Eco Scale Radio

Jim Oliver
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.

  1. 13/11/2024

    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.

    1 h y 36 min
  2. 11/01/2024

    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.

    1 h y 21 min
  3. 14/11/2023

    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.

    1 h y 1 min
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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.

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