This weeks episode of GreenPlanet BluePlanet Podcast is a first of the Planet Positive Ventures Series: Every week we will feature exclusive interviews and recordings of the Planet Positive gatherings. Learn more about these gatherings and Planet Positive Ventures here: https://planetpositive.ventures/

Planet Positive Ventures is a global think tank, venture capital advisory and accelerator, and serving to address  humanity's most pressing needs and its symbiotic existence with nature.Featuring visionaries committed to planetary progress, to encourage planet positive investment and collaboration.

Our virtual gathering this week features Tom Chi. #TomChi was on the founding team of #GoogleX, and is applying his expertise in de-risking breakthrough tech toward finding and funding companies that can radically improve both unit economics and environmental economics of planet-impacting industries. https://www.atoneventures.com/

The goal of the new fund and firm is to re-invent industry to help 'humanity become a net positive to nature. #planetpositive Register for our weekly call to be part of the PPV meetings here: https://planetpositive.ventures/weekly



GEOSHIP - Regenerative Architecture for Planet & People.

Geoship is a regenerative village building platform, owned by the people, in service to the Earth. Their vision is a revolution in affordable regenerative architecture to reconnect human communities with the natural world.

Morgan is the co-founder and CEO of Geoship - A multi-stakeholder cooperative geodesic homebuilding company. Before founding Geoship Morgan spent 9 years vagabonding and sailing around the world. He was once an engineer at Intel Corporation and a Freedom of Information Activist in Iceland.

Biet is a deep spiritual practitioner on a rock n’ roll quest for consciousness.  Her life and work is a real time example of how to integrate all the parts of yourself into the unique essence of true beingness. She is the creator of Center of the Cycle and author of the book: Dont just sit there…

Raised by a Shaman in New York City, Biet signed to Sony Records at the age of 19 as a singer/songwriter. Diving into a Rock & Roll lifestyle, Biet became a high profile DJ in the fashion and art scene in Manhattan. However, following a string of life changing events, including the sudden loss of her daughter, Biet turned to her lifetime study of meditation and launched the Guided By Biet event series. The meditation experience reached a contemporary audience in cultural spaces, including museums, hotels, and fashion shows. These groundbreaking events were scored by her own music and were the first time meditation was mixed with pop culture, creating the revolutionary new trend.

Featured in Vogue, Forbes, ELLE, and TIME magazine, and as the resident meditation guru at The Sundance Film Festival, 1 Hotels, MoMA, and SoulCycle, Biet advises spiritual best practices for hotels and brands. Biet is best known for modernizing the spiritual path and has been called the "Meditation Guru for the next generation.”

“What I love about Biet is that she fuses  30+ years of study of ancient spiritual wisdom with a youthful, easy to get rock and roll voice of a modern leader. Reading Biet's work and working with her has been one of the most transformational experiences for me. She is the David Bowie of spiritual teachers." — Stacy London

Seth Bunting is a creative director and artist working at the intersection of experiential design and immersive technology.

He is a connector of People - Ideas and Systems.

He was the director of experience for Planet Home, an environmental solutions summit bringing together 10,000 attendees alongside thought leaders and artists from around the world to sustainably solve global challenges.

He is also a partner of PRESENCE, an immersive entertainment group based in Los Angeles, focusing on redesigning social environments, the culture of human connection.

Seth is a mastermind of innovation and the project director of Wildwood in Topanga Canyon

WITH NATURE, NOT AGAINST IT.

Human activities are polluting the air and threatening freshwater #ecosystems around the world. The BLOOM brand believes in forming symbiotic relationships with nature that create renewable resources while also revitalizing and maintaining healthy ecosystems.

Ryan Hunt has degrees in Physics and Bioengineering from the University of Georgia, as well as passion for circular technologies including algae, photosynthesis, bioconversion and biopolymer manufacturing. Ryan co-founded ALGIX that creates sustainable technologies for environmental restoration and biomaterials under the BLOOM brand.

