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We are exited about this conversation with CHRIS AGNOS, Chris and Dawn Agnos are the founder(s) of Sustainable Human, a non-profit organization that creates visually stunning and emotionally compelling video stories that examine the roots of our environmental, social, and spiritual crises. They hope to educate and inspire a shift in consciousness that leads to a new way of being that helps us live in harmony with each other and the biosphere.  In our conversation with Chris (part 1) we talk about our most important possessions, our stories and how to question and change them, the three pillars of activism, the space between old and new stories, our personal crisis, the differences between ourselves and animal kingdom, the bliss of ‘not knowing’ and mystery, escapism in new stories, inspirations, transformation, green-washing, imagining a new world, the new era and potential of the internet, the essence of humor, our beliefs on media stories, capitalism, local and globalism, hierarchy, inequality, natures examples, eco-villages, utopia, the understanding of empathy, and a beautiful story about the friendship between a man and an...octopus).  We also hear Chris talk about Sustainable Human latest’s video on the effects of ‘celebrity culture’. All and all one thing becomes very clear: Nobody can claim they know what the future is about, and it’s okay to not know. Still in this ‘not knowing’ Chris senses Humanity is now able to experience an incredible era of connection. Note: See episode 9 for part 2. Your Hosts: Troy Wiley & Robert Schram Sound-production: Robert_DK Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/company/sustainablehuman/about/ http://chrisagnos.com/ https://earthmaven.io/sustainablehuman/ YOU CAN SPONSOR SUSTAINABLE HUMAN HERE: https://sustainablehuman.org/donate/

Hello, we hope you will enjoy -part 2- of this inspirational talk with MICHEL BAUWENS, he is the founder and director of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. Michel is also research director of CommonsTransition.org a platform for policy development aimed toward a society of the Commons and a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group, with Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, organizers of major global conferences on the commons and economics. In this conversation -part 2- we talked about how Michel keeps balance in his life, his challenges and how he overcame them, the pitfalls and upside of projecting, the need for tragedy to change, the commons, how to most effectively distribute our abundant global resources so that everyone’s needs are met, Buddhism, how to best implement Artificial Intelligence, forms of self-governance by citizens, algorithms, where we can find more info to inform ourselves, media-filters and censorship, the challenge of (de-)fragmented news channels and the promise of new media platforms, personal filters, P2P-dating creating hierarchy and the effect on block-chain communities, anti-oligarchic protocols, distribution overflow of ‘extra’ votes and wages, value for co creating, and profit-sharing by social media platforms. Note: See episode 6 for part 1. Your Hosts: Robert Schram & Gabor Kiss Sound-production: Robert_DK Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbauwens/ https://p2pfoundation.net/ https://commonstransition.org/

We welcome you to listen to this inspirational talk with MICHEL BAUWENS, he is the founder and director of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. Michel is also research director of CommonsTransition.org a platform for policy development aimed toward a society of the Commons and a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group, with Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, organizers of major global conferences on the commons and economics. In this conversation (part 1) we talked about Michel's P2P Foundation, the commons, our crisis and how to overcome them, Nation States, usage of data, the accountability of our financial systems, cosmo-localisation, open-sourcing, the transition, smart contracts, commons centric economics, the language of the ants, feedback-loops, how 2021 is a pivot year, are investors waking up?, his motivation to become a change-maker and the basis for change and revolution, ownership on data and new types of institutions and governance which are not Nation States, Napoleon, and our ingrained habits. Note: See episode 7 for part 2. Your Hosts: Robert Schram & Gabor Kiss Sound-production: Robert_DK Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbauwens/ https://p2pfoundation.net/ https://commonstransition.org/

