Latest Thrutopian Podcast Episodes
Be Kind, Be Useful, Create Giants in the Sky: transforming community with Alan Lane of Slung Low
Accidental Gods - March 01, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThe Accidental Gods podcast exists to set the conditions for emergence into a new system: to bring a critical mass of us to a place where emergence into a new system is a rewarding reality. To get there, we bring to you some of the many astonishingly creative, compassionate, switched-o...
One Planet Living: Mapping Minds to create a new Consciousness, with Pooran Desai, OBE.
Accidental Gods - February 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIt is our mission on this podcast - and the wider membership community from which it arose - to open doors and break down barriers, to bring forward the ideas and the actions of, and give voice to, the absolutely amazingly creative people who get that business is not usual, that the re...
Saving Chocolate! and finding solutions to the meta crisis with Nicola Peel
Accidental Gods - February 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAccidental Gods podcast exists to open doors and break down barriers, to bring forward the ideas and the actions of and give voice to the gloriously creative people who give their lives to the idea and realisation of a regenerative future. In this wide-ranging conversation with Soluti...
Living in a Post-Carbon, Post-Capital, Post Urban world - with Chris Smaje, author of A Small Farm Future
Accidental Gods - February 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsChris Smaje is a social scientist by training and a small-scale farmer by occupation. For the past 19 years, he has co-worked a small farm in Somerset, in southwest England. Previously, he was a university-based social scientist, working in the Department of Sociology at the University...
Unlocking Curiosity: Regenerating Business from the packaging up with Jo Chidley of Re and Beauty Kitchen
Accidental Gods - February 01, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsJo Chidley is one of those forces of nature, unconstrained by the way things are usually done. As the co-founders of Beauty Kitchen, she and her partner refused venture capital, keeping their business free to become a B-Corp and to put people and planet ahead of profit. She's dedicate...
Stop eating Chicken! - The future of food with Rob Percival, author of The Meat Paradox
Accidental Gods - January 25, 2023 06:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsRob Percival is a writer, campaigner and food policy expert with The Soil Association. His commentary on food and farming has featured in the national press and on prime time television, and his writing has been shortlisted for the Guardian’s International Development Journalism Prize a...
Cultures of Commoning: Quadratic voting, indigenous connectivity and pacifist chess with Ruth Catlow
Accidental Gods - January 18, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis week's conversation ranges over an astonishingly wide range of topics from ways to facilitate interspecies communication through play and ways to play 3-person pacifist chess (and thereby change the world), to the nature of democracy and how the use of quadratic voting on the block...
Being the Change: Journeys in Service to Life with Gail Bradbrook
Accidental Gods - January 11, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis week's guest is a friend of the podcast, Dr Gail Bradbrook. Best known for her role in co-founding Extinction Rebellion, Gail is one of our nation's (and our world's) deepest thinkers on radical change: what will it take to shift the juggernaut of predatory capitalism from the org...
Plan. Pause. Reset: Real Steps to Radical Transformation with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
Accidental Gods - January 04, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsEva is a climate activist, process designer and facilitator. She has co-convened the Transformative Conflict for Transition Network summit, supports sociocratic system development, decision-making and facilitation in many contexts including Extinction Rebellion Scotland. Justin is an an...
Three years on: Manda's reflections on our third anniversary - and looking forward into 2023
Accidental Gods - December 30, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAs we move from our third to our fourth year, it seemed like a good time to look back on the origins of the whole Accidental Gods project - why and how we started and what our original aims were - and then to look forward to the coming year and what we're focussing on both on the podcas...
Food, Farming and Feeding the Soul: with Satish Kumar in conjunction with the Oxford Real Farming Conference
Accidental Gods - December 28, 2022 06:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsSatish Kumar is one of the absolute titans of the Regenerative movement in the UK. In 1962, he and and one of his fellow Jain monks made an 8,000 mile mendicant peace pilgrimage around the world, stopping in the capitals of what the nuclear nations of the earth: Russia, USA, China, Fra...
Traditional Solstice Celebration: Looking back and looking forward with Della Duncan and Nathalie Nahai
Accidental Gods - December 20, 2022 12:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAs the year stills and tilts afresh, we bring you our annual moment of reflection with two podcast hosts we really admire. There's a meditation at the end, to bring you into your own space of stillness and reflection, but ahead of this, we delve into where we think the global human psy...
Earthborne Rangers: Playing our way to a future that works with Andrew Navaro
Accidental Gods - December 14, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThe average child in the western world attends 10,000 hours of school - and plays 20,000 hours of games. In the 'adult' world, many of us spend hours devoted to levelling up our characters and exploring imaginary worlds. If the Tech-bros get their way, we'll soon live entirely in the ...
Living Well within our Limits: Actions for systemic change with Prof Julia Steinberger
Accidental Gods - December 07, 2022 06:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsProfessor Julia Steinberger researches and teaches in the interdisciplinary areas of Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology. She is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for her research project 'Living Well Within Limits' investigating how universal human well-b...
