Eco Evolution – Michael Gosney

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 … Read more about this episode...

with Wendy Jehanara Tremayne, author of The Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands On Living This is the true story of how (and why) one couple ditched their high-pressure lives and moved to rural New Mexico to make, build, invent, forage, and grow everything they need to live self-sufficiently. After mastering life in the modern age as successful working … Read more about this episode...

With Linda Booker, producer of Bringing It Home Hemp, the non-psychoactive cousin to cannabis sativa, has been an essential crop around the world for thousands of years, and still is in most countries. Why not in the U.S.? This discussion with Linda Booker, producer of the new documentary on industrial hemp Bringing It Home reveals the profound qualities of this … Read more about this episode...

With Benjamin von Mendelssohn, Activist and Community Pioneer Intentional community projects such as Arcosanti in Arizona, Auroville in Southern India and Damanhur in Northern Italy have all contributed to the sustainability equation, which is as much about personal psychology, lifestyle choices and social dynamics as it is about well designed infrastructures and renewable resources. Tamera was founded two decades ago … Read more about this episode...

With Adam C. Hall, author of The Earthkeeper: Undeveloping the Future Adam C. Hall made a fortune in real estate development as a master of structured finance. He was living what he understood to be the American Dream. But it all came apart, like a fractured picture of perfection, as he sought meaning in his life as a human being. … Read more about this episode...

With Jim Channon, Futurist, Shaman, Eco-visionary Jim Channon was a Lieutenant Colonel in U.S. Army before before spending 20 years as a “strategic shaman” for generals and leaders of Fortune 100 companies. He was the inspiration for Jeff Bridges’ role in the film Men Who Stare At Goats, and is the author of several books including the First Earth Battalion … Read more about this episode...

With indigenous leader Chief Phil Lane Jr. and Greenpeace co-founder Rex Weyler In January 2013, at the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, an historical event was held: the Gathering to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects. There, representatives of Native Americans, Canadian First Nations, Indigenous Nations and their allies, including farmers and ranchers, business and environmental leaders, … Read more about this episode...

With Dane Wigington of GeoEngineering Watch Weather modification has been going on for decades, without the knowledge, not to mention consent of the global population. In this info-intense exchange, Dane Wigington of GeoEngineeringWatch.org conveys the shocking reality of constant worldwide toxification of the biosphere and manipulation of weather patterns via chemtrails (1000 planes flying daily) and ionospheric heaters (the HAARP … Read more about this episode...

With Howard Williams of Construction Specialties The built environment is one of the most important dimensions of the sustainability movement. While green architectural designs promise low carbon footprint projects, and green building practices lesson the construction industry’s negative ecological impact, the sourcing and production of construction materials is a key to not only a healthy environment but also to human … Read more about this episode...

At the core of consciousness researcher and pioneering psychologist Ralph Metzner’s work is an attempt to understand our eco-psychology: how we as human beings relate to the natural world. Recorded at the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies conference in Oakland, California (the annual gathering of scientific research on the healing and psychological effects of entheogenic and psychedelic agents found … Read more about this episode...

As we foster regional, corporate and social transformation toward a sustainable world, Silicon Valley stands at the epicenter of all three spheres of change. As a region, its local institutions are committed to adopting sustainable community design and practices. As home to some of the most influential technology companies on the planet, this is a community that can accelerate the … Read more about this episode...

With James Stark and Katia Sol of the Regenerative Design Institute Essential to our eco evolution as a society is our individual work: addressing the inner ecology of our psyche and sensibilities, as well as our approach out in the world designing resilient communities and fostering a regenerative human culture. James Stark, through his ongoing innovations in teaching permaculture and … Read more about this episode...

This program explores the relationship of human culture with the natural world, both through the lens of art and culture, and through the experience of education and on-the-ground-actions. Osprey Orielle Lake is founder of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, a solution-based alliance fostering resilient communities and promoting a post-carbon economy and energy future, and is the author of … Read more about this episode...

This conversation explores the essential resource of water and the growing movement to radically reduce our use of bottled water – as individuals, companies, restaurants and governments. Guest Michael Davis is a water expert, activist and entrepreneur. His U.S. Pure Water Corporation is a mission driven full spectrum water treatment service company in Northern California that saved the City and … Read more about this episode...

With Gil Friend, CEO of Natural Logic Sustainability Consultants There is no question that the shift to a sustainable culture requires all corporate hands on deck. The early, primitive age of our global consumer culture is giving way to a new era where we design products with a “cradle to cradle” approach, taking into account materials sourcing, manufacturing, shipping, use, … Read more about this episode...

