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Are we near the end? Can humanity survive climate change, pandemics, and other catastrophes? "Our only hope lies in nature-inspired leadership," claims podcast host Dr. Victor Shamas. NATURE AM I connects listeners with thought leaders who are generating nature-inspired solutions & strategies to urgent global problems. We feature advances in fields like biomimicry & biomimetics that are taking cues from nature. Also, we discuss ways to assure that future generations can thrive in balance with nature. Our conversations touch on holistic health, sustainable design, integrative learning, & other forms of nature-inspired innovation. Guests include visionaries who are leading the way towards a more peaceful, sustainable, balanced way of life. We also look at tools and techniques that facilitate the process of nature inspiration. "In this process, nature reveals its secrets," says Shamas, a psychologist who studies creative inspiration. "If we let it, nature can show us how to thrive."
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Friday Aug 28, 2020
Friday Aug 28, 2020
On this episode, Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute discusses strategies for increasing sustainability and building community resilience. He touches on many of his seminal writings, including his books, Our Renewable Future, The End of Growth, Power Down, and Memories and Visions of Paradise, as well as his award-winning Museletter. Our conversation covered the following topics:
Immanuel Velikovsky's World in Collision (4:30)
Visions of Paradise (6:53)
Paradise as connection to Nature (9:08)
Global disturbances caused by unsustainable practices (11:09)
The need for community resilience (14:09)
Balancing global and local perspectives (15:56)
Protecting information in a post-carbon age (18:39)
How our energy use is destroying the natural world (21:00)
Making society more sustainable (23:15)
Shifting away from unlimited growth (23:54)
Steady-state economies (27:14)
Time banking and income disparity (29:14)
Coalition-building (30:37)
Making non-profits more resilient (32:52)
Building community resilience (34:55)
Opportunities for idealists (36:35)
Practices and principles of sustainability (38:34)
Profit vs. Beauty as sources of motivation (41:39)
Learn more about Richard Heinberg and the Post Carbon Institute.
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Friday Jul 31, 2020
Nature Am I Episode 7: Remaking the World through Nature Inspiration
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Discover what it means and takes to remake the world. Find out the creative power inherent in the experience of nature inspiration, why such power is essential at this time in human history, and how you can cultivate it by learning how to embody nature fully. Here are the topics we explore in this episode:
0:58- The need to remake the world
1:27- Inspiration and creative power
2:10- Embodying nature through nature inspiration
2:33- The world is not as it appears
3:18- Schrodinger on the myth of objectivity
4:22- Bohm and Einstein weigh in on consciousness and imagination
4:52- How the mind limits experience
5:37- Nature as dynamic wholeness
5:52- Bohm: Continuity is an illusion
6:16- Analogy between perceived reality and a movie
6:54- Re-creating reality at every moment (TD Suzuki quote)
7:41- The dynamics of creation in the natural world
9:06- Humans as the creative aspect of nature
9:42- Embodying nature by transcending limitations
10:56- Paradise and nature alignment
11:24- The six qualities that give rise to inspiration
12:04- Why experience nature inspiration?
13:11- Stability and energy in nature
14:14- How energy is building towards an enormous release
15:16- Two ways to attain stability through energy release
16:58- Showing the world the way to a more stable condition
17:23- Accessing nature's wisdom
17:54- Visionaries that offer a clear path to a stable, thriving way of life