InnerLight & Earth Elders
Founder & Youth Ambassador
Vancouver, Canada
Bodhi is a UN-recognized, award-winning GenZ ocean-climate “Solutionist” dedicated to improving ocean health and human health. He is the Founder & CEO of Inner Light, empowering a generation to build resilience from the inside out for people and planetary wellbeing. As an ocean champion, he works to increase ocean justice, policy, investment, and action with a global community of young ocean leaders he co-created - Ocean Uprise. He has been featured by the United Nations, Economist Impact, TedX, Apple, and has presented to world leaders at over 12 global climate conferences accelerating systems change. His focus on advancing Intergenerational Collaboration for bio-cultural stewardship has helped to advance global marine protection, influence large planet-positive investment portfolios, and educate millions to safeguard mother nature.
Offer
- Impactful tools to accelerate Intergenerational Collaboration in public, private and civil society organizations - Accelerating cutting-edge Ocean-Climate Solutions Powerful ocean advocacy, bridge-building, policy, and finance tools connected to larger climate campaigns - Enhancing ocean, climate, and biodiversity protection ambitions + outcomes across generations, organizations, and communities - Empowering a rising generation to foster resilience from the inside out, contributing to both human and planetary well-being - Supporting the future of the blue economy workforce by accelerating pathways for young people to reach company executive boards and c-suites, through paid internships, 360 degree mentorship, and joint task forces for ocean health and human health - Accelerating pathways for young professional upskilling, leadership, and workforce development in the environmental business sector - Communicating with students, young people, early career ocean professionals in very effective and empowering ways which fosters intergenerational and interspecies leadership
NEED
- A substantial gap within equitable resource sharing needed for effective ocean regeneration. Insufficient long-term funding for youth-led Blue Economy solutions. - A deficit of intergenerational knowledge and power transfer needed to achieve ambitious ocean policy and climate mitigation goals. - Vested interests muddying the waters for sustainable ocean-climate action towards Real Zero. - Unclear and conflicting narratives around viable, scaleable, and most impactful ocean-climate solutions due to a lack of scientific knowledge and certainty about solutions pathways corresponding to specific planetary health outcomes. - Lack of trust, flexibility and transparency within ocean investment portfolios.
Call-to-Action
Goal: Healing our ocean planet and our relationship to it. Three key steps and CTAs to get there: 1. Improving Ocean Health = Human Health outcomes. Humans need to see that our health is interconnected with the ocean's health and one doesn’t thrive without the other. We need to care. CTA: Supporting ocean solutions media, storytelling, and content creation with industry expertise, creative power, resources, and mentorship for improved ocean-literacy outcomes. As a UN Ocean Decade Advisor, I am committed to advancing blue education for stronger coastal ecosystems, cities, communities, peoples, and need your help to support further ocean-literacy programs. 2. Ancient Intelligence. A new kind of AI. Drawing on centuries of wisdom from oceanic creatures and Indigenous stewards to restore symbiotic relationships on earth. We need to know how. CTA: Accelerating equitable and culturally appropriate resource distribution for Indigenous communities to boost bio-cultural stewardship and adapt to the impacts of climate change. As a member of the Wisdom Keepers Delegation, I am committed to ensuring partnerships, financial mechanisms, and knowledge-sharing support Indigenous peoples while respecting their sovereignty and traditional knowledge systems. Our delegation insists on the crucial inclusion of Indigenous voices and practices in climate solutions, environmental culture-shifting and global business. 3. Intergenerational Collaboration. Older generations bring structure, experience, and resources. Younger generations bring creativity, energy, and new perspectives. Together, we can do it. CTAs: Create and deploy 360 Degree mentorship programs Place young people on executive boards and in C-suite positions Build finance pathways for youth-led innovations Offer equitable and paid internships for marginalized youth Create an intergenerational task-force for Ocean Health and Human Health within the Earth One Community
