![]() ![]() I take my own little bar of soap and it goes around with me, and things like that. the products in these hotels are very seldom sustainable, so I don’t use them at all. When I was traveling, I got put in expensive hotels, and you know these hotels are terribly unsustainable, so I developed my own little way of trying to counteract that. Of course, traveling 300 days a year on airplanes is not the most sustainable way of living, but the millions of trees that are being planted- our youth program, Roots & Shoots, which is now in 65 countries-I think have more than absorbed my little carbon footstep from flying. I’ve been trying to lead a sustainable life for a very long time. In 2050, we will have approximately, I’m told, 9.7 billion, so what’s going to happen? I don’t know. We’ve also got to realize that even now we are using up nature’s finite natural resources in some places faster than nature can replenish them, and we’ve got approximately 7.2 billion people on the planet. ![]() It’s a bit of a disaster.… The more that we can provide people with products that they want to use that are produced in a sustainable way, the better. At the moment, we’re not living in a very sustainable way. One of the main things that the Jane Goodall Institute is involved in is sustainable living. As a consumer, how important is that to you? ![]() What I love about this-and the hand sanitizer and toilet paper-is they’re environmentally sustainable, they aren’t harming the environment, and they’re bringing pleasure to many, many people, so it’s I think a very exciting relationship.Īll the ingredients are sustainably sourced, as is the packaging. She said, “Jane, I’m going to buy you.…” What is it? A dispenser or something that you put the oil in and it scents the room and gives you this peaceful feeling, or stimulates you. ![]() Frankincense goes back, wow…I wrote about it when I did Seeds of Hope.… I haven’t really used them yet. I’m fascinated by frankincense because it makes me think of Christmas. These four essential oils were just sent to me in a biodegradable sustainable package. I love it.Īnd it sounds like you’ve been busy with your partnership with Forest Remedies as well. Not always, but sometimes he’ll go up in the tree and really serenade.… It’s friendship. He’s too big for me to climb now, but I eat my piece of toast, cheese, a couple of tomatoes underneath Beech, and everyday I’m visited by a robin, the English robin. the two little breaks I get in the day is at lunchtime when I take the ancient dog for a short walk-he won’t go any further-and then I sit down at the tree I used to climb as a child that I called Beech. Well mostly just up here with the laptop or writing articles, op-ed pieces…a few telephone calls, the old-fashioned kind, you know, you put a thing to your ear and speak into it-and it’s a landline, by the way. “The more that we can provide people with products that they want to use that are produced in a sustainable way, the better,” she says. Here, the famed ethologist and conservationist, who first stepped into Tanzania’s Gombe National Park to observe chimpanzees just more than 60 years ago, has been tucked away, hard at work, broadcasting her mission to millions of viewers across the globe, as well as putting the finishing touches on her new collaboration with the wellness brand Forest Remedies: a kit of four essential oils-ginger and ylang ylang from Madagascar, citronella from Togo, and frankincense from Somaliland-of which a percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the Jane Goodall Institute. Now we’ve made a little bit of place for me.” “It used to be just an attic with spiders. “I’m up in a little room in the attic that we actually had converted,” she explains, wearing a coral-color sweater with a pendant of Africa hanging from a cord around her neck, her silver hair pulled back into its signature ponytail. When I speak with Jane Goodall, she’s stationed in her childhood home in Bournemouth, on the south coast of England, where she’s spent the last seven months since the start of the pandemic. ![]()
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