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Systemic change is needed to move us on to the right side of history. Marc Buckley speaks with the game-changers on a mission to get us there as fast as possible. Marc is an Advocate for the SDGs, member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network, and award-winning Global Food Reformist.

Take a deep dive with thought leaders, Innovators, Futurists, and those solving Global Grand challenges. Listen to renowned experts share their insight on topics including sustainability, environmentalism, global food reform, SDG plan to get us to 2030, regenerative practices and systems thinking.
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Unpacking carbon offsetting, with Margaret Kim

Inside Ideas with Marc BuckleyMay 24, 2021

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Get to Know Our Home - with Renegade Economist, Della Duncan

Get to Know Our Home - with Renegade Economist, Della Duncan

Della Z Duncan is my guest on Episode 179 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Links in Bio LinkTree 🌳 to Podcasts. Della is a Renegade Economist who supports individuals as a Right Livelihood Coach, helps transition businesses as a post-capitalist consultant, and hosts the Upstream Podcast challenging mainstream economic thinking through documentaries and conversations including, The Green Transition: The Problem with Green Capitalism and The Myth of Freedom Under Capitalism. Della is also the creator and co-teacher of the Cultivating Regenerative Livelihoods program and co-teacher of the Economics Dimension course at Gaia Education, a Work that Reconnects Facilitator, the Course Development Manager of Fritjof Capra’s Capra Course on the Systems View of Life, a founding member of the California Doughnut Economics Coalition, a Senior Fellow of Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics, a Gross National Happiness Master Trainer, and a Senior Lecturer at the California Institute of Integral Studies. https://www.dellazduncan.com/

Aug 15, 202301:25:32
Mapping Resilience for the SDGs with Loretta Hieber Girardet

Mapping Resilience for the SDGs with Loretta Hieber Girardet

Loretta Hieber Girardet is my guest on Episode 178 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Lori is the Chief of the Risk Knowledge, Monitoring and Capacity-Development Branch covering risk information and analytics, climate change, disaster loss and monitoring data and capacity-building for UNDRR Disaster Risk Reduction globally. Previously, she served as Chief of the UNDRR Asia-Pacific regional office, covering 38 of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. Lori served in various management positions at OCHA for over a decade before joining UNDRR, including overseeing the global Cluster coordination mechanism and having responsibility for IASC mechanisms on coordinated humanitarian needs assessments. She also has a background in public health and worked for the World Health Organization in various capacities, including in emergency contexts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and sub-Saharan Africa. Her experience in emergency contexts spans more than 25 years and she is the author of several publications including Lifeline Media: Reaching Populations in Crises which promotes greater accountability to people affected by disasters. Her academic background includes fellowships and degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health and University of Paris-Assas. GAR Special Report 2023 ‘Mapping Resilience for the Sustainable Development Goals’ https://www.undrr.org/

Aug 04, 202301:15:05
Regenerative Cultures, with Daniel Christian Wahl

Regenerative Cultures, with Daniel Christian Wahl

Daniel Christian Wahl is my guest on Episode 177 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Daniel Christian Wahl is one of the catalysts of the rising reGeneration and the author of Designing Regenerative Cultures - so far translated into seven languages. He works as a consultant, educator and activist with NGOs, businesses, governments and global change agents. With degrees in biology and holistic science, and a PhD in Design for Human and Planetary Health, his work has influenced the emerging fields of regenerative design and salutogenic design. Winner of the 2021 RSA Bicentenary Medal for applying design in service to society. Awarded a two year Volans-Fellowship in 2022. Daniel Christian Wahl holds degrees in Biology (BSc. Hons., Univ. of Edinburgh, 1996), HolisticScience (MSc., Schumacher College, 2002), and a Ph.D. in Design (Univ. of Dundee 2006) on 'Design for Human and Planetary Health. Daniel lives in Mallorca where he helped to set up SMART UIB and works locally and internationally as a consultant, educator, and activist. Among his clients have been Ecover, Forum for the Future, Camper, and Balears.t, Save the Med, Lush, UNITAR, UK Foresight, Cloudburst Foundation, and many universities and NGOs. He has been on the academic working group of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) and has been linked to GEN for almost 20 years. Daniel has worked closely with Gaia Education since 2007 and contributed to the development of their Design for Sustainability online course and co-authored the current versions of all four dimensions of the curriculum. He also wrote the content and developed the concept of Gaia Education's SDGs Flashcards which with the support of UNESCO are now translated into 7 languages. His 2016 book 'Designing Regenerative Cultures' has helped to define the field of regenerative design and has been translated into 8 languages so far. In 2021 the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture, and Commerce - founded in 1754 - awarded Daniel with the Bicentenary Medal for "an outstanding and demonstrable contribution, through ... design practice, towards an equitable and regenerative world." He has been awarded a Volans Fellowship for 2022 and 2023 by John Elkington in support of past and ongoing work. Daniel trained as a biologist and holds degrees in Biology (BSc. Hons., Univ. of Edinburgh), Holistic Science (MSc., Schumacher College), and Natural Design (PhD., Univ. of Dundee). He was the director of Findhorn College from 2007 to 2010, is a member of the International Futures Forum and H3Uni, an advocation partner of r3.0, and on the advisory councils of Ecosystems Restoration Camps, Commonland, the Ojai Foundation, Future Planet Europe, the Centre for the Future and the Overview Institute of Australia, as well as a Findhorn Foundation Fellow. Daniel teaches regularly on the MA in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College. Daniel's 2016 book 'Designing Regenerative Cultures' has quickly gained international acclaim, his Blog on Medium is followed by over 20,000 people and his social media advocacy has a combined audience of over 450,000 people around the world. https://www.danielchristianwahl.com

Aug 01, 202301:56:47
What a Bee Knows, with Stephen Buchmann

What a Bee Knows, with Stephen Buchmann

Stephen Buchmann is a pollination ecologist specializing in bees and an adjunct professor with the departments of Entomology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. A Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, he has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers and eleven books, including The Forgotten Pollinators with Gary Nabhan (Island Press, 1996) and, most recently, The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives (Scribner, 2015). Buchmann is a frequent guest on many public media venues including NPR’s All Things Considered, and Science Friday. Reviews of his books have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time and Discover magazines and other national publications. He is an engaging public speaker on topics of flowers, pollinators, and the natural world. His many awards include the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, and an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book. For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic. But the next time you hear that low droning sound, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She may be using her sensitive olfactory organs, which provide a 3D scent map of her surroundings. She may be following visual landmarks or instructions relayed by a hive-mate. She may even be tracking electrostatic traces left on flowers by other bees. What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees’ mysterious paths and experience their alien world. Although their brains are incredibly small—just one million neurons compared to humans’ 100 billion—bees have remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. In What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen Buchmann explores a bee’s way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible. We travel into the field and to the laboratories of noted bee biologists who have spent their careers digging into the questions most of us never thought to ask (for example: Do bees dream? And if so, why?). With each discovery, Buchmann’s insatiable curiosity and sense of wonder is infectious. What a Bee Knows will challenge your idea of a bee’s place in the world—and perhaps our own. This lively journey into a bee’s mind reminds us that the world is more complex than our senses can tell us. www.stephenbuchmann.com

