Accidental Gods
267 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsAt this time of the Great Transition, we need new, fresh ideas, role models and narratives that show us how we can step forward into a future we'd be proud to leave to the generations that come after us.
What does it take for our great, great grand-kids to look back and say, 'It was hard, but they did it'? What changes are we already making that take us in the right direction? We talk to the people leading the way, offering interviews, conversations and radical new ideas from people who are living the change we need to see in the world.
We have the choice now, to transform - or to face the chaos of a failing system. Our Choice. Our Chance. Our Future.
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The Meat Paradox: Ethics, morality and shamanic spirituality: exploring the politics of protein with Rob Percival
September 14, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 166 MBWe are human because for most of our evolutionary history, we have eaten meat whilst treating animals as relations and giving thanks to them. We held these the two sides of this paradox in tension. But in the past decades, we have created hells on earth in our industrialised farming and abattoirs so that eating from them is no longer remotely ethical. How do we resolve the paradox? Is global veganism the answer or are there other ways to create a generative relationship with our hu...
Hagitude: Paving the way to empowered elderhood with Sharon Blackie
September 07, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 177 MB"As elders, our job is to die, as eventually we come to live —always in service to life." How do we do this? How can we pass into our elder years with grace and rage and depth and honouring of who we are, and emerge wiser, and more attuned to our soul's calling. With Dr Sharon Blackie, author of Hagitude. Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer, psychologist and mythologist. Her highly acclaimed books, courses, lectures and workshops are focused on the development of the my...
Beyond the tribal divisions of right and wrong: Exploring Restorative Engagement with Sophie Docker
August 31, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 161 MBWe know that tribalism is destroying us, that the need for 'us' to be right and 'them' to be wrong and to become enraged when we're challenged…is what's destroying us. But how do we change? How do we connect across our differences and hear pain without attributing blame? Exploring all this and more with Sophie Docker of The Restorative Engagement Forum and Open Edge. Sophie Docker is a highly experienced workshop leader, facilitator and mediator working in organisations, education ...
Co-Creators of the future: exploring the birth of a new education system with YouthxYouth co-founder Zineb Mouhyi
August 24, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBZineb Mouhyi is the co-founder of two charitable organizations, YouthxYouth & the Weaving Lab. YouthxYouth is a movement to radically reimagine the future of education with the goal of accelerating the process of young people influencing, designing, and transforming their education. The Weaving Lab is a global community of practice with the mission of advancing the field of weaving, understood as the practice of interconnecting ideas, people, projects, organizations, places, and...
A Wild Farming Life: Building a regenerative croft from scratch with Lynn Cassells
August 17, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 172 MBLynn Cassells and Sandra Baer met while working as rangers for the National Trust and soon realised that they shared a dream to live closer to the land. They bought Lynbreck Croft at the edge of the Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands of Scotland in March 2016 - 150 acres of pure Scottishness - with no experience farming but a huge passion for nature and the outdoors. Now, they raise their own animals and sell the produce, grow their own fruit and vegetables, and are as se...
The Politics of Being: Wisdom and Science for the new world with Dr Thomas Legrand
August 10, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBHolding a Ph.D. in (Ecological) Economics and having studied international development, political science, and management, Thomas Legrand works in the field of sustainability for UN agencies, private companies, and NGOs. His focus is on forest conservation, climate change, sustainable finance, and organizational transformation. His spiritual journey began at the age of 23 with an encounter with native spirituality in Mexico, before embracing the wisdom of a wide range of traditions...
Banking on the Beetles: Creating a local circular agro-economy with Liberty Nimmo of The Three Turnips
August 03, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 169 MBBy now it's obvious that our current system is destroying all life on the planet - and our food/farming system is key both to the current levels of destruction: industrial farming is eroding soil, poisoning the biosphere on land and sea, gobbling up fossil fuels and harming our health. Conversely, local community agriculture projects that link together viable enterprises in a network of circular economies is one part of the key to a viable, flourishing future. Liberty Nimmo is p...
