Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley

Della Z Duncan is my guest on Episode 179 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Links in Bio LinkTree 🌳 to Podcasts. Della is a Renegade Economist who supports individuals as a Right Livelihood Coach, helps transition businesses as a post-capitalist consultant, and hosts the Upstream Podcast challenging mainstream economic thinking through documentaries and conversations including, The Green Transition: The Problem with Green Capitalism and The Myth of Freedom Under Capitalism. Della is also the creator and co-teacher of the Cultivating Regenerative Livelihoods program and co-teacher of the Economics Dimension course at Gaia Education, a Work that Reconnects Facilitator, the Course Development Manager of Fritjof Capra’s Capra Course on the Systems View of Life, a founding member of the California Doughnut Economics Coalition, a Senior Fellow of Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics, a Gross National Happiness Master Trainer, and a Senior Lecturer at the California Institute of Integral Studies. https://www.dellazduncan.com/

Loretta Hieber Girardet is my guest on Episode 178 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Lori is the Chief of the Risk Knowledge, Monitoring and Capacity-Development Branch covering risk information and analytics, climate change, disaster loss and monitoring data and capacity-building for UNDRR Disaster Risk Reduction globally. Previously, she served as Chief of the UNDRR Asia-Pacific regional office, covering 38 of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. Lori served in various management positions at OCHA for over a decade before joining UNDRR, including overseeing the global Cluster coordination mechanism and having responsibility for IASC mechanisms on coordinated humanitarian needs assessments. She also has a background in public health and worked for the World Health Organization in various capacities, including in emergency contexts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and sub-Saharan Africa. Her experience in emergency contexts spans more than 25 years and she is the author of several publications including Lifeline Media: Reaching Populations in Crises which promotes greater accountability to people affected by disasters. Her academic background includes fellowships and degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health and University of Paris-Assas. GAR Special Report 2023 ‘Mapping Resilience for the Sustainable Development Goals’ https://www.undrr.org/

Daniel Christian Wahl is my guest on Episode 177 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Daniel Christian Wahl is one of the catalysts of the rising reGeneration and the author of Designing Regenerative Cultures - so far translated into seven languages. He works as a consultant, educator and activist with NGOs, businesses, governments and global change agents. With degrees in biology and holistic science, and a PhD in Design for Human and Planetary Health, his work has influenced the emerging fields of regenerative design and salutogenic design. Winner of the 2021 RSA Bicentenary Medal for applying design in service to society. Awarded a two year Volans-Fellowship in 2022. Daniel Christian Wahl holds degrees in Biology (BSc. Hons., Univ. of Edinburgh, 1996), HolisticScience (MSc., Schumacher College, 2002), and a Ph.D. in Design (Univ. of Dundee 2006) on 'Design for Human and Planetary Health. Daniel lives in Mallorca where he helped to set up SMART UIB and works locally and internationally as a consultant, educator, and activist. Among his clients have been Ecover, Forum for the Future, Camper, and Balears.t, Save the Med, Lush, UNITAR, UK Foresight, Cloudburst Foundation, and many universities and NGOs. He has been on the academic working group of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) and has been linked to GEN for almost 20 years. Daniel has worked closely with Gaia Education since 2007 and contributed to the development of their Design for Sustainability online course and co-authored the current versions of all four dimensions of the curriculum. He also wrote the content and developed the concept of Gaia Education's SDGs Flashcards which with the support of UNESCO are now translated into 7 languages. His 2016 book 'Designing Regenerative Cultures' has helped to define the field of regenerative design and has been translated into 8 languages so far. In 2021 the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture, and Commerce - founded in 1754 - awarded Daniel with the Bicentenary Medal for "an outstanding and demonstrable contribution, through ... design practice, towards an equitable and regenerative world." He has been awarded a Volans Fellowship for 2022 and 2023 by John Elkington in support of past and ongoing work. Daniel trained as a biologist and holds degrees in Biology (BSc. Hons., Univ. of Edinburgh), Holistic Science (MSc., Schumacher College), and Natural Design (PhD., Univ. of Dundee). He was the director of Findhorn College from 2007 to 2010, is a member of the International Futures Forum and H3Uni, an advocation partner of r3.0, and on the advisory councils of Ecosystems Restoration Camps, Commonland, the Ojai Foundation, Future Planet Europe, the Centre for the Future and the Overview Institute of Australia, as well as a Findhorn Foundation Fellow. Daniel teaches regularly on the MA in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College. Daniel's 2016 book 'Designing Regenerative Cultures' has quickly gained international acclaim, his Blog on Medium is followed by over 20,000 people and his social media advocacy has a combined audience of over 450,000 people around the world. https://www.danielchristianwahl.com

