Balancing Profit and Purpose: Scott Koloms on Mindful Business Leadership
Scott Koloms believes that businesses can both make money and do good. He is the President and CEO of Louisville, KY-based Facilities Management Services, the first janitorial service company in the world to be certified as a B-corporation, committed to a “triple bottom line” of financial profit along with social and environmental benefits. He is also the Founder of Canopy, a non-profit working to help other Kentucky businesses evolve toward greater sustainability. In this episode, Scott reflects on his commitment to mindful leadership and his drive to help other for-profit businesses strike a balance between profit and purpose.
RESOURCES:
Facilities Management Services website: https://facilitiesmgmt.com/
Canopy KY – Making Kentucky First in Good Business: https://canopyky.org/
B-corporations: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/
Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Donate to support the Earth & Spirit Podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
A Journey of Healing: Mary Underwood on Wholeness for People and Planet
In addition to a career in nursing and a graduate degree in philosophy, cosmology, and consciousness, Mary Underwood has through-hiked the 2600-mile Pacific Crest Trail and other long-distance wilderness treks. Through all of this, the search for healing – personal and planetary – has been her compass. In this broad, rich conversation about health, spirituality, and deep connection to nature, Mary and I reflect on curiosity and vulnerability as key spiritual virtues, the art of solitude and deep listening, and how there is profound, hopeful medicine in the embrace of woundedness.
RESOURCES:
More info on “Awakening to the Land,” Mary’s upcoming April 23, 2022 half-day nature retreat at the Earth & Spirit Center: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/class/awakening-to-the-land/
Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Donate to support the nonprofit Earth & Spirit Center podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/
California Institute for Integral Studies: https://www.ciis.edu/academics/graduate-programs/philosophy-cosmology-and-consciousness
Cameron Howard – Bonus Material
When we recorded the “A Made-By-Hand Life: Cameron Howard and a Deep Love of the Local” episode with farmer-philosopher-musician Cameron Howard, there was more to the interview than would fit in the podcast episode. Here is some bonus material.
A Made-By-Hand Life: Cameron Howard and a Deep Love of the Local
Farmer-philosopher-musician Cameron Howard farms with horses on the 71-acre farm that he and his family call home in southern Indiana. In this episode, recorded on the Howard farm amidst the domestic background noises of their hand-built home, we reflect on how the spiritual and material intertwine in the joys and challenges of a made-by-hand life, crafted with deep intentionality and thoughtfulness.
NOTES AND RESOURCES:
All of the music on this podcast was written and performed by Cameron Howard. Click here for the most recent album from Cameron and the Howard Family: https://www.amazon.com/Farm-Fresh-Howards/dp/B002PETCZS
Earth & Spirit Center website: www.earthandspiritcenter.org
There was more to this interview than would fit in the podcast episode. For bonus material, please click here: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/cameron-howard-bonus-material/
The Secular Sacred: Kathleen Dean Moore on Moral Integrity and a Ferocious Love of the World
Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore is a philosopher, nature writer, and environmental activist who makes her home in Oregon and Alaska. In this conversation, Kathleen reflects on her fierce, reverent love of this worthy and wounded world and its secular sacredness, and how we’re called beyond hope and despair to act with moral integrity for its healing.
RESOURCES:
Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/
Kathleen’s website and blog: https://www.riverwalking.com/
Kathleen’s most recent book: Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating Life in a Time of Extinction. https://www.riverwalking.com/earths-wild-music.html
Children at Play: Claude Stephens on Nurturing Free Play in Nature
Claude Stephens is the Facilitator of Outreach and Regenerative Design for Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. He’s also the director of Bernheim’s Children at Play Network, an initiative that helps connect children to nature through free play. This conversation explores the importance of free play in nature as an engine of inspiration and imagination, empowerment, equity, and efforts to sustain healthy communities and landscapes.
RESOURCES:
Earth & Spirit Center: https://earthandspiritcenter.org/
Bernheim Research Forest and Arboretum: https://bernheim.org/
Children At Play Network: https://childrenatplaynetwork.com/
We Live in a Shared World: Scott Russell Sanders on Awe, Imagination, Compassion, Craft, and Community
Scott Russell Sanders is a Cambridge-educated novelist, essayist, conservationist, and a distinguished professor of English, emeritus, at Indiana University. He has written and taught for decades about nature and place, family and community, and the concerns of social justice and ecology, woven together with a spirituality that is rooted in awe and wonder. This conversation explores the joys and disciplines of spiritual imagination, writing, and a well-lived life, in communion with others and within our one shared world.
RESOURCES:
Earth & Spirit Center website: www.earthandspiritcenter.org
Scott’s website: https://scottrussellsanders.com/
Some of Scott’s books:
Small Marvels (forthcoming): https://iupress.org/9780253061997/small-marvels/
The Way of Imagination: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/way_of_imagination.html
The Engineer of Beasts: A Novel: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/engineer_of_beasts.html
A Conservationist Manifesto: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/conservationist_manifesto.html
A Private History of Awe: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/private_history_of_awe.html
Hunting for Hope: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/hunting_for_hope.html
Writing from the Center: https://scottrussellsanders.com/book_pages/writing_from_the_center.html
Loving the Whole World: David Haberman on Finding the Divine in the Landscape of India – And Beyond
Dr. David Haberman is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Much of his work focuses on Hindu temple worship traditions of northern India, where he has spent a great deal of time studying how worshippers encounter the sacred in stones, trees, rivers, and all of the more-than-human world. In this conversation I reconnect with my undergraduate mentor from decades ago to discuss the intersection of religion and ecology as it unfolds in the richly diverse religious landscape of India – and beyond.
Related Resources:
More about David Haberman: https://religiousstudies.indiana.edu/about/faculty/haberman-david.html
Books by David:
River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India (University of California Press, 2006)
People Trees: Worship of Trees in Northern India (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Loving Stones: Worship of Mount Govardhan: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021)
Book mentioned on the podcast:
War against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin, by Carlos Eire (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://earthandspiritcenter.org/