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As a former member of Team GB Kayak, Sal Montgomery shares with Mike about how she got into the world of kayaking. Sal talks about her numerous expeditions, often with an all-male team and occasionally taking on the role of safety kayaker on TV series. She has saved people from drowning on more than one occasion.
Expedition kayaker and adventure author, Sal can usually be found in deep, committing canyons, exploring unknown whitewater and dropping off tall waterfalls. Sal’s led multiple first-descents all over the world, often in some pretty weird and wonderful places!
Sal trained as a physiotherapist and worked with the NHS during the Pandemic while travels could no longer happen.
When she's not working at Nottinghamshire's Kings Mill Hospital, she's out conquering uncharted territory in her one-woman kayak. Sal’ passion for exploring has led her to visit some of the world's most dangerous and beautiful locations.
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Malaika Vaz is a wildlife filmmaker, television presenter and National Geographic Explorer. An adventurer at heart, she has travelled across some of the most hostile terrain on all seven continents, including hiking in the Antarctic, riding across the Mongolian steppe into Russia, or even diving with tiger sharks in remote areas of the ocean. As part of her work, she collaborates with organisations like WildAid and the Wildlife Trust of India on wildlife trafficking investigations and conservation initiatives. She talks to us about her recent work investigating the impact of extractive business on communities and wild ecosystems.
Malaika is the Founder and Creative Director of Untamed Planet – an award-winning production company focused on producing natural history, conservation and investigative TV series and feature documentaries for global broadcast. Malaika directs, produces and hosts films on subjects like wildlife trafficking, endangered species conservation and environmental equity for major networks including National Geographic, the BBC, Discovery Channel and Al Jazeera. She has served on the Expert Advisory Council for the Royal Foundation’s Earthshot Prize, is Brand Ambassador for the Global Peace Dividend Initiative, consultant on the Wildlife Trust of India's Manta conservation initiative and frequently works on conservation and anti-trafficking initiatives with international and national conservation organisations.
Malaika is passionate about lesser-known endangered species. In 2018, she worked on a TV series called “On the Brink” where she travelled across India exploring endangered animals, together with researchers and explorers trying to find ways of protecting them. Also, as a National Geographic Explorer Malaika produced and presented a 3-part series on human-wildlife coexistence titled “Living With Predators” that focuses on how local communities live alongside India's big cats. Other documentaries include a film on elephant trafficking for young audiences with the BBC NHU’s series ‘Planet Defenders’ and a report on how habitat protection can reduce zoonotic disease spread for Al Jazeera’s global networks. Her documentary on the illegal trafficking of manta rays across SE Asia was nominated for the Green Oscars and won an award at the prestigious Jackson Wild Media awards. She is currently working producing a film series that explores the relationship between environmental pollution and equity in Mongolia, Bangladesh, and China.
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Shrina Kurani lives at the nexus of climate, policy, and technology. With a background in engineering and entrepreneurship culminating in a financial platform that has now invested over $1B into technology, Shrina channeled innovation and a positive vision for a sustainable future into her campaign for United States Congress.
Having studied a masters in sustainability, Shrina is an engineer, entrepreneur, and fact-based problem solver. The daughter of Indian immigrants who sought the American Dream, she has focused her career on building businesses that reduce waste and create quality jobs. Shrina worked to start companies aimed at reducing waste and creating sustainable solutions for food and water, and she has worked as an advisor to startup businesses, both large and small, that are developing ways to make healthcare and education more affordable, accessible, equitable, and effective.
Most recently, Shrina has been building a company to increase opportunities by focusing on addressing disparities in the funding of startup businesses founded by women and people of color.
On top of her many hats, Shrina has also decided to contest against a Republican representative in his constituency in her attempt to become a member of the House of Representatives and work for the welfare of the masses. She will be fighting against incumbent Ken Calvert on a Democratic ticket in the mid-term elections to be held in November 2022.Now, Shrina is helping candidates like her run for office and innovators get the support they need to build a more sustainable future.