Felix Dodds and Chris Spence are my guests on Episode 174 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.   Heroes of Environmental Diplomacy Felix Dodds has been a leading thinker in the area of global governance for thirty years. Now a Vice President Multilateral Affairs. Rob and Melani Walton Sustainable Solutions Service (RMWSSS) at Arizona State University and an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina.  Previously he was an advisor to the Ford Foundation and their grantees for the development of the Sustainable Development Goals.  He was the co-founder of the Communitas Coalition for supporting SDG 11 on Sustainable Cities and Communities.  From 1992-2012 he was Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum and during that time he chaired the first UN Conference to come out with a set of indicative SDGs in September 2011. He has edited or written 24 books on sustainable development. His most recent book with Chris Spence is Heroes of Environmental Diplomacy: Profiles in Courage.  He also co-wrote Negotiating the SDGs which explained how the SDGs came about and who the key players were with Ambassador David Donoghue and Jimena Leiva Roesch and Only One Planet with the father of Sustainable Development Maurice Strong and Michael Strauss. Chris Spence is a writer and environmentalist. He has worked internationally on sustainable development, conservation, climate change and health policy, and he held leadership positions at non-profit organizations in New York, New Zealand and California.  He also consulted widely for the United Nations, IUCN-World Conservation Union and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), and he has undertaken assignments in more than 40 countries on five continents, focused, in particular, on climate change and sustainable development policy and practice, as well as international law. He has also served as a political advisor and journalist and been on the boards of several environmental organizations.  An award-winning writer, Chris is the author or co-author of several books, including Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Rock Happy (2021). He holds MA (Hons) and BA degrees in Political Science and History from Victoria University. Originally from the United Kingdom, Chris lived in New Zealand, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to Ireland in 2020, where he currently lives with his family. TDK The Band SF Bay Area Band www.felixdodds.net  http://blog.felixdodds.net/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dodds http://chrisspenceauthor.com/ Routledge Taylor & Francis Group @routledgebooks https://www.routledge.com/ https://taylorandfrancis.com/ https://www.informa.com/ https://twitter.com/informaplc https://www.linkedin.com/company/taylor-&-francis-group/ https://www.instagram.com/tandfscience/ https://www.instagram.com/routledgeeoe/ https://twitter.com/routledgebooks/ https://twitter.com/tandfonline #HeroesofEnvironmentalDiplomacy #Felixdodds #chrisspence #SDGs #diplomacy #environment #sustainability #un  Please like, subscribe, and watch us on our podcast from Innovators Magazine and OnePoint5 Media. It is available on Social media, YouTube, Apple News, Medium, Goodreads, Spotify, iTunes News, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Anchor, Player FM, Radio Public, Breaker, Castbox, Overcast, Get Podcasts, and Pocket Casts.

Garry Pratt is my guest on Episode 172 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Links in Bio LinkTree 🌳  to Podcasts.   Garry is the co-founder of Earswitch, an innovative sensor technology start-up. He was previously Entrepreneur in Residence and a Teaching Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the University of Bath, where he ran an accelerator programme that supported high-tech, high-growth digital start-ups in areas such as med-tech, AR/VR and AI.    Garry has held senior positions in the pre-dotcom tech world across the US and Europe and is the co-founder of Teachit, a leading educational digital  content provider.    The Creativity Factor offers scientific and practical evidence for entrepreneurial creativity, with advice on the mechanisms, habits, and techniques that develop this skill. This uniquely holistic guide will provide you with a newfound awareness of your creative potential and how it can lead to business success. https://garrypratt.co.uk/

Laura Storm is my guest on Episode 169 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.Laura is an international keynote speaker, author, advisor and expert on sustainability and regenerative leadership and has spent her entire career advising global leaders on sustainability and building impact- and purpose-driven organizations, and movements. All have they focused on the global transformation to sustainability and they include the Copenhagen Climate Council, the World Business Summit on Climate Change, Project Green Light and Sustainia.In 2018, she founded Regenerators - a collective focused on nature-inspired regenerative design, organizations, leadership and living. She is the co-author of the much-praised book Regenerative Leadership and for her work, she has been awarded the title ‘Worldchanger’ by Greenbiz, is selected by the World Economic Forum as a ‘Young Global Leader’ and named one world’s leading women in the sustainability & regeneration by Sustainable Brands.She serves on multiple Boards and on the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network as an expert in sustainable development and climate change. Her academic background is a Master in Political Communication and Leadership from Copenhagen Business School.Laura lives on a permaculture farm in Portugal with her partner Ulrik, daughter Roxie and son Karlo. https://laura-storm.com/

Pascal Morgan is my guest on Episode 165 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Pascal is a Technology pioneer, creative thinker, passionate speaker, and cross-industry digital transformation advisor. As the founder of think.speak.transform., he looks back at over 30 years in IT, Technology, Media, and Innovation as Executive and strategist for Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders such as Coca-Cola, Deutsche Telekom, AOL, and Pixelpark. He is a member of the faculty at futur/io Institute for Emerging Technologies, a senior mentor at Germantech, business coach for start-ups, co-founder of the company builder United Peers, and previous Board member of the European Technology Chamber and chairman of their Academy commission. Driven by exploring, connecting, and researching on transformation, disruptive technologies, new business models, and global societal challenges for a sustainable future. With a love for coffee, gadgets, and people.   https://think-speak-transform.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/think-speak-transform/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascalmorgan/ #thinkspeaktransform #pascalmorgan #journeytothefuture #futurism #transformation #innovation #pioneering technologies #leadership

Lisa Whited is my guest on Episode 163 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Lisa believes in the art of possibility. She has a passion for improving processes and workplaces. Lisa has a holistic outlook on work: it has a ripple effect on our communities, society, and the planet. She is a change management strategist who is driven to make a dent in the abysmal Gallup statistic that 80% of people worldwide are disengaged at work.   Lisa has an MS in Organization and Management from Antioch University and holds certifications in mediation, facilitation, and interior design. She speaks and writes about the future of work, building community, and ensuring all voices are heard in a change process. Lisa consults with companies large and small, local, and global. Her recent engagements have been helping business leaders figure out what the future of work will look like in a post-COVID-19 world.   Lisa is founder and chief transformation officer of Workplace Transformation Facilitation and serves as a Senior Associate to Advanced Workplace Associates, a global change management consultancy based in the UK.   Lisa and her husband, Pete Chanis, have three children, two cats and one dog and live in Portland, Maine.   https://www.workbettersavetheplanet.com

Dr. Elaine R. Ingham is my guest on Episode 162 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Dr. Elaine Ingham uncovered the Soil Food Web nearly 4 decades ago and has been pioneering research about Soil Food Web ever since. Widely recognized as the world’s foremost soil biologist, she’s passionate about empowering people to bring the soils in their communities back to life.  Dr. Elaine’sTM Soil Food Web Approach has been used to successfully restore the ecological functions of soils on more than five million acres of farmland all over the world. The courses offered by Dr. Elaine’sTM Soil Food Web School have been designed for people with, or without, a science background - making them accessible to individuals who wish to learn and to begin a meaningful and impactful career in an area that will help to secure the survival of humans and other species.  B.A., Biology and Chemistry, St. Olaf College M.S., Microbiology, Texas A&M University Ph.D., Microbiology, Colorado State University Founder and President, Soil Food Web Inc. Director, Soil Food Web School.

Michael Shaun Conaway is my guest on Episode 161 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Michael Shaun is endlessly curious about how life works, why we do things the way we do, and how we might do them differently. This led him to become a phenomenological philosopher – someone who examines life from the way life shows up moment to moment. His current work in Being and Time is rooted in this tradition.   Michael Shaun’s purpose in life is to unleash greatness to bring about a thriving future. His mission is to empower and accelerate the redesign of our failing systems to create an anti-fragile, anti-rival world, one that works for all.   To this end he helped to create the field of Generative Futurism, the practice of generating or envisioning desirable futures at near and long timeframes, back-casting steps it would take to realize that future and then acting to take those steps moving forward in time. Simply put, this is the capacity to see and realize futures.   Michael Shaun is a frequent speaker on long-term strategy, the future, and being and time. His keynotes have the uncanny power to shift culture by building a new narrative for the audience. His talks are journeys designed to leave the audience seeing from a new reality.   Michael Shaun Conaway is the founder of five highly successful ventures. He is an award-winning filmmaker, editing publisher of PROOF magazine, founder of Bold.ly NOW, an entrepreneur education platform, CEO of Storyworks, a social impact creative agency, and the non-profit Generative Futures initiative.   Michael Shaun is the director of the award-winning documentary feature, WeRiseUP, a culture-shifting film featuring key global leaders. WeRiseUP asks a fundamental question: What is success for humanity?   Michael Shaun started his career in the mid-nineties as a writer/director for video games. By 2000 his creative agency, Storyworks became the go to agency for high tech companies looking to create visions of the future.   https://thegenerativefuturist.com

Corinne Sawers and Eric Lonergan are my guests on Episode 160 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Corinne started her career at the UN, working on climate change. She has been advising global businesses and governments on climate and sustainability for more than a decade. She is co-founder of the not-for-profit More United.  Eric is a policy economist and author with more than twenty years of experience in financial markets. He is co-author with Mark Blyth of the international bestseller Angrynomics (Agenda, 2020). He has written extensively on innovations in monetary policy and frequently contributes to the Financial Times.  Supercharge Me is a fast-paced, clearly-written, manual on how to accelerate the green transition. Written by Eric Lonergan, a leading policy economist and author of the bestseller, Angrynomics (FT critics book of the year 2020), and Corinne Sawers, a sustainability and climate expert, the book introduces the concept of "supercharging", a new framework for accelerating our response to climate change. Through a series of high-impact policy hacks, Supercharge Me will embolden activists, reinvigorate the disheartened, and reframe the climate crisis as an opportunity.  The book is structured as a dialogue, where Lonergan’s expertise in markets and economics is combined with Sawers’ extensive knowledge of the climate challenge and business transformation. The authors’ appreciation of the realities of human psychology, politics, and how companies work, makes this one of the most accessible and practical guides to the climate crisis.  https://www.superchargeme.org/

My guest today on this Special Edition of Inside Ideas is Dr Roland Strauss - one of the most influential figures within the European innovation landscape.  For well over a decade, in his role as Founder of the nonprofit, Knowledge4Innovation, he has been the driving force behind the European Innovation Summit held annually in the European Parliament, which brings European commissioners and MEPs face-to-face with the needs of the company’s, organisations, ideas and startups driving innovation across the continent.   Now, as Europe begins laying out its plans for delivering on its vision to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, it is the role of innovation that will again take centre stage.   And as the key innovation platform at the heart of the European institutions, with the support of dozens of MEPs, it is the K4I Forum in the European Parliament - sitting at the crossroads between politics; businesses; startups; academia and wider society, which is perfectly placed to help define the leading role it will play in achieving this net-zero future.  Right now, Dr Strauss and K4I are doing that most notably by leading the charge for the development of a European Innovation Area - a single ecosystem for innovation across the continent that can harness the collective power of progress to achieve a just transition towards a sustainable Europe that truly works for all.   The journey towards achieving this ecosystem is well underway, with the inaugural European Innovation Area Summit – led by K4I – set to take place in the European Parliament next month.  So, this is the perfect time to welcome Dr Strauss onto Inside Ideas to discover more about the European Innovation Area and its first ever summit.   https://www.europeaninnovationarea.eu

