Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

REFLECT | Tristram Stuart: Uncovering and addressing the global food waste scandal

03 Dec 2020

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REFLECT | Sean Sherman: Revitalizing Native American foods and re-identifying North American cuisine

27 Nov 2020

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REFLECT | Dr. Tim Kasser: The psychology of materialism and why we're wired to want more stuff

19 Nov 2020

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280) Luisa Maffi [PART 2]: Uniting in support of a global biocultural extinction rebellion

12 Nov 2020

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279) Luisa Maffi [PART 1]: Weaving together biological diversity and cultural and language diversity

10 Nov 2020

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278) Dr. Chelsea Mikael Frazier: Learning environmentalism through the lens of Black feminism

05 Nov 2020

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277) Briony Penn: Inspiring deeper connections to place through community mapping

02 Nov 2020

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276) Jesse McDougall: Welcoming wildlife and biological abundance to regenerative agroecosystems

29 Oct 2020

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275) Sophie Ackoff: Decentralizing power in agriculture to support the next generation of farmers

26 Oct 2020

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274) Acadia Tucker: Seeding resilience through growing perennial and victory gardens

22 Oct 2020

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273) Dr. Kimberly McGlonn: Questioning the criminalization of poverty and struggle that perpetuates systemic injustice

19 Oct 2020

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272) Dr. Lauren Baker: Preserving seed diversity to strengthen human health and ecological resilience

15 Oct 2020

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271) Owen Wormser: Regenerating life and landscapes by turning lawns into meadows

12 Oct 2020

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270) Guillaume Pitron: Unmasking 'green' energy's social injustice and environmental costs

08 Oct 2020

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269) Teresa Coady: Redesigning built environments for life rather than machines

05 Oct 2020

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268) Maurie Cohen: Looking past individualism to seeing consumerism through a systemic lens

01 Oct 2020

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267) Sasha Duerr: Natural colors and the convergence of slow food and slow fashion

28 Sep 2020

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266) Jeff Tkach: Connecting functional medicine and regenerative agriculture for our collective health

24 Sep 2020

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265) Mikaela Loach: Distinguishing ecofascism and dismantling white supremacy in environmentalism

21 Sep 2020

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264) Charles Eisenstein [PART 2]: Reintegrating our humanity into the tribe of all life on Earth

17 Sep 2020

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263) Charles Eisenstein [PART 1]: Beyond the war mentality against climate change, criminal justice, coronavirus

14 Sep 2020

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262) Dr. Jared Ball: Critically examining impact over optics in support of Black liberation

10 Sep 2020

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261) Dr. Vandana Shiva: Seeding freedom in this time of Oneness vs. the 1%

07 Sep 2020

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PREVIEW | Green Dreamer's 2020 Fall Season launches 9/7!

03 Sep 2020

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Green Dreamer's upcoming season, launching 9/7, explores a wide variety of topics—such as biocultural diversity, turning lawns into meadows, colonia...

REFLECT | Leah Penniman: Empowering farmers of color and dismantling racism in the food system

17 Aug 2020

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260) Rutger Bregman: Transforming our future by relearning a hopeful history of humankind

13 Aug 2020

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259) Shubhendu Sharma: Using cultural and historical knowledge to support regenerative reforestation

10 Aug 2020

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258) Judith D. Schwartz: Healing the water cycle to restore climate and ecological balance

06 Aug 2020

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257) Margaret Klein Salamon: The psychology of influencing change and facing the climate emergency

03 Aug 2020

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256) Kevin Wilhelm: Finding common ground in the age of a global pandemic and climate change

30 Jul 2020

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255) Natalie Bogwalker: Building resilience with permaculture and primitive skills

27 Jul 2020

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254) Rob Hopkins: Practicing eco-visualizations to go "from what is to what if"

23 Jul 2020

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253) Aditi Mayer: Decolonizing fashion and going beyond the tokenism of diversity

20 Jul 2020

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252) Harriet A. Washington [PART 2]: Understanding the 'deadly monopolies' of the medical-industrial-complex

16 Jul 2020

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251) Harriet A. Washington [PART 1]: How environmental racism persists with de facto segretation

