Coffee & Geography 1x16 Jess Tipton (UK)

Kit talks to Dr Jess Tipton (she/her) over a Whole Earth Chicory Coffee, chatting about grating beetroot, empowering young people with environmental activism, amongst other things. Jess dabbled in life as a musician, Russianist, civil servant and teacher. After studying Russian and clarinet, the logical move was to work at Defra for 10 years. She then became a secondary languages teacher while completing a PhD on Russian multilingualism and was inspired to return to the environmental fold by all the young people desperate to make our planet inhabitable again. Jess has been setting up environmental networks of students from schools across the UK and will be developing them further as Head of Youth Networks at Global Action Plan. Some links to things mentioned in the chat: - TerraCycle ‘Loop’ https://loopstore.co.uk/ - Borscht (beetroot soup) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borscht - Peter Kropotkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin - London Schools Eco Network https://twitter.com/ldnschoolseco - Youth Climate Summit 2020 https://www.transform-our-world.org/events/youth-climate-summit-2020 - Marylebone Trio http://www.themarylebonetrio.com/ Expand your Geography community by connecting with Jess via Twitter (https://twitter.com/DrJessT_eco), and check out the UK Schools Sustainability Network (https://twitter.com/UKSchoolsSusty & http://ukssn.org.uk), Global Action Plan (https://globalactionplan.org.uk) and the Transform Our World teaching resources hub (https://transform-our-world.org). The chat was recorded on 24th June 2021. ==About Coffee & Geography== The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know. If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink! Follow us on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/CoffeeGeogPod. The Coffee & Geography Podcast is a 'Geogramblings' production, hosted and produced by Kit Rackley (they/them). The podcast is supported by generous donations via https://ko-fi.com/kitrackley, and takes advice from an advisory board of volunteers.