Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

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Dr. Lauren Baker is the Director of Programs at the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, which is a strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations working to transform global food systems through a systems-level approach and deep collaboration among philanthropy, researchers, grassroots movements, the private sector, farmers and food systems workers, Indigenous Peoples, government, and policymakers.

In this podcast episode, Dr. Baker sheds light on the importance of seed diversity; what true-cost-accounting is, and why it's necessary; and more.

Featured music: Politician Man by Adrian Sutherland & Midnight Shine

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Owen Wormser, the author of Lawns Into Meadows, is the founder of Abound Design and the nonprofit Local Harmony, which is focused on encouraging community-driven regeneration.

In this podcast episode, Owen sheds light on the environmental and economic costs of maintaining lawns; how meadows can be regenerative, low-maintenance, and wildlife-friendly alternatives to lawns; and more. 

Featured music: I Need Angels by Adrian Sutherland & Midnight Shine

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Guillaume Pitron is an award-winning journalist and documentary-maker for some of France’s leading TV channels. His first book, The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies, draws on six years of research to reveal our new dependence on rare metals.

In this podcast episode, Guillaume sheds light on why green and clean energy and technologies are not entirely green nor clean; what we can learn from the history of our energy infrastructure transitions; how moving to ‘green’ energy may actually worsen environmental injustice in some ways; and more.

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Teresa Coady is an award-winning architect and Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Her new book, Rebuilding Earth: Designing Ecoconscious Habitats for Humans, is a revolutionary guide to rethinking our role as planet shapers in the Digital Age.

In this podcast episode, Teresa sheds light on why we need to go beyond thinking about wellness through an individualistic lens to looking at it through a systemic lens; how we've largely been designing our built environments for machines rather than for life and ecological health; and more.

Featured music: I Need Angels by Adrian Sutherland & Midnight Shine

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Maurie Cohen is a Professor of Sustainability Studies at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author of the book, The Future of Consumer Society: Prospects for Sustainability in the New Economy. He's also the Editor of the journal, Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, and co-founder of the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production.

In this podcast episode, Maurie sheds light on what we can learn from viewing conscious consumerism, not through an individualistic lens, but a more collective one; the limitations and cautions against seeing localization as our path forward; and more.

Featured music: Fight for You by Raye Zaragoza

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Sasha Duerr is an artist and designer who works with plant-based palettes, natural dyes, and place-based recipes. She is the founder of Permacouture Institute and the author of Natural Color, The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes, and Natural Palettes

In this podcast episode, Sasha sheds light on how the creative industry's obsession with Pantone's colors of the year reflects our dominant culture; the potential of medicinal plants, when used as dyes on our clothing, to aid in our healing and wellness; and more.

Featured music: American Dream by Raye Zaragoza

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Jeff Tkach is the Chief Impact Officer at Rodale Institute, which is a nonprofit that has been dedicated to pioneering organic farming through research and outreach for over 70 years. 

As Rodale Institute's Chief Impact Officer, Jeff is responsible for expanding their global influence by leading the development and execution of their core strategies and overseeing opportunities for partnership and co-investment that drive positive outcomes for the institute's programs and philanthropic initiatives. 

In this podcast episode, Jeff sheds light on the relationship between functional medicine and regenerative agriculture; how regenerative farming may impact our public health and social justice; and more.

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Mikaela Loach is a climate justice activist, co-host of The Yikes Podcast, and medical student based in Edinburgh.

Her work focuses on making activism spaces more inclusive and accessible, and as a Black woman, she is especially passionate about the importance of anti-racism work in the climate and sustainability movements.

In this podcast episode, Mikaela sheds light on the dangers of what can happen when white supremacy seeps into environmental activism; how narratives framing global population growth as environmental harms can perpetuate racism and economic injustice while overlooking the actual roots of our ecological breakdown; and more.

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Charles Eisenstein is a public speaker and author of the books Climate — A New Story, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, The Ascent of Humanity, and Sacred Economics.

His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. And some primary themes that he explores include anti-consumerism, interdependence, and how myth and narrative influence culture.

In this part two of our conversation, Charles sheds light on how the responses of various governments to the coronavirus pandemic, such as lockdown, quarantine, surveillance, and tracking, censorship of misinformation—justifiable or not—have been authoritarian, and why we should remain critical of these approaches even if we understand their immediate-term purpose; how our dominant use and acceptance of the meaning of certain words, like 'privilege' to predominantly mean financially well-off, cis-gendered, able-bodied, or white, feed into implicitly upholding the same value systems we're trying to challenge and dismantle; and more.

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Charles Eisenstein is a public speaker and author of the books Climate — A New Story, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, The Ascent of Humanity, and Sacred Economics.

His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. And the primary themes that he explores include anti-consumerism, interdependence, and how myth and narrative influence culture. 

In part one of our conversation, Charles sheds light on how our shortsighted war mentality against climate change parallels with our dominant approaches to combating the coronavirus pandemic as well as crime in our criminal justice system; whether it's possible to be ethical within an unethical system or sustainable in an extractive system; and more.

Featured music: American Dream by Raye Zaragoza

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