• Revolutionizing Sustainability: BERTRAND PICCARD's Path to a Cleaner Planet - Highlights
    Mar 14 2024

    "In a lot of regions of the world, ecology has started to be a hostage of political parties. You have the left wing, which takes ecology as its flagship. You have the right wing, which is fighting against ecology because they want to fight against the left wing, and they use all the arguments of ecology to destroy ecology. It's very strange that the people who want to protect the environment are not able to make their cause much more appealing. This is what I try to do with the new narrative of the Solar Impulse Foundation: to show the opportunities more than the risks. To show the solutions more than the problems."

    Bertrand Piccard is a notable Swiss environmentalist, explorer, author, and psychiatrist. His ventures include being the first to travel around the world in a non-stop balloon flight and years later in a solar-powered airplane. He is regarded as a pioneer in clean technology. Piccard is also the founder of the Solar Impulse Foundation, which has identified over 1500 actionable and profitable climate solutions and connects them with investors. As a UN Ambassador for the Environment, his goal is to convince leaders of the viability of a zero-carbon economy, which he will demonstrate via his next emission-free project Climate Impulse, a green hydrogen-powered airplane that can fly nonstop around the earth.

    "In a lot of regions of the world, ecology has started to be a hostage of political parties. You have the left wing, which takes ecology as its flagship. You have the right wing, which is fighting against ecology because they want to fight against the left wing, and they use all the arguments of ecology to destroy ecology. It's very strange that the people who want to protect the environment are not able to make their cause much more appealing. This is what I try to do with the new narrative of the Solar Impulse Foundation: to show the opportunities more than the risks. To show the solutions more than the problems."

    http://www.solarimpulse.com
    https://climateimpulse.org/
    https://bertrandpiccard.com/

    Photos:
    Bertrand Piccard with Ilham Kadri, CEO Syensqo (main technological partner of Climate Impulse)
    Bertrand Piccard @ Solar Impulse, Jean Revillard

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    11 mins
  • Beyond the Horizon: Pioneering Green Aviation with BERTRAND PICCARD - Aviator, Explorer, Environmentalist
    Mar 14 2024

    What is the future of green aviation? How do we share environmental solutions to unite people and change the climate narrative from sacrifice and fear to enthusiasm and hope?

    Bertrand Piccard is a notable Swiss environmentalist, explorer, author, and psychiatrist. His ventures include being the first to travel around the world in a non-stop balloon flight and years later in a solar-powered airplane. He is regarded as a pioneer in clean technology. Piccard is also the founder of the Solar Impulse Foundation, which has identified over 1500 actionable and profitable climate solutions and connects them with investors. As a UN Ambassador for the Environment, his goal is to convince leaders of the viability of a zero-carbon economy, which he will demonstrate via his next emission-free project Climate Impulse, a green hydrogen-powered airplane that can fly nonstop around the earth.
    "In a lot of regions of the world, ecology has started to be a hostage of political parties. You have the left wing, which takes ecology as its flagship. You have the right wing, which is fighting against ecology because they want to fight against the left wing, and they use all the arguments of ecology to destroy ecology. It's very strange that the people who want to protect the environment are not able to make their cause much more appealing. This is what I try to do with the new narrative of the Solar Impulse Foundation: to show the opportunities more than the risks. To show the solutions more than the problems."

    http://www.solarimpulse.com
    https://climateimpulse.org/
    https://bertrandpiccard.com/

    Photos:
    COPSummit
    Bertrand Piccard with Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
    Ville de Demain exhibition, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, Paris

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    55 mins
  • Highlights - ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON
    Aug 8 2023

    "It's not just that he grew up in a rural environment too. He was born on July 30th, 1947. And most of us today don't have any understanding or relationship to what Europe was like right after World War II. The winter of 1946/1947 in Austria was the most brutal in decades. The people already had too little food. They were in an occupied country.

    The summer potato crops failed. As Arnold has said, his mother had to go from farm to farm to farm, begging for food to be able to feed her children. His father, like all the men in the village, was defeated by the war. I mean, they were not just defeated by their side losing, but realizing what their side had stood for, that they were the bad guys.

    And he saw them all physically, emotionally, intellectually defeated and taking it out on their wives and children, that he was beaten and his mother was beaten. All the neighbor kids were beaten, and they were beaten into a kind of placid defeat. And he alone would not accept that. He could not see that life for himself.

