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Everybody Now: A PodBoom on The Climate and Ecological Emergency

Accidental Gods - January 28, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Everybody Now Climate Emergency and Sacred Duty     We’ve caused a turning point in the Earth’s natural history. Everybody Now is a podcast about what it means to be human on the threshold of a global climate emergency, in a time of systemic injustice and runaway pandemics. Scientis...

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Kindness, tribalism, faith, hope: exploring Christianity in the climate crisis with David Blower

Accidental Gods - January 27, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Kindness costs nothing and it enhances our lives and those around us. And yet our world is full of random acts of unkindness.  How can we change this? How can we extend the boundaries of faith and spirituality to bring the best of ourselves to a world in crisis.  This week, podcaster,...

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The Ocean is Alive: Ocean-shaman Glenn Edney speaks of the living waters of the Earth.

Accidental Gods - January 20, 2021 06:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
What if the Ocean were a living thing, in the way that the earth breathes as Gaia? The Maori say that if the Ocean is healthy, so, too, will the people be healthy.  And we are not healthy - nor is the Ocean. But we are intimately linked and Glenn Edney, Ocean Deep Ecologist explains how...

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Trust The People: Creating a politics that works

Accidental Gods - January 13, 2021 06:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How would our world feel if our local, regional and national politics really listened to all the people, really brought together diverse views, and knew how to listen deeply to whatever was said? How would we be if our politics brought out the best in all of us, and worked for the livin...

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Four arrows flying: Alnoor Ladha, activist and visionary on changing the stories we tell ourselves.

Accidental Gods - January 06, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
What if we could see the nature of the stories that drive us, how would we be?  Would we be able to change them?  And what would we want in their place?  This week, Alnoor Ladha, mystic, visionary, activist and regenerative farmer explores the four ways to change the world. Alnoor Ladh...

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Building Soil: Healing the Earth: Feeding Humanity - Regenerative Farming with Navona Gallegos

Accidental Gods - December 30, 2020 05:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
What if we had a way to draw carbon out of the air, heal our ecosystems and feed the world?  We do: It's called Regenerative Agriculture and the understanding of how we do this is key to a flourishing future.  But we need to listen to the land first, as Navona Gallegos describes in this...

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All the Best of 2020: Books and Podcasts that will lift you into the new year - and beyond.

Accidental Gods - December 23, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
An end-of-year round up of the best fiction and non-fiction books - and podcasts - of 2020.  All are my opinion and this is only a tiny selection of the really good stuff out there - but it's good.  Enjoy!   We have to stop consuming stuff... but we never stop imbibing ideas. So here a...

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Birthday/Solstice Celebration: a new Anniversary tradition, with Della Duncan and Nathalie Nahai

Accidental Gods - December 21, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
It's our Birthday... and it's the December Solstice, the time of transition and potential transformation .  In honour of which, we are crafting a new tradition: a PodBoom shared with Della Duncan of UPSTREAM podcast and Nathalie Nahai of THE HIVE.    So, it's our Birthday - and it's th...

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Living to Learn: transforming education with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox

Accidental Gods - December 16, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we make learning a genuinely transformational experience? One that's fun, and inspiring and that teaches us HOW to think, not WHAT to think? Rachel Musson had given her life to asking this question and ThoughtBox is her answer.  Suppose we all learned three things at school: em...

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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Responding to Climate Change with Dr Paul Behrens

Accidental Gods - December 09, 2020 06:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How bad are things really? Is it too late to avert the climate and ecological catastrophe? And if not, how do we pull ourselves back from the brink? Exploring answers with Paul Behrens, author of 'The Best of Times, The Worst of Times'. We live on the edge of change - the facts can be...

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Breaking the Rules to save the world: How to be More Pirate, with Alex Barker

Accidental Gods - December 02, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we take the radical, renegade, rule-breaking, revolutionary ideals of the golden age of Pirates and transmute them to gold in our world? Alex Barker, author of 'How to be More Pirate' lays out the maps to the treasure of change. The concept of radical, renegade, revolutionary ...

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Spiritual Activism, Raw Courage and Being the Change: Sophie Miller of the Red Rebel Brigade

Accidental Gods - November 25, 2020 06:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
In the midst of nonviolent direct action, is a red thread, holding the liminal space between the old and the new, between action and re-action, between hope and extinction.  The Red Rebel Brigade is a distinctive feature of XR Actions and here we have a glimpse from the inside. More at ...

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Codes for a Healthy Earth: New rules for a flourishing world with Shelley Ostroff

Accidental Gods - November 18, 2020 06:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Greta Thunberg says that ‘We cannot save the planet by playing by the rules, so the rules have to be changed’.  This is self-evidently true, but that leaves us with the question of what rules could we create that we could all live by. Polly Higgins has the Earth Protector law, but Shell...

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Adapting Business:Transforming our systems, careers -and the landscape of business with Mike Raven of AQai

Accidental Gods - November 11, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How do we shift the narratives of business so that it becomes part of the solution, not the core of the problem? Mike Raven of AQAI explores the ways business can adapt - and become part of a genuinely regenerative future. Mike  is a Radical collaborator, rapid researcher, speaker, fa...

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City Repair: Planet Repair: Human Repair. Mark Lakeman on building regenerative cities to heal ourselves and the world.

Accidental Gods - November 04, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we rebuild our cities to become place of community, connection and coherence? How can we build multi-generational tribes that thrive and support each other in the hearts of our urban areas? Mark Lakeman of the City Repair project explains the changes he has made - and continues ...

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The Path of the Trembling Warrior: Gill Coombs on activism, courage and resilience

Accidental Gods - October 28, 2020 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Gill Coombs is a writer, coach, and facilitator. Her approach is rooted in her own long, colourful journey towards fulfilling work.  In 2010, Gill left a corporate Learning and Development career to travel around the country on foot and public transport, leading workshops for communitie...

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Trauma, Politics and Empathy: re-democratising democracy with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick

Accidental Gods - October 21, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How do we re-democratise democracy?  Understanding that our current system is broken is the first step, but then we need to find ways to gather voices and give agency to those with wisdom, so that we re-create our systems of governance from the ground up.  At the start of Lockdown, Eva...

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Dreaming a flourishing future: Rob Hopkins on radical creativity, activism and re-booting our imaginations

Accidental Gods - October 14, 2020 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
If Climate Change is a failure of the imagination and this is a time when we need to be at our most imaginative, how can we change the trajectory of our falling imaginations? Rob Hopkins of the Transition Town movement, has explored the depths of our imagination and creativity.  Our soc...

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Grief Walker and Fire Keeper: Medicine woman Fiona Shaw speaks of Trust, Grief and Emotional Authenticity

Accidental Gods - October 07, 2020 04:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
If we gather in ceremony, sitting on the land, with a fire-keeper who understands the holding and has trained in the ways of the fire, there is so much healing.  Fiona Shaw is one of those people, trained in great depth and absolute integrity, to connect to the spirits of this land, and...

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A New D.E.A.L: The Doughnut Economics Action Lab explained by Rob Shorter

Accidental Gods - September 30, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
The imagination needs mental and emotional space to enable us to create a vision of the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. Rob Shorter wrote his dissertation at Schumacher on how we cultivate our imagination and change the cultural narrative towards the thinking that Doug...

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The Doughnut Economics Action Lab explained by Rob Shorter

Accidental Gods - September 30, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Doughnut Economics is a new, groundbreaking model that lets us see how we can embrace the needs of all within the means of a living, thriving planet.  Rob Shorter, Communities Lead, of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab explains what it is, how it works and how we can embrace it at all l...

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Hero, Sleepwalker or Manipulator? Our Choice in the Game of Life with Gill Coombs

Accidental Gods - September 23, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
If we view life as a Game between Light and Dark, where do we stand at any given moment?  Hero or Manipulator?  Altruist or Cynic? Sleepwalker, Avoider, Traditionalist?   We can each be any of these at any given moment. Knowing we have choice is what gives us the power to be different. ...

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Communities of Earth Protection: embracing the law with Jozette Khimba

Accidental Gods - September 16, 2020 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
What is the first, simplest and most profound change we can make in our lives?  Sign up as an Earth Protector - and then encourage your local schools, hospitals, colleges, councils to sign too.  Jozette Khimba of the Earth Protector Communities organisation, explores the ways we can hav...

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Fractal Flourishing in the Symbiocene: Building an Ecological Civilisation with Jeremy Lent

Accidental Gods - September 09, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
What are we here for?  Where does our heritage step into our potential? How can we build a genuinely ecological civilisation that sees people and communities flourish within the means of the living planet?  Jeremy Lent, author of 'The Patterning Instinct', explores the answers to life's...

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Hearing our Calling - exploring the world of our soul’s true calling with Gill Coombs.

Accidental Gods - September 02, 2020 04:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Gill Coombs is a writer, facilitator, coach and activist. In 2011/12 Gill studied Holistic Science at Schumacher College, and then wrote her first book Hearing our Calling. In 2015 she stood as a Parliamentary Candidate for the Green Party, and the following year published The Game: Lif...

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Hearing our Calling - exploring the world of our soul’s true calling with Gill Coombs

Accidental Gods - September 02, 2020 04:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we shape a world where everyone has found and is following their soul’s calling? Gill Coombs, author of The Trembling Warrior and ‘Hearing your Calling’ on ways to discover our soul’s true path.  Gill is a writer, facilitator, coach and activist. In 2011/12 Gill studied Holist...

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Daring to be Wild: Mary Reynolds of 'We Are The Ark' on reWilding our lands and lives

Accidental Gods - August 26, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How would our world feel if we let ourselves follow the wild dreams of our hopes?  And how can we reshape the land around us if we let it teach us.  Former garden designer and founder of "We are the Ark" (Acts of Regenerative Kindness) explores the wild dreaming of the land that brought...

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Four steps to transformation - Manda Scott in a podcast Q&A

Accidental Gods - August 19, 2020 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
How can we heal ourselves and the world?  So many people ask the question and yet the answers are simple.  We know what we need to do, we just don’t know how to do it. In this race through the grounding of Accidental Gods, podcast host, Manda Scott explores the answers. We know that ou...

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Growing into Relationship with the Earth: Mac Macartney, visionary, leader and teacher offers transformation

Accidental Gods - August 12, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
If you could transform your life with three questions whose answers would bring you into right relationship with yourself, the Earth and the whole web of consciousness, would you ask them?  Even if they took you to the full depths of yourself?  In this profoundly moving podcast, Mac Mac...

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Feeling for the Edges of Ourselves - talking empowerment, neuroscience and societal change with Adam Hamdy

Accidental Gods - August 05, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
What links the neuroscience of love, the embracing of failure and the pheromones of trees?  Adam Hamdy, novelist, screenwriter and sense-maker in an increasingly non-sensical world shares ways to be the best of ourselves, and help others to reach the same place. Adam Hamdy is a noveli...

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