Claiming Your Voice – A Taste of the Women As Game Changers Conference: Interview with Consuelo Luz

By on October 10, 2016   /   Featured Post, Game Changers, Leadership   /   Leave a comment
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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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The Humane Eating Project App Makes Eating Ethically and Eco-Friendly, Easy

By on October 7, 2016   /   Featured Post, Health, Nature   /   Leave a comment
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How can we make informed eating choices when dining out at restaurants? There is a mobile app called The Humane Eating Project that can help consumers know whether or not a restaurant is serving ethically raised and eco-friendly, animal products. Produced by the non-profit animal welfare charity America For Animals, the app helps you to locate humane dining options in your locality – a nearby restaurant selling humanely-raised meat dishes, for example, or an eatery where meals are made using free range eggs.

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Only 10 Days To Go, Almost Sold Out! – Women as Game Changers Conference

By on October 5, 2016   /   Featured Post, Game Changers, Leadership   /   Leave a comment
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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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A Taste of the Women As Game Changers Conference: Interview with Merle Lefkoff

By on October 3, 2016   /   Featured Media, Game Changers, Leadership   /   Leave a comment
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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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Turning Dishes into Dirt – A Taste of the Women As Game Changers Conference: Interview with Susanna Carson

By on September 30, 2016   /   Featured Media, Game Changers, Innovation   /   Leave a comment
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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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A Taste of the Women As Game Changers Conference: Interview with Real Game Changer, Kina Murphy

By on September 28, 2016   /   Featured Media, Game Changers, Leadership   /   Leave a comment
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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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Startling Map Shows True Extent of America’s Landfill Problem

By on September 25, 2016   /   Family, Featured Post, Nature   /   Leave a comment
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Today, there are nearly 2,000 active landfills across the country and hundreds more are at capacity, a stark reminder of just how massive our waste problem has become. One thing we have to remember when looking at this is that trash, and landfills, are a human invention. Waste does not exist in nature, in any form. Everything that is produced in a healthy ecosystem is consumed or decomposed by another organism, or the sun. That is because, in a natural system, everything has value to something. We need to return to how things were in nature, where waste does not exist, by creating a circular economy and committing to zero-waste systems.

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Timber Skyscrapers Aren’t Fantasy—Here’s The Research That Proves It

By on September 18, 2016   /   Featured Post, Innovation, Nature   /   Leave a comment
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For years, architects have flirted with the idea of tall buildings made from mass timber, an engineered wood product that some argue is more sustainable than resource-intensive, nonrenewable steel. Now architecture firm, SOM, is working with Oregon State University to develop and test new mass-timber structural systems, hoping that the research will help mainstream what’s currently an alternative and novel construction methodology. Early findings from the this research, show that reinforced wood framing can be just as robust as conventional building techniques, which is the latest step toward making mass timber more commonplace in the U.S.

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Agnes Knows Where Art and Science Intersect – A Taste of the Women As Game Changers Conference: Interview with Agnes Chavez

By on September 18, 2016   /   Featured Post, Game Changers, Leadership   /   Leave a comment
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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.

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The Greenhouse of the Future — Grow Your Own Food Year-Round With This Revolutionary System

By on September 18, 2016   /   Featured Media, Health, Nature   /   6 Comments
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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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