Green Planet Blue Planet Podcast

Danny Kennedy has been championing clean energy and climate protection for 25+ years. His aim is to facilitate 700-fold increase of solar PV installations by 2054...  He leads the California Clean Energy Fund, connecting entrepreneurs everywhere to capital to build an abundant clean energy economy that benefits all. He is also the President of CalCharge, a public private partnership with the National Labs and universities of California, unions and companies, working to advance energy storage. Kennedy co-founded Sungevity, the company that created remote solar design, and Powerhouse, solar’s premier incubator and accelerator. Kennedy authored the book Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy – and Our Planet – from Dirty Energy in 2012. Prior to starting Sungevity, he worked at Greenpeace and other groups on climate and energy issues for 20 years.

Alinka Rutkowska is a USA Today best-selling author, a Wall Street Journal best-selling author and a top 100 Amazon best-selling author in business and money. She’s sold more than 100,000 copies of her books and her book creation process has been showcased in Entrepreneur magazine. She’s the CEO of Leaders Press, and has launched all its titles to best-seller status. LEADERS PRESS is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling press, which creates books for entrepreneurs from scratch and launches them to best-seller with a 100% success rate. It has landed its releases on bookshelves together with Nobel Prize winners and World Economic Forums speakers. The Leaders Press team has worked with top business leaders such as Po Chung (the co- founder of DHL International), Mark Nureddine (the CEO of Bull Outdoor Products) and Chris Catranis (the founder of Babylon Telecommunications). Their mission is to help 1,000 entrepreneurs share their wisdom with the world by 2030. She’s the founder of LibraryBub, which connects independent authors with around 10,000 librarians. She’s a sought after lecturer and has been voted top 5 speaker and named most creative book marketer at the Bestseller Summit Online. She’s been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox Business, Writer’s Digest, Alliance of Independence Authors, International Book Publishers’ Association and many more. Alinka is an official member of the Forbes Business Council. How to Get a Book Published: 20 Ways (#6 Will Shock You): https://leaderspress.com/how-to-get-a-book-published/

What if we all gave $1/month to solve humanity's greatest challenges? Todays interview is with Seth Blaustein, co-founder of the Dollar Donation Club. A micro donation platform aiming to unify 1 billion people giving a $1 a month harmonizing humanities challenges. Click this link here, and make a monthly microdonation to the Dollar Donation Club. Seth is a futurist, filmmaker, immersive festival producer, and creator of the Optimistic Futurism framework. As a trans-media strategist and director, Seth is passionate about the power of viral storytelling to drive social impact and new-paradigm generation. His productions have generated over 45 million views and inspired over $900,000 in donations. Seth is the creator of the Future Frontiers immersive conference, co-founder and creative director of Good Society, co-founder of the Telepathic Agency, and Storyteller in Chief at Unify.org And recently creator of Dollar Donation Club, a micro donation platform aiming to unify 1 billion people giving a $1 a month harmonizing humanities challenges. Click this link here, and make a monthly microdonation to the Dollar Donation Club.

Laurence is a philosopher, artist and infinite game designer seeking the path to Utopia. In other words A Meta Modern Game Designer. "A renewed ecology of cooperative and competitive play is the key to rejuvenating the tree of collective living, allowing once more the energy of the sun to flow from the highest leaves to the deepest roots, and return flexibility to the calcified boughs and branches of materialistic hierarchy. Around this tree, a new garden of abundance shall grow, giving birth to its greatest fruit: play."

Amber Peoples’ inner five year old dancing farm girl teams up with her adult social entrepreneur to amplify curiosity and engage the senses while prioritizing environment, art, and equity. After a handful of degrees and careers, 2019 saw her teaming up with the tourism industry to create a 10-day, 135 mile celebration of food art and place called Live Culture Coast. In 2020, Amber dove into Copy Accelerator mastermind and Design Science Decade to manifest “Movies that Make Movements.” Now here we are together in 2021, and Climate of AWE: Arts WITH Ecology is ready to roll in like a wave.

Akiko aka “Kiki” is a visionary artist, entrepreneur and design scientist of the Design Science Studio, and is working on technical grand-scale solutions for a more ecologically-centred and regenerative economy. She applies biomimicry, uses living systems and complex systems theory as guiding principles for innovation. She is working on a project called SeedShare and Hive which is aimed at the ontological design of social networks and platforms to shift civilization from extinction, towards a civilization that thrives with life.

An unstoppable and uplifting agent of change, inquisitive scientist and anticipatory whole systems philosopher, Ilaria has trained and inspired +500 leaders and managers in over 20 countries, from media to healthcare. For over two decades, Ilaria has focused on applying scientific discoveries and research insights on developing cross-cultural innovation initiatives, shifting the culture of business from competition to radical cooperation by building capacities to foster a more creative, regenerative, equitable and inclusive world. Her work focuses on issues of systemic chance, more specifically on how to ignite, manage, promote, and radical transformation and disruptive innovation.Ilaria applies scientific breakthroughs and research insights designing research program’s and change initiatives on multiple levels, from micro to macro level, from large-scale social processes to small-scale interactions.

Umair Zia is a living-systems technologist, an architect, the founder of naturegadget.com, author of an upcoming book titled,' Tree Tech: 50 Lessons for Life' (Not-a-Cult publishers), and an assistant professor at the National College of Arts, Lahore. TREE TECH | An exploration of the wisdom of the trees in 50 life lessons. Tree Tech is Umair Zia’s personal journey to establish a dialogue with these centuries-old creatures that hold some of the wisest secrets available to humanity. It’s a thrilling and spiritual quest to understand biomimicry and the ancient technologies that these magnificent beings hold. Tree Tech is an ode to listening to those who were here before us, and will be here after us. The lessons cover the topics of silence, love, memory, metaphor, death, originality, strength, gender, adaptability, control, consciousness, inclusivity, identity, trust, distance, confrontation, progress, contextualization, alliance, endurance, opinion, resilience, time, movement, action, happiness, feedback, collaboration, self- reliance, permanence, energy, synergy, greed, resources, space, certainty, growth, perception, diversity, land, pattern, knowledge, order, architecture, non-physicality, hierarchy, dependability, belonging, framework and scale.

Ganga Devi Braun is a Regenerative Counselor and Systems Change Consultant who is devoted to integrity throughout the movements for regenerative culture. With a focus on cultivating collective wisdom, her work weaves together the threads of our internal, interactional, and institutional realities with an aim to move toward a truly regenerative, pluralistic culture which harmonizes with all of life. The Design Science Studio is a developmental incubator for ART inspiring a regenerative future that works for 100% of life. We are supporting art that empowers global creators to imagine a regenerative future.

Amanda Sage is an artist driven to contribute to art’s critical role in regenerative culture. She is also passionate about artistic social experiments that explore creative solutionary activism within community. Amanda Sage is an American painter who has studied and worked in Vienna, Austria and Los Angeles, California. She trained and worked with Ernst and Michael Fuchs, a classical artist who taught her Mischtechnik. Through Fuchs she came to know other Visionary artists with whom she has worked, exhibited and co-founded the Academy of Visionary Art in Vienna and the Colorado Alliance for Visionary Art. Sage is a lecturer, teacher, and live artist with works in international galleries and museums.