Six questions. 149 conversations. 250 miles above Earth.

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149 - Kaj Lofgren

🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia

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148 - Jonathan Mizzi

🇲🇹 Malta

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147 - Mahak Agrawal

🇮🇳 New Delhi, India

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146 - Dan Fox

🇺🇸 Brooklyn New York

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145 - Zorana Ivcevic Pringle

🇺🇸 New Hampshire (USA)

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144 - Jenny Natusch

🇬🇧 Lancaster (UK)

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143 - Matt Golding

🇬🇧 Bristol (UK)

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142 - Jon Salmon

🇬🇧 London

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141 - Fergus Collins

🇬🇧 Abergavenny in Wales

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140 - Vincent Ogweno

🇰🇪 Mfangano Island on Lake Victoria

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139 - Esther Knight

🇬🇧 London

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138 - Caroline Casey

🇮🇪 Dublin

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137 - Dr Danbee Kim

🇬🇧 London

I would want to fly over the Korean peninsula.

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136 - Heather Mak

🇨🇦 Toronto

Five Eye Bridge in Guangzhou, China

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135 - Swoon

🇺🇸 Brooklyn

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134 - Jacqueline Lim

🇬🇧 Cotswolds (UK)

Singapore as the place of birth

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133 - Vlad Glaveanu

🇮🇪 Dublin

Bucharest in Romania

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132 - Jacky Youldon

🇬🇧 Bexhill on Sea (UK)

Home town of Bexhill on Sea I'm a suicide survivor, but my story is not sad. It's a story about finding hope in God and it's about finding hope and passion in my calling. There's a myth that suicide is about wanting to die. It is not. Almost always, suicide is about needing help to live and that is what we as a community can do something about. This is when I set up RunningSpace which is about teaching people how to run, it's about championing life, it's about beating suicide and we do that by teaching people how to run in small groups based in community. A five second hug from my partner or work colleague Underground. In this dark place of suffering, in the trauma, that is where the treasure is found. Diamonds are made under pressure Gus and Jenny who are part of the Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team. Their level of compassion is what I aspire to. Winning is no more than this, to rise each time you fall. It means that we can run and we can beat suicide. It's something that I live by.

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131 - Joey Cuthbert

🇬🇧 London

Los Angeles

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130 - Dr Julian Abel

🇬🇧 Cornwall, England

Wentworth Falls in New South Wales in Australia

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129 - Joyce Kamande

🇰🇪 Nairobi Kenya

Abidjan, Cotes d'Ivoire

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128 - Eliza Marshall

🇬🇧 Malvern UK

Senegal in Africa

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127 - Chris Duffy

🇬🇧 London

Tower Bridge London For 20 years plus now I've been making and designing in the realm of tables and furniture and so on but once in a while, I have an idea about about a boat and so get my amazing design team, I'm like, 'stop! it's time for a palate cleanser'. Forget furniture, forget everything. Here's this idea for a boat and we're going to spend one day taking my little tiny sketch and make it into an amazing photorealistic render, as to something that gets this idea across. That day, I designed a boat made of bamboo that had solar panels on the top and electric drive train, and I just thought it'd be a great idea to have take this sort of ancient, prehistoric technology for making boats, you know, and then fix that with the most up to date technology to make something undeniably green because the people that are making electric cars and green cars and these are things I love and everything interesting. So I spent the last couple of years developing it and it kind of taken on a life of its own and as soon as anything sort of leaks out about it. People want to join up like Cuca robotics who make the big robot arms and make all the cars and stuff. They're like, Oh, we love it. We've had City University and companies who want to come in on the drive power train. So when you're doing something that challenging, experimental and that original, you find other like minded people and these insurmountable issues suddenly become doable, An apartment in Southern Spain The huge waves at Nazare in Portugal Youtuber Mr Beast building 100 wells for schools and communities across Africa. As an artist that you're always used to feast and famine. A very quiet period that goes on for too long forces the question, Is the way that we're going, the way I really want to go? Have I just been putting out fires too long without actually taking coordinates seeing how far off course we've drifted from our original goals and where we wanted to be. How many decades have I got left? You can keep going in a direction just because it's financially successful or even critically successful or you shed all that and say, that's done, and move forwards and try a different way of doing things.

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126 - Piers Linney

🇬🇧 Manchester

The UK

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125 - Richard James MacCowan

York (UK)

West Coast of Scotland I started off with working in the property sector and realised I didn't really like that so retrained into design and urbanism which really brought back to this idea of building in nature into cities and into the built environments. And from that journey came into biomimicry and exploring deeper understanding about nature, the structure, substance, materials, energy, looking at systems. So whether it's working with food retailers or packaging companies or doing urban design work we can then look at nature to see how and where it does it differently. We work with many businesses and are working with two projects through the Royal Academy of Engineering. We're working in Madagascar looking at creating 3d energy of pine needles and also working in in Kerala in India where we were looking at woman led initiatives for the fishing community. That's in climate adaptation, mitigation and generating new income streams. A run in the fields along the river in York It's everything! It's hard to ask somebody who works in biomimicry to talk about one thing. I relate to the work of Clover Hook and what she and her team are doing especially around their work on eco-anxiety Look a little bit deeper, it can spark your imagination. Just pick something up and then do a bit of research into how that material is made, how it's grown, the structure, network, the system it came from... The challenge is slowing down and looking at things slightly differently.

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124 - Oli France

🇷🇺 Manchester

Lake Baikal in Siberia, the largest fresh water lake in the world. I have built a career, guiding people through some of the world's most remote and hostile places such as Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Congo, as well as doing lots of solo expeditions. The big focus for me has always been seeking out those most remarkable, most breathtaking corners of the world and having big adventures there which has led me to what I'm doing right now. A project came to mind about a decade ago, but over recent years, I've decided to give it a go. It is the biggest boldest expedition called the Ultimate seven project. A world first goal to journey from the lowest point in each continent to the highest, entirely by human power. So that is seven separate expeditions over seven continents which will be a multi year project that will take me through 20 countries and 13,000 miles by human power. The mountains where there is no place for ego. Socotra brings me a lot of wonder in terms of the natural world. it's a Yemeni island in the Red Sea. It is known as the Galapagos of the Indian Ocean. We think of Yemen as this kind of war torn country but off its coast, you've got this pristine Island, unique flora and fauna found nowhere else on earth, cave systems which has never been explored, mountains which haven't been climbed and reefs which have never been fully explored and dived. I've had the privilege of guiding all kinds of people from all walks of life on expeditions and adventures around the world. And there was one person a few years ago, who I guided in northern Iraq and he was by far the happiest person I've ever met. The thing was, he was an 85 year old guy who had terminal cancer. A quote from John Milton in Paradise Lost. 'The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven'.

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123 - Edwina Kulego

🇹🇬 New York

Ghana, West Africa I grew up in Sweden in a multilingual home so early on in life I had a passion for languages, for meeting different people and travelling the world. I developed a passion for culture and learning new things, and moved to New York at 19 to study fashion with a desire to bridge the gap between fashion and international business. Today I run an International Business Development Department in a fashion company. I'm also on the board of Vegan Fashion Week who champion young designers that are trying to find better ways to make product. My place of reset is in Malmo where I was born and raised The Northern Lights in Norway Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo who is the co-founder of Fourth Phase, a brand that supports women after they give birth. And as a mother now to a five year old, I had no idea how rocky the road was going to be, and how little people speak of the fourth phase, which is when the baby comes, how challenging life is, how much you need to adjust and how your body changes. Fourth phase has a line of products to help rebuild a woman's body after having birth but the best part about fourth phase is the community where you can connect with other mothers. To find comfort in the unknown. I have learned over the years to just lean into the unknown and to not be so fearful of what I don't know

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122 - Joey Li and Thuta khin

🇲🇲 London

Myanmar and Jordan So we met in 2018 in an entrepreneurship seminar and we bonded over the fact that we wanted to start something with a purpose. From that we explored different avenues like mental health and homelessness and working with charities. Then we eventually formulated a business model around socks that give back to local vulnerable communities. So today we do employment advice for people experiencing homelessness and we've got an upcoming event with vulnerable single mothers. We also do like care packages. as well as lots of homeless shelters need clean socks, underwear, toiletries, or a hot meal. I think there's something just so amazing about being able to build a brand that can get your community and customers to be a part of that giving side. Our days are always fast paced and filled with technology so being out in nature is important. Everyone is different, beautiful and unique in their own ways. So through Laiho and also just through life, we've learned that it's our diverse range of skills and unique talents and collective efforts that can really change the world for the better. AR Projects provide warm meals and essential supplies to hundreds of people every week through their three soup kitchens, which act as portable hubs. These hubs are supporting those in need in various ways, including food, clothing, hygiene, mental health, and more. In addition, they provide a virtual food bank that is of great help to the working poor. This allows recipients to select the items they need and collect them from one of our various hubs. What can we as human beings really do to make a difference in this world? Ask more questions and just learn from people because everyone has a really unique and fascinating story.

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121 - Anthea Stephenson

🇮🇳 London

Manchester in Jamaica As a second generation immigrant, academic success was pretty much a non negotiable. So despite my artistic inclinations, my journey led to studying politics, philosophy and economics at University of Manchester. I spent four years as a headhunter in finance services IT before a career shift brought me to culinary school, eventually working for nine years at Michelin starred kitchens. That chapter wasn't defining but pivotable as I witnessed firsthand the impacts of climate on our food sources and systems through increased crop failures and season variability. So in response, I founded my first startup which promoted sustainably farmed produce, and was also aiming to diversify eating habits by showcasing underutilised ingredients and their versatility. My current and second startup partners with corporations facing significant risks to the agriculture agricultural supply base amidst the climate crisis. And we're developing tools technologies for cross-sector collaboration and co-investment in regenerative and restorative activities. We're working to put farmers the stewards at the heart of the solution with progressive contracting fostering equality and replenishment. I am re-charged by deep connection with human beings or the natural world. The wonder of the natural world itself is what excites me. Three heroes to me in the Gambia, who voluntarily run a nursery school for kids aged three to seven from about 9am to 2pm Monday to Friday whilst also working full time jobs. Their story really stands testament to the transformative power of education and unshakable human spirit dedicated to nurturing and uplifting the next generation. So, remembering their selfless acts of service for me, renews faith in our collective future and the fundamental good of humanity. If you could change one thing in the world today, what would it be? With that in mind, what can you do right now to manifest even a small part of that? And then the call to action is, go do that thing.

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120 - Vanessa Norwood

🇦🇱 Brighton (UK)

Tirana in Albania I've got a background as an architecture curator, which has allowed me to get some really amazing cultural projects off the ground. I started off studying fine art in Brighton, and ended up working at the architectural Association in London, which is a really a very famous and quite experimental school of architecture in the heart of London. I've always been interested in amplifying the voices of people working in the built environment. I then worked at the Building Centre as the Creative Director and recently I set up my own business as a curator and cultural strategist focusing on projects in the built environment. The West Pier in Brighton The power of water that is able to carve through the hardest of stone. Neil Pinder who founded the organisation Homegrown Plus. He's a teacher in South London, and he set up the organisation as a way of getting young people involved in architecture in a really productive way. He's making a real change to people's lives in a way that isn't just about talking about it or creating platforms that are intellectual, he's actually doing it. I didn't have a chance to put together a business plan or to really think about what I was going to do and how I was going to do it. And when people said, Oh, what are you doing now? I would just calmly say, I'm going to do good things with good people. And I think actually, that is a mantra that is important to me.

