Episodes

Leon Wang is my guest on Episode 116 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Leon Wang or 王立中 (Wáng Lì Zhōng) is a genderqueer Taiwanese 2nd gen American (they/them, ki/kin) who is able-bodied with an invisible neurodiversability. In essence, they are an (Auto)Catalyzing Connector, Exploration Facilitator, and Networks Weaver. At heart, ki is an extreme generalist that is creating conduits toward (b)righter futures. Leon leverages deep expertise in Life-Centered Design, Nature-Inspired Creativity, Em...

Dr. Carolyn Kousky & Dr. Billy Fleming are my guests on Episode 115 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Carolyn is Executive Director at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also directs the Policy Incubator. Carolyn research examines multiple aspects of disaster insurance markets, disaster finance, climate risk management, and policy approaches for increasing resilience. She has published numerous articles, reports, and book ch...

How to thrive in uncertain times, with Larry Robertson. Larry Robertson has advised leaders in growth, strategy, adaptability, and innovation for nearly three decades. He’s been described as “a big firm consulting brain, without all the worthless baggage.” His knowledge is deep, and his style direct, passionate, and creative. The results, and nearly 30 years in business, speak for themselves. He’s the founder and President of strategy and innovation advisory firm Lighthouse Consulting, a frequen...

Oisin Lunny is my guest on Episode 113 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Oisin is an award-winning marketer, webinar and podcast host, MC, public speaker, virtual event consultant, UX business professor, and journalist. His work has been translated into Chinese and Arabic, and read over half a million times as a senior contributor to Forbes, music editor at PHOENIX Magazine, and via regular contributions to The Guardian, CX Magazine and many others. Oisin has hosted, moderated, and given keynot...

Eve is a globally-recognized thought leader who focuses on the intersection of the Digital Age, food trends, and well-being. She is the author of Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers, and Our Search for Connection and Meaning. Eve researches human behavior and the impact of 21st century technologies and cultural events, and examines how these shifts impact people's wants and needs, all through the lens of food and lifestyle trends. With her unique blend of investigative reporting, analys...

Profitable solutions for the planet, with Dr. Bertrand Piccard. Is my guest on Episode 110 of Inside Ideas. My guest today is a living legend in making historic round-the-world trips that have come to redefine what is possible for humanity. Serial explorer and ambassador for clean technologies, Dr. Bertrand Piccard has done it all and is probably planning to do it all again, in ways that continue to shift paradigms and unveil the new futures that are available to us today. When Bertrand took the...

Dr. Brent Loken is my guest on Episode 110 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Brent is the Global Food Lead Scientist for WWF. In his role, Brent provides thought leadership through forward-looking research, science direction for goal setting, scientific analysis in support of strategy development, and the management of internal and external science talent to support the Global Food Practice team in advancing an ambitious agenda. Previously, Brent worked for EAT, the science-based global p...

Dr. Youssef Nassef is my guest on Episode 109 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Youssef started the work on adaptation to climate change in the United Nations system, and has led the adaptation workstreams under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change since their inception. He possesses 30 years of experience in diplomacy and international environmental policy, and is a seconded diplomat from the Egyptian Foreign Service. While assuming progressively higher levels of leadershi...

Eric Toensmeier is my guest on Episode 108 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Eric is the award-winning author of Paradise Lot and Perennial Vegetables, and the co-author of Edible Forest Gardens as well as a contributor for Drawdown. He is an appointed lecturer at Yale University, and an international trainer, presenting in English and Spanish in the US, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and the Caribbean. Eric has studied permaculture and useful plants of the world for over two decades. He managed an...

Untethered from tech, with Sini Ninkovic Episode 107 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Sini’s family fled Former Yugoslavia 1992 and found refuge in Austria where he quickly learned the most important skill of his life: adapting to new circumstances. Since then, Sini received an MBA from UC Berkeley and helped companies like BMW, Lucid Motors and Apple for ten years to release new tech into the world. In 2019, Sini left Apple as he realized that he needed to adapt once again... this time to a...

Discussing the documentary: 8 Billion Angels, with Terry Spahr Terry is the Executive Director of Earth Overshoot, a nonprofit dedicated to making nature and its resources central to all personal and public decision-making through targeted education and advocacy. Terry, a filmmaker, naturalist, and environmental activist is an expert on sustainability and the intersection of human consumption and population as the primary drivers of environmental destruction. Spahr is the producer of the 2020 do...

