Latest Thrutopian Podcast Episodes
The Politics of Being: Wisdom and Science for the new world with Dr Thomas Legrand
Accidental Gods - August 10, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHolding 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 f...
Banking on the Beetles: Creating a local circular agro-economy with Liberty Nimmo of The Three Turnips
Accidental Gods - August 03, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsBy 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. ...
Of Course We Can! Lifting the lid on possibility with James Brown, mulit-Paralympian Gold Medalist and Climate Activist
Accidental Gods - July 27, 2022 05:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsJames 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 Gam...
Bridging the Gap: finding truth, reconciliation and climate justice with Saurav Roy
Accidental Gods - July 20, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWith 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 E...
Trees, Trees, Trees! How we can grow food around, within and on them - with Ben Raskin
Accidental Gods - July 13, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsBen 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, woodchi...
Weaving with the Land: The future of regenerative farming with Caroline Grindrod
Accidental Gods - July 06, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsCaroline 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 passi...
Finding the adjacent possible: routes to political and social transformation with Dave Snowden of The Cynefin Company
Accidental Gods - June 29, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHe 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 Researc...
Designing Education fit for the 21st Century with Prof David John Helfand
Accidental Gods - June 22, 2022 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe 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? W...
How the World is making our Children Mad - and what to do about it - with Louis Weinstock
Accidental Gods - June 15, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow 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, chi...
Connecting with Power: How the media could reframe our world - and why the must - with Donnachadh McCarthy
Accidental Gods - June 08, 2022 08:22 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsDonnachadh 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 ...
Connecting with Power: How the media could reframe our world - and why they must - with Donnachadh McCarthy
Accidental Gods - June 08, 2022 08:22 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow 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 ...
Net Positive: Designing a regenerative future with Prof Janis Birkeland
Accidental Gods - June 01, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow 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 A...
Imagination Activism: exploring radically better futures (and SolarPunk) with Phoebe Tickell
Accidental Gods - May 25, 2022 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWhat 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 i...
BioRegionalism: The Design Path for Regenerating Earth with Joe Brewer
Accidental Gods - May 18, 2022 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThe 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 a...
Regenerative Renaissance: Managing the new economy with Rieki Cordon of Seeds. Part 2 of 2
Accidental Gods - May 11, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsRevolutions 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 currenc...
Regenerative Renaissance: Weaving new worlds with cryptocurrencies based on community, with Rieki Cordon of Seeds. Part 1 of 2
Accidental Gods - May 04, 2022 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe 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 ...
Thrutopia Bonus: 10th Anniversary of Sacred Economics: Charles and Jimi Eistenstein with Della Duncan
Accidental Gods - April 29, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsFor 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 da...
Thrutopia Bonus: 10th Anniversary of Sacred Economics: Charles and Jimi Eisenstein with Della Duncan
Accidental Gods - April 29, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIt'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 talk...
Waking Up: Power, possibility and politics in a Fractal Age with Indra Adnan
Accidental Gods - April 27, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe 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 visi...
Beautiful Methane: Powering the transformation with Will Llewellyn
Accidental Gods - April 20, 2022 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe 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. W...
Transformative Connection: Mapping the way through with Thrutopia's originator: Rupert Read
Accidental Gods - April 13, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn 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...
Down to Earth Derby: Growing a city Green from the inside out
Accidental Gods - April 06, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAs 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 Ro...
Buccaneer Economics: Blowing away the old and inventing what works with Prof. Steve Keen
Accidental Gods - March 30, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOur 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,...
The Business of Awakening: Finding a generative future within our businesses with Garry Turner
Accidental Gods - March 23, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIf 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 mode...
The Gentle Power of Craftivism: With Sarah Corbett of the Craftivist Collective
Accidental Gods - March 16, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWhat 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 C...
What's an Economy for, anyway? Building an economy for people and planet with Yannick Beaudoin
Accidental Gods - March 09, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWhat'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-Ge...
Manda's Basic Tips for Writers
Accidental Gods - March 07, 2022 17:05 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThrutopia 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 he...
Daring to risk: finding our purpose in a turbulent world with Maggie Ostara.
Accidental Gods - March 02, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWhat 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 po...
Activism by Design with David Johnson of the Stanford Law School
Accidental Gods - February 23, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow 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 a...
Stairway to Heaven: Food, Farming and the Regeneration of our landscapes with Patrick Holden of the Sustainable Food Trust
Accidental Gods - February 16, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow 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 Sustaina...
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