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119 - Julia Lynch

🇳🇵 London

Nepal I grew up in a family with a Jamaican father who was quite strict and patriarchal with a lot of sexist ideas about my role as a woman and my power as a woman. And that really spurred me on in many different ways to challenge what what was expected of me. Fast forward many years, I am now running an international charity that really focuses on the mobilisation of the most marginalised girls in the Global South, to find their voice, to connect with their voice, to know what it sounds like, and then to learn how to use it to create the change that they want to see in their own communities. Capoeira, which is an Afro Brazilian martial art. Himalaya Mountains A young women who grew up in an isolated village with no running water or power. She went on one of our programmes and started engaging her village in conversations around early marriage which was a big issue in the village. Before long 70 or 80 people attended and then other local villages opened up with further conversations around the issue. Global Girl Project has been walking alongside her in her ambition to go to University and eventually become a Lawyer. The need for us to let go of control.

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118 - Carwyn Hill

London

Haiti 2005 was the year of the Make Poverty History campaign, a movement to declare that we could be the first generation to end extreme poverty. I was at University at the time, and it got me excited. A trip to Haiti soon after uncovered some of the injustices particularly the experience of going to one of the government, public hospitals and witnessing a girl who died just from a lack of basic materials. Medical staff talked about an empty field and a dream to build a new hospital so that children can get access to better and more dignified care. Today that empty field is now a 100 bed hospital, supporting over 330 staff and In recent years we have taken our experience of Haiti into other countries under Hope Health Action. Getting out in the forest and running The Swiss mountain range A guy called Edward, who we work with. An extraordinary guy who's a refugee from South Sudan, living in Uganda. Love others as we wish to be loved ourselves

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117 - Renee Lertzman

San Francisco

Point Reyes National Seashore in California Grew up south of San Francisco with an appreciation for nature. From the age of 15 I was seeing a psychotherapist and over time there was the coming together of my experience of psychologists, psychotherapists and healers, with my real awakening to what's happening with our planet, ecologically, in terms of how humans have really just created such profound impact on our life here. That has led me to a practice that is really centred on supporting and enabling all humans but specifically people who are change makers and change leaders. How do we bring our full selves to this work and how do we leverage the richness and the treasures of what we know from the psychological field into the work we do with the planet? Hot springs way up in the mountains of Ukiah, Northern California A redwood forest is like being in a cathedral, there's a whole atmosphere that comes with being in that space, it is very exciting for me. Michiel Bakker at Google. What I admire is that he has this commitment to have impact while working with and navigating the tensions that can be inherent in a large multinational company, especially at this particular time. I admire and feel hopeful about his commitment and perseverance. Reflect on the way in which we help, create and cultivate the conditions that can truly allow each person to access our capacity for care and concern for the world and our capacity, not only to care, but to want to repair. And so for me, the insight here is recognition that each human being has this capacity and I think it's each of our tasks to explore how we uncover and awaken this capacity.

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116 - Oliver Pelling

🇬🇧 Melbourne (Aus)

Eastbourne in England I studied Journalism and Creative Writing and during that time, met a girl from New Zealand, who upended my life and we moved to Melbourne, Australia via New Zealand. After I graduated my desire was to get into magazines and newspapers, ended up working for Intrepid Travel and then in Advertising but after five years of freelancing set up my own creative comms agency Good and Proper to help promote and accelerate stories focused on solutions, hope and action. Conversations really help me reset and recharge Human connection and just remembering that we are part of nature There's lots of people out there talking about all the good they're doing which is amazing and they should be doing that. There are also many people that don't self promote, like the woman we photographed named Jackie who is re-wilding her area. She is turning all of the land at the front of her house into vegetable gardens. Another women Charine works from home and does a consulting job to get fossil fuel organisations to transition. All these people are doing such incredible things with no headlines. It's the question, where can I be of the most use? Good and proper is my current manifestation because right now it feels like its where I can be of the most use, but that might change.

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115 - Mark Haviland

London (UK)

The line of the equator which I crossed in 1990 on a three month transatlantic sailing voyage. So my life story so far, has led me to what I'm doing now which is a focus on two ideas of marine health and education. I founded this movement called Conscious careers, with an understanding that there is something amiss in education and the transition from academic life to working life. Before that I had a very enjoyable corporate life at the Walt Disney Company and CNN and most recently Rakuten but two years ago, I threw it all in and thought these two years will be when I give time 100% to those around me and also explore the world. And so I've set up Conscious Careers and I'm now spending time doing talks and workshops in schools around the UK to really understand a little bit more about how this can be addressed. My ambition is to spend hundreds of hours with students and teachers talking about how with an optimistic and confident view of the world, where they might sit within it. Instead of looking at the world is full of problems. Looking at it as a full of full of solutions that you can choose to be a part of. They can start their careers, with the world in mind. Anywhere in the world really, really early in the morning The Oceans. The oceans represent, in short, our future and if we help the rich biodiversity, the chemical stability of all the oceans and seas, including our rivers, then we are sure of a sustainable human society. It's just as simple as that. Liz Robinson, who runs an organisation called Big education here in the UK. A multi trust academy that is focused on the idea of reexamining how we educate our children and recreating the models in classroom to ensure that we are drawing out of our children the very best in them. The other person that I want to mention is Vincent, who is a resident of an island on Lake Victoria in Kenya, who has built up a community based organisation focused on restructuring and re energising the local community of 20,000 people. See a conversation as a moment of discovery as opposed to a moment of broadcast.

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114 - Addressing Statelessness in Europe

Madrid

Madrid in Spain The Stateless Journeys campaign is calling on European governments and the EU to provide the full rights and support owed to stateless refugees and to better prioritise this in asylum and migration policy. During the conference it was therefore hugely encouraging to hear Spain’s Sub Secretary of State for the Ministry of Interior, Isabel Goicoeche Aranguren, describe Spain’s strong commitment to prioritising statelessness during its Presidency, and her recognition that the Pact cannot be properly negotiated without addressing statelessness protection issues. In total, the conference was attended by over 200 participants from 34 countries - including stateless changemakers, community-led organisations, NGOs, lawyers, academics, as well as numerous representatives from government, UN and regional institutions. The conference felt like a real step change in crystallising an emerging understanding that stateless people should not only be included in advocacy spaces, but also can and must jointly lead change efforts.

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113 - Kemo Camara

🇳🇬 Amsterdam

The family village in Guinea The best way to serve yourself. Is by serving others. And this is been the case for for my whole family, my parents on the days and I find myself like doing this and I actually this is the thing that brings me joy. And so that became in the sense, a genesis of Omek. A space created for biculturals of African descent, allowing them to not only connect with each other, but enable themselves to empower each other to create the solution that they want to see. With the bicultural family and at home with his siblings The mountains of Colorado This movement, this huge shift of mindset within the young generation bicultural community of African descent whether on the continent or outside in the Global Diaspora. That's really exciting and hopeful. Community is the solution to everything

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112 - Rachel Woolf

London

Parents home in Gloucestershire UK I went to Cambridge University and I worked in the city as a PA. Lived and worked in London, got married and I loved my life. But the culture just wasn't me. It didn't speak to who I was as a person and what I wanted to do with the privilege that I'd been given. I needed something with more purpose and something that I would be proud to say that I did day in day out. So I started volunteering with Karis winter night shelter in Islington, and it was the highlight of my week and I took a job actually coordinating that winter night shelter. I've have also worked in mentoring and befriending and drug and alcohol rehabilitation and then then realised that there was a huge gap in the sector. For people who don't have a place to store their belongings when they suffer from homelessness, street homelessness, eviction, going out of prison, fleeing domestic abuse. Today, Street Storage is the only UK storage provider of free and accessible safe storage for people experiencing homelessness. We have six staff and developing the work nationally. A bath and good sleep The serenity of Mount Rainier in Washington State Rachel answers this question by including many names and organisations and quotes her neighbour who said 'it's about our world, not the world.' So our communities and the causes we believe in, because that's where the real inspiration is found. Hopefulness is also with people impacting their world for good who don't get any credit, don't have any recognition, volunteers in care homes, food banks, Samaritan call line volunteers, people who are single mothers working two jobs for the sake of their kids, young carers, people living in tough situations with humility and with grace and without fanfare. If we look at our own worlds first, we'll be able to start that narrative from our day to day lives rather than looking at the bigger picture which does still exist. You are more capable at handling a crisis than you think you are. Humans are more resilient than they think they are. The wisdom was that therapy saves lives, I am only able to talk about my growth because I've done the work. And the question I wanted to pose with a strong belief that community in whatever form is the most important concept of human life. What does community mean to you and how can you enhance what you give and receive from it?

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111 - Mostafa Salameh

🇳🇵 Dubai

The Himalayas Started my journey from a refugee camp and then had to leave Kuwait because of the Gulf War and go to Jordan. Because there were ten of us I could not go the University and had to help my dad as a waiter. This led to an opportunity to serve the Jordanian Ambassador in London. I spoke no English and eventually moved to another place and washed dishes for five years whilst learning English from Sesame street. Eventually got a place at Queen Margaret University to study Hospitality and Tourism Management with the vision of becoming a general manager in a five star hotel. Then had a dream where I saw myself on the top of Mount Everest praying for peace. In 2008 I become the first Jordan and to climb Mount Everest then in 2016, I become one of 13 people to do the Grand Slam. Lakes for me are one of the wonders of nature The Mountains The King Hussein Cancer Centre in Jordan It's not always about the destination, but rather the journey that leads you there

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110 - B for Good Leaders Summit

🇳🇱 Amsterdam

Amsterdam During the first summit in Rome, we co-created with over 500 CEOs from around the world, the B For Good Leaders Declaration which outlined a common North Star, the specific public benefit purposes our network intends to pursue and the CEOs who are leading this new economic system. The Wisdom Keepers space A multi day encounter to share projects, ventures and innovations. To create business opportunities and partnerships advancing the regenerative economy we need. Entrepreneurial leaders working systemically with such positive energy are the ultimate superpower humanity enjoys. Never before have these change makers come together globally in an organized and intelligent architecture. The leaders being invited will not be ‘joining one more conference’ but will be taken on a ‘flow through the summit’ and become part of a collective, eye-opening journey that will define one key element: ACTION.

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109 - B. Lorraine Smith

🇰🇿 Montreal in Canada

Montreal in Canada, There, which is here. Under water into Lake Manitou on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada. Winged migration. Possible Futures is a collection of folks based in the global south who are providing content and guidance around what it really looks like to break out of colonial patterns, these broken narratives that serve the current sustainable development world that serve the current mainstream business and industry model. Step out of those and see what it looks like to end the harmful models. I am in awe. Of what Possible Futures is doing and I'm very grateful for their dogged determination. Even when it's abrasive and difficult to allow in, I think it is some of the most hopeful, promising and frankly, necessary work out there. As we transition towards an economy that works in service of life? How can I participate in what I refer to as industrial healing, which is the kind of collective process of seeing how harm is done, where it has happened and what it looks and feels like.

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108 - Emma Pears

🇬🇧 Kent (UK)

Cambridge in England 1.000+ concrete actions, ventures, scale-ups, start-ups, coalitions, partnerships and policies will be presented and shared. With the personally handpicked and invited CEOs, investors and executives from around the world using business for good will energize and inspire all of us for months to come. One thing that I find really refreshing is doing sport. And two things I love particularly are running and skiing. Unfortunately, just recently, I've had a medical diagnosis, that means I'm not able to do those two things anymore so I'm exploring some new ways of resetting. I get excited about sunsets and sunrises Phil and Wendy Wall who started a charity called We See Hope. They support and educate orphans across Sub Saharan Africa. I've created the framework of WDIM. What is it that I'm feeling? Define exactly why I'm feeling it, The third one is Importance of those things or the real impact of that issue. And then M is to make a plan based on the importance and so the WDIM, the What does it matter framework is there to enable us to respond proportionately to the importance of a situation as opposed to just getting caught up in the overwhelm of the moment.

