Green Planet Blue Planet Podcast

On this episode of Green Planet Blue Planet, Host ⁠Julian Guderley⁠ speaks with Lisa about her book, ⁠“Soap and Soul, Minding Your Mind, Your Body, and Your Spirit with Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap⁠.”  Fortunately for us, Lisa found her voice and has picked up on the family business of not only making natural products but also to provide others with  a guide on holistic living. About Lisa Bronner Having been an avid lifelong reader, Lisa wrote her first book in 2023 as a part companion guide to using her family’s soaps and part green living how-to with stories and memories of the entire Bronner soap-making family. An educator, she taught high school English and journalism after switching from  Civil Engineering to an English degree in college, but she still weaves numbers and words. Lisa is a married mom of three nearly grown children who says her best time of day is gathering with family around the dinner table. What’s in Dr. Bronner Soap? Do you know what you’re bringing into your home? From household goods to body products, what’s in your soap? In the post-war 1940s, while Hollywood and corporate spinners hyped cigarettes, alcohol, canned food, and cleaning agents, Master Soapmaker Dr. E.H. Bronner stepped away from the crowd. He began asking questions about household chemicals and telling another story promoting natural products and a return to nature.  Now, 78 years later, Lisa Bronner, granddaughter and 5th generation soapmaker, has written a holistic guide on natural products, Dr. Bronner’s magic soap, that also provides recipes for cleaning solutions.  Recognizing that many are aware of the problems, as seen in the rising awareness in cultural conversations, Lisa doesn’t have to convince anyone. “Our bodies are going haywire,” she says. It’s to begin  the next conversation of what to do about it.  Many of us, especially in the United States, have been raised on a culture of product. Busy mothers were convinced that they were doing the right thing for their families by buying the brand names propagandized by corporate daytime TV sponsors and Good Housekeeping ads. As a result, many people grew up instinctively using the same products and following the same habits. Lisa says the challenge today is pointing out the “invisible.” “The other day, I was taking a walk with my neighbor. And I live out in the country with acres between our houses, and we were walking down the street and I could smell somebody's laundry. I was acres away from a house and I could smell their laundry…Can you imagine how intense those fumes must be in the house or right outside the house? And my neighbor didn't even notice the scent, because it's such a normal thing.” As Dr. Bronner’s company marks its 75th anniversary, join Julian and Lisa for a clean and intriguing discussion on the evolution of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap and the new guide to help people move to natural solutions.  Learn more about Lisa from her website Going Green with Lisa Bronner, www.lisabronner.com About Better Worlds.  Better Worlds seeks to explore alternative viewpoints through media, international conferences, symposia, essays and hack-a-thons that encourage and support the development of innovative solutions. https://www.betterworlds.com/

Realizing that by definition the Classics, Greek and Latin, really wouldn’t set her up for the future, Dr. Kat Bruce dropped out of Oxford and went as far away as she could, ending up in the Ecuadorian Amazon. All that learning of Greek verse by sound, strangely and surprisingly, translated into an “amazing” transferable skill of identifying birds by their calls - 150 different birds over three months.But moreover, Kat’s life in an Amazon indigenous community 100 miles from the nearest road, with no running water and no electricity, changed her life for good. For a few years she returned to the Amazon to run around counting birds and being part of a few expeditions - including building balsa wood rafts and floating town a tributary of the Amazon for a few weeks.And then somebody pointed out she should probably go back to the university to get a degree of some kind, before it was too late. She earned a wildlife biology degree with the intention of going back to hang out in the Amazon. But Kat Bruce doesn’t just hang out. Once she starts things she goes further than their conclusion. She continued studying and left only after receiving her PHD where she modeled a particular system of ant plants - plants in the Amazon that live symbiotically with ants. And she joined the rowing club and combined it with research in eDNA, and this became the evolution of her first start up company, NatureMetrics.In the discussion on this episode of Green Planet Blue Planet, Host Julian Guderley follows Kat’s path to collecting eDNA, while combining it with a passion for rowing.She joined a rowing team that was part of an initiative to gather data on the threats to biodiversity - pollution, plastics, sound pollution, but she recognized the need to tell the stories about what is possible to do to bring back biodiversity, clean up our seas and to restore the ecosystems.So she put together her own ocean rowing team of women who work in the fields of nature and climate to row around Great Britain in 2024, while collecting all the data and telling stories.To hear more about this journey, the outcomes and upcoming plans, listen to the entire podcast on the Better Worlds YouTube channel. If you like what you hear, let us know, subscribe and opt into notifications on new shows as they are posted.About Kat BruceAfter completing her PhD in 2014, Kat set up NatureMetrics to bridge the gap between the powerful molecular tools being developed in the research world and the environmental managers who could benefit from their use. Her particular interest lies in how to bring together the worlds of research, industry and policy to drive forward advances in our capacity to monitor the natural world. Through her work in the EU COST Action project DNAqua-net, she actively works to help establish best practice for the use of DNA monitoring tools for aquatic bio-monitoring in Europe and beyond.

