“From your first breath to your last. In darkness and in the light, we are the oldest and youngest. We are the largest and smallest. We are the wisdom of a billion years. We are creation. We are resurrection. Condemnation. Regeneration. We Are Mushrooms.” - Narrated by Brie Larson
“Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – it’s a new way of inventing … By asking before we design anything: What would Nature do here? When we’re doing biomimicry, we’re looking for Nature’s designs, you know, its structures and its forms. They’re so elegant; they’re so energy efficient.” Janine Benyus – Author & Expert in Biomimicry & Biodesign, Co-Founder of the Biomimicry Institute
There are few companies to ever reach the pinnacle of any marketplace, with fewer earning the unofficial legacy of an ‘American Institution’ – and like any institution, it comes with certain powers that shall remain unsaid, but certainly not misunderstood. You know the names: Standard Oil, General Electric, Ford, McDonald’s, Walmart, Microsoft, Apple … Yeah, that level.
“My partners and I made Ice On Fire to give a voice to the scientists and researchers who work tirelessly every day on the front lines of climate change,” DiCaprio says of his new documentary. “We wanted to make a film that depicts the beauty of our planet while highlighting much-needed solutions across renewable energy and carbon sequestration. This film does more than show what is at stake if we continue on a course of inaction and complacency – it shows how, with the help of dedicated scientists, we can all fight back. I hope audiences will be inspired to take action to protect our beautiful planet.”
This film features the trials, learnings and victories of the Breitkreutz family from Stoney Creek Farm transitioning from conventional farming to regenerative agriculture in Redwood Falls, Minnesota. Using conventional methods, they saw their soils degrade and their input costs rise every year. Transitioning to regenerative practices has helped their row cropping operation and significantly reduced their input cost for their cattle. America’s scientific community is just beginning to explore the beneficial microbes inside our guts and their connections to health. Not only that, but these little worker bees of the belly have been found to closely mimic the microbiome of one’s local soil and the soil(s) linked to their primary food sources.
Mother Nature is beginning to tell us exactly how she feels: intense hurricanes, sweeping wildfires, prolonged droughts, widespread floods, glacial ice storms and record-setting temps are seemingly the new normal. Collective climate anxiety is real – so why can't we take action on actual solutions?
Dolores Huerta is living history – she has been a full-throated champion for human rights for a better part of her 87 years. Whether it was fighting for better working conditions for farmworkers or going head-to-head with the Teamsters in her days leading the United Farm Workers (UFW), she makes us all believers in grassroots people-power to make change.
The art form of arranging diatoms dates all the way back to the Victorians, when these natural splendors were arranged under the lens of some of the earliest microscopes. Almost lost in time, this technique of natural discovery and precise arrangement has been revived by modern microscopist Klaus Kemp.
Seeds are life. Since humanity made the epoch shift from nomadic hunter-gatherer to farmer, we have been entirely reliant on the sun and seasons for food production. These tiny geniuses of nature are at the center of all existence, so why don’t we do more to protect them?
Have you ever considered that humanity owes its existence to a few inches of topsoil and seed stocks that have been built up over the millennia? Without it, there would be no way to lead the lives we do. While plenty of people pay attention to what they eat, tracking where the food comes from is less common.