Tackling the Bali Plastic waste crises with Sungai Watch For 2 and a half years, sungai watch have been busy cleaning rivers in Indonesia. They have collected over 1,000,000 kilograms of plastic and the cleanup operation is growing quickly! Sungai Watch are intercepting this plastic through our 180 trash barriers that they have installed in rivers, to stop plastic from going into the ocean. They’re on a mission to bring Sungai Watch throughout Indonesia's most polluted regions and bring their work internationally.

Space Talks #020 : Creating a Worldwide Plastic Recycling Movement with Precious Plastic

It's estimated that there are 75 trillion pieces of microplastics in the ocean, an ongoing global crisis that keeps on growing every year, in the conversation with Mattia Banini from Precious Plastic, Space Available discuss how to radically change the perception of waste and how plastic is a useful precious materials and shouldn't end up in the ocean because it's a waste of resources that can only result in problems for the environment and the ecosystems. @Precious_Plastic

Space Talks #018 : Utopian Counter Culture, Eco Architecture & Conscious Living with Tony Gwilliam.

Tony Gwilliam is an architect and author of Far From Boring – a book about his life and work in the fields of sustainable living and ecologically-friendly architecture. Tony worked closely with Buckminster Fuller during the 60s and 70s and became deeply involved in the utopian counter culture scene of the time – building domes, inflatable structures and exploring solutions for a higher-consciousness existence. He then went on to establish Bloo Lagoon – his very own tropical Utopia on the coast of east Bali, Indonesia.

We visited Tony at Bloo Lagoon to dive a little deeper into his philosophies around conscious living, sustainable architecture and making space for nature.

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Space Talks #017 : Dr. Lawrence Blair on Nature’s Systems, Ring of Fire and his Great Explorations

Dr. Lawrence Blair is an explorer, author and film-maker who has spent much of the last 40 years based in Indonesia. He has appeared widely on international tv and radio, discussing his field of psycho anthropology, strange creatures and tribal mysticism.

Educated in Britain, France and Mexico, Lawrence earned his doctorate at Lancaster University’s Department of Comparative Religion, England. His doctoral thesis, which explored and defined the field of psycho anthropology, was subsequently published as a widely successful book Rhythms of Vision – the Changing Patterns of Belief.

Lawrence is the creator (with his late brother, Lorne) of the Emmy award-winning TV series Ring of Fire (PBS in the US, and BBC in the UK) which helped awaken the world to Indonesia’s existence in the 1980’s and 90’s. He is also author of the companion book Ring of Fire, chronicling his and his brother’s ten years of adventure filming in Indonesia – a book which remained for ten weeks on the top-ten, non-fiction best-seller list in the UK.

Lawrence is also the writer and presenter of Sky TV UK’s TV series Myths, Magic and Monsters, which explores the stranger sides of both nature and the human mind. In addition to having been Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California, Lawrence has written, produced and presented numerous adventure documentaries for international TV, including Omnimax/Eyemax feature documentaries such as Baraka, and Ring of Fire – Volcanoes of the Pacific Rim. More recently he produced and presented the film Bali – Island of the Dogs. Lawrence is much in demand as a public speaker for both corporations and expeditionary vessels.

Space Talks #017 : Dr. Lawrence Blair on Nature’s Systems, Ring of Fire and his Great Explorations

Dr. Lawrence Blair is an explorer, author and film-maker who has spent much of the last 40 years based in Indonesia. He has appeared widely on international tv and radio, discussing his field of psycho anthropology, strange creatures and tribal mysticism.

Educated in Britain, France and Mexico, Lawrence earned his doctorate at Lancaster University’s Department of Comparative Religion, England. His doctoral thesis, which explored and defined the field of psycho anthropology, was subsequently published as a widely successful book Rhythms of Vision – the Changing Patterns of Belief.

Lawrence is the creator (with his late brother, Lorne) of the Emmy award-winning TV series Ring of Fire (PBS in the US, and BBC in the UK) which helped awaken the world to Indonesia’s existence in the 1980’s and 90’s. He is also author of the companion book Ring of Fire, chronicling his and his brother’s ten years of adventure filming in Indonesia – a book which remained for ten weeks on the top-ten, non-fiction best-seller list in the UK.

Lawrence is also the writer and presenter of Sky TV UK’s TV series Myths, Magic and Monsters, which explores the stranger sides of both nature and the human mind. In addition to having been Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California, Lawrence has written, produced and presented numerous adventure documentaries for international TV, including Omnimax/Eyemax feature documentaries such as Baraka, and Ring of Fire – Volcanoes of the Pacific Rim. More recently he produced and presented the film Bali – Island of the Dogs. Lawrence is much in demand as a public speaker for both corporations and expeditionary vessels.

Space Talks #016 : The Radical World of Bamboo Architecture and Sustainable Design with Orin Hardy

Orin Hardy is a husband, educator, and social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of The Kul Kul Farm and Bamboo U, two globally recognised “hands-on” education enterprises based in Bali. Orin dedicates his time to creating spaces and opening up new possibilities for people to learn how to incorporate sustainability into their lives. Combining his international expertise with local knowledge, Orin facilitates and teaches courses related to hands-on living, permaculture design, gardening, and bamboo construction.

Orin was raised in a Balinese village, surrounded by rivers and jungle, he then moved to North America where he witnessed the disconnect between humans and nature in the modern world. He now spends his time devoted to reconnecting people to nature. Orin has just returned from India where he was a guest speaker at INK2019, a conference that provides a collaborative platform for innovation, focused on cultivating leaders from diverse disciplines. On this week’s episode, Orin is with me to share his journey, experiences, challenges, and hopes for the future.

Space Talks #015 : Sustainable Sneakers and Radical Recycling with Helen Kirkum

Helen Kirkum is a London-based artist and designer. Kirkum’s artisanship has garnered international acclaim, it is her ability to tell stories through her designs that sets her work apart. Each pair of sneakers she makes is unique, weaving together the memories of the components that make it, allowing the owner to own something inherently personal and one-of-a-kind. She is widely considered a pioneer of the hacked and deconstructed aesthetic within the sneaker industry, and in the vanguard of the sustainable footwear movement. Kirkum graduated from London’s Royal College of Art in 2016, through her practice, Kirkum challenges us to rethink the meaning of consumption and the way we interact with the products we own.

Space Talks #015 : Sustainable Sneakers and Radical Recycling with Helen Kirkum

Helen Kirkum is a London-based artist and designer. Kirkum’s artisanship has garnered international acclaim, it is her ability to tell stories through her designs that sets her work apart. Each pair of sneakers she makes is unique, weaving together the memories of the components that make it, allowing the owner to own something inherently personal and one-of-a-kind. She is widely considered a pioneer of the hacked and deconstructed aesthetic within the sneaker industry, and in the vanguard of the sustainable footwear movement. Kirkum graduated from London’s Royal College of Art in 2016, through her practice, Kirkum challenges us to rethink the meaning of consumption and the way we interact with the products we own.