The Butterfly Effect

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Elias Cattan.

Elias is an architect and urban planner from Mexico City, working on bringing nature back into our built environment. Through his architectural designs, urban master planning, workshops, and data visualization in graphics and installations. 

He is the Founder and Director of Taller13 Arquitectura Regenerativa, dedicated to understanding living systems within nature and cities. He designs furniture, interiors, buildings, and urban planning to scale, integrating the patterns of community life and the systems in which they operate.

In this episode, you will hear about his work, the  Urban Regeneration Games, what are complete streets, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Ellen Williams.

Ellen is Director of Advisory & ESG Services at Orion Global Solutions, a distinguished Summit Level partner with Salesforce. With a rich tapestry of over 25 years in technology and business consultancy, Ellen seamlessly blends her tech prowess with a fervent passion for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) advocacy. As the driving force behind Orion’s Salesforce Net Zero Cloud implementations, she champions carbon accounting and holistic ESG management for clients worldwide.

Ellen wears many hats - from being a Positive Change Ambassador to pioneering the transformative “10-second pause” initiative, promoting conscious consumerism. Her eloquence is evident in her writings featured in publications like Inc., Crain’s NY Business, and Forbes. Moreover, her voice resonates in podcasts such as Sustainable Minds and Actionable ESG™️ Talks, and she has graced stages from NYxPO to the Sage Software Partner Summit.

Ellen's mission transcends business growth; it's about creating a ripple effect for a better planet. Through her work, she enlightens businesses and listeners alike, proving that profitability and positive impact can, indeed, coexist. She communicates about a world of ESG, where doing well and doing good are two sides of the same coin.

In this episode, you will hear about ESG, sustainability, consumerism, earrings, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Mimi Wu.

Mimi is an impact-driven entrepreneur with deep expertise in circularity and plastics waste management, particularly in the Global South.  Her mission is to accelerate our global society towards a zero-plastic waste future by reducing plastic production and consumption, building basic waste infrastructure for all communities, and scaling innovative solutions.  Mimi founded one of the world’s only post-consumer plastic bag recycling companies in a country -  Myanmar - which consistently ranks in the top 20 hardest countries in the world to conduct business.  Since returning to the US in 2021, she has been working with industry leaders, startups, and VCs to solve our climate and plastic pollution crises with a focus on infrastructure technology solutions.

In this episode, you will hear about the plastic pollution problem, waste management, what plastics can be recycled, “wish-cycle”, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Marc Cortez. Marc is the author of 'Climaturity: A Journey into the Muddy Climate Middle'. 

Climaturity offers a new perspective on the climate crisis controversy through the pragmatic lens of a long-time renewable energy industry veteran. Part science, part satire, and part snark.

Marc is the Founder/CEO of Liquid8, a water conservation startup, and professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. 

Marc advocates for a transparent climate discussion where half-truths are completed, climate science limitations are put into proper context, and politicians are held accountable for spending taxpayer dollars.

In this episode, you will hear about solar energy, how to conserve water, consuming less in all aspects of our lives, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Stephanie Trager.

Stephanie is a medicine woman, guide, business architect and purpose catalyst holding space in a sacred container for intellectual, analytical soul seekers ready to come home to who they really are to do the work they’re really here to do.

From human rights and environmental justice to corporate litigation to human potential, herbalism, peak wellness, and soul mastery she integrates a rare and eclectic mix of education and off-the-beaten-path experience. For more than three decades she’s been a student of indigenous and earth-based wisdom, has spent time immersing with various indigenous groups from the Navajo to the Achuar, Warani, and Quechua, and has been initiated as an Earthkeeper in the shamanic tradition by the Q’ero from the Andes in Peru.  

She’s a licensed attorney, holds a Juris Doctorate, and a bachelor’s degree in communications and international relations from Boston University. Her early work in grassroots organizing, corporate responsibility, and sustainability was followed by a career in complex corporate litigation at Davis Polk. She was naturally an intuitive guide – often called an oracle-  and herbalist for years before, becoming a certified professional coach in 2007 through Teachers College at Columbia University and continued to expand her expertise as a coach and certified energy medicine practitioner, certified mediator, certified wellness, business and executive coach, sustainability and leadership consultant. 

Stephanie has been immersed in the impact investing space helping catalysts deploy their capital in alignment with their values. She’s a board member at Dream Change, creator and host of Catalyst Talks Podcast, and has developed several transformational modalities and programs including The Inner Work of Impact Coaching & Facilitation for Individuals & Organizations.

