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April 08, 2013 Eco Evolution – Silicon Valley Ingenuity and the New American Dream With Marianna Grossman of Sustainable Silicon Valley
As we foster regional, corporate and social transformation toward a sustainable world, Silicon Valley stands at the epicenter of all three spheres of change. As a region, its local institutions are committed to adopting sustainable community design and practices. As home to some of the most influential technology companies on the planet, this is a community that can accelerate the greening of the international ICT sector. And as the innovation center of the digital world, Silicon Valley visionaries are uniquely positioned to launch a new generation of tools and services to facilitate our shift to sustainability. Marianna Grossman, the Executive Director of Sustainable Silicon Valley, has not only pursued the non-profit’s original multi-stakeholder mission to develop a regional environmental management system, but also has developed a number of programs that are bringing Silicon Valley’s best and brightest together addressing the technology industry’s current and potential contributions to sustainability in both its practices and its products and services. This conversation covers a lot of territory, including SSV’s work with NASA, regional initiatives, and corporate engagement in the global shift movement. The bottom line: we are counting on American ingenuity to invent the New American Dream – of a world in which our grandchildren will thrive.
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34 min
March 11, 2013 Eco Evolution – Regenerative Design and the Ecology of Leadership
With James Stark and Katia Sol of the Regenerative Design Institute
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Essential to our eco evolution as a society is our individual work: addressing the inner ecology of our psyche and sensibilities, as well as our approach out in the world designing resilient communities and fostering a regenerative human culture. James Stark, through his ongoing innovations in teaching permaculture and sustainable community practices, and Katia Sol, through her support of the Institute’s Ecology of Leadership program, are both actively transforming lives and building the ranks of evolutionaries who are participating in the “Great Turning.” This conversation reveals the cross-disciplinary applications of permaculture principles and the deeper awareness and respect of nature’s systems emerging worldwide. One of the key drivers of this change is education, as exemplified in the programs and courses offered by the Regenerative Design Institute. Consider this half hour program to be your introductory course.
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39 min
March 04, 2013 Eco Evolution – Reconnecting Culture With Nature, With Osprey Orielle Lake, founder of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus
This program explores the relationship of human culture with the natural world, both through the lens of art and culture, and through the experience of education and on-the-ground-actions. Osprey Orielle Lake is founder of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, a solution-based alliance fostering resilient communities and promoting a post-carbon economy and energy future, and is the author of the recently published book, Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. In this compelling conversation Osprey, who is also an accomplished sculptor, shares her early inspirations that led to her pioneering work on behalf of the natural world, argues that we must change our internal landscapes (our values and perceptions) before we can effectively address the external world, and offers many examples of evolutionary initiatives such as the growing legal movement to defend the Rights of Nature. She also describes the educational programs and political influence of the WECC, and suggests other resources and ways to engage in the growing transformation of culture. A common thread in Osprey’s work is the empowerment of women and the elevation of the feminine of as we re-establish our relationship with Mother Earth.
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34 min
February 18, 2013 Eco Evolution – Reclaiming the Water Commons: Moving Beyond Bottled Water, With Michael Davis, CEO of U.S. Pure Water
This conversation explores the essential resource of water and the growing movement to radically reduce our use of bottled water – as individuals, companies, restaurants and governments. Guest Michael Davis is a water expert, activist and entrepreneur. His U.S. Pure Water Corporation is a mission driven full spectrum water treatment service company in Northern California that saved the City and County of San Francisco over $1 million by converting their offices from bottled water and standard water coolers to bottleless water coolers. The discussion also touches on broader developments in water conservation and the need for this basic human need to be made available to all global citizens through the process of “reclaiming the water commons,” and groups who are working toward this end including the Plastic Pollution Coalition, Food and Water Watch and the Blue Planet Project.
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40 min
February 04, 2013 Eco Evolution – Corporate Transformation to Full Cycle Sustainability
With Gil Friend, CEO of Natural Logic Sustainability Consultants
There is no question that the shift to a sustainable culture requires all corporate hands on deck. The early, primitive age of our global consumer culture is giving way to a new era where we design products with a “cradle to cradle” approach, taking into account materials sourcing, manufacturing, shipping, use, reuse, and recycled materials. Sustainable business practices are fast evolving as successful models are tested, refined and replicated. In this insightful discussion, long time sustainability consultant Gil Friend observes that “the work we are doing in the sustainability game requires nothing less than transforming the economy of the entire planet –and in one generation.” He has been working for many years to provide companies with the tools they need to gather and analyze data, manage programs and use online “dashboards” for planning, mapping and tracking operations – to realize not only the social and environmental benefits of sustainable business practices, but also the profound financial rewards. This information-intense exchange reveals encouraging progress and possibilities for our rapid global transition to a “triple bottom-line” economy and the pioneering work Friend’s Natural Logic consulting group is doing with major corporations to pave the way.
