Podcast appearances and mentions of melody meyer

Celebrating International Women's Day! This week on the Global Businesswomen's Pod we have our dynamic GHWCC International Panel featuring our UK partners in the spotlight: An engaging and inspiring conversation lead by Jurga Zilinskiene, MBE Guildhawk, Andrea Leadsom, Member of Parliament, South Northamptonshire, Craig Tracey, Member of Parliament, North Warwickshire and Bedworth, and Melody Meyer, President, Melody Meyer Energy, LLC

Celebrating International Women's Day! This week on the Global Businesswomen's Pod we have our dynamic GHWCC International Panel featuring our UK partners in the spotlight: An engaging and inspiring conversation lead by Jurga Zilinskiene, MBE Guildhawk, Andrea Leadsom, Member of Parliament, South Northamptonshire, Craig Tracey, Member of Parliament, North Warwickshire and Bedworth, and Melody Meyer, President, Melody Meyer Energy, LLC

Melody Meyer is an organic pioneer, with over 40 years of extensive knowledge in international trade, the marketing of organic food and organic industry policy. She is on the Board of Trustees for The Organic Trade Center and leads Source Organic, a company dedicated to Education, Advocacy, and Thought Leadership (EAT) for the organic industry and manages the Organic Matters Blog. Tune in to learn more about: - Her grandparents' organic and diverse farm in Iowa; - Her connection to growing and cooking their own food; - Her journey into an organic food career; - Her thoughts on hydroponic and aquaponic farming; - Stories and lessons learned from her international work in the food system; - Climate change, migration and the food system; - The inequality of water; - How the current pandemic are changing our perspectives on food and our food system.  To learn more about Melody, visit her blog at:  https://organicmattersblog.com/about.

My conversation with Melody Meyer, is a great way to kick off Women's History Month on OVM. Meyer is a trailblazer for women in energy and started in the industry 40 years ago. You could count her female colleagues on one hand -- or less. Talk about feeling like "the other!" Today, after retiring from a stellar career at Chevron, Meyer is embracing her second act, advocating for parity and transparency in the industry to which she has devoted her life -- an industry which itself is often "otherized." How did she deal with being the only woman in a male-dominated industry in her early years? How can the industry do a better job of telling its story? And what's her advice for women leaders and those who aspire to lead? Our conversation covers all of this and more, including the recently announced reorganization of energy giant, BP. Meyer is a BP Board Director.Meyer was trained as a mechanical engineer and started her career designing offshore platforms and pipelines. She now shares her passion, experience and expertise to help navigate the energy transition toward a net zero carbon future. It's going to take all of us to get there. And Meyer says our chances are best if we focus on education, conservation and a climate solutions mentality.Support the show (http://patreon.com/OurVoicesMatterPodcast)

Hart Energy’s Women In Energy podcast returns for its second installment with a look at the inherent challenges faced by women in the energy industry and how two highly-respected industry powerhouses overcame those roadblocks. First off, Melody Meyer, president of Melody Meyer Energy LLC, joined hosts Jessica Morales and Emily Patsy to discuss her decades-long career with Chevron Corp. and what she is doing to give back to the industry now that she's in the second phase of her career. Regina Mayor, global and U.S. energy sector leader for KPMG LLP, also joined us later in the program to talk about how she fell in love with the industry early on in her career and what skills her military experience has given her that has led to her success. Meyer, who is also a non-executive director of BP, AbbVie and NOV, spoke with us about being one of the few women engineers when she began her career at Gulf Oil which was later acquired by Chevron (1-minute mark). She also discussed the importance of having a diverse set of experiences to be a leader in the oil and gas industry (4:30) and how she handled biases toward women early on in her career (5:30) as well as the need for diverse leadership in the industry still today (6:25). Additionally, Meyer talked about Women With Energy LLC, a company she founded to advocate for women in the industry around the globe (8-minute mark). And later in the program, Mayor joined us to discuss what attracted her to the oil and gas business (11:30) and how her experiences in the military gave her skills to excel in her professional career (12:20) as well as how important it is to establish strong relationships (15:45). In addition, she said her advice for success also includes having a genuine passion for your job and to always be learning (18:20). Lastly, Mayer spoke with us about the national Veteran’s Network she helped co-found at KPMG to give back to those who have served in the U.S. military (19:25). You can comment on this podcast in the comments section or by tweeting our hosts @JessicaMNews or @EmilyPatsy. This and all episodes of Women In Energy are available via Soundcloud, the podcast app and iTunes.