Kosha Jourbet, designer of eco-villages, learned how little she needed and how generous people are as she regularly walked the African coast in an impoverished community with no money. It was a firsthand experience with nature. She slept on the beach on a thin blanket and had very few clothes. Her priorities were finding water and food. She swam across big rivers. Ultimately, she broke down the barriers between nature and herself. “I was afraid of nature. How many of us are afraid of nature? We're afraid of spiders. We're afraid of scorpions. But we're also just afraid of space, or the ocean or the sky, or sleeping alone in the dark or walking in the dark or crossing a river. Breaking down those fears inside myself was amazing. I got to know the night sky, I got to know the beauty of flowers of the ripples of the ocean, waking up in the early dawn, watching the sunrise, walking down the beach and finding the most beautiful shell as if it was a gift of the ocean.” Kosha’s journey took her into her African homeland reinstated a trust in herself. Later in life she met an indigenous leader of the Maori in New Zealand, who spoke these words: In my tradition, we do not need to earn a living, because simply by being born on the planet into a body, we have our earth right to be alive. How many of us still have yet to learn this? Join Kosha in a conversation with Green Planet Blue Planet Host Julian Guderley exploring the simple necessities of life and the ease of building eco-villages to meet the needs of humans and nature. About Kosha Jourbet Kosha Joubert now works as CEO of the Pocket Project, dedicated to exploring and healing collective trauma, after serving as CEO of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) for many years. She is an international facilitator, trainer, and consultant and has worked extensively in the fields of sustainable development, intercultural collaboration and the emergence of collective wisdom. Kosha is a co-founder of Gaia Education, which develops trainings at the cutting-edge of sustainability, and co-author of the internationally applied curriculum of the Ecovillage Design Education. She is also the author on a book on collective wisdom, and editor of books on social tools for building community and ecovillage solutions. Kosha grew up in South Africa under Apartheid and has been dedicated to the healing of divides and collective trauma ever since. In 2016, she received the Dadi Janki Award - 100 Women of Spirit - For engaging spirituality in life and work and for making a difference in the world. In 2019, she hosted the Power of Community Online Summit (10.000 participants) and co-hosted the Collective Trauma Online Summit (53.000 participants). In February 2020, she hosted the Communities for Future Online Summit, dedicated to exploring our response to the climate emergency ( 21.000 participants). For more: https://pocketproject.org/ https://collectivetraumasummit.com/ https://ecovillage.org/ https://summit2020.ecovillage.org/ Key Takeaway: "There is a double whammy of energy that can be freed up here... It becomes a balanced walk where we don't get stuck processing the past, but allow life to guide us." #regenerative #ecovillage #traumahealing

