Podcast Episodes

Human Exceptionalism | Christine Webb

What makes humans special?

Nothing. But a small band of us in the Western hemisphere have inculcated ourselves over thousands of years to believe in our supremacy over the natural world. Christine Web…

Published on 2 months ago

Why We Can't Understand Each Other | Damien Williams

There’s more information than ever — but we can’t agree on what it means.

We think of language as a tool of communication. But it’s so much more than that. Language builds worlds and shapes realities;…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

How to Change People's Minds | Sarah Stein Lubrano

Don’t Talk About Politics!

That’s the title of neuroscientist and political theorist Sarah Stein Lubrano’s first book. A phenomenal and heavily researched foray into why debate is a useless form of po…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Change is Risk | Celine Semaan

The status quo won’t survive.

Neither will we if we’re not willing to change. In this phenomenal conversation with powerhouse Celine Semaan, an artist, author and cofounder of Slow Factory, we explor…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Beyond Separation | Willow Defebaugh

Does nature have a plan?

It’s a lovely thought. But we’re going to have to be more accountable than that. In this achingly beautiful conversation with writer Willow Defebaugh, co-founder and Editor of…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Is the End Nigh? | Émile Torres

 What is an extinction event?

How have human beings considered extinction in the past? How is the contemporary understanding of human extinction different to the ancient world? And why is it that tec…

Published on 3 months ago

Voices of the Amazon | Chumpi Washikiat

The Achuar people first came into contact with the outside world sixty years ago. Since then, they have mostly been left in peace, able to take what they want from the modern world and leave the rest…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Confronting Collapse | Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

We need a new story.

We also need to do the hard work of re-engineering our societies, re-imagining our relationships, and remembering our bodies. Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, author of Hospicing Mod…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Resource Scarcity and Eco-Fascism | Antonio Turiel

Militarisation, isolationism, extractivism.

It looks like we learned nothing from the 21st century, as the powers that be are approaching looming civilisational collapse by cranking up the gears on th…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Carbon is Not Our Enemy | Mongabay

I recently interviewed Paul Hawken for Mongabay and want to share the moving conversation with you here.

Celebrated author, thinker and entrepreneur Paul Hawken joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss hi…

Published on 4 months ago