Lynne Twist

For more than 40 years, Lynne Twist has dedicated her life to alleviating poverty and hunger, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. Her humanitarian work with Mother Theresa, refugee camps in Ethiopia, and her environmental advocacy concerning the Amazon is awe-inspiring. She is the co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance and the Soul of Money Institute.

The Institute is a center for exploring and sharing the best practices, theories, and attitudes that enhances people’s relationship to money and money culture, thus creating greater freedom, power, and effectiveness. The mission of the Pachamama Alliance is to empower indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture. Using insights gained from that work, the Alliance seeks to educate and inspire individuals everywhere to bring forth a thriving, just and sustainable world.

Lynne Twist is also an author and regular key-note speaker for several accredited institutions and conferences, having also shared the stage with globally recognized leaders such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, Jane Gooddall, and Jean Houston. She is also the recipient of several awards, including the United Nations Woman of Distinction award.

Permaculture Action Network

Permaculture Action Network is a continent-wide collective that mobilizes thousands of people to take direct action on regenerative projects with a diversity of groups and organizations. They collaborate with performing artists and cultural events to invite people into hands-on work that regenerates ecosystems and catalyzes the movement for a just transition.

They work at the edge of art, music, culture, and the regenerative community movement, offering people a pathway to take action locally where they live through Permaculture Action Days, Permaculture Action Hubs, and Permaculture Action Courses; their approach is to create events that are easy to engage in and sprout long-lasting movement involvement.

Dr. Bronner's ALL-ONE Organic Soap!

One way to use your financial energy wisely is to be a conscious consumer. Buying Certified Organic and Fair-Trade products from companies who are devoted to the betterment of our world helps everyone! An amazing company that is doing all of those things, and more, is Dr. Bronner’s ALL-ONE Organic Soap!

Dr. Bronner’s, a soap company devoted to global betterment and preservation, is revolutionizing the way a company and its products can be created and maintained. This company creates sustainably sourced, natural, fair-trade products that can be used for everything from cleaning your dishes and floors to cleaning yourself and your family! Not only are they creating amazing products, the company itself operates solely from a set of 6 Core Values they call their “Cosmic Principles,” these are:

“1. Ourselves: Do Well so You Can Do Good!

2. Our Customers: Doing right by our customers through organic & fair-trade ingredients for our products.

3. Our Employee’s: Treating employee’s like family through progressive business practices and fair pay and generous benefits.

4. Our Suppliers: Being fair to suppliers through ethical sourcing and fair-trade projects worldwide.

5. Our Earth: Treating the Earth like Home, a commitment to near-zero waste and fighting climate change through organic farming.

6. Our Community: Fighting for what’s right through funding and advocacy of Animal Rights, Fair Pay, GMO Labeling, and Drug Policy reform.”

By purchasing their naturally sourced and created Soap and other products, you are contributing to the 6 above initiatives that are intended to create and sustain a beautiful world for generations to come!

The I.AM.LIFE Organization

I.AM.LIFE, a project started by Tony Moss, is a non-profit that produces interactive, celebratory, community-building, and ceremonial events to open hearts and connect themselves with the world and each other. As they see it, most, if not all, of the world's current challenges stem, fundamentally, from a lack of connection – to the world and each other. Their events combine aspects of traditional indigenous ceremony and wisdom with modern technology, creating contemporary ceremonial experiences that re-establish a sense of connection.

I.AM.LIFE is hosting a community fundraiser for the Amazon on October 18th, 2019. In their newsletter, they also included a link to “10 ways to save the Amazon” created by Mark Heley, and we’d like to share it to.

Amir Zakeri - 50 Minutes to Save the World

Amir Zakeri, a 23 year old photographer and filmmaker, teamed up with friends Tim Sykes and Mat Abad to create SaveTheReef.org, an organization that draws attention to the bleaching of Coral Reefs. In a documentary uploaded to Youtube, 50 Minutes to Save the World, Amir portrays a world where the reef's have died and you must wear an oxygen mask to go outside. In only 50 minutes you get an accurate portrayal of what our world will look like if nothing changes, as well as the simple steps you can take to prevent the bleaching of coral reefs. 50 right now or oxygen masks later?
You decide.

Paul Stamets

Paul Stamets, speaker, author, mycologist, medical researcher and entrepreneur, is considered an intellectual and industry leader in fungi: habitat, medicinal use, and production. His central premise is that habitats have immune systems, just like people, and mushrooms are cellular bridges between the two. Our close evolutionary relationship to fungi can be the basis for novel pairings in the microbiome that lead to greater sustainability and immune enhancement.