She’s been coaching for two decades and is passionate about enabling physical vitality, mental freedom, emotional peace, and spiritual expansion. She has a stellium (5 planets) in Aquarius and a massive love for trees.

In this episode, you will hear about her activist works protecting the Redwood trees, indigenous knowledge, the environmental justice world,s and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Hank (Henry) Svec.

Hank is a servant beekeeper, author, valued investor, and former psychologist who is now retired. 

For 30 years he worked as a clinical psychologist in Ontario, Canada. and for 40 years as a value investor in real estate, bonds, stocks, and early-stage start-ups. 

Now he is focusing on bees. In 2017, Hank and his wife started converting their 50-acre farm back to nature as a honeybee sanctuary. 

In this episode, you will hear about converting his farm to a bee sanctuary, lessons learned from bees, what can we learn from bees for business, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Eric Bendick.

Eric is an Emmy-winning director, producer, and writer whose films explore connectivity, conflict, and ingenuity at the intersection of human and wild spaces. He’s led storytelling expeditions to the heart of many of the last intact and untamed landscapes on Earth as well as to the front lines of habitat destruction and fragmentation. His films for National Geographic, PBS, Smithsonian, History Channel, among others have garnered numerous awards from major film festivals around the world. Eric is a current grantee of the Redford Center and a graduate of Brown University and Montana State University.

In this episode, you will hear about his latest film the path of the Panther.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Dr. James Downer.

Dr. Downer has 37 years of experience as a horticulture and plant pathology Advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension in Ventura County. His research is focused on mulch, soil microbiology and disease suppression in mulched soils, diseases of shade trees, and cultural practices to maintain landscape plants.

Dr. Downer is an Adjunct professor at California Polytechnic University in Pomona.

He has a love of shade trees, Shinrin Yoku (forest bathing) tree work, woodworking, horses, gardening, horticulture, and the study of plants and their biology.

In this episode, you will hear about the forests in Chernobyl, his work studying the nuclear effect on them, Gama Radiation, Fukushima, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Sally Giblin.

Sally is an award-winning founder, podcast co-host, environmentalist, writer, speaker, and parent. Her purpose is to unleash the power of families to rewrite our climate story. Sally is the Co-Founder of Be The Future, which is creating children’s books and games about caring for our world that burst with humor, solutions, and hope - and a digital action hub that rewards families and schools for real-world action. She's also a Co-Host of the Hope. Act. Thrive. Podcast, which hosts bite-size conversations with leading climate thinkers, doers, and shakers from around the globe. Sally is also a Greenpeace Australia Pacific General Assembly Member, an Australian Parents for Climate Action spokesperson, and a Climate Reality Leader.

In this episode, you will hear about families and their potential in rewriting the climate story, what can parents do with their kids in regard to climate action, climate anxiety with children, Sally’s children’s book, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Branden Barber.

Branden is a lifelong environmentalist. Starting with a degree in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz, he cut his teeth with Greenpeace International on the Rainbow Warrior. Then he ran the Victorian State Office for Greenpeace Australia. Over the last 25 years, he’s worked in both the social profit and for-profit sectors, from start-ups to S&P 500 companies to NGO’s, large and small.

In the last decade, Branden has been involved with various environmental organizations as staff or as a consultant, served on the Leadership Teams at both Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch, and has sat on several boards – always with a focus on the environment. Branden joined the Rainforest Rescue team in 2018. He is passionate about rainforests, ardently committed to the natural world, and brings a wealth and breadth of experience to Rainforest Rescue as the CEO.

In this episode, you will hear about his work, challenges in restoring a rainforest, the Daintree rainforest (the oldest rainforest in the world), and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Natalie Lavery.

Natalie is an avid environmentalist, marketer, communicator, and writer,  with a passion for digital storytelling. She heads up marketing for Climate People, a ClimateTech recruitment agency.

With a background in grassroots environmental advocacy, she has seen first-hand the dire need for a swift and just transition away from a fossil-fuel-dominated economy.

In her current role at Climate People, she advocates for job seekers and helps encourages people from all fields to transition their careers to climate solutions in hopes of creating a brighter future for all.

In this episode, you will hear about what jobs are needed in the climate sector, statistics on the barriers to entering this space, meeting people where they are, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Abby Alvin.

