Best Falcon Path Media Podcasts (2025)

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Falling in Love with the Future - with author, musician, podcaster and futurenaut, Rob Hopkins 1:18:42

3d ago1:18:42

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Our guest this week, Rob Hopkins, is a towering figure in the world of regenerative change. Co-founder of Transition Network and of Transition Town Totnes, he is host of the podcast 'From What if to What Next', stars in the groundbreaking French film 'Demain', speaks at TED Global and TEDx events and most recently, has created a collaborative music…

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Xavier, Play Despacito | Retrospect Station Ep. 10 30:45

4d ago30:45

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The way we interact with music has completely changed. In this week's episode, Elizabeth inspects the changes we've made to our habits as music listeners over the past 25 years. From records to robots, our approach to listening and the way we receive music has altered what we get out of the experience. Also, bring back Songza. Songza was a good lit…

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ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop 1:34:05

10d ago1:34:05

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If you listen to this podcast for any length of time, you'll know that I believe the way forward is predicated on our finding shared values—I'd go for integrity, compassion, courage and generosity of spirit as the baselines—and then a suite of clear asks in the outer world and needs in the inner world. In logistical terms, at an absolute baseline, …

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The Drunk Men Across My Floor | Retrospect Station Ep. 9 46:02

15d ago46:02

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Lazy and fat, they lie about on the floor all summer, and they STINK. In this week's episode, Elizabeth shares her loathsome encounter with earwigs once she started living in a house. It turns out the best way to keep them away is garden herbs. Also, we have to learn to love the bugs immediately. Bugs are our survival. Word of the Week: ovipositor …

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This is how we build the future: Teaching Regenerative Economics at all levels with Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann 1:20:48

17d ago1:20:48

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How do we let go of the sense of scarcity, separation and powerlessness that defines the ways we live, care and do business together? How can we best equip our young people for the world that is coming - which is so, so different from the future we grew up believing was possible? This week's guest, Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann is an educator, rege…

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Brilliant Minds: BONUS podcast with Kate Raworth, Indy Johar & James Lock at the Festival of Debate 1:53:10

21d ago1:53:10

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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 roadmap…

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The Truth About What Happened to Me in Ottawa | Retrospect Station Ep. 8 2:13:28

21d ago2:13:28

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I was supposed to be someone I chose. In this week's episode, Elizabeth gets emotional about her struggles with academia and career expectations growing up. Trying to fulfill someone else's well-intentioned goals can destroy your destiny. I've since had to convince myself I was never a failure, because it was never a fair fight. There is no Word of…

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Farm as Church, Land as Lover: Community. farming and food with Abel Pearson of Glasbren 1:16:50

24d ago1:16:50

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We all know the future rests upon us building heart-grounded, spirit-led communities that link humanity to the Web of Life. We know that the key to this is building reciprocal relationships with our food and the land from which it comes. Doing this is…harder. So this week, we're speaking with Abel Pearson of Glasbren. Abel is a friend of the podcas…

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Working from the Inside Out: Paths to Personal and Global Transformation with Renée Lertzman 1:09:54

1M ago1:09:54

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We've known for decades that the 'Yell, Tell and Sell' strategy of belittling people, endeavouring to cajole—or shame—them into some kind of change doesn't work - in fact it can't work. It's not how we're wired. Cognitive neuroscience has been telling us this for decades but it's only recently that people have begun to listen. One of those who has …

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The Tale of the Plesiosaur | Retrospect Station Ep. 7 36:50

1M ago36:50

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He saddled up, hopped on, and evaporated. In this week's episode, Elizabeth tells the story of the time her friend Tyson triggered a Minecraft bug and the void consumed him and his dinosaur. Schrödinger's cat applies to anything if you make enough mistakes. Also, you cannot recreate the bug; I have tried, they fixed it. Word of the Week: veranda Un…

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The Others Within Us: Meeting our Spirit Guides and other entities with Bob Falconer 1:11:31

