A Regenerative Journey Inspired by Paul Hawken (Part 11: Action & Connection)
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this replay of episode 57, clipped for brevity and timely relevance, we bring you the final installment in our Regeneration Series, originally inspired by Paul Hawken’s seminal book, Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation. As we head into Thanksgiving week and Giving Tuesday, this episode dives deep into the final theme of Hawken's book—Action and Connection—and explores the personal, practical, and planetary steps we can all take to regenerate life on Earth.
This replay includes a passionate reflection from host Corinna Bellizzi on her own climate action punch list, progress made, lessons learned, and the deeper motivations behind creating Care More Be Better. You’ll also hear Paul Hawken share his vision for the future, the inseparability of humans and nature, and the powerful role language and indigenous wisdom play in reshaping our climate narrative.
🌀 In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- Why regeneration is humanity’s only viable path forward
- How carbon is not just a “problem” but a miraculous life-giving force
- The importance of changing our language around climate and nature
- How indigenous knowledge systems inform true sustainability
- Practical regenerative actions Corinna has taken—and what’s next
- What Regeneration.org/Nexus offers as a tool for action and connection
🌍 Corinna’s Personal Punch List: From capturing greywater and minimizing plastic purchases to switching banks away from fossil fuel funders, Corinna shares real-world changes she’s implemented to live more regeneratively—and how her list has evolved through this journey.
🔗 Featured Resources:
- Regeneration.org/Nexus – Explore solutions and connect with climate leaders
- Paul Hawken’s Books – Regeneration, Carbon: The Book of Life, Drawdown, and more
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:09.7 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:15.2 | You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today. |
| 0:20.1 | Here's your host, Karina Belize. Welcome, |
| 0:25.6 | Regenerators. This is the 11th and final installment in our coverage of regeneration, ending the |
| 0:32.1 | climate crisis in one generation by Paul Hawken. It has been a journey, and I can tell you, I've learned a ton. |
| 0:40.4 | There have been so many moments of unexpected synergies as I covered this book, |
| 0:45.5 | unplanned coincidences and more. When Indigenous People's Day hit, we were covering people |
| 0:51.2 | and all the things that we can do to right our wrongs. When we were covering |
| 0:56.4 | regenerative agriculture, we were also preparing to interview Tom Newmark, founder of the |
| 1:02.1 | Carbon Underground. If you're new to this regeneration series, welcome. And you may get more out of it |
| 1:08.5 | if you go back to the beginning in my pre-interview intro to Paul |
| 1:12.1 | Hawken. The easiest way to do so is to visit care more be better.com and click on this episode. |
| 1:19.1 | You'll see show notes, which includes direct links to every episode in the regeneration series. |
| 1:24.4 | And if you click on the category of regeneration listed on the podcast page, |
| 1:29.9 | you'll be directed to a listing of the entire regeneration series. Start from the bottom and work |
| 1:36.1 | your way on up. And while you're visiting care more be better.com, I encourage you to look around. |
| 1:42.4 | You can watch videos of my interviews with thought leaders, |
| 1:45.2 | including Paul Hawken. While you're on my site, you can even leave me a voicemail and share your |
| 1:50.5 | thoughts about this episode and series by clicking the microphone icon in the bottom right hand |
| 1:55.4 | corner. Feel free to leave a message with any questions you might have for Paul Hawken, since I'll soon |
| 2:01.7 | submit a list of community questions so we can answer them directly via blog, or perhaps even in a |
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