Abby is a big lover of anything outdoors who loves hiking and photography! She went to school for Environmental Studies, Geology and Entrepreneurship.  When she graduated she was unable to find a job in the climate sector that would pay rent so she pursued 7 years in recruiting! Here we are, 10 years later, and she has been able to bring her skillset in recruiting and her passion for climate together as a Senior ClimateTech Account Manager and Sourcer at Climate People where their mission is simple: to get more top talent into climate jobs!

In this episode, you will hear about her journey in the climate sector, what it means to have a job in climate, her tips and advice on pursuing a career in climate tech, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Jeffrey H. Ryan.

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Tatsiana Zaretskaya.

Tatsiana is the founder of Laava Tech & Meliora, which develops technology to increase the efficiency of indoor farming.

Tatsiana is an MIT Innovator 35U35, and Forbes 30U30. She is passionate about cleantech technologies that make a difference and make sense.

In this episode, you will hear about her work, what got her to do it, her accomplishment, some about her family in Belarus, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Hardik Siroha.

Hardik is an Assistant Environmental Engineer at Haryana State Pollution Control Board - India. Where he formulates and implements action plans to reduce environmental pollution, curb the use of plastic, as well as work on technologies to reduce the water consumption of different industrial processes.

If one wishes to understand his work in State Pollution Control Board, think of an engineer, federal agent, and prosecutor rolled into one role.

In this episode, you will hear about the reasons for pollutants in India, what has been done to mitigate them, what we can do, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Niyanta Spelman.

Niyanta is the founder and CEO of Rainforest Partnership, an impact-driven international nonprofit that uses the power of community-centered collaboration to protect rainforests—critical components in the global climate crisis—in some of the most critical places on Earth for biodiversity and climate.

Founded in 2007, Rainforest Partnership works to solve the challenge of deforestation by centering the needs of those on the front lines of the rainforest—Indigenous peoples and local communities. The organization builds collaborative relationships with rainforest communities as a trusted partner, developing comprehensive, ground-up solutions and economic responses that create effective and long-lasting conservation outcomes. In 2021 alone, RP’s efforts led to the durable protection and restoration of 1.16 million acres of rainforest in Peru, Ecuador, and along the Peru-Brazil border.

Powered by a powerful and passionate global team that seamlessly blends a compensated team, volunteers, and partners, the organization achieves high-value outcomes for forests through its own work, but also by its thought leadership that enables others to advance their impact more effectively.

A native of Tanzania, Niyanta attended boarding school in India. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from The University of Texas at Dallas and a Master of Public Affairs in Environmental Policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to founding Rainforest Partnership in 2007, her career path included work at the first lobbying firm in London, leading a management consultancy, and working with Texas environmental agencies as part of a legislative agency. She chaired a chamber of commerce, served on the Austin Planning Commission, and served on the board of a US national health advocacy organization.

Niyanta serves as the Speaker of the newly formed Rainforest Collective, and she recently taught a class on Climate Change and Development at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. She has received numerous honors and awards and has been featured in international press outlets.

In this episode, you will hear about the tropical rainforest and its values, the indigenous people, biodiversity, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Job van Hooijdonk.

Job is co-founder of Regreener, an Amsterdam-based startup focusing on regreening the world. Before founding Regreener. He studied corporate law and worked as an M&A lawyer for an international law firm for several years. Being a millennial, he then started thinking about switching careers in order to be able to make an impact.

Looking at existing climate change fighting solutions, he noticed three things: (1) Most solutions were too complicated, (2) there was a major lack of transparency, and (3) almost all solutions were focused on the negative side of things. This finally resulted in the core values of Regreener: simplicity, transparency, and positivity. This means that Regreener is focused on simple solutions whilst focusing on providing its community with all the information about impact, finance, etc. and all is done in a positive way, meaning that the focus is on the green impact.

Regreener offers consumers and businesses the opportunity to plant trees, protect rainforests and offset carbon through carbon certificates. Furthermore, they are focusing on building check-out solutions for webshops, providing end customers with the opportunity to plant a tree.

In this episode you will hear about his work, transparency in “re-greening”, green projects, green in business, carbon credits, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Daniel Katz.

Daniel received a bachelor's degree in History and Classical Studies following which he took a sharp turn into the sustainability and environmental field where he has been immersed for the past 8 years. He first made his way into ecological work when he was called to build a community garden in his old neighborhood in Tel Aviv during his academic studies. Since the spark ignited, he has been giving lectures and workshops to organizations and municipalities on climate change and sustainability. He also designed and built an ecological community farm, directed the educational department for "Hava & Adam" educational EcoFarm and is currently a project manager at the environmental nonprofit "Good Energy Initiative". After managing several projects in the field of waste treatment, he began creating and running the "Climate Forest Project": an urban afforestation project focusing on tree planting in neglected public spaces. Daniel lives in a small village in the Jerusalem mountains, with his partner Noa and their two children- 3-year-old Laya and 3-month-old Refael.

