, the 40th president and CEO of American Forests, the oldest forest conservation organization in the states, to...
S5E9 — The Data-Driven Decision-Making Revolutionizing Urban Forestry with Andy Lederer of Oxfordshire County
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Andy Lederer, Principal Arboriculture Officer for Oxfordshire County Council, to discuss how he got involved with trees ...
S5E8 — Don’t Tell Me How Many Trees You Planted, Tell Me How Many Are Still There After 20 Years with Tom Ebeling of Openlands
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tom Ebeling, Community Arborist at Openlands, to discuss how we can ensure the trees that are planted today will still b...
S5E7 — How Can We Align Urban Forestry and Municipal Climate Change Policy? with Brett KenCairn of the City of Boulder
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Brett KenCairn, the City of Boulder’s Senior Policy Advisor for Climate Action and the city’s Natural Climate Soluti...
S5E6 — Where Have All the Young Urban Foresters Gone? – And How To Get Them Back with Leslie Berckes of Society of Municipal Arborists
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Leslie Berckes, Executive Director of the Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA), to discuss the skilled labor ...
S5E5 — Does Good Health Grow on Trees? with Vivek Shandas of CAPA Strategies
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Vivek Shandas, Professor of Climate Adaptation at Portland State University and founder of CAPA Strategies, a global cli...
S5E4 — Faster than We Can Plant Trees On Public Land, We’re Losing Them on Private Land with Alex Hancock of PlanIT Geo
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Alex Hancock, urban forestry consultant at PlanIT Geo, to discuss private tree ordinances, a hot regulatory topic as mun...
S5E3 — Who Are the Treefluencers of Tomorrow? with Tobin Mitnick of @jewslovetrees
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tobin Mitnick, actor, comedian, and naturalist, widely known on social media as @jewslovetrees, to discuss "treeflu...
S5E2 — What Can We Learn from the World’s Best Urban Forests? with Dan Lambe of Arbor Day Foundation
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dan Lambe, CEO at Arbor Day Foundation, to discuss Dan's start in trees and urban forestry, the history of Arbor Day...
S5E1 — Launching Season 5 on the Future of Urban Forestry with Ian Hanou of PlanIT Geo
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ian Hanou, Founder & CEO at PlanIT Geo, to introduce Season 5 of the Internet of Nature Podcast, taking listeners on...
S4E10 — The More High-Tech Our Lives Become, The More Nature We Need with Richard Louv of the Children and Nature Network
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Richard Louv, best known as the author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, Our Wild Calling, and more, and...
S4E9 — Growing the Next Generation of Ecohustlers with Max Lerner of NYC Parks
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Max Lerner, director of the Emerging Technologies team at the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and founder of GROW...
S4E8 — Why We Need Technology To Rebalance Urbanization and Nature with Giulio Boccaletti of Water: A Biography
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Giulio Boccaletti, author, scientist, and co-founder of Chloris Geospatial, to discuss his unconventional career path, f...
S4E7 — Nature Has the Answers with Monica Olsen and Jennifer Walsh of Biophilic Solutions
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Monica Olsen and Jennifer Walsh, creators of the Biophilic Solutions Podcast, to discuss what connecting to nature means...
S4E6 — Meet the Doctor Prescribing Nature for Anxiety, Depression, Obesity, and More with Dr. Robert Zarr of Park Rx America
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Robert Zarr, board-certified pediatrician, founder, and medical director of Park Rx America (PRA), to discuss how se...
S4E5 — Why Daily Doses of Nature in the City Matter with Tim Beatley of Biophilic Cities
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tim Beatley, Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia and founder of “Biophilic Cities” to...
S4E4 — Why Technology is Not the Antithesis to Nature with Matthew Browning of the Virtual Reality & Nature Lab at Clemson University
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Matthew Browning, founder of the Virtual Reality & Nature Lab at Clemson University, to discuss how growing up near ...
S4E3 — Leveraging Sensors and AI in the Fight Against Global Wildlife Poaching with Tim van Dam of Smart Parks
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tim van Dam, co-founder and director of Smart Parks, to discuss how a chance encounter with a rhino sparked a career in ...
