4. Nature inspired - Home, healing and biomimicry, with Christa Avampato

On Unearthing Wild Wonders this week, join me in conversation with Christa Avampato - a biomimicry scientist, entrepreneur and writer, based in New York. Christa combines business, storytelling, and science to build a better world for all beings. She is also a sustainability leader and product developer, host of the JoyProject podcast, and an award-winning author, launching her second novel 'Emerson Page and Where the Light Leads' in May this year.

In this episode we talk about finding home and belonging through a relationship with nature and the places that call to us. We explore the fascinating field of biomimicry, what we can learn from the natural world and how the most unlikely species have inspired phenomenal innovations that we now use in our daily lives.

Christa also shares her journey to overcome cancer, how she feels she needed to learn how to heal her own body in order to help heal the planet and how, whilst lying in a hospital bed seriously ill, she saw the immensity of the plastic waste challenge and was determined to do something about it.

I hope that you enjoy this conversation, learn something new and feel inspired to look at the natural world where you live in new ways.

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Beyond Plastics

Ask Nature

Christa’s JoyProject podcast

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