EPISODE · Sep 4, 2019 · 45 MIN
Anna Laurent, Seeds, Conservation, The Fertile Crescent
from TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions · host Anna Laurent, Tania Marien
Anna Laurent is an award-winning photographer, author, and teacher. Through her projects, Anna introduces new audiences to the wonders of the botanical world. Anna has worked as a columnist for Garden Design magazine and Print magazine. Her first book, published in 2016, examines the art and science of plant biology in 19th-century wall charts. Anna’s interest in plants began in college. Years later, her interest prompted her to quit her job and to find a way to get paid to learn about plants. Did she succeed? Let’s find out. Links Anna Laurent’s website The Sorcery of Seedpods: Little Packages of DNA that Explode with Beauty Temperate House at Royal Botanic Garden, Kew Botanical Art from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery Anna has graciously shared photos of her work with listeners. You can view these photos at Talaterra.com. Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian _______________CREDITS:Producer: Tania MarienMusic: So Far So Close by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License;SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License.Subscribe to Transferable Solutions, a newsletter about reimagining environmental skillsContact UsTalaterra is an affiliate of Bookshop.org. Learn More© 2019 - 2026 Talaterra Inc ABOUT:TALATERRA combines "tala" (Icelandic for "to speak" and "to talk") with "terra" (Earth)—because speaking for our planet and telling its stories is what environmental educators do.TALATERRA: to speak Earth.
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Anna Laurent is an award-winning artist and author. Her projects include the internationally exhibited "Dispersal" project; a book about Victorian botanic wall charts (2016, University of Chicago Press); "The Iraqi Seed Project", a documentary about biodiversity in the Fertile Crescent; and commissioned work in the Temperate House at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Anna studied literature at Harvard University and holds an MSc in History & Philosophy of Science from University College of London.
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