Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
486 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsGreen Dreamer explores our paths to collective healing, biocultural revitalization, and true abundance and wellness *for all*.
Curious to unravel the dominant narratives that stunt our imaginations and called to spark radical dreaming of what could be, we share conversations with an ever-expanding range of thought leaders — each inspiring us to deepen and broaden our awareness in their own ways.
Together, let's learn what it takes to thrive — in every sense of the word.
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277) Briony Penn: Inspiring deeper connections to place through community mapping
November 02, 2020 18:35 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Briony Penn is a naturalist, mother, writer, artist, and citizen who has trained as a geographer, which she notes is likely the closest western science comes to an integrated worldview that looks at our relationships to the earth and each other. In this podcast episode, Briony sheds light on the potenti...
276) Jesse McDougall: Welcoming wildlife and biological abundance to regenerative agroecosystems
October 29, 2020 17:35 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Jesse McDougall is a regenerative farmer at Studio Hill Farm. He is an Accredited Professional with the Savory Institute, the co-founder of Regenerative Food Network, an advisory board member for Soil4Climate, and the author of the first regenerative agriculture legislation. In this podcast episode, Jes...
275) Sophie Ackoff: Decentralizing power in agriculture to support the next generation of farmers
October 26, 2020 17:35 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Sophie Ackoff is the co-executive director of the National Young Farmers Coalition, which is a national advocacy network of young farmers fighting for the future of agriculture. In this podcast episode, Sophie sheds light on the challenges that young people uniquely face, especially Black, Indigenous, an...
274) Acadia Tucker: Seeding resilience through growing perennial and victory gardens
October 22, 2020 17:35 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Acadia Tucker is a regenerative farmer, climate activist, and the author of Tiny Victoria Gardens, Growing Good Food, and Growing Perennial Foods. Her books are a call to action to citizen gardeners everywhere and lay the groundwork for planting an organic, regenerative garden. In this podcast episode,...
273) Dr. Kimberly McGlonn: Questioning the criminalization of poverty and struggle that perpetuates systemic injustice
October 19, 2020 17:35 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Dr. Kimberly McGlonn is the founder of Grant Blvd (Instagram: @grantblvd; Facebook: Grand Blvd Clothing), which is a clothing brand committed to creating opportunities in sustainable fashion for marginalized folks in Philadelphia. Before starting her clothing brand, Dr. McGlonn's 17 years of classroom teac...
272) Dr. Lauren Baker: Preserving seed diversity to strengthen human health and ecological resilience
October 15, 2020 17:35 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Dr. Lauren Baker is the Director of Programs at the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, which is a strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations working to transform global food systems through a systems-level approach and deep collaboration among philanthropy, researchers, grassroots movements, the ...
271) Owen Wormser: Regenerating life and landscapes by turning lawns into meadows
October 12, 2020 17:35 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Owen Wormser, the author of Lawns Into Meadows, is the founder of Abound Design and the nonprofit Local Harmony, which is focused on encouraging community-driven regeneration. In this podcast episode, Owen sheds light on the environmental and economic costs of maintaining lawns; how meadows can be regene...
270) Guillaume Pitron: Unmasking 'green' energy's social injustice and environmental costs
October 08, 2020 17:35 - 44 minutes - 41 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Guillaume Pitron is an award-winning journalist and documentary-maker for some of France’s leading TV channels. His first book, The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies, draws on six years of research to reveal our new dependence on rare metals. In this podcast episode...
269) Teresa Coady: Redesigning built environments for life rather than machines
October 05, 2020 17:35 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Teresa Coady is an award-winning architect and Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Her new book, Rebuilding Earth: Designing Ecoconscious Habitats for Humans, is a revolutionary guide to rethinking our role as planet shapers in the Digital Age. In this podcast episode, Teresa sheds lig...
268) Maurie Cohen: Looking past individualism to seeing consumerism through a systemic lens
October 01, 2020 17:35 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Maurie Cohen is a Professor of Sustainability Studies at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author of the book, The Future of Consumer Society: Prospects for Sustainability in the New Economy. He's also the Editor of the journal, Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, and co-founder of the ...
267) Sasha Duerr: Natural colors and the convergence of slow food and slow fashion
September 28, 2020 17:35 - 42 minutes - 39 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Sasha Duerr is an artist and designer who works with plant-based palettes, natural dyes, and place-based recipes. She is the founder of Permacouture Institute and the author of Natural Color, The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes, and Natural Palettes In this podcast episode, Sasha sheds light on how the cr...