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107 - Isobelle Ford

🇮🇹 London (UK)

Venice in Italy. I studied modern languages and medieval languages, moved to Rome as soon as I graduated and worked in startup there. It was there I met a Syrian refugee who was starting a business in the centre of the city selling home cooked Syrian food. That was my first real contact with an entrepreneurial founder from a refugee background. I started working at Tern back in late 2017 when there were four people then in the organisation and now there are nearly 20 of us. I've moved more into focusing on access to markets and access to finance so I specialise now in running an online marketplace called The Anqa collective that showcases products from all the refugee entrepreneurs. Anytime I am in the sea. The movement and calmness of water Yeukai Taruvinga who is originally from Zimbabwe moved to the UK when she was 18 years old. She was involved in some political protests in Zimbabwe and her life was in danger. She thought she was coming here for a couple of months, until things calm down and she's still here 30 years later. Her asylum claim was actually very difficult, stressful and long, but she used that time to volunteer for boards of different charities in London working with young people from very diverse backgrounds. She decided that this was her life's calling. So as soon as she got her refugee status, she set up a social enterprise called Active Horizons and she works now with young refugees, young asylum seekers and young people from the local area and supports them with whatever they need. From my work over the last five years, what I've seen is that what divides people most is when we're so entrenched in an individual mindset or opinion that prevents us from reaching out to other people in an open minded way.

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106 - George Holliday

🇨🇳 Europe

Asia, I've always had a love for World Music and when I was at University I studied Turkish and Egyptian but my big love was Asian music. Music was introduced when I was about seven and I got my first job as a piano player in a little bar down the road on a marina when I was 15. From then on I wanted to do music full-time. The last gig I played before moving over to music production was for a guy called AJ Brown, supporting Lionel Richie. I brought a bus and converted it into a studio and travelled around Europe three times in the next four years meeting amazing people on the road. Today I make music for adverts and we've also done a couple of TV series title sequences. A bus or train station. It's the journey to somewhere that makes me feel most recharged. The true natural wonder of the world to me is the sound, it's the resonance of the earth. Somebody told me once that the Earth resonates at 7.83 hertz, which is a really low frequency. Marine Biologist, Steve Simpson who I had the absolute pleasure of meeting in November last year. Steve has gone to coral reefs around the world that are struggling and they have been recording sounds of healthy coral reefs, and then playing them in the water to unhealthy coral reefs. Over time these unhealthy coral reefs are literally thriving with life again. If you're going to walk in the opposite direction to a crowd to try and see what was in the other direction? What area of life would you or what area of the world would you like to explore?

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105 - Shabazz Graham

🇮🇳 London (UK)

Jamaica in the Caribbean I grew up as a child of the care system and a lot of young people back in the 80s were leaving care badly. I was hired by the care system to do a documentary about leaving care well and I knew from then that filmmaking was what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I've now spent the last 30 years in film and TV, and throughout the whole process of my experience as a filmmaker, questions have been central and at the core of all that I do. I started to get more of this kind of Eureka moment. After my film editor friend suddenly passed away I decided to honour him by creating a new social media platform and communication tool called Qcast, which simply means question cast, which operates by allowing you to share questions with the world on scale. Falling asleep beside my wife and child Clouds - for me, it's one of the most beautiful and dynamic parts of our planet My story of hopefulness is Cultural style week which is an organisation set up by my wife Candy, who launched cultural style week as a way of enabling everyone to embrace and share their culture through the power of fashion. Dr George Fraser finished a speech by asking 'what is the meaning of life'? He went on to give his answer. 'Life has no meaning, you have meaning and you bring it to life'.

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104 - Josh Liu

🇹🇼 London (UK)

Home country of Taiwan Went through the education system in Taiwan before pursuing an MBA in London which led to nurturing my own ideas and becoming an entrepreneur. I raised money for a startup and moved to San Francisco but unfortunately things didn't go as planned which was a wake up call. I started to think about the things that are important to me. I knew I loved technology. because it can actually make people's life better and also make the world better. And that's how I got into an area called Internet of Things, IoT technology that can make things smart in your day to day life. I Co-founded Mosa, a cycle parking, data, and services platform that is about to go into mass production with Giant who are the largest bike maker in the world. This is in response to the fact that in the UK a bike is stolen every 90 secs. Meditation and silence Scuba diving in the ocean The Royal Academy of Engineering where I was lucky enough to be a part time startup coach for one of their leader Innovation Fellowships Make peace with where you are and who you are

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103 - Simon Lamb

London (UK)

Camino de Santiago in Spain At some point, I had this kind of moment of realisation that I was in the best paid job I'd ever had. I was writing speeches for execs of big corporates and I had an amazing girlfriend, but I fundamentally had not even come close to asking myself the question of who I was. And I was at a point where I had this crushing realisation that came in the form of depression and anxiety for the first time in a really heavy way. The ocean, I like the fact that it's a piece of the natural world that can't be controlled. The body. All the unhappiest periods of my life have been when I've been ignoring the intuition that exists in my body I'm actually gonna go for probably the most important story of hope for humanity at the moment and I'm going to choose the worm... A Mohawk indigenous prayer that has the line 'Thank you Earth, you know, the way

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102 - Jyoti Fernandes

🇮🇳 Dorset (UK)

A tribal community in India Grew up in Louisiana in a little rural town with my family. My mother was totally blind and a disability rights activist and I worked with her from quite a young age. After university I went back to India with people who lived a very land based life and it's there I saw some really terrible things with nearly 70,000 people evicted from the land and moved on to little shanty towns and I think it was fundamentally transformative to me. I moved to England after I came back, I met my husband and we decided we wanted a land based life learning how to live with people, to recreate a sense of community and reconnect with the earth. All this led to a social movement of people wanting to go back to the earth and to actually heal and restore the earth. Sunday roast with the family Most intrigued by the way that life and death are a part of the natural world. There's a lot of pain and difficult times with things that die, that have to be composted, but you can't have nature without those cycles. So down the road from my farm, there is a community called Monkton Wyld Court. A centre for education and sustainability that has been there since the 60's. I know there's going to be so much pain, I know there's going to be so much destruction, there's going to be so many things that fall apart in the chaos that I feel happening. But I know that there's all these wonderful grains of knowledge and wonderful people and they understand on such a level that we've never understood before which brings so much hope that we're going to get through this.

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101 - Jennifer Nadel

London (UK)

When I'm connected to my innermost self, my geographical location matters far less. So compassion is the space that I'm working in and it was quite a journey to get to this space because I have been a campaigner, activist and a journalist. I've run for parliament a couple of times and I've been a lawyer and in all of those worlds, I was in a very binary world of right or wrong, and developed quite an addiction to being right, to thinking what I knew the right thing was. My belief is that we shouldn't other and part of the problem with many government policies in my view is that we other those that we should be including. I've campaigned in lots of different areas, refugees, homelessness, climate and all of them have the same underlying cause, which is the absence of compassion. They're all symptoms of the same thing. And so, I took a step back and asked, what is the thing I could do that would really make a difference? There was such a hunger, for value for things that people could believe in and now through Compassion in Politics, we've got active engagement from over 100 MPs and we've got groups springing up across the world, all of whom want to prioritise compassion. An island called Mount desert island in Acadia National Park in Maine When you look under the water and and see what's there, you realise how little you know and also just how creative the universe is. The shocking colours that when you see them on a palette, in a shop or in an art gallery, you think those are so fake those colours but you realise they all exist in nature. My aunt Elsa who just died at 102 who had escaped the Holocaust and was the most loving, positive person I've ever met in my life. I would ask, how can you be so positive? she said, 'Because of Love, I've lived my life, full of love and there's nothing that makes you happier'. The other person is Rev Paul Nicholson who devoted himself to the service of the poorest of the poor. And it was him who started the movement for a living wage. The only thing he cared about was compassion. There's so many wounds and scars and wrongs and disappointments that happen during life. If we can be in a place of unconditional love and look at those that do wrong or hurt us as hurting humans, who were also doing the best they can, then we feel part of something which is extraordinary and we can transcend to some extent the woundedness of what it is to be human. That's a lifetime's journey.

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100 - Christiana Bukalo

Munich (Germany)

Another planet not impacted by human activity I grew up in Germany, and was born as a person who was stateless, a person who doesn't have a nationality. That was something that shaped my life, but I didn't really notice as a child, I noticed that things were different. At some point, when I grew up, the statelessness kind of caught up with me and that led to a situation in which I decided to focus more on the issue. I am now the founder of an organisation that is called Statefree and we work to empower stateless people by building community by creating visibility for the issue and also by realising the access to equal rights for them. In politics, we are currently very much focused on the German and European space and our goal is to make sure that people who are stateless in Germany, (122,000 people) are represented. We educate politicians on the reality of statelessness and collaborate very closely with members of the German parliament to define and identify the different parts of legislation that need to be changed in order for stateless people to actually have access to rights. My mum who allows me to offload my stress and busyness. Whenever I am surrounded by trees or mountains. An Iranian entrepreneur who is building schools across Germany in which children can grow up with a knowledge that is centred around what the world actually should be like and a curriculum that teaches them how to interact with human beings and with nature. The quote, 'Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met and to take pride in the accomplishments, you had no part in'.

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99 - Chrissy Levett

London (UK)

The coastline of the UK Came out of art school, and worked freelance in the design industry as a job in graphic designer. I trained actually as an illustrator and printmaker, but then went to the Royal College of Art and did graphics there. I was passionate about seeing the world partly because I couldn't read so I learned through seeing things and hearing things and ended up during that time working for a number of different NGOs in different countries. Had two children and also had a massive midlife crisis in my 40s and then out of that midlife crisis came this idea of building a creative platform that would encourage the creative industry, the design industry to use its talents for social and environmental impact. That was the start of Creative Conscience The Ocean. "I'm scared of it and in awe of it" The desert of Namibia Archie Moore who is a young designer and a graduate from Falmouth, School of Art. He created a project called Extra Bold. It was beautifully designed and it was really, really clever. Out of despair comes great learnings'. I feel like the world and our society and political systems and everything that's going on is in a place of despair. However, from that place of despair can come the learnings that we need to change things.

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98 - Olly Armstrong

North Shields (UK)

The River Tyne I grew up in the northeast of England with an intent to stand up for those who were oppressed, help those who are vulnerable and to speak up and push back against power when it hurts people. I grew up in those spaces, and started studying music in my teens and then realised that I could run music workshops for people who were struggling. That lent itself to community politics which enabled a body of work, speaking up and challenging power. I pulled all those things together about five or six years ago to put all my energy into climate justice for the working class and in collaboration with others built the non-profit Breathe. I've just started six northeast spiritual walks, but they also incorporate industrial action around mines and steel works... I love the metaphor of tides especially with mental health and well being. My good friend, Nadia Shaikh from Right to Roam who are doing incredible work around land justice. Fighting for the right to roam. My learning that I'd like to share with others, is try and find a way to apply the kindness and care that you teach others to yourself

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97 - Prospect

London (UK)

Barbados I describe myself as a financially excluded young black man from South Norwood meaning I was excluded from opportunity or intelligence or information for how to educate myself financially. I kind of understood that it was only because the right opportunities were not marketed towards my friends and the consequences were happening as a result of this. I started representing young men and women of London on a self appointed position in how to properly divert and rehabilitate young people. I made a course myself called prospect training, which is a short and permanent employability course for young people which focuses on goal setting and positive thinking. I am also a Youth consultant for the Mayor of London currently working with the violence reduction unit who focus on early engagement and early intervention programmes. By myself in a church building The dyanmic between animals such as lions and humans I'm going to bring up a young man called Keon, who I have been working with alongside at the Rio Ferdinand foundation who invest into the futures of young men and women in the most deprived areas. In 2023 you should choose to spend your energy currency very wisely on the things and the people that support you and what you love.

