Ep 5, The forest underground

What do you want to do when you grow up?

Mon 26 Feb 2024

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What do you want to do when you grow up? It's a question we frequently ask children, and it's a question you were perhaps asked often as a child. For Tony Renaudo, he had two childhood fascinations, trees and the continent of Africa. And when he grew up, these two passions came together in an extraordinary way in his work. But I'll let him share more of that story.

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Andrew Laird

Andrew works for Third Space in Canberra and directs Life@Work – an initiative aimed at connecting Christian faith with daily work. In his years working as a journalist, then mentor and spiritual advisor to working professionals, Andrew Laird has seen first-hand the challenges many face in bringing their ‘whole selves’ to work. He’s the author of I am what I do: Reshaping our understanding of self and work and Under Pressure.

Tony Rinaudo

Tony Rinaudo is an Australian Agronomist who works for World Vision and has been a force in the climate change story. He worked in Niger for a couple of decades helping farmers with work with nature to restore native forest land, and to grow enough food to support their local communities. His focus has been in Africa, but his work is going global, thanks to a strategy called ‘Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration’. In 2018 he won the Right Livelihood Award (Alternate Nobel Prize) and…