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A Climate Solution

This blog entry serves to curate community leaders to contribute to an infrastructure that favors climate solution, fosters human connection and dialogue, and captures mindshare. I enjoy creating an ecosystem to channel impact and promote dialogues. This ecosystem consists of global non-governmental organizations (NGOs), educational institutions, public arts, nonprofits and corporations that value social causes, data, culture and technology.

For example, We Are Rosie supports a new era of working from home as the future of work. It is becoming more common for people to have side hustles and to rely on multiple sources of income. Basically, more jobs are freelance and part-time rather than

full-time. It is becoming a fundamental way to thrive rather than just survive.

The Potential Energy Coalition is a newly formed non-profit, supporting creative messaging towards climates solutions by curating and incubating talent in the creative industry. Both organizations partner

to harness marketers from streaming platforms

to environmental organizations.

From a research perspective, data shows that it is possible to have cleaner air and oceans as one of many consequences of sheltering in place while polluting factories remain closed and travel has lessened. It is not lost on me that it took a pandemic for this snapshot in history. My observation from Los Angeles is that we know that clear skies and silent streets can come about with shocking speed. However, upon the small reopening of Los Angeles, air pollution is returning. To avoid big rebounds, we need more smart energy policies in place to increase favorable climate trends. What a different city and world we could have if we walked the walk.

The climate crisis is solvable. I am seeking to collaborate with climate and energy scientists, technologists, culturists, and artists who are asking the important questions. How do we launch a shift in infrastructure that puts the planet before industry? How do we change industry that supports more humans to thrive rather than just survive? Where do we grow from here?

It starts with me and you.

Thank you for reading.

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What If?

What if two humans met in an alternative immersive experience?

In Los Angeles, the first human, Camilla, is a single mom of a toddler. After losing her dream job of four years, she is in career limbo and living in her parent’s home. Camilla just completed her third interview at a well-known streaming company. Upon leaving, Camilla detours by the downtown Los Angeles Shared_Portal and makes a reservation to connect to the other side of the world for the first time. 

In Athens, the second human, Phil, works as a software developer to support his passion for music. If he is lucky and time allows, occasionally he performs music on the local islands. Concerned the world is succumbing to the fate of too many “-isms," Phil has a three-month music residency on the island of Lesbos. Riled by recent events against refugees on the island of Lesbos, Phil disembarks the local ferry just a kilometer from the Lesbos Shared_Portal. On his way to rehearsal, he makes a reservation at the Shared_Portal knowing the ten-hour time difference between Lesbos and Los Angeles. A one-on-one, live-streamed, life-sized conversation between these two strangers leads to a song and more sessions once a month between the new friends. You know what they say — music, like hope is universal. 

Three months later, Phil is finishing up his music residency. Camilla is a working mom at that same streaming-service who has just come from the nearby pre-school with her energetic toddler. All three meet at their respective Shared_Portals where she introduces her toddler to new music performed by Phil. Each discusses the upcoming Summer Olympics, amused by the idea of her toddler competing in Baby Olympics, noting how sports unite cultures, which is difficult these days.

One week later, Camilla’s boss mentions that a new office of that same streaming company will open in Athens and that musicians are wanted as consultants in a few days. Her boss learns about the Lesbos Shared_Portal from Camilla, who commented that it is possible to meet musicians easily one on one there. Her boss begins plans to brand and launch several company Shared_Portals to support global music across international cities to interview and to bring immersive experiences cross-culturally. An alternative human immersive experience that takes elements like this one is what we would encourage to foster creativity worldwide and to provide agency through in-person connections. 

Shared_Studios conceived of this global public art initiative in 2014. The initial concept identified two distant cultural hubs to connect as if they were in the same room. By sharing one portal inside two technologically enhanced spaces, participants are immersed and inspired beyond the ordinary while shining a light on humanity. Over the past several years, a paradigm shift in the human condition started to flourish. Shared_Studios, with the assistance of phenomenal global curators, expanded into business environments to engage through one-on-one eye contact and life-size conversations. Today, Shared_Studios creates a variety of spaces including shipping containers, inflatables, rooms, buses, or on large screens. We thank you! 

Shared_Studios is grateful for our global collaborations in 40+ cities, numerous schools, NGOs and progressive businesses and their leaders including NASA, Google, Art Basel Miami, Los Angeles Law Library, and influencers like President Barack Obama, Aloe Blacc, Morgan Spurlock, Josh Bodnar and Ewan MacGregor, who help drive the authentic exchange of ideas and perspectives across global communities — in a way that’s never before been possible. As our network grows, so do the possibilities for connection, our goal is to be in 100 countries by 2022, becoming a fixture across city centers, schools, companies, museums, villages and beyond. Global awareness helps make public art and immersive installations etched in viewers’ cultural memory in the cities they inhabit. 

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