May 23, 202301:43:01
The Good Garden, with Chris Mclaughlin

The Good Garden, with Chris Mclaughlin

Chris McLaughlin is my guest on Episode 175 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Master Gardener and Modern Homesteader Chris McLaughlin has been gardening and studying plants for over fourty years. She’s the author of nine books. Her latest book is The Good Garden: How to Nurture Pollinators, Soil, Native Wildlife, and Healthy Food—All in Your Own Backyard. McLaughlin’s book promising to give you all the tricks and tips you need to grow the sustainable garden of your dreams. The Good Garden is about growing the healthiest, most scrumptious fruits and veggies possible, but it’s also about giving back. How can your little patch of Earth become a sanctuary for threatened wildlife, sequester carbon, and nurture native plants? Full of tricks and tips you need to grow the sustainable garden of your dreams. Drawing from established traditions, such as permaculture and French intensive gardening, and Chris’s hard-earned experience, For newbies and experienced gardeners alike. It will teach you the fundamentals, including how to choose the right plant varieties for your microclimate, and proven methods to fight pests without chemicals. You will also discover the nuances of developing a green thumb, from picking species to attract specific types of pollinators to composting techniques based on time available. Lovely four-color photography will show you good gardening in action. Most importantly, The Good Garden will help you foster a sense of meaning in your garden. Maybe the goal is to reduce food miles and plastic waste by growing delicious berries. Maybe it’s to meet neighbors who also care about the planet through a seed-swap. Maybe it’s a quiet moment patting the bunny whose manure will replace toxic fertilizers in the soil. A good garden offers endless possibilities and The Good Garden offers a wealth of knowledge and inspiration. Chris is the associate editor for From Scratch Magazine and a staff contributor to VegetableGardener.com. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Urban Farm Magazine, Hobby Farm Home Magazine, The Herb Companion, The Heirloom Gardener, and Fine Gardening Magazine. The Good Garden How to Nuture Pollinators, Soil, Native Wildlife, and Healthy Food — All in Your Own Backyard. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Composting, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Heirloom Vegetables, Hobby Farms: Small-Space Rabbit Keeping, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Small-Space Gardening, Vertical Vegetable Gardening, Raising Animals for Fiber, A Garden To Dye For, and Growing Heirloom Flowers. https://www.laughingcrowco.com/

Apr 12, 202301:24:44
Heroes of Environmental Diplomacy with Felix Dodds and Chris Spence

Heroes of Environmental Diplomacy with Felix Dodds and Chris Spence

Felix Dodds and Chris Spence are my guests on Episode 174 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  

Heroes of Environmental Diplomacy

Felix Dodds has been a leading thinker in the area of global governance for thirty years. Now a Vice President Multilateral Affairs. Rob and Melani Walton Sustainable Solutions Service (RMWSSS) at Arizona State University and an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina. 

Previously he was an advisor to the Ford Foundation and their grantees for the development of the Sustainable Development Goals.  He was the co-founder of the Communitas Coalition for supporting SDG 11 on Sustainable Cities and Communities. 

From 1992-2012 he was Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum and during that time he chaired the first UN Conference to come out with a set of indicative SDGs in September 2011.

He has edited or written 24 books on sustainable development. His most recent book with Chris Spence is Heroes of Environmental Diplomacy: Profiles in Courage. 

He also co-wrote Negotiating the SDGs which explained how the SDGs came about and who the key players were with Ambassador David Donoghue and Jimena Leiva Roesch and Only One Planet with the father of Sustainable Development Maurice Strong and Michael Strauss.

Chris Spence is a writer and environmentalist. He has worked internationally on sustainable development, conservation, climate change and health policy, and he held leadership positions at non-profit organizations in New York, New Zealand and California. 

He also consulted widely for the United Nations, IUCN-World Conservation Union and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), and he has undertaken assignments in more than 40 countries on five continents, focused, in particular, on climate change and sustainable development policy and practice, as well as international law. He has also served as a political advisor and journalist and been on the boards of several environmental organizations. 

An award-winning writer, Chris is the author or co-author of several books, including Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Rock Happy (2021). He holds MA (Hons) and BA degrees in Political Science and History from Victoria University. Originally from the United Kingdom, Chris lived in New Zealand, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to Ireland in 2020, where he currently lives with his family. TDK The Band SF Bay Area Band


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Mar 29, 202301:30:43
Lucianne Tonti, Sundressed Regenerative Fashion

Lucianne Tonti, Sundressed Regenerative Fashion

Lucianne Tonti is my guest on Episode 173 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Lucianne Tonti is a journalist, author and regenerative fashion consultant. She is the fashion editor of The Saturday Paper, a regular contributor to The Guardian where she writes the weekly series Closet Clinic. Her writing also appears in Australian Vogue. Her first book Sundressed: Natural Fabrics and the Future of Clothes, was released in Australia in July and will be published by Island Press in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom in 2023. Lucianne has worked in sustainable and luxury fashion in Melbourne, Sydney, London and Paris.

www.luciannetonti.com

Mar 20, 202301:43:22
The Creativity Factor, with Garry Pratt

The Creativity Factor, with Garry Pratt

Garry Pratt is my guest on Episode 172 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Links in Bio LinkTree 🌳  to Podcasts.   Garry is the co-founder of Earswitch, an innovative sensor technology start-up. He was previously Entrepreneur in Residence and a Teaching Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the University of Bath, where he ran an accelerator programme that supported high-tech, high-growth digital start-ups in areas such as med-tech, AR/VR and AI.    Garry has held senior positions in the pre-dotcom tech world across the US and Europe and is the co-founder of Teachit, a leading educational digital  content provider.    The Creativity Factor offers scientific and practical evidence for entrepreneurial creativity, with advice on the mechanisms, habits, and techniques that develop this skill. This uniquely holistic guide will provide you with a newfound awareness of your creative potential and how it can lead to business success.

https://garrypratt.co.uk/

Feb 15, 202301:39:27
Global Ecosystem Restoration with John D Liu

Global Ecosystem Restoration with John D Liu

Global Ecosystem Restoration John D. Liu is my guest on Episode 171 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.    In the 1980s and 1990s, John worked as a television producer and cameraman with CBS News, RAI, and ZDF covering geo-political events including the rise of China from poverty and isolation and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the mid-1990s the World Bank asked John to document the rehabilitation of the Loess Plateau.    Since learning that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems John has devoted his life to understanding and communicating about the potential and responsibility to restore degraded landscapes on a planetary scale. Since 2009 John has worked with Willem Ferwerda the Founder and CEO of the Commonland Foundation, which is catalyzing privately invested large-scale restoration in many parts of the world. John is also the founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement that began in 2016 and has grown to over 50 camps in 6 continents and continues to grow.   Studying ecology led John to receive a number of academic appointments. In 2014 John was named a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIOO/KNAW) and continues to study.    

https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/

Feb 09, 202302:25:35
Leading by Nature with Giles Hutchins

Leading by Nature with Giles Hutchins

Giles Hutchins is an executive coach and senior adviser at the forefront of the [r]evolution in organizational and leadership consciousness and developmental approaches that enhance personal, organizational, and systemic agility and vitality. He is the author and co-author of several leadership and organizational development papers, and the books The Nature of Business (2012), The Illusion of Separation (2014), Future Fit (2016), co-author of Regenerative Leadership (2019), and Leading by Nature (2022). Chair of The Future Fit Leadership Academy, Founder of Leadership Immersions, and co-founder of Biomimicry for Creative Innovation and Regenerators, he runs an international leadership center at Springwood Farm, an area of outstanding natural beauty near London, UK. Previously held corporate roles - Head of Transformation Practice for KPMG, Global Director, and Head of Sustainability for Atos (150,000 employees, over 40 countries). He provides coaching at individual and organizational levels for those seeking to transform their personal and/or work lives. He is also a keynote speaker on the future of business and regenerative leadership, and guest lectures at international business schools. 

https://gileshutchins.com/ 


Nov 28, 202201:24:57
Regenerative leadership, with Laura Storm
Oct 27, 202201:42:40
Responsibility, Resilience, Regeneration, with Louise Kjellerup Roper

Responsibility, Resilience, Regeneration, with Louise Kjellerup Roper

Louise Kjellerup Roper is my guest on Episode 168 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.   