LINKS What I said at the NOSB meeting last week http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eU7 UNFI Foundation http://www.unfifoundation.org/Pages/MissionandPriorities.aspx Soil carbon 'a saviour' in locking up carbon http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/soil-carbon-%E2%80%98a-saviour%E2%80%99-in-locking-up-carbon/8460928#transcript Strezelechi **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 1st of May 2017. Jon Moore reporting! I’d like to start this week with a big thank you to dsearlybird12’s comment on Podbean: “interesting and pertinent”! Thank you! Now to the blog: Organic Matters by Melody Meyer and a series of posts on the National Organic Standards Board. Melody spoke on behalf of United Natural Foods. She spoke about the need for market driven solutions within the organic food sector. Quote: It’s the dollars and cents, the economic growth that organic represents for producers, manufacturers and retailers. For consumers, it’s the option to have an informed choice through the USDA label. Expanding and preserving that choice helps consumers avoid persistent pesticide exposure. It helps correct the environmental degradation of non-organic production methods. End Quote. I found this thought provoking. The “market” in inverted comments is a social construct. Defined by the governments of the world, the rules for markets are decided, not so much by Adam Smith’s unseen hand, but by that unseen hand operating within the rules decided in unseen smoke filled back rooms. So with a little tweaking and whole lot of subsidy redistribution, the market could be made to work for rather than against the organic movement. The way the system is set up now, farmers who do not use poisons have to spend thousands to prove this is the case. Those farmers who regularly douse their crops in poisons, pesticides, herbicides and artificial fertilisers are free to sell whatever they want based on the 50% death rules. 50% death rules? I hear you ask. Yes. A poison is determined safe for human consumption on the following basic idea. Lab rats are fed a poison. The length of time it takes to kill half of them is the key to human food safety. Once the 50% death rate is reached, a conclusion is reached and the remaining 50% of surviving rats are euthanized. There are, therefore no data on long term effects of these poisons only their immediate acute effects. Sounds like a system designed for chemical manufacturers rather than human food consumers. Changing these rules of the market would immediately increase the safety of foods and give the organic sector a huge boost. I would suggest as individuals the way to overcome this bias and the many others embedded in the non-judgemental, values free, “market” which determines the best price for both consumers and suppliers, is to avoid anything, and I mean anything which does not have a certified organic label. Now there may be perfectly safe insecticides out there but we have no way of knowing giving the testing regime currently in place. Who knows how safe the cockroach and spider sprays are that are used on homes, well used on all buildings really. We are after all inhabiting these structures, not ingesting them until half of us drop dead! Now to the other end of the food system, the soil! This from an interview with Robin Batterham, a former federal chief scientist in Australia. Robin was a guest on the long running Radio National program the Science Show. The title for this interview gives us a clue: Soil carbon 'a saviour' in locking up carbon. Now the science around soil carbon is messy. The soil is, after all, a living thing. Quote: It is not fully understood, far from it, although with genetic typing these days we can understand much more of the thousands of interactions that go on. That's one whole side which is how do you encourage more of the bacteria and the fungi so that you get actually more carbon in the soil, you get greater root penetration, you get greater water retention and so on. End Quote. Robin’s argument is that we have sufficient knowledge, if not the ability to accurately measure soil carbon to starting the process of moving agriculture from artificial fertilisers and poisons to regenerative agriculture. Noting the following ways soil carbon is lost: Quote: We lose it essentially by two methods. One, we clear native vegetation and turn it into intensive agriculture. That almost inevitably results in loss of carbon from the soil. That's one. The other is that by extensive use of tilling, which changes the oxidative state of the soil and changes the balance between fungi which tends to not want it to be too oxidative and bacteria, by use of pesticides which similarly affect the biota, by use of extensive fertiliser application in a form which is not readily absorbed by plants, we just slowly, surely grind carbon down. End Quote. Robin gives rough measurements on the amount of soil carbon lost here in Australia. It seems we’ve moved from a soil carbon content of 3-4% in the time of Strezelechi, a Polish Nobleman, explorer and scientist who came to the colony of NSW in 1839 to a level closer to 1% nowadays. Reversing this loss would pull more carbon out of the atmosphere than has been dumped into it by industry. Not a reason to stop the move to renewables but, on soil fertility grounds alone, reason to move to regenerative agriculture. And that brings us to the end of this week’s podcast. If you’ve liked what you heard, please tell everyone you know any way you can! I’d also really appreciate a review on iTunes. This may or may not help others to find us but it gives this podcaster an enormous thrill! Thanks in advance! Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com. Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week. **** LINKS What I said at the NOSB meeting last week http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eU7 UNFI Foundation http://www.unfifoundation.org/Pages/MissionandPriorities.aspx Soil carbon 'a saviour' in locking up carbon http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/soil-carbon-%E2%80%98a-saviour%E2%80%99-in-locking-up-carbon/8460928#transcript Strezelechi

