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Bill Reed  works with the Regenesis group  which focuses on a living system design process. Bill is an internationally recognized architect and consultant working in sustainability and regeneration. Bill is also a founding member of the US Green Building Council and co-founder of the LEED Green building Rating System.

"Regenerating Life" completes Season 1 of ALIVE.
Enjoy current episodes while we prepare Season 2 with lots of storytelling!  Find @credko on Twitter.  See  alivepodcast.net

Glen Hope Road 8, field recording by Douglas Tallamy

Theme music created by Tim Moor. Source: https://soundcloud.com/tymur-khakimov 

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Conversations with Marcus Scheffer, principal of 7group, which more than 20 years ago worked on creating the US Green Building Council LEED certification program as a first step towards sustainability. Nowadays 7group promotes regenerative work by “imagining a different way to understand how humans, their built environment and the natural world around us all live and breathe with each other.”

Enjoy current episodes while we prepare Season 2 with lots of storytelling!  Find @credko on Twitter.  See  alivepodcast.net

Thank you,

Cristina Redko, PhD

Key Sources:

7group and Bill Reed (2009)  The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building:Redefining the Practice of Sustainability, John Wiley & Sons

See also https://sevengroup.com

River Fire by Kevin MacLeod - (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 

Truth in the Stones by Kevin MacLeod - (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 

Theme music created by Tim Moor. Source: https://soundcloud.com/tymur-khakimov

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Conversations with Didi Pershouse who describes the nested relationships between soil health, human health, water cycles and climate resiliency. In other words, she connects soil health to public health. She is an educator, and soil sponge strategist committed to building healthy communities both above and below ground.

Enjoy current episodes while we prepare Season 2 with lots of storytelling!  Find @credko on Twitter.  See  alivepodcast.net
   
Thank you,

Cristina Redko, PhD

Key Sources:

Didi Pershouse is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative and the Center for Sustainable Medicine, and a co-founder of the “Can we Rehydrate California?” Initiative.    

https://www.landandleadership.org

http://www.rehydratecalifornia.org

Didi Pershouse. The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities.Mycelium Books, 2015.

Didi Pershouse. Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function: A Teacher’s Manual. August 15, 2017 (published in more than 60 countries, free download) 

https://www.didipershouse.com/understanding-soil-health-and-watershed-function.html

Didi Pershouse. Other Species are Essential Workers, Whose Economies Enfold Our Own. December 20, 2020. See https://medium.com

Most sound effects obtained from freesound.org :

Ancient Cavern III, CC by 3.0, Carlos Carty

Harp improvisation (RepDac2 & RepDac3), CC by 3.0, Monika Gatt

Munching, CC by 3.0, IneQuation

End of the world (voice)  CC by 3.0, Speedenza

Theme music created by Tim Moor. Source: https://soundcloud.com/tymur-khakimov

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Conversations with naturalists Bill Felker and Douglas Horvath, both from Southwest Ohio, focused on paying attention to surrounding environment and nature’s  sense of wonder. This show explores the wonders of being Alive!

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Thank you,

Cristina Redko, PhD

Key Sources:

Bill Felker’s Poor Will’s Almanack. See https://www.wyso.org/show/poor-wills-almanack

Rachel Carson The Sense of Wonder: Celebration  of Nature for Parents and Children Harper Perennial, 2017 reprint edition.

E.O. Wilson Biophilia. Harvard University Press, 1984

Vivaldi 4 Seasons performed by the Wichita State University Chamber Players, an ensemble of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra

Spring Peeper Calling.  Pseudacris crucifer.
@2014 Stan Lake
www.CatchingCreation.com

Glasschimes  for Freesound.org. CC by 3.0, ross63moose

Theme music created by Tim Moor. Source: https://soundcloud.com/tymur-khakimov 

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Celebration of the first year of the ALIVE podcast.

Enjoy current episodes while we prepare Season 2 with lots of storytelling!  Find @credko on Twitter.  See  alivepodcast.net    

Thank you,

Cristina Redko, PhD

Key Music Sources:

Chariots of Fire interpreted by Massimo Bosco (copyright free)

Glasschimes  for Freesound.org. CC by 3.0, ross63moose

Martin Mueller and Torgeir Vassvik in beingsalmonbeinghuman.com,  villaks.org, and vassvik.com

Piano played by Justin Allan

Theme music created by Tim Moor:
 https://soundcloud.com/tymur-khakimov

Happy Birthday to you, for Freesound.org. CC by 3.0, DDmyzik

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Conversations with entomologist Douglas Tallamy who urges that each one of us take environmental action one yard at a time to create the “Homegrown National Park”.

