The Butterfly Effect

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Benjamin J Butler.

Benjamin J Butler is a former investor and now writer, futurist, and strategist. He has sat on the boards of a number of organizations as an expert on the future including Global Future Council of the World Economic Forum, the Board of Trustees of the American Renewable Energy Institute, International Advisory Board of Athena School of Management, and Futurist at Horasis Global.

Benjamin believes humanity is at a turbulent but evolutionary inflection point and perhaps at the dawn of the creation of an ecological civilization.

He currently writes a column on future trends on substack called Embassy of the Future.

Benjamin started his career on Wall St but has worked out of many financial centers including London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Seoul. He worked at Morgan Stanley, Nomura, and UBS, in senior positions where he was a trusted advisor to international investors and Chief Investment Officers; known to be able to discern the larger trends and a prescient forecaster of the future.

As a macro style cross-asset investor, he was a fund manager at Edge Capital and also acted as the de facto chief strategist to Blue Sky, one of the most successful hedge funds in the Asia Pacific region.

Between 2014 and 2017, he wrote the weekly International Column at Dow Theory Letters with Wall St legend Richard Russell on global trends and investment.

Concurrent to his career as an investor then futurist, he has been a devout practitioner of Zen and the Tao, having been based out of Asia for 22 years. In his early twenties, he moved to Japan and learned the Japanese language, culture, and Zen.

He read Law at King’s College London, holds a BA in Japanese and Economics from SOAS, University of London, and an MSc in Holistic Science from Schumacher College

In this episode, you will hear about the role of the futurist, the global financial crisis in 2007, the values in the decentralization of power, ecological civilization, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Claire Nasike Akello.

Claire is a Wangari Maathai Scholar and leads the food campaign at Greenpeace Africa, where she trains local communities on ecological agriculture, food and seed sovereignty as adaptive mechanisms to climate change, campaigns for their adoption by smallholder farmers, and its inclusion in agricultural policies in Kenya.

She has previously worked for A Rocha Kenya, as an Environmental education officer and won the Wangari Maathai Scholarship Award in 2015, for her environmental education work with school children in Budalangi.

Claire is also the founder of the Hummingbird Foundation; an initiative that seeks to improve nutrition among school-going children through the establishment of organic food gardens in rural and urban areas.

She is a graduate of the Technical University of Kenya with a first-class degree in Environmental Resource Management and currently pursues a Masters of Science in Management of Agroecosystems and Environment at The University of Nairobi.

In her free time, she loves reading, dancing, and writing articles on her eco-blog

which has been nominated twice for Kenya bloggers awards (BAKE) in 2015 and 2018.

In this episode, you will hear about her work at Greenpeace, Agro-Ecology, natural pest control, how she is improving children's nutrition in Kenya, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Lucian Tarnowski.

Lucian is the founding curator of United Planet and Architect of the UP Game.

UP Game is a time traveling immersive reality to tell the greatest story ever told. Lucian spent 2 years designing a platform for a planetary unifying narrative to emerge to respond to the crisis of meaning and trust. This mission is to deliver on the PlanetShot - a Planetary Civilization in harmony with all life. Lucian believes we succeed by reverse engineering the story from the future. Lucian is a Gaian on a mission to serve the birthing of the Planetary Age.

Lucian has a decade of experience in designing and powering online communities that connect diverse stakeholders around a shared purpose. Communities support virtual and distributed teams to scale and achieve their collaboration, knowledge sharing and problem-solving goals. For 10 years he worked on BraveNew which enables Fortune 1000 clients such as GE, and collaboratives such as Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Geinsinger Health to cooperate and collaborate around a shared purpose.

Lucian has been honored as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. He has been an active attendee of Davos and other World Economic Forum meetings for many years. He continues to research and experiment around the social science behind communities, knowledge sharing and economic spaces.

Since 2002, he has run Take Heart India, a 53-year-old no overheads charity started by his father that provides blind and handicapped people in rural India with the vocational employment skills required to get lifelong employment.

He has spoken at gatherings such as Davos, various World Economic Forum meetings, TEDx, The China Digital Summit, Impact Summit and for companies such as Deutsche Telekom, Oracle, Pearson, IBM and PWC. He speaks to audiences around the world about communities and the convergence of talent, knowledge and capital and the impact on society.

In this episode you will hear about communities, the Up Games, the Rebirthing of Planetary Civilization party inspired by James Webb/NASA, Star Wars, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with José Zaglul and speak about the Healing Trees project happening on May 4th & 5th, 2022 to honor all COVID19 deaths around the world.

José Zaglul is an educator, agriculturalist, and advocate for social justice. He brings the  language of love and respect to the university classroom, and opportunities to young  leaders from socio-economically depressed regions to improve the quality of life of their  families and communities.