Jasper Udink ten Cate is guest on Episode 105 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Jasper is an artist and designer, the founder of 'Creative Chef Studio' with 15 years in the food business and 6 years as an artist. Creative Chef Studio is a multidisciplinary art & design studio where Jasper and his team create experiences that evolve around his artworks, designer objects and stories that are often, but not necessarily linked with food. These ‘experiential recipes’ use ingredients like biotech, ph...

Jarkko Havas is my guest on Episode 104 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Jarkko leads the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Insights & Analysis work. I&A consists of the Data & Metrics Initiative with a focus on measuring company level circular economy performance (Circulytics), and teams working on upcoming focus topics for the Foundation, as well as the case study programme. Prior to joining the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Jarkko was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, based first in Tok...

Ken Meter is my guest on Episode 103 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Ken Meter is one of the most experienced food system analysts in the U.S., integrating market analysis, business development, systems thinking, and social concerns. Meter has worked for fifty years in inner-city and rural community capacity building. His local economic analyses have promoted local food networks in 143 regions in 41 states, two provinces, and four tribal nations. Building Community Food Webs was publish...

John Pickrell is my guest on Episode 102 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. John is an award-winning journalist, the author of Flying Dinosaurs and Weird Dinosaurs, and the former editor of Australian Geographic magazine. Currently the Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief for Nature, he has worked in London, Washington, DC, and Sydney for publications including New Scientist, Science, Science News and Cosmos. His articles also appear in National Geographic, Scientific American, Focus, BBC Future, The Gu...

Dr. Olle Olsson is my guest on Episode 101 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Olle is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), where his work is focused on socio-technical transitions, primarily in the fields of energy and climate change mitigation. His research looks at the interplay between technology, business models and public policy and how different factors across these areas need to align to make something a viable solution. One of his key interests at the...

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is my guest on Episode 100 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Professor Yunus is the father of both social business and microcredit, the founder of Grameen Bank, and of more than 50 other companies in Bangladesh. For his constant innovation and enterprise, the Fortune Magazine named Professor Yunus in March 2012 as “one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time.” In 2006, Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize. He is ...

Mathis Wackernagel is my guest on Episode 99 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. co-created the Ecological Footprint in the early 1990s with his Ph.D. advisor Prof. Rees at the University of British Columbia. Now he is President of Global Footprint Network which he founded in 2003 with Susan Burns. Together with its partners, Global Footprint Network focuses on bringing about a sustainable economy in which all can thrive within the means of our one planet. Since 2003 thi...

Margaret O’Gorman is my guest on Episode 98 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Margaret O’Gorman operates at the intersection of business and nature. As President of the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC), she helps companies find value in natural resources conservation and mainstream biodiversity across operations. She highlights the problems of too much planning and not enough action. She is a proponent of simplifying approaches to conservation and opening the door to efforts that restore br...

Margaret Kim is my guest on Episode 97 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Maggie is the CEO of the Gold Standard Foundation, whose standard ‘Gold Standard for the Global Goals’ allows climate and development interventions to quantify, certify and maximise impacts toward the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. Maggie was previously the Head of Green Climate Fund Liaison in the Office of Director-General for the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), where she also served...

Dana Gunders is my guest on Episode 96 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Dana is a national expert on food systems and was one of the first people to raise the alarm about how much food is wasted across the country and the subsequent impacts on the environment, food security, and the economy. Dana has served as ReFED’s Executive Director since March 2020, and she has a long history with the organization having served as a founding board member when ReFED was established in 2016. For almos...

Karel J. Golta is my guest on Episode 95 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. In the age of artificial intelligence, digitization and machine learning being human is often neglected. For Karel therefore it is crucial that innovations are not only human- centered but rather make mankind - in unity with the entire ecosystem – the decisive factor in development. That this is something only design can do - that is not to be argued with the entrepreneur and convinced business-romantic. Unlike man...

Songwriter charts with global food systems reform Songwriter & Advocate for Sustainable Food Systems Reform Eva Keretic is my guest on Episode 94 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. If there’s one thing Eva Keretic has mastered in the half-century of her life, it’s to embrace an experience and create a story. Whether it be in song, or speech, or trying to save the planet. There she was at her first meeting with politicians and managing directors, hoping to finance an innovative vertical farm ...

Helena Norberg-Hodge is my guest on this Special Episode World Localization Day of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Helena is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.” She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future (2019). She ...