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Inspire and Empower Your Inner Einstein when Mobilized News presented TRANSFORMED: HOW TO CREATE THE FUTURE WHEN THE WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN

We’re bringing together a peerless group of social entrepreneurs, artists and scientists, media makers and earth shakers, social entrepreneurs and cutting edge shape-shifters to encourage and inspire communities to take back control of public services.  From reimagining education as a life-long journey to smarter cities, healthier food and energy systems, to interconnected, interdependent and innovative media networks, we are presenting not just the ideas—but what you can do where you are now when you see our world as it is and what it can become.

Some of the people you will experience include:

James Arbib, Rethink X

Corey Gray, Smart Cities Council

A qualified scientist, engineer and artist, Corey has a diverse 30+ year career in industries ranging from professional sports, through technology, advanced manufacturing, entertainment, fine arts, charity and philanthropy.

Currently Corey holds several professional positions including: Global President of Washington DC headquartered Smart Cities Council, the world’s peak industry group Smart Cities, Buildings and Technologies ; Co-founder and chair of multi-international award-winning feature film production company, Switch Productions; Global board member of New York based EB Research Partnership, a charity dedicated to finding a cure for the rare genetic disorder. Corey is also a recent director and treasurer of Silcon Valley based technology interoperability group, LonMark, and professional Australian Football franchise, Sturt Football Club.

Sarah Savory, In her own words.

I am the single mother of Luke (14) and Mika (11) and I am the youngest daughter of Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory. I was born, brought up and live in Zimbabwe…like my father, I grew up passionate about wildlife and I have dedicated my life to making a difference…as a result, the discoveries you will make in this book were born of a deep passion and love of the wildlife and the people of Africa. But this is for all wildlife and all people.

My goal is to share these critical new insights to inspire and empower people and show how we can all work together towards a better world. 

The discoveries Allan made were born of a deep passion and love of the wildlife and the people of Africa. But this is for all wildlife and all people. Everywhere.  

I teach these discoveries and wrote the workbook because I want to share knowledge and understanding of these incredibly exciting new management and ecological insights – these show how each of us can make decisions in a way that will have a consistently positive impact on the world around us.  

The first thing we have to understand is when and why our decisions began negatively impacting the health of our planet and how we can make a simple adjustment to ensure our decisions always reflect the incredible connections that make up our amazing world.

Chris Mancini, Esq.  Former U.S. DOJ Prosecutor, Southern District, Florida.

Chris is a criminal defense attorney with 45 years of extensive federal and state trial and grand jury practice in Miami, Palm Beach, Orlando and other courts across the nation and internationally. Born and raised in Rochester, New York and later to earn his juris doctor degree at Marquette U. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chris Mancini arrived in Miami, Florida on assignment to the U.S. Attorney’s Office during the infamous period of the “Mariel Boat Lift” during which tens of thousands of Cubans fled their country to seek a new life in the U.S. As a U.S. prosecutor, Chris discovered that some of the most violent and dangerous men and women were allowed to immigrate during the boatlift. By 1986, he had been given many awards for his service and held the post of Deputy Chief of the Major Crimes Division, U.S. Attorney for the Miami office for the U.S. Department of Justice.

In the late 1990s, Chris began gathering original artefacts and materials about the history of crime in Miami and especially corruption within the Miami Police Department. He interviewed past and present police officers and those most deeply involved in the investigation. Using what he had gathered, Chris conducted a series of lectures every three to four months for members of the Miami-Dade Historical Society and that has led to his deep understanding of the organization and effects of the extensive history of crime in South Florida.

Chris Mancini is the author of two books, Pirates in Blue: The True Story of the Miami River Cops and Deliberate Indifference and has represented many famous clients.

Fanni Melles, Architect, Host of “What’s the Future For  Cities” podcast

Fanni Melles, PhD, is a future of cities researcher, an architect by profession and a project manager by experience. Once involved with Hungary’s largest urban project in 150 years (911,412.13 m², across 10 design teams), she now holds a 2023 PhD from Swinburne University, diving deep into smart cities, future of cities, and innovation. Host of the “What is The Future for Cities?” podcast with more than 300 episodes, she thrives on turning chaos into cutting-edge urban systems. Passionate and dynamic, Fanni crafts bespoke city futures, rallying stakeholders to transform urban landscapes—because cities, she says, are the people who live in them.

Stuart Cowan, Buckminster Fuller Institute

Dr. Stuart Cowan is the Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, which is dedicated to the realization of Fuller’s vision of a world that works for 100% of humanity in the shortest time possible through spontaneous cooperation. In this role, he launched the BFI Design Lab to develop critical infrastructure for resilience and regeneration at local to bioregional to planetary scales. He brings 25 years of experience in regenerative design, finance, and systems and is a planetary strategist, ecological designer, systems scientist, and regenerative economist. He is the Co-Founder of Autopoiesis LLC, which works to regenerate communities, ecosystems, and organizations.