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Hosted by Blue Earth Summit Podcast, Mike discusses the principle of Environmental Social Governance, including how he believes it’s been hijacked by big companies to make themselves look good - and explains what consumers can do to cut through the potential fake use of the need for ESG activities and governance. He also tells host Laura Nesbitt about some of the amazing projects he’s working on in Bali, including restoring polluted rice paddies, cleaning river systems and developing a centre of excellence for regenerative agriculture.
Mike Weeks is the lead for global business development at Laconic Infrastructure Partners, an American ESG company that is developing the world’s largest organic regenerative eco-culture projects alongside the company’s proprietary environmental sensing platform, SADAR.Mike’s love of nature and wild places was developed over a decade of travelling the world as a professional rock climber, often climbing rope free before it became so popular and famously leading Jack Osbourne up El Capitan in Yosemite for the TV series, Jack Osbourne Adrenaline Junkie.
For 15 years Mike has worked as a coach, trainer, and advisor, specialising in personal and organisational resilience to major corporations, governments, emergency and defence agencies and NGO’s.
He is the author of two books, Un-train Your Brain (Vermillion) and Resilience By Design (Wiley).
Mike lives in Bali, Indonesia, where he runs Laconic’s offices and local projects, restoring polluted rice paddies, cleaning river systems and developing a center of excellence for regenerative agriculture. When he’s not rescuing far too many stray dogs (five and counting) he surfs with his wife and two young sons.
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Through this episode, Linzi takes us on her own personal journey of how she had an “aha” moment, shaping her life into her career successes today with meaning and purpose.
Linzi walks us through a range of topics, from the Ethical side of business, to what it means to build a brand (not to be confused with branding) and most importantly Linzi’s mission in business, which is how to create an impact through your life’s work.
Linzi Boyd is an inspirational businesswoman who has successfully launched, developed, and sold multiple businesses throughout her career. She was able to start her first business at 18 and before the age of 25, had built up and sold two of her own companies. Linzi continues to work in the business industry, but now also works as a global business speaker, sharing her knowledge on different business topics with her audience.
In 1991, Linzi became the Managing Director of her first business, Accent Ladies and continued to open a second business four years later. Both businesses were greatly successful and her second business, Stride was later sold to Caterpillar group. Linzi is currently the Founder of One Earth and Race to Impact the World, where she continues to help businesses work together and educate others about the business industry, including the culture within it.
Linzi has gained opportunities to speak at multiple different events around the world, being invited to speak with multiple well-known presenters and personally presenting awards ceremonies such as the LFC Awards Ceremony. She has expanded upon her career by becoming a best-selling author, after publishing ‘Brand Famous’ in 2014 and is now focusing on building her speaking career by booking events all over the world.
As both a businesswoman and speaker, Linzi Boyd has been able to grow her success within her career and is now looking to implement change within the business industry by introducing the idea of a new era of uniting companies around the world. She has been able to use her knowledge and experience to help others develop in their careers. When looking for a speaker who offers her opinions and expertise on business topics, look no further than Linzi Boyd.
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Oliver became a full-time professional photographer in February 2014. Since then his work has taken him around the world (Northern Sweden, Switzerland, Ecuador, etc) and included many exciting jobs from photographing the king of Sweden in the wilderness of Abisko to talking for Canon at ‘The Photography Show’ on Canon’s main stage in 2019.
He has developed his own style of photography by using focus stacking in many genres and specialises in handheld stacking creating a unique style and set of images.
Oliver’s time is currently spent between Yorkshire and Northern Sweden where he’s a senior guide for Lights Over Lapland, giving him access to Europe’s last great wilderness for part of the year. Many of the images, videos, and blogs from this region are included on the website.
