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Danielle LaPorte
Wonder And Awe - February 27, 2024 17:00 - 54 minutesLaPorte is a best selling author who has inspired millions of people around the world, naming her as one of Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul 100 Leaders for ""uniquely connecting the world together with a spiritual energy that matters."" Her newest book, How to Be Loving, is a nuanced perspective on t...
Sara Luria
Wonder And Awe - February 20, 2024 17:00 - 47 minutesSara Luria is the founder of Beloved, a home-based experiment in Jewish life in Brooklyn. In her family’s home, she hosts Shabbat meals, creative rituals based on the Jewish calendar, meditation circles, learning for families with young children, and more. Prior to Beloved, Luria’s experiences a...
Lynne Twist
Wonder And Awe - February 13, 2024 17:00 - 1 hourLynne Twist has been a recognized global visionary committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, and supporting social justice and sustainability for more than forty years. She is also the cofounder of the Pachamama Alliance and founder of the Soul of Money Institute. Twist has worked w...
Rita Sherma
Wonder And Awe - February 06, 2024 17:00 - 1 hourRita D. Sherma is founding Director and Associate Professor at the Center for Dharma Studies; Core Doctoral Faculty; Department Chair of Theology & Ethics; and Co-Chair of Sustainability 360 Initiative at GTU, Berkeley, CA. Formerly, she was the Swami Vivekananda Visiting Professor in Hindu Stud...
Anna Sunn
Wonder And Awe - January 30, 2024 17:00 - 43 minutesAnna Sun, an Associate Professor at Duke University, holds a Princeton PhD in Sociology and is a prominent scholar in the field of religion and culture. Her research focuses on Confucianism as a world religion, gender and Global Confucianism, comparative studies of prayer and ritual, and methodo...
Adah Parris
Wonder And Awe - January 23, 2024 17:00 - 38 minutesAdah Parris is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, polymath, anti-disciplinary artist, tech futurist, and activist who is dedicated to inspiring individuals and organizations to embrace new ways of thinking and doing. She has a unique blend of expertise in multiple fields, including living sy...
Howard & Michele Hall
Wonder And Awe - January 16, 2024 17:00 - 1 hourLouie Schwartzberg, Howard and Michele Hall have a longterm beautiful friendship, the core of which is based in capturing and celebrating nature's wonders. While Louie explores the earth and air, Howard and Michele have magnificently captured the splendors of what lies within beneath our waters....
Uvinie Lubecki
Wonder And Awe - January 09, 2024 17:00 - 1 hourUvinie Lubecki brings compassionate leadership to organizations and is passionate about the role of mindfulness and compassion in leadership and building cultures of connection. In this episode, Louie and Uvinie discuss the the positive impact wonder and awe can have on large organizations who...
Brenda Salgado
Wonder And Awe - January 02, 2024 17:00 - 1 hourBrenda Salgado is the author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time. She is a mindfulness teacher, motivational and public speaker, a facilitator and consultant, a health and wellness expert, a traditional medicine woman, and a Toltec energy healer. ...
Michelle Shiota
Wonder And Awe - December 26, 2023 17:00 - 49 minutes"Michelle ""Lani"" Shiota is an associate professor of social psychology at Arizona State University. Her studies of positive emotions, emotion regulation, and emotional mechanisms of close relationships use multiple methods including perpheral psychophysiology measures, behavioral coding, cogni...
Mark Unno
Wonder And Awe - December 19, 2023 17:00 - 55 minutes"Professor Mark Unno's interests lie in Medieval Japanese Buddhism, specifically in the relation between intellectual history and social practices. He also researches and has published in the areas of modern Japanese religious thought, comparative religion, and Buddhism and psychotherpay. He is ...
Alicia Forde
Wonder And Awe - December 12, 2023 17:00 - 58 minutesThe Reverend Alicia Roxanne Forde serves with the Unitarian Universalist Association as the Director of the International Office. She is a graduate of The Iliff School of Theology and currently lives in Longmont, Colorado. Alicia was born and spent her formative years in Trinidad and Tobago. She...
Dr. Andrew Weil
Wonder And Awe - December 05, 2023 17:00 - 42 minutesAndrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing-oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is the found...
Deepa Patel
Wonder And Awe - November 28, 2023 17:00 - 48 minutesDeepa Gulrukh Patel is a Sufi teacher in the Inayati Order, which she also serves in her capacity as International Coordinator and Executive Director for the Zenith Institute, a four-week Sufi meditation camp in the Swiss Alps, where she guides retreats for young adults. She is also the Chair of...
Brother David Steindl-Rast
Wonder And Awe - November 21, 2023 17:00 - 37 minutesBrother David Steindl-Rast — 96 year-old author, scholar, and Benedictine monk — is beloved the world over for his enduring message about gratefulness as the true source of lasting happiness. Known to many as the “grandfather of gratitude,” Br. David has been a source of inspiration and spiritua...
