THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST: Recent Episodes

Dan Burgess

The concept of the Spaceship Earth is simple, we live on a life giving rock called earth hurtling through space - like a spaceship, we have a finite amount of supplies with an intelligent operating system which keeps everything replenished as long as we all respect it and use wisely.

So a universal understanding of how this system works, along with deep co-operation between all humans and all life is essential to keep us and the spaceship flying.

In this podcast I’m having conversations with inspiring humans responding to the design principles of the spaceship earth. I talk with artists, activists, strategists, writers, designers, adventurers, healers, entrepreneurs, creative mavericks and more.

People involved in regenerating life, raising awareness and shifting consciousness and re-imagining how we can live more beautifully and peacefully through creativity, care, collaboration, community, wellbeing, new forms of business and more

I believe their stories can inspire all of us to fully participate with all life in the co-creation of a more beautiful life sustaining world.

Becoming crew on the Spaceship Earth.

I hope you enoy it. It's a one man show, I'm interviewing, editing and putting it out there, learning by doing.

Rad cosmic intro music with gratitude to Matt Hales and Davide Rossi (Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson, published by BMG).

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Sol-sticeSun stands still.The longest day.The shortest night.here’s an Earth Sessions mix from me inspired by dancing at sunrise and sunsetsor as Bucky Fuller put it…Sun-sight and sun-eclipseAs the sun isn’t movingBut we of course are on Spaceship Earth.Gratitude to all the artists and producers for creating these tracks.Full tracklist on https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast

A new Earth Sessions mix to mark the light returning, the sun rising higher, blossoms popping, life coming back, possibility…A mix of vinyl and digital spanning 30 years - deep, housey, organic, trippy, vibey, love and lively.I hope it makes you move wherever you are.With gratitude to the wonderful artists, producers and labels for these creationsTracklisting via thespaceship.earthhttps://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2026/4/2/earth-sessions-springing-dan-solo

A live mix to honour this darker time of the year, and the darker times unfolding on Spaceship Earth.Recorded in my kitchen on a friday night.I wanted to start slow and ambient, to acknowldge the slower liminal space of winter and gradually pick up the pace.This was a mix of vinyl and digital - spanning 30 years until recent and everything in between.From ambient electronica, early rave inspired house, breakbeat, melodic techno, tech house and some progressive bits.Respect to all the artists and producers for these sonic offerings.I hope the mix moves you in some wayMovement, dancing and connection is a way through these unravelling darker timesWe must stay togther.

Last two hours of the night includes a suprise one more tune at the end of the night...

How to learn to dance with complexity, contradiction, grief, beauty, uncertainty, horror and surprise without abandoning the dance-floorDancing feels like an interesting invitation to me for these timesIt invites us into the body and out of our stuck heads.It invites us into presence and relationship with life in the moment,To be present with our bodies, with each other, with other life formsIt’s movement, spontaneity, flow, expression, vibe, response,Response-ability.Dancing is aliveness.And we need alive-ness.To break the numbness.So on that, I offer a new Earth Sessions mix: AutumnismFor this season of letting go.A collection of tunes, that have been moving me of late and that capture for me the feels of this season and these times - the endings, the abundance, the darkness, the joy, the mystery.I hope they move you in some way.Full tracklisting here: https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2025/10/20/earth-sessions-autumnismAnd if you struggle with dancing, it could well be our deep patriarchal programming - you know the voice - ‘you can’t dance’I offer some words a wise man once said about letting yourself go on the dancefloor…‘No one’s looking at you and no one gives a fuck’So stay awake to what is happening, what is ending, what needs to end and tend to what needs to begin.Look around you, find the thing that speaks to you, find the others and get stuck in.Love and care at the centre.And try to stay curious with the trouble, the discomfort.Do not abandon the dance-floorREPEAT: Do not leave the dance-floor of life.As Nena and WestBam said…‘We are the future, that’s the pastWe are the moment built to lastWe are the up, that’s the downWe wear the newschool engine crown’

A mix to honour this moment in the Earth's cycle. Tunes spanning 35 years, a few that were mainstays in my box of vinyl back in the late 90's. In the company of some more recent beauties. Big love to the amazing artists, producers and creators of these sonic gifts. Full tracklist on site.This is a 120-122 bpm groove. For honouring the Sun, love, life, grief and joy of being alive on Spaceship Earth right now. And the possibility of dancing our ways into more beautiful and peaceful future.A big summer salute to the cuckoos of Dartmoor who also appear in the intro.