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‘As a professional marine conservation ecologist, the main goal of my research is to understand how human interactions, environmental variation and climate change are responsible for altering biodiversity, biomass and productivity. My aim, to facilitate the rewilding of marine ecosystems in an effort to restore the natural ecology, biodiversity and energy flow. I look for unusual patterns within my data, and strive to understand diminishing aquatic ecosystems and how best to improve, restore and manage those impacts.’
Research papers Dr Ian has written/ contributed to
- Biodegraders of large woody debris across a tidal gradient in an Indonesian mangrove ecosystem
- Climate-driven golden tides are reshaping coastal communities in Quintana Roo, Mexico
- Seagrass Restoration Handbook: UK and Ireland
- Ephemeral detection of Bonamia exitiosa (Haplosporida) in adult and larval European flat oysters Ostrea edulis in the Solent, United Kingdom
- Interactions of larval dynamics and substrate preference have ecological significance for benthic biodiversity and Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758 in the presence of Crepidula fornicata
- Mosquitofish avoid thermal stress by moving from open water to the shade of the mangrove Rhizophora mangle
- Active management is required to turn the tide for depleted Ostrea edulis stocks from the effects of overfishing, disease and invasive species
- Modeling projected changes of mangrove biomass in different climatic scenarios in the Sunda Banda Seascapes
- Rhizophora stylosa prop roots even when damaged prevent wood-boring teredinids from toppling the trees
- Seagrass-associated macrobenthic functional diversity and functional structure along an estuarine gradient
- Functional uniformity underlies the common spatial structure of macrofaunal assemblages in intertidal seagrass beds
- Wild Asia
- Habitat creation and biodiversity maintenance in mangrove forests: teredinid bivalves as ecosystem engineers
- Mangrove forests of the Wakatobi National Park
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Professor Mike Allen is an Associate Professor of Single Cell Genomics in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at University of Exeter. His interests are varied and encompass both blue skies and applied research topics. Blue skies research focuses mainly on understanding the role of viruses in the ocean using genomic, proteomic, transcriptomic and metabolomic approaches. Applied research focuses on biocatalysis, bioremediation, biotransformation, bioprocessing and technology development.
Mike’s current academic research projects include co-evolution of coccolithophores and coccolithoviruses, sphingolipid biosynthesis, novel protein characterisation, lytic and latent phytoplankton viruses, phytoplankton and virus isolation. Applied projects include biofuel production and processing, bioremediation, water sanitation, high throughput liquid processing and the development of novel photobioreactor technologies for promoting microalgal growth.
Current and recent funding sources include The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Roddenberry Foundation, BBSRC and Innovate UK.
For more information on Mike, follow him @Mike_J_Allen on twitter, check out his website www.bluemicrobe.co.uk, or one of his project pages at www.phycomex.uk .
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Nature-Based Systems Thinking
David and Laura Hertz — On Nature-Based Systems Thinking, on Resilient Communities through Design, on Their Award-Winning Atmospheric Water Sequestration Invention WEDEW, on the Democratization of Natural Resources, and on the Resilience Fund.
‘We live in a world of transitions between the fossil fuel and free world. There’s no time to be apathetic and it’s incredibly exciting to live in a time where investment being placed in incredible technologies that could help reverse the consequences we created. A world where we can see a distributed system and natural resources democratized. — David Hertz
About David and Laura HertzDavid has been working at the edge of sustainability and the forefront of regenerative architecture for over 35 years. As a systems thinker, he engages a variety of fields through design and believes in expanding the conceptual limits of architecture.
Throughout his career, David has connected the art of building with responsible stewardship of the Earth. A LEED accredited professional, he serves on the board of Heal The Bay and is a member of the City of Santa Monica’s Task Force on the Environment. David taught sustainable design and mentored students at his alma mater, SCI-Arc, as well as Art Center College of Design and USC, and currently serves on the Academic Advisory Committee for UCLA’s Extension Program.