Of Course We Can! Lifting the lid on possibility with James Brown, mulit-Paralympian Gold Medalist and Climate Activist
July 27, 2022 05:15 - 1 hour - 162 MBJames Brown is an athlete, inventor, social entrepreneur, multi-Paralympian gold medal winner - and climate activist. There was a time when James was known most for his astonishing achievements across many sports. Between 1980 and 2015, he took part in no less than five Paralympic Games (winter and summer) as well as eighteen World Championship events. His range of disciplines was extraordinary: they included track running, cross-country skiing, triathlon, swimming, road/track cy...
Bridging the Gap: finding truth, reconciliation and climate justice with Saurav Roy
July 20, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBWith a track record of founding startups at a young age, and executing entrepreneurial roles in global non-profits, Saurav Roy was selected as one of the youngest Global Shapers by the World Economic Forum at Bangalore in 2017. Since then, he has studied for a Masters in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher Collage, and is now working for the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a London-based, independent financial think tank that strives to influence the nature of global finance, away from...
Trees, Trees, Trees! How we can grow food around, within and on them - with Ben Raskin
July 13, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBBen is head of Horticulture and Forestry at the Soil Association. Author or co-author of eight books including Zero Waste Gargenind, The Woodchip Handbook and The AgroForestry Handbook, Ben holds specialist knowledge and experience that includes Community Supported Agriculture, woodchip, and starting up new horticultural businesses. All told, he has been working in horticulture for more than 25 years and has been with the Soil Association since 2006.During that time he has chaired...
Weaving with the Land: The future of regenerative farming with Caroline Grindrod
July 06, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 159 MBCaroline Grindrod is a consultant and coach in regenerative systems and leadership. Along with background in environmental conservation and upland land management, holistic management and experience in designing sustainable and regenerative food businesses, Caroline has a lifelong passion for personal development, wild spaces and a growing interest in regenerative leadership. She draws upon that diverse range of skills and experience to offer an ever-evolving and truly unique appro...
Finding the adjacent possible: routes to political and social transformation with Dave Snowden of The Cynefin Company
June 29, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 149 MBHe is the creator of the Cynefin Framework, and originated the design of SenseMaker®, the world’s first distributed ethnography tool. He is the lead author of Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis: A field guide for decision makers, a shared effort between the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, and the Cynefin Centre. He divides his time between two roles: founder Chief Scientific Officer of The Cynefin Company and the...
Designing Education fit for the 21st Century with Prof David John Helfand
June 22, 2022 05:00 - 52 minutes - 120 MBWe live in a world where facts are at our fingertips and yet we increasingly live in conceptual silos where ideas are neither broad nor deep. How can we transform our ways of educating ourselves as we grow to adulthood/elderhood in a world where the ground is shifting under our feet? With Professor DJ Helfland, educator and astronomist. Professor David J. Helfand, a faculty member at Columbia University for forty-five years, served nearly half of that time as Chair of the Depart...
How the World is making our Children Mad - and what to do about it - with Louis Weinstock
June 15, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutes - 136 MBHow can we create a world where our children can grow in safety - both physical and emotional? How can we find that sense of psychological safety within ourselves? How can we find the authenticity and compassion to heal our own wounds so we don't pass them on? With Louis Weinstock, child psychologist and expert in complex trauma. Louis Weinstock is a psychotherapist who works with children and the child within us all. He helps people find light in the darkness - in the things th...
Connecting with Power: How the media could reframe our world - and why they must - with Donnachadh McCarthy
June 08, 2022 08:22 - 54 minutes - 125 MBHow do we bring the world's media on board with the climate and ecological emergency? What would happen if they became the fourth arm of the climate movement? Donnachadh McCarthy, journalist, columnist, author and long term climate activist explains why this is the single most urgent action we can take. Donnachadh McCarthy is a professional eco-auditor, author and environmental campaigner. He is a former deputy chair of the Liberal Democrats and served on the board of the party...
Connecting with Power: How the media could reframe our world - and why the must - with Donnachadh McCarthy
June 08, 2022 08:22 - 54 minutes - 125 MBDonnachadh McCarthy is a professional eco-auditor, author and environmental campaigner. He is a former deputy chair of the Liberal Democrats and served on the board of the party for seven years. He is now not a member of any political party and enjoys working with people in all parties or none to address our common environmental crises. He is a former columnist with The Independent and has had articles printed in the Guardian, Times, Ecologist, Resurgence etc. He is the author of S...