In this episode, you will hear about building community gardens, the climate forest, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Princess Marinay.

Princess Marinay is an international Presenter, Climate Change Communicator, Youth Advocate, prolific writer, fashion model, and fashion designer.

She began her journey in 2015 at the age of 11, under the participation of a literary and art competition hosted by the Vision of the Child organization, where she portrayed her literary skills and was part of the

winners and didn’t stop there.

She is a multi-talented communicator and acted in an award winning corruption busters film titled “TRAPPED” based on the issues of drug abuse in our communities in 2018.

Princess is committed to raise awareness about the dangers of Climate Change and is working under the Creative Youth Community Development Initiative (CYCDI) influencing that change in the world.

She is currently a Google Project Management student and is aiming to implement her projects to make the planet a thriving, sustainable world.

In this episode you will hear about her activism work, her tree planting project with the school kids, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Shefali Dehl.

Shefali is the founder of Ombrè Craft's. She is a designer and a mother to a 5 years old. Shafeli started her career in 2004 after completing her graduation in fashion designing from JD Institute of Fashion Technology, Delhi, and certification in Personal Fashion Styling from London College of Fashion.

Ombrè Craft was founded in the year 2015, with the objective to cater to the lifestyle of modern women and showcase the work of weavers at global platforms through stores and online presence in different countries.

Her vision for Ombrè Craft has been to create "Everyday clothing for the festival called life, made in a socially sustainable way", her ensembles are able to cater to the needs of clients from various professions like women from the corporate sector, entrepreneurs, and so on. Apart from this, the label has built a portfolio with 9-5 collections, festive wear, travel/resort wear, yoga wear, and more, all adorned with the brand's signature touch, fabric fineness, and aesthetics from the Indian culture and roots thinking more and more sustainable and conscious.

Till now, Ombre Craft has supplied clothing lines to more than 6 countries, worked with more than 1000 individual clients, and has worked with more than 35 B2B clients including retail, brands, and boutiques at domestic and international levels and derived inputs from the weavers and artisans of 6+ states.

In this episode, you will hear about the impact the fashion industry has on our environment, her work, how to be more sustainable in fashion, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Brent Perry.

Brent defined an industry when he oversaw the development of the world’s first battery for marine propulsion. Energy storage systems are now a major – and increasingly important – player on the global marine energy scene.

In the years since that first battery, he has become a world expert on lithium energy storage in marine applications and recently launched PwrSwäp, a pay-as-you-go clean energy subscription service that can electrify marine vessels, terminals, ports, and even industrial sites and small communities.

His 30-year history in commercial shipbuilding and deep knowledge of energy systems gives him a unique perspective on the hybrid and electric marine industry. Brent has personally been involved in the great majority of all large hybrid and electric ferry projects on the water today. From Ampere in Norway to Scandlines Benedikte and the For Seaferries Aurora and Tycho Brahe, he has unsurpassed experience in the sector.

Brent is an experienced, engaging, and impassioned speaker. Major presentations include speeches at the UN Conference on Climate Change, COP21 in Paris, and COP23 in Bonn.

Mr. Perry resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, and enjoys sailing with his wife and three children.

In this episode, you will hear about green energy storage, zero-emission operation at shore and at sea, financial values as an incentive for a change, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Emily Schneider.

Emily is a Director of Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability for a U.S.-based manufacturing company. She holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in the environmental field and has been working in the field for over a decade.

Originally from the Midwest, having lived in either Wisconsin or Minnesota her whole life until she moved to Arizona 5 years ago where she currently resides. In her current role, Emily guides her company toward creating an equitable future for both humans and the planet by driving sustainable practices in their operations as well as assisting with the development of new products which will help the company and their clients advance the circular economy.

In this episode you will hear about what EHS is, sustainability in the workplace, priorities in becoming a sustainable business, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Johnny Palmer.

Johnny is a British Australian entrepreneur, activist, and business adventurer who has built a portfolio of companies and projects across multiple sectors, all underpinned by 3 values. Whether cleaning up rivers, investing in commercial property, developing leading media companies, engineering renewable power innovations, or any other project, Johnny focuses on Sustainability, Disruption, and Growth.