One from the archives! Twenty three years ago - a vinyl mix in the shed at Space.FM in East LondonDeep tech-house vibes

Introducing the Annual 2024 - and the official Episode 100 of the Spaceship Earth Podcast.A reflection of the year gone by with a nod to what it might be showing us about the future that is unfolding.A curation of the highlights of 2024 on the podcast, it features clips, reflections, insights and learnings from many of the episodes.It’s not exhaustive, not every guest is featured but I’ve included clips that felt to me to be fertile, wise and vital insights for these times we are travelling in.So if you are a regular listener I hope this captures some of the highlights for you and you might appreciate the reflections and insights we share.If you are new to the podcast I hope this gives you a flavour of what we’re doing here and inspires you to dig into these conversations and episodes more deeply and jump into the becoming crew communityWe’ve put a lot of time into creating this episode, I recommend putting the headphones on or turning up the speakers.It's a sonic adventure.This episode features sections from about 20 conversations across 2024 in just over 2 hours.I have curated these through the following themes which were alive in 2024 and we are carrying into the podcast and the becoming crew offerings for the journey ahead:1. The importance and possibilities of non-ordinary experiences through nature based rites of passage and rituals2. Decolonising and growing post-capitalist realities3. Practice-driven change for ways through the divisiveness and violence of these times4. Honouring death, grief and composting our shit as vital regenerative practices5. Shifting our relationality, seeing the natural world from transactional to sacred6. Imagining and Re-membering alternative futures7. The Future is Local - we can network for the rest8. Centering the young/Intergenerational by Design9. Now is the Time for CrewsFinally we'd love to hear your thoughts to help us shape the next year of the Spaceship Earth Podcast.We want to keep crafting the offering to stay useful and relevant in these challenging and emerging times.Your feedback helps us to understand where folks are at with the podcast in its current form.It will take about 10 mins of your time and we'd be so grateful for your feedback.LINKSOur listener Survey - We’d so value your inputs in helping us shape the next chapter for the PodcastInto the Dark - Our Winter Community Adventure - Join us

Into the Dark - a deep, slow, wintery, sonic meander, through ambient electronic melancholy into deep house.Sounds and tracks that I’m finding connection and curiosity with in these darker, colder times of breakdown, reflection, exploration and dreaming towards the light.Tracklist on podcast websiteI hope you enjoy it. If you walk with it, run with it, sit with it, drive with it, cook with it.Dance with it

It’s been a year since the last Earth Sessions mix.I finally got it together to record this.Mixed live in my garden studio while humanity continues to implode.Violence, suffering and despair spilling over on this Earth.These last few weeks have been overwhelming.But I remember today the power of music and dancing as one way to move the body and mind through dark timesHeart vibes, to connect to a deeper source within and to unite into new ways of being.This mix signals the crossing of a threshold into darker mysterious times, towards winter.To acknowledge the Celtic festival of Samhain (a few days ago) pronounced Sow (as in Cow)InnA time for dropping into mystery, decay, shedding, breaking down, letting go and composting.Going dark and in deep in preparation for seeding new life.Love in cycles.This is an offering for this moment.It’s deep, dark, trippy, fairly pumping, emotional.Play in the dark, loudly. For running, dancing, crying and moving through darker times.Respect to all the producers featured in this mix. Thank you for your beautiful sonic offerings.Full tracklist on site

This episode has been created to honour ‘The Remix’ - our recent 3 month experiential (un)learning adventure for story rebels hosted by becoming crew.The Remix set out to explore the power of cultural stories in these times, and not in a shiny, universal, human-centered way.It was an invitation into a deep, creative, relational inquiry - exploring the cultural stories we live by while at the same time re-entangling ourselves back into the vast web of life - the world we have not made.An intentional space to explore the intelligence, interconnectedness, kinship and mystery of life on this Earth and how that might shape and inform our creative practices, projects, the stories we carry and our ways of being in these times of great unravelling.37 crew from 8 countries participated, guided by Dan Burgess and fellow guides Evva Semenowicz, Mark Sears, Mark De'Lisser, and Kamara Venner.We were joined along the way by 7 guest teachers, Bayo Akomolafe, Paddy Loughman, Phoebe Tickell, Felipe Viveros, Jay Griffiths, Easkey Britton and Sophie Strand.Together we weaved a peer supported action learning community, cultivating deep entanglement practices with the more than human world in the places we call home, participating in creative challenges and experiments while considering - How might our stories help to seed and grow life-sustaining cultures ?This episode is an audio artefact of the journey, it weaves contributions from all our guests, guides and participants, it is a memory bank for us, to remember the wisdom, connections and learning we received.We recommend headphones for this one.Full show notes viahttps://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast

Episode 75 is a reflective ramble in the woods from me your podcast host Dan Burgess.