As CEO of Volans Louise leads the team and is responsible for Volans mission, programmes and strategy, and ensuring Volans has the biggest possible positive impact, through what we do and who we work with.   After leaving her native Denmark to study PPE at the University of Oxford, Louise started her career with ‘bleeding-edge’ software companies such as Cisco and Check Point Software Technologies, before focusing on the role of business for good, launching Cradle to Cradle and B Lab pioneering companies like method and gDiapers into Europe and bringing circular economy business models and scale to ambitious small businesses.  Louise is a guest lecturer at both Cranfield University and the University of Exeter and part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s CE100 network. She also mentors young change-makers via the Aspire Foundation and the Aspire Trailblazing Women network.  

https://volans.com/

Oct 04, 202201:40:55
Nourished Planet, with Danielle Nierenberg

Nourished Planet, with Danielle Nierenberg

Danielle is a world-renowned researcher, speaker, and advocate, on all issues relating to our food system and agriculture. Danielle is President of Food Tank (foodtank.com) and an expert on sustainable agriculture and food issues. She has written extensively on gender and population, the spread of factory farming in the developing world, and innovations in sustainable agriculture. Danielle is the recipient of the 2020 Julia Child Award.   Danielle founded Food Tank, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, with Bernard Pollack in 2013 to build a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. The organization has more than 250 major institutional partners including The Rockefeller Foundation, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Christensen Fund, IFPRI, IFAD, Oxfam America, Slow Food USA, U.N. FAO, the Crop Trust, the Sustainable Food Trust, and academic institutions in all 50 states.   Food Tank highlights hope, success, and innovative ideas in our food system through original daily publications, research articles, a chart-topping podcast, interviews, and events and Summits in major cities around the world.   Prior to starting Food Tank, Danielle spent two years traveling to more than 35 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America, meeting with hundreds of farmers and farmers’ groups, scientists and researchers, policymakers and government leaders, students and academics, and journalists, documenting what is working to help alleviate hunger and poverty, while protecting the environment.

foodtank.com

Sep 23, 202201:21:05
Rethinking Law, with Dr Abir Haddad

Rethinking Law, with Dr Abir Haddad

Dr. Abir Haddad is my guest on Episode 166 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.   Dr. Abir Haddad is Director of the Institute for Legal Transformation, Capital 40 under 40, alumni of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, and teaches Modern Law of Arab States at the Institute for Private International Law at the University of Cologne, where she received her doctorate summa cum laude.  Previously to that she developed transformative legal adaptations to address future challenges posed by climate change and exponential technologies at Resilience Frontiers Initiative, a forward-thinking project of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, where she still is an advisor.   As director of the Institute for Legal Transformation, she is now applying her "7 Steps to Legal Transformation" methodology to other areas of futures and disruptive change, exploring the law of the future with a thematic focus on anticipatory legal adaptations that promote sustainable living in balance with nature, and foresightful regulation of exponential technologies for a prosperous society. Together with other lawyers, Dr. Haddad founded the Network of Multicultural Lawyers, which provides a platform for German lawyers with a family history of immigration.   In her academic career, Dr. Haddad has been selected as one of 20 scholars worldwide for the Falling Walls Foundation's Female Science Track 2022 and won the wildcard for the Women in Leadership program. Also, she is a founding and faculty member of the European Club for Leaders and Sustainable Innovation program.  

http://www.legaltransformation.io/ 

Sep 15, 202201:48:30
Think, Speak, Transform - Navigating Complexity with Pascal Morgan
Aug 04, 202201:46:56
Systemic change for ecologically sustainable degrowth societies, with Dr. Sabrina Chakori

Systemic change for ecologically sustainable degrowth societies, with Dr. Sabrina Chakori

Dr. Sabrina Chakori is my guest on Episode 164 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.   Sabrina is a Researcher at CSIRO - Australia’s Science Agency, Associate Lecturer University of Queensland, founder (Brisbane Tool Library), Post Growth Institute fellow. Sabrina holds a BSc. in Biology (University of Geneva) and an MSc. in Environmental Economics (The University of Queensland). Using a systems approach in her Ph.D. research (The University of Queensland) Sabrina explored packaged food reduction in food systems. Her work provides an understanding and repositioning of the socio-materiality of food packaging, politicising packaged food, and highlighting the need to pursue degrowth strategies to increase the sustainability of food systems.  Post Growth Institute fellow, winner of the 2020 Create Change 7News Young Achiever Award (QLD), and recipient of the Emerging Female Leader bursary from the National Council of Women of Queensland (2020), Sabrina is a multi-award social entrepreneur, researcher, educator, and dedicated activist. Sabrina is fully invested in creating systemic change that would build a more socially just and ecologically sustainable degrowth society.  Sabrina has been advocating for a more sustainable society, leading numerous collaborations in various countries. For example, to translate into practice her knowledge and vision, in 2017, she founded the Brisbane Tool Library, a social enterprise that encourages people to borrow tools, camping gear, and other equipment. This community-driven circular model reduces productivism and consumerism. The Brisbane Tool Library is Australia’s first and only ‘library of things’ to be located within a public library (State Library of Queensland). Sabrina also co-founded the Degrowth Journal with a collective that aims at changing the academic culture, decommodifying knowledge, and supporting slow science.

Jul 25, 202201:29:57
Work Better Save The Planet, with Lisa Whited

Work Better Save The Planet, with Lisa Whited

Lisa Whited is my guest on Episode 163 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Lisa believes in the art of possibility. She has a passion for improving processes and workplaces. Lisa has a holistic outlook on work: it has a ripple effect on our communities, society, and the planet. She is a change management strategist who is driven to make a dent in the abysmal Gallup statistic that 80% of people worldwide are disengaged at work.   Lisa has an MS in Organization and Management from Antioch University and holds certifications in mediation, facilitation, and interior design. She speaks and writes about the future of work, building community, and ensuring all voices are heard in a change process. Lisa consults with companies large and small, local, and global. Her recent engagements have been helping business leaders figure out what the future of work will look like in a post-COVID-19 world.   Lisa is founder and chief transformation officer of Workplace Transformation Facilitation and serves as a Senior Associate to Advanced Workplace Associates, a global change management consultancy based in the UK.   Lisa and her husband, Pete Chanis, have three children, two cats and one dog and live in Portland, Maine.  

https://www.workbettersavetheplanet.com


Jun 29, 202201:33:25
Soil Food Web, with Dr Elaine R Ingham

Soil Food Web, with Dr Elaine R Ingham

Dr. Elaine R. Ingham is my guest on Episode 162 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Dr. Elaine Ingham uncovered the Soil Food Web nearly 4 decades ago and has been pioneering research about Soil Food Web ever since. Widely recognized as the world’s foremost soil biologist, she’s passionate about empowering people to bring the soils in their communities back to life.  Dr. Elaine’sTM Soil Food Web Approach has been used to successfully restore the ecological functions of soils on more than five million acres of farmland all over the world. The courses offered by Dr. Elaine’sTM Soil Food Web School have been designed for people with, or without, a science background - making them accessible to individuals who wish to learn and to begin a meaningful and impactful career in an area that will help to secure the survival of humans and other species.  B.A., Biology and Chemistry, St. Olaf College M.S., Microbiology, Texas A&M University Ph.D., Microbiology, Colorado State University Founder and President, Soil Food Web Inc. Director, Soil Food Web School.