With Ken Jordan, co-founder Evolver and Reality Sandwich On the forward edge of the progressive ranks of the sustainability movement is Evolver.net and its companion online journal, Reality Sandwich. This is where dreamers and innovators express possibilities in an open-minded venue that encourages out-of-the-box thinking and big visions. It is also where evolutionaries from around the world meet via … Read more about this episode...

Now that we are beyond “the end of the old world” as signified by the December 21, 2012 winter solstice, it is time to accelerate the shift to a thriving world. In this first 2013 edition of Eco Evolution, the conversation with big picture expert and educator Vinit Allen reveals the primary components and character of the planet-wide movement and … Read more about this episode...

Guest William Gladstone, Author and Indigenous Culture Expert For many years now there has been a growing fascination with the December 21, 2012 winter solstice. Significant meaning has been attributed to this date as the end of a major cycle in the Mayan calendar system and the beginning of what many hope will be a vital new cycle of higher … Read more about this episode...

With Jay Ma, Permaculture Educator Many have heard the word “permaculture” but most only have a vague understanding of the philosophy it proposes and how its design principles are applied. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren originated the permaculture concept in the early 1970s in Australia. Since that time is has become a global movement with groups and guilds in almost … Read more about this episode...

With Jerry Tierney, Architect Sustainably designed buildings and cities involve more than better solar panels and the use of recycled materials, as this conversation with green architect Gerry Tierney reveals. The trend toward green building in major cities across the country and world is becoming less a movement than the norm. There are many ways to design environments and, importantly,… Read more about this episode...

There are major changes coming to local food systems and how we source and consume food. Wasted food is a major economic and ecological problem, being addressed by many groups including Dana Frasz’ new non-profit Food Shift which is working to develop partnerships with local restaurants, hospitals, catering companies and food service organizations to preserve and distribute the 40% of … Read more about this episode...

Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, was a futurist, technology visionary and explorer of the deepest principles at work in Nature. He considered himself to be a “comprehensive anticipatory design scientist,” and dedicated his life to making our modern civilization work – for all of humanity – and in harmony with the systems of the natural world. His work … Read more about this episode...

In 1971 Italian Architect Paolo Soleri, after having studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin in Arizona, purchased a large plot of land in the high desert 60 miles north of Phoenix and began Arcosanti, a model ecocity project. A nexus of Soleri’s extensive output over 70+ years, an event venue, and an educational center that has hosted over … Read more about this episode...

For us to really get with the evolutionary program we need not control and patent natural systems, processes and life forms, but rather learn advanced design from them. Janine Benyus is the catalyst of and guide for a cross-disciplinary movement following her basic thesis that human beings should consciously emulate nature’s genius in their designs. This 50 minute extended program … Read more about this episode...

While people worldwide are well aware of the impacts of climate change, pollution and habitat loss – and know that there is a severe loss of species occurring – our leading experts and institutions are not seriously addressing the very real possibility of a mass extinction event of our making occurring within the next 30 to 100 years. Mass extinction … Read more about this episode...

Founder, Green Festivals and Global Exchange, Green Economy Expert and Activist Major U.S. cities all have emerging green economic sectors says activist and author Kevin Danaher, and the opportunities for innovations – and profits – are growing with them.This information intense discussion gets into details about how cities are going green, bioregionalism is changing societies, how consumers can get green … Read more about this episode...

Hundreds of nonprofit organizations and NGOs are the drivers of our eco-evolution as individuals, societies and a global culture. As the stakes grow higher, the work of these groups in fostering the global shift becomes more and more vital. Darian Heyman, founder of the Craigs List Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp, author of Nonprofit Management 101 and producer of the new … Read more about this episode...

This inspiring discussion with journalist activist Dorka Keene reveals how women are playing pivotal roles in social change and the environmental movement, and how community is key to joining the eco evolution. Active for years working toempower women in politics and business, Keene recently authored Eco Amazons: Twenty Women Who Are Changing the World. The conversation includes the stories … Read more about this episode...

In June 2012 the largest gathering ever convened by the United Nations brought the world community together in Rio De Janiero 20 years after the first Earth Summit. While the mainstream news reports stressed the disappointment many felt and the fact that no major new environmental agreements were reached, the actual results of the summit are just starting to be … Read more about this episode...

In this inaugural program, a wide-ranging discussion with futurist and eco-visionary Duane Elgin touches on some of the primary topics of Eco Evolution: changes in our global systems to align with those of the biosphere, empowerment of local communities, and the worldwide movement of initiatives and organizations that are already creating solutions that can be rapidly scaled up as the … Read more about this episode...