About
Environmental Skills, Reimagined
Transferable Solutions launched as a pilot email-only newsletter in December 2024. This is its new home. Thank you for stopping by to learn more.
Transferable Solutions aims to help professionals name, develop, and articulate the skills they’ve earned so they can apply their experience with clarity, confidence, and agency, wherever they choose to work.
This publication is for environmental professionals whose expertise lies in teaching and learning, ecology, facilitation, and leadership. It is for professionals seeking perspective, language, and pathways to apply that experience sustainably and earn a living wage.
Meet people like you.
Join a community of environmental professionals who share your interests and vision for a considerate, science-smart world. Think of this publication as the "local news" for environmental education (EE) professionals who want to apply their experience beyond traditional roles without abandoning what they care about.
Help us build community, facilitate connections, and reimagine environmental education.
About TALATERRA
Practitioners — naturalists, science communicators, curriculum designers, and educators — are doing essential work at the intersection of ecology, teaching and learning, health, journalism, and policy. Many of them are doing it independently, without institutional affiliation, professional infrastructure that recognizes what they actually do, or a clear path to sustainable practice. TALATERRA exists because this gap deserves serious attention.
What We Do
TALATERRA is a professional development practice focused on environmental education and what it looks like across sectors. Since 2018, we have been documenting the experience of practitioners working independently in EE and sustainability.
We produce Transferable Solutions, a publication, and the TALATERRA podcast exploring the many dimensions of independent practice in environmental and sustainability education. We also produce professional development experiences and host a community space for learning. And we serve as a bridge between the worlds of environmental education, journalism, and organizations, providing guidance and sector insight.
About Tania
Tania Marien, Founder
I'm a science communicator, writer, and journalist with 27 years of experience creating learning opportunities, writing for public audiences, and teaching in informal learning environments. I hold a professional certificate in Free-Choice Learning from Oregon State University. This is a framework about learning environments in which individuals have choice and control. I've been documenting the independent EE workforce since 2018.
Past roles include serving as the editor, educator, and bookseller at ArtPlantae, a resource connecting artists, naturalists, and educators. More recently, I had the opportunity to collaborate with others and contribute to The Carbon Almanac and Storytelling to Accelerate Climate Solutions.
TALATERRA is woman-owned and independently operated.