Nicole Masters is my guest on Episode 159 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Nicole is an independent agroecologist, pattern thinker, author, and educator. For over 2 decades Nicole is recognized as a knowledgeable and dynamic speaker on the topic of soil health.           CREATE coaching program Application deadline May 15th - Course begins in June. CREATE is the ultimate ag professional development program for highly-motivated people serious about making a real difference in food/fiber production.  The program is a bespoke intensive, designed to deliver and empower highly trained, capable, and confident agroecological coaches and consultants out into the world. Learn more about the CREATE coaching program at www.integritysoils.co.nz                                                                Nicole's experience has spanned diverse sectors from community gardens and horticulture to vermiculture, compost tea production, and diverse multi-species systems. Her company, Integrity Soils delivers coaching and educational programs to producers and organizations spanning over 24 million acres. In 2021 Integrity Soils shifted away from in-person consultancy, to focus on training the next generation of coaches. Her first self-published book titled “For the Love of Soil; Strategies to Regenerate our Food Production Systems,” showcases examples of the tools, principles, and mindset producers adopt to regenerate their soils.  When the roads are good, you’ll find her traveling in her Ford 350, horse trailer in tow, working alongside producers to build soil and sink her carbon emissions.   https://www.integritysoils.co.nz/

Nicholas P. Sullivan is my guest on Episode 158 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.   Nicholas is a writer and editor focusing on the impact of business and technology on international development. The Blue Revolution is his fourth book. It follows Money, Real Quick: Kenya’s Disruptive Mobile Money Innovation; You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones Are Connecting the World’s Poor to the Global Economy; and Computer Power for Your Small Business. He has been codirector of The Fletcher School’s Leadership Program for Financial Inclusion (Tufts University), a consultant to central banks in developing countries, and a visiting scholar at MIT’s Legatum Center for International Development. In the publishing world, he was publisher of Innovations: Technology/Governance/Globalization (MIT Press); editor-in-chief of Inc.com; and editor-in-chief of Home Office Computing. Sullivan is currently a Senior Fellow at The Fletcher School’s Council on Emerging Market Enterprises and a Senior Research Fellow at its Maritime Studies Program. Sullivan has twice been a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow. A graduate of Harvard University and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, he lives in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.  https://islandpress.org/books/blue-revolution

Steven Ramage is my guest on Episode 157 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Steven’s lowest grade (C) at school was geography, but he has been working in the geospatial sector and evangelizing location as the third global currency alongside time and money for the last two decades. Steven started studying French, German, Russian and Spanish in the 80s, but moved to commerce and information systems because his grandfather (who supported him through university) didn’t think languages would be useful! Today, Steven works in 3-4 languages most weeks, but his background in computing and information systems has served him well.     He works extensively on collective intelligence in an intergovernmental partnership spanning more than 100 countries and probably close to 1000 organisations with countless individual contributors. He believes in the words of Margaret Mead about the power of individuals and has been promoting the concept of human interoperability for over a decade. Steven would like organisations to think more about behaviour, incentives, and motivation as they develop data strategies and work towards access and sharing of data to address key global challenges, but he knows and understands that data is meaningless without buy in and use.    Steven was part of a management buyout, has created a government start-up, been on the board of an industry start-up and been in numerous leadership positions. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (lapsed), is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was recently invited to be a Fellow of the World Economic Forum (not yet fulfilled). He’s a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Future Cities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland and an advisor to the UK Space Agency. He’s an avid storyteller and keeps thinking about writing a book. He’s also mentored 100+ younger, professional women in the geospatial sector.   earthobservations.org

