Latest Thrutopia Podcast Episodes
The Tools we Need: Raising the Collaborative Commons with Resilience Strategist Michael Haupt
Accidental Gods - July 10, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe know by now that the old system is crumbling, that the old paradigms are no longer fit for purpose and we need to take part in the birth of something new: this is what this podcast is for. But what are the tools and how can we begin actually to build something relevant and useful wit...
How the System is Slaying Us - and What to Do About It: Getting Healthy in Toxic Times with Dr Jenny Goodman
Accidental Gods - July 03, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow does our increasing destruction of the earth's biosphere also impact our health? What diseases are we seeing in almost pandemic proportions and how much younger are the people in whom we're seeing them? Above all, what can we do to step away from the system that's extracting every...
Election Special 4: What is Governance for and how can we shape genuine democracy - with Glen Weyl of the Plurality Institute
Accidental Gods - June 28, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIf the current electoral/governance system is not fit for purpose (and who could possibly imagine it was?) how can we lay the foundations for new ways of organising democracy, new ways of voting, new ideas of what governance is for and how it could work in the twenty-first century. How,...
Beautiful Trouble - crafting a political Alternative - and an independent Scotland - with Indra Adnan and Pat Kane
Accidental Gods - June 26, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThe question of how we reshape democracy, walking the fine line between stagnation and populist rage - is the defining problem of our time - with a coherent strategy, we can shape anything. In its absence, we’re going to end up spinning in pointless circles, arguing about trivia while t...
Election Special 3 - Labour party Manifesto - anything worthwhile? with Jeremy Gilbert
Accidental Gods - June 23, 2024 13:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWhat are we being offered by the incoming Labour Government? What's good in their Manifesto (spoiler alert, not very much)? What's not good? What could be improved upon and how do we go about pushing them to a place where they actually do something useful that isn't simply a repeat of t...
Taking back the Power: Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels and onto the good stuff with Howard Johns of OneZero
Accidental Gods - June 19, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsToday we're blowing open a route towards energy security, reduced carbon footprint and saving money - all in the way we make, distribute and use power. If each of us could minimise our own power use, we'd be a step on the way to reducing our overall carbon footprint: more, we'd be chan...
The Jay, The Beech and The Limpetshell with author Richard Smyth
Accidental Gods - June 12, 2024 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOur guest this week is Richard Smyth, author, crossword designer, cartoonist - and father of two young children Richard writes features, reviews and comment pieces for publications including The Guardian, The Times LiterarySupplement, The New Statesman, and New Scientist. His crossword...
Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Politics - Election Special 2 with Baroness Natalie Bennett of the Green Party
Accidental Gods - June 10, 2024 17:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsin this second election special, we talk to Natalie Bennett (or Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle if we're going to be forma - but she said we didn't need to be) - one of two Green Party members in the House of Lords. Natalie is author of the Book 'Change Everything: How we can rethink,...
Answers to the Questions of life: Biomimicry, Complexity and Peacebuilding with Dr Deborah Benham
Accidental Gods - June 05, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOur guest this week is Dr Deborah Benham, Biomimicry Educator, Transition Town Co-Lead Link and Deep Nature Connection facilitator - which puts her in a place to really unpick what it will take for us to depart the crumbling remains of late-stage capitalism and build a world based on co...
Breaking the Doom-Loop of UK Politics with Neal Lawson of Compass
Accidental Gods - June 04, 2024 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsBuy Manda's book here Our first Election Special with friend of the podcast, Neal Lawson. Neal is Director of the progressive campaign group, Compass and co-host of the Compass podcast ,called It's Bloody Complicated. Neal is a long-time progressive campaigner and a tireless advocate ...
Wild shamanic theatre and becoming embodied: with Jessica Buckler of the ALEF Trust
Accidental Gods - May 29, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis week's guest, Jessica Bockler is one of those people who sparks every fire in my being - and i hope in yours, too. Jessica is an applied theatre practitioner and transpersonal psychologist who co-founded the Alef Trust a globally-conscious non-profit organisation offering online...
The Story is in our Bones: Rewilding Ourselves with author and activist Osprey Orielle Lake
Accidental Gods - May 22, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOnce in a while, a book comes along that changes how we see the world, that re-sets something fundamental in who we are and our capacity to engage with the Web of Life. Braided Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer was one of these: at once poetically beautiful, spiritually inspiring and d...
Any Human Power - Manda Scott talks about her new Thrutopian Mytho-Political thriller
Accidental Gods - May 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis week the tables are turned and Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture Magazine interviews Manda about her new 'seismic' Mytho-Political thriller, Any Human Power, which will be available from 30th May. "From a bestselling storyteller who brings together myths and speculative futur...
No such thing as Waste, No such place as 'Away'! - Composting our way out of the meta-crisis with Nicky Grady Scott
Accidental Gods - May 08, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsJoin us on a deep dive into the transformative world of composting with Nicky Grady Scott, a master composter and educator whose expertise is revolutionizing our approach to waste and regenerative cycles. In this enlightening episode, Nicky shares his journey from a passionate 16-year-o...
Writing the Deluge: Dark nights, Apocalypse and Hope with author Stephen Markley
Accidental Gods - May 01, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAuthor Stephen Markley opens the doors to The Deluge, his ground-breaking, world-changing Climate/MetaCrisis thriller- 900 pages that absolutely squarely rips into the current system in all its deficiencies - and offers a route through to a future that might work. This week's guest is...