There are no guests (apart from wind, trees, a buzzard and a pigeon)

The episode marks an end to this season of recordings and also to the format of conversations this year.

And brings a pause in episodes until early Autumn.

For me this episode was a chance to honour some shifts, reflect personally, and to try and speak from my heart intelligence.

So this is an honest, open, vulnerable, meandering, reflective share. And some of my opinions around this moment in time.

Firstly where I find myself with my own inquiring, work and the context we find ourselves in at this moment as climate breakdown becomes seemingly impossible to ignore.

How I am deepening my own learning, practices and offerings through deeper relational intentionality with the more than human world, including the impact of a recent Vision Quest I completed and participation as a co-learner in a new 18 month learning journey exploring ‘Kincentric Leadership’.

And how all this is shaping the future of the podcast, the work I offer to others and the work of Becoming Crew.

Finally I wanted to reflect on my key takeouts and learnings from the podcast conversations with my amazing guests this year and why they feel important and really useful for these times we are facing into.

I also share what next for the podcast in the Autumn (loads) and from Becoming Crew.

If you enjoy this episode, let us know, we’d love to hear from you.

A big thanks to all the guests, contributors and our crew for making this podcast happen and to all our beautiful listeners for supporting us.

This episode contains two short audio essays from Christina Williams, a writer exploring the pathways that can connect us more deeply with the more-than-human world.

She is passionate about complexity, systems change, and how narrative shifts can drive movements for change.

Christina took part in The Remix 2023, our Stories for Life themed learning journey from Becoming Crew.

She is based in Amsterdam.

https://newfutures.substack.com/ https://stories.life/ https://www.becomingcrew.com/

This episode is a basecamp crew conversation between Dan and fellow Becoming Crew guides Evva Semenowicz and Mark Sears.

It speaks to this moment in time, where planetary boundaries are being crossed, Earth system tipping points are approaching, climate and ecological breakdown is being experienced all over western societies and yet the culture of denial, divisiveness and inaction is still dominant in government, media, and corporates.

What is true and what is real ?

What will it take for more people with influence to step fully into this moment and begin to step into service to life on our home planet, for a sense of collective action to spread ?

We speak especially to the inaction in organisations and business, beyond their own agendas, why are orgs still so passive when it comes to responding to these crises, when the very conditions that enable their businesses to function are unravelling fast.

We unpack ‘What’s Yours to Do?’ - a new one day offer from Becoming Crew to support organisations to begin to step into this new reality and cultivate courage for their own unique forms of activism and participation towards halting the destruction of our living Earth and accelerate the shift towards life-sustaining cultures.

Recorded in a meadow in Somerset at sunset on a very dry June day the conversation picks up from our last session in Episode 63 in January, reflects on the launch of The Remix - (un)learning adventure for story rebels and then into this moment and what is being called for from business and organisations and our offer of What’s Yours to Do ?

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How might we make a habit of moving into uncomfortable spaces to begin cultivating new ways of being?

What stories would the living world share if they had a seat at the table?

What does a business in service to planet Earth look like?

How might business unite behind forms of activism that can benefit the whole of society ?

Matt Hocking is an extraordinary force of nature, a generous and humble being who has dedicated himself to serving our planet.

As a designer, curator and connector he has channelled his energy into the creation of forward thinking, ecologically inspired, design agency Leap; developing Goodfest, a gathering for creative change makers in Cornwall, and as an ambassador for BCorp, encouraging more creative businesses to join the movement.

Matt is a galvanising individual, a catalyst for interesting journeys and an advocate for challenging our settled concepts of 'sustainabilty'.

In a little pocket of ancient woodland in Bath, Smallcombe Woods, Dan invites Matt in the company of two ancient oaks, surrounded by the aroma of wild garlic and the pitter patter of rain drops to delve into an exploration of Matt’s service to planet Earth and their common threads of inquiry.