Koya Webb
Wonder And Awe - November 14, 2023 17:00 - 46 minutesKoya Webb is an internationally recognized yoga teacher, celebrity holistic health coach, author, speaker, and vegan activist whose core mission is to promote daily self-care, oneness and eco friendly living to combat some of the world’s biggest challenges including mental health, social injusti...
Drilling Deeper Won't Fix This
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - August 16, 2023 04:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsPeople in the lower Colorado River basin are now witnessing drastic cuts to their allotments. In many cases, developers find alternate sources of water by drilling into underground aquifers. But in places like Pinal County, Arizona, that groundwater is already becoming scarce. We hear from Steph...
Snow Raven
Wonder And Awe - July 21, 2023 19:01 - 55 minutesSinger Snow Raven grew up in a remote tribe in Arctic Siberia. She has performed for SXSW and has appeared on America’s Got Talent, enchanting audiences with her extraordinary talents from her ancestors. Snow Raven hopes to heal people through her music-- combining traditional songs, shamanistic...
The Colorado River's Alfalfa Problem
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - July 14, 2023 15:16 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThe meat and dairy industries are some of the biggest water users in the American West, thanks to one of cows' favorite foods – alfalfa. As aridification continues across the American southwest, water is becoming far more scarce on the Colorado River. A critical source of water for roughly 40 mi...
World Water Day 2023 with Autumn Peltier
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - March 22, 2023 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWhen Autumn Peltier was eight, she learned the tap water on a neighbouring reserve wasn’t safe to drink, or even to use for hand-washing. That injustice triggered her decade-long advocacy campaign for safe drinking water. She made headlines as a 12 year-old, admonishing Prime Minister Justin Tru...
Will Sarni: Can We Tech Our Way Out of Wicked Water Problems?
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - March 01, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsCan we really “tech” our way out of freshwater shortages, scarcity, and pollution? In our Season 4 finale, we’re asking the big question of the season – will new water technology be enough to solve wicked water problems? Will Sarni joins Jay for a look back at the bright ideas and inventions w...
What Lurks Beneath: How Robots Can Save City Plumbing with Vanessa Speight
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - February 15, 2023 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn this episode, we’re going underground, undersea and into your water and sewer pipelines with science fiction’s favorite problem-solvers…robots! Jay sits down with Vanessa Speight, a professor of Integrated Water Systems at the University of Sheffield, to learn how new, spider-like robots ha...
An AI Fix for Aging Water Systems with Seyi Fabode
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - February 01, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn this episode of What About Water? an entrepreneur in Austin, Texas turns his dishwasher sensor into a tech startup that’s feeding water utilities snapshots of their water quality in real time. Jay sits down with Seyi Fabode, the CEO and co-founder of Varuna, to discuss how his company’s...
Chemical Cocktails: What’s in our Groundwater? with John Cherry
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - January 18, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIf it’s not stuck in glaciers or polar ice, 99 per cent of the world’s freshwater is groundwater. Water underground supplies nearly half of the world’s drinking water. But what happens when dangerous chemicals and waste – polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), oil, gasoline and road salts – percolat...
Dirty Laundry: Water and the World of Fast Fashion
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - December 21, 2022 05:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsCall the fashion police! In this special holiday edition of What About Water? we dive into the apparel industry’s dirty secret: its water use. Behind oil and gas, fashion is the single most polluting industry on the planet. It accounts for 8 per cent of all carbon emissions and 20 per cent of gl...
Into Thin Air: A Smarter Way to Water Crops, with A.J. Purdy
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - December 07, 2022 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHow can we measure water when it disappears into thin air? On this episode of What About Water? we’re looking at evapotranspiration, or “ET” for short. It’s the combination of water evaporating from the soil, combined with the measure of water transpiring through crops’ leaves. Accounting for ...
Submerged
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - November 23, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn the quest to find clean, renewable sources of energy, we turn to a familiar method: hydroelectricity. Today, the ancient method of harnessing the power of flowing water is hitting enormous new heights. Hydroelectric dams are some of the biggest human-made structures in the world. As humans ...
Field Smarts: Protecting Farmers’ Wallets and Our Water, with Bruno Basso
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - November 09, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIt’s estimated that by 2050, we’ll have over 9 billion people on earth. To feed everyone, we will need to produce 60 per cent more food - and we'll need to grow it using less water. On this episode of What About Water? we’re looking at new technology that can make that shift possible. Jay sits...
Under the Sea: Hidden Freshwater Reserves with Brandon Dugan
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - October 26, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsBy 2025, experts predict over half the world’s population will live in water-stressed areas. With a number of our freshwater resources on land receding, is it time to look to the ocean - or, rather, underneath it for fresh water? Jay sits down with Brandon Dugan, the Associate Department Head ...
Running Dry: Nik Kowsar on Iranian Censorship and Water Scarcity
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - October 12, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsFor Nik Kowsar, civil unrest in Iran is not new. As a geologist and journalist, he's been sounding the alarm about water shortages and censorship in his home country for decades. After being arrested and jailed for one of his cartoons and receiving death threats from pro-regime Islamists, Kows...
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