We feel privileged to have talked with FABIANO PORTO, he is a Journalist, a digital media specialist, and co-founder of the Global Regeneration Institute, which took the initiative to create a "wiki" of solutions and mentoring startups focused on sustainability and sustainable development goals of the UN at the Founder Institute, which is the biggest present accelerator of early-stage startups in the world. In this conversation we talked about his regenerative projects platform and the difference with the current degenerative models we have now, the true values of life and his challenges, the impact of ego and competition within social movements and how to overcome them, the importance of social media, how to reach needed criteria for funding, and the hope and positive expectations to speed up the shift into the regenerative era! Please check out the link of the Regenerative platform to find many solutions and / or enter yours!  Your Hosts: Ananda Reeves & Robert Schram Sound-production: Robert_DK Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabianoporto/ https://www.regeneracaoglobal.com/home#googtrans(en)

We had a great talk with GLO MOSS, She is a facilitator at Greater Collective, New Earth Connector, being an inspiration as a motivational speaker, coach, and activator. Glo is on a mission to protect water, connect and unite the world and transform the planet in our connection with nature. She wants to help transform the economy into a local economy that supports all.  Glo also supports social and natural economies that take care of everyone. In this talk we hit on topics such as her activist journey around the world on environmental issues, where she gets her inspiration and her affection for Leonardo DiCaprio, her recommendations for action, how she finds balance in her life, how important it is to share a new story for humanity and info via alternative media platforms, and the necessity of 'open sourcing’ and sharing data from each others projects and solutions. Your Hosts: Ananda Reeves & Robert Schram Sound-production: Robert Schram Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/glo-moss-2b40811a1/ https://greatercollective.org/ https://www.viralpurposemedia.com/ https://only.one

JAMES JONES is an independent robotics researcher with big ideas. His vision, CubeSpawn, aims to not only bring down the cost of automated manufacturing by an order of magnitude, but also to make it infinitely versatile and decentralized. Eliminate freight and bring automation to everyone! In this interview James talks about his CubeSpawn invention, his life in San Antonio-Texas, the importance of open source projects, the stress from current logistic (shipping) systems on society and how to resolve this. James also shares how he keeps balance in his life and ways to support the CubeSpan project. We support James in his vision of changing the world through open source mini-factories and distribution of material wealth, contributing to solving major world problems like pollution and climate change. Your Hosts: Ananda Reeves & Robert Schram Sound-production: Robert Schram Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/cubespawn-jamesjones/ http://cubespawn.com http://patreon.com/CubeSpawn https://facebook.com/CubeSpawnProject https://wikifactory.com/+cubespawn Software Github https://github.com/CubeSpawn Hardware Github https://github.com/CubeSpawnparts

CHRISTOPHER CHASE is a co-creator and Admin of several Facebook pages, including "Tao & Zen" & ”Ecological Consciousness." He majored in Studio Art at SUNY, Oneonta. Graduated in 1993 from the Child & Adolescent Development program at Stanford University's School of Education. Since 1994, he has been teaching English language, communication, global issues and culture to students at Seinan Gakuin University, in Fukuoka, Japan. Christopher is really interested in helping people understand the difference between wisdom and ignorance, and how to cultivate greater creativity, skill mastery, compassion, community and gratitude in our lives. He thinks these are root issues for most of the problems we witness in our world. We had a truly profound conversation about his life journey from US student to a Professor in Japan, the illusionary barriers and borders in our minds, what actually drove him to become a ‘çhange-agent’, the power of Social Network Sites, his ideas on how to provide and distribute abundance, and some personal conversation about his challenges and balance in life, and the importance of music and art to create consciousness. Your Host & Sound-production: Robert Schram Thank you for listening :-) ~Christopher Chase (())   "You are something that the Whole Universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is something that the Whole Ocean is doing..." ~Alan Watts https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-chase-020b3b9/ Creative by Nature Grateful Dead > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQJE79IwjjU

