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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Launched as an email-only newsletter in late 2024, Transferable Solutions now has its own home online. It can be found at www.transferable.solutions. It aims to help professionals articulate skills they’ve earned so they can apply their experience wherever they choose to work.
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Environmental Skills, Reimagined
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Transferable Solutions is for environmental education (EE) professionals working independently and those exploring how to apply their EE experience in other sectors. The theme is "Environmental Skills, Reimagined." It is our primary communication vehicle. Subscribe at talaterra.com.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We are pleased to be a Community Partner at the Science Journalism Forum 2025 (#SJF25). The forum will feature sessions in five languages (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese). Learn more and register at sciencejf.com #ScienceJournalism #EnvironmentalEducation #Science #Writing
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I don't do environmental education (EE) the way I used to. What does EE look like for me today? www.talaterra.com/journal-tran...
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There are other ways to do environmental education — TALATERRA
How many ways have you done environmental education? How will you do it next?
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Thank you, @naiinterpreters.bsky.social for the way you lift the NAI community. Also, thank you for acknowledging the many ways members work to build relationships while honoring people, history, and nature. #IAmAnInterpreter
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Guild of Natural Science Illustrators @gnsiart.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We are a week away from our 2025 conference and we are so excited! How about we start the countdown off with a little story from one of the conference chairs, Stephen DiCerbo? He designed the alternative logo available on merch during conference registration. He'll take it from here...#SciArt
An intricate logo design for the GNSI Visual SciComm Conference in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. That text is laid out across the top. Underneath, a wreath of cranberry leaves, red berries, and flowers encircles the three fish mentioned in the text forming sides of a triangle. The GNSI logo sits in the center, with July 2025 at the bottom.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Independent environmental education professionals move *through* communities. They have a reach that others do not.This truth describes your work too. How might you amplify your work? Consider creating a professional development program. www.talaterra.com/journal-tran... #environmentaleducation
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Create a Professional Development Program
The CLUES guide may help freelance environmental educators recruit and train community members to be informal science educators.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I began my project with an assertion. "Freelance environmental educators are uniquely positioned to create change in communities because of their ability to move through communities.” Today I make a new assertion.
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Amplify Your Impact as a Community Connector — TALATERRA
Now is the time for freelance environmental educators to amplify their impact.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
It has been a bumpy and emotional time. While some of the usual clients freelance environmental educators contract with are facing complex challenges, it doesn't mean they have been stopped cold. It might be worth asking, though, is it time for something different?
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Is it time for Something Different?
What might ‘different’ look like?
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
While social media might get you in front of new strangers, it may not increase your visibility with those you want to engage with. In "Testimonials," Janine Bray-Mueller explains how testimonials answer the unspoken questions of prospective students. www.talaterra.com/journal-tran... #freelance
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How to Ask For Testimonials
How freelance teachers can ask for testimonials before, during, and after their workshop or seminar.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
How-to books are usually written for a general audience. Today, I want to share a book written specifically for freelance teachers. It helps them manage everything from course creation to marketing to student acquisition. www.talaterra.com/journal-tran...
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Have you brushed against a stinging nettle plant? Those plants with plain-looking leaves covered in nearly invisible hairs that, once attached to your skin, remind you of their presence for hours? Unanswered questions work the same way in our minds.
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What matters? When questions sting.
Unanswered questions.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The article "One-Person Enterprises and Business Growth," made me think of the freelance environmental educators I've been speaking with and their services. It also made me think about a challenge they share -- business growth.
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Solopreneurs, Freelancers and Growth
What’s your relationship with growth and growing your practice?
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Attention freelance environmental education (EE) professionals. Did you know you can add your events to the EE Forward calendar? The calendar is a way to learn about environmental education experiences led by independent educators, organizations, and businesses.
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Help create a database of transformative environmental work
Opportunities to learn about environmental topics, natural resources, and environmental justice are under scrutiny. We can counter this if we work collaboratively and put a spotlight on the good work…
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
In "Working Identity," Dr. Herminia Ibarra, the Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School, writes about the career transition journey. Ibarra explains that a career change is an identity change. How are you with change?
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Changing your mind and your next identity
The tension that comes from changing your mind.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Have you ever considered how many fields you work in? Do you have a list? Consultant Marcy Breffle shares how she enters each of her roles into a spreadsheet and tracks her impact.
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Transferable Skills
Can you recite your transferrable skills at a moment’s notice?
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
You're invisible. People don't even know they should look for you and the environmental skills and experience you bring to projects. Have you ever felt this way? How might you move past this? www.talaterra.com/journal-tran... #community #strategy #showyourwork
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Stay focused while growing your network
Relationship building can have you running all over the place. These questions will help you focus.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
"Storytelling to Accelerate Climate Solutions" by editors @emilycoren.bsky.social and Hua (Helen) Wang. Published by @SpringerNature.com it features 20 chapters about storytelling. www.talaterra.com/journal-tran... #sciart #entertainment #music #climate #mentalhealth #food #journalism #gps
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Storytelling and Climate Solutions
Immerse yourself in storytelling.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Stories can be used to teach concepts in engaging ways. In spite of this, the use of narrative formats in the sciences can encounter resistance (Katz, 2013). How, then, can narratives be used when communicating science topics? www.talaterra.com/journal-tran... #storytelling #sciencecommunication
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Tell better science stories
Science communicators should ask themselves three questions before preparing narratives about controversial topics.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Environmental professionals who work independently move through communities and lead programs at locations far beyond the footprints of informal science venues. Even so, they do not engage with the public in every way possible. www.talaterra.com/journal-tran... #freelance #environmentaleducation
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Where Science Communication Isn’t Happening — TALATERRA
A collection of articles that bring attention to neglected spaces in science communication.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
#Environmentaleducation professionals strive for awareness, understanding, and behavior change. How we talk about the environment requires more than facts and stories. It requires the proper framing of information (Lakoff, 2010). www.talaterra.com/journal-tran...