Laura is a storyteller, an environmentalist, a humanitarian, and a concerned citizen with the goal to educate and inspire to leave this planet a better place. A native Californian, Laura grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent most of her childhood on the coast sailing. As a daughter of a commercial airline pilot and a wildly creative mother, Laura’s lifelong passion for photography is the product of her traveling adventures around the world, discovering the visual beauty and intrigue of foreign lands, cultures, and customs. She worked as a Photojournalist for many publications and later as an Advertising and Lifestyle Photographer. In 2015, Laura and her husband David Hertz, co-founded Skysource, a social impact enterprise focused on creating deployable atmospheric water solutions that address all aspects of global water issues. She also serves on the board of The Bay Foundation, 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental group that restores and enhances The Santa Monica Bay through actions and partnerships that improve water quality, conserve and rehabilitate natural resources, and protect the Bay’s benefits and values..
A lifelong passion for surfing has made David and Laura active in issues of water quality and access. ‘18% of Californian budget is pumping water across long distances – this is huge. Desalination plants and water movement are not the cleanest solutions. 0.22% of fresh water is contained in water vapor and we forget that there is 6 times more water vapor at any given time than there is in rivers and lakes. This happens to sit at the highest point of the water shed, and once extracted then cooled, water becomes extremely accessible and free.’ says David Hertz.
Together, David and Laura founded Skysource to democratize water, and their efforts culminated in winning the Water Abundance XPRIZE. Since then, they have focused on making communities more resilient through design. After the Woolsey Fire devastated their community, David has become committed to helping friends and neighbors rebuild their homes and lives.
David is also the co-founder of Resilience Fund for Advancing Climate Technologies, focusing on water, food, energy, and carbon transformation technology solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
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- SkySource
- The Resilience Fund For Advancing Climate Technologies (resilience-fund.org)
- Xanabu
- XPrize for Water Abundance
- Precipitating Change
- Home - The Bay Foundation (santamonicabay.org)
- Laura Doss Photo (facebook.com)
- Home - The Teen Project
- David Hertz Architects FAIA & The Studio of Environmental Architecture (davidhertzfaia.com)
- David Hertz Architects (@davidhertz_studioea) • Instagram photos and videos
- XPRIZE Winner Creates Water from Thin Air - YouTube
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Lida Pet-Soede is a senior strategic conservation and fisheries management professional. She has lived in many places around the world however most of her work has been based around Asia Pacific region, Indonesia and the Coral Triangle. Lida is originally from a dairy farm in the Netherlands, however discovered her love for the marine world whilst studying for her degree at Wageningen Agriculture University.
Captivated by the ocean, she went on to complete a Phd in Indonesia in Tropical Fisheries Biology and Management. Lida is currently enjoying the coastal gems of Cornwall but plans to move back to Indonesia in the near future.
Lida is a keen scuba diver, snorkeler and all round thalassophile. She has explored many amazing places, experiencing stunning underwater wilderness. Her career includes working with governments, NGOs and the private sector to achieve sustainable coastal and marine development in Indonesia and the Asia Pacific region. This includes project and strategy design, project review and evaluation, professional development coaching and creation of strategic partnerships. She conducts assessments and provides advice on tropical collaborative fisheries management, marine biodiversity conservation, sustainable aquaculture development, sustainable development in coastal communities, marine tourism, and policy reform for collaborative governance and management.
Lida is passionate about preserving our ocean for future generations and is currently focusing on the concept of Shifting Baselines. The concept that younger generations of divers may be blown away by the beauty of our waters. However, the reality is that it is just a fraction of the thriving ecosystem that it used to be. We cannot appreciate what is lost, if we never knew it was there. Using this as a focal point of her work, Lida hopes to motivate younger young people about lost ecosystems, and encourage them to focus their careers in solutions to rewild.
