GDay World 391 – Jon Dee, Founder of Planet Ark and Do Something
Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by Cameron Reilly in Podcast, activism, climate change, environment, future makers, social activism, social responsibility
A few days ago I had a chance to chat with Jon Dee, founder of Planet Ark and the new Do Something! initiative, about his life and goals. We talked about everything from his involvement in Rock Aid Armenia (where he pulled together a list of top Brit Rockers to perform a charity concert and record a new version of Deep Purple’s “Smoke On The Water” to raise funds for earthquake victims in Armenia) to deciding, with friend Aussie tennis pro Pat Cash, to start Planet Ark, and his new venture Do Something!, which aims to create positive social and environmental change.
Here’s the version of Smoke On The Water that Jon produced back in 1992!
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GDay World 390 – David Horn on the Space Elevator Conference
Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by Cameron Reilly in Podcast, big brains, entrepreneurialism, entrepreneurship, future makers, science, space travel
David Horn works with Microsoft in Seattle and is one of the organisers of the 2009 Space Elevator Conference. What is a “space elevator”, I hear you ask? Only the coolest idea you’ve ever heard! Imagine a day in the not-too-distant future where getting into space involves jumping into something like a luxury train that travels VERTICALLY – up into the air – traveling along a ‘ribbon’ made of carbon nanotubes – for a week until you get outside of the earth’s gravitational pull and THEN you jump in your space vehicle, which is attached to the other end of the ribbon, detach, and get flung into space via centrifugal force!
Links:
Wikipedia entry on Space Elevators.
Book your ticket for the 2009 Space Elevator Conference here.
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GDay World 366 – Dr Peter Ellyard on “Mining The Sky”
Posted on 20. Mar, 2009 by Cameron Reilly in Podcast, climate change, energy, energy debate, environment, future makers
Today I had the pleasure to catch up once again with G’Day World regular Dr Peter Ellyard, futurist, environmentalist, and author of “Designing 2050: Pathways To Sustainable Prosperity On Spaceship Earth” which is published by TPN TXT. Buy your copy now!
I chatted with Peter today about the recent IPCC report, Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme and whether or not we are all doomed, as George Monbiot is suggesting. Peter told me that our politicians and media are focusing on the wrong thing. We shouldn’t be just thinking about reducing emissions, we should be talking about MINING THE SKY.
As always, I just loved talking to Peter. He never fails to inspire. He’s now on Twitter (I gave him a crash course today), so make sure you follow him. And we also have a Facebook group for Peter call “The Future Makers Club“, make sure you sign up for that as well.
If you are a journalist, blogger, twitterer or podcaster and you’d like a review copy of Designing 2050, please email me.
G’Day World #332 – Peter Singer, The Great Ape Project
Posted on 03. Jul, 2008 by Cameron in Podcast, climate change, future makers
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My guest today is Peter Singer.
He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Melbourne. Outside academic circles, Singer is best known for his book Animal Liberation, widely regarded as the touchstone of the animal liberation movement.
I invited him onto the show to talk about the recent news from Spain that they will soon probably extend basic legal rights to all non-human hominids, an idea that has been driven by an organization that Peter co-founded, The Great Ape Project. We also talk about the basic ethics of utilitarianism and how the best thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint is to stop eating meat.
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