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Stephen Lester is the science director with the Center for Health, Environment & Justice . The Center works with grassroots groups around the US that are dealing with toxic chemical problems. On February 3rd, 2023 a train derailment occurred in East Palestine, Ohio. Approximately 38 cars derailed, 10 - 12 of which contained toxic chemicals of the likes of vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, benzen...

The Club of Rome was founded about 50 years ago by an industrialist who saw that if society continued living the same way, we would eventually be using up all resources - owed to the fact that we are using them up faster than the planet can replenish them. He commissioned four Harvard scientists to work on a simulation to see if this was really true and the results of the research showed that it w...

Dr. Mariana Bozesan is an author, award winning integral investor, serial tech entrepreneur and member of the renowned Club of Rome. I had a lengthy, philosophical and at times even argumentative conversation with Mariana in her Munich home, in a room filled to the brim with books and more books as well as big portraits of Mahatma Ghandi and Albert Einstein. We had the type of conversation I want...

E-S-G Environmental - Social -Governance Dr. Rupini Deepa Rajagopalan is head of the ESG office at Berenberg Bank, the second oldest bank in the world. She built up the ESG office and strategy together with a team, from scratch, after joining in 2018. She actually coined the term "finance with a heart" and feels like incorporating ESG standards in financial analysis is indispensable. Tho...

Kees Klomp is a professor of applied science at Rotterdam University for Applies Science and the co-founder of THRIVE Institute . He is also a very wise, kind, funny and humble person who really has a knack for explaining everything you would want to know about economics so clearly and easy to follow that it makes all those years of high school economics feel redundant because you learned more in...

I spoke to Valeriya on the 67th episode of the podcast and wanted to have her come back so that we could create a Talk about how an economist and researcher views the mental health crisis related to the climate crisis and the potential and pitfalls of the current economic model. Valeriya is a postdoctoral researcher at Ifo Institue and LMU Munich. She has a PhD in applied econometrics and is curre...

Earth Altars are an ancient practice that have been used for a long time by many cultures to connect to earth, give thanks, connect to different energies or spirits or in combination with prayer. Prue Rustean is the founder of Earth Altering, the space where she creates and introduces other people to the practice of forming beautiful earth altars. In this episode she shares the story of how she fo...

In this episode I am joined by two wonderful and smart women who are working on a project, called "The Green Mind".  Valeriya and Anastasia are dealing with the question of the interconnection between the environmental crisis and the mental health crisis. Two very relevant and prevalent topics that are impossible to separate from each other. We discuss questions like: "Does living more sustai...

Regenerative farming and land management - some of my favorite topics and I was so lucky to talk to someone as knowledgeable and passionate as Jonathan Gay. Him and his wife Misty were both working in the software industry when they decided that it was time to get out of the office and back to nature. They bought a ranch and some land in Sanoma County in Northern California "with the idea to just...

As a young lawyer he travelled to Ecuador in 1993, the first of about 200 visits, to become part of a case that would change his life. Steven Donziger, a human rights lawyer and key lawyer on the team that won the historic $9.5 Billion judgment against Chevron (fromerly Texaco) in the Ecuadorian Amazon has joined me on the podcast to talk about the devastation that Chevron caused in the rainforest...

Dr. Brock Bergseth is a writer, conservation psychologist, marine biologist and writer of a yet to be published book on how to turn the tide of doom and gloom about our planet. Between news of natural disasters unfolding everywhere and political inaction all over the world we could all use a bit of conversation that helps us turn that thinking around and create space to listen to and orientate our...

Rhys James is the founder and content director of EarthlyEducation aka one of my favorite Instagram accounts. But EarthlyEducation is not just an Instagram account, it is a hub that provides education and a constant push to think outside the box. Within the EarthlyEducation online resources you can find an IG account  a website  with articles and campaigns, a podcast , a TIkTok account a...