He was the founding convener of the Regenerative Communities Network from 2018-20, supporting 15 bioregions on their journeys of regeneration. He brings a diverse range of experiences including Chief Scientist at the Smart Cities Council, Transaction Manager for the sustainable investment fund Portland Family of Funds, and Conservation Economy Research Director at the non-profit Ecotrust. He is the co-author with Sim Van der Ryn of Ecological Design, and received his doctorate in Applied Mathematics from U.C. Berkeley with a focus on Complex Systems and Ecological Economics. He has taught and facilitated internationally for academic institutions, cities, companies, indigenous groups, government agencies, and NGOs. He serves on the Board of Regenerosity, University for International Cooperation, and the Global Solutions Alliance.

Tom Bosschaert, Director, Except.eco

Tom is the founder and director of Except, and the visionary force behind its development. He is also the chairman of the Environment Committee of the World Institute for Change Management and Innovation (WICMI) in Switzerland.

Thomas Linzey, Center for Democratic Environmental Rights

Thomas Linzey serves as Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights. He is widely recognized as the founder of the contemporary community rights movement which has resulted in the adoption of hundreds of municipal laws across the United States. Further, he drafted the very first rights of nature law in the world (Tamaqua Borough, Pennsylvania, 2006), and consulted on the very first rights of nature constitutional provisions (Ecuador Constitution, 2008).

Linzey is a graduate of Widener Law School and a three-time recipient of the law school’s public interest law award. He has been a finalist for the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World Award, and is a recipient of the Pennsylvania Farmers Union’s Golden Triangle Legislative Award. He is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania, and is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Third, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. District Court for the Western and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania. He co-founded the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. He also sits on the Board of Advisors of the New Earth Foundation.

Linzey is the author of Be The Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community (Gibbs-Smith 2009), the author of On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability (PM Press 2016), and the co-author of We the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States (PM Press 2016). He was a co-host of Democracy Matters, a syndicated public affairs radio show broadcast from KYRS in Spokane, Washington. He was featured in Leonardo DiCaprio and Tree Media’s film The 11th Hour and We the People 2.0 (Official Selection of the Seattle International Film Festival).

Linzey’s work has been featured widely, including in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, and the Nation magazine. In 2007, he was named one of Forbes Magazine’s “Top Ten Revolutionaries,” and he was named one of the top 400 environmentalists of the last 200 years in the two-volume encyclopedia, American Environmental Leaders (3rd Ed. Grey House Publishing 2018). He is currently working on a new book, “Modern American Democracy (and other fairy tales)” (forthcoming).

Howard Bloom, The Howard Bloom Institute

How can a new and improved perspective on the Cosmos increase our productivity?  What can we learn from the scientist who was a key architect of the promotional campaigns of Prince, The Jacksons, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Joan Jet and the Blackhearts, John Mellencamp and Peter Gabriel?  What can we learn about the importance of putting “soul in the machine?”

During the late 1970’s and 1980’s, the Howard Bloom Organization was the world’s leading public relations firm for performing artists.  Discover how Bloom used his science to tune the souls of his stars to the souls of the culture, nurturing the resonance that made artists iconic.

 

 

 

Matthew Green, Resonant World, DeSmog.com

Matthew is a husband, father, journalist and student of trauma healing. He began his journey as a reporter in conflict zones for Reuters and the Financial Times, and is the author of two books: on warlord Joseph Kony, and on the trauma journeys of British soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Three years ago, he quit his role at Reuters out of frustration over the company’s response to the climate crisis and joined DeSmog, a nonprofit dedicated to exposing the role of the fossil fuel industry in blocking climate action.

Building on years of exploring spiritual and healing modalities, Matthew has spent the past four years studying the psychological and mystical principles of integrating individual, ancestral and collective trauma with the international facilitator Thomas Hübl. Matthew is creator of the Resonant World newsletter and podcast serving the global trauma healing movement, and is co-founder of the Resonant Man initiative, a visionary men’s group.

AJ Perkins, Hawaii Pacific Alliance for Worldwide Advancement (HI PAWA)

 

Michael Masucci, EZTV Media and EZTV Museum, DNA Festival, Santa Monica

 

Alan Enzo, Permaculture Education

Alan Enzo (known as “Enzo”) is an ecologist, economist, management consultant, and Permaculture Design teacher and consultant. He graduated from Ohio State University and holds a Ph.D. in Ecological Economics and an M.B.A. in Sustainable Business.

Enzo began his career as an Emergency Management Officer, leading and directing first responders on oil spills, train wrecks, chemical disasters, natural disasters, and environmental remediation projects around the US. He was intimately involved in responding to Hurricane Katrina and many other state and federal emergencies.

Enzo received his Permaculture Design Certificate from the Mollison Permaculture Research Institute (the original Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) in Australia founded by Bill Mollison). He has received advanced training in natural building, agroforestry, food forest design, ecological economics, and ecovillage/intentional community design. He is passionate about alternative local economic systems, appropriate technology, agroforestry, and helping students and clients start their businesses.

Enzo has over 30 years of experience in Permaculture Design, Ecological Restoration, Local Economic Design, and related disciplines.

Steven Jay, Co-Founder, Mobilized News

Steven is a committed “born-again scientist” and producer of numerous music, movies, television and social change events.