Jun 16, 202201:39:23
Generative futurism, with Michael Shaun Conaway

Generative futurism, with Michael Shaun Conaway

Michael Shaun Conaway is my guest on Episode 161 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. 

Michael Shaun is endlessly curious about how life works, why we do things the way we do, and how we might do them differently. This led him to become a phenomenological philosopher – someone who examines life from the way life shows up moment to moment. His current work in Being and Time is rooted in this tradition.   Michael Shaun’s purpose in life is to unleash greatness to bring about a thriving future. His mission is to empower and accelerate the redesign of our failing systems to create an anti-fragile, anti-rival world, one that works for all.   To this end he helped to create the field of Generative Futurism, the practice of generating or envisioning desirable futures at near and long timeframes, back-casting steps it would take to realize that future and then acting to take those steps moving forward in time. Simply put, this is the capacity to see and realize futures.   Michael Shaun is a frequent speaker on long-term strategy, the future, and being and time. His keynotes have the uncanny power to shift culture by building a new narrative for the audience. His talks are journeys designed to leave the audience seeing from a new reality.   Michael Shaun Conaway is the founder of five highly successful ventures. He is an award-winning filmmaker, editing publisher of PROOF magazine, founder of Bold.ly NOW, an entrepreneur education platform, CEO of Storyworks, a social impact creative agency, and the non-profit Generative Futures initiative.   Michael Shaun is the director of the award-winning documentary feature, WeRiseUP, a culture-shifting film featuring key global leaders. WeRiseUP asks a fundamental question: What is success for humanity?   Michael Shaun started his career in the mid-nineties as a writer/director for video games. By 2000 his creative agency, Storyworks became the go to agency for high tech companies looking to create visions of the future. 

 https://thegenerativefuturist.com

Jun 02, 202201:54:16
SuperCharge Me, with Corinne Sawers & Eric Lonergan

SuperCharge Me, with Corinne Sawers & Eric Lonergan

Corinne Sawers and Eric Lonergan are my guests on Episode 160 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Corinne started her career at the UN, working on climate change. She has been advising global businesses and governments on climate and sustainability for more than a decade. She is co-founder of the not-for-profit More United.  Eric is a policy economist and author with more than twenty years of experience in financial markets. He is co-author with Mark Blyth of the international bestseller Angrynomics (Agenda, 2020). He has written extensively on innovations in monetary policy and frequently contributes to the Financial Times.  Supercharge Me is a fast-paced, clearly-written, manual on how to accelerate the green transition. Written by Eric Lonergan, a leading policy economist and author of the bestseller, Angrynomics (FT critics book of the year 2020), and Corinne Sawers, a sustainability and climate expert, the book introduces the concept of "supercharging", a new framework for accelerating our response to climate change. Through a series of high-impact policy hacks, Supercharge Me will embolden activists, reinvigorate the disheartened, and reframe the climate crisis as an opportunity.  The book is structured as a dialogue, where Lonergan’s expertise in markets and economics is combined with Sawers’ extensive knowledge of the climate challenge and business transformation. The authors’ appreciation of the realities of human psychology, politics, and how companies work, makes this one of the most accessible and practical guides to the climate crisis. 

https://www.superchargeme.org/

May 19, 202201:26:17
European Innovation Area Summit, with Dr Roland Strauss

European Innovation Area Summit, with Dr Roland Strauss

My guest today on this Special Edition of Inside Ideas is Dr Roland Strauss - one of the most influential figures within the European innovation landscape.  For well over a decade, in his role as Founder of the nonprofit, Knowledge4Innovation, he has been the driving force behind the European Innovation Summit held annually in the European Parliament, which brings European commissioners and MEPs face-to-face with the needs of the company’s, organisations, ideas and startups driving innovation across the continent.   Now, as Europe begins laying out its plans for delivering on its vision to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, it is the role of innovation that will again take centre stage.   And as the key innovation platform at the heart of the European institutions, with the support of dozens of MEPs, it is the K4I Forum in the European Parliament - sitting at the crossroads between politics; businesses; startups; academia and wider society, which is perfectly placed to help define the leading role it will play in achieving this net-zero future.  Right now, Dr Strauss and K4I are doing that most notably by leading the charge for the development of a European Innovation Area - a single ecosystem for innovation across the continent that can harness the collective power of progress to achieve a just transition towards a sustainable Europe that truly works for all.   The journey towards achieving this ecosystem is well underway, with the inaugural European Innovation Area Summit – led by K4I – set to take place in the European Parliament next month.  So, this is the perfect time to welcome Dr Strauss onto Inside Ideas to discover more about the European Innovation Area and its first ever summit.   https://www.europeaninnovationarea.eu

May 16, 202259:20
Regenerating Our Food Production Systems, with Nicole Masters

Regenerating Our Food Production Systems, with Nicole Masters

Nicole Masters is my guest on Episode 159 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Nicole is an independent agroecologist, pattern thinker, author, and educator. For over 2 decades Nicole is recognized as a knowledgeable and dynamic speaker on the topic of soil health.          

CREATE coaching program Application deadline May 15th - Course begins in June. CREATE is the ultimate ag professional development program for highly-motivated people serious about making a real difference in food/fiber production.  The program is a bespoke intensive, designed to deliver and empower highly trained, capable, and confident agroecological coaches and consultants out into the world. Learn more about the CREATE coaching program at www.integritysoils.co.nz                                                               

Nicole's experience has spanned diverse sectors from community gardens and horticulture to vermiculture, compost tea production, and diverse multi-species systems. Her company, Integrity Soils delivers coaching and educational programs to producers and organizations spanning over 24 million acres. In 2021 Integrity Soils shifted away from in-person consultancy, to focus on training the next generation of coaches. Her first self-published book titled “For the Love of Soil; Strategies to Regenerate our Food Production Systems,” showcases examples of the tools, principles, and mindset producers adopt to regenerate their soils.  When the roads are good, you’ll find her traveling in her Ford 350, horse trailer in tow, working alongside producers to build soil and sink her carbon emissions.  

https://www.integritysoils.co.nz/

May 03, 202201:28:23
Seafood - The Blue Revolution, with Nicholas P. Sullivan

Seafood - The Blue Revolution, with Nicholas P. Sullivan

Nicholas P. Sullivan is my guest on Episode 158 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.   Nicholas is a writer and editor focusing on the impact of business and technology on international development. The Blue Revolution is his fourth book. It follows Money, Real Quick: Kenya’s Disruptive Mobile Money Innovation; You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones Are Connecting the World’s Poor to the Global Economy; and Computer Power for Your Small Business. He has been codirector of The Fletcher School’s Leadership Program for Financial Inclusion (Tufts University), a consultant to central banks in developing countries, and a visiting scholar at MIT’s Legatum Center for International Development. In the publishing world, he was publisher of Innovations: Technology/Governance/Globalization (MIT Press); editor-in-chief of Inc.com; and editor-in-chief of Home Office Computing. Sullivan is currently a Senior Fellow at The Fletcher School’s Council on Emerging Market Enterprises and a Senior Research Fellow at its Maritime Studies Program. Sullivan has twice been a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow. A graduate of Harvard University and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, he lives in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. 