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96 - Iva Gumnishka

Sofia in Bulgaria

Granada in Spain Graduated from New York and felt a really big urge to go back to my home country, Bulgaria, in order to participate in the response to the Syrian refugee crisis that was happening at the time. I saw that what better place to work on social impact than your own home. This led me to founding my current organisation Humans in the loop and for the past five years we've been working on helping refugees build up their skills, secure their livelihoods through remote digital work and really access the job market in a way that suits their needs. Velingrad in Bulgaria The deserts of Morocco Three women who are super passionate about social entrepreneurship. All of them have their families, their children, and they're juggling all of that and they're showing me that it's possible to do it and to be a successful woman in business and to have a strong social mission and to take care of your family. A big question is what is impact? I'm in the social impact field and I've been working on this for five years. But I think that we have a lot of work to do in measuring impact and ensuring that we're doing something good for people's lives.

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95 - Sam Squire

🇬🇧 Cambridgeshire (UK)

Paxton near Cambridge Pro footballer for Cambridge Utd before being released aged 19. Invested time into the charitable arm of the club leading some mental health workshops after mum tried to take her own life. This led to working with young people with different organisations and eventually the offer of a bursary from Cambridge Uni in life and exec coaching. Today working with a community interest company called Inspire to Ignite coaching and mentoring hundreds of young people. Also co-founded an events company called Vibrancy. A former quarry in Little Paxton which is now a nature reserve. The wonder of the oceans and the fact that we know so little. A young person suffering from agrophobia who has set up a new business called Give seeds a chance. The business is developing biodegradable seed bombs to increase the amount of wildflowers in communities. Let go of the past, live in the present and let the future unfold.

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94 - Andy Thompson

🇦🇪 London (UK)

Abu Dhabi in the UAE As leader of the Christian Union at Birmingham University became very good friends with the leader of the Islamic union and after 9/11 there was a real sense of a calling to be a bridge builder. Spent over 15 years leading churches in the middle east and invested so much time building connection with scholars and leaders of other faiths. This experience led to the writing of various books and today the interfaith work continues alongside the work as a vicar in North London. The great Cathedrals. Their beauty and the dedication of the people who built them. The deserts around Abu Dhabi Islamic Scholar Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayah who is bringing together people from all over the world to agree that our religions and law systems should make space for equality for all. The desert has much to teach us, its a place that is seen as lifeless and yet it is teeming with life and a place where God often gets our attention.

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93 - John Brown

🇹🇷 Cornwall UK

Turkey My life story actually all revolves around the point at which I found my wife and had two magnificent children and moved down to Cornwall. Everything else before that was gearing up to that moment. I'm seeing where I can take some very fortunate skills that I've managed to gain around creativity and activism and combine it with some extraordinary people. A beach in Mevagissey in Cornwall I love mushrooms and becoming a little obsessed with them. Inspired by Merlin Sheldrake's book called 'The entangled life'. The delicate, entangled web that is pulsating with life that is also used to solve depression and provide nutritional benefits and aid gut health... The Longford Trust which was set up to help prisoners find a route to redemption and a new life. Find your inner peace and nurture it, do it, work on it, live it, love it, and then build from there.

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92 - Prudence Muchinouta

🇨🇩 Lusaka in Zambia

Karongi in Rwanda I grew up in a small mining town in Zimbabwe with the mining business providing opportunities to attend good schools and recreational opportunities. Parents initially could not afford for me to attend University so I became a teacher in a rural area where there was no energy or water or good transport links. It was shocking also to see that there was little motivation or vision for the young girls which was the foundations to the work I am doing today with Comaco. Empowering young girls, supporting women entrepreneurs and responding to the challenges of climate change. I love hiking because I find that it allows me to block everything else out. Table Mountain in Cape Town Farm Africa is my story of hopefulness. "Effective agriculture has the power to change lives. It underpins prosperity, food security and stability the world over". Like Comaco they believe in the need to revitalise African agriculture, to break the mould which has often inhibited development and to find new, more effective strategies To transform and resolve many of the global challenges that we're facing, simplicity is the answer.

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91 - Dirk Bischof

🇯🇵 London (UK)

Hokkaido which is an island of Japan Born in Eastern Germany, inspired to see how my father started his own business providing income for families and creating work in an area where there was no work. I got to London and I met my first social entrepreneur and 20 years ago I started my first social business. Today doing very similar things with entrepreneurs and supporting founders into business with Hatch Enterprises. A small lake in Eastern Germany The wonder of death is something I've always used as an accelerant that makes me focus on the stuff that makes a difference and makes things meaningful. The Ocean Clean Up organisation that is scaling up efforts to remove all plastic from the oceans and rivers To stay curious. And to keep questioning your motives

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90 - Anthropy 2022

🇧🇪 Eden Project (Cornwall)

Eden Project in Cornwall England In convening Anthropy, four key questions are asked which will help formulate a new ‘Vision For Britain’: People – What is the quality of life we want in Britain for the next thirty years? Place – What qualities of place and planet do we need to achieve the quality of life? Prosperity – What qualities do we wish to see in a good economy and in the best of businesses and public sector organisations? Global Perspective – What qualities do we want to express to the world, to help solve shared issues such as poverty, climate change and human rights? Three days that combined the best aspects of thought leadership, creativity and inspiration together, in order for senior leaders and influencers from across the country to share and be encouraged to play their part in shaping our national narrative. The Epic and beautiful biomes at Eden that were the setting for many of the stages. The compelling young people from the Youth Futures Foundation "The Covid period and how we move forward, offers a unique opportunity and moment in time to think differently and create the means to inspire change. It affords a chance to re-assess as a nation what we value and what values we will embrace to create new thinking to tackle long standing challenges. We seek to put aside what divides us as we all go about our good works to build a better, more harmonious future"

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89 - Eeva Houtbeckers

🇫🇮 Finland

A library in the South of Finland I got into philosophy and moral philosophical questions in high school and then I ended up studying the economy, which was surprising to some extent but I realised that there's something with the way the economy organises our world. At business school, I used a lot of time looking into how businesses and corporate corporations could be used as a vehicle for a more sustainable society. When it comes to environmental issues, I consider myself as a late bloomer, so only when I was doing my doctorate studies, I got into environmental issues seriously. Today, as a postdoctoral scholar, I consider myself an as an eco feminist which combines the concerns of how humans live together on this planet, and then how humans live with other species on this planet on a very broad level. So now, I'm interested in the practices of how this is possible in various locations. And my research focuses in Finland, because this is where I live. An allotment garden, a rented space from the city of Helsinki, where I live. How this more than human species interact together A cooperative called Snowchange that focuses on re-wilding. They work in their community in the east of Finland to enhance the environment. I've observed that there seems to be individualism everywhere, especially in the academia. People are building their own CV's in every sphere of life. My challenge has been how to unlearn this individualism.

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88 - Magid Magid

Sheffield (UK)

Spital Hill in Sheffield I came to Sheffield from Somalia with my family and got involved in my local community because I could see so much injustice, which led to being elected as a local councillor. After being at the heart of local politics, I was eventually appointed as Lord Mayor of Sheffield before being elected to stand for Yorkshire and the Humber in the European Parliament. Today I run the European climate organisation called Union of justice working at the intersection between climate and race A restaurant in Sheffield called Arabian kitchen The wildlife on my doorstep especially at night time Young people from different faiths coming together around the issue of Climate Change. Organisationally it would be Julie's Bicycle who support artists to use their artistic-creative skills and communication to change the narrative on the climate crisis. Use your given time to try and do something that is bigger than yourself.

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87 - Nate Michaux

Los Angeles

Inverness in California Grew up in Richmond, Virginia, studied economics in college and then moved to New York in 2001 and got into acting and experienced some success early but then like most actors went through two decades of feast and famine. Made my way out to LA in 2008 and again amongst so many challenges, experienced amazing creative opportunities which has led to a new path focusing on writing and directing. The place I recharge is where I am in the moment. You know, to sit and meditate for one minute, two minutes, three minutes. That's where I find the recharge. Psilocybin is the wonder of the natural world that I believe in deeply, as a person who was an addict an alcoholic from an early age, I have found plant medicine to be incredibly healing for me. Scott Powell. He is the owner of a company called Peak Experiences. Scott created a place for dirtbags to come and stay and live and I'll be forever indebted to him because he provided the first foundation for me to heal and get stronger. Hope begins with acceptance

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86 - Blue Earth Summit

Bristol

Bristol UK Blue Earth Summit is a movement that started in 2021. A dynamic mix of communities, redefining how we work and driven by a love for the outdoors. Each year they bring together makers and mavericks, founders and futurists, adventurers and investors, for three days in one of the most radical cities in the world. The Wave Venue in Bristol "The beautiful thing about the ocean is that if you leave it alone, it rebounds incredibly fast" quote from @clarespiderfish at the summit Listen to 46 stories of hopefulness on the episode Continuous economic growth is simply incompatible with energy sustainability

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85 - Sheena Talma

Seychelles

Homeland which is Seychelles Brought up surrounded by the ocean, but due to a bad experience in the water, didn't start diving until the age of 17. Went on to study marine biology and now work for a variety of organisations such as Save our Seas Foundation and Nekton, where we carry out deep-sea research with countries where deep-sea research isn't necessarily a priority. My current pathway is to do as much as I can for the environment, but particularly illuminating the deep sea. With my extended family The place that mesmerises me the most is the deep waters. To even imagine what lives beneath the surface of our ocean. The Sustainable Ocean Alliance activates young people and mobilizes an ocean workforce to restore the health of the ocean in our lifetime. Another organisation is the Ocean Discovery League. They are creating affordable technology that will allow any scientist to illuminate our deeper waters. There's still time to change mindsets and change our behaviours, to be better stewards of our planet and our ocean. It's a matter of coming together and believing that we can make a difference.

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84 - Audrey Lin

San Francisco

A hill overlooking Golden Gate Bridge I grew up in the US with parents who were immigrants from Taiwan. At college exposed to a lot of social issues and was introduced to a group that would gather once a week and sit in silence and then have dinner together. There was like a groundedness and a contentedness, and there was something I couldn't place my finger on, but there was something I wanted to learn from that. And as I got to know people, I learned a lot of them volunteered with this group called ServiceSpace. They started this experiment called Karma kitchen, which was a pay-it-forward restaurant all run by volunteers. A little experiment in generosity. And so I started volunteering with them and realised that as I started to spend my days trying to make other people's days, the stories in my head started changing, and that was changing the way I was showing up in the world. Whether it's in a restaurant where you're welcoming strangers or if it's a news portal where you're hearing about the beautiful things people are doing every day, suddenly, those walls that used to be up when I walked around in the world, they kind of dissolved a little bit. Any place of stillness The spark in peoples eyes The overwhelming kindness of a bus driver to a blind passenger. In our polarised world today we don’t need more leaders we really need more ladders.

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83 - Fixing the Future Festival

🇪🇸 Barcelona in Spain

CCCB in Barcelona The first Festival took place in March 2018, bringing together innovators seeking to fix our food, economy and energy and tackle climate change and water scarcity. Can we feed 10 billion people and not destroy the planet? Can we have water and energy for all? Are cities the farms of the future? How can communities control their own energy supply? The 2022 Festival continued to ask big questions such as how we build the Citizen Future, Food and farming for all our futures, and how we reimagine our cities from the neighbourhood up? Listening to Carolijn Terwindt (Parliament of Things/Embassy of the North Sea) More than 50 international speakers, more than 50 ideas and projects to inspire change. We believe that the future is open and everyone can shape it. Discover a world of talent working together to solve our biggest challenges. Magic happens when the future-curious and future-fixers come together.