    And he was, as a child, searching for ways to get out of that. And bodybuilding became that when he learned about bodybuilding as a very poor boy. They lived on the top floor of a house. They had no plumbing. They all bathed once a week in the same tub in the kitchen. And his brother and he had to bring the water in. His mother heated it, and they took baths one by one. Mother first, father second, older brother third, Arnold last in the tub of dirty water. And so he wanted out of that. And as a poor boy, he had nothing but his body to work with. That was it. There was not going to be any college. There was not going to be any of that. There was going to be some kind of menial job, or he could use what he had - his body - to get him out of there."

    “Why I was different from all the other boys in my town I cannot tell you. I was simply born with the gift of vision.” – ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

    Is there any better example of the American Dream than Arnold Schwarzenegger? What does it take to make your vision a reality? How do you cultivate iron focus to overcome any obstacle and realize your dreams?

    On the publication of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s limited edition two-volume book published by TASCHEN, we sat down with Senior Editor and Writer Dian Hansen to discuss Schwarzenegger’s life, accomplishments, and history of unforgettable performances. The book has been a decade-long collaborative process and along with portraits by leading photographers Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Francesco Scavullo, and Andy Warhol, it is also filled with photos from Arnold’s private archive and exclusive interviews. Dian’s other works include The Art of Pin-up, Masterpieces of Fantasy Art, and The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta.

    www.taschen.com/en/limited-editions/film/03105/arnold-collector-s-edition

    www.schwarzenegger.com

    www.creativeprocess.info
    www.oneplanetpodcast.org
    IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

    Image courtesy of Taschen.
    Photo credit: ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER IN VENICE, CALIFORNIA. PHOTO BY ALBERT BUSEK, 1980

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    10 mins
  • ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON
    Aug 8 2023

    “Why I was different from all the other boys in my town I cannot tell you. I was simply born with the gift of vision.” – ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

    Is there any better example of the American Dream than Arnold Schwarzenegger? What does it take to make your vision a reality? How do you cultivate iron focus to overcome any obstacle and realize your dreams?

    On the publication of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s limited edition two-volume book published by TASCHEN, we sat down with Senior Editor and Writer Dian Hansen to discuss Schwarzenegger’s life, accomplishments, and history of unforgettable performances. The book has been a decade-long collaborative process and along with portraits by leading photographers Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Francesco Scavullo, and Andy Warhol, it is also filled with photos from Arnold’s private archive and exclusive interviews. Dian’s other works include The Art of Pin-up, Masterpieces of Fantasy Art, and The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta.

    "It's not just that he grew up in a rural environment too. He was born on July 30th, 1947. And most of us today don't have any understanding or relationship to what Europe was like right after World War II. The winter of 1946/1947 in Austria was the most brutal in decades. The people already had too little food. They were in an occupied country.

    The summer potato crops failed. As Arnold has said, his mother had to go from farm to farm to farm, begging for food to be able to feed her children. His father, like all the men in the village, was defeated by the war. I mean, they were not just defeated by their side losing, but realizing what their side had stood for, that they were the bad guys.

    And he saw them all physically, emotionally, intellectually defeated and taking it out on their wives and children, that he was beaten and his mother was beaten. All the neighbor kids were beaten, and they were beaten into a kind of placid defeat. And he alone would not accept that. He could not see that life for himself.

    And he was, as a child, searching for ways to get out of that. And bodybuilding became that when he learned about bodybuilding as a very poor boy. They lived on the top floor of a house. They had no plumbing. They all bathed once a week in the same tub in the kitchen. And his brother and he had to bring the water in. His mother heated it, and they took baths one by one. Mother first, father second, older brother third, Arnold last in the tub of dirty water. And so he wanted out of that. And as a poor boy, he had nothing but his body to work with. That was it. There was not going to be any college. There was not going to be any of that. There was going to be some kind of menial job, or he could use what he had - his body - to get him out of there."

    www.taschen.com/en/limited-editions/film/03105/arnold-collector-s-edition

    www.schwarzenegger.com

    www.creativeprocess.info
    www.oneplanetpodcast.org
    IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

    Images courtesy of Taschen.
    Photo credits:
    Cover
    Arnold Schwarzenegger for the film End of Days. Sante D'Orazio, 1999
    Governor Schwarzenegger with the Lincoln Memorial · Photo by Peter Grigsby, 2009
    Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lulu at his Los Angeles home · Photo by Tracy Nguyen, 2021

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    58 mins
  • We All Live on One Planet We Call Home - Part 4 - Environmentalists, Economists, Policymakers & Architects Share their Stories
    May 5 2023

    Listen to Part 4 of this Special Series with music courtesy of composer Max Richter. All voices on this episode are from our interviews for The Creative Process & One Planet Podcast:

    INGRID NEWKIRK, Founder & President of PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