His team collaborates with government and corporate partners for cleaning freshwater ecosystems and transforming municipal, industrial and agricultural waste products into renewable plant biomass and bioproducts.

CLEAN WATER.

The rise in global temperatures, excess nutrient runoff, and human activities have lead to harmful effects like massive algal blooms in ecosystems around the world. Water pollution is an invisible problem made visible by rampant algae growth.

At Bloom, we’re determined to reverse the effects of water pollution by working with natural resources like algae to create sustainable materials, generate clean water, and maintain healthy ecosystems.

CLEAN AIR.

Large-scale agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, the meat industry, and other human activities have contributed to a detrimental rise of CO2 levels in our atmosphere.

Bloom utilizes the power of natural resources like algae to collect and sequester CO2, sealing it up in useful products, while displacing the use of harmful products and materials that could further contribute to the problem.

TREAD WELL.

In the U.S. alone, the average person buys up to 5 pairs of shoes every year, fueling a global shoe industry that produces nearly 30 billion pairs of shoes every year.

That’s why we partner with shoe brands all over the world to implement sustainable materials on a large scale, helping the footwear industry Tread Well as we work to regenerate and maintain healthy ecosystems.

This weeks episode is with Mariska Nell, creator of the Mama Earth Talk Podcast. She is originally from South Africa, studied BA Interior Design in Pretoria and practises as a designer and artist in South Africa, UAE and Australia. Find her Podcast here: https://mamaearthtalk.com/

Let her tell you a bit more about her own background:
"A few years ago I started to experiment with trash️ in my artwork. I got curious about my new medium and before I knew it, I was digging deep in research and how it affects the environment. It led me to want to connect more with nature and it was not long after that I found myself at the top of Kilimanjaro admiring nature from above that I decided to quit my corporate life and like they say, the rest was history.  

In 2018 I decided to take the trash to the streets of the UAE and wore all the trash I generated. 30 days and 65 kg of waste later I had the country buzzing with questions about waste and wanting to know how they can reduce it. This was the start of my podcast, Mama Earth Talk. Where I tried to answer questions and to also talk with experts in the field to learn along with my audience aka the crazy birds.

Through my art, I want to create an impact to stir change for a sustainable future and over the years I have worked with Azraq, Nespresso, Costa and DXB airport. As well as a number of high profile clients including South African comedian and The Daily Show Host, Trevor Noah, Actor and Environmentalist, Adrian Grenier, Entrepreneur, Gary Vaynerchuck, Kris Fade, a radio presenter for the Kris Fade radio show on Virgin Radio Dubai, Black Coffee a world-renowned DJ and producer and Mason Plumlee an NBA basketball player for the Denver Nuggets.

This has definitely been an amazing journey and I am excited about the next chapter and that is living off the grid in a tiny house on wheels and trying to live off the land as much as possible."

Ep. 229 Holistic Wellness: Nootropic Revolution with We Are Fredi Founders Chelsea & Mitch Glaser

Their goal at Fredi is to help women cultivate burnout resistant brains and healthy relationships with their work-life. People often think that if they aren’t feeling stressed and exhausted, they aren’t working hard enough. They are here to tell you that if you are feeling those symptoms, they are holding you back from producing your best work and achieving your full potential.Chelsea Glaser & @Mitch Glaser are the sister-brother cofounders of Fredi

Chelsea is a brand strategist and serial entrepreneur— she is also the cofounder of Launch It Girl, a brand & web design firm for female entrepreneurs. Chelsea has been on the GreenPlanet BluePlanet Podcast before sharing her passions, mission and drive for a regenerative culture. Mitch is a former Wall Street investment banker who started using nootropics and biohacking techniques to keep his head above water throughout his extreme work hours.

