Adam Verwey is a founder and managing director at Future Super, Australia's first 100% fossil fuel-free superannuation fund.

Many traditional super funds invest in fossil fuels, gambling, detention of asylum seekers and for-profit prisons, weapons, live animal exports, uranium mining, alcohol, fast food, even pornography. Many of us are well-versed in the ethics of waste and energy, like carrying a keep-cup to reduce waste, or having shorter showers, or installing solar panels, but did you know that you can choose to put your money into ethical and responsible investment options? Have you ever considered how ethical your super fund is or where your super is being invested?

Future Super

Tom Earls is a beekeeper and educator in Surf Coast, Victoria, and the founder of Coastal Nectar.

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Specifically, we discuss: 

• Why we need to protect bee populations
• Role in the ecosystem
• Pesticides and insecticides
• Medicinal properties of honey
• How to help local bee populations thrive

Coastal Nectar links:

Coastal Nectar on Facebook
Coastal Nectar on Instagram

Mind Body Plants links:
Mind Body Plants on Instagram

Education and further resources:
Bringing bees back to Australian backyards
Supporting native bee populations
Ensuring our food security
Bees are dying. What can we do about it?

Worldwide, bee populations are on the decline. This is caused by the use of pesticides and herbicides, climate change, loss of habitat, and agriculture services like monoculture farming, contributing to a loss in plant biodiversity. Without plant biodiversity for bees to pollinate or feed on, bees are hindered to provide their colony and subsequently, the ecosystem at large.  Why do we need to protect bee populations? Bees are keystone species, meaning they are an organism that helps hold the system together. Without keystone species, the ecosystem would be drastically different or cease entirely. If bees die off it will end most life. Throughout nature, animals depend on bees for their survival because their food sources, things like berries, fruits, seeds, and nuts, rely on insect pollination. Pollination is needed for the growth of flora, providing the habitat and nutrition for animals.

Jeff Chilton, raised in the pacific north-west, studied ethno-mycology in the late 1960s. In 1989 he founded Nammex, a business that introduced medicinal mushrooms to the nutritional supplement industry in the United States. Nammex extracts are used by many supplement companies and are noted for their high quality based on scientific analysis of the active compounds. 

In this conversation, we explore mushroom composition and anatomy, and their medicinal properties, including their immunological benefits. We discuss adaptogens and bringing harmony to our body and health, and also psychedelic mushrooms and healing. 

Specifically, we cover:

• Mushroom cultivation
• Beta-glucans and triterpenoids
• Mushroom composition and anatomy
• Mycelium and fruiting body
• Ensuring mushroom quality and what to look for
• Immunological benefits and properties of mushrooms
• Adaptogens and bringing harmony and balance
• Psychedelic mushrooms and healing
• Self-transcendence

Nammex
Mind Body Plants

Robert grew up on a farm in Corvallis, Oregon where he adopted a vegan lifestyle in 1995 at age 15, weighing just 120 pounds. 

Today he is the author of four books, Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness, Shred It!, Plant-Based Muscle, and the new release, The Plant-Based Athlete. 

As a two-time natural bodybuilding champion, Robert is considered one of VegNews magazine's Most Influential Vegan Athletes. 

Robert is the founder and president of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness and maintains the popular website, VeganBodybuilding.com. 

He is a regular contributor to No Meat Athlete, Forks Over Knives, and Vegan Strong, is a multi-sport athlete, entrepreneur, and has followed a plant-based diet for more than 25 years.

Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness
The Plant-Based Athlete
Robert Cheeke Website

@robert.cheeke
@veganbodybuildingandfitness

@mindbody_plants

Overview of the conversation:

• Opportunities And Innovations With Climate Change
• The Benefits Of Eating More Plants
• Fibre, Mood, And Serotonin
• Addressing Climate Change
• Land Use, Water Use, And Waste
• The Biggest Impact On Climate Change
• Methane And Carbon Dioxide
• Nutrient Absorption Optimisation Techniques
• Impact Of Food Waste And Ways To Reduce It
• The Biomechanics Of Minimalist Running

Links:

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The Plant Paradigm Podcast

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This episode covers definitions and discussions of tonic herbs, medicinal mushrooms, and adaptogens. 

Brief overview of the conversation:

• Science and Spirit
• Limitations to Western Medicine and research
• Definitions & discussion of tonic herbs, medicinal mushrooms, adaptogens
• Symbiosis and interconnectedness of earth
• Mushroom anatomy 
• Daoism
• Self-regulation 
• Psychedelic science
• Psilocybin's main therapeutic mechanisms: Neuroplasticity, functional connectivity, and modulation of The Default Mode Network 
• Rumination in neuroscience and psychology
• Rumination in Daoism 
• Enhancing inner work, exercise performance, and longevity

Links:

SuperFeast

The SuperFeast Podcast

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Stats on mental illness in Australia, psilocybin, and MDMA - psychological phenomena and scientific evidence, antidepressants / SSRIs and common pharmaceutical treatments, the reinforcement of mental illness through diagnosis, destigmatizing drugs and the word "drug", the context of psychedelic psychotherapy including its set and setting, TGA updates - how drug and medicinal laws work on a federal and state level, and much more.

Mind Medicine Australia

Mind Body Plants (Instagram)

Dr. Matthew Nagra ND is a Naturopathic Doctor who is a passionate advocate for evidence-based nutrition. He adopted a plant-exclusive diet when he had health problems during his childhood and subsequently improved nearly every health concern he had. Matthew is incredibly knowledgeable within the scientific literature. Through social media, public speaking, his volunteer work with Nutritionfacts.org, and his clinical practice, he aims to educate people to help them gain control of their health through nutrition and lifestyle. This episode is jam-packed with information. Matthew talks us through nutritional concerns of the carnivorous diets like saturated fat. How much is too much? What is LDL? He also dispels some of the many myths surrounding the inadequacy of a plant-exclusive diet from iron and calcium to vitamin D3 and K2, as well as omega 3 fatty acids (ALA/EPA/DHA) and phytates, lectins, and oxalates.