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lida-Pet-SoedeMARINE CAPTURE FISHERIES POLICY FORMULATION AND THE ROLE OF MARINE PROTECTED AREAS AS TOOL FOR FISHERIES MANAGEMENT IN INDONESIAKAJIAN KEBIJAKAN PENGELOLAAN PERIKANAN TANGKAP DI INDONESIA: MENUJU PEMBENTUKAN KAWASAN PERLINDUNGAN LAUTMapping the overlap between ocean industries and marine hotspots in the Coral Triangle.A Review of the Spatial Distribution of Marine Turtle Nesting and Foraging Areas in Western AustraliaGlobal analysis of satellite tracking data shows that adult green turtles are significantly aggregated in Marine Protected AreasSafeguarding the Blue Planet: Six strategies for accelerating ocean protectionPolicy needs to improve marine capture fisheries management and to define role for marine protected areas in IndonesiaReexamining the science of marine protected areas: Linking knowledge to actionSARS and the live food fish trade in Indonesia: Some anecdotesEffects of the 1998 Coral Morality Event on Kenyan Coral Reefs and FisheriesThe Economics of Worldwide Coral Reef DegradationImpact of Indonesian coral reef fisheries on fish community structure and the resultant catch compositionCan fishermen allocate their fishing effort in space and time on the basis of their catch rates? An example from Spermonde Archipelago, SW Sulawesi, IndonesiaOptions for co-management of an Indonesian coastal fisheryKenyan coral reef fish, fisheries and economics – trends and status after the 1998 coral mortalitySocioeconomic Assessment of the Impacts of the 1998 Coral Reef Bleaching in the Indian OceanCyanide fishing on Indonesian coral reefs for the live food fish market – What is the problem?Options for co-management of an Indonesian coastal fisheryTrends in an Indonesian coastal fishery based on catch and effort statistics and implications for the perception of the state of the stocks by fisheries officialsAn Economic Analysis of Blast Fishing on Indonesian Coral ReefsThe Status of the coral refs of India following the bleaching event of 1998A note on cyanide fishing in IndonesiaBlast fishing in SW Sulawesi, Indonesia... -
Guy is a founder of Wavelength Ventures and commercial director of Wavelength Media. Keen surfer and outdoor enthusiast, he spent years travelling to the Globes most remote surf breaks, dreaming up businesses. Graduating from Newcastle University with a degree in Geography, Guy went on to work in the financial sector before working for Crowdfunder and more recently for Wavelength Media and Ventures.
Wavelength originally started out as a magazine that dates back to 1981. Leveraging the creativity side of the original magazine, Wavelength evolved to build a community of outdoor enthusiasts. More recently, Guy has moved Wavelength into the venture capitalist sector, funding businesses that align to values and ethos.
Guy’s love for the great outdoors has driven his pursuit to place sustainability at the epicenter of doing business. In helping fund purposeful businesses to become successful and profitable, they can grow to have a bigger impact. In the last two years his company has helped raise £75 million for 23 businesses, all of which align to an ethos of inspiring healthy living, the power of the outdoors and a sustainable mindset.
Sitting at the heart of Wavelengths ethos, is a new event that was launched last year. The Blue Earth Summit is a 2-day event that brings together a dynamic mix of communities that share a love for the great outdoors and who strive to see business as a force for good.
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LinkedinTwitterBlue Summit TweetCarbon offsetting tweet – EcologiOTHER RELATED LINKS
Ticket to Ride – Camps, Tours, Adventures and Instructor Courses (tickettoridegroup.com)https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/blue-earth-summit-podcast/id1599254405https://wavelengthmag.com/author/guy-hayler/ -
About Olly Pemberton
Olly Pemberton is an award-winning Director, Producer, Cameraman, Drone pilot, Editor, Sound Technician, Story-teller all rolled into one. Having trained with the Royal Marines Reserves for four years he is well used to being self-sufficient and flexible.