    JEFFREY D. SACHS, President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Director of Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, Economist, Author

    JENNIFER MORGAN, Fmr. Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Special Envoy for International Climate Action, German Foreign Ministry

    MERLIN SHELDRAKE, Biologist & Bestselling Author of “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures”, Winner of the Wainwright Prize 2021

    WALTER STAHEL, Architect, Economist, Founding Father of Circular Economy, Founder-Director, Product-Life Institute

    ARMOND COHEN, Executive Director of Clean Air Task Force

    PIA MANCINI, Co-founder/CEO of Open Collective - Chair of DemocracyEarth Foundation, YGL World Economic Forum

    RON GONEN, Founder & CEO of Closed Loop Partners, Former Deputy Commissioner of Sanitation, Recycling & Sustainability, NYC

    AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, Poet & Author of “World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments”

    ANA CASTILLO, Award-Winning Xicana Activist, Editor, Poet, Novelist & Artist

    www.creativeprocess.info
    www.oneplanetpodcast.org
    IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

    www.maxrichtermusic.com
    https://studiorichtermahr.com

    Max Richter’s music featured in this episode are “On the Nature of Daylight” from The Blue Notebooks, “Path 19: Yet Frailest” from Sleep.

    Music is courtesy of Max Richter, Universal Music Enterprises, and Mute Song.

    Artwork: Saudade, Mia Funk

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    23 mins
  • What Kind of World Are We Leaving for Future Generations? - Part 3 - Activists, Environmentalists & Teachers Share their Stories
    May 4 2023

    Listen to Part 3 of this Special Series with music courtesy of composer Max Richter.

    All voices on this episode are from our interviews for The Creative Process & One Planet Podcast:

    PAULA PINHO, Director of Just Transition at the European Commission Directorate-General for Energy

    PIA MANCINI, Co-founder/CEO of Open Collective - Chair of DemocracyEarth Foundation, YGL World Economic Forum

    JENNIFER MORGAN, Fmr. Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Special Envoy for International Climate Action, German Foreign Ministry

    WALTER STAHEL, Architect, Economist, Founding Father of Circular Economy, Founder-Director, Product-Life Institute

    MERLIN SHELDRAKE, Biologist & Bestselling Author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, Winner of the Wainwright Prize 2021

    RON GONEN, Founder & CEO of Closed Loop Partners, Former Deputy Commissioner of Sanitation, Recycling & Sustainability, NYC

    MANUELA LUCÁ-DAZIO, Executive Director, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Fmr. Exec. Director of Venice Biennale, Visual Arts & Architecture Dept.

    NICHOLAS ROYLE, Co-author of "An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory”, Author of “Mother: A Memoir”

    MARK BURGMAN, Director, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, Editor-in-Chief, Conservation Biology

    MIKE DAVIS, CEO of Global Witness

    JAY FAMIGLIETTI, Fmr. Senior Water Scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Exec. Director, Global Institute for Water Security, Host of "What About Water?" Podcast

    BRITT WRAY, Author of “Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis”, Researcher Working on Climate Change & Mental Health, Stanford University

    RICHARD VEVERS, Founder & CEO of The Ocean Agency

    ARMOND COHEN, Executive Director of Clean Air Task Force

    BILL HARE, Founder & CEO of Climate Analytics, Physicist, Climate Scientist

    DAVID PALUMBO-LIU, Activist, Professor & Author of “Speaking Out of Place: Getting Our Political Voices Back”, Host of Speaking out of Place Podcast

    IBRAHIM ALHUSSEINI, Founder & CEO of FullCycle Fund

    GAIA VINCE, Science Writer, Broadcaster & Author of “Transcendence” & “Adventures in the Anthropocene”

    INGRID NEWKIRK, Founder & President of PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

    www.creativeprocess.info
    www.oneplanetpodcast.org
    IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

    www.maxrichtermusic.com
    https://studiorichtermahr.com

    Max Richter’s music featured in this episode are “On the Nature of Daylight” from The Blue Notebooks, “Path 19: Yet Frailest” from Sleep.

    Music is courtesy of Max Richter, Universal Music Enterprises, and Mute Song.

    Artwork: Beneath the Ice, Mia Funk

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    17 mins
  • Earth Month Stories - Part 2 - Environmentalists, Artists, Students & Teachers Speak Out & Share How We Can Save the Planet
    Apr 26 2023

    Listen to Part 2 of this Special Series with music courtesy of composer Max Richter.

    All voices on this episode are from our interviews for The Creative Process & One Planet Podcast:

    MANUELA LUCÁ-DAZIO - Executive Director, Pritzker Architecture Prize - Fmr. Exec. Director of Venice Biennale, Visual Arts & Architecture Dept.

