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There are major changes coming to local food systems and how we source and consume food. Wasted food is a major economic and ecological problem, being addressed by many groups including Dana Frasz’ new non-profit Food Shift which is working to develop partnerships with local restaurants, hospitals, catering companies and food service organizations to preserve and distribute the 40% of edible food that goes uneaten (and into landfills and the atmosphere). The second segment of the program is a conversation with Andrew Hasse who just completed the documentary Edible City, which takes an in-depth look at the “good food” movement that emphasizes high yield local food production and new innovations in the overall food system that promise tremendous benefits for sustainability, health, financial returns and job creation. This show offers a thorough examination of an exciting subject, a key aspect of the global shift to sustainability, and one that almost everyone take part in.

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Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, was a futurist, technology visionary and explorer of the deepest principles at work in Nature. He considered himself to be a “comprehensive anticipatory design scientist,” and dedicated his life to making our modern civilization work – for all of humanity – and in harmony with the systems of the natural world. His work lives on through countless brilliant people in many fields who have been inspired by and built on his ideas and inventions. This wide-ranging conversation with Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Director and driving force of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, covers the history and current activities of BFI, including the annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award and Idea Index of solutions for sustainability. Thompson also offers unique insights into Bucky as a person, and reviews in depth some of his most important ideas and projects that continue to guide our eco evolution.

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In 1971 Italian Architect Paolo Soleri, after having studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin in Arizona, purchased a large plot of land in the high desert 60 miles north of Phoenix and began Arcosanti, a model ecocity project. A nexus of Soleri’s extensive output over 70+ years, an event venue, and an educational center that has hosted over 7000 students at its annual construction workshops, this “urban laboratory” has been an inspiring cultural touchstone since its inception. Soleri’s vision of a new human evolution through an integration of architecture and ecology that he call “arcology” has influenced not only architects and city planners, but technologists, artists, environmentalists, social scientists and philosophers worldwide. This discussion with Jeff Stein, former Dean of the School of Architecture at Boston College and now President of the Cosanti Foundation, offers insights into Soleri’s formative influences, Arcosanti’s history and current activities and innovations relevant to current urban redevelopment and ecovillages, as well as long term city design.

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For us to really get with the evolutionary program we need not control and patent natural systems, processes and life forms, but rather learn advanced design from them. Janine Benyus is the catalyst of and guide for a cross-disciplinary movement following her basic thesis that human beings should consciously emulate nature’s genius in their designs. This 50 minute extended program not only conveys much about the concept and applications of biomimicry, but also sheds light on Janine’s history and current work and awards, her concerns about the patenting of natural forms and GMOs, and ways to get involved with and support biomimicry. Benyus founded Biomimicry 3.8, a B Corporation offering educational and youth programs, consulting and training, and a public Biomimicry Design Portal used by students and researchers, AskNature.org

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While people worldwide are well aware of the impacts of climate change, pollution and habitat loss – and know that there is a severe loss of species occurring – our leading experts and institutions are not seriously addressing the very real possibility of a mass extinction event of our making occurring within the next 30 to 100 years. Mass extinction means that the biosphere suffers such a huge loss of life forms on all levels that the web of interconnected biological systems breaks down, decimating our air, water and the entire chain of life that we and other species depend on for our existence. It is a sobering subject, but like other serious problems faced at this critical stage of human evolution, avoiding mass extinction will require radical shifts in how we live, and bold initiatives to address the whole system impacts of human civilization on the planetary body. Ulansey shares the story of launching the website massextinction.net in the 1990s, and the later formation of the Species Alliance non-profit, which recently released the film Call of Life. A Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at UC Berkeley and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies, his thoughtful observations about the human condition, the hypnotic effect of our consumer culture and the individual and mass denial that afflicts us, brings more than unsettling facts to this mind expanding conversation.