1M ago1:11:31

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Our world is more magical than we know - more than we can know. Increasing numbers of us are realising that the 'citadel theory of mind' where we see ourselves as isolated units within the boundaries of our own skulls is not how the world works. But if it isn't, then how do we make sense of the worlds beyond consensus reality? How do we engage with…

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I had a nemesis. | Retrospect Station Ep. 6 50:16

1M ago50:16

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When I was 10, I had a nemesis. In this week's episode, Elizabeth talks about her taekwondo sparring partner, aka her childhood nemesis. In the foot versus elbow matchup, the elbow wins. And if he's out there, and he finds this episode, hello I'm still ready to throw down. Word of the Week: referendum Until May 21st, if you donate $4 on Ko-Fi, I wi…

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Radical Change: Building a Parallel Economy with Peter Kemp of Citizen Coin 1:20:14

2M ago1:20:14

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We are living through a time between stories—where the old economic narratives of scarcity, extraction, and separation are crumbling, and a new one is seeking to be born. At the heart of this transition is the question: What do we truly value, and how do we express that value in ways that nourish life? Imagine a society where every act of care, con…

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Democracy is Just Paperwork Pt 2. | Retrospect Station Ep. 5 40:00

2M ago40:00

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Mark Carney won the 2025 Federal Election. Now what? In this week's episode, Elizabeth gives us her thoughts as a poll supervisor on the recent federal election and its surrounding propaganda. If we want a better life, we need to look to each other, not any particular government or party. Also, let's all say a prayer for the poll workers in Ottawa-…

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Beyond Zero Sum: Rehumanising our Conflicts with Carm Aufderheide of NorthStar Training Solutions 1:35:41

2M ago1:35:41

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All flourishing is mutual, that's a given. And yet the schisms in our culture, the tribal divides and limbic hijack seem to grow deeper and more powerful by the day. It doesn't have to be like this. We do have the tools of connection, of genuine listening, of offering trust to gain trust and offering respect to gain respect, we just need to know ho…

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The Viking | Retrospect Station Ep. 4 30:58

2M ago30:58

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This is the story of the entity next door, colloquially known as The Viking. In this week's episode, Elizabeth remembers her next door neighbour, aka her childhood bogeyman. Still to this day, he's a mystery figure, with a face only Elizabeth invented. Also don't smoke, please. Word of the Week: perfidious If you donate $4 on Ko-Fi this month, I wi…

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Red Pill/Blue Pill, Green Pill/True Pill – Creating a Media Commons with Debs Grayson of Opus Independents 1:24:28

2M ago1:24:28

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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? It is axiomatic of this podcast that stories – the good and the bad – are what got us to where we are. We are a sto…

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Democracy is Just Paperwork Pt. 1 | Retrospect Station Ep. 3 1:19:35

2M ago1:19:35

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Is voting confusing? I've got you. In this week's episode, Elizabeth breaks down what happens at a Canadian voting station. After working at three elections in a row, she's got the in's and out's of a poll station down to a science. Can you vote without registering? Who are these people at the desk? Is your vote safe? Your questions answered. Plus …

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How to Save the World - tipping points of social diffusion with Katie Patrick of Hello World Labs 1:18:42

2M ago1:18:42

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'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 p…

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Bonus: Thoughts from the Edge - If the current system is not fit for purpose, what's our core response? 35:02

2M ago35:02

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Suppose we accept that the current system is not broken - it is doing what it was always designed to do - which is to shovel wealth and power from the many to the few at a human scale and from the more-than-human world to the industrial/technical maw of predatory capitalism at an ecological scale. This is a death cult and it is in its death throes,…

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horse. | Retrospect Station Ep. 2 1:10:11

2M ago1:10:11

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horse. In this week's episode, Elizabeth finally tells the story of perhaps the most terrifying night of her life. She might also have barely avoided being taken by ghosts. Word of the Week: ostentatious You can donate to the podcast! Visit https://ko-fi.com/retrospectstation Credits: Galway by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creativ…