After Mitch introduced Chelsea to the amazing effects of nootropics, they realized that none of the ambitious women they knew had ever heard of these supplements before, and they wanted to change that. They joined forces to build Fredi for the burnt-out hustlers wanting to feel like their best selves again— their first product, Focused by Fredi, is an all-natural daily nootropic designed to support focus, mental clarity, stress reduction, and memory.

Visit their website and get a %15 off with Discount Code: Julian15

https://wearefredi.com/products/

Brooke Darshana is a Planetary Soul-lutionist

As a global explorer, scientist, sailor & storyteller, Brooke passionately bridges the worlds of science and wellness while integrating wisdom from her global travels to assist others in living their purpose.

She has lived at sea for over 15 years and logged over 100,000 ‘blue water’ sea miles in the quest of deepening her knowledge of the interconnectedness of all life. Brooke is the director of global partnerships for Dollar Donation Club launching in Sept. 2020

Aligning with Purpose is Brooke’s recently appeared book

contact Brooke directly here:  aligningwithpurpose@gmail.com

Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American writer, teacher and activist. She is known as a theorist of feminist Neopaganism and ecofeminism. She is a columnist for Beliefnet.com and for On Faith, the Newsweek/Washington Post online forum on religion. Her book The Spiral Dance (1979) was one of the main inspirations behind the Goddess movement. In 2013, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.

In this episode we talk about:

Reconciliation, and personal ways of relating to it.

Building the world our hearts believe in at the speed of trust.

Starhawk's 7 Generational View on the Planet

Alfa Demmellash is the CEO of Rising Tide Capital, RTC provides business development services designed to transform lives by helping individuals start and grow successful businesses; build communities through collaborations with other non-profits, higher education institutions, corporations, and public agencies;

We talk about:

✨  Alfas journey as an immigrant from Ethiopia

✨  the Beloved Economy

✨  What the world most requires in unprecedented times like these

Alfa is a Young Global Leader with the WEF, a pioneer of the regenerative movement and currently serves on the board of New Jersey Future of work task force, and NJ Pandemic Release Fund, Hawthorne Valley Association. She is passionate about social entrepreneurship, education, conflict resolution, and the environment.

🌎 💛 🙏 "The Earth Is My Employer."

Pandora Thomas is a passionate global citizen who works as a caregiver, teacher, writer, designer and speaker.  Her work emphasizes the benefits of applying ecological principles to social design.

We talk about:

🌎  Pressing social issues and reonciliation

🌎  Pandoras fascinating story and work in the world

🌎  How to apply Permaculture wisdom in every day life

As a presenter both domestically and internationally, she has given keynotes and lectures on topics ranging from designing mutually beneficially diversity strategies, collaborative design, social justice, youth and women's leadership, social entrepreneurship,  permaculture and sustainability. She has designed curriculum for and taught groups all over the world as diverse as Iraqi and Indonesian youth to men serving in San Quentin and men and women returning home from incarceration.

Chris is the founder, lead consultant and trainer trainer at Changing World, a business helping both individuals and organizations adapt and thrive in our changing world and climate. They focus on a holistic approach to emergency preparedness planning, sustainable and resilient design, and training in team capacity building, emergency preparedness planning and response as well as holistic regenerative design to adapt to the changing world. He also teaches individuals about wildlife tracking, ecology and deepening their knowledge of and connection to nature through his course Nature’s Forgotten Language and other offerings.

You can check out  two courses Chris offers  here:

1) Survive the Storms - This is a gamified emergency preparedness training where Chris walks participants through a "mock storm experience" helping them develop awareness, skills, knowledge, kits and plans to adapt and be better prepared for climate change and extreme weather - https://www.changingworldproject.com/survive-the-storms

2) Nature’s Forgotten Language - This course is focused on deepening participants natural awareness and helping them better learn to read and interpret nature’s tracks, signs and sounds. - www.naturesforgottenlanguage.com

Chris brings a very diverse skill set and life experience to all his courses, consulting and training, including: 12 years as Wilderness & Urban Survival Instructor,
14 years as a Back-Country Wilderness Guide,
10 years living-on and building a modern day homestead where he grows food & medicinal herbs using permaculture and forest gardening techniques.
6 years experience running emergency exercises and training with government and private organizations.
Chris is also a life-long martial artist, certified wildlife tracker, teacher at Sir Sanford Fleming College and has a strong background in ecology.