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82 - Nicole Yershon

🇮🇳 London (UK)

Havana in Cuba First job age 13 selling blouses on a stall at Petticoat Lane market on a Sunday morning. My Dad has always been an incredible inspiration and did amazingly well in the advertising arena. He was kind of like the true meaning of the word entrepreneur. I have always been an intrapreneur working in large companies such as Ogilvy before founding the NY collective. Today a connector, an executor of ideas who brings someone in like a conductor of an orchestra. Home at the Lime house Basin near Canary Wharf The wonder of water that makes up over 70% of the planet. My son Max who was often getting expelled from school. After putting suitable support in place Max began to excel which inspired the rough diamond programme in Ogilvy which then led to them considering and employing people from a wider spectrum of thinkers. I carried on with that feeling of wanting to work with organisations like that, which led to a position on the board of Creative Conscience. I'm also the chair of the Ideas College to give kids a chance in life that ordinarily they wouldn't have had. The power of saying YES!!

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81 - Sophie Shnapp

🇩🇿 London (UK)

The Sacred Music Festival in Fez, Morocco Studied environmental engineering but was more interested in culture and hanging out with the art kids at Glasgow School of Art. Went into environmental politics for 15 years but sensed that all the passions aligned when approached to be part of Brian Eno's music and climate charity earth percent. Now also putting energy into Culture COP which is taking place in tandem to COP in Egypt. A hill in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Mycelium networks Earth Percent as a charity to unleash the power of music and service of the planet Learn to live in and through purpose

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80 - Andrew Howley

🇨🇳 Williamsburg in Virginia

Grand Canyon Grew up in Long Island, New York. Outside all the time, but never really in the outdoors. Studied anthropology and archaeology in college, worked for America Online in the early days of the internet, and then worked at National Geographic for over a decade. Those kinds of experiences and interests are what led to a role at the Biomimicry Institute where he is now the Chief Editor of AskNature, a website that collects all we know about the way that the natural world works and puts it in a language that's easy for everyone to understand whether you have any biology training or not? Just about anywhere if running The natural growth of nature itself The slow ways project in the UK who are encouraging people to use existing paths that criss cross the landscape and move at the speed of natural human movement. Look for connections between things, the ways that other living things are doing things and the ways that we humans are.

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79 - Joshua Coombes

🇬🇧 London (UK)

London Grew up in Exeter in Devon. Played the guitar in bands which shaped the early years but by mid-twenties was driven by a need to make money and started hairdressing which eventually changed his life trajectory. From the salon, Josh started to go out on the streets and build connections with homeless people by cutting their hair. Compelling photography and storytelling on social media then led to the founding of the Do something for nothing movement, a publishing deal, and multiple speaking opportunities around the world. Hills or Mountains. Anywhere with a big view. The silence and stillness of the desert Friend Paul who founded Pauly's Project in Skid Row in LA. Inspired by his autistic son who was born blind, the foundation today is bringing music, support and practical help to hundreds of homeless people on Skid Row. I'm trying to see beneath the surface of how we first perceive one another. Words like empathy, are only real if they embody the full spectrum. Homeless - Wealthy - Politicians...

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78 - Marwa Al-Sabouni

🇸🇦 Homs in Syria

Medina in Saudi Arabia. Trained as an Architect and had a practice with her husband in Homs in Syria, which was then destroyed in the war. Decided to stay in Homs with the family, worked towards a PHD and decided to write a book about the war and the role of architecture which was published by Thames and Hudson in 2016. Opportunities to speak internationally then led to a TED talk and another book called Building for hope that questions how we reconnect with home and how we re-establish the sense of belonging? Riding a horse and reading a book. The wonder of horses as a powerful form of therapy in the trauma of war. The everyday kindness of people in Homs. Whatever you do, do it not for yourself but for a higher cause or another person.

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77 - Amooti Binaisa

🇺🇬 London (UK)

Fort Portal in Uganda Travelled to 55 countries and worked in 35 of those for conglomerates and philanthropists. Now the campaign director for a project called 8 billion, a project of the Resilient Foundation which is the charity arm of Waterbear affectionately known as the Netflix for the environment. 8 billion was born out of asking the question, how can we tell the stories of the 8 billion people on earth but from their personal perspective? The aim is to flip the content creation methodology and narrative across the world and try to build those stories of community resilience from the community perspective. It starts in Africa this year leading up to COP27 in Egypt. Sitting down at a baby grand piano Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe The Waterbear streaming platform. 'Knowledge is like a garden, if it's not cultivated, you cannot harvest it'. African Proverb We need to move away from the I and move closer to the WE.

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76 - Andres Roberts

Bristol (UK)

Bogota in Columbia Born in Bogota in Columbia I've always had questions about how we connect to the bigger story in life and how we feel whole ourselves. I've always felt like I wanted to do something a little bit different to the main system. I've come to believe that the dominant story of life today is one of disconnection rather than interconnection. With the Bio Leadership Project, we work to help change the story of human development and human progress by asking what life would look like if we authentically connected with nature? What if we rekindled a culture and a worldview of interconnection and care for all of life? Cold Water The Human Eye and a Peacock Butterfly The 80 people who have been part of the Bio Leadership Fellowship, all carrying a story that is changing the world in so many beautiful and creative ways. The art of letting go. Change isn't possible without somehow letting go.

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75 - Ben Rawlence

🇪🇹 Brecon Beacons National Park (Wales)

The east coast of Africa, on the rim of the Indian Ocean Early career taught English in Tanzania which provoked questions about the world and why it was arranged in the way it was which led to SOAS University in London. Got a scholarship to the University of Chicago to do a master's in international relations and ended up working at the UN for a think tank looking at interdisciplinary global security around food, water and environment. Back to the UK and became a script writer for the Lib Dems and led the campaign against the Iraq war. After a burn out went back to Africa and worked for Human Rights Watch which led to the first book Radio Congo and a second book City of Thorns about the largest refugee camp in the world. The latest book The Treeline focusses on the Northern end of the world and the amazing function of the Boreal Forest. Recently founded Black Mountains College in Wales to put into practise a core curriculum for the 21st century. Cold Water The Interconnectedness of Nature A community that is processing its history and coming to be a force for indigenous land use and protection and conservation in Canada. They have rightly recognised that that relationship with the forest is their key to adaptation and survival in the future and they're blazing a trail showing the rest of us how it's done. They are showing that despair is often the first step towards repair and that processing the past is often the key to unlocking a more transformative and positive future. Climate change is not just a planetary emergency, it's an opportunity for a new kind of relationship with nature. What's your role in that transition?

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74 - Gavin Starks

London (UK)

Antartica Studied astrophysics and started working in the web in the mid 90's as the 5th employee of Virgin.net. Since then, created over a dozen companies working at the intersection of business, government and science. Involved in the Open Data Institute with Tim Berners Lee and Co-chaired the Open Banking Standard, which has now opened up access to financial data across the banking sector. Founded Icebreaker one which is a nonprofit, trying to make data work harder to deliver net zero. Isle of Arran in Scotland The Aurora Borealis Blue Ventures - Supporting coastal communities around the world helping to restore ocean life and creating sustainable fishing The scale of change ahead really needs everyone to lean in and work out how we're going to collaborate

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73 - Rob Pepper

🇨🇳 Dorset (UK)

Shanghai Parents split up at 12 which was hugely challenging. Post school, set up a business with Amy who he eventually married before going to Art school. Went to Australia and had first solo shows before eventually moving back to London to do a residency at the Florence trust in Highbury. In 2004 approached to work for The Art Academy and eventually became Principal in 2017. Alongside that role Rob always ran his art practice. The Marsh Wood Vale in West Dorset Swallows and their migration from Africa The love of families who are opening up their homes to host Ukrainian families. Secondly, a school friend who is part of a band who have been world leaders in addressing their environmental footprint. Be good to work with and sometimes stop to have a cup of tea.

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72 - Evie Manning

Bradford (UK)

Bradford. 'I could track almost every show that we've made to a conversation that's happened in Bradford or in my area where I live'. The early days of Common Wealth were very DIY, working in big squatting buildings, making really big ambitious pieces with lots of different artists, all pretty renegade. Became much more socially engaged, thinking about what change we could make with our work which led to a show called Eye Glass House which focussed on the issue of domestic abuse. This piece led to a change of law on policing and how policing was viewed around the issue of domestic abuse in Scotland. The most recent show was Peaceophobia, a piece about Islamophobia. The perspective that comes from being near the sea. Flowers with their own ecosystems Ibra, who has remarkably transformed an underused park with a notorious reputation into a large scale chicken coop and peacock farm. My provocation would be for people to embrace the amateur

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71 - Mysie

🇺🇬 London (UK)

Uganda Received a Roland piano age 7 which is still the instrument of choice 18 years later. Classical training before being invited to sing in a choir in return for free singing lessons. Creative expression expanded when Mysie got introduced to movement as part of a creative community at The Trocadero in London. Came back to writing on the piano and wrote a song which led to industry interest, an Ivor Novello award and a mentorship with producer Fraser T Smith. Lanzarote What we grow naturally on trees. Denzyl Feigelson CEO at Platoon for the way that he has opened up so many opportunities for women within a male dominated business. I'm not gonna lie and say that it's been the most amazing journey ever. There has been high moments and low moments, but that is part of life, but to be able to share those experiences with other people can help people so so much.

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70 - Boardroom 2030

🇧🇪 Eden Project in Cornwall (UK)

Eden Project in Cornwall On Tuesday, April 26th 2022, 130 people from businesses across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly came together to look to the future at the first county-level event of its kind in the UK. Taking place at The Eden Project and facilitated by Charlotte Sewell, attendees explored how inviting new voices to the boardroom can shake up decision-making and how thinking differently can help organisations to act boldly to unlock a better future. A day to break away from the mould of traditional decision-making and listen to the voices of all stakeholders. Let's do things together and set out the things that matter most to us and recognise days like today really make a difference.' Simon Bellamy from the Eden Project We ask delegates and speakers to share their stories of hopefulness about a person, business or non-profit who are doing amazing things for the world. We share 13 stories on the video version and 30 stories on the podcast. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”– Chinese Proverb

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69 - Christoph Warrack

🇬🇧 London (UK)

Brixton in London. I put my life back together and was helped by the amazing people of Brixton. Yorkshire. I was born and raised in the wilds of the Yorkshire Moors. The wonder of rain. I feel more invigorated by some drizzle. The amazing team at Doc Society who enable people making powerful documentary films to connect with audiences across the world, get funders, sort out strategy, partnerships and create movements. An impact documentary powerhouse! When we are in circle, we are capable of things that we aren't capable of alone. And that goes for everyone in the circle.

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68 - Charlotte Pyatt

🇷🇺 London (UK)

Any wild natural contexts like the Amazon, Arctic or Coral reefs fascinate me. The opportunity then bring an artist into those spaces to spark a conversation really excites me At home with family when the most responsibility I have is drawing mermaids and unicorns for my cousins. I'm always fascinated by spontaneous behaviour. There is this DIY sensibility within Grafitti culture that evolves in these spaces, which I find so fascinating when we then look at social and environmental projects. Simon Butler from Migrate Arts who work with some of the biggest artists working across contemporary art to raise awareness and funds for homeless and displaced people. Find what it is that you're passionate about and then find people in the world that feel the way about it. We can only ever initiate change when we find our tribe.

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67 - Brita Fernandez Schmidt

London (UK)

Venezuela The ebb and flow of water and tides The Angel Falls which is the largest waterfall in Venezuela The work of Thomas Hubl and the project he founded called the Pocket Project which aims to bring together community across divides, to facilitate collective healing. The question, if the earth was a person, what would it say?