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Wellbeing: It’s about wholeness, not happiness - with Dr Mark Fabian, author of Beyond Happy 1:48:00

2M ago1:48:00

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We grow up thinking we want to be happy (or at least, not-sad). But happiness isn't enough. What we need is wellbeing, and as Dr Mark Fabian quotes in the dedication to his book, Beyond Happy, "Wellbeing is about wholeness, not happiness, and wholeness is so much more demanding than happiness.' So what is wholeness, and what does it demand of us? A…

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Trailer: Life is a Colouring Book 0:56

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Join host Elizabeth Dean, a Mississauga writer and spoken word poet, every Wednesday as she looks back on some of her most strange and exciting life experiences, and shows us that life never fails to disappoint. You can support the podcast by donating at ⁠⁠ko-fi.com/retrospectstation⁠⁠

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Three Times I've Tried, Three | Retrospect Station Ep. 1 49:25

3M ago49:25

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Three years in a row trying to fast for Ramadan, and it did not go well, at all. In this week's episode, Elizabeth dives into what it was like fasting for Ramadan for the very first time, as a non-Muslim. Life is like a box of chocolates— something, something, everything goes wrong always. Also, Elizabeth might just have a terrible immune system. W…

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A Longing for Belonging: Shifting the Cultural Paradigm with Looby Macnamara and Leona Johnson 1:23:58

3M ago1:23:58

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If we are in the midst of the Great Derangement (thank you Amitav Ghosh), what tools do we have to help us shape a system that is actually fit for purpose? Who are our elders and what can they teach us? How do we learn to listen to our heart's (and hearts') desire and shape the communities of place, passion and purpose that will allow us to emerge …

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Now Then! Building networks of citizen power with James Lock of Opus in Sheffield 1:14:32

3M ago1:14:32

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We all know the current system of predatory capitalism is not fit for purpose. We don't (yet) all agree on how to fix it, but for sure, no problem is solved from the mindset that created it. So how do we begin to compost the debris of the failing system to grow something constructive, generative, connected communities that can act as a bridge from …

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Be More Hawk! Being the courage to follow what's right with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox Education 1:13:58

3M ago1:13:58

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The old systems are no longer fit for purpose. What does an education system look like that's fit for the twenty-first century - where we put self care, people care, earth care at the heart of what we do? This week's guest, Rachel Musson, has made it her life's work to fashion ways of learning for all ages that put this Triple Wellbeing principle i…

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Miraculous Carbon: Celebrating the Book of Life, Death and Potential with author Paul Hawken 1:22:37

3M ago1:22:37

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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? This week's guest, Paul Hawken, has been at the forefront of intelligent responses to the entire meta-crisis for decades. He has been profiled or written in hundreds of…

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Authentically human: celebrating the magic of life with Mark McCartney of the 'What is a Good Life' podcast 1:19:37

4M ago1:19:37

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In these turbulent times, what values most strongly underpin our humanity and how can we nurture our relationships with all parts of ourselves, with ourselves and other people and with ourselves and the web of life? This week's guest is another podcaster. Mark McCartney is host of the 'What is a Good Life' podcast, which is now into well over 100 e…

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Seeing the Bigger Picture: psychedelics and sense-making with Alexander Beiner of Kainos 58:41

4M ago58:41

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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? Alexander Beiner is one of a small band of people in our culture who is shaping the cutting edge of possibility, crafting new ideas of who we are, at the deepest levels of our Self and out into the widest view of o…

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Becoming Spiritual Warriors: exploring a politics of radical Compassion with Jamie Bristow 1:38:01

4M ago1:38:01

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In a world of turmoil where the only certainty is uncertainty, what happens if we who yearn for a future we'd be proud to leave behind began really to speak the quiet part out loud? What happens if we acknowledge the meaning crisis of our culture and state clearly that we need a world based on Love: on the raw, wild, wonder of life itself? And what…

