Conversations That Matter

Conversations That Matter Ep 61 Dr. Jeffrey Bland the Father of Functional Medicine

Episode 61

Dr. Jeffrey Bland

Functional Medicine

This week’s Conversation That Matters features Dr. Jeffrey Bland the father of functional medicine who says, “we’re in a time of revolution, this transition into the 21st century with biomedicine and our understanding of the origin of health and disease is truly epicly changing.”

According to Dr. Bland functional medicine reflects the coming together of western, complementary and alternative therapies. He says, “In the late '80s and early '90s we had integrated, complementary, alternative, holistic, Chinese and ayurvedic medicines and therapies. All of these were techniques or historical ways of treating patients but they lacked a kind of a coherency to link them to Western medicine, they lacked a mechanistic framework. Functional medicine is a systems biology approach to taking Western thinking and applying it to all these other disciplines.”

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Conversations That Matter Ep 60 - Ken Peacock - Report Card on BC's economy 2015

Episode 60

Ken Peacock

Report Card on BC’s Economy

This week’s Conversation That Matters features Ken Peacock, the Chief Economist at the Business Council of British Columbia in this episode he gives us his report card on BC’s economy.

“We're in pretty good shape, we probably will see fast economic growth this year and perhaps next year as well, close to Ontario, so we'll be right near the top of the heap of the provincial growth rankings.” Peacock sites our relatively diverse and resilient economy are at the core of our economic well being.

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Conversations That Matter Ep 59 - Charles Gauthier - Reimagining Downtown

Episode 59

Charles Gauthier

ReImagining Downtown

This week’s Conversation That Matters features Charles Gauthier of the Downtown Vancouver BIA on the results of an on-line survey that asked participants to envision the downtown of 2040. That vision is a city with fewer cars, better transit, more useable public spaces, affordable housing and a stronger sense of community.

Of the 1,100 people who participated, Gauthier says the majority were under 35, “these are the people who will be in charge 25 years from now.”

Gauthier says human to human interaction was a consistent theme, “They want a more connected city, better connections with their neighbors. They talked about making it a lot easier for people to get around. There was a focus on public squares, a more vibrant arts and culture community, being more liberal in terms of how we celebrate in the city and part of that was more liberal liquor laws and being able to go out and celebrate in the streets.”

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Conversations That Matter Ep 58 - Tim Flannery

Episode 58

Professor Tim Flannery

Atmosphere of Hope

This week’s Conversation That Matters features Professor Tim Flannery, the former Australian Climate Commission on changes in behavior and the advances in alternative energy production that have him believing in the possible.

Flannery says, “a couple of years ago I started to realize there was an extra tool in the tool kit. One that was gonna be quite important to our future, and I had to invent a name for this extra tool. I called it the third way. And really the third way is about technologies and methods and approaches that allow us to draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere at a scale that makes a difference to the climate. And in a way that strengthens the earth system or ability to self regulate. And that concept is a really, really important one. “

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Conversations That Matter Ep 57 Dr. Steven Aung

Episode 57

Dr. Steven Aung

TCM - Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Master

This week’s Conversation That Matters features Dr. Steven Aung who in 1973 from his new home in Edmonton, introduced Canada to Traditional Chinese Medicine.

At the time of his arrival in Canada, Dr. Aung was an accredited Medical Doctor and a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner. Dr. Aung believed then as he does now both forms of treatment are needed and valuable tools in healing and in living well. He says, “ Western medicine is exceptionally good at treatment and Chinese medicine offers compassion and loving kindness. Without kindness there is no healing. Where there’s no healing, there’s no medicine. So I believe fully that integrated, compassionate medicine is our next century medicine.

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Conversations That Matter Ep 55 Adam Fair - Prosper Canada

Episode 55

Adam Fair - Prosper Canada

The high cost of low living

This week’s Conversation That Matters features Adam Fair of Prosper Canada an organization that is addressing poverty. Fair says, “In a country that is so wealthy and prosperous, how is it that we cannot find a way to share that wealth and well-being and that opportunity for all Canadians?”

He goes on to point out the cost of poverty is extremely high in health care, crime, education and in the lost opportunity cost to individuals and the country as a whole. Fair says, “our economy is built on all individuals across the country doing well. It’s not just a matter of a select few that have been able to build wealth and well-being. And so, I think, it matters to the strength of our economy, to our democracy, that everyone is participating, and contributing.”

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Conversations That Matter EP 56 - Adrian Corless of Carbon Engineering

Episode 56

Adrian Corless

Carbon Eaters

This week’s Conversation That Matters features Adrian Corless of Carbon Engineering, a company that is literally capturing carbon from the air and mixing it with hydrogen and turning it into fuel.

Corless says, “ultimately we're producing synthetic fuels using atmospheric carbon as a feedstock. We also need a source of energy, and for us that’s  renewable hydrogen.” In doing so, Corless and his team are displacing buried carbon and replacing it with spent carbon which equals fuel without a carbon increase.

“I think this is really the game-changer” adds Corless, “I really truly hope that the technology ultimately helps solve the carbon challenge.”

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Conversations That Matter Ep 54: Michael Dixon

Episode 54

Dr. Michael Dixon

Tomatosphere - Growing veggies in space!

This week’s Conversation That Matters features Dr. Michael Dixon and his team have figured out how to grow tomatoes in space and anywhere on earth including the Canadian high arctic.

“The technology that we evolved to compete with that challenge here in Canada, is almost identical to what you would use on the moon and Mars. And so it's eminently transferrable.” Dixon goes on to say the earthly benefit of figuring out how to grow vegetables in space means we can provide food security at home anywhere all the time.

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Conversations That Matter EP 52: Dimitri Pantazzopoulos

Episode 52

Dimitri Pantazopoulos

Can you trust election polls?

This week’s Conversation That Matters features Dimitri Pantazopoulos, the only person who called the 2013 correctly in BC’s last general election. He takes us inside the world of polling. A world he says is complex, so complex that unless you have access to the methodology used in the sample, you’re left having to trust you instincts to know if the poll is accurate.

“It comes down to the methodology. We use live interviewers which I think remains the gold standard”, says Pantazopoulos. He also points out, what matters is where key question are asked in the interview. When asked off the top the likelihood of an accurate answer increases dramatically.

He went on to say technology is working against accuracy in polling, he says he envisions a day where the industry may have to return to door to door canvassing.

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A Conversation That Matters Ep 51 with Shauna Sylvester

Episode 51

Shauna Sylvester

Renewable Cities

This week’s Conversation That Matters features Shauna Sylvester the driving force behind “Renewable Cities” a conference that became a newtwork focused on what cities can do to become 100% renewable and it’s  gone global.

Sylvester says, “I went and interviewed over 100 people across the country and internationally to really get a sense of what is within the toolbox that cities can do and what is not within their control?”

Renewable Cities is about what cities have control over, efficiency, zoning, density, green buildings, better transportation and walkability. Sylvester says, “You can create places where people live close to where they work so that they're not having to get into their car.”

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