There are more projects happening like The Venus Project (TVP) as we speak! We had this interview on location at the RBE-village in San Antonio - USA with Matthew Bonnstetter (Researcher, Promoter of solutions moving forward), James Jones (CubeSpawn), Aboubakre Harakat and Alana (RBE United). In this episode we talk about building a model ‘RBE’-village blending technology with agriculture and much more. MATTHEW BONNSTETTER is a film producer who loves shooting video and the editing process. He has been researching environmental and social justice issues since 1992 when he did his first video presentation at ASU on SuperFund toxic waste issues. Matthew did a ten-year self-funded research/promotion of sustainable/social justice issues from 1999 to 2009 and found lots of amazing people, organizations and technology to assist humanity at this time. He is optimistic about what we will co-create within the next ten to forty years. ‘Won't be easy, will be worth it.’ Also present in the conversation is JAMES JONES, an independent robotics researcher with big ideas. His vision, CubeSpawn, aims to not only bring down the cost of automated manufacturing by an order of magnitude, but also to make it infinitely versatile and decentralized. Eliminate freight and bring automation to everyone! Aboubakre Harakat and Alana share the concept of RBE UNITED, a social networking hub for technical experts, artists and advocates of Natural-law Resource-Based Economic systems. Their purpose is to facilitate the development, implementation and transition towards a Resource-Based Economic system by developing the technical tools, processes and mental capital necessary to achieve our aims. Your Host: Ananda Reeves / Sound-production: Robert Schram Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-bonnstetter-0b14901/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/cubespawn-jamesjones/ http://cubespawn.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100018841625015

DOUGLAS MALLETTE is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and is a former Systems Engineer with the U.S. Space Shuttle Program. When the space program ended Douglas combined his passion for smart technology, public policy, and his affinity for public speaking to deliver lectures, lessons, presentations & interviews on the subjects of space exploration; global sustainability; and the social, economic and political implications of advancing technologies on our global operating system. Douglas also started Cybernated Farm Systems, a Design and Consulting firm for smart agro-tech solutions. This pursuit led him to become a delegate of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security, Private Sector Mechanism, at the UNFAO in Rome, which he has visited twice to participate in high-level discussions on global food security and sustainable agriculture policy. Most recently Douglas returned to school to get his Master’s degree in International Relations, graduating in 2018. Douglas is passionate about the study and use of sustainable technologies to solve important global issues, especially as they pertain to policy development revolving around the UN SDGs as components for combating global insecurity and instability. Your Hosts: Nelliana Calvert & Troy Wiley Sound-production: Robert Schram Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasmallette76/ http://www.cyberfarmsystems.com/

STEVE SAYLOR is a Presidential Candidate for the Money Free Party. He ran in the 2016 and 2020 elections. He specializes in making informational videos aimed at the common person who is probably not aware of him or his campaign. He started his experience with making videos by writing screen plays, and making movies. Steve transferred those skills into making the videos you can see on his You Tube Channel at Money Free Party. Steve Saylor goes into great depth in his videos to point out the dysfunction of the systems in our government, financial institutions, and education. He not only makes people aware of the dysfunctions and how we’ve been programmed to believe them, but he also comes up with solutions. We hope you will enjoy our talk we had just before the US 2020 elections about the in-efficiency of competition, private banking, science (where are the scientists?), corporations, debts, de-growth, self-governance and hemp :-). Your Hosts: Ananda Reeves & Robert Schram Sound-production: Robert Schram Thank you for listening :-) www.facebook.com/steve.saylor.965 https://moneyfreepartyusa.com/

COLIN R. TURNER is a writer, musician and social activist from Dublin, Ireland. Already a well known blogger and activist, Colin is also founder of the popular initiative The Free World Charter - an initiative which calls for a radical redesign of our culture and shift in basic human priorities. He has also founded a number of other popular online altruistic initiatives, most notably HonorPay - a virtual award and appreciation network (honorpay.org), and Freeworlder - a social network and forum for followers of the Open Economy idea, and from where he also blogs (freeworlder.org). Colin has ideas for an Open Access Economy are the main subject of his writing and activism. The most notable principle of the Open Economy concept is evolving beyond the traditional market system into an era of greater compassion, collaboration and efficient use of technology to create a better world for all. His most recent project is Sharebay, a free sharing platform. We hope you will enjoy the wonderful conversation about a promising new era of sharing :-). Your Hosts: Ananda Reeves & Robert Schram Sound-production: Robert Schram Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinrturner/ https://www.sharebay.org/

