Welcome to Eco Scale Radio.
If you are a business owner, this podcast is your invitation to do the impossible.
This podcast is your invitation to step up and make a difference in the Climate Change era.
This podcast is a gathering place for entrepreneurs who want to make a difference, take bold action, and do what takes to help slow down and reverse the impact of Climate Change.
This podcast explores the intersection of entrepreneurs, climate change, and regeneration.
In this podcast we show entrepreneurs how to make a difference in Climate Restoration and how to navigate the Climate Change economy.
We explore what an entrepreneur needs to know and do to innovate, implement, and scale solutions to get us out of this Climate Change mess.
Manage Eco-Anxiety, Build Resilience, and Thrive in Uncertainty
Discover how to manage eco-anxiety, embrace your environmental identity, and thrive in uncertainty with climate psychologist Thomas Doherty.
In this episode of Eco Scale Radio, host Jim Oliver sits down with climate psychologist Thomas Doherty to explore the emotional complexities of the climate crisis.
Thomas introduces powerful concepts like “personal sustainability,” the “climate elephant,” “environmental identity,” and the critical role of values in building climate resilience.
He offers listeners practical tools to navigate eco-anxiety, grief, and uncertainty.
Drawing on decades of experience, Thomas shares insights from his book, Surviving Climate Anxiety: Coping, Healing, and Thriving on a Changing Planet and his podcast, Climate Change and Happiness.
If you’re concerned about the planet’s future, this episode is packed with wisdom and actionable advice.
This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking clarity, resilience, and purpose in the face of climate change.
15 Jan 2025
ESR 013 - Eco-Anxiety and Emotional Resilience: Nurturing Wellbeing in Uncertain, Unsettling Times
Linda Aspey, a leadership coach and psychotherapist, shares practical strategies for building emotional resilience and nurturing wellbeing in the face of climate anxiety and uncertainty.
13 Nov 2024
ESR 012 - Wildlife, Technology, and Biophilia in the 21st Century
How should humans respond to the impact of climate change and loss of biodiversity?
Should we double down with more technology or should we sit back and let nature reset itself?
What roll does biophilia play in our response?
In this interview with Christopher J. Preston, author of Tenacious Beasts and expert in wildlife, technology, and climate change, we discuss:
animals coming back from the brink of extinction
whales and whale vomit
The Great Whale Conveyor
the impact of bison on creeks and forests
the impact beavers have on land and water
the impact fashion has on beavers
the impact of sea otters on kelp
indigenous people's relationship with sea otters
the Shifting Baseline Syndrome
and much much more.
I hope this conversation helps change the way you look at wildlife, technology, and climate change. And hopefully stokes up your sense of biophilia (your love and connection with nature).
And perhaps motivate you to take proactive steps to help innovate and implement solutions to the many challenges that we are facing.
Christopher J. Preston is a writer and professor based in Missoula, MT.
His academic research centers on wildlife, technology, and climate change.
Christopher has written for The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Discover, Orion, The Conversation, the Wall Street Journal, and The BBC.
His recent book Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think About Animals investigates a number of species that came back from the brink of extinction.
Tenacious Beasts was listed by the New Yorker as one of their Best Books of 2023. And won the 2024 High Plains Book Award for non-fiction.
His previous book, The Synthetic Age: Out designing Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World, has been translated into six languages and won a silver medal from Nautilus in the ecology and environment category.
Christopher gives talks in state parks, libraries, and breweries across Montana to audiences interested in conservation and technology.
In early 2023, he won an annual award from the International Society for Environmental Ethics for his work as a public philosopher.
16 Jan 2024
ESR 011 - Business Growth + Science-Based Positive Impact
Business Growth + Science-Based Positive Impact
How to Create a Viral Customer Experience That Makes a Positive Regenerative Impact...
Impact You Can Trust
Handprint is the sum of your positive impact.
Footprint is the sum of your negative impact.