Net Positive: Designing a regenerative future with Prof Janis Birkeland
June 01, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutes - 136 MBHow do we design our built environment to be more than just 'sustainable' (doing things slightly less badly) and instead to be genuinely regenerative where all we build and make heals people and the planet? Professor. Janis Birkeland is Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning in the University of Melbourne. Janis has dedicated her personal, professional and academic life to figuring out what is genuine sustainability - how to plan for a b...
Imagination Activism: exploring radically better futures (and SolarPunk) with Phoebe Tickell
May 25, 2022 05:00 - 46 minutes - 107 MBWhat are the most effective tools we can engage to create new, different, better futures? How do we translate our visions of a generative future into action now? What are our bridging tools, that exist now and take us forward to a world that would work for everyone? Phoebe Tickell is an imagination activist, renegade scientist, systems thinker and social entrepreneur. Originally trained as a biologist (she has a first class degree in Biological Natural Sciences from Cambridge U...
BioRegionalism: The Design Path for Regenerating Earth with Joe Brewer
May 18, 2022 05:00 - 56 minutes - 129 MBThe Holocene is over, we all know this. The Anthropocene may segue into the Symbiocene, with the opportunity to experience the surprising abundance of the world, but only if we work at it. Joe Brewer, bioregionalist and earth regenerator, offers a rawly honest evaluation of where we are, and where we could go. Joe Brewer has separate bachelors degrees in physics, mathematics, and interdisciplinary studies and a masters in atmospheric sciences. He is a complexity researcher, inno...
Regenerative Renaissance: Managing the new economy with Rieki Cordon of Seeds. Part 2 of 2
May 11, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutes - 94.2 MBRevolutions don't work, and we don't have time. What we need now is a Regenerative Renaissance where we all envisage the whole, beautiful, clean, thriving world we want, and set about making it happen. In this second part (of two) podcasts, Rieki Cordon of the SEEDS regenerative currency explains how a new economy could work, based on regenerative values and principles. Rieki Cordon of SEEDS says, 'We need a Renaissance over revolution because a revolution is technically just revol...
Regenerative Renaissance: Weaving new worlds with cryptocurrencies based on community, with Rieki Cordon of Seeds. Part 1 of 2
May 04, 2022 05:00 - 49 minutes - 114 MBWe all know that our economic system is broken - that the ways we share value are skewed so that the super-rich grow richer while the rest of the people and planet suffer. But if we're to replace the dollar as an international currency, what will work, how will it work, how can we make the transition to a genuinely equitable, regenerative currency? What does a Regenerative Renaissance look like? Rieki Cordon of SEEDS has an answer. First part of two. Rieki Cordon, one of the faci...
Thrutopia Bonus: 10th Anniversary of Sacred Economics: Charles and Jimi Eisenstein with Della Duncan
April 29, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBIt's long been said that it's easier to imagine the total extinction of humanity than it is to imagine an end to capitalism. But Charles Eisenstein's Sacred Economics blew that away. An updated version has been released on the tenth anniversary of publication. Here, Della Duncan talks to Charles and his son Jimi about life, capitalism and building the more beautiful future our hearts know is possible. For over a decade, Charles Eisenstein has been a pillar of the movement to a r...
Thrutopia Bonus: 10th Anniversary of Sacred Economics: Charles and Jimi Eistenstein with Della Duncan
April 29, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBFor over a decade, Charles Eisenstein has been a pillar of the movement to a regenerative future. His book is essential reading, his blogs and podcasts are always thoughtful interventions that offer insight at crucial junctures of our progress towards a more conscious evolution. He dares to go where others either fear to tread or just don't have the insight, and he leads by example: his life is based on compassion and the gift economy. He's one of the few people who lives as far a...
Waking Up: Power, possibility and politics in a Fractal Age with Indra Adnan
April 27, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBWe all know the current system of politics and governance is utterly dysfunctional. But what will it look like - what will it feel like - to organise ourselves so that everyone has a voice, so that we come together as co-creators and build networks and movements based on our common visions and values? With Indra Adnan of The Alternative Global, author of The Politics of Waking Up. Indra Adnan is a psychosocial therapist, founder of The Alternative Global and author of The Politics...
