The Climate Ambassador Podcast
Sep 14, 2026 · 39 min · 11 segments
We are very happy to be joined in this episode by two Climate Ambassadors with An Taisce from 2025 – Brian and Craig (a.k.a. Soilboy). Through a shared passion for soil, they discuss how it is the…
Brian MeredithGuest
Daithí BrooksHostMusic Music Specifically on like climate crisis and the biodiversity loss like that is obviously something that if I start thinking too much about it kind of gets me a bit down.
One of the best kind of fixes you could get into this little corner of a little riparian woodland where you could get into the back of the field and then all of a sudden like you're not really thinking about biodiversity loss or climate crisis because you're thinking about the different butterfly that are coming around you the sound of the birds you can see those lovely areas and those lovely plants still alive and they can come back if they're given just that little bit of space.

I used to bristle at the idea of farming and environmentalism as this kind of opposite, because if I want to have crops in a certain field, I have to plant clover in it for three years to build up nitrogen, which has to do with nitrogen fixing bacteria, the whole ecosystem, then that's great.
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Music Music Specifically on like climate crisis and the biodiversity loss like that is obviously something that if I start thinking too much about it kind of gets me a bit down.
One of the best kind of fixes you could get into this little corner of a little riparian woodland where you could get into the back of the field and then all of a sudden like you're not really thinking about biodiversity loss or climate crisis because you're thinking about the different butterfly that are coming around you the sound of the birds you can see those lovely areas and those lovely plants still alive and they can come back if they're given just that little bit of space.

I used to bristle at the idea of farming and environmentalism as this kind of opposite, because if I want to have crops in a certain field, I have to plant clover in it for three years to build up nitrogen, which has to do with nitrogen fixing bacteria, the whole ecosystem, then that's great.