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66 - Jon Alexander

🇬🇷 London (UK)

Athens, because of its place in the history of democracy In many cases, board members are limited by the traditional rules and culture of business. This is an opportunity to engage key people within your business, tackle the challenges that lie ahead and make necessary decisions to futureproof your business and the world. Exercise particularly running and particularly in nature Discovering the role of cooperation in the story of evolution. A group of hackers in Taiwan called g0v .tw who inspired the principle of treating everyone as a participant

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65 - Madison Adams and Gary Sheng

🇨🇳 New York

Oklahoma and the whole of the US We're leveraging technology to empower young people to strengthen their communities and strengthen our democracy and in turn the world. We do that through the core fellowship, but we also experimenting with ways to better serve young people and the planet. We've created what's called the dream Dow which is essentially a training programme for young people to use web three technologies blockchain cryptocurrency, to make an impact in the world. We're also launching a climate fellowship that teaches young people how to find what we call their U shaped hole in the climate and energy space, so they can have a meaningful career. Lake Tenkiller in Oklahoma (Madison) Mycelium networks, underground structures that connect and can span a whole continent. Gitcoin, which is a web three institution that has led the charge in normalising and celebrating the process of creating and funding public goods in the most people powered way possible. How can we regenerate the world and make the tools that we have, adequately serve humanity?

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64 - Anna Fielding

Birmingham (UK)

Nab Rock in Yorkshire which overlooks a significant town called Silsden Three parts. Working on global issues, global systems and on ourselves. Started working in campaigning around climate change inequality before leading a charity called the Finance Innovation Lab. Always had a passion for personal development and is now training as a psychotherapist. Ragged landscape of hills and beach such as Northumberland How everything is changing all the time from the level of cells through to plants, animals, people, environments, living systems, human systems, it's constant change, and I find that amazing! The Global Alliance for Banking on Values. A global movement of values-based leaders and banks using finance to deliver sustainable economic, social and environmental development. Why are we so scared of not being right?

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63 - Dr Paul Matts

🇧🇪 Surrey (UK)

From Cardiff to Snowdonia National Park in Wales In 1998 started a career with the Procter and Gamble company and is now at the top of the technical career system helping design and launch products in the Olay range, Max factor and for Dolce Gabbana in Milan. Met a retired head of dermatology from Oxford Uni who opened up the issue of skincare in resource-poor settings. This led to Paul founding an Ethiopian NGO with the vision of eradicating an issue called Podoconiosis within his lifetime, an issue that affects over 1.5 million people in Ethiopia. Since 2012 the charity has treated 37 000 Podo patients and distributed 760.000 pairs of shoes through a partnership with TOMS. The Isle of Mull in Scotland Scuba diving off the Isle of Mull and witnessing first-hand the diversity of sea-life Changing Faces, the world's foremost charity championing the cause of those who look different. The transience of life has inspired a desire to squeeze every drop from every single day.

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62 - Mini Cho

🇸🇩 Tofo in Mozambique

Mozambique and South Korea, the birthplace of my parents Born in Mozambique and soon moved to South Africa with his parents who were economic migrants. They were forced back due to increased xenophobic attacks towards Mozambicans. Started surfing at 14 as an escape and progressed quickly. A significant life moment was when Tom Hewitt and his team from Surfers Not Street Children came up from Durban to inspire and come alongside surfers who had experienced hardships growing up. This connection inspired Mini to become the first and only pro surfer from Mozambique and has led him to become a Director of the Surfers Not Street Children. Tofo in Mozambique The Ocean as a source of food, income, escape and therapy. Surfers Not Street Children and their programs that supports hundreds of young people every day. Help others as I myself have been helped.

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61 - Cora Olsen

🇩🇰 Copenhagen in Denmark

Ribe in Western Denmark Passionate about sustainability and justice from an early age with a special focus on animal and human rights. Eventually chose the corporate path to try to make an impact on the world. Working with sustainability making the transition into living regenerative lives and not just being sustainable. There is a lot of confusion in terms of sustainability so spend a lot of time speaking at conferences, engaging with organisations to try to facilitate that understanding. Now working with Better Energy. A small apartment in Berlin Nature's system of equilibrium. It's amazing ability to readjust and recalibrate itself. The future fit foundation. It is the most amazing thing I have seen from a corporate perspective in terms of understanding and measuring and providing a management tool for sustainability and regeneration. In the terms of actually transforming the energy systems then Better Energy is the other story of hopefulness. Be kind, be selfless and seek to create the change that you want to see. You can be small but mighty in your actions

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60 - Omoyemi Akerele

🇳🇬 Lagos in Nigeria

Akwete in Eastern Nigeria Second of seven children, born to parents who instilled and modelled a way of contributing to the world that was beyond self. Started in fashion 19 years ago editing a lifestyle magazine and founded Style House Files as a way of establishing and then strengthening a fashion and design ecosystem in Africa that led to the launch of Lagos Fashion Week. The home with family where I can be myself The Ocean, not just as a place to go with the family but as a life-giving wonder that provides oxygen and affects climate. Clothes to Good in South Africa who upcycle and transform waste materials as a way of empowering and providing entrepreneurial opportunities to people with disability and autism. To see where we've been and coming back to Earth, it's almost impossible to deny that there is the existence of a higher being, it surely can't just be science.

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59 - Elissa Freiha

🇱🇧 Egypt

Beirut in Lebanon Multiple identities as an Arab, American who grew up in Paris and now living in Egypt. Moved to UAE and built an angel investment business called Womena with a focus on teaching women financial literacy and inspiring women investors. This led to a passion for the feminist space and Womena evolved into a media platform aimed at feminist content that makes a positive impact on society. Mothers apartment in the heart of Paris The Redwoods in California Rebecca Lolosoli is the founder and matriarch of the Umoja village in the Samburu County of Kenya. The village is a refuge for women fleeing sexual abuse and a place Elissa visited a few years back. After Covid, I'm doing everything that I can to make sure that I don't get sucked back into a kind of artificially imposed, rushed pacing of things that makes me forget to really live and be present

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58 - Ben Solanky

🇬🇧 Tunbridge Wells (UK)

Kent in the UK Find out later in life that he should have been brought up in Jinja in Uganda, but the family chose to flea the country. A friendship and a promise led Ben to pursue work in various charities which led him to helping facilitate a simulation at the World Economic Forum in Davos enabling people to walk in the shoes of people experiencing displacement and poverty. This was a catalyst moment and led Ben to form Empathy Action which uses simulation and workshops to inspire empathy and action. The vast mountains and seascapes that makes you feel so small The power of Tornados People who volunteer in Winter shelters and support, listen and share moments with people like Chris. An Armenian phrase meaning 'allow me to take away some of your pain so that your pain is a bit less'

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57 - Sara Osterholzer

🇮🇳 Brighton (UK)

Dharamsala in Northern India Born in Berlin and spent early childhood in India overlooking the Himalayas. Went to University in Brighton UK to study business and came across 'Social Enterprise' which was a game-changer. Involved with a few start-ups that were seeking to use business as a tool for change in the world. Eventually set up her own business The Good Business Club which is now 90 businesses strong. The adrenaline rush and the escape of being on her motorbike. The magic of the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights Ruth Anslow who co-founded the supermarket called HISBE (How it should be). Can you have a supermarket that honours suppliers well, pays employees living wage as a minimum and that only stocks ethical products? We are not our thoughts. 'I think we've identified ourselves with that way of being which can be quite constraining and so I remind myself every day, We are not our thoughts'.

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56 - Samata Pattinson

🇹🇬 Los Angeles

Ghana in Africa Born in Cambridge and shaped by diverse cultures and experiences. Samata eventually studied economics, finance and management in London but her main draw and passion was the fashion industry where she was introduced to design and sustainability. After winning a design award Samata became the CEO of Red Carpet Green Dress which is now a global creative community working with brands delivering a 360 approach to sustainability and design solutions. A large body of water "There is so much undiscovered biodiversity, we have so much yet to discover which blows my mind." Atlas of the Future. I think that so often the conversations we have centres around how bad things are and we aren't having enough conversations about what we're trying to build towards, the positive side. So Atlas of the future have all of these different ways to communicate a different type of future and they use media in a way that is, to me the future of media. Pay attention to the small things. The little, often and steady wins the race and that's just a journey.

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55 - Dhiraj Mukherjee

🇸🇦 London (UK)

Rio de Janeiro Born in India, Dhiraj studied at Stanford Business School just when the internet was starting up and set up Shazam with three business partners which launched in 2002. An intense ride from the brink of bankruptcy to a game changer moment and the launch of the iPhone in 2008. After Apple acquired Shazam, Dhiraj evolved from innovation to impact, investing in companies using technology for good. A dog walk on Clapham Common Volcanoes in Costa Rica Supporting young entrepreneurs through the Queens Commonwealth Trust We can all make a difference by aligning with business with mission and purpose and by using our pension to invest in companies that are making a difference in the world.

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54 - Jason Carter

🇰🇵 Sauve in France

North Korea Jason picked up the guitar aged nine. A career turning point came after a concert in Bahrain and a conversation with the Minister of Culture. His advice led to opportunities to work alongside The British Council and Unesco and perform in over 100 countries. Jason branched out into filmmaking and speaks about Directing and Producing the film, Grain of Sand. Sauve in the South of France The Niagra Falls The quiet, peacebuilding work of former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari When we engage with creativity we have the potential to touch the profound.

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53 - Sabrina Chakori

Canberra in Australia

Brisbane Born in 1992 which was the first year of the first Climate Summit in Rio. Actively involved in campaigns from an early age and started working on economic de-growth way of organising societies. Completing a PHD on how we can redesign our food system. In 2017 founded the Brisbane Tool Library disrupting the consumer system that tells you to buy your solution. Camping and hiking in Isolated places in Australia The mysteries of the ocean Collectives such as The Kayapo indigenous population in Brazil who preserve the natural beauty and biological richness of the Amazon. Be courageous, speak up, think out of the box and defy the current way of thinking.

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52 - Dino Siampos

🇬🇷 California

Greece Born and raised in the south suburbs of Chicago. Attended Art school playing in various bands. Worked with the Museum of Contemporary Art which led him to multimedia and installation and a role at Barneys New York. Dino co-founded a creative business in New York working with multiple brands mainly in the fashion industry. He was recruited by Apple in California in 2015. A 5 mile run early in the morning The night sky Art and Music educators who invest so much of their lives helping young people find their place in the world. I find that when we really listen we allow the other person to actually hear themselves in a truer way or a calmer way. And I feel like that has the potential to actually spark change more than we think.

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51 - Jazz Woodward

🇬🇭 New York

Accra in Ghana Jazz's story is remarkable and is impossible to define in a few words. You need to hear it! Central Park in New York with a good book and a coffee Machu Picchu in Peru His 70 year old adopted grandmother who is just forming a helping hand organisation Circumstances can make you believe that sometimes you are smaller than what you really are. It's important to remember that there is something special about you, there is something unique that makes you phenomenal within the world.

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50 - John Elkington

🇸🇾 London (UK)

Dura-Europos in Syria From an early stage John worked strategically with boards and executives. He was described as a 'true green business guru' and an 'evangelist for corporate, social and environmental responsibility'. He co-founded Volans in 2008 and has written 20 books. Nature and quiet places The distant migration of birds The Earth Shot Prize and one of the prize winners Coral Vita who breed coral organisms that are resistant to rising temperatures and acidity. The overview effect from space can be transformative and a very powerful ally in raising big investment

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49 - My Changing Planet

Glasgow (UK)

St Kilda in the Hebrides Isles in Scotland Seeking to reconnect with a childhood love and curiosity around nature. Frustrated and jaded by academia and a clinical life firefighting problems that are preventable. This sailing adventure to COP is about reconnection but also about listening to the oceans and challenging leaders to take a more holistic view of the oceans. Nature - Where we find a sense of peace but also where we find answers Manx Shearwater marine birds comes onto land to breed. It then leaves the chicks in the nest and flies from the UK to the Antarctic. The chicks soon follow behind. Health and Harmony in West Borneo have set up clinics and livelihood programs leading to forests growing back and communities living more sustainable and healthy lives. Heal Rewilding is another project engaging with diverse and young communities to help give nature a chance to heal itself. Through listening to the oceans and taking underwater recordings, this trip has been a reminder of how interconnected we all are. We need to collectively engage with politics and hold our leaders to account, vote with knowledge and put our leaders under pressure to listen deeply.