In this episode, you will hear about his values for every project he is involved in and a glimpse of how - the first step towards making live events greener, cleaning up rivers, planting trees, up-cycling an old aircraft for an office, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Erick Ogallo.

Erick is a performance-driven professional with a deep understanding and hands-on knowledge in the field of Natural Resource Management e.g. Air Quality Monitoring, Green & Circular Economy, Project Management, Responsible Forest Management & Landscape restoration.

He is well experienced in project management and coordination, community engagement, and interfaith engagement in care for creation, having served in various capacities with different institutions implementing Green and Circular Economy (GCE) initiatives, leading NRM projects on Forest Landscape Restoration and conservation, climate change, and Integrated Water Resource Management for the last eight years.

Currently serving as a Program officer at the Royal Danish Embassy in Kenya coordinating a Strategic Sector Cooperation,  a government to government program on Food Safety, Environment, Maritime, and Energy sectors. Previously served as a Project Coordinator at the University of Nairobi in partnership with GeoHealth Eastern Africa Hub, implementing a research project on Air quality, health, and climate change. In addition, Erick provides advisory on tree growing both at the community level and urban level using the Miyawaki technique, he is also a Chain of Custody auditor with the Soil Association- UK.

HE holds; Bachelor of Science, Environmental Resource Conservation (Kenyatta University - Kenya), Diploma in Green and Circular Economy (Technical University of Denmark), Certificate  in Responsive project Management administered by COWI -Denmark, and a Master’s degree in Environmental Management (The Open University, United Kingdom)

In this episode, you will hear about the Miyawaki method for growing forests in urban areas, green & circular economy, food safety, the IPCC report, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Grant Brown.

Tech entrepreneur turned eco-activist, Grant uses his deep knowledge of environmental issues and solutions to distill complex issues into simple, easy-to-understand terms. His goal is to inspire hope for the future in those who worry about the effects of climate change and pollution. Happy Eco News is the passion project that convinced Grant to move from the sideline to the front line and use his entrepreneurial skills to help “good people doing good things”.

In this episode, you will hear about the use of clean energy in ships, why and how banks are divesting from fossil fuel, the Paris accord, the trends and good climate change news, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Nyombi Morris.

Nyombi is a 23 years old Ugandan Climate Activist, a #SolvingIt Honoree, UNOCHA Ambassador and CNN Environmentalist of Tomorrow who began his activism as a result of the direct impact flooding had on his family disrupting the source of livelihood for his parents and forcing them to find a new place to call home.

Nyombi has since called for more action from world leaders and polluters to take climate change more seriously and discourage polluters through policy development, his story has been featured on the BBC, CBC, CNN, The Verge, Global Citizens, Reuters, Earth.org amongst others.

In this episode, you will hear about his inspiration to become an activist, the work he does, tree planting with school in Uganda, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Troy Carter & Patrick Leung, they are both the co-founders of Earthshot.

Troy is the CEO of Earthshot, which is building the technology for planetary-scale ecological restoration. He is also a co-founder at RIZOME, which is pioneering the use of bamboo engineered lumber as a climate-positive alternative to wood, steel, and concrete. He is bringing the audacious scale and vision of startup methodology to the planet’s ecological and climate crisis. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in economics, was an early employee at Airbnb and E la Carte, then founded and scaled Troy Cider and exited after a successful acquisition in 2015. He has focused on carbon finance and renewable energy and agriculture projects for the last six years.

Patrick has spent two decades in the tech industry as an engineering leader. At Google, he worked on Google Maps, Emerging Markets, and the Google Duplex conversational AI system. Patrick was also CTO at Two Sigma Private Investments where he pioneered the use of data science and machine learning in private equity markets.

In this episode, you will hear about Earthshot, the carbon market, bamboo, indigenous communities, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Benjamin J Butler.

Benjamin J Butler is a former investor and now writer, futurist, and strategist. He has sat on the boards of a number of organizations as an expert on the future including Global Future Council of the World Economic Forum, the Board of Trustees of the American Renewable Energy Institute, International Advisory Board of Athena School of Management, and Futurist at Horasis Global.

Benjamin believes humanity is at a turbulent but evolutionary inflection point and perhaps at the dawn of the creation of an ecological civilization.

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Claire Nasike Akello.

Claire is a Wangari Maathai Scholar and leads the food campaign at Greenpeace Africa, where she trains local communities on ecological agriculture, food and seed sovereignty as adaptive mechanisms to climate change, campaigns for their adoption by smallholder farmers, and its inclusion in agricultural policies in Kenya.