For Companies: What if your company could...
make engaging in climate action profitable
make regenerative sustainability your competitive advantage?
become a part of the new regenerative economy by integrating planet-positive actions into business activities in a profitable and seamless way?
For Regenerative NGOs: What if your Impact Projects could get access to a global network of sponsors?
In this Eco Scale Radio episode Mathias describes how his company Handprint helps impact entrepreneurs and NGOs do all this and much more.
11 Jan 2024
ESR 010 - What is the Impact of Plastics on Human Health?
Plastic is everywhere.
It’s almost impossible to live your life without plastic these days.
Our society has become dependent on plastic in all aspects of life, including: household goods, food processing, packaging, personal care products, and medical applications.
More than 13,000 chemicals are used to make plastics.
Over 350 million metric tons of plastic waste are discarded annually.
The widespread presence of plastics and their degradation products in the environment leads to inevitable exposure through the food we eat and the air we breathe.
This exposure to plastic chemicals carries various health risks, particularly due to the chemical composition of plastics and their ability to disrupt biological processes.
A team of scientists at the Minderoo Foundation in Australia (in collaboration with Australian research institutes) asked two powerful questions:
What is the impact of plastics on human health?
How can we innovate safer plastic alternatives?
The team recently spent 3 years screening more than 100,000 papers to find studies on plastic getting into the human body and how it could be harming our health.
After doing this screening, they came up with 3,500 primary studies on plastic health from 1960 to 2022.
These finding have been used to create the first-of-its-kind interactive Plastic Health Map, which maps the existing research on the effects of plastic chemicals on human health.
The Plastic Health Map is also a tool that can help us develop safer plastic alternatives and help us transition to a world where plastic is more sustainable, safer, and free of toxic chemicals.
In this Eco Scale Radio episode I have the good fortune of interviewing Louise Goode and Manuel Brunner from the Minderoo Foundation.
Louise is the Principal Researcher at Minderoo Foundation.
She is involved in research into the impact of plastics on human health at the Minderoo Foundation.
She’s like the research wrangler who helps her team make this Map a reality.
Manuel is a chemist with a PhD from the University of Western Australia. In his role as Principal, Chemistry and Research at the Minderoo Foundation, he explores how we can create a sustainable chemical and plastics industry.
In this conversation they describe the Plastic Health Map and the challenges of innovating plastic alternatives... and much more.
After you hear this podcast interview, you will never see plastic the same way again.
14 Nov 2023
ESR 009 - The Natural Revolution: AMAYU, Superfruits that Protect Forests
In this episode of Eco Scale Radio we talk with Jorge Lopez-Doriga, the Chief Communication and Sustainability Officer for a global beverage company called AMAYU with headquarters in Peru.
By the way, Jorge is also a Zen teacher of the Zen River monastery in Holland. Jorge runs the Zen River centers in Lima and Madrid.
In this interview you’ll see how Zen influences his work at AMAYU
AMAYU is a global beverage company that uses wild Amazonian superfruits to help:
protect primary forests and biodivesity
empower indigenous communities around the world.
AMAYU is the World’s First Certified Climate Positive Fruit Juice.
AMAYU is creating sustainable value chains in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Thailand.
AMAYU is working directly with indigenous communities and helping to preserve hundreds of thousands of hectares of pristine amazonian forest.
AMAYU works with land that covers over 8 million hectares.
The land where they collect fruit, is 200,000 hectares.
AMAYU works with 25 indigenous communities.
And 500 families benefit from this collaboration.
AMAYU’s mission is to “return to Mother Earth all that Mother Earth has given to us.”
In this interview, Jorge describes:
How Zen practice can influence sustainability work.
How if we want to have a civilization by the year 2050, we need companies to change their role. Companies need to move from the Industrial Revolution to the Natural Revolution, where “consumers” are replaced by “conscious users.”
How a conscious user needs to ask three questions before making a purchase
Jorge also describes
What we can learn from the forest
What AMAYU learns by working with indigenous communities
Jorge also describes his company’s “Triple Win” business model and much, much more.