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31 min
January 21, 2013 Eco Evolution – The Evolver Community: Making Change Online and On-the-Ground
With Ken Jordan, co-founder Evolver and Reality Sandwich
On the forward edge of the progressive ranks of the sustainability movement is Evolver.net and its companion online journal, Reality Sandwich. This is where dreamers and innovators express possibilities in an open-minded venue that encourages out-of-the-box thinking and big visions. It is also where evolutionaries from around the world meet via the elegant Evolver social network (that has flourished in the face of the Facebook juggernaut) and through on-the-ground meet ups called Spores which address monthly themes with a local focus. In this provocative conversation with Evolver co-founder Ken Jordan, a long time online community builder, we cover not only the genesis and current activities of Evolver, but also the essential role of transformational media and digital platforms in facilitating change. Finally, we touch on a subject that has been of interest to Ken and especially his partner writer Daniel Pinchbeck for many years: the December 21, 2012 Mayan New Year and what it means as a symbol of the Shift.
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44 min
January 14, 2013 Eco Evolution – Getting the Big Picture: Surveying the Front Lines of the Sustainability Movement With Vinit Allen, author Sustainable World Sourcebook
Now that we are beyond “the end of the old world” as signified by the December 21, 2012 winter solstice, it is time to accelerate the shift to a thriving world. In this first 2013 edition of Eco Evolution, the conversation with big picture expert and educator Vinit Allen reveals the primary components and character of the planet-wide movement and offers some specific “game changing” priorities, as well as plenty of examples of how we can all play our parts in the eco evolution of our species – once we are informed and empowered to take action. Getting the information out is key, as exemplified by Vinit’s Sustainable World Sourcebook and Spring of Sustainability online course with the Shift Network.
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40 min
December 17, 2012 Eco Evolution – The 2012 Shift: The Mayan Calendar and New Beginning
Guest William Gladstone, Author and Indigenous Culture Expert
For many years now there has been a growing fascination with the December 21, 2012 winter solstice. Significant meaning has been attributed to this date as the end of a major cycle in the Mayan calendar system and the beginning of what many hope will be a vital new cycle of higher evolution for humankind and our planet. Hundreds of events are taking place on this date, celebrating transition and transformation (see Birth2012.com, Synthesis2012.com, WorldUnity2012.com and Unify.org). William Gladstone is a literary agent and an expert on Mayan and related indigenous cultures, and author of a novel addressing this theme, The Twelve. Our conversation provides some stimulating perspectives on why the date has taken on such significance, and how many evolutionary leaders, such as Barbara Marx Hubbard and Ervin Laszlo have embraced the date as symbolic of an energetic shift in consciousness, and potentially a change in the direction of human culture toward a more balanced and ecologically sound civilization.
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39 min
December 03, 2012 Eco Evolution – The Permaculture Movement
With Jay Ma, Permaculture Educator
Many have heard the word “permaculture” but most only have a vague understanding of the philosophy it proposes and how its design principles are applied. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren originated the permaculture concept in the early 1970s in Australia. Since that time is has become a global movement with groups and guilds in almost all major cities. Following three core tenets – take care of the Earth (first and foremost), take care of the people, and share the surplus – the permaculture approach to gardening, farming, community planning and landscape management applies 12 design principles inspired by Nature’s systems (check out shows 100112 on Biomimicry and 102212 on Buckminster Fuller). Jay Ma is the founder of the Living Mandala group, which produces courses, workshops and events on permaculture. Our discussion covers the history and current form of the movement, and explores how permaculture ideas are being put into practice, and changing our perception of and relationship to the natural world.
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39 min
November 19, 2012 Eco Evolution – Green Architecture: Transforming the Built Environment
With Jerry Tierney, Architect
Sustainably designed buildings and cities involve more than better solar panels and the use of recycled materials, as this conversation with green architect Gerry Tierney reveals. The trend toward green building in major cities across the country and world is becoming less a movement than the norm. There are many ways to design environments and, importantly, lifestyles that contribute to the sustainability equation, while also saving money and improving health. From mandated green Federal and State buildings, to sustainably renovated military bases, to growing numbers of infill projects in urban regions transforming industrial “brownfields” into certified green buildings, the change is well underway. Tierney, who is with the acclaimed international architecture group Perkins + Will, is the lead designer of a recent project in Oakland, California: a 55-unit low income housing complex that has a LEED Platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building council, the highest designation given for “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.” His description of this trail-blazing project, and the “transformational design” philosophy that guided its development, offers numerous insights into the many dimensions required to address true sustainability in our homes, communities, “eco-districts” and bioregions. Given the range of major green projects developed by Perkins + Will and his own experience as an architect, Tierney’s observations on the broader reality of greening the built environment are highly informative.
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33 min