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How to frame the environment in conversation — TALATERRA
As environmental educators, the goals we strive for in our work are awareness, understanding, and behavior change. How we talk about the environment or natural resources requires much more than quick ...
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"A higher individual at my institution said being an informal educator is 'a calling' and as such those called to do it should expect not to be paid very much." Do you agree? Consider this and more in "The Privilege of Low Pay" (Rende et al. 2021) www.talaterra.com/journal-tran... #science #jobs
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Informal science education and the privilege of low-pay — TALATERRA
"A higher individual at my institution said being an informal educator is 'a calling' and as such those called to do it should expect not to be paid very much." – Respondent in a survey administered...
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The book "This is Strategy" inspired the series I hosted in January. This book resonated because it is not for MBAs. As environmental educators, we talk a lot about information - activities, lesson plans, and content. We don't talk about project strategy. www.talaterra.com/journal-tran...
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Let's talk about strategy in environmental education — TALATERRA
Let’s talk about strategy.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Have you seen the EE Forward community calendar? It's a calendar for environmental leaders so they can share their events with a new audience. It's a great way to increase visibility and show your work next to other environmental leaders. Find out more. It's free. www.talaterra.com/journal-tran...
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Help create a database of transformative environmental work — TALATERRA
Opportunities to learn about environmental topics, natural resources, and environmental justice are under scrutiny. We can counter this if we work collaboratively and put a spotlight on the good work ...
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
MARCH 18 - Join Camille Simone Edwards and Dan Kriesberg, creators of DEIN as they discuss using the Earth as a role model to show how the ecological concepts of biodiversity, interrelationships, and mutualism can inspire us to take action in building communities of belonging. lu.ma/ou5hztn5
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Diversity Education In Nature (DEIN), The Earth as a Role Model for Building Diversity and Belonging · Zoom · Luma
Webinar Description: Join Camille Simone Edwards and Dan Kriesberg, creators of DEIN, for an introduction to their innovative approach to DEIB efforts that…
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
What do you say when someone asks you what you do as an independent professional? Which identity do you share first? If you struggle with this, you are not alone. Researchers don't know how to describe independent professionals either. www.talaterra.com/journal-tran... #freelance #environment
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Let's explore what a Job Finding Club might look like for people like us. By this I mean: ​​Independent environmental education (EE) professionals. ​​Educators applying EE experience in other sectors. ​​Professionals entering EE to apply their skills from other sectors. lu.ma/s13dnh89
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Job Finding Club for Environmental Education Professionals · Zoom · Luma
Would you like to consider what a Job Finding Club might look like? How about a Gig Finding Club? During my conversation with Louise Karch about her Interview…
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I once attended a session about strategies and how to stay working in environmental education. Some of the passionate educators were on the verge of leaving seasonal environmental education to get a “real” job. What might encourage them to stay involved in environmental work, regardless of sector?
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Set aside the image you usually see when you hear "environmental educator." Now think about the issues in society - health, journalism, travel, immigration, construction, etc. Now place an environmental educator in each situation. What are they doing? What is their title?
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Calling science writers, visual science communicators, environmental educators. Here's an opportunity! Meet freelance journalists from across the globe, establish a presence in the field, and meet editors. I always learn so much at IIJ events. Hope to see you there. @indiejournalists.bsky.social
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
What does environmental education (EE) look like in other sectors? I look for examples all the time. What have you noticed? Not everyone identifies with the label “environmental educator” even though it’s what they do. Do you do environmental work in a field not considered to be traditional EE?
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
What is an environmental professional? www.talaterra.com/journal-tran...
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
How can environmental education professionals document skills so they can do apply to new roles? This was the focus of my conversation with Louise Karch, career management professional and former Outward Bound instructor. #environment #environmentaljobs #greenjobs www.talaterra.com/talaterra-po...
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Ep133 Louise Karch, Interview Database for Environmental Educators — TALATERRA
Louise Karch is a former Outward Bound instructor. She went on to become a career management professional serving sectors from banking to health care to sports professionals.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Environmental education doesn't just happen in classrooms, on trails, and at outdoor camps. What if we looked for environmental education beyond where we expect to find it? www.talaterra.com/journal-tran...
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Announcing the new newsletter. The theme for this newsletter is "Environmental Skills, Reimagined." It informs how independent professionals can establish a presence in other fields and provides a way forward for educators leaving EE to do cross-sector work. www.talaterra.com/journal-tran...
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Goodbye Trail, Hello Transferable Solutions — TALATERRA
The next phase of my project will address cross-sector work.
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TALATERRA | Transferable Solutions @talaterra.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hello. This thread will be related to work around environmental careers. To engage with my content fully, I invite you to subscribe to “Transferable Solutions.” The theme for this newsletter is "Environmental Skills, Reimagined." Here is the inaugural issue for context: bit.ly/introducing-...
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