266) Jeff Tkach: Connecting functional medicine and regenerative agriculture for our collective health
September 24, 2020 17:35 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Jeff Tkach is the Chief Impact Officer at Rodale Institute, which is a nonprofit that has been dedicated to pioneering organic farming through research and outreach for over 70 years. As Rodale Institute's Chief Impact Officer, Jeff is responsible for expanding their global influence by leading the deve...
265) Mikaela Loach: Distinguishing ecofascism and dismantling white supremacy in environmentalism
September 21, 2020 17:35 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Mikaela Loach is a climate justice activist, co-host of The Yikes Podcast, and medical student based in Edinburgh. Her work focuses on making activism spaces more inclusive and accessible, and as a Black woman, she is especially passionate about the importance of anti-racism work in the climate and susta...
264) Charles Eisenstein [PART 2]: Reintegrating our humanity into the tribe of all life on Earth
September 17, 2020 17:35 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Charles Eisenstein is a public speaker and author of the books Climate — A New Story, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, The Ascent of Humanity, and Sacred Economics. His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the e...
263) Charles Eisenstein [PART 1]: Beyond the war mentality against climate change, criminal justice, coronavirus
September 14, 2020 17:35 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Charles Eisenstein is a public speaker and author of the books Climate — A New Story, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, The Ascent of Humanity, and Sacred Economics. His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the e...
262) Dr. Jared Ball: Critically examining impact over optics in support of Black liberation
September 10, 2020 17:35 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Dr. Jared Ball is a Professor of Communication Studies at Morgan State University and the founder and curator of imixwhatilike.org which is a multimedia hub of emancipatory journalism and revolutionary beat reporting. He is also the author of the new book, The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power. I...
261) Dr. Vandana Shiva: Seeding freedom in this time of Oneness vs. the 1%
September 07, 2020 17:35 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support The author and editor of multiple influential books such as Making Peace with the Earth, Soil Not Oil, Globalization's New Wars, and Oneness vs. the 1%, Dr. Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, a leader in the International Forum on Globalisation, and of the Slow Food Movem...
PREVIEW | Green Dreamer's 2020 Fall Season launches 9/7!
September 03, 2020 17:35 - 2 minutes - 2.66 MBGreen Dreamer's upcoming season, launching 9/7, explores a wide variety of topics—such as biocultural diversity, turning lawns into meadows, colonial earth ethics, philanthro-imperialism, transformative justice, policies supporting young farmers and BIPOC farmers, the ties between functional medicine and regenerative agriculture, and so much more! As a community-powered show, every patronage and contribution helps a lot. Support this independent podcast today starting at just $2: www.green...
REFLECT | Leah Penniman: Empowering farmers of color and dismantling racism in the food system
August 17, 2020 17:35 - 33 minutes - 38 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support In this replay episode during our summer hiatus, Leah Penniman of Farming While Black and Soul Fire Farm sheds light on the impact of colonialism on soil health around the world; how the oppression of Black and Indigenous people-of-color in the United States has affected farmland ownership and continued, ...
260) Rutger Bregman: Transforming our future by relearning a hopeful history of humankind
August 13, 2020 17:35 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Rutger Bregman is a historian and the author of the New York Times Bestselling book 'Utopia for Realists' and 'Humankind: A Hopeful History'. In this podcast episode, Rutger sheds light on how our human evolution has actually been about the survival of the friendliest rather than the fittest; how power lite...
259) Shubhendu Sharma: Using cultural and historical knowledge to support regenerative reforestation
August 10, 2020 17:35 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Shubhendu Sharma is an industrial engineer turned reforestation expert. He's the founder of Afforestt, which is a social enterprise based in New Delhi and Bangalore, India that is committed to bringing back maintenance-free, native forests using the renowned Miyawaki method of reforestation. In this podc...
258) Judith D. Schwartz: Healing the water cycle to restore climate and ecological balance
August 06, 2020 17:35 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Judith D. Schwartz is a journalist who focuses on nature-based solutions to global environmental, economic, and social challenges. She is the author of Cows Save the Planet, Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World, and the new book The Reindeer Chronicles. In this podcast episode, Judy (featured o...
257) Margaret Klein Salamon: The psychology of influencing change and facing the climate emergency
August 03, 2020 17:35 - 43 minutes - 39.3 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Margaret Klein Salamon is a clinical psychologist turned climate warrior, the founder of The Climate Mobilization, and the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth. In this podcast episode, Margaret sheds light on some of the psychological phenomena that explai...
256) Kevin Wilhelm: Finding common ground in the age of a global pandemic and climate change
July 30, 2020 17:35 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Kevin Wilhelm is the CEO of Sustainable Business Consulting and the author of How to Talk to the Other Side: Finding Common Ground in the Time of Coronavirus, Recession, and Climate Change. In this podcast episode, Kevin sheds light on how we can most effectively talk to people outside of this sustaina...
