Sustainability Now - exploring technologies and paradigms to shape a world that works

With a long and distinguished career in microbiology, Mike Cox is an inventor as well as the Founder and CEO of Anaerobe Systems, a microbiology manufacturing and research company. While developing a process to produce hydrogen from biomass, a happy "accident" led Mike to the invention of a miracle "plant food" and fertilizer. What's beautiful about Mike's solution is that the feedstock for his fe...

While researching the rapid shift in cancer incidents from northern states to the Mississippi Delta, triple board-certified physician, Dr. Zach Bush connected the widespread use of Glyphosate (trade name: Round-up) in America's farmlands with soil and human health everywhere from the farms to the Gulf of Mexico. This chemical destroys the microbiome in the soil as well as our digestive systems. Dr...

Values-based investing, supporting local economies, supporting social change. What if you could literally invest your money where your life and your values are? Longtime activist and visionary, Michael H. Shuman, has made a career of applying his economics and law training to enable that very thing. Seeing local economies as a vehicle for global change, Michael schools us in strategies to fund loc...

A positive contrarian and thought provocateur in both business and the regenerative movement, Carol Sanford brings about change by disrupting certainty; and this interview is no exception. By digging deep to unearth and upend underlying assumptions, Carol has changed the essence of work in corporations such as Google, DuPont, Intel, P&G, and Seventh Generation, making the impossible possible and g...

Hal Crimmel, educator, author and filmmaker, joins us for a rich conversation about the growing momentum behind the rights of nature movement as well as the making of his film entitled, "The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement." If we can imbue corporations with the same rights as people, doesn't it make sense to empower nature, the very foundation of life, with the legal standing to preserve its...

Some have said that the wheel is the most important invention of all time. For 5000 years, it has remained relatively unchanged; until now that is. The folks at Shark Wheel have literally reinvented the wheel and now this new wheel is poised to solve some of the biggest problems in commercial agriculture. The discovery that sine waves can be found everywhere in nature, from planetary motion to the...

with Lauren Tucker of reNourish Studio, Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Kiss the Ground Lauren Tucker is on a mission to evolve our food system and is consequently challenging the very foundations of the business of food.    Lauren's latest venture, reNourish Studio, a project of Farmer's Footprint, brings together an eclectic group of business people from the food production and distr...

with Lauren Tucker of reNourish Studio, Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Kiss the Ground Lauren Tucker is on a mission to evolve our food system and is consequently challenging the very foundations of the business of food.    Lauren's latest venture, reNourish Studio, a project of Farmer's Footprint, brings together an eclectic group of business people from the food production and distr...

with Lauren Tucker of reNourish Studio, Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Kiss the Ground Lauren Tucker is on a mission to evolve our food system and is consequently challenging the very foundations of the business of food.    Lauren's latest venture, reNourish Studio, a project of Farmer's Footprint, brings together an eclectic group of business people from the food production and distr...

with Lauren Tucker of reNourish Studio, Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Kiss the Ground Lauren Tucker is on a mission to evolve our food system and is consequently challenging the very foundations of the business of food.    Lauren's latest venture, reNourish Studio, a project of Farmer's Footprint, brings together an eclectic group of business people from the food production and distr...

Christa Barfield, founder of FarmerJawn, is a force of nature. Healthcare professional turned urban farmer, educator and entrepreneur, Christa had an epiphany in 2018 that led her to create LifeLeaf Organic Farms, parent company to Viva Leaf Tea Co. and FarmerJawn Agriculture, a Philly-based community greenhouse and CSA. Driven by deep passion, Christa taught herself how to farm and is now sharing...

With John Fullerton, founder of Capital Institute and one of four featured experts in the "Going Circular" documentary. We may think of economics as a dry and academic pursuit, but assumptions about money and economy are both reflective of, and instrumental in, shaping our interactions with the natural world. In this provocative conversation, we explore a new way of thinking that aligns economics...

In her unique approach to global conservation, founder of Earthfire Institute, Susan B. Eirich, Ph. D. shares transformational tales of people connecting deeply with nature to bring us into a personal relationship with the living world. Understanding that so many of our human and environmental ills stem from deep dissociation, Susan developed Reconnection Ecology, an ecopsychology and spiritual ec...