5 Nov 2023
ESR 008 - The Biggest Secret Your Banks Don't Want You to Know About
How green is the money in your savings and investments?
What is your bank doing with that money?
Are they investing it in things you would never support in a million years?
Does the money in your bank account have an impact on climate change?
On pollution? On diversity in the workplace? On biodiversity? On Clean Energy? On Big Pharma? On Big Tobacco?
Surprise the money in your bank account is NOT neutral, it has a footprint.
Did you know that your current bank account and pension could be having double the carbon impact of going vegan, quitting flying, and choosing the bike over the car, COMBINED.
Our guest today is Dan Sherrard-Smith, the founder of MotherTree and he says:
“The money we have going into our banks is the biggest leaver we have to create a healthy vibrant world.”
You have the power to fund the future you want.
In this interview, you’ll discover how you can use your finances to support positive causes that align with your values.
21 Sept 2023
ESR 007 - Innovation Secrets: How to Create New Solutions, Flourish In Uncertainty, and Reduce Wasted Effort
In this conversation with Vaughn Tan, you’ll discover how the most effective and innovative teams in the world come up with new ideas, new ways of doing things, and new ways of thinking by strategically working WITH Uncertainty and using a few design principles.
Do you know the difference between Risk and Uncertainty?
Are they the same? Do you treat them the same?
If you don’t know the difference between Risk and Uncertainty and you are in charge of creating innovative solutions to address Risky and Uncertain situations then you may end up using the wrong tools and end up wasting valuable time, money, and resources.
This is especially true when creating innovative solutions in the world of climate change, sustainability, and regeneration.
Innovative people and teams know how to embrace Uncertainty and use it to create innovative solutions. You can too, if you use the strategies we discuss in this interview with Vaughn Tan.
Do you know how to be Productive in Uncertainty?
What tools should you use for a Risk situation?
What tools should you use for an Uncertain situation?
We cover all this and much more in our conversation with Vaughn Tan.
3 Sept 2023
ESR 006 - “Business as Usual” is no longer viable in travel and tourism
“I want the industry to thrive in a new way.”
Jeremy Sampson is using his skills as a Nudge-Meister and a Cat Wrangler to change the world of travel and tourism.
As CEO of The Travel Foundation, Jeremy strives to maximize the benefits of tourism for people AND nature.
Jeremy is a globally recognized leader and alliance builder, advocating for systems change aimed at improving the impact of the travel and tourism sector on communities and the climate crisis.
In his current role as CEO of nonprofit The Travel Foundation, Jeremy oversees a global team which has transformed the agenda-setting organization into the leading independent international NGO in the tourism sector.
21 Aug 2023
ESR 005 - We Have the Power to Create Positive Change
Carlos Terol discusses the need for changemakers to connect and collaborate on a whole new level.
Changemakers who are ready to tackle the world's most pressing issues, from poverty to climate change and inequalities need to break out of their silos and collaborate with a wide range a different people. Because everybody plays a role in creating positive changes. Researchers, teachers, politicians, entrepreneurs, marketers, public speakers, and more.
Carlos also describes a platform he is developing to help like-minded changemakers connect on a local and global level. This platform can help local changemakers connect and amplify their impact.
We also discuss the importance of mindset and framing a problem. And much much more.
19 Aug 2023
ESR 004 - Industrial Hemp Secrets: Opportunities
Today we’re digging into the immense potential of industrial hemp.
In this episode we describe:
The history of industrial hemp
The benefits of hemp
The many innovative ways of using hemp
11 Reasons NOT to get into the Industrial Hemp Business
(including Challenges and obstacles entrepreneurs have to deal with)
11 Reasons to get into the Industrial Hemp Business
(including Trends and Opportunities to take advantage of)
Are you ready to think outside the hemp box?
24 Jul 2023
ESR 003 - 4 Core Reasons I Created This Podcast
Why Did I Create the Eco Scale Radio podcast?