255) Natalie Bogwalker: Building resilience with permaculture and primitive skills
July 27, 2020 17:35 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Natalie Bogwalker is the visionary, founder, and director behind Wild Abundance, a homesteading, permaculture, building, and gardening school near Asheville North Carolina. Natalie and the writer for Wild Abundance, Chloe, recently launched an online gardening school for people who want to grow their own ...
254) Rob Hopkins: Practicing eco-visualizations to go "from what is to what if"
July 23, 2020 17:35 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network and the author of From What Is to What If?, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, The Transition Handbook, and The Transition Companion. In this podcast episode, Rob sheds light on how we can use visualization practices to fuel our ac...
253) Aditi Mayer: Decolonizing fashion and going beyond the tokenism of diversity
July 20, 2020 17:35 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Aditi Mayer is a photographer, journalist, and sustainable fashion blogger whose work explores the intersections of style, sustainability, and social justice. Her platform, Adimay, looks at the fashion industry through a lens of decolonization and intersectional feminism. In this podcast episode, Aditi ...
252) Harriet A. Washington [PART 2]: Understanding the 'deadly monopolies' of the medical-industrial-complex
July 16, 2020 17:35 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Harriet A. Washington is an award-winning medical writer and editor and the author of 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.' She is also the author of 'A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the Am...
251) Harriet A. Washington [PART 1]: How environmental racism persists with de facto segretation
July 13, 2020 17:35 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Harriet A. Washington is an award-winning medical writer and editor and the author of the best-selling book Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. She is also the author of A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and it...
250) Jerry Yudelson: Sustaining activism through cultivating a practice of eco-spirituality
July 09, 2020 17:35 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Jerry Yudelson is an engineer and the author of 12 professional books in the field of green building and sustainable development, including his latest book, The Godfather of Green: An Eco-Spiritual Memoir. Jerry was also a co-founder of the first Earth Day in 1970. In this podcast episode, Jerry sheds l...
249) James McSweeney: Closing the loop of 'food waste' with community-scale composting
July 06, 2020 17:35 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support James McSweeney is an educator, the owner of Compost Technical Services, and the author of Community-Scale Composting Systems: A Comprehensive Practical Guide for Closing the Food System Loop and Solving Our Waste Crisis. In this podcast episode, James sheds light on our so-called 'food waste' crisis, t...
248) Maxine Bédat: Setting new standards for 'sustainability' in the fashion industry
July 02, 2020 17:35 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Maxine Bédat is the founder and director of New Standard Institute, which is an information platform that seeks to bring together and accelerate existing sustainability efforts in the fashion industry and ensure that strong science and data drive change in the sector. In this podcast episode, Maxine she...
247) Tilke Elkins: Cultivating place-based relationships through wild botanical and mineral pigments
June 29, 2020 17:35 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Tilke Elkins is a multi-media social practice artist, and founder of Wild Pigment Project, an organization that promotes ecological balance and regenerative economies through a passion for wild pigments, their places of origin, and their cultural histories. In this podcast episode, Tilke sheds light on ...
246) William Defebaugh: Exploring the intricate balance between the flourishing and decay of life
June 25, 2020 17:35 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support William Defebaugh is the editor of the environmental magazine, Atmos, a storyteller, and astrology teacher who is passionate about using ancient practices to understand nature as the divine mirror. In this podcast episode, William sheds light on what it means to understand nature as a divine mirror; wha...
245) Gina Rae La Cerva: How our collective shift from eating wild to domesticated foods transformed our landscapes
June 22, 2020 17:35 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Gina Rae La Cerva is a geographer, an environmental anthropologist, an award-winning writer, and the author of the new book Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food, in which she traces our relationship to wild foods and shows what we sacrifice when we domesticate them—including biodiversity, Ind...
244) John Perkins: How economic hitmen perpetuate modern-day imperialism globally
June 18, 2020 17:35 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBJohn Perkins is an activist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man. His new book is Touching the Jaguar (we're giving away a gift copy on Patreon!). In this episode, John sheds light on what his work as an economic hit man entailed and how economic hitmen, to this day, perpetuate modern-day imperialism and colonialism; how we can transform our current death economy into a life economy; and more. If you've learned from or have been inspired by t...
243) Cristina Mittermeier: Inspiring care for our oceans and shared humanity with conservation photography
June 15, 2020 17:35 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Cristina Mittermeier is a photographer, conservationist, and marine biologist who founded the prestigious International League of Conservation Photographers and alongside her partner, Paul Nicklen, co-founded SeaLegacy—a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the ocean. Her latest project, Only One, will l...
242) Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin [PART 2]: Decolonizing the food system through integrative, regenerative agriculture
June 11, 2020 17:35 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin is the founder of Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, which is an ecosystem of industry leaders, farmer and public interest organizations, food sector businesses and cooperatives, tribes, and elected officials that are working together to scale up regenerative agriculture supply...
241) Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin [PART 1]: Reindigenizing our myopic views of poverty to achieve true wealth
June 08, 2020 17:35 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin is the founder of Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, which is an ecosystem of industry leaders, farmer and public interest organizations, food sector businesses and cooperatives, tribes, and elected officials that are working together to scale up regenerative agriculture supply...
REFLECT | Mark Charles: Building a nation where 'We The People' truly means All The People
June 01, 2020 17:35 - 45 minutes - 51.6 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support To help us process our current events including the police brutality against Mr. George Floyd, which highlights the continued, institutionalized racism and injustice still embedded in our society today, we're bringing back this vital past conversation from EP179 & EP180. Mark Charles is a dual citizen o...
240) Lonny Grafman: Building community resilience through decentralized resources and systems
May 28, 2020 17:35 - 41 minutes - 38 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Lonny Grafman is a professor of community-based design at Humboldt State University, the President of the Appropedia Foundation, director of the AWEsome Business Competition, and author of To Catch the Rain. In this podcast episode, Lonny sheds light on why it's so important for charity work to be comm...
239) Barbara Freese: Examining corporate denial from the slave trade to climate change
May 25, 2020 17:35 - 42 minutes - 39 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Barbara Freese is an environmental attorney, former Minnesota assistant attorney general, and author of several books including her latest, Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change. In this podcast episode, Barbara sheds...
238) Brigit Strawbridge Howard: Falling in love with our diversity of native bees and pollinators
May 21, 2020 17:35 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Brigit Strawbridge Howard is a bee advocate, speaker, wildlife gardener, and author of the new book, Dancing with Bees, a charming and eloquent account of rediscovering and reconnecting with the natural world. In this podcast episode, Brigit sheds light on all of the different and unique species of wild...
237) Debbie Levin: Harnessing the power of storytelling to shift popular culture
May 18, 2020 17:35 - 41 minutes - 38 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Debbie Levin is the CEO of the Environmental Media Association, also known as EMA, which is a nonprofit organization that aims to provide a unified voice for our planet through entertainment, storytelling, and education. In this podcast episode, Debbie sheds light on how she was able to help build excit...
236) Jeremy Courtney: Unveiling the ties between ecological degradation and global conflict
May 14, 2020 17:35 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Jeremy Courtney the author of Love Anyway, a global speaker on the integration of activism, spirituality, leadership, and service, and the founder and CEO of Preemptive Love, which is a relief and job-creation community working to end war. In this podcast episode, Jeremy sheds light on the relationship ...
235) Dr. Jeralee Anderson: Realizing the future of green roads and transport infrastructure
May 11, 2020 17:35 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Dr. Jeralee Anderson is the President, CEO, and co-founder of Greenroads International, a nonprofit organization that advances sustainability education and initiatives for transportation infrastructure. In this podcast episode, Dr. Anderson sheds light on the importance of considering the impacts of bui...
234) Mick Pearce: Using biomimicry for more bioregionally appropriate architectural design
May 07, 2020 17:35 - 44 minutes - 40.2 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Mick Pearce is a renowned architect who uses biomimicry to develop buildings that have low maintenance, low capital and running costs, and renewable energy systems. One of his most notable projects is the Eastgate Mall in Harare, Zimbabwe, which he drew inspiration from how termite mounds are able to pass...
233) Laura Wittig: Learning from the corporate world to elevate conscious businesses
May 04, 2020 17:35 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Laura Wittig is the Co-Founder and CEO of Brightly, which is a curated discovery platform for all things ethical + environmentally conscious. In this podcast episode, Laura sheds light on what independent, smaller socially and environmentally conscious businesses can learn from the corporate world to th...
232) Farmer Rishi: How regenerative language can light the way towards planetary healing
April 30, 2020 17:35 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Farmer Rishi, a former software engineer, is a gardening evangelist and small-scale farmer who uses gardening for personal, social, and ecological healing. He is the Executive Director of Sarvodaya Institute, co-founder of Healing Gardens Community, and lead gardening educator for Kiss the Ground. In th...
231) Robert H. Frank: Using peer pressure to reverse our inflating norms of material adequacy
April 27, 2020 17:35 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MB*We need your support to continue the show! If you've listened to more than a few episodes and have learned from our work, please join our Patreon today: www.greendreamer.com/support Robert H. Frank is a Professor of Management and Economics at Cornell University, Economic View columnist for the New York Times, and the author of many books, including his latest, Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work. In this podcast episode, Robert sheds light on what this current crisi...