Is Technology in the Science and Conservation Space Really New?

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O as perhaps the first ever conservation technologist on the planet. How misunderstood is your field? When i was in a room of conservationists, they were all saying, you know, we don't need technology. Now it's to a point where every single, a major environmental n g o out there has technology programms. So shaw is using technology to preserve areas from technology. It's kind of like an inoculation, like a little bit of the virus in a vaccine, maybe.

THIS IS UPLIFTING, I PROMISE. And it might just make you switch careers. As a bookend to last week's Oceanology episode, Conservation Technologist Shah Selbe chats about saving the planet with some well-intentioned technology. Wind turbines, solar cars, and all the ways in which sensors, drones, recycled smartphones and real-time data reporting can help conserve species, spaces and communities that are threatened. Hear inspiring tales of travel, art, adventure and putting engineering to good use from a former rocket-science turned professional do-gooder.

Also discussed: crocodile astrology, fishing vests and hippo power displays.

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