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In this podcast we take a behind the scenes look at environmental restoration in Europe on the cusp of what will likely prove to be a transformative year. First, we find out about the EU's big environmental policy, the Green Deal, then about the ambitious new Nature Restoration Law adopted last year. We then hear from four EU restoration projects about the challenges of planning, financing and carrying out restoration on freshwaters, forests, wetlands and coastlines across the continent.Podcast host Rob St John speaks to Colombe Warin from the European Commission, Shane McGuinness from WaterLANDS, Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla from REST-COAST, Elisabeth Schatzdorfer from SUPERB and Sebastian Birk from MERLIN to get the inside story on restoring Europe's landscapes.Four key themes emerge around contemporary restoration in Europe: the use of nature-based solutions; the importance of bringing communities and stakeholders together; the challenges of financing ambitious restoration projects; and the need to upscale restoration activities from individual sites to entire landscapes and watersheds.

In October 2023, the WWF released a major report stating that freshwater has long been significantly undervalued in global economies, leading to widespread environmental costs. The report estimates that the annual economic value of water and freshwater ecosystems globally is $58 trillion – a figure equivalent to 60% of global Gross Domestic Product (or GDP). This startling figure was calculated by estimating the economic value that rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs and wetlands generate to human societies. The report showed that freshwater ecosystems are not only vital for sustaining everyday societies, but they also provide invaluable life-support systems which help maintain the health of both people and the planet. In this episode of the MERLIN podcast co-hosts Rob St John and Sien Kok deep-dive into key topics around the economics of water.Rob and Sien explore how economic thinking can help make more informed decisions about how to manage freshwater ecosystems, and similarly how it can strengthen arguments over the pressing need to conserve and restore them. We hear expert perspectives from three individuals working in water economics in Europe – Eduard Interwies, Phillipe Le Coent and Rob van der Veeren – alongside an ecologist's perspective from MERLIN project leader Daniel Hering. The interviews introduce key concepts such as cost-benefit analysis, water pricing and the polluter pays principle, and how they relate to policies like the EU Nature Restoration Law and Water Framework Directive, and environmental management approaches like nature-based solutions.

Nature-based solutions are a hot topic right now. So-called 'NbS' are environmental management approaches that use natural processes to help tackle socio-environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, flooding, food production and health and wellbeing. The MERLIN project explores how the benefits from nature-based solutions can help foster collaborations between different economic sectors to help mainstream freshwater restoration. MERLIN works with representatives from six economic sectors – agriculture, hydropower, insurance, navigation, peat extraction, and water supply and sanitation – to encourage the adoption of nature-based solutions in their activities across Europe.MERLIN project partners recently released a briefing exploring how nature-based solutions are understood across these sectors in Europe, and – vitally – how they might help encourage collaborations which strengthen restoration efforts. In this podcast, host Rob St John speaks to project partners who work with these sectors, and in doing so, explore the key issues highlighted in the briefing. Rob talks to: Esther Carmen (Hutton Institute), Sanja Pokrajac (WWF Central and Eastern Europe), Alhassan Ibrahim (Hutton Institute), Jack Rieley (International Peatland Society), Tamas Gruber (WWF Hungary), Kirsty Blackstock (Hutton Institute) and Mia Ebeltoft (MERLIN).Read the briefing here: https://project-merlin.eu/deliverables.html

Peatlands and wetlands are vital landscapes. They store carbon and so help mitigate the harmful effects of climate change, they help buffer floodwaters and naturally filter drinking water, and they are often rich habitats for biodiversity. But peatlands and wetlands have been widely drained, altered and lost across Europe as a result of human actions.This episode explores how peatlands and wetlands across the continent are being restored through a series of ambitious projects supported by the MERLIN project. Podcast host Rob St John meets a range of restoration scientists and managers implementing so-called 'nature-based solutions' at their sites across Europe. Their schemes include beaver reintroduction, peatland 'rewetting' and wet woodland restoration.We also hear from MERLIN project coordinator Dr Sebastian Birk on the need for fresh thinking around how to finance restoration schemes. Dr Birk discusses the challenges of accounting for factors such as carbon storage when assessing the benefits that restoration can bring to society.

Kingdom Client, Rob St John, is no stranger to The Kingdom. He has been a part of The Kingdom Group, Axiom, and now is a part of Ascension. He shares his real estate journey with our Client Success Director, Luke. Rob has been a real estate agent for more than 10 years and has self-admittedly spent a "scary amount of money on training and education" but says he has “never seen anything like (The Kingdom) before." Since joining, he has seen his business on the agent side become 40% more profitable. “What Ascension has done for me is give me permission to be ruthlessly committed to having peace in my life.” -Rob If this is something you're looking to do, we are currently accepting a limited number of applications and we would like to invite you to APPLY: https://go.thekingdomrealestate.com/application Find Todd's books here: If You Can't Wholesale After This: I've Got Nothing For You... https://amzn.to/3LZvq59 If You Can't Cash Flow After This: I've Got Nothing For You... https://amzn.to/3MafixA Want to Connect? Reach out to us online! Website: https://www.thekingdomrealestate.com Instagram: @thekingdomrealestate Email: admin@kingdomrealestate.com

