The Placemaking Movement: Evolving Society One Neighborhood at a Time
With Mark Lakeman, founder of City Repair Placemaking is a growing movement across the U.S. and around the world whereby communities, neighborhood by neighborhood, are collaborating in the “creative reclamation of public space.” Mark Lakeman is the founder of the movement, whose City Repair in Portland has developed a number of model projects that have been replicated in hundreds of …
Doing It Yourself! – How a Professional Couple Forged a Post-Consumer Lifestyle
with Wendy Jehanara Tremayne, author of The Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands‑On Living This is the true story of …
Bringing Industrial Hemp Home: Healthy Houses, Durable Textiles, Superfood and Thousands of Other Products from a Carbon-Sequestering Miracle Crop
With Linda Booker, producer of Bringing It Home Hemp, the non-psychoactive cousin to cannabis sativa, has been an essential crop …
Modeling a Peaceful, Sustainable Human Culture at the Tamera Community in Portugal
With Benjamin von Mendelssohn, Activist and Community Pioneer Intentional community projects such as Arcosanti in Arizona, Auroville in Southern India …
Earthkeeper: How a Financial Power Broker Traded the “American Dream” for a Purposeful Life in Service to the Planet
With Adam C. Hall, author of The Earthkeeper: Undeveloping the Future Adam C. Hall made a fortune in real estate …
The New Earth Army, Social Architecture and the Strategic Plan for a Thriving World
With Jim Channon, Futurist, Shaman, Author Jim Channon was a Lieutenant Colonel in U.S. Army before becoming a “strategic shaman” …
Protect the Sacred Campaign: Mother Earth and Indigenous People vs. the Keystone XL Pipeline
With indigenous leader Chief Phil Lane Jr. and Greenpeace co-founder Rex Weyler In January 2013, at the Yankton Sioux Reservation …
Geoengineering: The Ongoing, Methodical Destruction of the Biosphere
With Dane Wigington of GeoEngineering Watch Weather modification has been going on for decades, without the knowledge, not to mention …
Greening the Construction Industry for Human and Ecological Health
With Howard Williams of Construction Specialties The built environment is one of the most important dimensions of the sustainability movement. …
Eco-Psychology and Plant Teachers: Ralph Metzner’s Green Earth Vision
With Ralph Metzner of Green Earth Foundation At the core of consciousness researcher and pioneering psychologist Ralph Metzner’s work is …
Silicon Valley Ingenuity and the New American Dream
With Marianna Grossman of Sustainable Silicon Valley As we foster regional, corporate and social transformation toward a sustainable world, Silicon …
Regenerative Design and the Ecology of Leadership
With James Stark and Katia Sol of the Regenerative Design Institute Essential to our eco evolution as a society is …
Reconnecting Culture with Nature
With Osprey Orielle Lake, founder of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus This program explores the relationship of human culture …
Reclaiming the Water Commons: Moving Beyond Bottled Water
This conversation explores the essential resource of water and the growing movement to radically reduce our use of bottled water …
Corporate Transformation to “Full Cycle Sustainability”
With Gil Friend, CEO of Natural Logic Sustainability Strategy Consultants There is no question that the shift to a sustainable …
The Evolver Community: Making Change Online and On-the-Ground
With Ken Jordan, co-founder Evolver and Reality Sandwich On the forward edge of the progressive ranks of the sustainability …
Up the Spiral!
Here we are in 2013, and it is indeed the opening of a new chapter for humankind. We are truly …
Getting the Big Picture: Surveying the Front Lines of the Sustainability Movement
With Vinit Allen, author Sustainable World Sourcebook Now that we are beyond “the end of the old world” as …
The 2012 Shift: The Mayan Calendar and New Beginnings
With William Gladstone, Author and Indigenous Culture Expert For many years now there has been a growing fascination with the …
The Permaculture Movement
With Jay Ma, Permaculture Educator Many have heard the word “permaculture” but most only have a vague understanding of the …
Green Architecture: Transforming the Built Environment
With Jerry Tierney, Architect Sustainably designed buildings and cities involve more than better solar panels and the use of recycled …
Local Food for the Global Shift
With Dana Franz, founder of Food Shift, and Andrew Hasse, producer of the film Edible City There are major changes coming …
Buckminster Fuller and Design Science
With Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, was a futurist, …
Paolo Soleri, Arcosanti and Sustainable Cities
With Jeff Stein, President of Cosanti Foundation and Arcosanti In 1971 Italian Architect Paolo Soleri, after having studied with Frank Lloyd …
Evolutionary Design through the Lens of Biomimicry
With Janine Benyus, Author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, founder of AskNature.org For us to really get with the …
Waking Up to the Call of Life
With David Ulansey, Founder, Species Alliance, Producer of Call of Life film While people worldwide are well aware of the impacts …
Growing the Green Economy
With Kevin Danaher, Founder, Green Festivals and Global Exchange, Green Economy Expert and Activist Major U.S. cities all have emerging green …
Evolving Nonprofits Evolving Us
With Darian Heyman, Author and Non-Profit Consultant Hundreds of nonprofit organizations and NGOs are the drivers of our eco-evolution as individuals, …
Women Leading the Change
With Dorka Keen, Author and Social Activist This inspiring discussion with journalist activist Dorka Keene reveals how women are playing pivotal …
Rio +20 United Nations Inside Report
With Chantal Line Carpentier, UNDESA Sustainable Development Officer, UN Rio +20 program coordinator In June 2012 the largest gathering ever convened …
Writing the New Story of Evolution
With Duane Elgin, Author and Eco-visionary In this inaugural program, a wide-ranging discussion with futurist and eco-visionary Duane Elgin touches on …