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Kin-centric Rewilding 2 - Bonus - continuation of the conversation with Daniel Firth Griffith 54:04

4M ago54:04

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Daniel remains one of the few people I know who is originally of the Trauma Culture but is living absolutely integral to his land - and we couldn't keep our conversation confined to 60 minutes. So we broke at an appropriate point and came back. This is the second part - please do listen to the first if you've only just found us - we literally pause…

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Kin-centric Rewilding - restoring relationship to the land and ourselves with Daniel Firth Griffith, author of StagTine 1:42:15

4M ago1:42:15

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By now we know that we need to connect to the More than Human world. We know we need to grow into adulthood and elder hood. We know we need to move from a Trauma Culture to an Initiation Culture. But knowing these things is not the same as living them as a reality. To get here, we need waymakers, people of huge heart and raw courage to walk away fr…

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Find the Others! Beyond the Death of Democracy lies Citizen Power - with Jon Alexander of the Citizen Collective 1:17:01

5M ago1:17:01

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Democracy is breaking around us in real time and a small percentage of those in power would like us to become - at best - obedient subjects in a world dedicated to the destruction of ecosystems and the annihilation of compassion, empathy and all that makes us thrive. Clearly, we are better than this. So how can we harness the astonishing wonder of …

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Of Schoolishness, Space and Emergence into vibrant systems: a joint podcast with Tim Logan of Future Learning Design 1:23:53

5M ago1:23:53

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If what our culture most urgently needs is for a critical mass of us to grow into adults and then elders, how can we help our young people to step beyond the artificial boundaries of our old, rigid system into a world where they are fully connected to all parts of themselves, each other and the web of life. How, in effect, can we create an educatio…

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Living through the Death of Democracy: Manda's thoughts on love, liberty and the continued existence of complex life on earth 40:23

5M ago40:23

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We are living through the death of democracy and the onset of Techno-Feudalism. But this is not a time when linear systems can hold and feudalism was nothing if not linear. So how can we be part of a transformative process that will let us lay the foundations for a future we'd be proud to leave behind? Usually, on Accidental Gods, we talk to guests…

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HeartFood - Healing our communities with Food grown on Regenerative Farms with Erin Martin of FreshRxOK 1:12:03

5M ago1:12:03

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What happens when people with chronic, unstable diabetes eat food grown in local, regenerative farms? Erin Martin talks to the Accidental Gods podcast about the dramatic and spectacular improvements in health her group FreshRxOK saw in Oklahoma when they instigated a 'Food as Medicine' programme, offering real food with good nutrient density to dia…

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Radical Creativity: creating a Global Council of Women with Jenny Grettve of EIT Culture and Creativity 1:16:56

5M ago1:16:56

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How can we bring wisdom to those with power and power to those with wisdom? If we were to step into elder hood and bring the best of ourselves to the table, could we create governance structures that would help to heal our cultural divides, create equity and guide is wisely through the coming crisis? Jenny Grettve believes we can and has set up a g…

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The Phoenix Always Rises: Evolving into the Future Human with Prof Chris Bache, Author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe 1:24:31

5M ago1:24:31

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This podcast is predicated on the belief that if we all work together, we can still lay the foundations for a future we'd be proud to leave as our legacy. And it's becoming increasingly obvious that this is now urgent; that we need to let go of the assumptions we'd made about career paths or future constructs and give ourselves wholeheartedly to th…

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Democracy Rising: Making 2025 the year we recover from Peak Polarisation with Audrey Tang, Ambassador at Large for a safer, kinder world 1:43:09

6M ago1:43:09

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Is it possible that 2024 might have been the year of 'Peak polarisation' around the world and that from hereon in humanity might grow less divided, not more; that we might use technology and social media wisely to bring the best of ourselves to the table, becoming the best we can be in service to life? Audrey Tang certainly thinks so in this wide-d…

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Heart of Oak: Talking Druidry, Spirituality and the nature of Magic in the MetaCrisis with Philip Carr-Gomm 1:31:59

