Pioneers in environmental awareness share their knowledge and motivations for protecting our home – Mother Earth. Deepak Chopra discusses topics of ocean conservation, climate change, global peace and environmental protection with activists in this series of conversations titled, One World Earth.
World-renowned oceanographer, aquanaut, filmmaker and nonprofit founder, Fabien Cousteau is featured in this episode. Fabien Cousteau can be found at TEDGlobal talks, on Skype talks with students and faculty at top universities as he researches from the ocean floor, or in environmentally focused conferences around the world. In this video we are able to experience a rare moment where he sits one-on-one in conversation with Deepak Chopra sharing insights on his passion for ocean conservancy and exploration. Read more.
WatchAt just 19, Emily Abrams believes climate change is her generation’s defining issue and published Don’t Cook the Planet, a cookbook she originally developed while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with her dad. Deepak and Emily discuss how climate change is directly linked to and triggers war, terrorism and the refugee crisis, new diseases and epidemics to social and economic injustice. Your own physical well-being depends on what you put in your body and small simple changes can start at the dinner table. Emily brought together 70 leaders in the fight against climate change and had them share recipes in this book, including activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., actors Robert Redford and Chevy Chase, Chef Stephanie Izard, cricketer Grant Elliott. In this show she helps you understand how you can make a contribution to a better and a healthier planet.
WatchCeline Cousteau is an activist, advocate, explorer, and filmmaker who follows in the footsteps of her grandfather, famed explorer Jacques Cousteau, in making the public at large more aware of the world we live in. She first experienced diving just before the age of nine, when her grandfather gave her a quick but integral lesson in the waters off the coast of Monaco. When Deepak asks about parallels between diving and meditation, Cousteau remarks on how the attention she pays to every breath underwater generates her most meditative state. In this video, Cousteau and Deepak discuss the state of the ocean today, and the ways in which she utilizes her production company, CauseCentric Productions, to share the stories of people working to make a difference around the world. Read more.
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