NASA is funding projects with the potential to slash airplane greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent. The agency is targeting airline emissions, a major source of greenhouse gases. NASA last week announced that it was funding research into five new technologies under a “green aviation” initiative that it says could cut airplane fuel use in half, reduce aircraft noise, and most important, slash carbon emissions by as much as 75 percent.
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At the recently concluded InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin, Germany unveiled the first ever hydrogen powered passenger train – a zero emission wonder that will be in operation from Dec 2017 and on-wards. Developed by the French company, Alstom, the ‘Coradia iLint’ train created quite a green stir in the world. Switching public transport to greener, more sustainable modes is on the agenda of most nations. And Germany seems to have flagged off this carbon free passenger train with great aplomb.
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As the planet gets warmer and global emissions continue to soar, young activists are rising up to take a personal stand against humans’ more nefarious impacts on the climate. In Southeast Asia, the smog from forest burning is a perennial problem that continues to occur as farmers continue to illegally set fire to their fields in order to clear them for the next planting season. Many of these fields are run by palm oil corporations that produce the cheap vegetable oil found in products from snacks to cosmetics. There is also the issue of conflict palm oil, which is rampant in the industry and is one of the world’s leading causes of rainforest decimation. Four students in Bali between the ages of 12 and 14 have started a social initiative called Kids Cut Conflict Palm Oil.
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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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Consuelo is a vocal alchemist. She uses intuitive vocals to sound sounds and sing melodies that cover the spectrum of human vocalization, transmitting what the body needs to express in an alchemical process to effect change. And positive change is what we’re after, right? That’s why I am so excited that Consuelo will be joining us at the Women As Game Changers Conference: Creating a New Game this Friday. She will guide us in freeing our voices so we can release what is holding us back. Check out her video here.
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10 days and counting to our “Women As Game Changers Conference: Creating a New Game” on October 13-14! Did you register yet? We are two-thirds full so if you are thinking, wishing, wanting to come, do it today because it will sell out!Here is what you will experience at our conference on October 14 at Sunrise Springs.
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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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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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Agnes Chavez is one of our featured game-changing speakers at the Women As Game Changers: Creating a New Game Conference on October 13-14 in Santa Fe, NM. Agnes Chavez is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and social entrepreneur working at the intersection of art, science, technology and social practice. Now in its 20th year, her award-winning multi-sensory language teaching system has been used to teach more than half a million kids worldwide. She founded the STEMarts Lab which partners with new media artists and schools to provide Sci-art curricula and STEAM programs as part of museum programming, science and art festivals and developed STEAM content for Scholastic, 516 Arts and Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is now Co-Director of The Paseo.
Continue reading... →Schedule for the Women As Game Changers Conference: “Creating a New Game” with Nell Newman on Friday, October 14th, from 8:30am-5:30pm. Join us October 13th-14th. Nell Newman, the daughter of actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and Creator & Co-founder of Newman’s Own Organics: The Second Generation, will be apart of our Fall event: “An Evening with Nell Newman” on Thursday, October 13th at 7pm at the Santa Fe Convention Center, after the The Mayor’s Sustainability Awards at 5:30pm along with the “Women as Game Changers” Conference.
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