Natalie Kittner started out as an intern at GLS Bank in Bochum, Germany and although she would have never imagined herself working at a bank one day she ended up staying for good. In this episode she tells us about what work at the world's first 'sustainable' bank looks like, what some social and environmental values of this 'alternative' bank are and how  it works at changing the ways in whi...

August, 2022, U.S congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act also referred to as a "climate bill" - the biggest in US history, $370 billion - which is not as big a "wohoo moment" when you think about the fact that there has never actually been any climate bill at all. And you might be thinking: why are we are pulling this bill apart when it's better than nothing and finally something is happening...

I have been finding myself recording thoughts and ideas on different topics these last few weeks, as an outlet to not get all of them stuck in my head but to "set them free" and get them off my mind to make space for other things. So here is a first part of sharing impromptu thoughts which in this case centered around our reactions in towns, cities, communities to  government inaction with th...

The fossil fuel industry is responsible for 89 % of GHG emissions and continues to rapidly expand at a time where climate scientists are stressing the fact that in order for us to have a livable future we must keep ALL remaining fossil fuels in the ground. So how do we dismantle the fossil fuel industry that seems so untouchable and forms the baseline for the world's current economic system? Jack...

Mama and I sat down to Talk about what it was like growing up in the 70s and experiencing this rush of economic prosperity and the carefree mentality she and her friends experienced pre 2000. She often shares stories with us and other than personal problems or certain worries that we are all bound to encounter in life, most of it always sounded pretty care free in comparison to our youth, who are...

Nyombi Morris is a 24 year old climate justice activist from Uganda who I came in touch with over a post on his socials.  The post was about new gold being discovered in Uganda which is rich in that resource. Nyombi wrote under this article about the discovery "dead - now we're dead". I asked him to explain and quickly realized that Nyombi faces personal threats engaging in activism and that...

The ' Save Soil ' campaign has gained international attention along with its self proclaimed "godman", Jaggi Vasudev - also known as  'Sadhguru'. Rohan John Antony and Manpreet Kalra wrote an article about the campaign together that goes into detail about why  " 'Save Soil' won´t save us", you can read the full article here . I myself had seen the 'Save Soil' campaign on social media and...

Jessica and her family, which is her husband and her two beautiful boys, moved out of the city to the Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia, in 2019 to live and work on a piece of land they had fallen in love with. They are now regenerating a rainforest & learning to farm a native food forest on Bundjalung land 🌳🌲 In this short time their lives have completely changed and I am so glad we are getti...

'The Ethical Butcher' sells meat from regenerative farms, they are showing that meat doesn't have to cost the earth. I talked to Glen Burrows in this episode and was happy to be able to have him as a conversation partner which made this Talk (in which we also questioned and discussed different information each of us had on certain topics) very comfortable. 🌱🍖This episode is not about carnivorism...

Kiki is a dutch fashion model and first and foremost and more importantly an avid advocate for a more sustainable and ethical fashion industry, a climate ambassador for the future in the Netherlands, a student of future planet studies and a kind-hearted, easy-to-talk-to and very thoughtful human being🌍💚 Kiki shares the story of how she became aware of the issues that are rattling the planet and...

The investment industry is one that can be full of mysteries for "outsiders". It is important not to discount the role that this industry and investors play in this ciris-rattled world, after all, behind every dirty project   there is a dirty investment thus, behind every well-intentioned investment, there is a purpose, an impact. Pascal Botteron is the CEO of Green Blue Invest , a company th...

In this episode I am joined by Liam from "WhatsGrowinOn" . He is sharing his story of getting into permaculture, starting on a farm halfway across the globe where he was left to his own devices, to growing in a London apartment and finally moving to his own farm in Cornwall to get serious and make growing food his life. Liam shares the ups and downs of farming, what he has learned throughout the y...

Everyone experiences the climate emergency differently. Everybody lives in different circumstances and has had different life experiences. 7.9 billion realities - you could say ;-) Sidhant is a person who thinks a lot about environmental, climate justice and topics that regard corporate matters etc. He has shared many thoughts over the last months with me and asked many thought provoking questions...