Eco-Spirituality - Exploring Deep in the Woods of the Divine with Woodford Roberts and Rupert Read
Accidental Gods - April 24, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn this deep, thoughtful conversation, two of the men at the heart of the Climate Majority Project discuss their own journeys into eco-spirituality - what they believe it to be and why it's a core, foundational bedrock of their lives. If you follow anything else that Faith and I do to...
What do we really think about Food? Revolutionising what we eat with Sue Pritchard of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
Accidental Gods - April 17, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe're told so often that people 'don't want the nanny state to intervene' in what we eat or drink or smoke - and often the people saying this are those who employ literal nannies to raise their children. But is it true? What would we learn if someone courageous, with vision, depth and...
How do we live, when under the surface of everything is an ocean of tears? With Douglas Rushkoff of Team Human
Accidental Gods - April 10, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOur guest this week is Douglas Rushkoff, a man whose insights and intellect have earned him a place among the world's ten most influential intellectuals by MIT. As the host of the acclaimed Team Human podcast and author of numerous groundbreaking books, including "Survival of the Riches...
Evolving Education: Building a Doughnut School with Jenny Grettve of When!When!
Accidental Gods - April 03, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis week's guest is one of those people whose breadth and depth is an inspiration. As you are about to hear, Jenny Grettve is an author, a philosopher, a systems thinker who takes her ideas and brings them alive in the world. She's the founder and director of When! When!, a design stu...
Building Trust - One Conversation at at Time: Cooperation Hull with Gully Bujak
Accidental Gods - March 27, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsToday we venture into the heart of Hull, where the seeds of change are being sown by the hands of ordinary people. Gully Bujak, our guest this week, is a force of nature who, since her awakening to the climate crisis in 2018, has channeled her energy into the creation of Cooperation Hul...
Vulture Capitalism - Exposing the toxic system and how to outgrow it with Grace Blakeley
Accidental Gods - March 20, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis week's guest is one of those who understands the nuts and bolts - the iniquities - of the current system - and has ideas of how we can shape something better from the hot mess of corruption and greed in which we're mired. Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune Magazine and a...
Accidental Gods Spring Equinox Meditation 2024
Accidental Gods - March 19, 2024 06:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings"Consciousness creates Matter Language creates Reality Ritual creates Relationship" - Oscar Mira-Quesada quoted by Nina Simons in podcast #218 Part of our moving towards a healed and healthy culture for humanity is rewilding our relationships with ourselves, each other and the earth. ...
Seeds of Hope: Cultivating a Future of Flavour and Resilience with Sinead Fortune and Kate Hastings of the Gaia Foundation
Accidental Gods - March 13, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn this nourishing episode of Accidental Gods, we delve into the fertile world of seed sovereignty with Katie Hastings and Sinead Fortune of the Gaia Foundation's Seed Sovereignty Programme. Katie, hailing from the lush landscapes of Wales, and Sinead, rooted in the rugged beauty of rur...
Finding a Cure for Civilisation: Delving Deep into the Roots of Being with visionary and shaman, Drea Burbank of Savimbo.
Accidental Gods - March 06, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings“Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.” — Oscar Auliq Ice - quoted on Savimbo website In this pivotal episode, we journey with Drea Burbank from the depths of a fundamentalist Mormon cult to the rainforests of the Colombian Amazon. Drea's lif...
River Charters, Net Zero Cities and BioRegional Banks: Creating a Life-Ennobling Economic System with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs
Accidental Gods - February 28, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn this week's episode of Accidental Gods, we dive into the visionary world of economic transformation with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs. Emily, a chartered accountant with an MA in regenerative economics, is not your average number cruncher. She's at the forefront of reimagining ou...
Dung Beetles, People and helping the Keystone Species with Claire Whittle, the Regenerative Vet
Accidental Gods - February 21, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn this week's episode we delve into the intricate world of dung beetles and their critical role in regenerative farming with the passionate and knowledgeable Claire Whittle, the Regenerative Vet. Claire's journey from a conventional large animal practitioner to a fervent advocate for f...
End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken and How we Fix it, with James Plunkett
Accidental Gods - February 14, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis week, I spoke with James Plunkett, a man who has spent his career at the intersection of policy and social change. From the halls of Number Ten to the charity sector's front lines, James's unique perspective has birthed a book that critically examines what's wrong with our society ...
Growing a Public Chorus for Change: reshaping democracy with Alex Lockwood of the Humanity Project
Accidental Gods - February 07, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe don't have a democracy, we have a kleptocracy that elevates to positions of power those amongst us who are most comfortable with leaning into their inner Dark Triad of Psychopathy, Narcissism and basic low cunning. Then, when they get there, we're surprised that they go on to wreak ...
Dancing with the god within: Finding the Sovereign Feminine with thought-leader Maggie Ostara
Accidental Gods - January 31, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow does each of us find our sovereignty, our sense of what it is to have agency and be alive in the world, and align this with the part in all of us that is anchored in compassion, connection and empathy? How, in short, do we encounter and encourage our own sovereign feminine? Dr Mag...
On Nature, Culture and The Sacred with Elder and Visionary, Nina Simons
Accidental Gods - January 24, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings"Consciousness creates matter, Language Creates Reality, Ritual creates relationship' - Oscar Miro-Quesada quoted by Nina Simons in her book ’Nature, Culture and the Sacred’ One of the extraordinary privileges of hosting a podcast like this is that I get to talk to some of my heroes, to as...
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