https://islandpress.org/books/blue-revolution

Apr 21, 202201:37:46
GEO & Human Interoperability

GEO & Human Interoperability

Steven Ramage is my guest on Episode 157 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Steven’s lowest grade (C) at school was geography, but he has been working in the geospatial sector and evangelizing location as the third global currency alongside time and money for the last two decades. Steven started studying French, German, Russian and Spanish in the 80s, but moved to commerce and information systems because his grandfather (who supported him through university) didn’t think languages would be useful! Today, Steven works in 3-4 languages most weeks, but his background in computing and information systems has served him well.     He works extensively on collective intelligence in an intergovernmental partnership spanning more than 100 countries and probably close to 1000 organisations with countless individual contributors. He believes in the words of Margaret Mead about the power of individuals and has been promoting the concept of human interoperability for over a decade. Steven would like organisations to think more about behaviour, incentives, and motivation as they develop data strategies and work towards access and sharing of data to address key global challenges, but he knows and understands that data is meaningless without buy in and use.    Steven was part of a management buyout, has created a government start-up, been on the board of an industry start-up and been in numerous leadership positions. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (lapsed), is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was recently invited to be a Fellow of the World Economic Forum (not yet fulfilled). He’s a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Future Cities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland and an advisor to the UK Space Agency. He’s an avid storyteller and keeps thinking about writing a book. He’s also mentored 100+ younger, professional women in the geospatial sector.  

earthobservations.org

Apr 12, 202201:28:35
Understanding Regenerative Platform Models, with Luciá Hernández

Understanding Regenerative Platform Models, with Luciá Hernández

Luciá Hernández is my guest on Episode 156 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. 

Luciá is an expert on platform-based business models. She has been around the collaborative economy for more than a decade, later Platform Economy, helping organizations of all kinds in the adoption of these mindsets.

As an advisor and consultant, she brings the platform-ecosystem mentality to the company building the internal capabilities to think systemic to design platform strategies, in a real guidance and support relationship.

She is an expert evaluator of the European Commission under the H2020 program, URBACT validated expert, the network of cities sharing and applying sustainable principles.

A connector in OuiShare, an international Think and Do Tank dedicated to social impact regarding digital transformations, the evolution of cities and the future of organizations.

Adjunct Professor at business schools such as ESADE and EADA and an international lecturer and keynote speaker.

She has participated in the design of public policies with the European Commission, the IDB, CIPPEC, and some local governments.

She is an expert on new emerging trends related to the platform economy, participating in international forums and communities, with a wide network of trusted international consultants.

She is always researching and exploring the intersections between regenerative design and platform design in order to provide a framework for those who have a platform and want to understand how to become regenerative, ecosystem, and networked strategies to impact at scale, being part of international forums and communities, and connecting people, projects, and ideas.

#PlatformDesign #EcosystemDesign #BusinessModels #RegenerativeDesign #TourismInnovation #RegenerativeTourism #SharingEconomy #PlatformEconony #platformmodels #regenerativemodels #regenerativeplatforms #regeneration #ecosystemplatforms #boundaryless

https://youtu.be/zEa01rXBIpU

https://luciahernandez.co/

https://twitter.com/luciahdez3

https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciahd/

https://www.ouishare.net/

https://luciahdez.medium.com/regenerative-platforms-design-principles-daf31508322a

https://youtu.be/zEa01rXBIpU

Apr 06, 202201:03:09
Regenerative Economies & Green Swans with John Elkington

Regenerative Economies & Green Swans with John Elkington

John Elkington is my guest on Episode 155 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.   

John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling author, and serial entrepreneur. John is the founder and chief pollinator at Volans, which works with leaders to make sense of the emergent future to unlock tomorrow’s market value.  Volans tackles some of the world's most challenging problems, helping key actors expand their focus from the responsibility agenda through resilience to regeneration. Much of the work is at Board or C-suite level. John's thought leadership is evident in ongoing Volans Inquiries including Project Breakthrough, Tomorrow’s Capitalism Inquiry, and the Green Swans Observatory.  John has helped create and incubate movements including the global sustainability movement and powerfully shaped initiatives like the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, the Global Reporting Initiative, and B Lab UK. He was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002 to 2008. And in 2009, he was named fourth in an international survey of top 100 CSR leaders, after Al Gore, Barack Obama, and the late Anita Roddick.   John has addressed over 1,000 conferences globally and served on over 80 boards and advisory boards. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, the latest being Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism.  In 2021, John won the prestigious World Sustainability Award. 

https://youtu.be/ETyAh1mxWyw
https://johnelkington.com/
https://www.innovatorsmag.com/is-regenerative-capitalism-the-answer-to-the-worlds-problems/
https://twitter.com/volansjohn
https://volans.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/volans/
https://twitter.com/VolansHQ
https://medium.com/@volansjohn
https://theobservatory.volans.com/
https://capitalinstitute.org/course-introduction-regenerative-economics/
https://youtu.be/ETyAh1mxWyw

#bcorp #regeneration #greenswans #uglyducklings #capitalism #triplebottomline #recall #volans #regenerators #harvardbusinessreview #exponential #neweconomicmodel #friedmanera #sdgs #

Apr 02, 202201:20:10
Justin Rhodes: Special Book Launch Bonus - The Rooted Life

Justin Rhodes: Special Book Launch Bonus - The Rooted Life

Justin Rhodes is my guest on Episode 154 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  

Justin is a Permaculturalist, film producer, author, and teacher. He helps folks learn to work with nature to produce their own sustenance so they can live a more abundant life. Justin is a seasoned homesteader having enjoyed many years of practicing “beyond organic” and permaculture methods on a 75-acre family farm near Asheville NC. Justin trained under the highly accredited Geoff Lawton of PRI Australia for his Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) and has studied natural chicken care under popular author, Pat Foremen. Justin founded Abundant Permaculture out of a love of teaching and the sustainable movement. Where, you’ll find exhaustive permaculture articles, plentiful photos, cinematic educational films, business tips, and tricks.

www.therootedlife.com 

https://abundanceplus.com/

Mar 02, 202201:11:13
Subsistence Farming with Ashley Colby

Subsistence Farming with Ashley Colby

Ashley Colby is my guest on Episode 153 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Ashley is the Executive Director of the Rizoma Foundation. She earned her PhD in Environmental Sociology with a focus on household food production in the United States. Her dissertation was published as a book: Subsistence Agriculture in the US: Connecting to work, nature and community. It was in the process of completing her research that Ashley discovered the creativity in individuals creating diverse informal economies unnoticed by policymakers and politicians. Ashley is interested in and passionate about the myriad creative ways in which people are forming new social worlds in resistance to the failures of late capitalism and resultant climate disasters. Ashley is a qualitative researcher, so she tends to focus on the informal spaces of innovation.  Ashley’s focus has turned to Rizoma Foundation, where she seeks to accelerate local, decentralized networks of people who can get us to the next iteration of society, and fast.  

https://www.rizomafoundation.org/

Feb 06, 202201:30:46
Finding our place in the universe, with Jeremy Lent
Jan 24, 202201:19:39
Net Positive, with Andrew Winston
Dec 20, 202101:09:04
The Spirit of Human Business, with Thomas Juli

The Spirit of Human Business, with Thomas Juli

Dr. Thomas Juli is my guest on Episode 150 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.   Thomas is a Human Business Architect, co-creator and coach for Agile project and business transformation with more than 25 years of experience in various industries and companies. He is the founder, business leader and trustee of Motivate2B, a collective for leaders, teams and entire organizations with the common goal of making business and their companies more human and sustainable.   In 2020 he joined Allianz as an executive to help its transformation into an Agile organization and onwards into a Human Business.   His first book "Leadership Principles for Project Success" was published in 2011 by CRC Press, New York. He holds a Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Miami, USA, and an M.A. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis, USA, where he was a student of Nobel Laureate Douglass C. North.   

