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How to Save the World - tipping points of social diffusion with Katie Patrick of Hello World Labs
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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...
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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.
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Wellbeing: It’s about wholeness, not happiness - with Dr Mark Fabian, author of Beyond Happy
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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.'
on Apr 9
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A Longing for Belonging: Shifting the Cultural Paradigm with Looby Macnamara and Leona Johnson
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We are in the midst of the Great Derangement (thank you Amitav Ghosh) - so what tools will 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,...
on Apr 2
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Now Then! Building networks of citizen power with James Lock of Opus in Sheffield
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Modernity is collapsing around us. So how can we compost its remains, to grow something constructive, generative, connected communities that can act as a bridge from where we are towards that future we'd be proud to leave behind?
on Mar 26
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Be More Hawk! Being the courage to follow what's right with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox Education
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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?
on Mar 19
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Miraculous Carbon: Celebrating the Book of Life, Death and Potential with author Paul Hawken
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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?
on Mar 12
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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?
on Mar 5
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Seeing the Bigger Picture: Psychedelics and sense-making with Alexander Beiner of Kainos
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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?
on Feb 26
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Becoming Spiritual Warriors: exploring a politics of radical Compassion with Jamie Bristow
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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...
on Feb 19
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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 from the limited, goal-based directions of our culture and step into the...
on Feb 12
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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 use thrive. Clearly, we are better than...
on Feb 5
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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...
on Jan 29
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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?
on Jan 25
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What happens when people with chronic, unstable diabetes eat food grown in local, regenerative farms? Erin Martin shares the dramatic 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...
on Jan 22
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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 global council to make...
on Jan 15
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Five years ago when we began, it was possible to imagine that the world might stabilise with a vestige of the old system as a scaffold for the new. That assumption is growing increasingly ragged. It's now clear that the shifts we need to be in the world are primarily inner; that the truly...
on Jan 8
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Democracy Rising: Making 2025 the year we recover from Peak Polarisation with Audrey Tang
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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,...
on Jan 1
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How is Druidry alive 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 the magic we...
on Dec 25
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Seven Generations Perspective Meditation for December 2024
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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 and to reflect afterwards. If it helps to write down...
on Dec 18
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Must Read, Must Listen, Must View: Manda's favourite books, podcasts and videos this Winter Season
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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...
on Dec 15
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The Power of (good) Food with Nick Weir of the Open Food Network
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Good, nutritious, affordable - obtainable - food is crucial not just to our survival, but to our flourishing. Knowing that our global food/farming system is broken, how do we transform to something that works at every level? The Open Food Network asks these questions and offers a living,...
on Dec 11
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Holding the Paradox: Navigating a changing world with Andrea Hiott of Making Ways
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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...
on Nov 20
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Being the Best Ancestors we can - with Dr John Izzo of the Elders Action Network
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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)?
on Nov 13
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In this first episode of accidental gods, we outline the thinking that got us to here, and then go on to explore the possibility of transformational change – of conscious evolution – and the very practical, daily practice that could lead us towards it.
on Nov 10
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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. So where do we go from here?
on Nov 8
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Young people are facing a world where the only certainty is uncertainty. where the only known is the unknown. So what can we do to offer them the best grounding to move forward into the transition to come?
on Nov 6
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How does an understanding of what makes dogs tick, help us to understand ourselves and our place in the world? What does it take to feel safe - as a human, or as a dog (or cat, or horse, or... anything)? And how can we help ourselves and each other find regulation in a VUCA world (Volatile,...
on Oct 30
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How do we recover our birthright as awake, aware nodes in the greater Web of Life? How do we find the compassion and courage to be the best of ourselves? Cynthia Jurs is a Buddhist who has spent the past 34 years carrying out sacred pilgrimages all around the world, burying a network of...
on Oct 18
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Living Well in a Tiny House with Rachel Butler and Maddy Longhurst of Bristol Tiny House Community
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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?
on Oct 9
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Of Reindeer, Donkeys and the verb that is Water. Stories of climate-healing with Judith Schwartz
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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?
on Oct 2
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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...
on Oct 1
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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.
on Sep 25
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Autumn Equinox meditation 2024
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Here is an Autumn Equinox Meditation to help set you up for the shift from the long days to the long nights.
on Sep 20
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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...
on Sep 11
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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...
on Sep 9
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Finding the Courage to Care - Ways to build a Mothering Economy with author Jenny Grettve
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What would the world be like if humans everywhere cared for the web of life as a mother cares for her children? Jenny Grettve explores the Mothering Economy in a deep and thoughtful conversation with Manda Scott.
on Aug 28
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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...
on Aug 14
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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...
on Aug 7
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Net Zero Cities with Georgia Cameron of Dark Matter Labs
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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...
on Jul 31
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Earth and Soul: Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos with Leah Rampy
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What can we do that will actually serve the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible? 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?
on Jul 24
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For the first hour or so, Manda will be conversation about the book with writing coach Dr Sally Shakti Williams and Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture Magazine, and then we’ll open it up to anyone and everyone to ask questions, offer thoughts and generally explore the themes of living and...
on Jul 18
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Creating Quantum Theatre: radical story-becoming to change the world with Jenifer Toksvig
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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...
on Jul 17
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The Tools we Need: Raising the Collaborative Commons with Resilience Strategist Michael Haupt
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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...
on Jul 10
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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...
on Jun 28
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Election Special #3 - Labour party Manifesto - anything worthwhile? with Jeremy Gilbert
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What are we being offered by the incoming Labour Government? What's good in their Manifesto (spoiler alert, not very much)? What's not good? What could be improved upon and how do we go about pushing them to a place where they actually do something useful that isn't simply a repeat of the...
on Jun 26
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The question of how we reshape democracy, walking the fine line between stagnation and populist rage - is the defining problem of our time - with a coherent strategy, we can shape anything. In its absence, we’re going to end up spinning in pointless circles, arguing about trivia while the world burns.
on Jun 26
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Today we're blowing open a route towards energy security, reduced carbon footprint and saving money - all in the way we make, distribute and use power. If each of us could minimise our own power use, we'd be a step on the way to reducing our overall carbon footprint: more, we'd be changing the...
on Jun 26
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Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Politics with Baroness Natalie Bennett of the Green Party
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In this second election special, we talk to Natalie Bennett (or Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle if we're going to be formal - but she said we didn't need to be) - one of two Green Party members in the House of Lords. Natalie is author of the Book 'Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair...
on Jun 24
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Answers to the Questions of life: Biomimicry, Complexity and Peacebuilding with Dr Deborah Benham
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Deborah Benham is a trained Biomimicry Educator and with a background in Jon Young's Deep Nature Connection work. She shares a practical, experiential lived and living toolkit to help us build thriving human societies, cultures, communities and businesses, designing with and as nature, creating...
on Jun 5