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Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble’s and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She’s the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

"“74 billion animals, according to the United National Food & Agriculture Organization, that we raise and kill each year on this planet. If we can’t make inroads into that and change attitudes to that, then I still have fears for where we are going.” – Peter SingerPeter Singer, author of seminal books Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save, helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements, while contributing to the development of bioethics. Now, in his book Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master of dissecting important current events in a few hundred words.Anantha Duraiappah has served as inaugural director of the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development in New Delhi, India since 2014. He now works to advance UNESCO MGIEP as a leading science and evidence-based research institute on education for peace, sustainable development and global citizenship. · mgiep.unesco.org· petersinger.info· www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/· www.oneplanetpodcast.org· www.creativeprocess.info

Peter Singer, author of seminal books Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save, helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements, while contributing to the development of bioethics. Now, in his book Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master of dissecting important current events in a few hundred words.Anantha Duraiappah has served as inaugural director of the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development in New Delhi, India since 2014. He now works to advance UNESCO MGIEP as a leading science and evidence-based research institute on education for peace, sustainable development and global citizenship. · mgiep.unesco.org· petersinger.info· www.thelifeyoucansave.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org· www.creativeprocess.info

“I think the environmental community has been guilty of a lot of catastrophism, a lot of statements like ‘Game Over for the Planet’, and we’ve painted a lot of very dark pictures about where we’re going, but when you look across these different sectors and all the solutions that are out there, there’s no reason to believe that our grandchildren couldn’t live in an incredibly exciting world.”Samuel Myers, MD, MPH studies the human health impacts of accelerating disruptions to Earth’s natural systems.  He is a Principal Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is the founding Director of the Planetary Health Alliance. Sam’s current work spans several areas of planetary health including global nutritional impacts of CO2, health impacts of land management, or impact of animal pollinator declines on human nutrition. He is the lead editor of the book: Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves. · www.planetaryhealthalliance.org· www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cZ0zBSJz_g· environment.harvard.edu/about/faculty/samuel-myersPlanetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves· www.islandpress.org/books/planetary-health· www.oneplanetpodcast.org · www.creativeprocess.info

Samuel Myers, MD, MPH studies the human health impacts of accelerating disruptions to Earth’s natural systems.  He is a Principal Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is the founding Director of the Planetary Health Alliance.  Sam’s current work spans several areas of planetary health including global nutritional impacts of CO2, health impacts of land management, or impact of animal pollinator declines on human nutrition. He is the lead editor of the book: Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves. · www.planetaryhealthalliance.org· www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cZ0zBSJz_g· environment.harvard.edu/about/faculty/samuel-myersPlanetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves· www.islandpress.org/books/planetary-health· www.oneplanetpodcast.org· www.creativeprocess.info

“I think the next crisis is going to be a materials crisis. The whole point of moving from a zero-sum game–like who makes the best cheapest product at the lowest price and can find lowest labor somewhere around the world so someone can be happy with a new laundry machine and buy another one in five years–that’s not going to work for us.”Tiemen ter Hoeven is founder and CEO of Roetz, a manufacturer of circular bicycles and e-bikes. In the Netherlands alone, about 1 million bicycles are discarded every year - whilst many parts can still be used perfectly well. In the Roetz Fair Factory, the parts are cleaned, repaired, and reassembled into new bicycles by people with poor job prospects. Roetz’ mission is to bring circular design and innovation to the bike industry and beyond. · roetz-bikes.com· www.oneplanetpodcast.org· www.creativeprocess.info

Tiemen ter Hoeven is founder and CEO of Roetz, a manufacturer of circular bicycles and e-bikes. In the Netherlands alone, about 1 million bicycles are discarded every year - whilst many parts can still be used perfectly well. In the Roetz Fair Factory, the parts are cleaned, repaired, and reassembled into new bicycles by people with poor job prospects. Roetz’ mission is to bring circular design and innovation to the bike industry and beyond. · roetz-bikes.com· www.oneplanetpodcast.org· www.creativeprocess.info

“You and me talking right now, the people who are listening right now, in a hundred years none of us will be here on this earth anymore. When it comes to the individual, it’s always just a question of time until you will be forgotten and this is why it is so important that there is something in our tradition we call “because it’s not the individual, it cannot be lost”. This is when you are investing a part of your lifetime in trying to add something to the spirit, what exists in this world. Sometimes you call it the zeitgeist. Sometimes you call it the consciousness of our earth. It means always ask yourself how can you, with the way you think, with the work that you do, with the way you behave, with the actions that you do–how can you add a piece of spirit? How can you contribute to the spirit that is going to remain even after after your individual death?”For more than 30 years, Master Shi Heng Yi has been studying and practicing the interaction between mind and body. His strength is the ability to smoothly combine this knowledge with physical exercises and to practice Martial art –Kung Fu and Qi Gong. He has an academic background but he prefers to live at the Shaolin Temple Europe, Monastery located in Otterberg, Germany. Since 2010 he has been taking care of the settlement and he personifies sustainable development and spreading Shaolin culture and philosophy.· www.shihengyi.online · www.shaolintemple.eu · www.creativeprocess.info · www.oneplanetpodcast.org

For more than 30 years, Master Shi Heng Yi has been studying and practicing the interaction between mind and body. His strength is the ability to smoothly combine this knowledge with physical exercises and to practice Martial art –Kung Fu and Qi Gong. He has an academic background but he prefers to live at the Shaolin Temple Europe, Monastery located in Otterberg, Germany. Since 2010 he has been taking care of the settlement and he personifies sustainable development and spreading Shaolin culture and philosophy.· www.shihengyi.online · www.shaolintemple.eu · www.creativeprocess.info · www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Gary Griggs received his B.A. in Geological Sciences from the University of California Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from Oregon State University. He has been a Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz since 1968 and was Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences from 1991 to 2017. His research and teaching have been focused on the coast of California and include coastal processes, hazards and engineering, and sea-level rise. Dr. Griggs has written over 185 articles for professional journals as well as authored or co-authored eleven books.In 1998 he was given the Outstanding Faculty Award at UC Santa Cruz and the Alumni Association honored him with a Distinguished Teaching Award in 2006. The California Coastal Commission and Sunset Magazine named him one of California’s Coastal Heroes in 2009. He has served on three National Academy of Sciences Committees. He has served on the Science Advisory Team to the Governor’s Ocean Protection Council since 2008 and in 2015 was appointed to the California Ocean Sciences Trust.· eps.ucsc.edu/faculty/Profiles/fac-only.php?uid=griggs· www.oneplanetpodcast.org · www.creativeprocess.info