Melody Meyer serves as Vice President of Policy and Industry Relations for United Natural Foods Incorporated (UNFI) and Executive Director of the UNFI Foundation. Today, she discusses the Foundation side of her work and new developments that will benefit organic farmers and our planet.

Fuhmentaboudit is back for a new season of hoptastic radio! On the line with Melody Meyer of Yakima Chief Hop Union, hosts Chris Cuzme and Mary Izett reveal that they recently participated in the hop and brew school with the organization and loved it! YCH Hops was originally founded by hop growing families, some of them growing hops in the Yakima Valley for more than 130 years. These family farms joined together to build an organization which would market their hop products direct to brewers worldwide. Melody goes on to share how the US hop industry works, what makes the Yakima Valley special, and how homebrewers specifically fit in to their equation. Conversation also touches upon HBC-438, a new experimental hop issued for use by homebrewers. Notably, profits from HBC-438 sales go to Ales for ALS. Tune in for all things hops! This program was brought to you by Union Beer Distributors.   “Being grower-owned, that is the best tool we have.” [12:00] —Melody Meyer on Fuhmentaboudit  

Melody Meyer, a certified massage therapist and natural health practitioner, speaks with Rabbi Address about her practice, the Center for Compassionate Touch, in the first half of the March 25, 2014 Boomer Generation Radio. In the second half of the show, sponsored by Kendal Corporation senior living, Ruth Bish and Karen Russell from Kendal discuss the Pennsylvania Restraint Reduction Initiative (PARRI), to reduce and/or eliminate the use of restraints in nursing home and care facilities. Read about this week's guests after the jump. [powerpress] Compassionate Touch Melody Meyer, certified massage therapist Melody Meyer, CMT, CNHP is a certified Massage Therapist and Natural Health Practitioner.  She is also a nationally certified Compassionate Touch Practitioner and instructor. Ms. Meyer is a New Jersey State Certified Massage and Bodywork Therapist, and a 16 year member of ABMP.  Additional certifications include: Reflexology;  Trigger Point Therapy;  Cancer and Post-Mastectomy Massage;  Healthy Breast Massage;  Application of Therapeutic Oils; Clinical Aromatherapy; Thermal Palms Massage. Melody teaches Wellness Education workshops to both massage therapists and lay persons and conducts in-service and continuing education workshops for a variety of professionals in the health care and social service fields including those in elder care.   She is a frequent program speaker for professional groups and organizations. Ms. Meyer has been in private practice and a practitioner of complementary modalities since 1989.  Her work is continually evolving with the addition of new skills and techniques to meet the ever changing needs of her clients as they move through the stages of their lives. "For me, Compassionate Touch says to our elders, your life will not go unnoticed for I will be there to bare witness to your special moment in time.  So this is another part of my journey and new branch on my path and maybe one of yours. “ ~ Melody Meyer CMT, CNHP To find out more about Melody's path and why she choose to be a Compassionate Touch Instructor watch this short video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6XqMZOBStQ Pennsylvania Restraint Reduction Initiative (PARRI) RUTH BISH, RN Ruth Bish, RN Ruth has extensive nursing experience, having been a staff member, RNAC, and assistant director of nursing in long term care. Since 2000, she has been a nurse educator for the Pennsylvania Nursing Care Facilities Best Practices Project. Ruth's primary areas of expertise are implementation of quality improvement protocols in areas such as depression, pain, incontinence, pressure ulcers, functional improvement, and improvement in quality of life through a systematic paradigm shift process.           KAREN RUSSELL,RN Karen Russell, RN has 28 years of professional nursing experience in acute and long-term care settings, practicing as a staff nurse, admissions coordinator and staff development coordinator. She has served as a regional director for the Pennsylvania Restraint Reduction Initiative since July, 1998; her expertise is in physical and chemical restraint reduction, fall management, bed and side rail safety, comprehensive assessment processes, and resident-family-staff relationships.