Beautiful Methane: Powering the transformation with Will Llewellyn
April 20, 2022 05:00 - 56 minutes - 130 MBWe all know that methane is a far more dangerous greenhouse gas than CO2. But what if we could harness it and put it to good use? What if it we could power our cars and heat our homes on waste food? Will Llewellyn of Red Kite Management explains the potential and how to apply it. Will Llewellyn has worked in the renewables industry for decades. Now a co-director of Red Kite Management, he advises individuals and firms on the use of food waste, animal slurry and human effluent ...
Transformative Connection: Mapping the way through with Thrutopia's originator: Rupert Read
April 13, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutes - 128 MBIn a world in existential crisis, deep within what Joanna Macy called The Deep Unravelling, we have a critical need for road maps to help us navigate a way forward to a future we can't yet imagine. Rupert Read, originator of the Thrutopia concept, discusses how he came to coin the term, what it means - and, crucially, how we get there. Nobody can doubt now that we're in the midst of the climate and ecological emergency: doom scrolling is now a national sport. But if we think abou...
Down to Earth Derby: Growing a city Green from the inside out
April 06, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBAs our world balances on the edge of transformation, how do we rewild ourselves and our inner cities? How do we build communities of place and of purpose that work, that give us resilience, life, hope - and a deep, enduring, magical connection to the earth? Jamie Quince-Starkey and Ross Nicholson of Down to Earth Derby describe the utterly inspiring work they are doing to achieve exactly this. Jamie Quince-Starkey has worked with planes, trains and automobiles, but he found hims...
Buccaneer Economics: Blowing away the old and inventing what works with Prof. Steve Keen
March 30, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBOur current economy is based on idiocy, selfishness and bizarre ideologies. What happens if we completely replace it with a different, better system? How would it work? What would the world feel like? Professor Steve Keen, Honorary Research Associate with the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security at the University College London, was one of the handful of economists to realize that a serious economic crisis was imminent, and to publicly warn of it from as early as Dece...
The Business of Awakening: Finding a generative future within our businesses with Garry Turner
March 23, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 142 MBIf we are to create a regenerative future we'd be proud to leave to the generations that come after us, how can we shift the extractive, profit-based business model that imprisons our industries? What would happen if we unleashed the creative potential of those who are caught in a model that is no longer fit for purpose? Insights from Garry Turner, industrialist, businessman, thought leader - and change agent. Garry Turner has spent most of his professional life as an internat...
The Gentle Power of Craftivism: With Sarah Corbett of the Craftivist Collective
March 16, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 154 MBWhat can you do if you want to be a gentle, careful, strategic activist? The kind who catalyses change in empathic ways, who strives to understand people in power and who uses the magic of hand-crafts to connect at the level where (r)evolution happens? Sarah Corbett of the Craftivist Collective does exactly this and empowers others to join her. At the age of three years old, Sarah Corbett occupied social housing to keep it standing (it's still up), and from then on, was a committe...
What's an Economy for, anyway? Building an economy for people and planet with Yannick Beaudoin
March 09, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBWhat's our economy for? Does it have to keep growing at the expense of all we hold dear; the things that make life worth living? Or can we re-imagine a new way of doing things that would value what matters most to us, and keep people and planet healthy? Yannick Beaudoin is Director-General for Ontario and Northern Canada with the David Suzuki Foundation and Director for Innovation and forOntario with the Wellbeing Economies Alliance for Canada and the Sovereign Indigenous Nations....
Manda's Basic Tips for Writers
March 07, 2022 17:05 - 47 minutes - 108 MBThrutopia is open to everyone who tells stories in whatever form. But if you're in the early stages of your writing journey and want some support, these are Manda's Ten Key Pointers to writing well: a basic Writing Apprenticeship in an hour! The Thrutopia Masterclass is designed to help us all generate the ideas, the frames and the stories we'll need to take us through to a future we'd be proud to leave to the generations that follow us. If you've ever wanted to tell stories, it...
Daring to risk: finding our purpose in a turbulent world with Maggie Ostara.
March 02, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 148 MBWhat do we do when the world isn't working for us? When our every fibre rages against the machine and our place in it? Maggie Ostara talks about her own path from a high-flying academic career, through to a life of clear purpose and contribution that has authenticity, integrity and power. Maggie Ostara, PhD left her job as the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Columbia University when she realised she’s not meant to work for anyone else. Twenty five years later at the h...
