We are a storied species: Everything we do arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other and our relationship with the web of life. How do we create visions of a world that functions differently, one where every single human thrives as an integral part of a flourishing ecosphere?
How do we Outgrow the death cult of Modernity – opening the doors to a future we’d be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn?
Clean Water is part of our heritage and a basic Right of being alive. We should be able to drink from our river, swim in our seas. This week we explore the River Dôn Project which is working to create vibrant life in the whole catchment area.
How can Bioregionalism supplant the nation state as the natural unit of civilisation? Joe Brewer is living, breathing and teaching the ways we can work together with each other and the natural flows of water and life.
We are honoured to bring to Accidental Gods, a recording of three of our generation’s leading thinkers in conversation at the Festival of Debate in Sheffield, hosted by Opus.
This is an unflinching conversation, but it’s absolutely at the cutting edge of imagineering: this lays out where we’re at and what we need to do, but it also gives us roadmaps to get there: It’s genuinely Thrutopian, not only in the ideas as laid out, but the emotional literacy of the approach to the wicked problems of our time.
Now we have to make it happen.
‘Yell and Tell’ doesn’t work: not for the climate and ecological emergency, not for the collapse of democracy – not for any part of the growing polycrisis. So what can we do to help us all to make the shift towards a future we’d be proud to leave behind?
Our legacy – or status quo – media is owned and run by billionaires for billionaires and the stories they promote are the ones that will keep us all in line. How do we shift the global narrative towards a future of mutual flourishing?
‘If you’re not changing the numbers, you’re not changing the world.’ So says this week’s guest, Katie Patrick. Katie Patrick is a Silicon Valley based environmental engineer, climate action designer, and author of How to Save the World: How to Make Changing the World the Greatest Game We’ve Ever Played, now taught in Harvard University’s graduate program and top recommended reading material by UNEP
How do we step past the magical thinking of the elites that says we can either use AI to ‘Solve for Climate’ – or just ignore the entire climate and ecological emergency completely?
How do we shed the shackles of modernity and step into a new set of stories that could help us grow into the fullness of our potential?
Is it possible that 2024 might be the year of ‘Peak polarisation’? Audrey Tang certainly thinks so and in this wide-deep, mind-expanding conversation, we explore everything from the dual nature of AGI to the potential for liberational education that gives young people a sense of agency, interaction and the common good, to ways to rescue democracy to recipes for sound sleep.
As we head rapidly into biophysical and cultural collapse, how do we adapt and transform to the changing realities?