Luciá Hernández is my guest on Episode 156 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Luciá is an expert on platform-based business models. She has been around the collaborative economy for more than a decade, later Platform Economy, helping organizations of all kinds in the adoption of these mindsets. As an advisor and consultant, she brings the platform-ecosystem mentality to the company building the internal capabilities to think systemic to design platform strategies, in a real guidance and support relationship. She is an expert evaluator of the European Commission under the H2020 program, URBACT validated expert, the network of cities sharing and applying sustainable principles. A connector in OuiShare, an international Think and Do Tank dedicated to social impact regarding digital transformations, the evolution of cities and the future of organizations. Adjunct Professor at business schools such as ESADE and EADA and an international lecturer and keynote speaker. She has participated in the design of public policies with the European Commission, the IDB, CIPPEC, and some local governments. She is an expert on new emerging trends related to the platform economy, participating in international forums and communities, with a wide network of trusted international consultants. She is always researching and exploring the intersections between regenerative design and platform design in order to provide a framework for those who have a platform and want to understand how to become regenerative, ecosystem, and networked strategies to impact at scale, being part of international forums and communities, and connecting people, projects, and ideas. #PlatformDesign #EcosystemDesign #BusinessModels #RegenerativeDesign #TourismInnovation #RegenerativeTourism #SharingEconomy #PlatformEconony #platformmodels #regenerativemodels #regenerativeplatforms #regeneration #ecosystemplatforms #boundaryless https://youtu.be/zEa01rXBIpU https://luciahernandez.co/ https://twitter.com/luciahdez3 https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciahd/ https://www.ouishare.net/ https://luciahdez.medium.com/regenerative-platforms-design-principles-daf31508322a https://youtu.be/zEa01rXBIpU

John Elkington is my guest on Episode 155 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.    John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling author, and serial entrepreneur. John is the founder and chief pollinator at Volans, which works with leaders to make sense of the emergent future to unlock tomorrow’s market value.  Volans tackles some of the world's most challenging problems, helping key actors expand their focus from the responsibility agenda through resilience to regeneration. Much of the work is at Board or C-suite level. John's thought leadership is evident in ongoing Volans Inquiries including Project Breakthrough, Tomorrow’s Capitalism Inquiry, and the Green Swans Observatory.  John has helped create and incubate movements including the global sustainability movement and powerfully shaped initiatives like the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, the Global Reporting Initiative, and B Lab UK. He was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002 to 2008. And in 2009, he was named fourth in an international survey of top 100 CSR leaders, after Al Gore, Barack Obama, and the late Anita Roddick.   John has addressed over 1,000 conferences globally and served on over 80 boards and advisory boards. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, the latest being Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism.  In 2021, John won the prestigious World Sustainability Award.  https://youtu.be/ETyAh1mxWyw https://johnelkington.com/ https://www.innovatorsmag.com/is-regenerative-capitalism-the-answer-to-the-worlds-problems/ https://twitter.com/volansjohn https://volans.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/volans/ https://twitter.com/VolansHQ https://medium.com/@volansjohn https://theobservatory.volans.com/ https://capitalinstitute.org/course-introduction-regenerative-economics/ https://youtu.be/ETyAh1mxWyw #bcorp #regeneration #greenswans #uglyducklings #capitalism #triplebottomline #recall #volans #regenerators #harvardbusinessreview #exponential #neweconomicmodel #friedmanera #sdgs #

Jeremy Lent is my guest on Episode 152 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Jeremy, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, examines the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day. His new book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, offers a solid foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future. He is founder of the nonprofit Liology Institute and writes topical articles exploring the deeper patterns of political and cultural developments at Patterns of Meaning. https://www.jeremylent.com/ https://patternsofmeaning.com/ http://www.liology.org/

Jarkko Havas is my guest on Episode 104 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Jarkko leads the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Insights & Analysis work. I&A consists of the Data & Metrics Initiative with a focus on measuring company level circular economy performance (Circulytics), and teams working on upcoming focus topics for the Foundation, as well as the case study programme.  Prior to joining the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Jarkko was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, based first in Tokyo and then in Brussels. His consulting work focused on agriculture and chemicals industries in both private and public sectors. Jarkko's academic background is in environmental engineering and sustainability science.    https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/

Ken Meter is my guest on Episode 103 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Ken Meter is one of the most experienced food system analysts in the U.S., integrating market analysis, business development, systems thinking, and social concerns. Meter has worked for fifty years in inner-city and rural community capacity building. His local economic analyses have promoted local food networks in 143 regions in 41 states, two provinces, and four tribal nations. Building Community Food Webs was published April 29, 2021. Ken is also co-editor of Sustainable Food System Assessment: Lessons from Global Practice (Routledge, UK) in 2019. Meter’s work can be found at Crossroads Resource Center. www.crcworks.org