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<\/a>The 2009 video by John Marshall Roberts<\/a> is entitled, Inspiring Sustainability in Skeptics,<\/i> and he does address skepticism and the challenge of communicators to be more effective, but he begins by advising us to tap into the present with a sense of awe in order to create radical change and commit \u201cto redesigning our society so it can last over time.\u201d Six minutes in length, these are words that stick.<\/p>\nI could go on and cite more of the EarthSayers who inspire and motivate me in my work as a sustainability advocate, such as Roz Savage <\/a>on Taking Responsibility<\/em>; Aveda President, Dominique Conseil<\/a> on Changing Our Habits<\/em>; Kind and Generous<\/em> by singer Natalie Merchant<\/a>; Recognizing the Great Mystery<\/em> by Mayan Elder Flordemayo<\/a>; and Wendell Berry <\/a>reading his poem on Hope, <\/em>but you need to take time to find the voices that speak to your needs when you visit EarthSayers.tv.<\/p>\n EarthSayers.tv content is curated for relevancy and quality so as to save you time searching for the hundreds of\u00a0sustainability leaders who are citizens from all walks of life speaking on behalf of Mother Earth and her peoples. They will inspire and motivate you I promise.<\/p>\n Warmly and with best wishes for 2015, Earthsayers.tv curator, Ruth Ann Barrett, calls out three sustainability leaders that continue to inspire and motivate her while weathering the storms of war, global warming, economic instability, injustice, and disasters of all kinds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,435,5],"tags":[495,624,648,242,645,362,649,643,647,646,644],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-leadership-sustainability","category-sustainability","tag-annie-leonard","tag-circular-economy","tag-ellen-macaruthur","tag-global-warming","tag-injustice","tag-john-marshall-roberts","tag-rethink-the-future","tag-skepticism","tag-story-of-solutions","tag-story-of-stuff","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"annie\"](\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/annie-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a>In October I had the opportunity to interview Annie Leonard<\/strong> best known for her Story of Stuff Project. This series of videos woke up many of us to not only mindless consumption, but to the story of bottled water, cap and trade, cosmetics and, in 2013, The Story of Solutions<\/a>. It explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, a huge task, but possible if we focus on game changing solutions rather than just a \u201cbetter way to play the old game of more.\u201d In my eyes Annie Leonard is a sustainability champion so we created an EarthSayers.tv special collection. You can see her work and interviews in one place on EarthSayers.tv and return to them for inspiration and motivation. Here is my interview of Annie entitled, On Being Biased<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Screen](\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-2.08.35-PM-150x150.png\")
<\/a>And if we are to move our economy there is one game changing concept called the circular economy which is being primarily defined and implemented by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. I met Ellen MacArthur<\/strong> just after she completed her single handed sail around the world and before she found her calling to \u201crethink the future\u201d and become a game changer. In this 2011 interview by Jon Snow<\/a> I find find her energy and self assuredness catching. Visit the Circular Economy<\/a> special collection to view videos that define and explain the Circular Economy\u00a0along with individuals in business adopting the framework.<\/p>\n
\nRuth Ann Barrett, Sustainability Advocate, December 30, 2014 from Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"