13 Jul 2020

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250) Jerry Yudelson: Sustaining activism through cultivating a practice of eco-spirituality

09 Jul 2020

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249) James McSweeney: Closing the loop of 'food waste' with community-scale composting

06 Jul 2020

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248) Maxine Bédat: Setting new standards for 'sustainability' in the fashion industry

02 Jul 2020

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247) Tilke Elkins: Cultivating place-based relationships through wild botanical and mineral pigments

29 Jun 2020

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246) William Defebaugh: Exploring the intricate balance between the flourishing and decay of life

25 Jun 2020

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245) Gina Rae La Cerva: How our collective shift from eating wild to domesticated foods transformed our landscapes

22 Jun 2020

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244) John Perkins: How economic hitmen perpetuate modern-day imperialism globally

18 Jun 2020

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John 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 (w...

243) Cristina Mittermeier: Inspiring care for our oceans and shared humanity with conservation photography

15 Jun 2020

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242) Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin [PART 2]: Decolonizing the food system through integrative, regenerative agriculture

11 Jun 2020

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241) Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin [PART 1]: Reindigenizing our myopic views of poverty to achieve true wealth

08 Jun 2020

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REFLECT | Mark Charles: Building a nation where 'We The People' truly means All The People

01 Jun 2020

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240) Lonny Grafman: Building community resilience through decentralized resources and systems

28 May 2020

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239) Barbara Freese: Examining corporate denial from the slave trade to climate change

25 May 2020

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238) Brigit Strawbridge Howard: Falling in love with our diversity of native bees and pollinators

21 May 2020

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237) Debbie Levin: Harnessing the power of storytelling to shift popular culture

18 May 2020

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236) Jeremy Courtney: Unveiling the ties between ecological degradation and global conflict

14 May 2020

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235) Dr. Jeralee Anderson: Realizing the future of green roads and transport infrastructure

11 May 2020

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234) Mick Pearce: Using biomimicry for more bioregionally appropriate architectural design

07 May 2020

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233) Laura Wittig: Learning from the corporate world to elevate conscious businesses

04 May 2020

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232) Farmer Rishi: How regenerative language can light the way towards planetary healing

30 Apr 2020

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231) Robert H. Frank: Using peer pressure to reverse our inflating norms of material adequacy

27 Apr 2020

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230) Melyssa Watson: Uniting people to protect America’s wild places

23 Apr 2020

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229) David Quammen: Zoonosis and human pandemics exacerbated by ecological disruption

20 Apr 2020

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228) Ruskin Hartley: Addressing light pollution to protect our dark night skies

16 Apr 2020

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227) Rebecca Henderson: ‘Reimagining capitalism in a world on fire’

13 Apr 2020

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Rebecca Henderson is an economist, researcher, Harvard professor, and author of the new book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire. In this podc...

226) Dr. Zach Bush [PART 2]: Restoring our ecological and human regenerative capacities to heal

09 Apr 2020

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Dr. Zach Bush is a renowned, multi-disciplinary physician of internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care, and an internationally recognized ed...

225) Dr. Zach Bush [PART 1]: How agricultural soil health has impacted our public health

06 Apr 2020

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Dr. Zach Bush is a renowned, multi-disciplinary physician of internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care, and an internationally recognized ed...

224) Ryland Engelhart: Embodying gratitude and love through business and soil regeneration

30 Mar 2020

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Ryland Engelhart is the co-owner of Cafe Gratitude and Gracias Madre and the co-founder of Kiss The Ground, which is a nonprofit that educates and a...

223) Galina Angarova: Why preserving cultural and language diversity is vital to protecting biodiversity

23 Mar 2020

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Galina Angarova is a longtime advocate for Indigenous people's groups and the Executive Director of Cultural Survival, which is a nonprofit organizat...

222) Austin Whitman: Decarbonizing the economy with the Climate Neutral Certification

19 Mar 2020

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Austin Whitman is the CEO of Climate Neutral, a new platform helping brands measure, reduce, and offset their entire carbon footprint in a comprehens...