She has previously worked for A Rocha Kenya, as an Environmental education officer and won the Wangari Maathai Scholarship Award in 2015, for her environmental education work with school children in Budalangi.

Claire is also the founder of the Hummingbird Foundation; an initiative that seeks to improve nutrition among school-going children through the establishment of organic food gardens in rural and urban areas.

She is a graduate of the Technical University of Kenya with a first-class degree in Environmental Resource Management and currently pursues a Masters of Science in Management of Agroecosystems and Environment at The University of Nairobi.

In her free time, she loves reading, dancing, and writing articles on her eco-blog

which has been nominated twice for Kenya bloggers awards (BAKE) in 2015 and 2018.

In this episode, you will hear about her work at Greenpeace, Agro-Ecology, natural pest control, how she is improving children's nutrition in Kenya, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Lucian Tarnowski.

Lucian is the founding curator of United Planet and Architect of the UP Game.

UP Game is a time traveling immersive reality to tell the greatest story ever told. Lucian spent 2 years designing a platform for a planetary unifying narrative to emerge to respond to the crisis of meaning and trust. This mission is to deliver on the PlanetShot - a Planetary Civilization in harmony with all life. Lucian believes we succeed by reverse engineering the story from the future. Lucian is a Gaian on a mission to serve the birthing of the Planetary Age.

Lucian has a decade of experience in designing and powering online communities that connect diverse stakeholders around a shared purpose. Communities support virtual and distributed teams to scale and achieve their collaboration, knowledge sharing and problem-solving goals. For 10 years he worked on BraveNew which enables Fortune 1000 clients such as GE, and collaboratives such as Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Geinsinger Health to cooperate and collaborate around a shared purpose.

Lucian has been honored as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. He has been an active attendee of Davos and other World Economic Forum meetings for many years. He continues to research and experiment around the social science behind communities, knowledge sharing and economic spaces.

Since 2002, he has run Take Heart India, a 53-year-old no overheads charity started by his father that provides blind and handicapped people in rural India with the vocational employment skills required to get lifelong employment.

He has spoken at gatherings such as Davos, various World Economic Forum meetings, TEDx, The China Digital Summit, Impact Summit and for companies such as Deutsche Telekom, Oracle, Pearson, IBM and PWC. He speaks to audiences around the world about communities and the convergence of talent, knowledge and capital and the impact on society.

In this episode you will hear about communities, the Up Games, the Rebirthing of Planetary Civilization party inspired by James Webb/NASA, Star Wars, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Michellee Fox.

Michellee is a Brazilian native, slow food chef, small minority farmer advocate and North & South America Business Development Manager for FoodBay TV - a food and lifestyle television network in Africa. She is also the host of CraftFood Podcast, where she interviews leaders in nutritional sustainability, and the new Dietary Manager for Mid valley Hospital in Omak, Washington

She recently moved  to a 90 acre clean slate farm in Eastern Washington where together with her family is crafting a PNW wild plants heaven using Regenerative practices.

Once able to slow down she was able to understand the small farmer and the need for the food industry to shift it’s conscience to seasonal cooking so we can secure the future of food.

In this episode you will hear about seasonal cooking, sustainable farming, Korean Natural Farming, Permaculture, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Sharon Glassman.

Sharon is the founder of Smile Songs. She is an introverted, Brooklyn, NY fashion writer turned Colorado designer and songwriter of cards and gifts that sing.

A kid who read books and played music under the trees in her suburban front lawn, channeled her talent into eco-friendly greeting cards that play happy songs. The art and messages she creates along with the songs, work like mini-stories to boost everyones’ spirit, while protecting our environment.

In this episode you will hear about her work, her eco-friendly way of sharing positive messages, her love to nature, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Bill Liao.

Bill is a Chinese-Australian-Irish entrepreneur, investor, former diplomat, business mentor, author, passionate leader and speaker, with a distinguished record in business development and community activism.

Co-founder of the CoderDojo movement and of WeForest, his career in tech and business encompasses two unicorn companies and launching the world’s first bio-tech accelerator. He is a general partner of SOSV, a venture capital fund of over $1B, and founder of the SOSV Momentum Pre-accelerator program.

In this episode you will hear about his commitment to the world on tree planting and no flying, his TED talk, sustainably planting trees, his preferred investments, Permaculture values and advantages, and more.

