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62’ Intro ~1-3’ we couldn’t get the song on, but check them out here: https://soundcloud.com/gingerninjas Interview ~4’ who is anyone to own the earth? ~6’ embracing the hypocrisy ~8’ acting as custodians of the land ~11’ how to build community? be neighbors ~13’ the cob workshop community lessons ~16’ the people power theory ~17’ the balance of doing good for the earth + having fun ~18’ how an environmental activist is born ~21’ the napkin revolt* *Kipchoge and Claire’s son story comes in here as a side note because Claire was in the kitchen but not mic’d ~22’ bikes as and eco mode of transport ~24’ the beginnings of xtracycle, circa ‘98: https://www.xtracycle.com/ ~27’ the xtracyle ‘thing’ – trying to create environ change with a company ~30’ the dream is hatched of a bike powered music tour ~32’ Kipchoge's friend's band: https://shakeyourpeace.bandcamp.com/ ~33’ 15 people take off and create the first ever bike powered rock n’ roll tour, aka 'rock the bike': https://rockthebike.com/the-ginger-ninjas/ ~35’ Kipchoge and the Ginger Ninjas, soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/gingerninjas ~37’ 8 bike tours later, a few takeaways ~41’ a traveling band story, ohhhh Mexico! ~46’ an epiphany at Vipassana, the site: https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index ~47’ a turn in the road, Kipchoge stops playing to gather people power and tackle the climate fight ~48’ an education on building a social change movement ~49’ there are way more than enough people to get this done ~50’ non-violent social movements, Erica Chenoweth inspires: https://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw ~53’ would you quit Amazon if others did? a campaign for 1M customers to leave; testing the hypothesis https://threshold.us/c/cancelprime ~54’ why Amazon? lifting the curtain on the dangers ~58’ the movement, building up to the 3.5% change, and 6 focus areas: https://threshold.us ~60’ the internet is not bad, just the bad actors, and Derek is ok, thank yous…