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The Whispers of a New World: Stepping into a different future with Tamsin Omond, activist and visionary

Accidental Gods - February 09, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we shape our culture to be one where everyone thrives?  How can we write our new stories where everyone is heroic?  How can we connect to the world of spirit in ways that include everyone? With Tamsin Omond, climate activist, strategist, organiser and author of DO/Earth.  Since...

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Thrutopia Masterclass: Writing our Way to a Future we can be Proud to leave as our Legacy.

Accidental Gods - February 05, 2022 13:18 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
We live on stories. We thrive on visions of futures we want - or terrify ourselves with those we definitely don't.  But when it comes to our own near-term future, we don't have the stories that tell us how we got it right.  So we need to write them - Urgently!  One of the things that ...

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Business Unusual: Can Business sweep us to a Regenerative Future? With Nathalie Nahai

Accidental Gods - February 02, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
In a world where governments are failing on all levels, can regenerative business be the change we need to see in the world?  Can the new wave of meaningful work create the sense of coherence and community and connectedness to the earth that we need to take us forward?   Nathalie Nahai...

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Earth Alchemy, Ceremonies and Soul Journeys with shamanic teacher Isla McLeod

Accidental Gods - January 26, 2022 06:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
What is the nature of being and belonging in the current world? How can we honour the rite of passage that is happening, and let go of the old ways, let them die to the past, live in the liminal space of unknowing, and step into a future that emerges from the best of who we are?    Isl...

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The UnderTorah: Exploring an Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams with Rabbi Jill Hammer

Accidental Gods - January 19, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How do we understand dreams in ways that make sense of 21st Century life?  How can we interpret them in ways that have meaning for us as individuals, in the complexity of our lives?  Rabbi Jill Hammer has explored the depths of dreams and dreaming with her new book - and here talks to u...

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Communities of craft and purpose: building a future that works with Alice Holloway of the London Urban Textiles Commons

Accidental Gods - January 12, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we find joy in life again? How can we create beautiful things to wear that allow us to be the best of ourselves - and build community while we do it?  Alice Holloway is co-founder of London Urban Textiles Commons, and she's committed to finding the answers.  Join us for an inspi...

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Parenting in the Climate Emergency: Building a future we'd be proud to leave to our children - with Eva Bishop

Accidental Gods - January 05, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we be the best possible stewards of the future for our children?  How can we meet their eco-anxiety and teach them resilience, adaptation and give them the skills of systemic thinking that will help them navigate the uncertainties to come?    Eva Bishop is mother of two young c...

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Power to change the world - for good or really, really bad. With Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute

Accidental Gods - December 29, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
What is Power?  How do we use it: both power over each other, and the power that fuels the world?  How could we use it better? In this, our ninth season (and third year), we are aiming to look more deeply into the ways we might create a flourishing future that we would be proud to lea...

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Three-Way Solstice PodBoom: The Hive, Upstream and Accidental Gods virtual solstice party

Accidental Gods - December 20, 2021 15:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
As we head down into the dark nights of the year, the quiet time of introspection, of assessing the year just gone and thinking forward to the one yet to come, Accidental Gods joins with the hosts of Upstream and The Hive podcasts: 3 women engaged in the best of change to bring the worl...

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Winter Book Round up with Manda - Best of the Fiction, non-fiction - and podcasts - to share this season

Accidental Gods - December 15, 2021 06:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
 What are the best, most readable, most inspiring and most give-able books this season?  Manda's solstice list of her favourite Fiction and non-Fiction books read in 2021. Plus a bonus handful of must-listen podcasts.  Here we go, people of the podcast - the books and their links. I've...

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Ministry for the Future: exploring the ways through that work with Kim Stanley Robinson

Accidental Gods - December 08, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we get from the current edge-of-catastrophe to a world where we have addressed the huge issues of the climate and ecological emergency?  Only in fiction can we bring the answers together in a vision of a better world.  Author Kim Stanley Robinson talks about his 'The Ministry fo...

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Your money or our lives: Economics, Green New Deal and a post-COP world with James Meadway

Accidental Gods - December 01, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we shape our economies in a post-COP, decarbonising world?   How can we build a way of exchanging value that actually works in favour of our planet, not against it?  Dr James Meadway, former economic advisor to John McDonnell on how redistribution can take place, and how to resh...

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Weaving the Web of Meaning: Building Eco-Civilisation with Jeremy Lent

Accidental Gods - November 24, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How do we evolve the radical new sense of community, connectivity, mutual support - and resilience - that we need as we move into a world of climate breakdown?  Jeremy Lent's book The Web of Meaning is the 2nd of 3 that build a picture of an eco-civilisation.  In this week's episode, we...

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Transport for a flourishing Future: Zero deaths, Zero Emissions, Zero Carbon - with John Whitelegg.

Accidental Gods - November 17, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
As we lurch towards irreversible climate chaos, how can we begin to pull back from the edge?  This week, we look specifically at the area of transport: how can we be mobile and yet reach the 3 Zeroes of Death, Emissions and Carbon?  What would it mean to live in an area with fair, free,...

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New Myths for Humanity: With Alina Siegfried, author of 'A Future Untold'

Accidental Gods - November 10, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
If the stories of our culture are of separation, scarcity and powerlessness, how can we build new stories, new myths, new ideas of how we can be different?  Alina Siegfried has explored the deep concepts of the stories of our world, and how we can reshape them.  We are the stories we ...

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Untangling the Entanglements of Activism with Anthea Lawson, activist, author and organiser

Accidental Gods - November 03, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Anthea Lawson is a campaigner who’s interested in the connections between our inner lives and the world we create together.    In a world of such astonishing inequity, where ever fewer people hold ever more power, how do those of us whose lives are given to change, meet the reality th...

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COP26 and Beyond: Future strategies to keep us alive with Rupert Read

Accidental Gods - October 27, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
What is the bare minimum we need world leaders to agree at COP26 and what can we do if they fail?  Rupert Read, academic philosopher, author and climate activist discusses the urgency of the moment - and how a 'moderate flank' of climate activists can grow out of the COP.  Dr Rupert R...

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Be What you Love: total systemic change, one fractal conversation at a time: with Dr Anna Birney of Forum for the Future

Accidental Gods - October 20, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
If we are going to meet the challenges of the climate, ecological and cultural crisis, we're going to have to change the systems that surround us: Education systems, health care systems, food systems, economic systems... ultimately systems of government.  How can we do so peacefully and...

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The Future is Farming - Part 2 of 2 with Ffinlo Costain

Accidental Gods - October 13, 2021 06:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
As we understand more of the climate and ecological emergency, it becomes increasingly clear that Regenerative Agriculture needs to be one of the mainstays of our plans for systemic change.  Part 2 of 2 with Ffinlo Costain of Farmwel and the Farm Gate podcast. We live in an era of empt...

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Regenerative Farming - the key to the Climate and Ecological emergency: with Ffinlo Costain - Part 1 of 2

Accidental Gods - October 13, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, build living soil from the chaos of industrial farming, while growing healthy nutritious food and restoring our devastated ecosystems?  Regenerative farming has so many of the answers and this week we speak to the host of the FarmGate podcast, Ffinl...

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Towards a Progressive Future: politics and activism in the world of climate change with Jeremy Gilbert

Accidental Gods - October 06, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we build a progressive political movement that spans the world and that will take us to where we need to be: a future we can be proud of and towards which all of us will want to work?  Taking politics, activism, progressive ideals with Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and P...

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Medicine Woman Speaks: Deena Metzger, elder, wisdom-keeper, poet and visionary brings 19 Ways to a Viable Future

Accidental Gods - September 29, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we embrace our humanity and use it in service to the earth and all that lives?  How can we bring the best of ourselves to the best of the Web of Life in full understanding of the chaos of the moment, with full and open hearts?  Deena Metzger has given her life to finding answers...

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Thresholds to Truth: Conversations on Climate Change with younger generations with Louis Weinstock

Accidental Gods - September 22, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
In a world of uncertainty, transformation and potential catastrophe, how can we find our own truth and, from there, speak with authenticity to the children and young people in our lives about the world that is coming?  Louis Weinstock is a celebrated psychotherapist who finds ways to he...

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Sounds like Magic: a journey into the wild magic of sound with Caro C

Accidental Gods - September 15, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can sound edge us closer to the centre of ourselves, bring us closer into connection with our own authenticity and with the heart of the earth?  Caro C has produced the Accidental Gods Podcast since its inception.  Here, she talks about the wild magic of sound in all its forms.  Ca...

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Sounds like Magic: a journey into the wild magic of sound and its with Caro C

Accidental Gods - September 15, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Caro C has been described as a Soul Enchantress (BBC Radio 3) and a 'One Woman Electronic Avalanche' (BBC Introducing), she's a composer and musician, a sound engineer and a solo performance artist. She's a rock climber and a dreamer, a creator of magic with all things sound.   She cre...

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Accidental Gods Podcast bookclub with writer and commentator, Ece Temelkuran

Accidental Gods - September 12, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Ece Temelkuran is an astonishingly astute, great-hearted writer. Joining us from Zagreb, she gave us an hour of wisdom, insight and compassion, based around her book 'TOGETHER: 10 Choices for a Better Now' - with an international audience and some cracking questions, this is our gift to...

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Circles of Power: Urban Micro Anaerobic Digestion with Rokiah Yaman

Accidental Gods - September 08, 2021 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we embed circular thinking in our food, energy, water & waste to benefit people and the planet?  LEAP Micro Anaerobic Digestion is building the systems in the UK, Nigeria, Malaysia and around the world to create local zero waste cultures that provide food and energy to their com...

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Thresholds of Being: Connecting to the webs of land, life and death with Dr Sharon Blackie

Accidental Gods - September 01, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
In a world where the only constant is change, how can we find the best of our wisdom?  How can we find true connection to the spirits of the places we live so that we might learn better how to be in the transition that is coming?  How, above all, can we approach death with equanimity, a...

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Power to the People: an Energy R-Evolution for the 21st Century with Howard Johns

Accidental Gods - August 25, 2021 05:56 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How are we going to create the power that we need in a world where fossil fuel use has to end?  How can we end the central control of power and keep safe our data in a world where data-mining is a pernicious - and lucrative - as coal mining?  Howard Johns has spent all his professional ...

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Beaver ReWilding: Gateway to Transformation - with Eva Bishop of the Beaver Trust

Accidental Gods - August 18, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we begin to reverse the destruction of our countryside, the pollution of our rivers - and our disconnection from the Natural World?  Beavers, of course.  Eva Bishop of the Beaver Trust tells of the UK introduction of beavers and puts it in a whole-system context.   The Beaver T...

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