A Crisis in Leadership: What’s holding you back?  Whether it's climate change, politics or economics, our business world has a universal, widespread crisis in leadership. In this episode of Green Planet Blue Planet, Satyen Raja, author of Transcendental CEO and founder of WarriorSage, explores this leadership crisis with Host Julian Guderley observing the patterns among those who are called to business leadership that cause them to lose their way and disconnect  from spirit, heart and soul as though they are detriments to business success. The opposite is true, Satyen says. Enlightenment leads to the Greater Good. Satyen and his wife Suzanne are the founders of Sage Warriors, whose mission is to enlighten, unify and mobilize leaders for higher purpose. The discussion winds through benevolent AI and what's needed to ensure AI is evolved for a higher cause, and the trimtabs to a better business environment. “We have all the knowledge, we have all the intellect. We have the incredible scholarly capacity of brilliant minds around the world, to be able to have brilliant creations and technologies, we have all the technology on the planet we need. We actually have all the resources, all the money, all the human power that we need. What we're lacking is the enlightenment of our leadership.”  As a transcendental leadership coach, Satyen and his wife Suzzanne guide CEOs and business leaders to their purpose so they can do it, and down the path to transformation and spiritual evolution so they may lead a fuller life with improved relationships. WarriorSage is based on five pillars: power, heart, freedom, flow, and wisdom, and questions. . Tune in to Better Worlds YouTube Channel to hear this insightful conversation focusing on the deepest purpose, crafting teams with heart and leading organizations with a vision that evokes the collective spirit to move forward.For more on Leadership Enlightenment, WarriorSage and Satyen, visit WarriorSage.com. If you like what you see today, like and subscribe to the Better Worlds YouTube Channel. To view more Better Worlds programs, find us at betterworlds.com and listen to our podcasts on Anchor Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Follow Better Worlds on LinkedIn and Twitter. Satyen Raja  Founder & CEO of WarriorSage Author of Transcendent CEO #CEO #AI # #About Better Worlds  Better Worlds is a mobile-first, interactive, media platform and global community builder that encourages and supports the development of Web3 solutions. The foundations of modern life depend on the stability of three interconnected worlds – the natural, the human-built and more recently the digital, which is revolutionizing the way we live and who we are. We can integrate these three worlds to better understand how to cope with the forces that impact us all. Done right, these innovations will help lead us to a better world. We’re here to bring together the people and the tools to help build it.

This episode of the GreenPlanet BluePlanet podcast explores regenerative education with three professionals who have created brain trusts and/or started new schools based on the whole child, social emotional learning, gardening, real world projects and experienced-based learning, to name a few. While the nascent regenerative education movement has a lot of momentum, it still has a long way to go to become mainstream. This podcast may be just in time. Guests Hope Paterson, Catherine Fraise and Phil Moore are educators and thought leaders who are designing schools for the future. Love is the key. Hope Paterson(@hopepaterson4266) is the founder of the Hope Sparks Network + Hope Braintrust. Catherine Fraise is a former teacher who created Workspace Education, a physical learning lab in Bethel, CT, and is the founder of 100 Roads Design, specializing in virtual campuses for education. Phil Moore now “in his third rewirement” and living in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is the co-creator of the independent Upland Hills School and Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center established in 1971 in Oxford, Michigan. He is the author of The Future of Children: Providing a Love Based Education for Every Child, published in 2017. Join GreenPlanet BluePlanet Host Julian Guderley (@JulianGuderley) on Better Worlds to hear what the academics, researchers, dreamers - younger and older - are envisioning for a regenerative education to transform the ages, and how AI can play a role.

Geoship is working to replace 2.2 TRILLION concrete blocks a year with geodesic components made from bioceramics. CEO Morgan Bierschenk, inspired by the vision of Buckminster Fuller, is uniting communities through experimentation and innovation reshaping the way we live with resilient materials that stand the test of time! For the last seven years, Geoship, @Geoship has created a platform for Beirschenk’s ultimate goal: To build regenerative villages and help people live in a regenerative way, not just a different type of architecture. "With 2.2Trillion Geodesic components, it's like a home for every human in 1-2 years" - Morgan Beirschenk Through his R&D, the ceramic dome rose to the top as the most efficient structure, flowing from the original mission of Buckminster Fuller and executing the vision through the use of 21st Century materials and manufacturing technology. In this episode of Green Planet Blue Planet, Host Julian Guderley speaks with Morgan about the synergies that happen as a result of GeoShip’s process to innovate a bioceramic material for dome construction. The discussion leads to how to come together in a digital space that will build relationships and lead to the creation of villages through a democratized design build process, and ultimately get, to scale to reduce home costs to about $80 a square foot, and achieve a 95% reduced carbon footprint. The structures are fireproof, hurricane and earthquake resistant and the health benefits are real, with 100% non-toxic materials. The ceramics and the fractal geometry work together to create a sense of balance that uniquely combines low cost, sustainable, resilient and healthy attributes for home building, ecological and regenerative living. Tune in to hear more about the entire process unique to GeoShip, as well as Morgan’s philosophies decentralized home building to benefit villages. Subscribe to the Better Worlds YouTube Channel for shows and events focused on climate action and building better worlds. https://www.geoship.is/ About Morgan Bierschenk: As Founder and CEO, Morgan works to make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone. "A platform to not only build regenerative villages but live in a regenerative way by supporting the tools to build networks, currencies and communities, an infinite frontier to create the future we hope for." #technology #affordablehousing #housingdevelopment #buildingmaterials #ceramicdesign #geoship #regenerativedesign #BFI #buckminsterfuller #ceramic #geodesicdome #homes #construction#ecology #regenerative #resilience #healthyliving

In this episode of Green Planet Blue Planet, Host Julian Guderley asks this question of Biologist and Regeneration thought-leader Author Daniel Wahl Christian, and explores the critical mission to stretch beyond sustainable communities to become builders and custodians of regenerative bioregions for the future. As ethical concerns surrounding AI loom large, they explore the urgent need to dismantle the mental barriers that separate humans from co-creating with nature. Regenerative ecosystems call for a departure from abstract problem-solving towards a deep connection with nature. Daniel emphasizes that true regeneration can only be achieved within a specific place, context, and culture, rather than through generic master plans. It requires embracing a culture of care and reigniting humanity's innate bond with the natural world. Throughout the episode, listeners are invited to embark on a transformative journey of learning, discovery, and adaptation, recognizing their agency and falling in love with nature. Join Julian and Daniel as they challenge prevailing mindsets and inspire a new era of regenerative practices. Discover how co-creating with the natural world can reshape our future for the better. # About Daniel Christian Wahl: Daniel Christian Wahl is a biologist, renowned sustainability educator, consultant, and activist. With a diverse academic background and extensive experience, Daniel brings a multidisciplinary perspective to his work. From his collaborations with Gaia Education to his acclaimed book "Designing Regenerative Cultures," Daniel has made significant contributions to the field. He has been recognized with prestigious awards and fellowships, and his thought leadership has garnered a wide online following. Through teaching, speaking engagements, and collaborations, Daniel continues to inspire individuals and communities to embrace regenerative practices and work towards a sustainable and equitable future. #regeneration #AI #nature #unstoppableAI #cultures

Dimitry, Enduring Planet Co-Founder, speaks to Green Planet Blue Planet about the fund’s support for various projects from software with indirect impacts to planting trees with very explicit impacts. He speaks to the profound impact of tax incentives included in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act to catalyze transformative decarbonization. Rather than necessitating a complete overhaul of existing economic and energy systems, Dimitry said by altering the economic dynamics, the tax incentive has become one of the most influential pieces of climate legislation in the US, fostering the largest expansion of clean energy investment in the nation's history. While some might have hoped for radical disruption, the government's approach to supporting decarbonization focuses on incentivizing clean energy deployment within the current framework. While it is laudable to have large decarbonization goals,  Dimitry explains that for Enduring Planet, all initiatives are considered, as can be seen in their portfolio case studies. The impact metrics across businesses may be dramatically different, but it’s all within their climate finance scope - from water to energy to waste. By design, every dollar they put to work is having an impact. Enduring Planet offers rapid financing without dilution, personal guarantees, or collateral. It is climate focused for impactful teams, big or small, working across mitigation, removal, adaptation, and resilience to address the climate crisis. They provide two products now, Revenue Based Financing and Climate Grant Advances for government backing to be repaid once the funding is received. Join Dimitry and Julian in this discussion of the nature of the work in a new climate economy, “where every business is a climate business.” The two explore the idea of dismantling capitalism and incentives for extractive structures that are misaligned with climate change. Learn more about Dimitry and how he came to his ecological conclusions while working in Honduras with the Peace Corps, addressing questions such as how to restore damaged ecosystems and bring the planet back to a healthy, happy place, only to determine what motivates him is love of people and a desire for equity and accessibility to services and principles of conservation. #About Dimitry Gershenson Dimitry co-founded Enduring Planet, building on his 10+ years of experience across climate tech, operations, and impact investing. Prior to Enduring Planet, Dimitry led M&A and served as COO for Rango Wireless, an Enduring Ventures portfolio company. Before that, Dimitry built Meta’s Energy Access program, a $15M+ investing initiative that enabled energy access for 3M people and unlocked nearly $500M in additional capital in underserved markets like Kenya and India. While at Meta, Dimitry also led the development of multiple predictive ML products in the cleantech space and built corporate accelerator programs for impact startups in India and Puerto Rico. Outside of Enduring Planet, Dimitry sits on the board of Ecosafi, a Lower carbon-backed climate startup enabling clean cooking in emerging markets. Dimitry holds an MS in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley, a BS in Natural Resource Management from Rutgers University.

The word sustainability made it into the mainstream vocabulary in the 1970s around the time of the first Earth Day. It has been thrown around as to make the actions of businesses more appealing and has become an instrument for show without much data behind it to demonstrate its effectiveness. Sustainability is a term and practice that is designed to meet the needs of the current generation and has been adopted at the top levels of government - e.g. United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.  Regeneration is the new paradigm, that when defined well and understood, it can be measured and transcend the test of time by living and learning to work in harmony with the very essence of life itself - nature. Giles states it simply. Regeneration is about working the way life works. By recognizing that we as busy consumers have fallen out of sync with life, and now it’s important to allow ourselves to remember the inherent grammar that is innate within nature. The deeper response goes into three levels of insight that will help unlock our potential as leaders and to reimagine organizational consciousness. The power of regeneration and learning from living systems, broken into three interconnected  levels. Understanding nature, nature's patterns, principles and processes, including disciplines such as  biomimicry, circular economics and systems thinking that help us work with the principles and processes we find within life with an open mind. With an open heart, systemic participation within living systems; embody experience working with systemic dynamics within the organization as a living system and immersed within life.   The third level is open will: Leading to an existential shift tuning into nature's wisdom, and knowing that there is actually much more to life than meets the eye. It is not only the biological understanding of life, but a bio-psycho-spiritual receptivity and opening into life, which allows us to work with the inherent wisdom, innate within life.   About Giles Hutchins: Giles Hutchins is a pioneering practitioner, keynote speaker, and executive coach who stands at the forefront of a consciousness-raising revolution in organizational leadership. With over 20 years of experience in helping organizations of all sizes transform, Giles applies advanced techniques, deep-dive nature immersions, embodiment work, ancient wisdom tradition insights, and cutting-edge research on leadership consciousness. More recently, Giles served as the Global Head of Sustainability for Atos, a global technology provider with a presence in over 40 countries and employing more than 150,000 people. In this role, he played a pivotal role in integrating sustainable practices into the company's operations, aligning business goals with environmental and social responsibilities. Currently, Giles holds the position of Chairman at the Future Fit Leadership Academy, where he continues to push the boundaries of leadership development. He is also the Lead Partner of The Natural Business Partnership, which focuses on bringing nature-inspired approaches into the business world. As a co-founder of Biomimicry for Creative Innovation and Regenerators.co, Giles actively promotes innovative and regenerative practices that draw inspiration from the natural world. Giles' impact reaches beyond his roles as a practitioner and coach as he is an accomplished author and co-author of several influential papers and books, including "The Nature of Business" (2012), "The Illusion of Separation" (2014), "Future Fit" (2016), "Regenerative Leadership" (2019), and "Leading by Nature" (2022). Through his writings, Giles shares his insights into the interconnectedness of nature and business, urging leaders to adopt a more holistic and regenerative approach to their work. With his international leadership center located at Springwood Farm, a place of exceptional natural beauty near London, UK, Giles provides a unique environment for immersive learning experiences.

The Arctic Circle may be a place that holds mystery. Elena Doms was born and raised there. She discusses her close up view and deep understanding of climate change with Julian Guderley in this episode of Green Planet Blue Planet. The Arctic is warming up faster than anywhere else on Earth but there are few people who can comprehend climate change in the way a native who has witnessed years of impact can, where new harmful effects can be seen every year. Elena discusses what it was like for her hometown, a community divided by a river that is usually frozen in the winter, safe passage over the ice in recent years has been trickier. In previous years the temperatures are normally 30 degrees below 0 Celsius but in recent years the temperatures have risen to just minus 7 to minus 10 degrees. During the pandemic, people had a difficult time getting to the hospital on the opposite bank. Engineers had to be more creative in their transportation solutions. Elena discusses the visible effects of pollution in the rise in air temperatures and the lack of rain. Thirty degrees in summer time is no longer abnormal. While Europe was flooding, her parents were having to water the plants daily for the first time. Now living in Belgium, Elena reflects on 18 years of living near the Polar Circle and her mission to create the largest soil and CO2 clean up in history with Nature through Earth Plus. Tune in to hear more about her fascinating journey and stories that will help everyone understand how drastically and quickly climate change is impacting everyone and everything around us. About: Elena learned how to grow plants and food 30 years ago as a child and dreams of rewilding cities and restoring nature all over the world, and for her own children. She uses plants to clean the soils of forever chemicals, capturing CO2 while creating a circular economy through nature-based solutions. She is an international speaker on sustainability and has managed cross-cultural teams of up to 500 people across Europe and Asia through bio-based circular materials. Elena is also an artist who uses her art as a beautiful way to inspire and educate.