Olly grew up on the Isle of Man, a place which has now received the UNESCO world heritage stamp given to the country as a marine protected area, place which he refers to as the ‘love child of Scotland and Cornwall, Home of the Manx Shearwater’.
Olly has spent the best part of the last decade filming endangered or elusive wildlife, wild snow leopards, sparrow hawks and Italian brown bears among a few. After a solid career as documentary filmmaker for Exodus Travel, he is now branching out filming and directing award-winning documentaries on the interaction between mankind and wild species across the Globe.
His most recent extreme shoot was in Botswana, in the Okavango Delta, filming a people called ‘Polers- guardians of the Okavango delta’, and his firsthand account of these nail-biting boat rides between narrow hippo waters, being charged at, and how Covid has impacted wildlife and poaching.
Olly also takes us on a journey about the human wildlife conflict around Kenya, and the incredible work carried out by the Tsavo Trust, a model called the 10% project, where the trust attempts to maximise the farming yield on farmers lands, while allowing space to roam for wild elephants, concept that is working and mitigates human wildlife conflict.
“The general theme that seems to crop up in the wildlife conservation world, is coexistence. Addressing that in a less romantic fashion, with the honest truth around trials an errors, about how humans and animals do need areas to work and roam.”SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
fourhornproductions.co.ukManx Shearwater Bird Facts | Puffinus Puffinus – The RSPBAbout us – Tsavo TrustOlly Pemberton | LinkedInExodus Insights Blog Page 1 | Inspire Your Next AdventureOlly Pemberton (@olly_pemberton) • Instagram photos and videosOTHER RELATED LINKS
NGUMU – THE WOMEN OF KILIMANJARO – YouTubeCarried Away: Inca Trail Porter Project – YouTubeRestoring Italy’s Wild Heart – YouTube -
About Zach Boakes
Zach Boakes is marine biologist, currently living in northern Bali in a village called Tianyar, north east Bali, currently writing his PHD on the study of coral rehabilitation. Zach first came to Bali as a passionate surfer turned fresh-faced drum teacher and integrated into a remote Balinese community untouched by tourism, soon realizing that there was a great need to protect local coral reefs which had been degraded.
Zach set up North Bali Reef Conservation, which is a nonprofit NGO founded in 2017, working with the local community and local fishermen, training them to be stewards of local marine wildlife. One of the main aims of his research is to study pro-environmental behavior, analyzing what tends to encourage somebody to do something towards caring for the environment. With the support of local village leaders, the project is now employing local villagers as tour guides and diving instructors, there is accommodation for over 50 volunteers.
Zach discusses how one of the keys to success of a local marine based NGO was the integration of local community fishermen in this project. They needed to feel like they were owners of a project and one of the best ways to incentivize them. With now more than 9,000 structures built, Zach is in the process of monitoring how fast wildlife returns and corals grow, and has just published his first paper entitled ‘Coral reef conservation in Bali in light of international best practice, a literature review’. Through his research, he is proving that developing these sort of Marine-protected areas, not only has a localized benefit to the ecology, but also to the local people that depend on these species for their survival, and that it really does work.
Through this NGO, waste management is also being tackled with a small local plastic recycling centre aiming to avoid the daily burning of plastic litter.
‘My experience is working on a local scale. From my experience, working with communities is the way forward through education, through direct activism work, through empowering them to create change.’
SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEZach Boakes | LinkedInAbout us marine conservation volunteer program in Bali, local NGO coral reef protectionOTHER RELATED LINKSMarine Conservation Volunteering Abroad | GVI PlanetVolunteering – NORTH BALI REEF CONSERVATIONNorth Bali Reef Conservation | FacebookBali Marine Conservation – The Mighty RoarCoral reef conservation in the eastern tropical PacificCoral reef conservation in the Anthropocene: confronting spatial mismatches and prioritizing functions
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Simon Temple: The Great Outdoors - a playground to steward and respect
Sailor, surfer, free diver, spear-fisherman lover of the Great Outdoors, avalanche survivor among many other adventures, Simon Temple embodies adventure in the wild at its best. With more than 17 years under his belt as a freelance cameraman/ cinematographer, Simon started his career in Outdoor Recreation, later training under IFMGA to become a heli-ski guide working in Canada, Alaska, New Zealand and Austria. While working out of Queenstown New Zealand, he found work on Vertical limits, and Lord of the Rings, launching his career in the film industry.
