Jean-Paul Ventère discusses his role in France’s repairability index and Right To Repair mandates, focusing on eco product labeling and life cycle assessments. France is a leader in promoting repairability, which helps reduce CO2 emissions. Legislation requires companies to provide consumers with information to choose repairable and reliable products, advancing eco-design initiatives.

Eighteen-year-old Daphne Gariety is a social media marketer and vocal artist who recently provided humanitarian aid in Zimbabwe by learning construction skills to help build a medical clinic for over 100,000 people.

Biologist Leif Cocks began observing and interacting with orangutans as a zookeeper with the Perth Zoo. Today he studies and interrelates with orangutans in the wild within their own habitat in the rainforest. Journey with Leif as he recounts his own actions of saving orangutans back into the wild.

Music composer Rayko, “Until We Meet Again” from ‘The Man In the High Castle’, is lobbying for California Assembly Bill 2764 to prevent new factory farms. These farms prioritize agribusiness profits, harming animals, the environment, social justice, and public health. Rayko advocates for replacing the factory farm system with a more sustainable and humane approach.

Biologist Leif Cocks began observing and interacting with animals as a zookeeper with the Perth Zoo. Today he studies and interacts with orangutans in the wild within their own habitat. Adventure with Leif on a journey of his research and saving the critically endangered orangutan.

This Inspiration Monday episode is inspired by Your Positive Imprint oceanographers, enviro capitalists, and climate change scientists.  Climate change is rapid and it is human caused global warming.  A planet in a state of urgency. Guests: Helen Phillips, Nathan Bindoff, Josh Willis, Inna Braverman, Mike Silvestrini, Terry Lilley, Andrew Bracken, Ray Schmitt, Kurt Polzin.

Beaches are eroding. Trade winds are changing. Coastal properties are falling into the ocean, most recently in Hawai’i. Oceans are public property so who is liable for the clean-up caused by climate change? Taxpayers are already feeling the impacts of climate change. Marine biologist Terry Lilley.

During the pandemic, consumers have recognized the human costs of keeping factories open. Lars Noah Balderskilde and David Singh focus on refurbishing vintage Danish furniture, emphasizing values, sustainability, and respect for the artisans who handcrafted the pieces.

Vintage Danish furniture takes a voyage across the Atlantic. Lars Noah Balderskilde and his husband David Singh are concerned about the world’s landfill problems. Shifting away from the throw away society they refurbish and resell discarded mid-century Danish furniture. But they go BEYOND refurbishing and reselling. It’s about Hygge, second chances and changing the world one table at a time.

While conducting underwater studies of electromagnetic discharge into the coral reef from a nearby ship, marine biologist Terry Lilley almost lost his life. There should be no electromagnetic energy naturally underwater on a coral reef. Terry describes his experience and how his accident just might have saved the very same coral reef he was studying. After the accident Terry continued with his path in life as a marine biologist and educator.