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It’s a special episode where I bring my microphone to COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, and speak with people right at the green zone, on the streets, and even on the train. This episode shares my conversation with 3 women, sharing 3 stories, 5 minutes each.

In this episode you will hear about the ocean, melting ice, corporates, film making, seaweed, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Ben Cooper.

Ben is an Agriculture Specialist, recently retired from Maryland Department of Agriculture after 32 years. Ben is now a beekeeper. He teaches beginners classes at a local college. He is the president of the local beekeeping association, life member of both Maryland and Pennsylvania State Beekeeper associations and a mentor to many new people getting into the hobby.

In this episode you will hear about his work as an agriculture specialist, the values in forest corridors, his work with the bees, bees as agricultural animals/insects, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Cathy Nesbitt.

Cathy is a Worm Advocate and Founder of Cathy's Crawly Composters. She is on a mission to put worms in every living space, indoor composting with worms. Cathy believes worms are going to play an ever increasing role in waste management, soil production and therefore food security. She sees food waste as a simple way to mitigate climate change and create (air quote) 'black gold' to grow more delicious, nutritious food. As she says “worm composter offers a tremendous learning opportunity for all ages”.

In this episode you will hear about the role worms play in our world, how they can help with climate change, their “Black Gold”, how to start composting with worms, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Dr. Hugh Ross.

Dr. Ross is an astronomer and the founder and president of Reasons to Believe. He is also the author of Weathering Climate Change.

In this episode you will hear about any connection if any between astronomy and climate change, climate stability, the ice-age cycles, what we can do to keep the climate stable while preparing for the upcoming ice-age, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Holly Worton.

Holly is an author, podcaster, and speaker. She writes nonfiction books about her adventures to inspire people to get outdoors and reconnect with nature as a way to reconnect with themselves. Holly enjoys spending time outdoors, walking and running long-distance trails, and exploring Britain’s sacred sites. She’s originally from California and now lives in England, but has also lived in Spain, Costa Rica, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina.

Holly has spent the last few years talking to trees – the yew, the oaks, and the sycamores.

You are at the right place, this is The Butterfly Effect. This butterfly is excited to be speaking again, and this time in Hebrew with Maya Jacobs. If you are looking for the episode in English, check out Episode #26.

פרק בונוס בעברית של אפקט הפרפר עם מאיה יעקבס.

מאיה יעקבס, מנכ"לית עמותת צלול, הארגון המוביל בישראל להגנת הים, נחלים ומים.

מאיה מובילה את העמותה עוד מעט עשר שנים, במהלכן העמותה הובילה מאבקים וניצחונות היסטוריים כמו סגירת מיכל האמוניה של חיפה כימיקלים, הפסקת הזרמת 5 מיליון טון בוצת ביוב מזוהמת לים בכל שנה מהשפד"ן (מתקני טיהור השפכים של גוש דן), הם קידמו את חוק השקיות ומהמובילים של המלחמה בזיהום הפלסטיק החד פעמי.

במקביל, העמותה גם יוזמת שיתופי פעולה רבים לשינוי הרגלים, פועלת רבות בתחומי הסברה, שיתופי פעולה וקידום פתרונות למשברי האקלים והזיהום.

למאיה עצמה יש 15 שנות ניסיון כיועצת תקשורת ואסטרטגיה, מגיעה עם רקע מקצועי עשיר הן במגזר הציבורי, בו שימשה כדוברת בלשכת ראש הממשלה אהוד ברק וכקצינת ההסברה הראשית של הקונסוליה הישראלית בניו יורק בתקופת האינתיפדה השניה ובמתקפת הטרור 9/11 על העיר, וכן במגזר השלישי בו עבדה גם בקרנות פילנתרופיות כמו הקרן לידידות וכאמור, בעשור האחרון, מובילה את צלול.

בפרק נדבר על העבודה של מאיה בצלול, למה חשוב לשמור על המים ואיכות הסביבה, פתרונות של אנרגיה ירוקה, מה אנחנו יכולים לעשות ועוד.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Ariana Ivan. Ariana has built social-impact businesses from fashion to education and today her mission is to create models that make forests profitable, without cutting or degrading them.

You will hear about what are some potential profitable business models for forests (besides logging), the role of a forest caretaker, the long term and short term projects they can get involved in, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Pablo Restrepo Meza.

