Nordic By Nature
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNordic By Nature is inspired by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, who coined the term Deep Ecology. Each episode is spacious, mindful soundscape, created for you to listen with your headphones. Transcripts available on imaginarylife.net/podcast and foundnature.org/podcast
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Episode 12: ON GOOD COUNTRIES
August 20, 2020 08:58 - 42 minutes - 23.3 MBSimon’s latest book, The Good Country Equation: How We Can Repair the World in One Generation is full of amusing and sometimes surreal anecdotes from a long and colorful career meeting with all sorts of political leaders. His ultimate aim was to help increase the type of international cooperation that can solve the challenges of globalization. His core message to world leaders is still as clear; do good and good comes to you, but change the way nations behave now, because our surviv...
Episode 11: ON NARRATIVES
December 13, 2019 17:00 - 55 minutes - 37.4 MBTom Crompton’s research into values shows that the dominant narrative of the selfishness of humankind is deeply flawed. Paul Allen presents a positive and attainable vision of the future, where technology creates smart, localised and integrated infrastructures that help us humans live in harmony with the planet for centuries to come. We then hear from Yuan Pan, whose work integrating biodiversity into the Natural Capital Framework at Cambridge University aims to help businesses a...
Episode 10: ON CONNECTED VOICES
December 03, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBWalid founded a ground-breaking news aggregation service in his home country of Yemen, which spurred him onto work with tracking Internet censorship and enabling activists and journalists to bypass government-imposed firewalls to access news and social media websites. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society (ISOC) and co-founder of the Society’s Blockchain Special Interest Group. His work in tech development for increasing Internet Access has earned him inter...
Episode 9: ON ART
November 15, 2019 16:00 - 43 minutes - 99.1 MBAjay Rastogi works closely with the women of Majkhali village in foothills of the Himalayas, in Uttarakhand, India, where making art is an intrinsic part of everyday life. Ajay set up the Vrikshalaya Centre there to be a meeting place and knowledge hub for the villagers and other communities in the Himalayan lowlands, as well as visitors and homestay guests interested in learning about more meaningful forms of sustainability. Catrine Gangstø is the founder of the Peace Painting F...
Episode 8: ON KNOWLEDGE
November 14, 2019 10:00 - 53 minutes - 31.8 MBFirst we hear from Ajay Rastogi who works closely with the women of Majkhali village in foothills of the Himalayas, in Uttarakhand, India. He set up the Vrikshalaya Centre there to be a meeting place and knowledge hub for the villagers and other communities in the Himalayan lowlands, as well as foreign visitors and homestay guests interested in more meaningful forms of sustainability. Then Nadia Bergamini speaks about facing the growing global challenges of population growth and c...
Episode 7: ON ETHICS
November 10, 2019 22:00 - 44 minutes - 58.1 MBBoth Ajay Rastogi and Dr John, as his students call him, are part of an growing movement that calls for a new kind of ethics that views all places as part of our home, all generations and beings as part of our scope of responsibility, and all actions as potential expressions of human care for the world. Dr. John and Ajay were at the Foundation’s HQ, the Vrikshalaya centre, in Majkhali village, at the foothills of the Himlayas, at the time of this recording. Every year Dr. John a...
Episode 6. ON BELONGING
October 23, 2019 09:00 - 58 minutes - 135 MBFirst you hear the words of Andrew and Kayla Blanchflower, tipi dwellers and makers whose way of the life can be an inspiration to all of us to live lighter. Andrew and Kayla met and fell in love in Oregon in the States, and decided to raise their family ‘off the grid’ with a closer contact to the earth and Mother Nature. You will then hear Yvette Neshi Lokotz teacher of hand drumming and practitioner of the Medicine Wheel or Sacred Hoop healing, and tribal member of the Potawatom...
Episode 5. ON HAPPINESS
October 10, 2019 08:00 - 52 minutes - 121 MBFirst, we hear Tim Kasser, currently a professor of psychology at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, USA. He has authored over 100 scientific articles and book chapters on materialism, values, goals, well-being, and environmental sustainability, among other topics. In 2018, he collaborated with the cartoonist Larry Gonick to create HyperCapitalism: The modern economy, its values, and how to change them. Then we hear Dasho Dr. Karma Ura, President of the Centre for Bhutan & GNH St...
Episode 4. ON TRANSFORMATION
September 17, 2019 12:00 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MBTomas is the author of the book The World We Create and the co-author of The Nordic Secret. He is a founding member of the Swedish youth association Protus for lifelong learning and philosophical exploration. In 2016, he founded the Research Institute Perspectiva in London together with Jonathan Rowson - to inspire our political, academic and business leaders to examine real world problems with a deeper appreciation of the influence of our inner worlds. In 2017, in partnership wit...
Episode 3: ON INNER RESILIENCE
September 02, 2019 07:00 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MBNordic By Nature is a mindful podcast inspired by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess who coined the term deep ecology. In this episode, ON INNER RESILIENCE, you will hear from Ajay Rastogi, is the co-founder of the Foundation for the Contemplation of Nature (foundnature.org). Together with the village residents, Ajay runs experiential 'Resilience Leadership' homestay courses in the Himalayan village of Majkhali in Uttarakhand, India. You will then meet conservationist Noor A N...
Episode 2: ON SURVIVAL
August 22, 2019 21:55 - 1 hour - 157 MBNordic By Nature is a mindful podcast with a global perspective, inspired by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, who coined the term Deep Ecology. Nordic By Nature is created for you to listen with your headphones. Culinary curator Monika Kucia from Poland talks about how she takes the ego out of food. Design Leader and author Daniel Christian Wahl discuss bio-regional development. The founder of the NGO Local Futures, Helena Norberg Hodge, discusses the benefits of 'localisatio...
Episode 1: ON ACTIVISM
June 05, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour - 34.2 MBNordic By Nature is a mindful podcast with a global perspective, inspired by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, who coined the term Deep Ecology. Nordic By Nature is created for you to listen with your headphones. In this episode On Activism, you will meet Satish Kumar, world leading activist for over 50 years, Marijn van de Geer, active member of Extinction Rebellion that recently staged a 10-day international rebellion declaring a climate emergency and, Siti Kasim, human righ...