6M ago1:31:59

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Druidry is the indigenous spirituality of the islands of Britain, but how does is live in the contemporary world? What are the values and practices that make it so suited to the inflexion point of the moment? Why - and how - does it mesh so well with other, more spiritual traditions? And how does the practice of Will, the honing of intent, create t…

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Seven Generations Perspective Meditation for December 2024 25:46

6M ago25:46

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Traditionally, we have offered a meditation for the solstice - and these are available in the links below. This meditation aims to offer a long-wide-deep perspective on our place as conscious nodes in the web of life - the journey that brought us here and the places humanity may go. Please give yourself plenty of time both to experience the journey…

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Solstice Cheer: Three Friends uphold a Podcasting Tradition with Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott 1:28:58

6M ago1:28:58

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This is the fifth year of our traditional Winter Solstice podcast gathering in which Nathalie Nahai of 'In Conversation with Nathalie Nahai, Della Duncan of The Upstream Podcast and I sit around our virtual dark-nights fire to reflect on the podcasting year just gone and explore what has changed for us since the last time we three met in one place.…

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Must Read, Must Listen, Must View: Manda's favourite books, podcasts and videos this Winter Season 28:32

6M ago28:32

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It's that time of year - when all we really want is to curl up and reflect, go inside, become the potential that will arise in the unfolding spring. If you want things to listen to or watch or read as you head into the long-nights, then these are (some of) the things that have caught my attention this year. Enjoy! Books: Non-Fiction Hospicing Moder…

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The Power of (good) Food with Nick Weir of the Open Food Network 1:18:33

6M ago1:18:33

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Clearly we're at an inflection point in the history of humanity. Our experiment with a notional democracy is failing and either we find something that actually works, or we sink into autocracy. And given that the current global flavour of autocracy is in deep denial of the climate and ecological catastrophe that's currently underway, then that's a …

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Avoiding Burn Out, Fall Out, Drop Out (and Freak Out): Practical Routes to a whole, healed future with Dan McTiernan of Earthbound 1:16:35

7M ago1:16:35

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How do we become the change we need to see in the world? What are the actual, practical steps to grounding, connecting and resonating with the world? We're on the brink of cataclysmic change. Knowing this, we have choices: we can either fold into despair, terror, rage…whatever rises up in us as we watch the whole biosphere hurtle towards irrevocabl…

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Adaptation is Here: Launching the TrAd (Transformative Adaptation) Book with Rupert Read and Morgan Philips 1:06:23

7M ago1:06:23

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We're teetering on the brink of ecosystem and cultural collapse. How do we adapt and transform to the changing realities? This week sees the launch of a new book: Transformative Adaptation: Another world is still just possible. The main editors and contributors are friend of the podcast, author, activist and co-founder of the Climate Majority Proje…

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Holding the Paradox: Navigating a changing world with Andrea Hiott of Making Ways 1:08:22

7M ago1:08:22

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We are not going back. But how do we go forward now in a world where the old norms are under assault by people who move fast and break everything? How do we find a place of balance and compassion - for ourselves, each other and the More than Human world - so that we can move forward in a way that isn’t just a replaying of the old binaries? Our worl…

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Being the Best Ancestors we can - with Dr John Izzo of the Elders Action Network 1:20:53

7M ago1:20:53

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How do we all respond to the seismic events of the US election? Specifically, how do those of us over 50 respond? (and how would the younger generations like us to respond)? This is the question of now. It would be hard to discuss anything else, but my guest this week is uniquely placed to address these questions. As you'll hear, John Izzo was once…

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Bonus: The System is Dead. Long Live the (new) System! Thoughts on the US election and the self-terminating algorithm 11:38

7M ago11:38

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It occurs to me that we are now at an inflection point in the WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and - notionally - Democratic) culture that has been so successful in destroying the ecosphere. A significant number of us now see what has been obvious to a minority for some time: that the system is not broken - it is doing what it was always …

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