Brennan interviews Art Wollenweber of Mutiny Island Vodka of St Croix about the 1 year old company's role in their community. The company responded to the Covid crisis by adapting to produce the world's only commercial hand sanitizer made from breadfruit - and making it available to the whole of the US Virgin Islands.  (Apologies for the poor audio quality -- we thought our earpiece mics were picking it up, but they were not)

Rev. Dr. Robert Lee, III, of Fresh Ministries talks with Brennan about the history of his non-profit and their philosophy of engagement in Jacksonville and around the world. His team has led efforts to fight Aids in Africa, as well as holy land pilgrimages that actually facilitate cross cultural understanding. 

In Zimbabwe, deforestation occurs at a pace as high as 20% annually. Masimba and his charity Rebirth Trust employ ex-convicts in a country where as many as 90% of offenders can trace their crime as a response to deep poverty. He hires the reformed criminals to plant fruit trees, which will give them a tool to improve their lives, and counter some of the deforestation occuring in that country.  GET INVOLVED! Visit their homepage at: https://www.facebook.com/Rebirth-Correctional-Services-Trust-1673396766277844

Guest Gavin Serkin, CEO of New Markets Media & Intelligence chats with Brennan in a wide-ranging conversation that traverses the globe from Ghana, Nigeria, Côte D'Ivoire, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka and Ukraine to Vietnam. 

Gavin and Brennan discuss the characteristics that spell success in emerging economies, as well as the minefields that befall any best laid plans.

In a wide ranging discussion, Dr. Bianchini of Collaborative Aggregates explains what "Green Chemistry" is, and how additives can be used to reduce the ecological costs of road construction.

The BBC world service provides thoughts and analysis from across the world. In today's special edition, we look back 25 years, at the Coronavirus, which affected the entire planet in the year 2020, and changed the international power dynamic, providing a bookend on America's supreme influence.

Thinking Huts founder and CEO Maggie Grout joins The Blue Continent Podcast to discuss how her non-profit was able to conceive a plan for building 3D Printed Schools in the African Island Nation of Madagascar.  Grout, a Colorado native, discusses her time at Sussex University and the partnerships she made there with UK partners of the Madagascar-based non-profit SEED.

Ray Offenheiser, former President and CEO of Oxfam America and director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development at Notre Dame speaks with Brennan about current areas of research, inequality, COVID-19 and economic development. Ray also hosts The Global Pathways Podcast.  https://pulte.nd.edu/research-policy/

Brennan speaks with Girish Shivakumar of the Mission Shunya podcast, who describes some of the progress in clean technology and sustainable advancements happening in India today. Mission Shunya is the name of his podcast, which has been focused on achieving net zero emissions.  You can find his podcast here: https://audioboom.com/channel/mission-shunya

English music producer Rupert Hine has passed a the age of 72. You've heard his music in every edition of the Blue Continent Podcast, using beats from his song "The Lone Ranger", by his band Quantum Jump. Hine made more of a name for himself through his work producing other artists, such as RUSH (Presto & Roll The Bones), Tina Turner, The Fixx and Howard Jones:

And here is music from Quantum Jump -- which I believe married Jazz Fusion and Progressive Rock as well as any act that ever existed: