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Forking the Future: building routes to viable change with Tim Frenneaux of Pivot
Season 20 Episode 1
My first guest after the summer break is Tim Frenneaux, whom I first met in his role as Source for the Piʌot project which is a thoroughly engaging and inspiring new concept, that he describes as a p…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Stop killing the planet! Shaping International law so it's on the side of Life – with JoJo Mehta of Stop Ecocide International
Season 19 Episode 15
Can our national and international legal systems be harnessed in service of life, to put the brakes on the worst excesses of capitalism and slow the annihilation of our eco-sphere? Stop Ecocide Inte…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
The Manic Fire Monkeys Do It Again (and Again): Exploring the wonder of human evolution with Dr Shane Simonsen
Season 19 Episode 14
The climate emergency is impacting our entire eco-sphere. Plants are at the core of every food chain but we have no idea how fast they can adapt to changes that are taking place in decades where onc…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Finding the Courage to Care - Ways to build a Mothering Economy with author Jenny Grettve
Season 19 Episode 13
'Are we [in our WEIRD culture] intelligent enough to be more generous than we have ever been throughout history?' So writes Jenny Grettve, in her new book, 'Mothering Economy'. Jenny is an author, …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
When is a Tree not a Tree? The 'Net Zero' Wood Burning Scam - with Dr Mary Booth of Partnership for Policy Integrity
Season 19 Episode 12
We live in a burning world. As we record, there are record wildfires across the Americas, record temperatures around the world, falling oxygen levels in the oceans and however much supposedly renewab…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
A trillion willing helpers: Exploring the microbiome of people and animals with Joe Flanagan of Ingenious Probiotics
Season 19 Episode 11
We know that being kind to our gut biome is crucial to our health, but what about the trillion happy helpers (or not) on our skin, in our lungs, our ears, our mouths… the things we slaughter daily wi…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Governable Spaces: Solve for democracy on the internet and our outer politics becomes a lot more sane - with Nathan Schneider
Season 19 Episode 10
The Western world is in a crisis of democracy - but we learn a lot of our principles from the ways we interact online and the internet is essentially a feudal space that gives absolute power to a few…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Net Zero Cities: Crafting a Generative Urban Future with Georgia Cameron of Dark Matter Labs
Season 19 Episode 5
Cities: most of us live in them and most of them are geared around the old values of the last century. But what if our core question was: what does it take to have pride in the place I live? How ca…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Earth and Soul: Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos with Leah Rampy
Season 19 Episode 4
Clearly we need urgently to shift the democratic dial towards something that might actually serve the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. But how do we get there? How do we open the doo…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Creating Quantum Theatre: radical story-becoming to change the world with Jenifer Toksvig
Season 19 Episode 3
Humanity is a storied species - everything we do from forming partnerships, to buying stuff, to moving house, to getting a new job… arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ours…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago