We reached out to Anyka in response to Betti Ono's fundraiser to power arts, culture, and community resilience. Contribute at https://bettiono.com/donate/.

Betti Ono is an experimentally minded space for art + culture + community. They are 100% Black women led and operated, dedicated to amplifying the work and voices of under-represented artists. Their vision and creative practice embody the bold, curious and unapologetic spirit of the gallery's name-sakes Betti Mabry Davis and Yoko Ono. At Betti Ono, making art is a function of activism, community transformation, and cultural resilience.

Bio:

Born and raised in Oakland, California Anyka Barber is a mother, an artist/activist, curator and entrepreneur. In 2010 Anyka founded Betti Ono, a creative social enterprise and center for arts, culture, and community committed to the cultural, social, political and economic emancipation and development of low-income, immigrant, and LGBTQ communities of color. In her role as director and curator of Betti Ono, she has curated and produced more than 60 exhibitions and public programs, as well as designed and integrated art, enterprise and social impact strategy to leverage creative capital, cultural products, and networks for good. She was most recently Director of Engagement and the Center for Audience and Civic Engagement at the Oakland Museum leading the museum’s signature education and public programs teams. She was Program Officer and Fellow at The San Francisco Foundation working with the Anchoring Communities/Place team to activate more than $10M in investments to preserve the racial and cultural identity of the Bay Area, prevent the displacement of low-income and communities of color and bring greater racial and economic equity to the region.

Joshua is a graduate student in Philosophy and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and in a previous life, an Oxford economist, Morgan Stanley analyst and Scottish amateur boxer. After a series of transformational personal events, he turned his focus away from finance and has since dedicated his life to understanding the ideas and techniques that lead to human flourishing.

For more info, visit https://bloomnetwork.org/podcast/

This quote sums up the vibe of the interview:

"I'm seeing regenerative culture as part of grandmother culture.... seeing an interconnected thread and seeing how the work we're doing is intergenerational. That we're processing trauma that has been passed down to us, and we're also building a world for future generations. Recognizing the larger mycelial tapestry that we occupy together."

I hope you enjoy this beautiful mesh of an interview.

If you would like to support Robin and the civic mushroom festival she organizes, Mushroom City Art Festival, please make a donation at http://mushroomcityartfestival.org/ - the donation link is in the footer at the bottom right.

Here are links to projects Robin refers to: *CoRenewal *Mushroom City Art Festival *New Moon Mycology Summit(check out the 2018 class descriptions!!)
*Fantastic Fungi Film

Do any of you know of a resource online for learning about mycroremediation and oil spills? We'd love to include information on this in the Bloom wiki that will go live in January. Here is one article that gives more details if you would like to nerd out about it.

Mush love, Magenta Ceiba Bloom Podcast host and editor http://bloomnetwork.org

Music credits: Beyond the Bridge, Adam Elim Bloom, MaMuse

In this episode we discuss:

++ tips for getting started with contributing to regenerative culture where you live ++ thinking between different scales, from a specific project to the interconnection of regional, national and global scales ++ the role of policy and political leadership in incentivizing local production ++ building global networks of global collaboration and global solidarity ++ the likely realities of the next 100 years of Climate Change ++ the 4th industrial revolution towards a circular biomaterials economy at the scale of different bioregions

Bio: Daniel Christian Wahl was born in Munich in 1971 and grew up in Germany. By the time he was 28 he had travelled in 35 different countries on six continents. His early career was as a marine biologist and scuba diving instructor, before he decided to focus on sustainability and sustainable communities in 1998. Originally trained as a biologist and zoologist at the University of Edinburgh and the University of California, Santa Cruz, Daniel also holds an MSc in Holistic Science (Schumacher College, 2002) and a PhD in Natural Design (University of Dundee, 2006).

Daniel has taught capacity building workshops on a wide range of sustainability issues to local authorities and businesses through the UN-affiliated training centre CIFAL Scotland. Among his consultancy clients have been the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), the British Government’s UK Foresight (with Decision Integrity Ltd.), LEAD International, CLEAR Village, and companies like Camper, Ecover (with Forum for the Future), Lush and the tourism innovation cluster Balears, as well as various universities and charities.

In 2016 he published his first book, Designing Regenerative Cultures. Daniel lives on Majorca, and works locally and internationally as a consultant, educator and activist.

Keep up to date with Daniel's work on Medium - https://medium.com/@designforsustainability

His book can be ordered at https://www.triarchypress.net/drc.html

Music Credits: Intro: Beyond the Bridge by Adam Elim Outro: Bloom by MaMuse

Bloom Podcast cover illustration by Jessica Perlstein

About the Bloom Podcast:

Our intention for the Bloom Podcast is for it to become a networking and community building vessel. Tune in to what guests share, and if you're inspired to to get involved with related activities, seek them out where you live. Getting involved in regenerative actions is a way to keep your spirits up and to secure health for your community as the extractive systems start to wind themselves down. I'm here if you have questions, and the Bloom team is in the process of setting up communication systems so the global network can more easily share peer support and networking.

