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#255  Living Big in a Tiny House with Rachel Butler and Maddy Longhurst of Bristol Tiny House Community

How do we offer secure, safe, dry, affordable homes to all the people who want them while not breaching our planetary boundaries more than we have already?

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#254  Of Reindeer, Donkeys and the verb that is Water – stories of climate-healing with Judith Schwartz, author of The Reindeer Chronicles

How do we move beyond our myopic focus on carbon/CO2 as the index of our harms to the world? What can we do to heal the whole biosphere? And what role is played by water-as-verb, forest-as-verb, ocean-as-verb?

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#253  Building an Economics of Happiness: Why our Future must be Local with Helena Norberg Hodge of Local Futures

How do we build the local futures we all know we need? What does it actually take to become a good enough ancestor? Or even the best ancestor we can be? Our guest this week, Helena Norberg-Hodge, has given her life to exploring the answers, and helping birth them into being.

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#252  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.

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#Bonus:  Meditation for the Autumn Equinox 2024 with Manda Scott

Here is an Autumn Equinox Meditation to help set you up for the shift from the long days to the long nights. (For those in the Southern Hemisphere, there’s a Spring Equinox Meditation on the episode page).

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#Bonus: Thoughts at the Autumn Equinox 2024 – how, what, when, where & why – with Manda Scott

This is our regular September bonus episode – a brief look at where we’re at – how I (Manda) see things just now as we head deeper into the moment of transformation.

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#251  Stop killing the planet! Shaping international law so it’s on the side of Life – with JoJo Mehta of Stop Ecocide International

Can our national and international legal systems be harnessed in service of life, to put the brakes on the worst excesses of capitalism and slow the annihilation of our eco-sphere? Stop Ecocide International exists explicitly to make this happen and this week, we talk to Jojo Mehta, co-founder and Executive Director of the movement.

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#250  The Manic Fire Monkeys Do It Again (and Again): Exploring the wonder of human evolution with Dr Shane Simonsen

The climate emergency is impacting our entire eco-sphere. Plants are at the core of every food chain but we have no idea how fast they can adapt to changes that are taking place in decades where once they took Millenia. Which is where human ingenuity and intervention could be game-changing. If we put our minds to it, could we help plants to evolve in ways that serve the entire web of life?

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#249  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.

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#248  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.

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#247  A trillion willing helpers: Exploring the microbiome of people and animals with Joe Flanagan of Ingenious Probiotics

We know that being kind to our gut biome is crucial to our health, but what about the trillion happy helpers (or not) on our skin, in our lungs, our ears, our mouths… the things we slaughter daily with the ‘cleaning products’ we splash around our homes. What if there was a better way to keep things clean that wasn’t toxic to us and the tiny lives on whom our health depends? Joe Flanagan works at the cutting edge of change, helping us shape the world for a flourishing future.

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#246  Governable Spaces: Solve for democracy on the internet and our outer politics becomes a lot more sane – with Nathan Schneider

The Western world is in a crisis of democracy – but we learn a lot of our principles from the ways we interact online and the internet is essentially a feudal space that gives absolute power to a few and robs the many of agency. Nathan Schneider proposes that if we were able to shape a more liquid democracy online, our experience of generative interactions would spill over into the outer world. Has to be worth a try, right? So how do we do it?

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#245  Net Zero Cities: Crafting a Generative Urban Future with Georgia Cameron of Dark Matter Labs

Cities: most of us live in them and most of them are geared around the old values of the last century. But what if our core question was: what does it take to have pride in the place I live? How can we completely rethink the way cities act and are shaped to put a flourishing future at the heart of all they do? Georgia Cameron of Dark Matter Labs lays out the visions of Net Zero Cities that goes way beyond just the carbon.

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#244  Earth and Soul: Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos with Leah Rampy

What can we do that will actually serve the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. But how do we get there? How do we open the doors to possibility so that we can shift from the disconnection of our culture to a path of real heart-mind connection to the web of life?

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#243  Creating Quantum Theatre: radical story-becoming to change the world with Jenifer Toksvig 

Humanity is a storied species – everything we do from forming partnerships, to buying stuff, to moving house, to getting a new job… arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other. If we’re going to shift to a new way of being, the route will be led by the stories we can build of how it will look and feel, how we’ll be more alive, more connected, have a deeper sense of being, belonging, becoming…

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#242  The Tools we Need: Raising the Collaborative Commons with Resilience Strategist Michael Haupt

We’re in late stage capitalism, surrounded by interconnected systems that are crumbling under our feet. IF we’re going to birth something new, we need concrete, real-world tools: actual practical bridges that will work *now* to bridge from the old to the new. Resilience Strategist Michael Haupt is building these tools and shares them with us.

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#241  How the System is Slaying Us and What to Do About It: Getting Healthy in Toxic Times with Dr Jenny Goodman

How does our increasing destruction of the earth’s biosphere also impact our health? What diseases are we seeing in almost pandemic proportions and how much younger are the people in whom we’re seeing them? Above all, what can we do to step away from the system that’s extracting everything from us – our health, our futures and our potential to be good ancestors?

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Election Special #4  What is Governance for and how can we shape genuine democracy – with Glen Weyl of the Plurality Institute

If the current electoral/governance system is not fit for purpose (and who could possibly imagine it was?) how can we lay the foundations for new ways of organising democracy, new ways of voting, new ideas of what governance is for and how it could work in the twenty-first century. How, in short, do we create space for future generations to be able to decide their own futures in ways that are not constrained by material or political strictures they’ve inherited from us?

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