Activism by Design with David Johnson of the Stanford Law School
February 23, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBHow can we use the leading edge of design thinking to create climate activism that really works? Dave Johnson is a lawyer, teacher, writer and design thinker who is bringing his breadth of understanding to bear on the climate and ecological emergency. Dave Johnson began his career as a trial lawyer in the courtrooms of Miami. After a decade, he came to Stanford to study design, tech and environmental law. He has worked for several Silicon Valley companies, with an increasing foc...
Stairway to Heaven: Food, Farming and the Regeneration of our landscapes with Patrick Holden of the Sustainable Food Trust
February 16, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes - 104 MBHow can we improve our health, reduce the costs to the NHS by 50%, restore soil biodiversity, reduce flooding, reverse ecosystem decline and draw carbon down from the atmosphere into the earth's crust? Regenerative Farming does all of these and more - and Patrick Holden of the Sustainable Food Trust is at the heart of a movement to spread the word around the world. After studying biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College, he established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, p...
The Whispers of a New World: Stepping into a different future with Tamsin Omond, activist and visionary
February 09, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 171 MBHow can we shape our culture to be one where everyone thrives? How can we write our new stories where everyone is heroic? How can we connect to the world of spirit in ways that include everyone? With Tamsin Omond, climate activist, strategist, organiser and author of DO/Earth. Since dropping banners against Heathrow Airport's third runway from the roof of the Houses of Parliament, Tamsin has consistently shifted public conversation on the climate and ecological emergency. They ...
Thrutopia Masterclass: Writing our Way to a Future we can be Proud to leave as our Legacy.
February 05, 2022 13:18 - 17 minutes - 40.2 MBWe live on stories. We thrive on visions of futures we want - or terrify ourselves with those we definitely don't. But when it comes to our own near-term future, we don't have the stories that tell us how we got it right. So we need to write them - Urgently! One of the things that sets us apart from other species (as far as we know) is that we are forever building futures in our heads. Whenever we embark on something new: a relationship, a job, a project, a house move…it's fire...
Business Unusual: Can Business sweep us to a Regenerative Future? With Nathalie Nahai
February 02, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 152 MBIn a world where governments are failing on all levels, can regenerative business be the change we need to see in the world? Can the new wave of meaningful work create the sense of coherence and community and connectedness to the earth that we need to take us forward? Nathalie Nahai is host of The Hive podcast, author of two books, international speaker and consultant with businesses big and small. Her clients have included Unilever, Google, Accenture and Harvard Business Review...
Earth Alchemy, Ceremonies and Soul Journeys with shamanic teacher Isla McLeod
January 26, 2022 06:00 - 59 minutes - 137 MBWhat is the nature of being and belonging in the current world? How can we honour the rite of passage that is happening, and let go of the old ways, let them die to the past, live in the liminal space of unknowing, and step into a future that emerges from the best of who we are? Isla McLeod is a celebrant, ritualist, walker-between-the-worlds and deep connector to spirit. She says of herself: "I am a creator of ceremonies, ritual designer, transformational healer and companion ...
The UnderTorah: Exploring an Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams with Rabbi Jill Hammer
January 19, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 149 MBHow do we understand dreams in ways that make sense of 21st Century life? How can we interpret them in ways that have meaning for us as individuals, in the complexity of our lives? Rabbi Jill Hammer has explored the depths of dreams and dreaming with her new book - and here talks to us about what she learned, and some of the dreams that touched her most deeply. Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, is an author, scholar, ritualist, poet, midrashist, and dreamworker. She is the Director of Spir...
Communities of craft and purpose: building a future that works with Alice Holloway of the London Urban Textiles Commons
January 12, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 164 MBHow can we find joy in life again? How can we create beautiful things to wear that allow us to be the best of ourselves - and build community while we do it? Alice Holloway is co-founder of London Urban Textiles Commons, and she's committed to finding the answers. Join us for an inspiring, sparky exploration of how our future can be different. Alice Holloway has a degree in jewellery making from Central St Martin's and a Masters in Design for the Cultural Commons from the London...
