“Hidden Connections,” a thought-provoking digital video series premiering today, explores one of the human consequences of climate change — specifically its little-known link to child marriage. TakePart, the digital division of Participant Media, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation teamed up to produce the three-part series, which gives an intimate look at the lives of two young girls living in Bangladesh.
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Kate Kennedy is one of New Mexico’s up and coming superstars. Born and raised in Santa Fe, she is the Managing Partner of Skylight, the largest independently-owned music and entertainment venue in Northern New Mexico located in the heart of downtown Santa Fe. Her extensive community involvement includes running for City Council this year and she’s only just begun! I am thrilled this magnificent Millennial will be joining us at the Women As Game Changers Conference: Creathing a New Game on Friday.
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From Bosnia to Bhutan to the White House and beyond, Merle Lefkoff’s game-changing work for over 50 years blows my mind. I caught her in between her plethora of engagements around the world and convinced her to be one of our featured speakers at the Women As Game Changers: Creating a New Game Conference on October 13-14 in Santa Fe, NM. Merle Lefkoff is a social change entrepreneur whose practice is devoted to the application of nonlinear complex systems thinking to whole system change. Merle holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and has been a mediator, facilitator, and leadership trainer in conflict zones around the world and has served in the Carter Administration.
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What if you could turn your dishes into dirt? Well, thanks to Susanna Carson, you can. She tell us all about her game-changing work at the upcoming Women As Game Changers: Creating a New Game Conference: Creating a New Game on October 13-14 in Santa Fe, NM. Maybe that’s why this video is so green! Susanna Carson is an entrepreneur building her personal and corporate legacy through the business of sustainable / compostable packaging. She is the founder and CEO of BSI Biodegradable Solutions, a compostable packaging distribution company, and more recently BESICS Packaging Corporation, a compostable retail products company.
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Want to meet a real game changer? Then you’ll want to meet Kina Murphy. She is one of our featured speakers at the Women As Game Changers: Creating a New Game Conference. My video interview with her here is a taste of what you will experience on October 13-14 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Kina has worked with communities, businesses and all levels of government in Botswana, Malawi, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mongolia and the U.S. as a conservation biologist. Her work most recently focuses on how to increase biodiversity in areas that have been heavily impacted by resource extraction.
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With drought, economic instability, erratic weather and interruptions in transportation a very real threat, it really doesn’t take much to have the food supply disrupted. As the famous proverb says: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Taking this proverb and running with it, a team of innovators from Quebec, Canada have developed an eco-friendly and exceptionally cost-effective solution to our food woes — The Greenhouse of the Future. Combining the principles of Earthships, aquaponics and passive solar greenhouses, Gendron — along with friends, Christian Désilets and Curt Close — designed and built a radically different food growing system. Not wholly surprising, they christened it The Greenhouse of the Future.
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Take your game changing idea, project or business to the next level by identifying your strengths and challenges, and uncovering specific strategies and solutions that you can take home and immediately incorporate into your business or organization. Devi Record will help you do this through the Generative Business Process at the upcoming “Women As Game Changers Conference: Creating a New Game” on October 13-14.
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16-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is petitioning the 2016 U.S. presidential candidates to take a strong stance on ending climate change. In a Care2 petition and a corresponding video letter, Martinez is urging the candidates to pledge to end fossil fuel use in the U.S. by 2026. The petition attracted over 100,000 signatures in its first week online.
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“Open Your Eyes” was first released in September 2015, and it has been updated for re-release today. It’s narrated on screen by actor/activist/musician/artist and Plastic Pollution Coalition (PPC) Notable Member Jeff Bridges, whose voice helped the REFUSE message reach more than 13 million people in only 2 months and promotes the refuse of single-use plastic.
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Outdoor clothing company Patagonia has released a new short film to advocate for the legalization of industrial hemp in the U.S. The multipurpose plant, which has been used for centuries to make rope, textiles, foods, personal care products and more, became a controversial substance in 1937 due to the “Marihuana Tax Act,” which basically lumped hemp with marijuana and made it illegal to grow even though the former has no psychoactive properties. However, there are plenty of reasons why industrial hemp should be legalized, from its substantial health benefits to its potential to lower the environmental impacts of textile production.
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