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One Humanity Community Podcast for Mother Earth Guest: Michael Judd, Host: Dr. Hem R. Dhakal About Michael Judd Michael Judd has worked with agro-ecological and whole-system designs throughout the Americas for over two decades, focusing on applying permaculture and ecological design. His projects increase local food security and community health in both tropical and temperate growing regions. He is the founder of Ecologia Edible & Ecological Landscape Design, Project Bona Fide, an international nonprofit supporting agro-ecology research, and co-founder of SilvoCulture, a Maryland based nonprofit which is helping plant 1 million nut trees in the Mid-Atlantic region. He is also the author of ‘Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist’, and ‘For the Love of PawPaws’. Michael’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and BBC. Presenter for notable institutions such as the US Botanical Garden, Smithsonian, and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Michael lives and his family live along the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Frederick, Maryland. References: https://ecologiadesign.com/20-2/meet-michael/ - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.dhakal

Nina Beth Cardin, a proud native of Maryland, is the co-founder and director of the Maryland Campaign for Environmental Human Rights (MDEHR). She has been involved in environmental advocacy for more than fifteen years during which time she served as director of the national Coalition on Environment and Jewish Life; founded and directed the Baltimore Orchard Project for five years; served as chair of the Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake, an organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the natural resources within the Chesapeake Bay watershed; and served as the Sustainability Consultant for the Central Maryland Ecumenical Council.

Frances Stewart, M.D. is a psychiatrist, integrative health coach, and retired U.S. Navy Captain. She has been a practicing physician for 38 years. She graduated from the West Virginia University School of Medicine and did her post-doctoral training at WVU and the University of Vermont. She has served on the faculty at the University of Vermont and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She retired from her position at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence in Bethesda, MD in 2018 and continues to serve as a volunteer physician with the American Red Cross and the Maryland Medical Reserve Corps. She is continuing in her research work in collaboration with investigators from the Uniformed Services Universit, Harvard University, and Emory University. She also serves as a Climate Ambassador for Physicians for Social Responsibility and a Climate for Health Ambassador for ecoAmerica. She is an active member of Elders Climate Action and several other organizations working to solve the climate crisis. For More Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.dhakal

Hannah Sholder : Founder & Director of Operations, CKC Farming As the Director of Farm Operations, Hannah wears many hats for the organization - she manages all on-farm events , as well as internships & volunteerships, Hannah's background is in urban planning with a focus on affordable housing. Hannah likes to share stories about her days working with Charlie Koiner and is passionate about carrying on the practices and traditions of older generations. She can be found at Koiner Farm most weekday evenings.

Lincoln Smith - Founder, Designer, Instructor Lincoln is an avid forest gardener who sees people as part of the forest. https://www.youtube.com/@dr.dhakal/podcasts

Welcome to One Humanity Community Podcast Episode #:3 I am honored to have a deep conversation with Dr. Chiara Chiara D’Amore about nature, sucesses, challenges, opportunities, Community Ecology Institute, Green Farmacy Garden, and many more! For Other Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.dhakal/podcasts About Chiara D'Amore Chiara D’Amore, Ph.D. is the founder of the Community Ecology Institute. She holds a M.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering and a Ph.D. in Sustainability Education. She has worked as an environmental consultant and educator for more than 20 years. Her overarching focus is on promoting the benefits of time spent in nature on personal, social, and ecological well-being She is dedicated to helping create a healthy, beautiful and abundant future where people and nature thrive together. Dr. Chiara is also a co-author of "Growing An Edible Landscape". I would like to recommend this book. Please find more about Chiara: https://chiaradamore.com/