www.motivate2b.com

Dec 13, 202101:28:05
The Rooted Life: Growing your own food with Justin Rhodes

The Rooted Life: Growing your own food with Justin Rhodes

Justin is a Permaculturalist, film producer, author and teacher. He helps folks learn to work with nature to produce their own sustenance so they can live a more abundant life.  Justin is a seasoned homesteader having enjoyed many years of practicing “beyond organic” and permaculture methods on a 75 acre family farm near Asheville NC.   Justin trained under the highly accredited Geoff Lawton of PRI Australia for his Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) and has studied natural chicken care under popular author, Pat Foremen.  Justin founded Abundant Permaculture out of a love of teaching and the sustainable movement.   Where, you’ll find exhaustive permaculture articles, plentiful photo’s, cinematic educational films and business tip and tricks.  The Rooted Life by Justin Rhodes March 2022 The Justin Rhodes Show  

www.therootedlife.com

Dec 08, 202101:37:06
The most important comic book on earth. Rewriting Extinction, with Paul Goodenough

The most important comic book on earth. Rewriting Extinction, with Paul Goodenough

Paul Goodenough is my guest on Episode 148 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Paul is an Emmy-nominated and award-winning writer, producer, entrepreneur and environmentalist - working across broadcast, comics, digital, games and publishing. Paul is the designer and founding member of BAFTA ALBERT (calculator and sustainability accreditation used by Netflix, NBC Universal, Warner Bros, BBC, IMG, Sky etc) and advises across Gov and the environmental NGO sector, enabling better cohesion and efficiencies.  Paul is the founder of Rewriting Extinction, a global storytelling project uniting 300 activists, celebrities, scientists, comedians and more across the planet to create stories to raise the money and awareness to save multiple species from extinction. The project includes notable co-creators like Taika Waititi, Ricky Gervais, Cara Delevingne, Jane Goodall and many more. Paul is also a best-selling author writing comics and books including THE MOST IMPORTANT COMIC BOOK ON EARTH, SHERLOCK HOLMES, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON and many more.  

www.rewritingextinction.com  

Dec 06, 202101:28:18
Tomorrow's people and new technology, with Felix Dodds

Tomorrow's people and new technology, with Felix Dodds

Felix Dodds is my guest on Episode 147 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.    Felix Dodds is an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina and an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. He was the co-director of the 2014 and 2018 Nexus Conference on Water, Food, Energy, and Climate. In 2019 he was a candidate for the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).  His new book ‘Tomorrow’s People: The impact of disruptive Industries on our lives by 2030 will be out in Oct. 2021. Carolina Duque Chopitea Ranger Ruffins.  Felix was a member of an informal expert group for the President of the UN General Assemblies Brookings Report: ‘Links in the Chain of Sustainable Finance: Accelerating Private Investments for the SDGs, including Climate Action’ (2016).  He has written or edited over 20 books; his last book was Stakeholder Democracy: Represented Democracy in a Time of Fear. His other books have included the Vienna Café Trilogy, which chronicles sustainable development at the international level. The first Only One Earth he cowrote with the father of Sustainable Development Maurice Strong and Michael Strauss, the second From Rio+20 to the New Development Agenda with Jorge Laguna Celis and Ambassador Liz Thompson and the last one Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals with Ambassador David Donoghue and Jimena Leiva Roesch.  Felix was the Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future from 1992 to 2012. He played a significant role in promoting multi-stakeholder dialogues at the United Nations and proposed to the UN General Assembly the introduction of stakeholder dialogue sessions at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. In 2011, Felix was listed as one of 25 environmentalists ahead of his time.  Also, in 2011 he chaired the United Nations DPI 64th NGO conference ‘Sustainable Societies Responsive Citizens’, which put forward the first set of indicative Sustainable Development Goals. From 1997 to 2001 he co-chaired the UN Commission on Sustainable Development NGO Steering Committee.  His next book Environmental Heroes in Diplomacy: Profiles in courage June 2022  

http://www.felixdodds.net/

Dec 01, 202101:22:14
'Really Regenerative', with Jenny Andersson

'Really Regenerative', with Jenny Andersson

Jenny Andersson is my guest on Episode 146 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Jenny is a regenerative strategist, trusted adviser and agent for change who walks side by side with brands, organisations, cities and municipalities who want to be part of the movement to create a new regenerative economy. As a strategist, facilitator and educator, she harnesses the power of the collective intelligence of organisations and communities to create visions for the future they want - together - and finds the vitalising energy, psychological safety and will to sustain long term change.   She cares deeply about healing the story of separation between humanity and nature, and between humans themselves through divisive cultural, social and economic barriers. She believe s strongly in the power of connection between people and place. Her work helps to surface the bio-culturally unique stories of people and place which set and sustain vision to travel to tomorrow's regenerative future.  Jenny is Founder of Really Regenerative CIC, a regenerative economy learning centre, which designs learning journeys for organisations, municipalities and communities on regenerative leadership, economics and bioregionalism.  

https://reallyregenerative.org/

Nov 29, 202101:47:12
Building Food Communities, with Tessa Clarke

Building Food Communities, with Tessa Clarke

Tessa Clarke is my guest on Episode 145 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Tessa is Co-Founder & CEO of OLIO along with Saasha Celestial-One COO, a free app tackling the problem of food waste by connecting neighbours with each other, and volunteers with local businesses, so that surplus food can be given away, not thrown away. OLIO has grown to 5 million users in just over 5 years, and its impact has been widely recognised, most notably by the United Nations who highlighted OLIO as a "beacon” for the world, and by Vivatech who awarded OLIO "Next European Unicorn". Prior to OLIO, Tessa had a 15 year corporate career as a digital Managing Director in the media, retail and financial services sectors, and she met her co-founder Saasha whilst they were studying for their MBAs at Stanford University. Tessa is passionate about the sharing economy as a solution for a sustainable world, and about ‘profit with purpose’ as the next business paradigm.   

https://olioex.com/

Nov 24, 202101:02:55
1Treellion.org: Tree planting, with Tali Orad

1Treellion.org: Tree planting, with Tali Orad

Tali Orad is my guest on Episode 144 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Tali is a changemaker, an engineer, and a serial entrepreneur. She is the founder of 1treellion .org a NGO with the mission to collectively make a meaningful global impact by bringing communities together to plant trees and help fight climate change while mitigating the climate effects on small communities.   Tali’s first NGO came about after she saved the life of a dying baby, resulting in her founding a NGO to raise awareness to CPR education.  Tali is also the co-founder of Wibble, and the founder of Screen, a startup that helped balance technology usage between legitimate educational one and destructive addiction. She is a Thrive guest contributor, the host of The Butterfly Effect podcast, and frequent speaker. You can watch her latest talk about the work at 1treellion on TED.com.   Tali believes in the power of people to make a change, and hopes with the help of the people she can help our planet.  