Data is the New Plastic! Ethics, Accuracy and AI with Dr John Collins of Machine Intelligence Garage
Accidental Gods - November 30, 2022 06:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsDr John Collins worked for the UK's Central Electricity Generating Board in the days when such things were nationalised industries. His PhD involved creating a real-time dosimeter for workers in nuclear plants so they didn't have to wait 2 weeks to learn the results of the film-based do...
Telling the Truth and Moving Forward: Building the Moderate Flank with Rupert Read
Accidental Gods - November 23, 2022 06:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsRupert Read is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, but he is also a Green party activist, and a prolific speaker, media spokesperson and author advocating for a wholehearted, whole-culture response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency. A long-term fr...
End of year round-up: Manda's favourite podcasts, fiction and non-fiction of 2022
Accidental Gods - November 16, 2022 06:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAs we do each year, we've curated a list of the Accidental Gods' favourite podcast and books of 2022. Enjoy! Podcasts Nate Hagens The Great Simplification - fourth of four (so far) with Daniel Schmachtenberger https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-great-simplification-with-nate-...
Regenerative by Design: Creating Communities that work with Charlie Fisher of Transition by Design
Accidental Gods - November 09, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn a world that feels as if all the certainties are breaking down, how can we build the communities of place and of purpose that will give us the resilience to bridge from the old structures to the new? Exploring deeply practical ways to build community with Charlie Fisher. Charlie ...
Fractal Improv: finding generosity, connection and compassion amidst our fear with Belina Raffy
Accidental Gods - November 02, 2022 13:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe know our climate is in crisis and that time is running out. But we also know that screaming at people to wake up is not working. What if we gave ourselves permission to tell the truth - and the skills to do it with humour and compassion so that we didn't trigger the resistances of f...
Compass: Charting a Progressive Route through the Political Maelstrom with Neal Lawson
Accidental Gods - October 26, 2022 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn a world where our 'democracy' is manifestly not fit for purpose, how can we turn the brief, bright fireworks of political sanity into floodlights of progressive values, of liquid democracy that leads to an equitable, regenerative culture? With Neal Lawson of the progressive campaign...
The Kindness of Strangers: Ocean Rowing, Solitude and Transformation with Dr Roz Savage MBE
Accidental Gods - October 19, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWhat happens when we realise we're trying to be something we're not? For Roz Savage, this led to a transformation that took her from Management Consultant to the first woman to row solo across the world's 3 big oceans. Now she devotes her life to the healing of the planet. Dr Roz Sava...
Matereality and Corporate Mischief: reshaping Business as if the job were to create a world that works with B.Lorraine Smith
Accidental Gods - October 12, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWhat if businesses existed not to price-gouge consumers and destroy the planet, but to be part of a pathway to a flourishing future? What if the end-of-year reports were not expensive exercises in greenwash, but were actually truthful - and useful. With B.Lorraine Smith, creator of Ma...
Flourish: Designing new paradigms and expanding our agency with Sarah Ichioka
Accidental Gods - October 05, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWhat will it take to restore balance in our world? How can we repair our devastated environments, and secure future generations' survival? And what's they key to unlock the mindset shift to enable truly regenerative transformation? With Sarah Ichioka, co-author of 'Flourish: Design Pa...
Planet, not Profit: Envisioning a genuinely sustainable future in a not-for-profit world with Jennifer Hinton
Accidental Gods - September 28, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe live in a world run by profiteers: the rush to make money destroys people and planet with equal disregard. But how would the world look if all businesses existed to promote wellbeing in all its forms? How could we make this work? Re-imagining our relationship to profit with Dr Jennif...
Re-Enchantment: Creating rituals to re-discover our embodied sovereignty with Isla McLeod
Accidental Gods - September 21, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWhat do we do when we feel disempowered, disconnected, alone and afraid? We can throw ourselves more deeply into social media, drink, drugs and deeper disconnection…or we can build rituals with intention, creativity, gratitude and kindness that re-connect us with the web of life. With...
The Meat Paradox: Ethics, morality and shamanic spirituality: exploring the politics of protein with Rob Percival
Accidental Gods - September 14, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe 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...
Hagitude: Paving the way to empowered elderhood with Sharon Blackie
Accidental Gods - September 07, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings"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...
Beyond the tribal divisions of right and wrong: Exploring Restorative Engagement with Sophie Docker
Accidental Gods - August 31, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe 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 t...
Co-Creators of the future: exploring the birth of a new education system with YouthxYouth co-founder Zineb Mouhyi
Accidental Gods - August 24, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsZineb 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. ...
A Wild Farming Life: Building a regenerative croft from scratch with Lynn Cassells
Accidental Gods - August 17, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsLynn 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 pur...
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