For Other Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.dhakal/podcasts About Maggie Doyne: Maggie Doyne is originally from New Jersey and has dedicated the last 13+ years of her life to educating children and empowering women. Maggie created the BlinkNow Foundation to sustain, grow, and support Kopila Valley Children’s Home and School in Nepal, and to serve as a vehicle to share her ideas with young people, especially children in the U.S. Maggie believes that in the blink of an eye, we can all make a difference. At age 19, Maggie used her life savings to build a home for orphaned children in war-ravaged Nepal. Since then, she has helped provide a loving home to over 50 children. In 2010, BlinkNow opened a school for the region’s most impoverished children. The school now serves 400 students and is rated top in the region. Maggie was named 2015 CNN Hero of the Year. She was honored by the Dalai Lama as an Unsung Hero of Compassion in 2014. Her work was championed by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof in a cover story for The New York Times Magazine. In 2012, Maggie shared her story at the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy, and in 2013 she received the Forbes Award for Excellence in Education. Her work has been recognized by Elizabeth Gilbert, Katie Couric, and Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan of Sussex. While Maggie’s work as CEO is focused on Nepal, she speaks all over the world in the hope of inspiring others to start projects of their own that will generate positive change. She shares her memoir in Between the Mountain and the Sky: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, Healing, and Hope — released in March, 2022. https://blinknow.org/pages/our-team

Deep conversation with Galen Tromble about climate change, yoga, farming, life's journey, and so on. For Other Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.dhakal/podcasts

This is a deep conversation with Prof. Pramod Parajuli. He talks about the importance of regenerative ecology, food system, natural ecosystem, and many more. For Other Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.dhakal/podcasts About Professor Pramod Parajuli As a trans-disciplinary social scientist, scholar and educator, Dr. Parajuli is deeply seeking ways to heal and regenerate lifesystems, livelihoods, learning and leadership during this turbulent period (especially since 2020) of what he identifies as the “Combined Climate/Coronaviruses Disruptions” (CCCDs). He recognizes CCCDs as a valid and unavoidable response of Gaia to give us the mirror to reassess ourselves and our pathways. Where and how the human world has caused the deep erosion into its own pathways? Why and how are our pathways at the detriment of the bio-geo-chemical cycles? Responding to such an urgent situation he is engaged and invites others to deeply explore both the “epochal” and “epical” dimensions of this moment. Clearly impacting from cellular to cosmic, at this juncture, the message is clear: HUMANITY is NOT at the center. LIFE, LIFESYSTEMS and WEBS of LIFE which envelop the ecosphere and every species on earth, ARE. Professor Parajuli’s engaged pedagogies and scholarship are thus guided by the premise that at this critical juncture, the choices humanity has is between: “Upcycling to Regenerative,” or by default, “Downcycling to Degenerative.” What we do now is entirely upon us. Our ecospheric home (the Gaia) is already doing and will do what she needs to do. Gaia has endured long enough of our excesses and there is no room for us to continue the run-away extraction and plunder of the earthly processes. A passionate educator/advisor, professor Parajuli has designed 2 Masters and 2 doctoral programs while successfully graduating 37 doctoral advisees and about 70 Masters students who are pioneering regenerative pedagogies and leadership work throughout the world. A graduate of Stanford in education, anthropology, and political ecology (1983-1990), he has taught at Stanford, Syracuse U (1991-98), Lewis and Clark College (1998-99), International Honors Program (1999-2000), Portland State (2001-2008), Prescott College (2008-2020), and Southwestern College (2020-). He is also active in the networks of Ubiquity University, Ecoversities, and the Regenerative Communities Network (RCN). At Portland State (PSU), he designed and developed an interdisciplinary Master’s program, Leadership in Ecology, Culture and Learning and also co-initiated Learning Gardens program. One of his proudest contributions, through the award-winning Learning Gardens initiative, his team actualized the promise of connecting the university with K-12 landscape and the collectivity of children and youth, teachers and their parents. In this award-winning program, children and youth not only learn how to garden but they gardened to learn. A pleasant surprise for all, they gardened to learn every subject, almost grade-by-grade, topic-by-topic, week-by-week, and subject-by-subject. At PSU, he also nurtured another national award-winning innovation on the theme of Schools as Ecosystems. In this online learning platform, children and youth could turn their schools as living-learning laboratories and engage in 36 plus design and regenerative activities. In 2008, he moved to the high desert of Colorado Plateau to start a new phase and engage at Prescott College. He embraced and embodied, another ecosystem, another reality. Here he served as the Core faculty for the PhD program in sustainability education and offered leadership in designing and developing new graduate programs.