PERRY GRUBER is a Change Agent, Practical Dreamer and founder of Copiosis, a new economic system. He has well over 30 years experience in a variety of sectors and positions from Grass-roots advocacy, all the way up to the C-suite. Creating the future. On Perry’s his Linked profile a recommendation says > ‘Perry Gruber is an outside-the-box, cutting-edge, thought-provoking speaker who is highly sensitive and responsive to his audience. His topics generate lively discussion and debate among the listeners and engage them opportunities to participate experientially. ’ We had a great conversation about retiring Capitalism, working towards a better system keeping all the good and letting go of all the bad side-effects, basic needs, living a life for free via free benefit resource market systems which are owned by the people, algorithms to thrive, discovering and pursuing passions, high quality products and services, and the real sense of freedom. Your host: Ananda Reeves / Sound-production: Jake Doss Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/perry-gruber/ https://copiosis.com/

JAMAICA STEVENS is Author and Curator of the multi-media project “ReInhabiting the Village: CoCreating our Future” As an Organizational Design Consultant and Steward with VillageLab she works with regenerative frameworks, whole systems principles and transformative experiences to empower people, projects, organizations, and communities to THRIVE! Jamaica is also an experienced event producer, workshop leader, group facilitator, educational program designer, community organizer, project manager and storyteller. Along with her role as Operations Manager for the Communitas.Zone platform, she is the Community Platform Director for TeraTree and Thrive.Earth. On Jamaica’s bio it says > “Passionate about life-long learning, earth stewardship, collective evolution and Regenerative cultures, in service to catalyzing the inherent intelligence of individuals and collectives to cultivate and advance cooperative engagement in service to planetary flourishing.” Please join in with this delightful talk where we explore our current status on Earth and the incredible potential we have, and are already massively building on, to thrive together. There is a Movement of Movements birthing bringing us past sustainability towards regenerative models. Storytelling is an important part of this process. Your Hosts: Ananda Reeves & Robert Schram Sound-production: Robert Schram Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamaica-stevens-9b727233/ http://reinhabitingthevillage.com/

RICHARD OSMASTON is a party leader at the Money Free Party New Zealand, Researcher and promotor of Free New Zealand advocating a Resource Based Economy, he was a DC10-pilot, is now running a farm, teaching in aviation, and recently Richard engaged in elections to become a local mayor. On Richard his Linked profile it says > ‘Fighting hard to maintain mental clarity in a mire of institutionalised misinformation’ We had a wonderful conversation about the possibilities of living in a world without (the need of) money. As systems are falling apart there is a growing awareness that we can organize matters differently and better. But what are our fears and hopes? And how do we organize most effectively, efficiently, and equitably distribute our abundant global resources, so that everyone’s needs are met, without the consideration of financial, or other means? Host & Sound-production: Robert Schram Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-osmaston-17088434/ http://moneyfreeparty.org.nz/

On LinkedIN I read an endorsement that says: “Bruce works with massive passion, drive and intellect toward the formation of "THE BRIDGE FROM NOW TO EVERYWHERE.. What we are doing is -- building a bridge from the absolute to the local -- from "The One" to -- everything in particular -- and this ain't so easy to do. And why are we doing this? Because this is the matrix of absolute wholeness that can guide individual human beings and all of civilization into a collective process that can actually work." In this amazing interview we talked about co-creating new systems with feedback-loops that work just like weather stations, how to organize a cybernetic revolution, filosophy, how do we co-create in balance with each other globally, and a lot more mystical and profound topics. It was a delight listening to Bruce his wisdom and holistic point a views :-). Host & Sound-production: Robert Schram Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-schuman-1203b410/ http://origin.org/mom/index.cfm