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48 - Tina Wetshi

🇨🇩 London (UK)

The Democratic Republic of Congo Born and raised in London, Tina studied History and Politics and has a masters in Culture, Criticism and Curation. Co-founded Colechi, a fashion research agency and collective to reposition the broken fashion industry through collaborative practise and research. Tina also works in PR working with fashion brands and campaigns which is also working towards remodelling and reimagining the fashion space. Anywhere with water such as the Docklands in London Victoria Falls PEM (People Empowering People) It forms a bridge with the council, institutions and charities; enabling local residents the opportunity to showcase the wealth of talent that exists within the community, and creating opportunities for local people to initiate and develop solutions to local issues. Hold your space and seek the thing you most believe in

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47 - Claudia Martinez

Bogota in Colombia

Colombia Grew up on a farm and became a tour conductor for mothers company called Learn by Travelling. Opened up the first Sustainable Development Division at the Latin American Development Bank. Known as the Green Lady ended up being the first Deputy Minister of the Environment in Colombia. Created E3 to orchestrate changes, working with communities, driving a vision of change in their own territories. Dedicated the last three years to coordinate the food and land use coalition in Colombia, supporting actions to transform food systems into powerful engines of regenerative growth and recovery. The Páramos of Colombia. 'Where I am able to think of the universe in a more profound manner' The Páramos of Colombia in the Andean Mountains from Venezuala to Northern Peru Indigenous communities coming together to form an association of 96 community-based organisations with the vision to create a unique sustainable development and regeneration model. The world has a unique opportunity to transform food systems into powerful engines of recovery and equity.

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46 - Huda Jawad

🇰🇿 London (UK)

Kazakstan in Central Asia Born in Baghdad, the family fled to Abu Dhabi before being forced to flee again. Arrived into the UK and studied for a masters in International Studies and diplomacy. Had a 'feminist awakening' and embraced activism from a feminist perspective, leading national campaigns and activism around gender equality, oppression and racism. Sultanate of Oman on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula The Rain Forest The Al-Ayn Foundation in Baghdad care and support over 60,000 orphaned children and bring joy through creating toy shops. We are so powerful together, and we can make a change. All it takes is for people, ordinary people, to stand up and say, I'm not having that; who wants to help me to change things.

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45 - Pete Russell

Devon (UK)

Waiheke Island in New Zealand Grew up in a military family, spent 15 years in a lucrative business that crashed and led to a desire to be 'part of the solution' in re-imagining and disrupting food systems. Founded Ooooby in 2008 which now has hubs around the world. At home with the family People and the potential of conversations that leads to change. Farmer Craig Hubbard who is the founder of the Shambhala farm in Australia and Tolly who runs Tolhurst Organic in Oxfordshire (UK) How do we choose to perceive people, society and the future?

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44 - Abby Rose

🇵🇰 The Loncomilla Valley in Chile and London

Chile Studied particle physics, moved to Chile to work on her parent's farm, developed apps (soil mentor) now used by farmers around the world. Abby co-founded an award-winning podcast called Farmerama which enabled the sharing of learning and information and has become an advocate for healthy soil. The Ocean The Soil. 'An amazing world below our feet'. Three stories: River (revitalising indigenous values for earth's regeneration) in New Zealand. Jennifer Armburst and the 12 principles for prototyping a feminist business and finally Leah Penniman from Soul Fire Farm in Albany, New York who is the author of Farming While Black. Tell the truth. 'The more I tell the truth about what I'm doing or why, the more real life gets'.

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43 - Thais Corral

🇮🇹 Rio de Janeiro in Brazil

Italy Brazil under dictatorship, Italy, journalism, back to Brazil, planted into feminism, green movements, radio network for women, WEDO movement, Earth Summit, Founded Sinal Do Vale regeneration campus. Remote places of nature The universal intelligence that we call vitality Sekem in Cairo and the founder of the Greenbelt movement Wangari Maathai A quote from Indian philosopher Vimala Taka. 'When you have the humility to be with people in the simplicity of what you are, not pretending to be what you are not, not trying to hide what you are, then communion takes place, you understand the other person more deeply. Then all knowledge is made possible and you notice that a new tenderness of affection begins to blossom'.

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42 - Douglas Samuel

Edinburgh

Leith in Edinburgh Head of the national apprenticeship programme for Standard Life with an aspiration to become an elite football coach. Approached to join Spartans to turn the model of a football club on its head focusing on tackling social issues through a 4 million pounds sports centre and an enterprise model. Santa Ponsa in Majorca Northern lights in Iceland Connecting Jamie from Coaches across Continents with Shukla Balls from the Parikrma foundation in India What steps can you take in your part of the world that can create positive ripples in other parts of the world? Are your intentions serving a greater good or serving yourself?

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41 - Giles Duley

Brighton (UK)

Planet Earth Photography, documenting the impact of conflict, stood on IED in Afghanistan losing both legs and an arm, over a year in hospital, back to Afghanistan within 18 months, established the Legacy of War Foundation working around the world. The Kitchen. "I will never make some nice photograph, if I haven't eaten with them first." The Sea. "I was invited by Nektonmission to go on a deep sea dive in one of their small to manned submarines." Gish. We have managed to save a dance school in South Africa, support Syrian refugees in Lebanon, funded the mining projects in Lao, and support a children's ward of the emergency hospital in Kabul. Focus on the things I can control, and not worry about the things I can't

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40 - Elsie Iwase

🇯🇵 New York and Hawaii

Hiroshima in Japan Brazilian and Japanese parents, Psychology and behavioural science, Sustainable and ethical organisational development, Across Generations. The Ocean The intelligence behind nature and how everything is so interconnected and beautifully designed. Salomon Rettig is a holocaust survivor who eventually found his purpose as a lecturer in social psychology in the States. We operate in two modes, fear which often contracts life and growth and love which is open and expansive and a risk worth taking.

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39 - Jonathan Baillie

🇷🇺 Canada

A small island in Northern Ontario The World Conservation Union, Red List, Gorillas in Gabon, Zoological society of London, Chief Scientist at National Geographic, 30 by 30 campaign, Media company for nature. Northern Ontario in Canada The diversity of life Kris Tompkins was the CEO of Patagonia and is responsible for creating some of the biggest protected areas in the world. The development of our children and our mental health is all dependent on a good relationship with nature. Who are we without nature?

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38 - Amy Clarke

🇧🇪 Oxford (UK)

Greenaway Beach, Cornwall Environment, Business, Capital, Sustainability into the heart of the finance system, B-lab, Big issue Invest, Ocean Plastic Leadership network. Cornwall (UK) A Rock Pool Eco-system The Honduran Human rights and Environmental Activist Berta Isabel Caceres Flores was murdered in 2016 protesting the construction of a dam on sacred indigenous land. Never let fear control you

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37 - Hazel Thompson

🇮🇳 London (UK)

Kamathipura (The red light district in Mumbai) Nomadic storyteller with a heart for justice, Croydon Advertiser newspaper, New York Times, Investigating modern day slavery and trafficking. Beyond the story podcast, Stories for change. Music and a friends home in Sweden Under the night skies in Africa and the Saudi desert. A family born in a brothel in Mumbai broke the cycle of trafficking and now working with an NGO rescuing and supporting girls. Women for Women International UK help rebuild lives and communities after a war over the long term. I can make that pain break me, or I could let it make me. I know that's what other people's stories did for my story and I hope the stories that I tell help bring hope and transformation to other people's lives too.

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36 - Tamsin Jones

🇧🇹 London (UK)

The Centre for Gross National Happiness in Bhutan Australia, London Olympic regeneration, Tech hub in Cape Town, Boardroom Africa, Climate collective leadership models, Rallying Cry Cape Town watching pods of dolphins and whales. Giant Manta Rays The Flipi Floppi initiative in Kenya. A Dhow boat made of plastic that has been collected from the oceans and clad in 30.000 flip flops. The boat is an icon in East Africa to advocate the end of single use plastic. You can trust your body, your senses and your instincts. To be human is to be connected to self, to others and nature and so build the muscles of your senses as they are informing our decision making.

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35 - Ruth Rogers

🇰🇬 London (UK)

New York New York, Body Gossip campaign, Sell out shows, The Canvas, 15.000 meals during lockdown, Gilbert and George and two advertising agencies A walk or swim on my own. “I have a one year old and a two year old” The Sky “During lockdown, I have gone so long without noticing it” Lost Stock is an impactful retail business, set up in the wake of COVID-19 and using a fashion box model to connect consumers with the billions of pounds worth of cancelled stock orders while supporting garment workers and their families. What could you do? whether that's buying a lost stock box, or find your local food bank and volunteer, we can all do something to make a positive impact in the world.

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34 - David Gough

🇰🇪 Tunbridge Wells (UK)

The Kibera slum in Nairobe Storyteller, Journalist for the Guardian in Africa, TV journalism with Sky, UN headquarters in New York, Humanitarian Coo-op Salcombe in Devon (UK) The Himilayas Abdul Kassim founded and oversees a school for over 200 girls in the Kibera slum in Nairobi which is one of the largest slums in the world. It feels like a great opportunity to build on this sense of interconnectedness, to build on the drivers behind the growing inequity which is the great challenge we face right now. Are we going to seize this moment?

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33 - Johan Andersson

🇨🇳 Los Angeles

Los Angeles Sweden, Central St Martins, South London, Stolen Faces, Art Unified, Haiti, Palm desert in California The expansiveness of the world and the true value of a person. Friends Joe and George started artistic spaces. They now rent out around half a million square feet of warehouses which they rent out to artists. Enjoy the journey, have grace on yourself, tomorrow is a new day, forgive yourself, move forward, start again, it’s always about resetting.

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32 - James Arbib

🇮🇶 London (UK)

Mesopotamia History at University, environmental activism around finance, Founded Re-think X and wrote the book Rethinking Humanity as a hopeful analysis as to how we might solve most of the problems of climate change. Georgian Bay in Canada Mycelium networks Biotechnology and its potential to change the world. Hacking biology to produce the things we need particularly food and materials. Building and designing food from a single molecule and cell with almost perfect efficiency and therefore reducing the cost to consumers and to the planet. We need to add the paradigm of biology to a paradigm of physics and understand the interconnections, the interactions between the pieces which we've lost,

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31 - Daniela Barone Soares

🇸🇴 Brazil and UK

Lencois Maranhenses sand dunes and lagoons in Brazil Brazil, venture capital, private equity investing, government, tech and investment, disrupting the fund management industry, Childhood beach in Brazil and a small roof top garden in London The Ocean The social business PAZ working in refugee camps training and brokering relationships with tech firms across Europe creating job opportunities. Now is the time to reconnect the source of our kindness and humanity and to see the beauty in what connects us all.

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30 - Zarlasht Halaimzai

🇦🇫 London (UK)

Kabul in Afghanistan Eldest of five children, hospitality in Afghanistan, daily bombings, Uzbekistan, refugee status, academia, RTI, Greece. Obama. My family and friends in London The expansiveness of the universe Mediator Gabrielle Rifkind specialises in conflict resolution with Oxford Process. Can we come together as a collective as an ecosystem that is interdependent?