https://www.1treellion.org/

Nov 22, 202101:09:01
Managing complexity with Holistic Management

Managing complexity with Holistic Management

Allan Savory is my guest on Episode 143 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Allan Savory, born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa (University of Natal, BS in Zoology and Botany) pursued an early career as a research biologist and game ranger in the British Colonial Service of what was then Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) and later as a farmer and game rancher in Zimbabwe.  In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world’s grassland ecosystems and, as a resource management consultant, worked with numerous managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions.  He served as a Member of Parliament in the latter days of Zimbabwe’s civil war and became the leader of the opposition to the ruling party headed by Ian Smith. Exiled in 1979 as a result of his opposition, he immigrated to the United States, where he continued to work with land managers through his consulting business. The growth of that business, a desire to assist many more people and the need for furthering his work led him to continue its development in the nonprofit world. In 1992 Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed a non-profit organization in Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, donating a ranch that would serve as a learning site for people all over Africa. In 2009 Savory, Butterfield, and a group of colleagues co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado to serve the world through an international network of entrepreneurial innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with the highest standards of Holistic Management training and implementation support. The Africa Centre became the first of the Savory Institute’s locally led and managed “hubs.”  Savory’s book, Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision-Making (Island Press, 1999), describes his effort to find workable solutions ordinary people could implement to overcome many of the problems besetting communities and businesses today.  In 2003, Allan Savory received Australia’s International Banksia Award “for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a global scale,” and in 2010 Savory (and the Africa Centre) received the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Challenge award for work that has “significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.” A TED talk Savory gave in 2013 has received over 3.4 million views and in 2014 was voted one of the 50 most intriguing TED talks of all time. The Savory Institute is one of 11 finalists in the Virgin Earth Challenge, a $25 million initiative for the successful commercialization of ways of taking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere and keeping them out with no countervailing impacts.

https://savory.global

Nov 17, 202101:32:55
Restoration Agriculture, with Mark Shepard

Restoration Agriculture, with Mark Shepard

Mark Shepard is my guest on Episode 142 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.   Mark is the CEO of Forest Agriculture Enterprises LLC, founder of Restoration Agriculture Development LLC and award-winning author of the book, Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers. Mark has also been a farmer member of the Organic Valley cooperative, the worlds largest Organic Farmer’s marketing co-op, since 1995. He is most widely known as the founder of New Forest Farm, the 106-acre perennial agricultural savanna considered by many to be one of the most ambitious sustainable agriculture projects in the United States.  New Forest Farm is a planned conversion of a typical row-crops grain farm into a commercial-scale, perennial agricultural ecosystem using oak savanna, successional brushland and eastern woodlands as the ecological models. Trees, shrubs, vines, canes, perennial plants and fungi are planted in association with one another to produce food (for humans and animals), fuel, medicines, and beauty. Hazelnuts, chestnuts, walnuts and various fruits are the primary woody crops. The farm is entirely solar and wind powered and farm equipment is capable of being powered with locally produced biofuels.  Trained in both mechanical engineering and ecology, Mark has developed and patented equipment and processes for the cultivation, harvesting and processing of forest derived agricultural products for human foods and bio fuels production.  Mark was certified as a Permaculture designer in 1993 and received his Diploma of Permaculture design from Bill Mollison, the founder of the international Permaculture movement. He teaches agroforestry and Permaculture worldwide.   Restoration Agriculture Real-World Permaculture for Farmers Water for any Farm Applying Restoration Agriculture Water Methods on Your Farm  http://www.restorationag.com/

Oct 27, 202101:38:31
MOVE: The forces uprooting us, with Parag Khanna

MOVE: The forces uprooting us, with Parag Khanna

Dr. Parag Khanna is my guest on Episode 141 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.   Parag is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is the Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data, and scenario-based strategic advisory firm. Parag's newest book is MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us (2021), which was preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019). He is the author of a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012).  Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelors and Masters degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to nearly 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.  

https://www.paragkhanna.com/

Oct 25, 202147:57
The organic mindset & accelerating sustainable food systems, with Sebastian Kretschmer

The organic mindset & accelerating sustainable food systems, with Sebastian Kretschmer

Sebastian Kretschmer is my guest on Episode 140 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  As an organic agriculturalist, educator for sustainable development and food systems expert Sebastian is committed to help build regenerative foodsheds and equitable value chains for maximum SDG performance. As a biodynamic farmer, lecturer and adviser to corporations and international aid organizations Sebastian has designed and implemented programs aimed at fostering food sovereignty and to grow the next generation of organic farmers. Projects from 2004 through 2018 include the Northeast Mentor Network and Biodynamic Apprentice Program with the New England Small Farm Institute, his Community Supported Agriculture Farm at Camphill Village in Pennsylvania, the Ethical Rainforest Supply Chain Project  with Estée Lauder, engaging with indigenous communities in Brazil and Honduras as well as the Organic Orchard/Prison Inmate Reentry Program with the City of Philadelphia and Temple University. Throughout the last few years, as a founding member of the Organic Food System Program and the UN One Planet Network Sebastian used his recently completed PhD project at the University of Kassel, Germany to develop essential variables for food system transition pathways. A central focus of his work is to leverage the capacity of farmers and food processors through the formation of Food Hubs, which Sebastian believes can drive the mechanics of public procurement as well as B2C and B2B value chains within territorial food systems. As a global citizen Sebastian is passionate about big ideas, deep sustainability and a systems approach for everything. 

https://www.foodshed.solutions/

Oct 20, 202101:49:11
Patterns of Connection & The systems View of Life, with Fritjof Capra

Patterns of Connection & The systems View of Life, with Fritjof Capra

Dr. Fritjof Capra is my guest on Episode 139 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.

Fritjof is a scientist, educator, activist, and author of many international bestsellers that connect conceptual changes in science with broader changes in worldview and values in society.

A Vienna-born physicist and systems theorist, Fritjof first became popularly known for his book, The Tao of Physics, which explored the ways in which modern physics was changing our worldview from a mechanistic to a holistic and ecological one. Published in 1975, it is still in print in more than 40 editions worldwide and is referenced with the statue of Shiva in the courtyard of one of the world’s largest and most respected centers for scientific research: CERN, the Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva.

Over the past 50 years, Fritjof has been engaged in a systematic exploration of how other sciences and society are ushering in a similar shift in worldview, or paradigms, leading to a new vision of reality and a new understanding of the social implications of this cultural transformation.

His most recent book, Patterns of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades (The University of New Mexico Press, 2021),

Capra is a founding director of the Berkeley-based Center for Ecoliteracy, which is dedicated to advancing ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education, and serves on the Council of the Earth Charter Initiative.

He is the author of The Turning Point (1982), The Web of Life (1996), The Hidden Connections (2002), The Science of Leonardo (2007), and Learning from Leonardo (2013). He coauthored Green Politics (1984), Belonging to the Universe (1991), and EcoManagement (1993), and coedited Steering Business Toward Sustainability (1995).

The main focus of Fritjof's environmental education and activism has been to help build and nurture sustainable communities. He believes that to do so, we can learn valuable lessons from the study of ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms.

