Economics & Business

Forking the Future: building routes to viable change with Tim Frenneaux of Pivot

Forking the Future: building routes to viable change with Tim Frenneaux of Pivot

How can business become an active, pro-active part of the multi-faceted solution to the meta-crisis? How can we accelerate our shift towards the emergent edge of Inter-Becoming? Tim Frenneaux of the Pivot project is working at the leading edge of regenerative business design to find the answers that will help us all.

Finding the Courage to Care – Ways to build a Mothering Economy with author Jenny Grettve

Finding the Courage to Care – Ways to build a Mothering Economy with author Jenny Grettve

In this moment of transition, we need to become the best of ourselves, as individuals, and as a culture. But how? What does it look like? More importantly, what does it feel like? Designer and Thrutopian thinker, Jenny Grettve says it’ll feel as if we care for the web or life as a mother care for her children. And we’d better learn how to do it as fast as we can.

When is a Tree not a Tree? The ‘Net Zero’ Wood Burning Scam – with Dr Mary Booth of Partnership for Policy Integrity

When is a Tree not a Tree? The ‘Net Zero’ Wood Burning Scam – with Dr Mary Booth of Partnership for Policy Integrity

We’re being sold many lies, but one of the most egregious is the idea that cutting down old growth forest, turning it into pellets and shipping it across the world to burn in former-coal power stations is somehow contributing to ’Net Zero’ emissions. It isn’t. Mary Booth, founder and director of the Partnership for Policy Integrity, spends her life in the corridors of power explaining why this is a scam. And now she’s talking to us.

Evolving Education: Building a Doughnut School with Jenny Grettve of When!When!

Evolving Education: Building a Doughnut School with Jenny Grettve of When!When!

Jenny Grettve’s heart-mind is huge and deep and we explored many areas of the transformation that’s coming, from the evolution of a primary school along Doughnut Economic lines to the future of architecture, to the role of systems thinking in our political, social and, in the end, human, evolution. It was a truly heart-warming conversation and I hope it helps you, too, to think to the edges of yourself.

Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse with Gaya Herrington

Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse with Gaya Herrington

What does it take to avoid global collapse? Is there still time? And if so, what are the societal, social, cultural and goal-oriented changes that we need to make to get there?
This week’s guest is one of the new generation of super-thinkers who have the capacity, individually and collectively, to bring into being that better future our hearts know is possible.

Building Tomorrow: Bonus addition: Painting 2050 if we get things right

Building Tomorrow: Bonus addition: Painting 2050 if we get things right

What does our world look and feel like in 2050 if we make all the good choices now? Paddy and I recorded a brief 15 minute bonus of how the world could look if we actually employed all the strategies in ‘Building Tomorrow’ – so sit back, soak it in – and then let’s make it happen…