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Founder, Green Festivals and Global Exchange, Green Economy Expert and Activist

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Major U.S. cities all have emerging green economic sectors says activist and author Kevin Danaher, and the opportunities for innovations – and profits – are growing with them.This information intense discussion gets into details about how cities are going green, bioregionalism is changing societies, how consumers can get green profiles of any product with an app, and how new products, services and community models are emerging in response to climate change and growing scarcities. These changes offer new opportunities for commerce, and alternative models of doing business including the worldwide movement of cooperatives. An articulate spokeperson for the anti-globalization and Fair Trade movements, Danaher founded the GreenFestivals green consumer events, co-founded the social justice and anti-globalization NGO Global Exchange, and was the founding chairman of the U.S. fair trade certifier Fair Trade U.S.A. He has alot to say that makes alot of sense, as you will hear.

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Hundreds of nonprofit organizations and NGOs are the drivers of our eco-evolution as individuals, societies and a global culture. As the stakes grow higher, the work of these groups in fostering the global shift becomes more and more vital. Darian Heyman, founder of the Craigs List Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp, author of Nonprofit Management 101 and producer of the new Social Media for Nonprofits event series sheds light on the evolving world of nonprofits in the 21st Century. With philanthropic donors looking for more bottom line accountability and traditional funding in short supply, nonprofits are more engaged than ever before in for-profit business. The Internet and social media are empowering these groups to engage their communities, generate support and interact with supporters and the public as never before. Its an exciting and important time for the nonprofit world, and these groups offer countless opportunities for people to play a role in positive change, as this compelling discussion reveals.

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This inspiring discussion with journalist activist Dorka Keene reveals how women are playing pivotal roles in social change and the environmental movement, and how community is key to joining the eco evolution. Active for years working toempower women in politics and business, Keene recently authored Eco Amazons: Twenty Women Who Are Changing the World. The conversation includes the stories of several of these bioneers: Judy Bonds who challenged and defeated the coal industry in defenseof her community’s health; landscape artist Agnes Denes who has brought people in touch with the natural world through her art; Janine Benyus, who is teaching scientists and engineers how to access nature’s technology designs using biomimicry; media producer Annie Leonard, whose Story of Stuff internet video has catalyzed a consumer revolutionand inspired corporations to build sustainability into their manufacturing andsupply chains – and Alice Waters, who eco-healthy cuisine started the movement for locally produced, organic food that has catalyzed changes in food systems worldwide. The discussion also takes a close look at how women decision-makers are needed to create balanced governance and a socially responsible civic society.

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In June 2012 the largest gathering ever convened by the United Nations brought the world community together in Rio De Janiero 20 years after the first Earth Summit. While the mainstream news reports stressed the disappointment many felt and the fact that no major new environmental agreements were reached, the actual results of the summit are just starting to be seen, and there is every reason to be hopeful that Rio +20 was just the beginning of a process and not an end in itself. Tune in this insightful exchange with Chantal Line Carpentier, Sustainable Development Officer and Major Groups Programme Coordinator at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and one of the main coordinators of the Rio +20 meetings and presentations. Highlights include the Sustainable Development Dialogues, the official outcome document The Future We Want, the Voluntary Commitments, the civil society recommendations to world leaders from the Sustainable Development Dialogues “People’s Summit”, the significance of “Paragraph 47” on corporate disclosure, and the far-reaching plans for developing Sustainable Consumption and Production worldwide. After hearing this report, you won’t be disappointed.

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In this inaugural program, a wide-ranging discussion with futurist and eco-visionary Duane Elgin touches on some of the primary topics of Eco Evolution: changes in our global systems to align with those of the biosphere, empowerment of local communities, and the worldwide movement of initiatives and organizations that are already creating solutions that can be rapidly scaled up as the obsolete systems are breaking down. Elgin, author of several influential books including Voluntary Simplicity and hundreds of articles, has concluded that the facts and data don’t impact society as much as the “stories” that dictate our consensus reality. We need alternatives to the prevailing stories such as “the American Dream,” which is constantly reinforced through our commercial media, programming us to believe that happiness and success is derived solely from financial gain, buying power – and brand allegiance. His latest publishing initiative is the Great Transition Stories WIKI that offer new stories that better represent and inspire our evolutionary potential. Along with many other provocative ideas and insights, Elgin shares some of the new stories that promise to speed our shift to a sustainable culture as the public and its institutions begin to identify with a positive approach to our eco evoluion.

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