Oren coaches changemakers, consults on organizational change, and creates conscious community. At the root of his work is the reintegration of the intelligence of the body, mind, and spirit.

We talk about:

✨ Leadership in changing times and paradigms

✨ Living from the inside out; an inward journey

✨ Personal Transformation that leads to Collective Legacy

Oren is the founder of enlivened.collective, a new online community for those who believe that our dreams to change the world rely on each of us connecting our inner work to our outer impact. Learn more at enlivened.co

Todays guest is Michael Linton who unpacks the topic of money, currencies and Local Exchange Trading Systems.

A local exchange trading system (also local employment and trading system or local energy transfer system; abbreviated LETS) is a locally initiated, democratically organized, not-for-profit community enterprise that provides a community information service and records transactions of members exchanging goods and services by using locally created currency. LETS allow people to negotiate the value of their own hours or services, and to keep wealth in the locality where it is created.

In the 21st century, the internet-based networks haves been used to link individual LETS systems, into national or global networks. In the Green Planet Blue Planet Community we have explored the topic of alternative currencies with SEEDS Cryptocurrency and Beliive Time Exchange...

Michael Linton lives on Vancouver Island in Canada.  He has 3 children and more grandchildren. In his 20s, Michael was interested in physics, engineering, computers, business and school teaching, and trained to become a teacher of Alexander Technique in 1979.

In 1982 he found / discovered / designed LETSystems | Local Exchange Trading | and has since been active in community currencies for approaching 40 years. We will be talking about money and community currency development.

Similar trading systems around the world are also known as Community Exchange Systems, Mutual Credit trading systems, Clearing Circles, Trade Exchanges or Time Banks. These all use 'metric currencies' – currencies that measure, as opposed to the fiat currencies used in conventional value exchange. These are all a type of alternative or complementary currency.

Walter Roth started out as your typical startup archetype with successes (dropped out of college to raise millions from VC’s, advised CEO’s twice his age), failures (startup crashed, a failed engagement years later) and stressors (ran 35 person team, anxious about everything, unable to relax) … But, everything changed when he experienced an Inward Mindset with the help of a couples counselor.

Walter Roth has spent the last decade on a personal journey to learn how to breathe, be happy, and reach inward to be his best in all areas of work and life. Over tens of thousands of hours, he learned best practices from leading psychologists, neurologists, and mindfulness experts. Walter is the CEO of Inward inc. which is the culmination of his journey and the beginning of a new journey to use proven, evidence-based behavioural change principles to support the transformation of individuals, and the organizations they run, from the inside out.

Sacred Selling with Walter: https://www.momentsales.com/

Alexandra Wicksell is an entrepreneur, coach and creative consultant, specialising in behavioural science, mindfulness and human potential. She is on a journey to unpack the human experience through the lense of stories; stories we tell ourselves, others,

stories we use to guide, to inspire, and the stories that we run our lives on. In this episode we talk about:

🌟 Building Trust, and moving at the speed of Trust

🌟 How humanity can learn from its past mistakes

🌟 Alexandras journey with Cambridge Analytica

She is the founder of Leap, a mind and brand accelerator whose mission is to guide entrepreneurs, change makers and leaders back to their unique blueprint, to unlock their true potential and grow their business and impact in the world.

Alexandra has a background in marketing, data and international development. She helped build Cambridge Analytica, one of the leading data analytics and marketing agencies in the world, from 20 to 100 people in less than 3 years.

