Solutions News

In this edition of Solutions News, Rinaldo is joined the uniquely brilliant and globally influential, Deepak Chopra. We will be talking primarily about the NY Times Best Seller, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Human Potential, his 90th book to be published, as well providing you a “peak preview” of his newest book coming out this week, Total Meditation: Practices in Living the Awakened Life. We’ll also learn about his plans to help reduce teen and adult suicides with his new non-profit platform NeverAlone.Love and his lifelong interest in supporting the whole person: mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being. Don’t miss this week’s show and enjoy our intimate conversation with Deepak!

On this week's episode of Solutions News, we explore the benefits of a Partnership Model as opposed to Domination Systems with special guest Dr. Raine Eisler, President of the Center for Partnership Studies. Author and social scientist Dr. Eisler, among many other things, is a holocaust escapee from Austria who has both a Juris Doctorate and a Ph.D and has been a Fellow of the World Business Academy for almost three decades. In the show, we explore how human societies can be categorized along a continuum of how strongly it supports general human growth and development (the Partnership Model) versus how strongly it supports the rise of a small class of people on the backs of the rest (the Domination System). (Produced by Kristy Jansen.)

On this episode of Solutions News we are talking about reliability, safety & resiliency in our electrical grid, and how we might cure California’s current power problems in a way that gets us off fossil fuels, addresses environmental and economic injustice, and also build resilient communities across the state. The answer is simple, we have the technology, we have the know how. All we lack is the political will. Our guest is Lorenzo Kristov, PhD who has spent his career focusing on power system transitions to integrate high levels of renewable generation and distributed energy resources (DER). He’s truly one of the visionary leaders in the field of grid systems design, and we are very excited to share his wisdom with our audience today. (Produced by Kristy Jansen) For Full Show Notes visit: https://solutionsnews.org

On today's edition of Solutions News we are talking about the climate emergency. That’s right, we're calling it a Climate Emergency because that’s what it is. Yes, there are numerous other issues that have been dominating the headlines in the last few weeks and months, but among those, especially in the last few weeks, are many headlines about natural disasters: high winds and high heats. Hurricanes, Fires and Floods. So, what are we going to do about it?

Well, one thing that MUST happen is that our policy makers need to get active and pass legislation that moves our society off the worst polluting and extractive industries and towards regenerative, renewable models of power, food and transportation, and start putting resilience at the forefront of how we make decisions. With that, we are thrilled that Congresswoman Julia Brownley will be our guest today. Tune in to hear more... (Produced by Kristy Jansen) For full show details go to https://solutionsnews.org/julia-brownley

In this edition of Solutions News Rinaldo Brutoco interviews the mother of impact investing, Hazel Henderson about what the world might look like in a new economy that measures success by putting love at the center of how we measure economic viability. It’s all about getting beyond GDP as the only metric of success.

Our guest Hazel Henderson is the founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC and the creator and co-executive Producer of its TV series. She is a world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of The Axiom and Nautilus award-winning book Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) along with eight other books. She co-edited, with Harlan Cleveland and Inge Kaul, The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives, Elsevier Scientific, UK 1995 (US edition, 1996). Recognized as one of the founders of whole systems thinking as applied to economics. Her articulation of the “Love Economy” - which we will explore on today’s show - laid much of the groundwork for updated economic models that include human well-being and environmental sustainability metrics in how we measure success. For full details and more about Hazel Henderson, visit https://solutionsnews.org. (Producer: Kristy Jansen)

This week on Solutions News, we explore the landscape of Covid-19 testing in the US, with a spotlight on Ventura County and their effective approach to widespread testing, and timely notifications. Our Guest is Director of the Ventura County Sherif's Office of Emergency Services, Patrick Maynard. He tells us about the evolution of Ventura County's testing program, and explains the different types of tests available. We also travel to a surprising location that's done a good job including surveillance testing for Covid in their approach, and has so far done a much better job at controlling spread then other places. (Produced by Kristy Jansen)

Today’s edition of Solutions News is focusing on the criminal justice system, some new measures on the ballot in California designed to make it a bit more fair, and taking a look at different models that work wonders in reducing recidivism, incarceration and the costs around prisons. Our guest tonight is the esteemed Judge George Eskin, retired from the California bench in 2013. Judge Eskin has been a long -time advocate for civil rights and prison reform, and among his many accomplishments, Judge Eskin served on the Proposition 47 Executive Steering Committee to the Board of State and Community Corrections, the Judicial Council Pretrial Detention Reform Workgroup, and the California Judges Association Executive Board. Tune in to hear more… For full show details please visit us on https://solutionsnews.org (Produced by Kristy Jansen)

In this edition of Solutions News, we ask, "How can we support our communities in the face of hunger?" Our guest today is Erik Talkin, CEO of the Santa Barbara County Foodbank. For the past ten years, Erik’s goal has been to help the Foodbank become an organization that moves people from hunger to nutritional self-sufficiency and health – both for themselves and for their communities. In addition to his work at the Food Bank, Erik currently serves on the Board of Directors of the California Association of Food Banks and the National Advisory Council of Feeding America. We are talking about hunger, public assistance, and food Insecurity in a land of plenty… All essential topics as we face an end to most of the direct support that was originally included in the CARES act. For more - go to: https://Solutionsnews.org/listen (Producer: Kristy Jansen)

In this episode of Solutions News, Rinaldo Brutoco interviews Gregg Hart, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors for the County of Santa Barbara, about the local Government’s response to the pandemic and the economic shocks that have hit the region. He also asks how we have gotten where we are now in this failed response to the novel coronavirus, and makes some suggestions for how to rise above the moment and look into a different future. We also feature Didyaknows, and end the show by spotlighting on a few major issues that we successfully addressed with collective action in the past. Tune in to listen to the show! (produced by Kristy Jansen)

In this edition of Solutions News, we investigate what it means to live an examined life, and how by reflecting on the end of our days, we might choose to live a life imbued with meaning, prioritizing relationships and our deeper values. Our guest is filmmaker Kate Carter, founder of Life Chronicles, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families cope with impending loss by recording life stories. How can we, each of us, proactively choose our own individual path that we are here to tread on this planet at this time. Life Chronicles helps us retain the wisdom, the personal interactions, the emotions, and the personal connections on film for the next generation to experience, and so much more. We all have words of wisdom and words of care to leave behind. Tune in to hear about the therapeutic value such interactions can bring, and how self-reflection can bring out wisdom we never knew we have to share. (Produced by Kristy Jansen)