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Feature films
• Monkey Man (Bron). Cameraman 2020/21, Indonesia
• Avatar 2 & 3 ( in production). Cameraman 2nd unit 2019, NZ
• Adrift (STX Entertainment) BTS/Cameraman 2017 Fiji/NZ
• Point break 2, (Alcon/Warner brothers), Cameraman 2nd unit 2014. Tahiti, Australia, USA.
• Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (MBP Germany), 2003. NZ (transport/location)
• Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (New Line Cinema), 2002. NZ (location assistant)
• Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (New Line Cinema), 2001. NZ (location assistant, main unit)
• Vertical Limits, 1999. NZ (location assistant)
Reality TV
• RedBull ‘The Ultimate Waterman’. 2017. New Zealand. (RedBull TV US). Cinematographer/ Cameraman
• RedBull ‘The Ultimate Waterman’. 2016. New Zealand. (RedBull TV US). Cameraman
• Get Out Alive ‘Bear Grylls’ 2013 New Zealand, (Electus/NBC). Cinematographer/Cameraman
• Survivor Show 2008, Season 16 & 17 USA, (CBS). 2007, Season 14 & 15 (CBS). Cameraman
• Eco Challenge 2001 (Borneo), 2002 (New Zealand), 2003 (Fiji) (USA Network). Cameraman
Broadcast (as an OB cameraman)
• Le Grand Raid, Reunion Islands, 2010
• RedBull Rampage 2007, 2008, 2009. RedBull media house, Utah, USA
• Red Bull X Games, RBMH, ESPN, USA 2009
• Womans FIVB Beach Volleyball championships, Universal Sports, USA, 2007
• FIS Ski Jumping world Champs, 2008 (ORF Austria)
• World Match Racing Series, Sail TV, 2007/08. UK
• Wilderness ARC, Adventure Racing world champs, Scotland 2007.
• Americas Cup 2007, 2010 (AC committee, sail TV)
• Red Bull Hike and Ride 2007 (ORF Austria)
• Nova Rock, Frequency 2007 (MTV Germany)
• Raid the North Extreme, Adventure Racing world champs, NL Canada 2004.
• Eco Challenge 2001 (Borneo), 2002 (New Zealand), 2003 (Fiji) (USA Network) Assistant camera
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Original founder of ‘The Kul Kul Connection’ community bridging initiative at The Green School in Bali, Tim Fijal is a regenerative farmer, environmentalist. Working alongside local Balinese farmers to revitalize soils and encourage the ‘Regenerative Agricultural’ green movement, Tim formed the social enterprise The Astungkara Way; A Regenerative Action initiative that empowers individuals and communities to reconnect with nature and the source of the food they eat, offering connectedness to nature with pilgrimage trails across Bali.
Tim took the time to chat with Mike with me live from Bali to check in, share his journey, experiences, challenges and hopes for the future.
