Interviews with lively minds on a variety of topics
Archive for October, 2009
Interview with Tem Blessed
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Temistocles BleSSed is an activist who works to raise awareness regarding peace, love and social and environmental justice. After attending Bioneers 2007, Tem began to set up his own renewable energy company called BleSSed Energy.
Interview with Paul Hawken
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist and author. He is author and co-author of dozens of articles, op-eds and papers, as well as six books including The Ecology of Commerce (1993) and Blessed Unrest (2007). Paul heads the Natural Capital Institute, a research organization located in Sausalito, California, that has created WiserEarth, a open source networking platform that links NGO’s, funders, businesses, goverment, social entrepreneurs, students, organizers, academics, activists, scientists and citizens.
Interview with John Burt and Phloeun Prim
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 John Burt is the Founding Board Chair of Cambodian Living Arts (CLA). An independent theatrical producer for 25 years, Mr. Burt was most recently the Executive producer of the new CLA commission, Where Elephants Weep, the first Cambodian American opera. Phloeum Prim is the first Director of Cambodian Living Arts, founded by Arn Chorn-Pond. He is a Cambodian entrepreneur and business leader who has worked with CLA for many years as a Board member and executive consultant on strategic planning.
Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris is an American/Greek evolution biologist, futurist, author and consultant on Living Systems Design. Author of Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution; A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us and Biology Revisioned with Willis Harman.
Interview with Woody Tasch
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Woody Tasch is Chairman and President of Slow Money, a 501(c)3 organization formed in 2008 to catalyze the flow of investment capital to small food enterprises and to promote new principles of fiduciary responsibility to support sustainable agriculture and the emergence of a restorative economy.
Interview with Vandana Shiva
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Vandana Shiva, physicist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate, is the Director of The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy. She serves as an ecology advisor to several organizations including the Third World Network and the Asia Pacific People’s Environment Network. In 1993 she was the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”. She has also written several works include, Staying Alive, The Violence of the Green Revolution, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, Monocultures of the Mind and Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit.
Interview with Robin Chase
Monday, October 26th, 2009 Robin Chase is a transportation innovator. She was the founding CEO of Zipcar (the largest carsharing company in the world) and GoLoco (the first company to combine ridesharing, social networks, and easy payment). She writes, consults, and gives talks about the future of transportation and how to actually get there.
Interview with Peter Czarkowski
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 He is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At 21 he dropped out of college to assist those affected by Hurricane Katrina. Now 24, he leads a team of AmeriCorps volunteers from around the country. Eight in all, the group call themselves “Kill Squad” because of their desire to kill apathy. They are currently working with the Marion Institute to help host the 5th annual Bioneers by the Bay conference in New Bedford.
Interview with Clemens Pietzner
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Our Love And/Or Our Money. Does time present us with a unique opportunity to think, feel and “do” our money differently. Clemens Pietzner is the President of Triskeles for more information go to www.triskeles.org
Interview with Mercy Bell and David
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Mercy and David sang on stage at the Bioneer’s by the Bay conference.
Interview with Nipun Mehta
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Nipun Mehta is the founder of Charity Focus a fully volunteer driven organization started in 1999. Charity Focus has now become an incubator of gift-economy projects ranging from web services to a film production company to a print magazine to a restaurant. With a membership of 250.000, they attract millions of viewers to their website, charityfocus.org
Interview with Paul Epstein
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Clean energy solutions can stimulate business opportunities and job creation. All proposed technologies must also be examined as to their health and safety, environmental impact, the economic feasibility and benefits. Life cycles analysis can help separate those technologies that are “no regrets” -and can be invested in today- from those that require further study.
Interview with Juan Pacheco
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Mr Pacheco’s motivation comes from his own life experience. As a youth, he was involved in a gang which took many things away from him. Now he is working at helping other young people turn their lives around. He was a gang member in the past that will become a great physician. He is at Georges Mason University attaining his Pre-Med degree.
Interview with Jim Peters
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Jim Peters is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Indian Affairs. He is a member of the Mashpee tribe and a member of the Wampanog singers and dancers.
Interview with Will Allen
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Will Allen is an urban farmer who is transforming the cultivation, production and delivery of foods to underserved urban population. He says it’s all about the soil.
Interview with Joan Brooks Baker
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Joan Brooks Baker is a career photographer. Her work has been shown in many places including The United Nations. She has lived in Santa Fe for 25 years. She also loves New York where she was born and brought up. Joan Brooks Baker has been traveling the world investigating the mysteries of the Black Madonna. In this interview she speaks of the dark feminine and tells us how that wisdom and mystery has influenced her work, particularly in her portraits of women. Recently she gave a keynote presentation on the subject at the Spanish Colonial Art museum in Santa Fe. [More from Baker's website]
Interview with Paul Six
Friday, October 9th, 2009 Paul Six has been a student and practitioner of astrology since 1974. He has traveled to the far corners of the globe conducting workshops and private consultations for over 15,000 people in thirteen countries.
Interview with Jerome Bernstein
Monday, October 5th, 2009 Jerome S. Bernstein is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist, and author of Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma. He was the founding president of the C. G. Jung Analysts Association of the Greater Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area, vice-president of the C. G. Jung Institute of New York, and past-president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe. He is currently on the teaching faculty of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe. [More from Bernstein's website]
Interview with Elaine Pagels
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey, (born February 13, 1943), is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic Gospels. Her popular books include, The Gnostic Gospels (1979), Adam, Eve and the Serpent (1988), The Origin of Satan (1995), Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (2003), and Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (2007).
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