221) Jason Bradford: Uncovering the unsustainable systems that underlie cities and the case for reruralization

16 Mar 2020

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Jason Bradford is a biologist, farmer, and the Board President of the Post Carbon Institute, an organization that provides individuals and communitie...

220) Ane Alencar: Battling the Amazon's ongoing deforestation and forest fires

12 Mar 2020

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Ane Alencar is the Director of Science for the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, a scientific, non-governmental, nonpartisan, and nonprofit org...

219) Rob Greenfield: Seeing past our socially constructed normalcy to find health and happiness

09 Mar 2020

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Rob Greenfield (previously featured in episode 98) is an activist and humanitarian dedicated to sustainability, equality, and justice. He just spent a...

218) Ezra Silk: Moving into emergency mode to address our ecological breakdown

05 Mar 2020

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Ezra Silk is the co-founder of The Climate Mobilization and the author of the organization's 108-page Victory Plan, which is an influential exploratio...

217) Ronnie Cummins: Building a grassroots movement for the regeneration revolution

02 Mar 2020

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Ronnie Cummins is the co-founder of the Organic Consumers Association and its affiliate in Mexico, Via Organica, as well as a member of the Steering C...

216) Ashleigh Brown: Reversing desertification and regenerating life on degraded lands

27 Feb 2020

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Ashleigh Brown is the co-founder of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, which is a grassroots nonprofit organization that builds research, training and innov...

215) Christopher D. Cook: How our subsidies and trade deals enabled the broken globalized food system

24 Feb 2020

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Christopher D. Cook is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of the acclaimed book, Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Comin...

214) Dr. Daphne Miller: Taking a more holistic view on personal and planetary health

20 Feb 2020

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Dr. Daphne Miller is a family physician, science writer, research scientist, author, and Clinical Professor at the University of California San Franc...

213) Dr. Christopher Ryan: Debunking the myths of civilization and learning from prehistoric humans

17 Feb 2020

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Dr. Christopher Ryan is a psychologist, the podcast host of Tangentially Speaking, and the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller Sex at Dawn: Ho...

212) Shaun Chamberlin: How endless economic growth is incompatible with supporting life on earth

13 Feb 2020

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Shaun Chamberlin is the founder of Dark Optimism, a not-for-profit, research and activist organization that is positive about the kind of world humani...

211) Pierre Paslier: Reimagining the ways we package and consume beverages

10 Feb 2020

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Pierre Paslier is an innovation design engineer and the co-founder and co-CEO of NOTPLA an innovative, eco-conscious packaging startup. His company'...

210) Rebecca Burgess [Part 2]: Building relational, regenerative systems with localized Fibersheds

06 Feb 2020

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Rebecca Burgess is the Executive Director of Fibershed, Chair of the Board for Carbon Cycle Institute, and the author of Harvesting Color and Fibershe...

209) Rebecca Burgess [Part 1]: Revealing the false promises of synthetic biology

03 Feb 2020

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Rebecca Burgess, previously featured in episode 61, is the Executive Director of Fibershed, Chair of the Board for Carbon Cycle Institute, and the aut...

208) Dory Trimble: Supporting energy sovereignty by providing access to solar power

30 Jan 2020

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Dory Trimble is the Executive Director of Honnold Foundation, a nonprofit organization started by Alex Honnold, the professional rock climber and sta...

207) Josué Rivas: Building empathy through deep and intentional photojournalism

27 Jan 2020

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Josué Rivas is the founder of Natives Photograph and a visual storyteller and educator working at the intersection of art, journalism, and social ju...

206) Amy Lewis: Using political science to inform how we can best effectuate change

23 Jan 2020

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Amy Lewis is an award-winning non-profit leader, environmental policy scholar, and Vice President of Policy & Communications for WILD Foundation, ...

205) Steven Marquardt: Turning fear into community-based activism with Sunrise Movement

20 Jan 2020

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Steven Marquardt is a community organizer and Hub Coordinator Fellow with Sunrise Movement Chico, a chapter of the notable youth-led climate activist...

204) Kristie Reddick & Jessica Honaker: What bugs can teach us about Social-Emotional Learning

16 Jan 2020

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Entomologists Kristie Reddick and Jessica Honaker are the co-founders of The Bug Chicks. They teach about arthropods (and Social-Emotional Learning)...