She started her career in the non profit sector, with a mission to help build peace in and between communities and cultures. Alexandra was working with civil society engagement in Tunisia after the Arab spring, focusing on building efficient communication channels to support the post-revolution transition.

Alexandra has also worked in the development sector with and for organisations like Chatham House, British Council and Hand in Hand International. During her time at Hand in Hand International, Alexandra became the ghost writer of the best-selling memoirs of Percy Barnevik, founder and chairman, previously CEO, Chairman and board member of ABB, AstraZenica and General Motors. She shares HiH’s vision to fight poverty through job and business creation.

Alexandra has a Bachelor in International Relations and a Masters degree in Middle East Politics from SOAS, University of London. She wrote her Master thesis on the topic of frame alignment and mobilisation strategies in social movements.

As part of a select group of individuals who have been fortunate enough to see the world from space, Ron Garan, Social Entrepreneur, Astronaut, Author & Speaker champions his “orbital perspective” message to improve life on earth. Ron Garan, Social Entrepreneur, Astronaut, Author & Speaker has spent 178 days in space and has traveled more than 71 million miles during 2,842 orbits of our planet. Ron is celebrated not just for his research in space but also for his humanitarian contribution to life on earth.

We talk about:

👨‍🚀  Orbital perspective

👨‍🚀  Humanity as one planetary family

👨‍🚀  The illusion of different national identities

👨‍🚀 Planetary > Global

He flew on both the US space shuttle and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, where he accomplished four spacewalks. Ron also spent eighteen days at the bottom of the ocean during a research mission held in the world’s only undersea research lab, Aquarius.

Ron's Orbital Perspective Has Made a Profound, Positive Impact on Millions!

Learn more about Ron: https://www.rongaran.com/

Mark is an entrepreneur and innovator, leading emerging technology companies in the field of resonance science, to create scalable solutions that improve the quality of life on Earth.

He is the CEO of Resonant Technologies Group (RTG) A group of scientists, technologists and innovators committed to solving the world's biggest problems.

Making a Difference - RTG is a San Francisco-based science and technology investment accelerator committed to solving humanity’s biggest problems in health, energy, agriculture and the environment. The company utilizes a strategic methodology that identifies extraordinary inventors, scientists and engineers to help them productize, commercialize and license their technology and bring their genius to the world.

Donna Morton is a serial entrepreneur, focusing on climate change and social justice across a variety of businesses. She spends her time split between coaching entrepreneurs and building templed spaces. One of the projects she is currently involved in is: Salmon Nation a bioregional network of change-makers.

Developing a Nature State. Donna Morton had decades of experience in sustainability, economics, social innovation, clean energy, and ethical wealth management. She is also an Ashoka, Ogunte, and Unreasonable Fellow, and a lifelong serial social entrepreneur with international experience ranging from sustainability and economic policy to social justice and human rights issues.

Nicolas Rotundo has been described as having a botanical heart and a mechanical mind. Melding Ag Tech, Regenerative science, Conservation and Renewable Energy at A research for the New Economy at what once was Cambelles Soup's mushroom Farm. Redefining FARM as: Future Agriculture and Regenerative Movements. 

He has had wide birth of experience from indoor horticulture, aquaponics, to permaculture design, ecosystem restoration. Nic has been imagining localized food economies benefiting small farmers globally for over 15 years. Increasing organic matter and stored carbon, advanced waste to resource management, increasing biodiversity and access to these land based projects are a few of his goals. Seated on a pristine 753 acres of California coast, The Mushroom Farm is transforming the former Campbell’s Soup mushroom production facility into a system of abundance to serve generations to come. They are a 100% certified organic farm, incubating businesses in regenerative agriculture, renewable energy and experiential education. 

Local food security is foundational to our long-term thriving. By recognizing our interconnectedness and making choices to support the whole, we amplify our capacity to respond to change. When we strengthen the resilience of local food systems, local businesses, ecological education, and serve those in need - we ensure ongoing community health and thriving.