Enjoy current episodes while we prepare Season 2 with lots of storytelling!  Find @credko on Twitter.  See  alivepodcast.net

Thank you,

Cristina Redko, PhD

Key Sources:

Douglas W. Tallamy. Nature’s Best Hope - A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 2019

Homegrown National Park:  https://homegrownnationalpark.org

Find Native Plants in Your Area/National Wildlife Federation:

https://www.nwf.org/NativePlantFinder

California Native Plant Society/Calscape:   https://calscape.org

National Parks Nature Walks Podcast by Jacob Job, © 2021

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/national-parks-nature-walk-episode-1-rocky-mountains/

Wolves Howling at Dawn in Yellowstone National Park and Spring Dawn Chorus in the Sequoias, field recordings by Jacob Job, © 2021

Glen Hope Road 8, field recording by Douglas Tallamy

Breaking Plates CC by 3.0, Juan_Merie_Venter

Theme music created by Tim Moor. Source: https://soundcloud.com/tymur-khakimov 

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Conversations with Fritjof Capra, PhD is a scientist, educator, activist, and author of  several books that connect conceptual changes in science with broader changes in worldview and values in society. For instance, “a systems view of life” explores the new systemic conception of life at the forefront of science and its application in economics, management, politics, design, medicine, and law. A systems view of life” is also offered as an online course twice a year.

Enjoy current episodes while we prepare Season 2 with lots of storytelling!  Find @credko on Twitter.  See  alivepodcast.net

Thank you,

Cristina Redko, PhD

Key Sources:

Fritjof Capra, A Systems View of Life, 2014

Fritjof Capra, Patterns of Connection, 2021

Fritjof Capra, Tao of Physics, 5th edition, 2010

See also Capra Course: https://www.capracourse.net

Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007  by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Colin Carr, published by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0

Theme music created by Tim Moor. Source: https://soundcloud.com/tymur-khakimov

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Conversations with Fritjof Capra, PhD is a scientist, educator, activist, and author of  several books that connect conceptual changes in science with broader changes in worldview and values in society. For instance, “a systems view of life” explores the new systemic conception of life at the forefront of science and its application in economics, management, politics, design, medicine, and law. A systems view of life” is also offered as an online course twice a year.

Enjoy current episodes while we prepare Season 2 with lots of storytelling!  Find @credko on Twitter.  See  alivepodcast.net

Thank you,

Cristina Redko, PhD

Key Sources:

Fritjof Capra, A Systems View of Life, 2014

Fritjof Capra, Patterns of Connection, 2021

Fritjof Capra, Tao of Physics, 5th edition, 2010

See also Capra Course: https://www.capracourse.net

Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007  by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Colin Carr, published by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0

Theme music created by Tim Moor. Source: https://soundcloud.com/tymur-khakimov

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 I am taking the time today to  wish peace on Earth. To wish the end of all wars, wherever they are. It saddens me to see Russia invading Ukraine. 
 
I just wanted to share that the theme music of Alive was composed last year  by an Ukranian musician. Tim Moor  did that to celebrate the 30 years of independence of Ukraine. 

I hope that we all will take a moment of reflection here: Peace on Earth.

Theme music created by Tim Moor. See https://soundcloud.com/tymur-khakimov 

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Conversations with entomologist Douglas Tallamy focused on his latest book, “The Nature of Oaks.” He urges each one of us to contribute to supporting life on Earth by planting keystone native trees.You will also tune into forests from around the world from “Sounds of the Forest.”

Enjoy current episodes while we prepare Season 2 with lots of storytelling!  Find @credko on Twitter.  See  alivepodcast.net

Thank you,

Cristina Redko, PhD

Key Sources:

Homegrown National Park :  https://homegrownnationalpark.org

Douglas W. Tallamy. The Nature of Oaks. Portland,Oregon: Timber Press, 2021

Timber Festival 2021 will occur July 2-4, at the National Forest, UK, with music, audio,  and artwork created from Sounds of the Forest. 

See:https://timberfestival.org.uk/soundsoftheforest-soundmap/

Sounds of forests played in this episode:

1. India, Agumbe Rainforest, recorded by Shruti

2. Argentina, Patagonia, Forest near Rio Azul, recorded by Luciano “Cacha” Perez

3. UK, Bristol, Pilgrove Wood, Ashton Court Estate, recorded by Rachel Tomlinson

4. Russia, Moscow, Bitza Nature Park, recorded by Julie Kalichineva  

5. Hong-Kong, Lau Shui Hang Reservoir, recorded by AK IN KK

6. Thailand, Ban Krut Beach, Thong Chai, Bang Saphan, Province of Prachuap Khiri     Khan, recorded by Phil Peril

7. South Africa, Krantzkloof Nature Reserve, Kloof, recorded by Stephen Embleton

8. Australia, Utopia Environment Reserve, recorded by Kelli Lundberg

9. Japan, Fukushima City Forest for Birds, recorded by Koji Nagahata

10. Nicaragua, Penas Blanca National Park, recorded by Merlin Driver

Theme music created by Tim Moor. Source: https://soundcloud.com/tymur-khakimov 

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