Dr. Zaglul was founder and President of EARTH University, a non-profit institution in Costa  Rica founded in 1989. As the university’s first president, he shaped its mission: to prepare  leaders with ethical values who contribute to sustainable development and construct a  prosperous and just society. Under his guidance, more than two thousand students from  35 countries graduated and spread EARTH University’s vision throughout the world.

Born in Costa Rica to Lebanese parents, Dr. Zaglul performed his undergraduate studies at  the American University of Beirut and earned his master’s in Animal Science there. He then  attended the University of Florida where he was awarded a Master of Science in Food  Science and Human Nutrition and a PhD in Animal Science.

Dr. Zaglul chose to devote his life to education early in his career. He led the Animal  Production Department at the Center for Tropical Agriculture Research and Education in  Costa Rica, the oldest postgraduate school of agriculture in Latin America. He was a  Professor of Food Science and then a Vice President of Research and Extension at the  Technological Institute of Costa Rica.

Today, Dr. Zaglul pursues a variety of educational endeavors. He has founded or led  organizations such as the Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for  Agriculture, he is also on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut, and he  has co-chaired the SEMCIT seminar series (Sustainability and Education and the  Management of Change in the Tropics). He has earned honorary degrees from several  universities around the world.

At present, as President of the San Ramón Carbono Neutral Foundation he is leading the  initiative Healing Trees, a global collaborative movement that aims to plant more than 5  million trees around the world in honor of the lives lost due to Covid-19 and send a message  of unity, hope and a better future for all.

In this episode you will hear about the healing trees project and why planting trees for each COVID death is going to help heal us as humans and as a civilization.

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If you’d like to join the planting, please check out HealingTrees.org.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Michellee Fox.

Michellee is a Brazilian native, slow food chef, small minority farmer advocate and North & South America Business Development Manager for FoodBay TV - a food and lifestyle television network in Africa. She is also the host of CraftFood Podcast, where she interviews leaders in nutritional sustainability, and the new Dietary Manager for Mid valley Hospital in Omak, Washington

She recently moved  to a 90 acre clean slate farm in Eastern Washington where together with her family is crafting a PNW wild plants heaven using Regenerative practices.

Once able to slow down she was able to understand the small farmer and the need for the food industry to shift it’s conscience to seasonal cooking so we can secure the future of food.

In this episode you will hear about seasonal cooking, sustainable farming, Korean Natural Farming, Permaculture, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Sharon Glassman.

Sharon is the founder of Smile Songs. She is an introverted, Brooklyn, NY fashion writer turned Colorado designer and songwriter of cards and gifts that sing.

A kid who read books and played music under the trees in her suburban front lawn, channeled her talent into eco-friendly greeting cards that play happy songs. The art and messages she creates along with the songs, work like mini-stories to boost everyones’ spirit, while protecting our environment.

In this episode you will hear about her work, her eco-friendly way of sharing positive messages, her love to nature, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Bill Liao.

Bill is a Chinese-Australian-Irish entrepreneur, investor, former diplomat, business mentor, author, passionate leader and speaker, with a distinguished record in business development and community activism.

Co-founder of the CoderDojo movement and of WeForest, his career in tech and business encompasses two unicorn companies and launching the world’s first bio-tech accelerator. He is a general partner of SOSV, a venture capital fund of over $1B, and founder of the SOSV Momentum Pre-accelerator program.

In this episode you will hear about his commitment to the world on tree planting and no flying, his TED talk, sustainably planting trees, his preferred investments, Permaculture values and advantages, and more.

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It’s a special episode where I bring my microphone to COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, and speak with people right at the green zone, on the streets, and even on the train. This episode shares my conversation with 3 women, sharing 3 stories, 5 minutes each.

In this episode you will hear about the ocean, melting ice, corporates, film making, seaweed, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Ben Cooper.

Ben is an Agriculture Specialist, recently retired from Maryland Department of Agriculture after 32 years. Ben is now a beekeeper. He teaches beginners classes at a local college. He is the president of the local beekeeping association, life member of both Maryland and Pennsylvania State Beekeeper associations and a mentor to many new people getting into the hobby.

In this episode you will hear about his work as an agriculture specialist, the values in forest corridors, his work with the bees, bees as agricultural animals/insects, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Cathy Nesbitt.

Cathy is a Worm Advocate and Founder of Cathy's Crawly Composters. She is on a mission to put worms in every living space, indoor composting with worms. Cathy believes worms are going to play an ever increasing role in waste management, soil production and therefore food security. She sees food waste as a simple way to mitigate climate change and create (air quote) 'black gold' to grow more delicious, nutritious food. As she says “worm composter offers a tremendous learning opportunity for all ages”.

In this episode you will hear about the role worms play in our world, how they can help with climate change, their “Black Gold”, how to start composting with worms, and more.

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