S4E2 — Planting 500 Million Trees in Five Years in Neighborhoods and Forests of Greatest Need with Ben Wilinsky of the Arbor Day Foundation
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ben Wilinsky, Director of Partnerships and Innovation at the Arbor Day Foundation, to discuss how the Arbor Day Foundati...
Trailer: Internet of Nature Podcast
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can nature and technology — long viewed as opposing forces — work together to stabilize our climate, sustain our urban environments, and benefit o...
S4E1 — How the "Steve Jobs of Ecology" is Building the "Google Maps for Nature" with Thomas Crowther of Crowther Lab
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Thomas Crowther, founder of Restor and the Crowther Lab at ETH Zürich to discuss why his early obsession with snake...
S3E10 — Meet the Woman Behind Halifax’s Viral Text-A-Tree Initiative with Julietta Sorensen Kass of Our Nature
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Julietta Sorensen Kass, Founder of Our Nature, to discuss what a tree would say if it could talk, why people find it eas...
S3E9 — How Blockchain Can Value and Protect Our Urban Trees with Mark Bode & Willem de Feijter of TreeCollective
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Mark Bode and Willem de Feijter, Co-Founders of TreeCollective, to discuss what happens when you combine an urban forest...
S3E8 — How AllTrails Got 30M+ People in 200 Countries Outside with Ron Schneidermann of AllTrails
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ron Schneidermann, CEO of AllTrails, to discuss how AllTrails grew its community to 30M+ registered users across 200 cou...
S3E7 — Beyond Carbon: Why We Can't Plant Our Way Out Of Climate Change with Carlotta Conte of Dark Matter Labs (TreesAI)
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Carlotta Conte, Lead of TreesAI and the Nature-based Solutions Mission at Dark Matter Labs, to discuss what ur...
S3E6 — Why Sensors Alone are Not Enough to Grow Urban Trees with René Voogt of ConnectedGreen
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by René Voogt, Founder of ConnectedGreen, to discuss the problems facing newly planted urban trees, why overwatering trees...
S3E5 — Why Leveraging "NatureTech" Can Scale-Up Nature-Based Solutions with Lucy Almond of Nature4Climate
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Lucy Almond, Director of Nature4Climate, the world’s first coordinated effort to address the totality of natural clima...
S3E4 — Technology for Arborists and Urban Foresters with Josh Behounek of The Davey Tree Expert Company
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Josh Behounek, Business Development Manager at The Davey Tree Expert Company, to discuss how arborists and urban foreste...
S3E3 — Why Time in Nature Helps You Live Longer and How to Get your "NatureDose" with Jared Hanley of NatureQuant
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Jared Hanley, co-founder and CEO of NatureQuant, to discuss why nature exposure makes people healthier, why living&...
S3E2 — How Open-Data Helps Enable and Accelerate Global Ecosystem Restoration with Clara Rowe of Restor
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Clara Rowe, CEO of Restor, to discuss why ecosystem restoration and conservation are crucial for protecting Earth’s bi...
S3E1 — The 3-30-300 Rule for Healthier and Greener Cities with Cecil Konijnendijk of the Nature Based Solutions Institute
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Cecil Konijnendijk, co-founder of the Nature Based Solutions Institute, to discuss how he became one of the founders...
S2E10 — Urban Deforestation and What We Can Do About It with Matthew Wells of the City of Santa Monica
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Matthew Wells, Public Landscape Manager for the City of Santa Monica in Southern California, to discuss urban deforestat...
S2E9 — How Sensing Forms the Foundation of Smart *and* Resilient Cities with Joe Glesta of Senscity
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Joe Glesta, CEO & Co-Founder of Senscity, to discuss building an urban climate intelligence platform to understand p...
S2E8 — How Machine Learning and Satellite Imagery are Preventing Wildfires with Indra den Bakker of Overstory
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Indra den Bakker, CEO & Co-Founder of Overstory, to discuss how his company applies machine learning to satellite im...
S2E7 — How iNaturalist is Unlocking the World's Biodiversity, One Photo at a Time with Alison Young of City Nature Challenge
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Alison Young, co-director of the Center for Biodiversity and Community Science at the California Academy of Sciences, to...
S2E6 — How IoT Sensors Protect Urban Trees with Andrew Hirons of Myerscough College
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Andrew Hirons, senior lecturer in Arboriculture at Myerscough College (UK), to discuss his career journey from tree ...
S2E5 — How Cities Force Animals, Plants, and Insects to Evolve with Menno Schilthuizen, Author of Darwin Comes to Town
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Prof. Menno Schilthuizen, an evolutionary biologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, bestselling author o...
S2E4 — What Virtual Reality Can Teach Us About Green Space Design with Payam Tabrizian of IDEO
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Payam Tabrizian, software design lead at IDEO, to discuss how virtual reality can help us understand how people feel...
S2E3 — Why Data-Driven Decision Making Makes Money Grow on Trees with Ben Seamark and Tom Davey of Forestree
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ben Seamark and Tom Davey, founders of Forestree, a tree management software system built to help cities plan, manage an...
S2E2 — Creating the World's First "Talking Tree" Tour that Changed a Neighbourhood with Puck van Dijk of Play Productions
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Puck van Dijk, a theatre director with a green heart, to discuss how she created the "Giants of North" (Reuzen van Noord...
S2E1 — Creating the Tree That Is Live-Tweeting Climate Change with Tim Rademacher of @awitnesstree
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Tim Rademacher, a postdoctoral scholar of technology and trees, to discuss how he created the Witness Tree social media ...
S1E10 — How to Map and Catalogue Every Plant Species on Earth by 2022 with Eric Ralls of PlantSnap & Earth.com
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Eric Ralls, Founder & CEO of PlantSnap and Earth.com, to discuss how a chance encounter with a mystery plant in his ...
S1E9 — Harnessing Google Street View Imagery to Map Urban Greenery with Fábio Duarte of MIT Senseable City Lab
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Fábio Duarte, Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Senseable City Lab, to discuss how we can take advantage of "oppo...
S1E8 — Talking with Trees and the Power of Soil Sensors with Marcel Steegh of SoilMania
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Marcel Steegh, Co-Founder & CTO at SoilMania, to discuss how his (tomato) farm roots, his ever-changing relationship...
S1E7 — How Giving Trees Email Addresses Changed a City Forever with Yvonne Lynch of Green Riyadh
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Yvonne Lynch, currently, Urban Greening & Climate Resilience Strategist at Green Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and former he...
S1E6 — How Augmented Reality Games Can Educate Kids About Nature with Stine Kondrup of Intugreen
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Stine Kondrup, Founder & CEO at Intugreen, to discuss her wildly successful Danish app "World Safari", which takes y...
S1E5 — What Urban Foresters Need to Know About Remote Sensing with Ian Hanou of PlanIT Geo
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ian Hanou, Founder & CEO at PlanIT Geo, to discuss the history of remote sensing in urban forestry, how he got his s...
S1E4 — Why Ecologists Need Virtual Reality for Nature Conservation with Ash Welch of AECOM
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Ash Welch, Senior Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity Specialist at AECOM, to explore his pioneering use of virtual re...
S1E3 — How We Can Enable People to Remotely Restore Forests with Joris Olde Rikkert of Treemendo
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Joris Olde Rikkert, Founder & CEO of Treemendo, to discuss his studies in climate physics, his three (!) successful ...
S1E2 — On Sound (Our Lost Sense) and Why Every Landscape Needs a Soundscape with Mike Edwards of Sound Matters
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dr. Mike Edwards, Co-Founder and Chief Listening Officer at Sound Matters, to philosophize about how each landscape has ...
S1E1 — Mobile Mapping Data, Deep Learning Algorithms, and a Little Bit of Faith to Automatically Detect Urban Trees with Dirk van Riel of TreeTracker
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Dirk van Riel, CEO of TreeTracker, to talk about the importance of seeing urban trees as an asset (not a liability), his...