Captain Polo's International Climate-friendly Cook Book for Kids
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After attending a UN Food Summit immediately after COP26 I had an idea: I should create a climate-friendly cook book full of recipes promoting a healthy diet based on sustainable food production and ecologically responsible consumption. The special sauce: all recipes are to be provided by school children, under a collaborative and participative framework involving schools from all over the world.
This concept note lays out the foundations for this exciting new project involving my comic book character Captain Polo and his side-kick Penguin (who is quite the chef when he's not too busy rescuing Polo from villainous oil tycoons and trying to get back home to the Antarctic*).
I'm looking to spread this project around in search of suitable partners in the education, conservation and /or food sectors.
My conservation career started in 1992 when I helped set up and joined a University expedition to the Bolivian Amazon. What started out as a 3-month experience ended up being a life-changing inflection point that set my professional and personal course to the present day. My conservation experience was built bottom-up and hands-on, and includes field data collection and logistics, grassroots organization leadership and project management, community engagement and capacity building, M&E, training and behavior change, and lately climate education through authorship of graphic novels and other resources. My conservation career includes positions as a senior staff member and a principal investigator at the Bolivian BirdLife Partner Armonía, field investigator in the Gran Chaco with WCS Bolivia, field logistics officer for Conservation International's RAP expeditions, and Programme Manager and Senior Manager of M&E at Rare. I currently work as Senior Behaviour Change Specialist with TRAFFIC International, applying behavioural science approaches to support TRAFFIC's work across wildlife supply chains globally.