Parenting in the Climate Emergency: Building a future we'd be proud to leave to our children - with Eva Bishop
January 05, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 167 MBHow can we be the best possible stewards of the future for our children? How can we meet their eco-anxiety and teach them resilience, adaptation and give them the skills of systemic thinking that will help them navigate the uncertainties to come? Eva Bishop is mother of two young children, as well as being a long-term a climate activist and current communications director for the Beaver Trust. She is dedicated to finding ways that we can all create emotional and practical resi...
Power to change the world - for good or really, really bad. With Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute
December 29, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBWhat is Power? How do we use it: both power over each other, and the power that fuels the world? How could we use it better? In this, our ninth season (and third year), we are aiming to look more deeply into the ways we might create a flourishing future that we would be proud to leave to the generations that follow us. With that in mind, our first guest of this new season is Richard Heinberg, author of the magesterial, 'Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival' which cam...
Three-Way Solstice PodBoom: The Hive, Upstream and Accidental Gods virtual solstice party
December 20, 2021 15:13 - 1 hour - 156 MBAs we head down into the dark nights of the year, the quiet time of introspection, of assessing the year just gone and thinking forward to the one yet to come, Accidental Gods joins with the hosts of Upstream and The Hive podcasts: 3 women engaged in the best of change to bring the world to a flourishing future. This is now official solstice tradition - we three explore the questions we've asked others through the year, look at what moved us in our podcast interviews and what the...
Winter Book Round up with Manda - Best of the Fiction, non-fiction - and podcasts - to share this season
December 15, 2021 06:00 - 38 minutes - 88.5 MBWhat are the best, most readable, most inspiring and most give-able books this season? Manda's solstice list of her favourite Fiction and non-Fiction books read in 2021. Plus a bonus handful of must-listen podcasts. Here we go, people of the podcast - the books and their links. I've linked through Blackwells, because I used to love Heffers (part of the same chain) when I was in Cambridge. Do obviously feel free to support your local bookshop. KSR: The Ministry for the Future ...
Ministry for the Future: exploring the ways through that work with Kim Stanley Robinson
December 08, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBHow can we get from the current edge-of-catastrophe to a world where we have addressed the huge issues of the climate and ecological emergency? Only in fiction can we bring the answers together in a vision of a better world. Author Kim Stanley Robinson talks about his 'The Ministry for the Future' - One of Barack Obama's favourite books of last year. 'If I could get policymakers and citizens everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson's The Minis...
Your money or our lives: Economics, Green New Deal and a post-COP world with James Meadway
December 01, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBHow can we shape our economies in a post-COP, decarbonising world? How can we build a way of exchanging value that actually works in favour of our planet, not against it? Dr James Meadway, former economic advisor to John McDonnell on how redistribution can take place, and how to reshape our political landscape. Dr Meadway's work has focused on developing viable alternatives to neoliberalism, and has published widely on democratic ownership, environmental economics, and automa...
Weaving the Web of Meaning: Building Eco-Civilisation with Jeremy Lent
November 24, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 145 MBHow do we evolve the radical new sense of community, connectivity, mutual support - and resilience - that we need as we move into a world of climate breakdown? Jeremy Lent's book The Web of Meaning is the 2nd of 3 that build a picture of an eco-civilisation. In this week's episode, we explore the ways we can all be part of the solution. Jeremy Lent, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work ...
Transport for a flourishing Future: Zero deaths, Zero Emissions, Zero Carbon - with John Whitelegg.
November 17, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 155 MBAs we lurch towards irreversible climate chaos, how can we begin to pull back from the edge? This week, we look specifically at the area of transport: how can we be mobile and yet reach the 3 Zeroes of Death, Emissions and Carbon? What would it mean to live in an area with fair, free, extensive public transport? And how can we make this happen. Our lively, inspiring conversation with Dr John Whitelegg has answers. Dr John Whitelegg, BA PhD LLB, is visiting professor, School of ...
New Myths for Humanity: With Alina Siegfried, author of 'A Future Untold'
November 10, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBIf the stories of our culture are of separation, scarcity and powerlessness, how can we build new stories, new myths, new ideas of how we can be different? Alina Siegfried has explored the deep concepts of the stories of our world, and how we can reshape them. We are the stories we tell ourselves - about who we are and where we're going. In our small day to day decisions, we think how our stories of ourselves will be enhanced by the things we do. So when all our stories have bee...