Bryan Welch
Bryan Welch is the Chief Executive Officer of Mindful Society Media, publisher of Mindful Magazine, and CEO at the Foundation for a Mindful Society. He is a veteran media executive, writer, rancher and entrepreneur with unique expertise in businesses that improve the world. He’s the former CEO of Ogden Publications (Mother Earth News, Utne Reader), B The Change Media (B Magazine), and Foster Care Technologies.
Bryan has served on the boards of the Magazine Publishers Association, the Social Venture Network, Bioneers and several other nonprofits. He also has served on corporate boards of directors and advisory boards of companies involved in natural foods, ecommerce and the media. He was Niche Media’s 2014 “Niche Rock Star of the Year” is a member of Mequoda Group’s Digital Media Hall of Fame and was honored with the B Corporations’ 2014 Hal Taussig lifetime-achievement award for “using business as a force for good.”
He holds a master’s degree from Harvard University where he studied media policy and media management at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School.
Bryan’s award-winning book, Beautiful & Abundant: Building the World We Want, appeared in 2011.
He and his wife, Carolyn, raise organic, grass-fed cattle, sheep and goats on their farm near Lawrence, Kansas.
3 words to describe Nature?
Infinite. Spacious. Energetic
3 things Nature taught you?
That I am very small
That I am part of something infinitely large
That there are beauty and abundance everywhere, and beauty is important.
3 most treasured Nature spots?
Any place where I am sufficiently aware. X3!
When you look at the ocean, it makes you feel…?
Filled with a vast energy
When you see a forest, it makes you feel…?
Contemplative. Alert.
When you see a volcano, it makes you feel…?
Stimulated
When you see a sunrise or sunset, it makes you feel…?
Present
When you hear thunder, it makes you feel…?
Filled with awe
When you hear the wind howling, it makes you feel…?
Filled with awe
Are you an Ocean, Mountain, Forest, or Desert person?
All of those!! See answers above about my favorite spots.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is Nature to your well-being?
10
Share with us a childhood nature memory?
Following my herd of dairy goats, watching them eat all manner of desert things - mesquite beans, bunchgrass, creosote sprouts - then bringing them in at the end of the day for milking.
Joel Solomon
JOEL SOLOMON is Co-Author of The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism. He is Chair of Renewal Funds, a $98 million mission venture capital firm delivering above market returns while catalyzing positive social and environmental change. Joel is a founding member of Social Venture Network, Businesses for Social Responsibility, Chair of Hollyhock, Co-Producer of RSF's “Integrated Capital Fellows Program”, and serves on the University of British Columbia Board of Governors.
3 words to describe Nature?
Guide. Goddess. Source.
3 things Nature taught you?
Diversity + Complexity are Essence
Higher Intelligence Is
Humanity is Nature Performance Art
3 most treasured Nature spots?
Cortes Island, BC, Canada
Joshua Tree and the High Desert
The human heart
When you look at the ocean, it makes you feel...?
All I need patiently awaits
When you see a forest, it makes you feel...?
Peaceful that Consciousness will survive the humanity era
When you see a volcano, it makes you feel...
Longing for wise political leaders
When you see a sunrise or sunset, it makes you feel...?
Happy to flow and glow
When you hear thunder, it makes you feel…
Change making is urgent
When you hear the wind howling, it makes you feel...
Peaceful knowing that alarming times will shift
Are you an Ocean, Mountain, Forest, or Desert person?
Diversity Is strength
On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is Nature to your well-being?
Infinity
Share with us a childhood nature memory?
When I buried my nose into the humous and discovered soil is a mystery.