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This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we orbit with Joyce Kamande in Kenya. Joyce is a social entrepreneur passionate about improving food security and livelihoods of small-scale farmers across Africa. She is a co-founder of Safi Organics, a company that converts farmers’ crop waste to high-yielding organic fertilizers, breathing vitality back into African soils and transforming people's livelihoods in the process. An amazing person and business nominated by a previous guest on Wonderspace Prudence Muchinouta (EP92).
Joyce's hopeful story is about the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize, Wangari Maathai who founded the Greenbelt movement.
To find out more: www.safiorganics.co.ke
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Re-wonder: https://asknature.org/strategy/vortex-rings-propel/
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This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we orbit with musician Eliza Marshall. A flautist working with some of the biggest names in global music. She has performed with orchestras, on film soundtracks and numerous albums, and also curates new music, documentaries and artwork with her company Freedom to roam.
More info: www.elizamarshall.com + https://www.freedomtoroam.earth/
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This week on Wonderspace we orbit with Chris Duffy. In 2002, Chris started Duffy London, a design studio devoted to combining art and function. They concept and create unique innovative furniture, lighting, and interiors using fully sustainable and recycled materials and packaging. His work has been exhibited around the world and is also part of the permanent National Collection at The Louve in Paris. In this episode Chris talks about his latest bamboo water taxi venture.
More info: www.duffylondon.com
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Re-wonder: https://asknature.org/strategy/wing-feathers-enable-near-silent-flight/
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This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we orbit with Piers Linney. Piers is an entrepreneur and investor with experience across a range of sectors including technology, media, and communications. He is co-founder of Atherton Bikes, and the co-founder of Implement AI​ which is focused on intelligent business transformation through the power of artificial intelligence. Piers is a champion of entrepreneurship and is known as a former Dragon investor on BBC’s Dragons’ Den.

"Another thing I'm very passionate about is working on diversity inclusion so that people like me don't have such a difficult journey to get from where they are to where they'd like to be. I think ambition is evenly distributed but access to capital, mentors, guidance, and financial capital as well as social capital is not. We have to try and change that."

More info: pierslinney.com.

In his story of hopefulness Piers talked about Charles Black and the Space Exploration Network and you can find out more at SEN.com
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Re-wonder: https://asknature.org/strategy/starlings-coordinate-movements-within-a-flock/
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This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we are going to dive into nature-inspired innovation also known as Biomimicry. A practice that mimics the strategies found in nature to solve human design challenges.
Our guest this week is the Founder and Creative Director of the Biomimicry Innovation Lab, Richard James MacCowan who works with innovators and designers to develop future possibilities inspired by nature. With a focus on the future of cities, agriculture and manufacturing, the Lab's mission is to develop regenerative innovations fit for the challenges of now and the future.
More info: www.biomimicryinnovationlab.com
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Re-wonder: https://asknature.org/strategy/electric-organs-generate-volts-2/
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This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we orbit with adventurer, expedition leader and speaker Oli France.
He is a specialist in leading groups through the world's wildest places such as Iraq, Somalia, Congo and Siberia. In this Wonderspace orbit Oli talks about his latest multi year project The ultimate seven, a world first quest to journey from the lowest point in each continent to the highest entirely by human power
"I will be travelling entirely by human power on foot, by bike, rowing and on skis and will be travelling around 13,000 miles through 20 countries. I'm just back from the first leg in Africa which was a five week journey that included 1600 miles of cycling through extreme 45 degrees heat and some hostility but I made it to the end."
More info: www.wildedge.co
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This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we orbit with Edwina Kulego in New York who is the Vice President of International and Business Development at Informa Markets Fashion. Edwina is also on the board of the Vegan Fashion Week based out of Los Angeles and was nominated by the founder of Style House Files and Lagos Fashion Week, Omoyemi Akerele who you can hear in EP 60.
"I got the opportunity to travel to Portugal to meet with the brand and to see how the shoes were actually made because I could not believe that sneakers were made from Apple skins. It just shows you how creative human beings are and how much we are willing to find new creative solutions to make the world a better place”
More info: www.edwinakulego.com and www.veganfashionweek.org
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Re-wonder: https://asknature.org/strategy/mucus-coat-protects-from-sea-anemone/
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This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we orbit with two entrepreneurs Joey Li and Thuta Khin. After meeting at business school Joey and Thuta founded Leiho with a mission to help improve the quality of life for people experiencing homelessness through the Leiho eco-consious store. Joey and Thuta were nominated by Joshua Coombes who was featured in Episode 79 on Wonderspace
"We formulated a business model around socks that give back to local vulnerable communities, we do whatever it takes to make a difference”.
For more info: www.leiho.co.uk
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Re-wonder: https://asknature.org/strategy/guard-cells-regulate-gas-and-moisture-exchange/
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This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we orbit with Anthea Stephenson who transitioned from a career in the corporate world and Michelin-starred kitchens and is now pioneering regenerative agricultural solutions, reshaping the narrative on food security, tech and climate resilience.
"We're developing tools and technologies for cross-sector collaboration and co-investment in regenerative and restorative activities. We're working to put farmers, the stewards at the heart of the solution with progressive contracting that fosters equality and replenishment.”
For more info: www.buildingwillow.com
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Re-wonder: https://asknature.org/strategy/pine-cones-open-and-close-in-response-to-weather/
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This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we orbit with Vanessa Norwood. Vanessa is a curator and cultural strategist for the built environment. Her work focuses on the central role materials play in building a more sustainable and equitable world.
“The built environment is responsible for almost 40% of the Earth's carbon emissions. So it's a really interesting and important time to be part of this journey”
Vanessa was nominated by architect and author Marwa Al-Sabouni who engaged with our six questions from her home in Homs in Syria which you can hear in ep78
More info: www.vanessanorwood.com
Her story of hopefulness is the work of Homegrown Plus who are dedicated to improving diversity within architecture and the creative industries. A special shout out to Neil Pinder!
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Re-wonder: https://asknature.org/strategy/tendons-store-and-return-energy/
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