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If there’s a topic you want us to cover or someone you’d like to hear on the show, please get in touch. If you’d like to support this podcast, you can donate at http://bloomnetwork.org/members

-Magenta Ceiba Host, Bloom Podcast Executive Director, Bloom Network

This episode is with Robin Gunkel, Bloom Baltimore organizer, poet, and academic advisor. We talk about her experience this past summer with a training and retreat organized by CoRenewal, called the New Moon Mycology Summit. Robin also shares about this year’s Mushroom City Art Festival and a bioremediation project that she and fellow organizers are doing in Johnston Square in Baltimore.

This quote sums up the vibe of the interview: _ “I’m seeing regenerative culture as part of grandmother culture… Seeing an interconnected thread and seeing how the work we’re doing is intergenerational. That we’re processing trauma that has been passed down to us, and we’re also building a world for future generations. Recognizing the larger mycelial tapestry that we occupy together_.”

I hope you enjoy this beautiful mesh of an interview.

If you would like to support Robin and the civic mushroom festival she organizes, Mushroom City Art Festival, please make a donation at http://mushroomcityartfestival.org/ – (the donation link is in the footer at the bottom right). Here are links to projects Robin refers to:

CoRenewal Mushroom City Art Festival New Moon Mycology Summit, August 29 – Sept 2 2019. (check out the 2018 class descriptions!!) Fantastic Fungi Film

?Question? Do any of you know of a resource online for learning about mycroremediation and oil spills? We’d love to include information on this in the Bloom Wiki that will go live in January. Here is one article that gives more details if you would like to nerd out about it.

Mush love, Magenta Ceiba Bloom Podcast host and editor

Music credits: Beyond the Bridge, Adam Elim Bloom, MaMuse

Jose Acosta, lead producer with Bloom Los Mochis, Mexico describes their civic ecoparks initiative, in collaboration with local government, nonprofits and neighborhood residents.

In this conversation you’ll find: ++ Tips on organizing successful collaborations ++ An amazing example of what’s happening in local Bloom chapters ++ Insights on group governance ++ And much more!

This is the raw, unedited interview.

You can keep up with Bloom Los Mochis’ projects on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/proyectofeac/

Our guest for this episode is John Light, a Bitcoin consultant who describes an entry level overview of Bitcoin, the blockchain, and the various applications and potentials of peer-to-peer technologies.

Interview about hydrology with Evolver* Sporeganizers Andrew Stocker, a geologist from Santa Fe New Mexico, and Jacob Aman, a researcher working on toxic cleanup projects near Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley and the surrounding region. We cover:

• How the Earth’s water cycles work
• What dangers we face with the current ways people and governments manage waterways
• How water management is complicated because it crosses so many legal jurisdictions
• And we even touch on… space weather!

*Bloom was initially called Evolver Network

Interview about hydrology with Evolver* Sporeganizers Andrew Stocker, a geologist from Santa Fe New Mexico, and Jacob Aman, a researcher working on toxic cleanup projects near Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley and the surrounding region.

We cover:

• How the Earth’s water cycles work
• What dangers we face with the current ways people and governments manage waterways
• How water management is complicated because it crosses so many legal jurisdictions
• And we even touch on… space weather!

*Bloom was initially called Evolver Network

This episode is an insightful panel discussion about psychedelics, recorded at Imagine Festival on Orcas Island in September 2015. Moderator and panelists: Rick Ingrasi, Donna Dryer, Richard Yensen, and Magenta Ceiba. Some of the topics we touch on include the legal history of psychedelics, possibilities for intergenerational collaboration, and the different types of settings people can create for their trips. We also describe several entrypoints for receiving training in therapy for altered states. This panel is rich with wisdom and experience, and we hope you enjoy it!

To stay tuned to other podcasts, media and in person events about psychedelic community integration and activism, you can sign up at  http://bloomnetwork.org for our quarterly newsletter.

Interview with filmmaker Janine Sagert, the director of Veterans for Entheogenic Therapy, Ryan LeCompte of Veterans for Entheogenic Therapy, and Saj Razvi, director of Trauma Dynamics.

Note, this podcast was recorded back when Bloom was called Evolver Network.

From Shock to Awe is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the journeys of military veterans as they seek relief from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with the help of ayahuasca, MDMA (“Ecstasy”), and cannabis. It takes an intimate look at how these substances can be used to heal our wounded warriors—and, by extension, their loved ones.

Our intention with this film is to raise awareness of the healing properties of, and help change the laws regulating, ayahuasca, MDMA, and cannabis so that these substances can be legally available for responsible use in therapeutic, and spiritual, settings—especially for veterans with PTSD. Because we believe that all vets have a right to choose their own path to healing.