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29 - Marina Cantacuzino

🇷🇴 London (UK)

Romania Journalism, Red Cross and Oxfam, counter-narrative after Iraq War, collating stories about forgiveness and reconciliation. Wild swimming in the Hampstead ponds in London The Heron Mina Smallman, the mother of two teenagers who were murdered in a random attack. With courage, dignity and clarity Mina drew attention to the fact that their deaths were not taken seriously because of the colour of their skin. I’m so much happier embracing uncertainty, acknowledging that I don’t have everything figured out.

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28 - John Pritchard

🇰🇪 Brighton (UK)

Serengeti in Kenya Travel, advertising, Microsoft, purpose, 10% of the world cannot access eyecare, PALA eyewear brand, vision centre in Zambia, Bcorps. Brighton and the West Coast of Scotland The Northern Lights The Barrier Reef Foundation who are planting more than 100.000 corals off Port Douglas Small things will add up to a far greater impact.

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27 - Tom Grennan

🇩🇪 London (UK)

Ireland Bedford, Football, Karaoke, London, Gigs, Depression, Record label, Two albums. Extreme fitness workout Whales that communicate and navigate all over the world The Homeless Football World Cup brings over 40 teams together from around the world. Do not put so much pressure on yourself.

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26 - Ivor Peters (Urban Rajah)

🇮🇳 Windsor (UK)

Chennai in India Second gen British Asian, cultures and food, Chennai, Cash and Curry, Urban Rajah that liberates people from human slavery. Being alone in nature Salt plains of Uyuni in Bolivia Tony’s Chocolonely with clean supply chains and slavery-free chocolate. You may not be able to change the world but you can change someone's world.

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25 - Tamar Guttmann

🇨🇩 Amsterdam (NL)

Rwanda World trip, film, music and social entrepreneurship, art, storytelling and social impact. Lake Garda in Italy Electromagnetic Fields and Music that makes us feel emotions Strong Political Female leadership, Impact and sustainable investment, voices in the arts who speak up about justices and inequality A danger that I see in my generation is that everybody's in too much of a rush to skip to the end result. We just need to start and take it one step at a time.

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24 - Dave Erasmus

London (UK)

Corcovado Rainforest in Costa Rica Adventure, Travel, Google ads business, Givey, TED, San Francisco and a year long experiment in a forest. Around a fire, off grid, in the analogue and silence. The design of small flowers in the most random places. A neighbourhood initiative that is expanding called Tasty Bakes If you believe you truly have enough time, it changes everything about your day and the future you want to build for yourself and your families, communities and societies.

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23 - Martin Rich

🇨🇲 London (UK)

Bonthe Island in Sierra Leone Studied Engineering, worked as an Investment banker with UBS before moving into Social Finance and eventually co-founding the Future-Fit Foundation. Meal table with friends The mountain range on the South Island in New Zealand The way Governments and businesses came together to pool resources and create a vaccine within a year. Pursue your dreams, don’t wait for permission and find the people to help you.

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22 - Kanini Mutooni

🇰🇪 Kenya

The Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya Living in Kenya, Investing early-stage capital to young African social entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. Kanini also shares about the challenges of Homeschooling during the lockdown in Kenya. Tamil on the Indian Ocean Icebergs in Antarctica Peoples Pension Trust in Ghana focussed on helping informal workers (70% of the African population) who do not have a fixed wage. We truly can make a difference wherever we are.

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21 - Reem Alsayyah

🇸🇾 Tunbridge Wells (UK)

Damascus in Syria One of eight children, studied in Damascus and became refugees in Jordan. Had the opportunity to be part of a drama project called the Syrian Trojan Women which enabled women to speak about their stories about the war on the theatre stage. This play became Queens of Syria that eventually toured the UK. I don't have a certain place. I believe that it's all related to the state of mind and soul that you have. There will be people who have everything and they won't be able to reset or recharge because they are lost from inside. Big open spaces that brings perspective All refugees, the hope seekers who despite facing terrible things, never gave up and were able to start their lives from square one. The world is bad, not because it's filled with bad people but because it's filled with good people who know nothing.

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20 - Katherine Trebeck

Glasgow (Scotland)

My adopted home of Scotland Australia, Indigenous communities, inequality and power structures, Oxfam, changing the economic system, The economics of arrival book with Jeremy Williams, WEAll and WEGo Red Hill in Canberra, Australia Seeing regrowth after a bush fire Galgael in Glasgow provides skills, purpose and community to people coming out of prison or struggling with addiction. Let's continually ask ‘but why'? Why are people needing foodbanks, medical attention for stress? Why are people turning to drugs and alcohol? Why are people feeling lonely? Why are people committing suicide? Why are we pushing the planet, beyond the brink?

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19 - Sarah Hope

🇮🇹 London (UK)

Verona in Italy A family tragedy that led to a charity to support amputees in Sierra Leone, Liberia and India and a victim support line called The Sarah Hope Line with Transport for London. Cycling through the local park during lockdown Crashing waves The heroes who work with amputees and child orphans in Sierra Leone We should be very grateful for all that we have and we should never feel guilty about being kind to ourselves.

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18 - Sophia Amanzi-Oyugah

🇺🇬 Germany

The Serengeti in East Africa Theatre, Fashion, McQueen, Tokyo, Yohji Yamamoto, Adidas, storytelling and purpose Diani beach in Kenya Sunsets Omoyemi Akerele who is the founder of Lagos Fashion Week in Nigeria. Who can I lend some faith to? Who can I encourage? Can I gift some of my time for the benefit of others?

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17 - Joe Murphy + Joe Robertson

London (UK)

Lindisfarne and Tokyo Shakespeare in Tokyo. Built the Good Chance dome theatre on the refugee camp in Calais and Paris which was the catalyst to an award-winning play called The Jungle and The Walk with Amal from Syria to Manchester. A Cottage in Hampshire and Whitby The Aurora Borealis and Port Meadow in Oxford Countries working collaboratively to address climate change and the founder of virtual reality Jaron Lanier. The power of humility and the challenges and insights of living with epilepsy.

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16 - Donnie Maclurcan

🇯🇵 Oregon (US)

The Nullarbor Plain in Australia Sydney, inequality, Egypt, Kenya, Economic Growth on a finite planet, how do we see new forms of business flourishing within ecological limits? 8000 pinned Swedish healing mat The abundance of seeds The response to the 2020 forest fires that devastated many local communities in Oregon and the determination to build back better with equity. Don’t start with what is wrong, always start with the strength.

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15 - Abi Hewitt

🇬🇷 London (UK)

The 14 Refugee Camps north of Athens in Greece Creatives, makers, artisans, enterprise models, entrepreneurship, refugees, employment, empowerment, Greece, Banksy welcome mats made from upcycled life jackets, Margo Selby. (Now operating in London) The Sky. "The bigger the sky, the bigger the dreams" The ebb and flow of tides Layla from Aleppo who lived in one of the worst refugee camps and who became a trained weaver and is now fully employed in Germany. How would you want to be treated if you had to flee from your home and make a new life in a new country?

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14 - Chidi Achara

🇬🇧 New York (US)

London London, advertising, BBH, Levis, photography, New York, Nike, tech space with mission-driven company Stash The Ocean Tropical Rainforest Charity Water How do we come out of this traumatic year with greater humility, compassion and empathy, where we are less divided by ideology and politics?

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13 - Florian Palluel

🇷🇺 Annecy in France

Banff National Park in Canada Innovation, design and sustainability in the textile industry. Working with Picture to develop and promote products such as snow jackets made with recycled polyester from plastic bottles. Moments around a bluebird day with deep powder snow Snow, especially now it's becoming rare on more mountains The French business Hopaal The challenge for a business to become more responsible and a force for good in the world.

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12 - Ellonda Williams

🇬🇷 Philadelphia (US)

Ellonda was waiting for the results of her ancestry DNA full background and would want to fly over that place in Africa Light, darkness, clarity, trials, justice, inclusion and creating opportunities and spaces for everyone The beach and at home with a Netflix movie The fact that we are all connected. We all have way more in common than we have in difference Any organisation or group elevating marginalised voices such as Strategy Arts in Philadelphia Approach the work we do thinking outside of ourselves, creating spaces that are more inclusive and welcoming to everyone.

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11 - Fraser T Smith

🇰🇬 London (UK)

New York Music scholarship, pulling pints, Guitarist, Rick Wakeman, Craig David, Producing, Kano, Stormzy, Dave, Adele, Future Utopia album around 12 questions. Home in the Chilton Hills (UK) The Northern Lights The democracy of music. It's no longer being held by gatekeepers with locks on the doors who only let in a select few. Freedom is available to everyone because freedom exists in your mind

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10 - Pedro Tarak

🇮🇷 Argentina

Montevideo in Uruguay Environmental activism, Law, social and economic development through leadership, the economy and business as the new space for large scale social and environmental solutions. Patagonian Andes in Argentina Fitzroy Mountain in Patagonia Crepes and Waffles restaurant chain in Columbia Business needs to move hearts through purpose, building community and legacy on a daily basis

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9 - Sara Hyde

London (UK)

The Rangitoto Volcano in New Zealand Theatre, structural politics, prison reform, Tedx talk, chair of the Fabian Women's Network, pursuing a PhD in prison health. The river Thames The human heart People who have lived experience of the criminal justice system and are now leading incredible work in this area. (see the organisations below) I am what I am because of who we all are. Ubuntu

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8 - Kate Fletcher & Mathilda Tham

🇬🇧 London and Stockholm

Goldsmiths College, University of London 20 year collaboration, fashion systems change, shifting from economic growth to Earth logic Anfield (Liverpool FC) and an old apple tree The resilience of nature Systems thinker Donella Meadows and author Bell Hooks Build a different engagement with what you wear.

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7 - Cathy Runciman

🇪🇸 London (UK)

The Valldaura Forest near Barcelona Media, Publishing, Time Out, Open Democracy, Stories of hope and Atlas of the Future. The coast of Northumberland, (UK) The Perito Morena Glacier in the Argentinian Patagonia A collective of Indigenous film-makers and Commonwealth Theatre How do we tell stories that place species first?

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6 - Muhammed Muheisen

🇵🇰 Netherlands and Jordan

Pakistan Jerusalem, photography, Israel Palestine conflict, AP, National Geographic, untold stories, refugee crisis Amsterdam Petra in Jordan Everyday Refugee Foundation Be the first to make the first move

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5 - Maria Emilia Correa

🇨🇳 Chile

The Amazon rainforest Conservation, biological diversity, regenerating companies and inspiring collaboration A town in the mountains of Columbia Tropical forests The indigenous communities of Sierra Nevada If our world is a single organism, whatever happens in one place affects all the rest.

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4 - Nathan Atkinson

Leeds (UK)

Yorkshire, England Leeds, Head Teacher, food poverty, education, food waste, SDG's and growing towers. The resource of Water Seeds and Food The business and movement of Patagonia The power of collaboration and collective responsibility

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3 - Sarah Corbett

🇬🇧 London (UK)

London Liverpool, introvert who loves creating, a gap in activism, formed a global collective using craft as a tool for kind, beautiful and gentle protest. The Shetland Isles in Scotland The Human Brain A million realities fellowship People will never forget how you made them feel

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2 - Marlon Parker

🇲🇾 Cape Town (SA)

Kuala Lumpa in Malaysia Grew up on the Cape Flats, established R-labs that has since equipped over 200.000 people with skills. The Ocean Table Mountain in Cape Town Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh and a local hero Bernadette Moses. How do we make hope contagious?

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1 - Jaz O'Hara

🇹🇷 London (UK)

Izmir in Turkey The refugee crisis, Calais jungle, community and advocacy, creatively amplifying stories from around the world through podcast and film A Cottage in Kent, England. The edible gifts that nature provides. Her foster brother Mez and the Syrian journalist and film maker Waad Al-Kateab We are all crew on the same journey.