Stewardship & Sustainability Series

COMMUNITY RESILIENCE & DISASTER PREPAREDNESS This special live-audience podcast episode was recorded at The Riverside – Boulder, featuring three community resilience and disaster preparedness experts: Miranda Clendening, Don Hall, and Henry Mitchell (as well as a special guest appearance by Brigitte Mars). With a focus on community relationships, knowledge building, and long-term strategies such as […]

[Changing Finance & Financing Change – The Global Alliance for Banking on Values] When it comes to stewardship, sustainability, and care of humanity, there is a much better way to bank than the status quo… and it is already happening around the world at considerable scale! Values-based banking provides companies and families deposit and credit […]

Episode 175 – Brigitte Mars & Ron Lemire – Holistic Healing Renaissance in Boulder, CO – a 50 Year Retrospective  The Holistic Health Renaissance in Boulder, Colorado – a 50 Year Retrospective Why has organic food become so widespread (albeit still not ubiquitous, as it was through all of human history up until about 100 […]

Henry Mitchell IV, “Master of Disaster,” on Community Preparedness In this informative interview, Henry Mitchell IV, a professional disaster preparedness and biosecurity expert, discusses the many things we can do in our homes and communities to be better prepared, and to cultivate more livable, resilient lives. Exemplifying the “calm amid any storm” ethos, Henry, a […]

Mohawk Mother Leads Land Rematriation Movement in Ancestral Territory In the bucolic Schoharie Valley of central New York, blazing autumn leaves adorn the surrounding hillsides above flat river bottom lands that are among the most fertile in the world. Here in this valley the mighty Mohawk Nation inhabited one of its great village centers for […]

Description Reclaiming True Human Nature: Evolving from Domination to Partnership Riane Eisler is one of the most important scholars, thinkers, and visionaries of our lifetime. Her monumental body of work, which includes the well-known book The Chalice and the Blade (1987), provides us a view into the prehistoric reality of our species (which is, in […]

At once both avant garde and redolent of days of yore, the James Ranch Grill provides a unique on-farm dining experience in a comfortable, elegant, “cowboy jazz” setting. Here cuisine isn’t about fancy frills or gastrochemistry gymnastics. It’s about real food – real food sourced directly from the fields we see sloping down the valley […]

The Courage to Save and Restore: Bald Eagles Return to the Sky In this special episode, hear first hand the extraordinary story of how one woman helped to save bald eagles from extinction and restore their numbers in North America. Honored by the Iroquois Confederacy with laudatory tribal membership for her remarkable work, Tina Morris […]

Jeff Poppen, Author, Barefoot Biodynamics: How Cows, Compost, and Community Help Us Understand Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture Course Discussing his decades-long experiences as a Biodynamic farmer in Tennessee, Jeff Poppen distills the key principles and practices of this advanced form of organic stewardship, fertility-building, and nutrient dense food production first articulated by Rudolf Steiner one hundred […]

Banking for good with Climate First Bank Founder and Chairman, Ken LaRoe Ken LaRoe is the Founder and Chairman of Climate First Bank, the fastest growing new bank in the United States. With approximately 600 shareholders, Ken and his team have grown Climate First Bank in only three years to around $100 million in capital […]