Tim supports and advocates for:
Scholars of SustenanceThe Astungkara WaySELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
Hope - That is the Astungkara WayWhat are the Differences Between Permaculture, Organic Farming and Regenerative Agriculture?WHY REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE?Regenerative Agriculture: DefinitionWhat Is Regenerative Agriculture? A Review of Scholar and Practitioner Definitions Based on Processes and OutcomesFrom the Ground Up: Regenerating Bali’s Agriculture the Astungkara WayDEVI SRI- The Rice GoddessesASTUNGKARA WAY: ON A MISSION TO REGENERATE BALI’S SOILS AND ECOSYSTEMSRegenerative farming in Bali Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana PhilosophyExplaining Bali’s Subak System (and Why Rice Fields are Cultural Landscapes)Resiliency and the Balinese SubakThe Impacts of Tourism on Subak, Sawah, and the EnvironmentIs the so called ‘Green Revolution’ turning brown?Environmental Impacts of Agricultural ModificationsBali Green Economic Initiative – Tim Fijal & Maria Agustin – INKURI Connecting through RiceSubak, an Agriculture EssentialExploring Black Soldier Fly Frass as Novel Fertilizer for Improved Growth, Yield, and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Maize Under Field ConditionsPOTENTIAL OF LOSS OF ORGANIC FERTILIZER IN LOWLAND RICE FARMING IN KLUNGKUNG DISTRICT, BALIA study on rice field farmer implementation of rice straw compostingTourists gone, Bali’s young entrepreneurs eye sustainable futureThe year Bali tourism stopped 'Bali is not only about tourism': Covid-19 prompts rethink for island's residentsZach Bush on why all health issues come back to how we treat the soil Farming - Zach Bush MDEnvironmental Impacts of Agricultural ModificationsRecognizing farmers’ practices and constraints for intensifying rice production at Riparian Wetlands in IndonesiaPlastic Pollution: Bali’s Iconic Beaches Are Buried In Plastic With 60 Tonnes Garbage Collected Each DayBuried in rubbish: Bali’s beaches blighted by sea-borne wasteIn Bali young people lead the fight as plastic plage threatens paradiseSolving Bali’s Rivers of TrashTinggly Trash Traps Research into Bali’s plastic polluted rivers and designs of suitable collection structures for rivers to mitigate the plastic discharge into the oceanBali - Hidden Truth - The Bridge 100 Trash Barriers To Be Installed in Bali Rivers To Reduce Plastic PollutionWASTE CRISIS! AN OVERVIEW INTO BALI’S NIGHTMAREBali’s youth take action to stem the tide of plastic pollutionBali fights for its beautiful beaches by rethinking wasteTraditional Views and Attitude Toward Waste and Rivers in Indonesia: Challenges of ... -
Steve Box is a marine biologist studying the effects of fishing practices that endanger more than half of our ocean’s biodiversity.
His work assesses the impact of fishing on coastal ecosystems and connections between key marine species. Steve focused on collaborative solutions to improve fishing practices with Smithsonian’s Marine Conservation Program. The Marine Conservation Program is based at the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida.
Steve was the first scientist to study the extent and scale of different fishing activities in Honduras in the Western Caribbean and their importance to the economy and food security of rural areas. This effort evolved from his doctoral research in Honduras, where he studied the coral reefs around the Bay Islands. Later he began working with indigenous Miskito fishers to build sustainable commercial fisheries that provided local livelihoods while preserving biodiversity.
Working with local communities and governments, Steve uses his research to help create networks of marine protected areas with measurable biodiversity conservation impact. To inform the design and placement of marine protected areas Steve uses molecular and genetic approaches, spatial dynamics and modeling, and fisheries economics and remote sensing. Steve’s research and investment in local communities is building fisheries that protect the environment and the livelihoods for fishers in the Western Caribbean and around the world.
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Predicting vulnerability to management changes in data-limited, small-scale fisheries. Marine PolicyEvaluating tools for the spatial management of fisheriesFine-scale population structure of Lobatus gigas in Jamaica’s exclusive economic zone considering hydrodynamic influencesA case for redefining the boundaries of the Mesoamerican Reef EcoregionIsolation by oceanic distance and spatial genetic structure in an overharvested international fisheryA genuine win‐win: resolving the “conserve or catch” conflict in marine reserve network designBiophysical connectivity explains population genetic structure in a highly dispersive marine speciesContrasting genetic effects of red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle L.) range expansion along West and East FloridaOTHER RELATED LINKS
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