This episode explores the big ideas that are shaping how ambitious freshwater restoration projects are being carried out across Europe. From dam removal to floodplain restoration, the European Union funded MERLIN project is investing millions of euros to disrupt and transform existing ways of carrying out freshwater restoration.But what do these keywords – transformation and disruption – actually mean in practice? And what are the underlying inspirations that motivate scientists and environmentalists to help bring Europe's freshwaters back to life?In September 2022 podcast host Rob St John travelled to Fulda, just outside Frankfurt in Germany, to attend the first MERLIN all-partner meeting. At the meeting Rob spoke to project partners from all over Europe to find out about how they're working together to research, plan, finance and implement major freshwater restoration projects. The aim of this work is to encourage healthier European rivers, streams, peatlands and wetlands, which aren't only good for nature, but also bring many social and economic benefits.

In July 2022 podcast host Rob St John travelled to the Netherlands to meet MERLIN practitioners working on the project's large river restoration sites. Over a number of hot, sunny days the team explored floodplains across the Rhine Delta which had been restored through a major project called Room for the River. Started in 1995, Room for the River worked to reconnect the Rhine with its floodplains, which had become isolated through the construction of dikes and levees. By making room for the river to periodically inundate its floodplains, new spaces for biodiversity habitat, carbon storage and recreation have been brought back to the Rhine catchment. Walking along the banks of the Rhine, Rob speaks to restoration practitioners about their work, and catches up with MERLIN coordinator Sebastian Birk to hear about what the project hopes to achieve.

Even by the usual standards of the Independent Music Podcast, this show reaches into the more extraordinary reaches of experimental sounds. From chopped up club bangers, through Brazilian field recordings, via techno abstraction and Russian trap/free jazz, this show gives your ears a really solid workout. Tracklisting Rosso Polare - carrubbe chit Ka (TokuRoku, UK) Spooky-J & Ekhe - Passinho Gringo Foda 160bpm (Spooky Shit, Netherlands) Lucy Gooch - Ash & Orange (Fire Records, UK) Сольвычегодск - Размотка

Part of the Soundmarks audio trail through Aldborough Roman Town, Yorkshire, UK created by Rose Ferraby and Rob St John.

An introduction to the Soundmarks audio trail through Aldborough Roman Town, Yorkshire, UK created by Rose Ferraby and Rob St John.

Soundmarks is an art/archaeology collaboration between Rose Ferraby and Rob St. John using sound and visual art to explore and animate the sub-surface landscape of Aldborough Roman Town in North Yorkshire, UK. This podcast, recorded in September 2019, features a conversation between Rose and Rob outlining their processes of research and making over six months in Soundmarks, resulting in an exhibition, sound installation, book, art trail and film. Their conversation covers themes around art, archaeology, sound and landscape, and is woven with field recordings and music created in the project. Soundmarks was supported by funding from Arts Council England.

Part of the Soundmarks audio trail through Aldborough Roman Town, Yorkshire, UK created by Rose Ferraby and Rob St John.

Part of the Soundmarks audio trail through Aldborough Roman Town, Yorkshire, UK created by Rose Ferraby and Rob St John.

Part of the Soundmarks audio trail through Aldborough Roman Town, Yorkshire, UK created by Rose Ferraby and Rob St John.

Part of the Soundmarks audio trail through Aldborough Roman Town, Yorkshire, UK created by Rose Ferraby and Rob St John.

Part of the Soundmarks audio trail through Aldborough Roman Town, Yorkshire, UK created by Rose Ferraby and Rob St John.

Part of the Soundmarks audio trail through Aldborough Roman Town, Yorkshire, UK created by Rose Ferraby and Rob St John.

Part of the Soundmarks audio trail through Aldborough Roman Town, Yorkshire, UK created by Rose Ferraby and Rob St John.

Artist and cultural geographer Rob St John joins presenter Will Abberley on a walk through the Pennines, untangling the idea of the dark and unsettling impression of eeriness in the English landscape.

Scottish-infused Philadelphian hiphop kicks us off this week. We have ten tracks exploring Italian library music, soul jazz, Malian folk, and power electronics. We also have a tribute to the late William Onyeabor, who passed away last week.

As important as real estate is, from time to time we venture off the beaten path and discuss things that can transcend strategies of negotiating win win situations and adhearing to contract deadlines. In this episode, Steve Shuff and Rob St John of Real Estate Radio Now sit down with …

The music writer Laura Barton visits four corners of Britain and listens closely to the music found in different landscapes. Crossing into Lancashire through the Upper Calder Valley, Laura visits the Great Bride Stones with musician and cultural geographer Rob St John, who's attuned to the unique sound qualities of this rural-industrial landscape. Then she visits the Queen Street Mill Museum in Burnley and meets Colin, a weaver of fifty years and lover of elegiac Vaughan Williams, and listens to the loom-inspired music of Chaines. She musically unpicks the origins of Donk, a high bpm (beats per minute) dance style unique to the North-West, with Tony Sabanskis of The Blackout Crew, and attends a band practice of a former colliery brass band, a more traditional musical emblem that flourishes still in post-industrial Haydock. Produced by Alan Hall. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