    BRITT WRAY - Author of “Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis”, Researcher Working on Climate Change & Mental Health, Stanford University

    WALTER STAHEL - Architect, Economist, Founding Father of Circular Economy - Founder-Director, Product-Life Institute

    MATHIS WACKERNAGEL - Founder & President of the Global Footprint Network - World Sustainability Award Winner

    JAY FAMIGLIETTI, Fmr. Senior Water Scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Exec. Director, Global Institute for Water Security, Host of "What About Water?" Podcast

    RICHARD VEVERS - Founder & CEO of The Ocean Agency

    ARMOND COHEN - Executive Director of Clean Air Task Force

    PAULA PINHO - Director of Just Transition at the European Commission Directorate-General for Energy

    MARTIN VON HILDEBRAND - Indigenous Rights Activist - Winner of Right Livelihood & Skoll Awards - Founder of Fundacion Gaia Amazonas, named #40 NGOs of the World by The Global Journal

    HAROLD P. SJURSEN - Professor of Philosophy - Science, Technology, the Arts - NYU, Beihang University, East China University

    BILL HARE - Founder & CEO of Climate Analytics, Physicist, Climate Scientist

    SIR ANDY HAINES - Tyler Prize Award-winner for Environmental Achievement - Professor of Environmental Change & Public Health

    LISA JACKSON PULVER - Deputy Vice-Chancellor of University of Sydney's Indigenous Strategy & Services 

    Max Richter’s music featured in this episode:

    “Spring 1” from The New Four Seasons – Vivaldi Recomposed
    Vladimir’s Blues” from The Blue Notebooks
    "Lullaby From The Westcoast Sleepers” from 24 Postcards in Full Colour,

    Music is courtesy of Max Richter, Universal Music Enterprises, and Mute Song.

    www.maxrichtermusic.com
    https://studiorichtermahr.com

    www.creativeprocess.info
    www.oneplanetpodcast.org
    IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

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    15 mins
  • Special Earth Day Stories - Environmentalists, Artists, Students & Teachers share their Love for the Planet - Part 1
    Apr 22 2023

    Today we’re streaming voices of environmentalists, artists, students, and teachers. Enjoy Part 1 of this Special Series with music courtesy of composer Max Richter.

    All voices on this episode are from our interviews for The Creative Process & One Planet Podcast:

    MAX RICHTER

    INGRID NEWKIRK, Founder of PETA

    BERTRAND PICCARD, Aviator of 1st Round-the-World Solar-Powered Flight, Explorer, Founder, Solar Impulse Foundation

    CARL SAFINA, Ecologist, Founding President of Safina Center

    CLAIRE POTTER, Designer, Lecturer, Author of “Welcome to the Circular Economy”

    ADA LIMÓN, U.S. Poet Laureate, Host of The Slowdown podcast

    CYNTHIA DANIELS, Grammy and Emmy award-winning producer, engineer, composer

    JOELLE GERGIS, Lead Author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Author of “Humanity’s Moment”

    KATHLEEN ROGERS, President of EARTHDAY.ORG

    ODED GALOR, Author of “The Journey of Humanity”, Founder of Unified Growth Theory

    SIR GEOFF MULGAN, Fmr. Chief Executive of Nesta, Fmr, Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit Director & Downing Street’s Head of Policy, Author of “Another World is Possible”

    ALAIN ROBERT, Rock & Urban Climber known for Free Solo Climbing 150+ of the World’s Tallest Skyscrapers using no Climbing Equipment

    NOAH WILSON-RICH, Co-founder & CEO of The Best Bees Company

    CHRIS FUNK, Director of the Climate Hazards Center at UC Santa Barbara, Author of Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Recent Catastrophes

    DAVID FARRIER, Author of “Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils”

    DR. SUZANNE SIMARD, Professor of Forest Ecology, Author of “Finding the Mother Tree”

    PETER SINGER, “Most Influential Living Philosopher”, Author, Founder of The Life You Can Save

    JENNIFER MORGAN, Fmr. Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Special Envoy for International Climate Action, German Foreign Ministry

    www.creativeprocess.info
    www.oneplanetpodcast.org
    IG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

    www.maxrichtermusic.com
    https://studiorichtermahr.com

    Max Richter’s music featured in this episode are “On the Nature of Daylight” from The Blue Notebooks, “Path 19: Yet Frailest” from Sleep.

    Music is courtesy of Max Richter, Universal Music Enterprises, and Mute Song.

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    15 mins