What if the water cycles of the planet hold the key to reversing climate change and eliminating the deadly drought, fire, and flood cataclysms that are becoming ever more frequent? What if our focus on carbon is missing the point?  Having spent the last decade working in more than 25 countries on 6 continents, Zach Weiss has been restoring water cycles to transform barren terrains into lush and ve...

After joining the Mawah Environmental Commission, Karin La Greca received a letter from Eric J. Fuchs-Stengel, a local high school student who wanted to do a litter clean-up. Wanting to encourage his motivation, she helped him organize the first of what would turn out to be over 200 clean-ups that have removed tons of trash from the community over the past 14 years. Not satisfied with simply remov...

What if humanity is following a natural evolutionary cycle of maturation that moves from rampant proliferation, consumption and competition to cooperative harmony?  This is the hopeful perspective offered by Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris, world-renowned evolution biologist, futurist, speaker, author, and educator. A deep "pastist" Dr. Sahtouris uses the story of life's evolution on our planet to inspire...

What if we could transform the planet and our relationship to it and each other by simply focusing on transforming one place at a time? Bill Reed and Regenesis Inc. contend just that: that by understanding the unique essence of a place, its history and geology as well as its social and geographical dynamics, we can regenerate that place and its surroundings as an integral part of a greater whole....

Pilot by day and entrepreneur by night, Steve Churchill is the owner of the Urban Worm Company, a vermicomposting-related blog, online store, and manufacturer of the Urban Worm Bag. Steve is all about the worms, joyfully promoting vermicomposting as a means of turning household and commercial waste into a highly-valuable soil amendment. Who knew there was so much to talk about when it comes to wor...

Pilot by day and entrepreneur by night, Steve Churchill is the owner of the Urban Worm Company, a vermicomposting-related blog, online store, and manufacturer of the Urban Worm Bag. Steve is all about the worms, joyfully promoting vermicomposting as a means of turning household and commercial waste into a highly-valuable soil amendment. Who knew there was so much to talk about when it comes to wor...

Pilot by day and entrepreneur by night, Steve Churchill is the owner of the Urban Worm Company, a vermicomposting-related blog, online store, and manufacturer of the Urban Worm Bag. Steve is all about the worms, joyfully promoting vermicomposting as a means of turning household and commercial waste into a highly-valuable soil amendment. Who knew there was so much to talk about when it comes to wor...

Did you know that cork can absorb 55 times its own weight in carbon from the atmosphere? Join us for an interview with Paul Maughan-Brown, content manager for the wine cork recycling program ReCORK and it's parent company Canadian orthopedic footwear brand SOLE. ReCORK, North America's largest natural wine cork recycling program was launched in 2008 by Canadian footwear company SOLE. ReCORK is an...

"Vegangelical" Paul Shapiro's activism led him to start The Better Meat Co. in 2018 with a mission to build a more sustainable food system by replacing meat from animals with a next-generation, plant-based mycoprotein superfood. Paul is a four-time TEDx speaker and his book Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, is a national bestseller. Additionally,...

In an eye-opening conversation with professional archeologist and herbalist, Lauren Lembo connects us to the world of traditional plant medicine and wakes us up to the social and environmental costs of many personal care products we assume to be green and wholesome. Lauren is the owner and founder of Blue Fox Botanicals, a New Jersey-based company producing vegan skin care solutions and herbal for...

If the children are our future, it's in good hands with the kids of MUN Impact. Beyond the rich academic training provided by Model United Nations, MUN Impact provides the tools, ideas, networks and inspiration for these kids to translate their knowledge, skills and vision into real world projects aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. A true global citizen, Cody Eckert shares his undaunt...

As Jack Herrera once said, "I don't know if hemp is going to save the world, but it's the only thing that can." Bruce Dietzen, creator of the Renew Sports Car, Founder of Carbon Negative Fiber is about to quantify that with his Drawdown Hemp Project. In a bid to win the Musk Foundation's $100 Million X Prize for Carbon Removal, Bruce has built a coalition of entrepreneurs from all disciplines of t...