Cette semaine, on commence avec quelques nouveautés dont Kaia Kater, Rob St-John et Earnest Lovers.  Kaia Kater - Southern Girl Steve Gunn & Black Twig Pikers - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Rob St-John & Woodpigeon - The Coldest Winter On Record Earnest Lovers - No Songs Came By Today  Louis-Jean Cormier - La jour ou elle me dit je pars The Railsplitters - Planted On The Ground Ol' Savannah - Down By The River Hurray For The Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes Pharis & Jason Romero - Goodbye Old Paint Old Crow Medicine Show - Dearly Departed Friend The Revenants - La Candeur D'un Inconnu Les Hay Babies - N'importe quel gars Kill County - Neighbor Dogs Olivier Brousseau - La mer l'attend 

Cette semaine, on commence avec quelques nouveautés dont Kaia Kater, Rob St-John et Earnest Lovers.  Kaia Kater - Southern Girl Steve Gunn & Black Twig Pikers - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Rob St-John & Woodpigeon - The Coldest Winter On Record Earnest Lovers - No Songs Came By Today  Louis-Jean Cormier - La jour ou elle me dit je pars The Railsplitters - Planted On The Ground Ol' Savannah - Down By The River Hurray For The Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes Pharis & Jason Romero - Goodbye Old Paint Old Crow Medicine Show - Dearly Departed Friend The Revenants - La Candeur D'un Inconnu Les Hay Babies - N'importe quel gars Kill County - Neighbor Dogs Olivier Brousseau - La mer l'attend 

Video: Vimeo – YouTube. Photos: Flickr. Free mp3 downloads: zip file (right click – save as). We actually recorded this Toad Session in the Queen Charlotte Rooms in Leith before the Song, by Toad Christmas Party back in December.  Partly this was because it seemed like a fun thing to do, and partly because swapping our traditional and rather overpowering turquoise backdrop for their Christmas lights and tinsel. Also, we had six different bands playing the Queen Charlotte Rooms that night, as sort of a Song, by Toad Records Christmas celebration, and as Rob had only just agreed to release his debut album on Song, by Toad Records (later this year – probably in the Autumn sometime) it seemed fitting that he headline one of the rooms on the night itself. In terms of manpower we were woefully, woefully understaffed for this session.  The only person who could help at all was Wee Matthew, and even he couldn’t make it for the start, so I pressed my parents into service.  Well come on, they’ve got be more use than just glue, eh?  So my mum took some pictures and did some filming, I set up the recording and the main camera, and then she passed the video camera on to Matthew when he arrived and the stills camera on to me. And miraculously, it wasn’t a total disaster.  In fact, the actual recordings, whilst more than a little noisy, in part due to the hum of the fridges behind the bar, are some of my favourite-sounding Toad Session recordings.  As usual, we have all the individual song videos embedded below, or on our Vimeo or YouTube pages, and the photos can be found on Flickr. The main interview podcast can be streamed or downloaded immediately below, as can the individual session tracks, with the playlist for the podcast at the bottom of the page. As per usual feel absolutely free to share and pass around any of this stuff – that’s what it’s for. 01. Rob St. John - Whites of Our Eyes (Toad Session) (07.33)02. Smog & the Dirty Three - Cold Discovery (Peel Session) (15.20)03. James Yorkston & the Athletes - Hermitage (21.33)04. Rob St. John - Your Phantom Limb (Toad Session) (29.35)05. Grouper - We've All Time to Sleep (36.07)06. Ben Frost - Hibakusja (39.17)07. Rob St. John - An Empty House (Toad Session) (51.19)08. Earth - Hung From the Moon (57.29)09. Micah P. Hinson - Patience (65.13)10. Rob St. John - Muted Flourish (Toad Session) (72.06)

Hey ho! This months podcast is a bumper edition, not only have we got interviews and music from the bands who played the Sneaky Pete's stage at our 3rd Birthday celebrations last month, we also have a special report from This Is Music in Leeds which just started up in April. So our 3rd Birthday night was a mega success. We had two separate gigs running at the same time and both were well attended. At our regular venue of Sneaky Pete's we had young Edinburgh upstarts HOMEwork and Tie for Jack sharing the stage with relative old timers Y'all is Fantasy Island (they are about to make their 5th album!). Across town in the hip basement hang out that is The Bowery the line up was more folk influenced with the delicate tones of Rob St John and his "super-group" backing band kicking off proceedings. Rob was followed by New York based underground darling Mike Bones. Finally Edinburgh heroes Broken Records took to the stage for another passionate set of up lifting Scottish-Eastern-European-folk-rock. After all guitars, amps, drums and assorted music gear was packed away at both venues the party continued at Sneaky Pete's with an eclectic DJ set from BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio Scotland's Vic Galloway. After Vic's storming set This Is Music residents iTallah-Disco and Bargain Harold took over the wheels of steel with their own take on party tunes and old skool anthems for the final part of the night.