Creating a future
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -I face the dramatic social, environmental and political situation we are in.
I am moved by inspirational people.
I outline a just, sustainable and happy society to strive for, in the European Union and beyond.
I propose concrete tools to achieve it.
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Episodes
Verle Spaepen, inventing the Circular Economy of clothing
March 23, 2020 05:00 - 3 minutes - 3.01 MBClothing, under its current model of throw-away “fast fashion” is one of the most polluting and resource-intensive industries. The EDO collective in Antwerp promotes clothing that lasts long, is repairable and is made ethically.
The collapse of cod fishing around Newfoundland (Canada)
March 22, 2020 05:00 - 3 minutes - 3.15 MBCods used to be so abundant around Newfoundland (Eastern coast of Canada) that fishermen came there all the way from Europe. Due to over-fishing, the population has collapsed brutally – with no sign of recovery.
Andreas Thiedmann, re-creating technologies of the past
March 21, 2020 05:00 - 3 minutes - 2.65 MBOur ancestors developed technologies that used very little resources or energy. Re-inventing these technologies with the current scienific capacities will be very useful to define the low-tech material world of a sustainable future.
Hot-house Earth
March 15, 2020 05:00 - 3 minutes - 3 MBGlobal warming is not just about increasing the power of air-conditioning by 1 or 2°C. If left unchecked, some self-reinforcing phenomena can bring it totally out of control.
Creating a future
March 14, 2020 17:00 - 3 minutes - 2.64 MBWhat this podcast intends to achieve, and the four main series: the challenges, inspirational people, the goal and the way forward.
A safe and equal society
February 27, 2020 05:00 - 3 minutes - 2.54 MBInequality and social insecurity are the root causes of stress (and of the social and health problems that it creates) and of compulsive and ostentatious consumption (at the root of our unsustainable society)
Social justice, sustainability, democracy
February 26, 2020 05:00 - 3 minutes - 3.16 MBThe happy society of the future will be socially just, environmentally sustainable and deeply democratic, in private organisations and at all scales of government. These three pillars mutually support each other.
Overcoming fear and paralysis
February 25, 2020 05:00 - 3 minutes - 2.76 MBWe need to create a desirable future for our European societies to overcome the fear that paralyses us when facing the challenges of the 21st century.