203) Pete Gombert: How affordable housing impacts public health and environmental justice

13 Jan 2020

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Pete Gombert is the founder of the GoodWell Certified label and a co-founder of indieDwell, a Public Benefit Corporation focused on building durable, ...

202) Mark Vossler: Acknowledging climate change as a public health threat that will affect everyone

09 Jan 2020

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Dr. Mark Vossler is a full-time cardiologist in Seattle, Washington and serves as the President of the Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Re...

201) Elizabeth Whitlow: How the Regenerative Organic Certification is raising the bar for agricultural practices

06 Jan 2020

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Elizabeth Whitlow is the Executive Director of the Regenerative Organic Alliance, which is a nonprofit that is leading the Regenerative Organic Certif...

200) Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali: Realizing the power we each have to enact positive change

19 Dec 2019

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Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali is an internationally renowned thought-leader, strategist, policymaker, and activist committed to the fight for environmental...

199) Michael Brune: Enjoying and exploring wild spaces to sustain environmental activism

16 Dec 2019

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Michael Brune is the Executive Director of Sierra Club, one of the most enduring and influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United...

198) Angelou Ezeilo: Connecting underrepresented youth to the outdoors and careers in conservation

12 Dec 2019

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Angelou Ezeilo is the Founder and CEO of Greening Youth Foundation, an organization that connects underrepresented youth and young adults to the outdo...

197) Kathleen Draper: Using biochar to restore our biological and manmade carbon cycle

09 Dec 2019

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Kathleen Draper is the author of the blog 'Finger Lakes Biochar' and the book 'BURN: Using Fire to Cool the Earth.' She's also a researcher and commun...

196) Stephen Tan: Remaining critical of the health and safety guidelines provided by governmental agencies

05 Dec 2019

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Stephen Tan is a partner at the environmental law firm, Cascadia Law Group, where their practice centers around environmental litigation In this podca...

195) Rob Horton: Creating community gardens in food deserts to improve access to good health

02 Dec 2019

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Rob Horton is the founder and Executive Director of Trap Garden, a nonprofit and social enterprise that provides healthy, high-quality foods for food...

194) Naziha Mestaoui: Co-creating ecological art with the Amazon's Huni Kuin Tribe

28 Nov 2019

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Naziha Mestaoui is an ecological artist and architect whose unique approach merges space, imagery, and technological innovations to create innovative...

193) Peter Bosshard: Stopping our insurance companies from investing in and insuring coal

25 Nov 2019

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Peter Bosshard is the campaign coordinator of the Unfriend Coal campaign and the Finance Program Director of Sunrise Project, an organization with a ...

192) Fred Provenza [PART 2]: Balancing the acceptance of Earth's ongoing transformations with our power to enact change

21 Nov 2019

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Fred Provenza is the author of over 250 publications and several books, his latest one being 'Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscoveri...

191) Fred Provenza [PART 1]: What behavioral ecology teaches us about the wisdom of the palate

18 Nov 2019

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Fred Provenza is the author of over 250 publications and several books, his latest one being 'Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscoveri...

190) Dr. Chris Newman: The role of doctors in leading action on climate change

14 Nov 2019

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Dr. Chris Newman is a family physician from London, UK and the founder of the Doctors for Extinction Rebellion Movement. He founded Doctors for XR in...

189) Dr. M. Jackson: The multifaceted stories of our glaciers and the people who live alongside of them

11 Nov 2019

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Dr. M. Jackson is a geographer, glaciologist, and National Geographic Society Explorer. She was also a 2018 TED Fellow and is the author of the nonfi...

188) Murray Fisher: Restoring the New York Harbor to the thriving marine ecosystem it once was

07 Nov 2019

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Murray Fisher is the founder of the New York Harbor School and the co-founder of the Billion Oyster Project, a nonprofit working to restore oyster r...

187) Mark Hoddle: Navigating the complex fight against anthropogenic invasive species

04 Nov 2019

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Mark Hoddle is an entomologist at the University of California Riverside, where he researches biological control and management of invasive species, e...