ABOUBAKRE HARAKAT is a board-member of RBE UNITED, a social networking hub for technical experts, artists and advocates of Natural-law Resource-Based Economic systems.  Their purpose is to facilitate the development, implementation and transition towards a Resource-Based Economic system by developing the technical tools, processes and mental capital necessary to achieve our aims.  They are welcoming people from all over the world to apply for membership within our community and join technical project teams to help build a path towards a global, holistic system that would override the current socio-political system that runs the world. To achieve such bold objectives, they intend to progress by operating based on a pragmatic project management plan that highlights feasible milestones to target.  "By working together in an open-source manner towards achievable goals, we can slowly build the foundation of a new socioeconomic system capable of replacing the older system of hyper-capitalism through a gradual transition.   When we look around us today, we find the economic and governance systems that we’ve relied on to protect us and economize our world have instead become dangerous machinations of ecological destruction that have done little in the way of insuring public health and instead have reduced the prospect for upcoming and future generation into a nightmare of malfeasance, environmental destruction, social decline and wars to benefit the economic interest of a small population of economic elites, political elites and powerful special interest groups. Our attempt with RBE United is to unify all the negatively affected members of our society and galvanize them towards our mutual objective." Your Host : Ananda Reeves / Sound-production: Jake Doss Thank you for listening :-) https://www.facebook.com/groups/345920666346382/

MICHAEL E.V. KNIGHT is an Activist at Build a Hybrid RBE Community Now. He is a Humanitarian, Entrepreneur, Real Estate Investor working for a FREE world for EVERYONE. In this interview we are talking about making the transition to a Resource Based Economy using a Hybrid Money/No Money lifestyle. While we are living the Hybrid lifestyle we are starving the beast and moving closer to a Resource Based Economy.  It is simple to transition/bridge over to RBE by using a Hybrid Money/No Money system/lifestyle, BUT in order for it to work it requires ALL of us doing things TOGETHER. FAVORITE QUOTES We must become the change we seek - Gandhi When you have the chance to be right or to be kind, always choose kind! - Wayne Dyer Do not be afraid of failure, be afraid of living a boring life! Your host: Ananda Reeves / Sound-production: Jake Doss Thank you for listening :-) https://www.facebook.com/groups/224148967647327/ LiveForFreeInRBE.com

CHARLES EISENSTEIN is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity. He is the author of several books, most recently Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible, and his newest book, Climate: A New Story. His most recent essays are The Coronation,  The Conspiracy Myth and The Banquet of Whiteness. In this interview we are exploring the intimate relationship between self, story and reality and the corona-crisis. Why did Charles decided to become a thought-leader and how does he keep balance in his life? Do miracles happen? How can WE create a more beautiful world our hearts know is possible, How can we meet every-bodies basic needs, How can we get along within all the crises going on? Your hosts: Ananda Reeves, Troy Wiley and Robert Schram Sound-production: Jake Doss  Thank you for listening :-) https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleseisenstein/

JAN GOOPTA from India is author of the Ebook “ONLY TWO WAYS LEFT - Continue as at Present and Perish or Change” and he is founder of the FB group “Rational & Easy System Change” In this interview with your host Robert Schram we talk with Jan about his concept of replacing the money-system with a points-system where everyone receives basic needs. Jan Goopta believes Humanity is good and he wants to include governments and wealthy people to transform from a inequality greed-system to a equality well-being system.   Host & Sound-production: Robert Schram  Thank you for listening :-). https://www.facebook.com/groups/927167221090996/

GABOR KISS was formerly active as a performing producer and in showbiz, broadcast and online media companies. He is a creative advisor in multiple software and hardware development projects, a co-founder of UBIE (related to universal basic income pilot projects and policies for EU nation states). He is a founding member of the WorldSummit, HackHumanity, and ambassador of Network Society Research Labs. Gabor is co-founder of ENVIENTA, Open Source Everything, which is about building an open source, regenerative, cost-effective and decentralized socioeconomic framework for the 21st century, this to co-create on an alternative lifestyle for the near future. They are distributing open source blueprints of solutions via their platform so they can be produced and implemented locally and label themselves as being the "UBER" of manufacturing. In this interview we talk about Gabor's former life in music, his parents, his projects towards a new system, his intrinsic motivation to do what he does, his challenges and how to overcome them, and his expectations and vision during the current paradigm shift. Host & Sound-production: Robert Schram Thank you for listening :-). https://platform.envienta.org/ https://hackhumanity.net

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