A podcast that explores the intersection of entrepreneurs, climate change, and regeneration.
I was motivated to create this podcast based on two quotes that kept reverberating in my mind and 4 core reasons .
For years grim reports have warned us of the impact of a tsunami headed our way. And for years we have waited for governments to do something about it. But virtually nothing has been done.
The grim reports about Climate Change and the lack of action makes me feel helplessness, hopelessness, and powerless.
I was tired of feeling hopeless and powerless.
I was tired of passively sitting on the sidelines waiting for others to do something.
So, I’ve decided to see what I can proactively do.
This episode describes the 4 core reasons I created this podcast.
Don't forget to follow or subscribe to Eco Scale Radio for more episodes like this one!
17 Jul 2023
ESR 002 - Cooling Climate Chaos
Rob is known as the guy who is busy cooling the planet.
After building a successful Eco-Tourism business, Rob sold the business and purchased a valley in a deforested portion of the Brazilian rainforest to focus on doing what he can to reverse Climate Change.
He lived in the rainforest for about 10 years focused on working with the Guajajara, an indigenous people in Brazil, to rewild, reforest, and regenerate that land. He also organized the planting of a million trees.
In this Eco Scale Radio episode, we discuss many things Rob is doing to cool the planet, including rebuilding coastal forests and the water ecosystem to naturally export heat into space.
The process is called a Biotic Pump. It’s similar to the way a heat pump pulls heat out of a house.
Who is Rob de Laet?
Rob is a philosopher, climate activist, rewilding a damaged part of the Brazilian rainforest.
As member of the Eco Restoration Alliance, Rob is developing the Cooling Climate Chaos project together with Peter Bunyard and others, to reverse the climate crisis fast.
Rob is also working from James Lovelock's living planet perspective to restore the Earth’s metabolisms through the regeneration of the water cycles and biosphere.
Don't forget to follow or subscribe to Eco Scale Radio for more episodes like this one!
17 Jul 2023
ESR 001 - Climate Restoration is an Idea Whose Time has Come
How can two crowdfunded projects restore the climate and what can you do to help?
Listen to this episode to find out how an astrophysicist became a climate activist.
In this Eco Scale Radio episode, Peter Fiekowsky, an MIT-trained physicist, discusses his plans to restore the climate condition to a safe climate zone* by implementing two simple, powerful, practical, affordable, crowdfunded, and scientifically-grounded projects that work with nature.
You’ll also discover how you can help get them implemented.
* the kind of healthy climate humankind has flourished under for ten thousand years.
“We need to duplicate what nature has done.”
- Peter Fiekowsky
Peter Fiekowsky is making Climate Restoration an idea whose time has come.
Peter Fiekowsky, author of Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race (2022), is an MIT-educated physicist and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, social innovator, author, and philanthropist with 27 patents.
He has 30 years experience as a citizen lobbyist for poverty and climate issues, and over the past decade has been working to build the organizations required to ensure the survival and flourishing of humanity.
Fiekowsky’s mission in life is “to leave a world we’re proud of to our children.”
Don't forget to follow or subscribe to Eco Scale Radio for more episodes like this one!
16 Jul 2023
ESR 000 - About Eco Scale Radio
Welcome to Eco Scale Radio.
If you are a business owner, this podcast is your invitation to do The Impossible.
This podcast is your invitation to step up and make a difference in the Climate Change era.
This podcast is a gathering place for entrepreneurs who want to make a difference, take bold action, and do what takes to help Slow Down and Reverse the impact of Climate Change.
This podcast explores the intersection of Entrepreneurs, Climate Change, and Regeneration.
In this podcast we show entrepreneurs how to make a difference in Climate Restoration and how to navigate the Climate Change economy.
We explore what an entrepreneur needs to know and do to Innovate, Implement, and Scale solutions to get us out of this Climate Change mess.
Don't forget to follow or subscribe to Eco Scale Radio for more episodes like this one!
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