Pablo is a designer and artist focused on regeneration and peace through the aesthetic experience. He has a BA in International Relations from the University of Exeter and The University of Hong Kong. He worked in Fashion during 5 years building networks for the reintegration of former combatants as part of the Colombian Peace process, He founded Juventud de La Tierra (Youth of the Earth) in 2018 as an environmental collective that seeks to generate planetary consciousness through design. Pablo has been an ambassador for Colombia for One Young World, has a TEDx talk about change through design and has participated in various forums as a public speaker.

In this episode you will hear about his work in facilitating a conscious environmental change within people, the indigenous people of Columbia and what we can learn from them, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Maya Jacobs. Maya is CEO of Zalul environmental association, one of Israel’s leading environmental NGOs, dedicated to marine preservation, focusing on eliminating pollution from the Mediterranean and Red Seas, from Israel’s streams and rivers, and water preservation.

She has over 20 years of experience in media strategies and influencing public opinion, and has been dedicating these abilities for the environment in the past 10 years.

During her time with Zalul Maya led the organization to many achievements and today she is in a very unique position in which she leads the biggest environmental campaigns and struggles on the one hand while initiating and leading many collaborations on the other.

In this episode you will hear about why water preservation is so important, the problem with plastic at sea, green energy, the "special" gene of the coral reef in the Red Sea, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Ross O'Ceallaigh. Ross is an Urban Design and Planning Consultant based in London. When he's not helping clients create better urban environments, he hosts the Green Urbanist Podcast. This show explores how planners, architects, nature lovers and policy makers can make cities more sustainable, healthy and happy. Ross believes that urbanists have a unique role to play in tackling climate change.

In this episode you will hear about his work, what’s an urban designer, the benefits of more green in our cities, the equality and inequality in the space, ways to get cities more green, his podcast, and more.

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Breno Veiga is an agroforester that has been developing ways to promote the knowledge surrounding agroforestry systems throughout communities.

He is the co-creator of the documentary film O Elo Perdido (The Lost Connection) that is seeking the reconciliation between man and nature, through the lens of agroforestry.

Breno is also the Co-Founder of Ekonavi, a new platform that helps facilitate this lost connection.

In this episode you will hear about what agroforestry means, what are some of its benefits in comparison to the traditional farming methods, the making of the film, and more.

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Tim Kovar is a Master Tree Climbing Instructor with 30 years of teaching experience. His love and respect of nature, coupled with his wanderlust spirit, led him to metaphorically and literally take the vertical path less traveled. A path that has led him into the remote jungles of the world in pursuit of his vision to help connect others to our natural world.

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Harry Justice.

Harry is a senior at the Berkeley Carroll school in Brooklyn, NY, originally from Jersey City, NJ. He engages with environmentalism and sustainability by co-leading his school’s environmental club, conducting independent science research on sustainability, and promoting advocacy and social justice through personal research and advocacy with the climate advocacy group FXB Climate Advocates.

In this episode you will hear about his environmental work at school, his thoughts on environmental justice, the generational gaps and responsibilities in regards to climate change, and more.

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Ceara Carney.

Ceara is a 27 year old activist and actor from Dublin, Ireland. She grew up in the countryside and has been passionate about the environment and animal rights from a young age. Her eyes were opened to the deforestation and pollution happening on a mass scale after being vegetarian and vegan for many years and being conscious of what she consumes. She is involved with activist group Extinction Rebellion in Ireland and is also the host of an eco-friendly living podcast, the Book of Leaves.

In this episode you will learn about fairies, leprechauns as well as other mythological creatures and how they help preserve the environment in Ireland, the work Ceara is doing with Extinction Rebellion, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Dr. Kenneth Lacovara.

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Katie Mills.

Katie is a London-based nature connector, a qualified Forest School Leader and forest bathing guide, and a campaigner and social entrepreneur. She is the founder and Director of Forest & Family, which is a London forest school and nature connection organization promoting the links between nature, health and wellbeing. She is also the founder of Forest Bathing London, which is dedicated to promoting and supporting forest bathing in London and for Londoners.

She works as a trainer, speaker and forest therapy coach and diploma mentor and with a wide range of partners and clients providing nature connection training and services.

Katie is one of over 50 London National Park City Rangers, a role that falls under the London national park city movement which is all about making the city greener, wilder and healthier – London is in fact the world’s first National Park City!!

Katie holds degrees in Poverty Reduction and Development Management, and Theology and Religion, and before nature connection she worked in international development and for many years in higher education at several leading universities in the UK. She lives in London with her husband, two young daughters, two rabbits and in a few weeks… also a dog called Storm.

In this episode you will hear about what is forest bathing, its benefits, and much more.

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