The Systems View of Life presents a grand new synthesis of this work—integrating the biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions of life into one unified vision. Several critics have suggested that The Systems View of Life, which Fritjof coauthored with Pier Luigi Luisi, Professor of Biology at the University of Rome, is destined to become another classic.

http://www.fritjofcapra.net/

Oct 18, 202101:19:17
Educating & communicating 'Regenerative', with Carol Sanford

Educating & communicating 'Regenerative', with Carol Sanford

Carol is an award-winning business educator, Summit Producer, podcaster, and author. Her books are required business school reading at Stanford and Harvard. For 50 years she’s collaborated with clients to develop people to realize their inherent capabilities. Carol’s clients include Fortune 500 companies like Colgate, DuPont, and SeventhGeneration. Google’s Innovation Lab uses her Responsible Business Framework.  Senior Fellow of Social Innovation, Babson College; CEO, The Regenerative Paradigm Institute, Educator and Social Change designer for people in change agents roles, organizational leaders who aspire to making a difference, business and organizational teams pursuing meaning work and business effectiveness.  Author of Five best-selling books, including The Regenerative Life: Transform Any Organization, Our Society, Your Destiny, No More Feedback, The Regenerative Business (Michiel Bakker, Google VP wrote Foreword.) 22 Gold Awards thus far for her books.  All five books are built around case stories of specific transformation in people, business, community and regions. Exec Producer, The Regenerative Business Summit and Producer & On Air Talent, Business Second Opinion Podcast.   

https://carolsanford.com/

Oct 13, 202101:32:30
Diet for a hot planet, with Anna Lappé

Diet for a hot planet, with Anna Lappé

Anna Lappé is my guest on Episode 137 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author, an internationally recognized expert on food systems, and a funder supporting food system transformation. A James Beard Leadership Award winner, Anna is the co-author or author of three books about food, farming, and sustainability and the contributing author to fourteen others. The author of the award-winning Diet for a Hot Planet and contributing editor to her mother’s 50th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet, Anna is the founder or co-founder of three national organizations, including the Small Planet Institute and Real Food Media. As a funder, she has led the grantmaking of the Small Planet Fund for two decades and created and directs the Food Sovereignty Fund of the Panta Rhea Foundation.   

https://realfoodmedia.org/

Oct 11, 202101:25:31
A small farm future: The case for a society of local economies, with Chris Smaje

A small farm future: The case for a society of local economies, with Chris Smaje

Chris Smaje is my guest on Episode 136 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Chris co-runs a small farm in Somerset, southwest England. Previously he was a social scientist, working at the University of Surrey and Goldsmiths College. He has written about agricultural, ecological and social issues for a variety of academic and non-academic publications and is the author of A Small Farm Future (Chelsea Green, 2020). He blogs at www.smallfarmfuture.org.uk. He is currently a director of the Ecological Land Co-op.  

https://smallfarmfuture.org.uk/

Oct 06, 202101:23:14
From food waste to organic nutrients, with Tinia Pina

From food waste to organic nutrients, with Tinia Pina

Tinia Pina is my guest on Episode 135 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Tinia received her B.S. in Business Information Technology from Virginia Tech and studied briefly at Columbia University's Earth Institute. She has seven years of experience in the financial services industry and ten years as a professional in the sustainability industry. Her experiences related to food waste, food systems and sustainability have fueled her passion to increase our communities' resilience, prosperity, and knowledge to help us live more conscious lives. Tinia's pioneering business model has earned her a Huffington Post Millennial Impact Grant, the American Express Emerging Innovator award and a MillerCoors Urban Entrepreneur grant, among other honors.  After studying Environmental Conservation and Sustainability at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and volunteering at various community urban farms, Tinia launched Re-Nuble with a mission to “Redefine Waste” within urban communities. Re-Nuble quickly evolved into a social enterprise dedicated to changing wasteful habits around the world. Tinia is a SWANA Certified Composting Systems Technical Associate and her experiences related to food waste, systems and policy have fueled her passion to increase our communities’ resilience, prosperity, and knowledge to help us live more conscious lives.  Re-Nuble Founded December 2011  While volunteering as an SAT-prep teacher in 2012 in New York City, Founder Tinia Pina saw firsthand how limited healthy food options impacted her students' productivity, affecting their future. Pulled towards the mission of improving local food production, she created the company, Re-Nuble. Tinia felt there was a unique opportunity to use New York City's food stream to catalyze more sustainable growing near urban areas, especially as people continue to become more interested in eating less chemically-laden food.   Tinia began to spend a lot of time thinking, why is this? Why is it that there’s more affordable chemically-laden and processed food available than chemical- free and healthier options. After doing extensive research, Tinia realized that it’s because our food system is incredibly inefficient. A pound of organic- certified tomatoes is often sold at a price that’s 43% higher than chemically produced (conventionally grown) tomatoes because it’s easier and cheaper for growers to produce. With the alarming adversities our society is facing with food and water scarcity and with 70% of global population estimated to live in and near cities by 2050, she knew that we had to be more smart and efficient with our natural resources and overall production of healthy, good food.  

https://www.re-nuble.com/

Oct 04, 202101:38:27
Effective Altruism & Speciesism, with Peter Singer

Effective Altruism & Speciesism, with Peter Singer

Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in England, the United States and Australia, he has, since 1999, been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.  He first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975.  In 2011 Time included Animal Liberation on its “All-TIME” list of the 100 best nonfiction books published in English since the magazine began, in 1923. He has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 book which have  been translated into more than 30 languages.  His books include Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, Ethics in the Real World, Why Vegan? and, most recently, he has edited a new edition of what may be the world’s earliest surviving novel, The Golden Ass, by Apuleius.  Singer’s book The Life You Can Save, first published in 2009, led him to found a non-profit organization of the same name which has raised more than US$35 million for the most effective charities assisting people in extreme poverty.   In 2012 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation’s highest civic honour.  Since 2021, he has been a co-editor of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, which enables authors to publish well-argued controversial essays in a peer-reviewed journal under a pseudonym.  

https://petersinger.info

https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/

Sep 29, 202101:39:12
Nourishing diners sustainably, with Deepanker Khosla

Nourishing diners sustainably, with Deepanker Khosla

Deepanker Khosla is my guest on Episode 133 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Deepanker Khosla, affectionately known as “DK”, is as passionate about re-imagining authentic Classic Indian cuisine which he likes to call Neo-Indian, as he is for achieving food sustainability. Haoma is his dream-come-true project that began with an online course in Aquaponics and just a year later had bloomed into a full-blown, functioning urban farm in the heart of Bangkok. But it was a year of toiling the earth, coaxing fish to grow in new waters and of experimenting through many trials and errors to optimize flavors – all the while working to create a food system that can truly be called sustainable. DK`s commitment to the environment is contagious and so is his drive and passion to deliver excellent cuisine at Haoma Bangkok.  

https://www.haoma.dk/

Sep 27, 202101:08:53
Diet for a Small Planet, with Frances Moore Lappé

Diet for a Small Planet, with Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé is my guest on Episode 132 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Frankie is the author of twenty books, including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. In 2017 she coauthored with Adam Eichen, Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want.  Frances is co-founder of Food First and Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. Frances is the recipient of nineteen honorary degrees and the Right Livelihood Award, often called the “Alternative Nobel.”   The 50th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary bestselling book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating—one that remains a complete guide for eating well in the new millennium—will be released September 21st. This edition features a new introductory chapter, simple rules for a healthy diet; a streamlined, easy-to-use format; delicious food combinations of protein-rich meals without meat; hundreds of wonderful recipes, and much more. It boasts eighty-five updated plant-centered recipes, including more than a dozen new delights from celebrity chefs including Mark Bittman, Padma Lakshmi, Alice Waters, José Andrés, Bryant Terry, Mollie Katzen, and Sean Sherman. Most importantly, it features a new introductory chapter emphasizing how the conversations, lifestyle choices, and impacts we can have on our food systems are, in 2021, equally if not even more crucial to consider as our culture shifts to more sustainable, plant-based eating based on the imposing threat of the climate crisis that threatens our society and world.  

www.smallplanet.org

Sep 22, 202101:14:46
Local is our future, with Helena Norberg Hodge

Local is our future, with Helena Norberg Hodge

Helena Norberg-Hodge is my guest on Episode 131 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.   Helena is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.” She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future (2019). She is co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up, and producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness. Helena is the founder and director of Local Futures and The International Alliance for Localisation, and a founding member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.

https://www.localfutures.org/

Sep 20, 202101:37:34