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Cristina Mittermeier Of Sealegacy: Inspiring care for our oceans and shared humanity with conservation photography (ep243)

In this podcast episode, Cristina shares how the theme of ‘enoughness’ has shown up in different ways and evolved throughout her lifetime; how integrating the immeasurable sacred ecology into our work in sustainability—otherwise focused on the technical details and numbers denoting impact—might deepen our sense of connection and purpose to support our overarching goals; and more.

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Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin: Reindigenizing our myopic views of poverty for true wealth (ep241)

In this podcast episode, Reginaldo sheds light on the dominant western culture's myopic view of poverty; why it's dangerous to presumptively want to help ‘lift’ materially poor communities out of economic poverty while holding an incomplete worldview that is not universal; what the coronavirus pandemic reveals about what wealth really means in the face of a crisis; and more.

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Falling In Love With : Our diversity of native bees and pollinators (interview with brigit strawbridge howard, author of dancing with bees)

In this podcast episode, Brigit sheds light on all of the different and unique species of wild bees out there besides the honeybee; how we've exploited honeybees as monocultures in order to uphold our industrialized, monocultural food systems; why we need to go beyond single-species conservation efforts for a more holistic approach; and more.

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Harnessing: The power of storytelling to shift popular culture (interview with debbie levin of environmental media association)

In this podcast episode, Debbie sheds light on how she was able to help build excitement and hype around hybrid cars at a time when people had skepticism and little interest in them; the power of engaging talent from the entertainment industry to serve as role models—with their vast influence on popular culture; and more.

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Using Biomimicry : For more bioregionally appropriate architectural design (interview with architect mick pearce)

In this podcast episode, Mick sheds light on how the field of architecture has been largely taking on an approach similar to industrial agriculture with its focus on building things that are form-driven or that we envision purely out of our minds, failing to observe deeply and work with the local environmental elements and as a result, needing more energy and more maintenance to upkeep; how we can learn from termite mounds to design passively thermal regulated and passively cooled buildings; and more.

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Learning : From the corporate world to elevate conscious businesses (interview with laura wittig of brightly)

In this podcast episode, Laura sheds light on what independent, smaller socially and environmentally conscious businesses can learn from the corporate world to thrive in the market landscape today, keeping in mind that there is no level playing field as larger corporations benefit in cost-savings from cutting corners; what purpose-driven businesses may be able to accomplish that nonprofits with similar missions may have greater challenges with; and more.

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Using Peer Pressure : To Work Against Our inflating standards of material enoughness (interview with professor and author robert h. Frank)

In this podcast episode, Robert sheds light on what this current crisis reveals about our economic inequities; why it's important to distinguish between absolute and relative poverty, as well as absolute and relative wealth; how we can leverage the power of peer pressure in our favor to get the changes we wish to create; and more.

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