The conversation weaves many threads

A reflection on the state of Britain’s natural world as a result of an ingrained colonial destructive and separation logic.

The importance of a sharing economy beyond material things

Appreciation for Goodfest, in creating a space where youth wisdom sits alongside elder wisdom.

Bringing the voices of the living world into our discussions on climate action,

The dance of perfect imperfection along the journey to new, creative imaginings

How businesses can take courageous action towards systemic change.

This offering comes from Becoming Crew Guide Mark Sears.

It is an ancient myth from the Inuit tradition.

It emerged from the back of the cave following our first session of our learning adventure The Remix and a provocation from Bayo Akomolafe. He invited us to consider the possibility of shapeshifting and the idea that it is only through strange encounters beyond our comprehension that new stories might emerge.

This is a short tale, but a deep one and it begs the question - 'what have we sent into exile that we might need to reclaim right now in our culture where we find ourselves as lonely hunters at the doorway of our huts.'

As you listen perhaps you might want to ask yourself, where do you find yourself in the story?

What if the health of the wild waters of the Earth are a reflection of human health?What if restoring our relationship with the wild waters on this earth was a way to restore and heal our own health ?How might moving into a more intentional relationship with water within us and around us help us through these times of fear, grief and complexity?How might cultivating practices and rituals with water today begin to catalyse cultural shifts towards a return of the sacredness between humans and the waters on this Earth?Easkey Britton is a surfer, scientist, academic, social ecologist, activist, writer and artist who has dedicated her life to exploring connection with the ocean and wild waters of this Earth and understanding our human relationship with water as watery beings.This is Easkey’s third time on the podcast and this episode is in honour of her new book Ebb and Flow, Connect with the Patterns and Power of Water.An essential book for this moment, as we are beginning to understand through witnessing the health of the rivers and ocean around us - what we do to the wild waters of this Earth ultimately we do to ourselves.Packed with wisdom and practices to restore health to ourselves and the wild waters around us, Easkey has weaved together insight and intelligence from her own deep experiences and those of wisdom keepers, water guardians, scientists, activists and indigenous scholars from all over Spaceship Earth.This conversation riffs on a number of threads in the book.This is an Ocean Mic episode in collaboration with FinisterrePlay-out track‘Landscape’ by East Forest and Peter Broderick

Welcome to this first Stories for Life minisode from The SpaceShip Earth Podcast.The intention with these mini episodes is to serve up short form sonic offerings - poems, stories, readings, meditations and musical gifts.These offerings will either be riffing on 'love stories', helping us relate to ourselves, to each other and to this more than human world that we inhabit in more entangled, mysterious, interconnected and life sustaining ways.Or drawing our attention to 'horror stories' in our modern cultures that through their deeply ingrained pervasiveness keep us trapped in the destructive and divisive story of separation.This first offering comes from writer and poet Mike Benson, a poem entitled - GDP: seems kind of Gross.

Love Ssega is a musician, songwriter and performing artist . He is weaving a beautifully diverse path collaborating across different art forms, whilst also speaking up for complex environmental, social and educational issues. The original frontman-songwriter of Grammy-winning Clean Bandit, he is currently Artist In Residence for Royal Festival Hall’s Philharmonia Orchestra. London-born, his music blends a mix of New Wave, 80s Hip-Hop, African polyrhythms and NYC Disco into smart, modern Pop and has been played all over the world. In this conversation Dan invites Ssega to explore the question ‘What does it mean to be a music artist in a time of climate, ecological and social crisis’ ? And they journey through some of his amazing projects riffing on many threads.Ssega is weaving extraordinary magic through his actions and artistry - exploring climate justice, social and racial justice, air pollution, social housing issues and so much more through music, performance, collaboration and co-creation with communities, galleries, poets, orchestras, and more.Please do check out Ssega’s abundant music and creative projects, you won’t be disappointed. And please comment and share if this episode speaks to you.Links, show notes and tracklist via https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2023/5/12/episode-68-love-ssega-finding-another-way

Why do rivers need guardians ?What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ?Can nature have legal rights?Paul Powlesland is a civil barrister, environmental activist and guardian of the River Roding in East London.Paul is shaking up what it means to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis.In this bonus episode following on from the previous long form conversation, Paul speaks specifically to the Rights of Nature movement, what it's all about and what the rights of a river might look like through his relationship with the River Roding, a river in east London which Paul guardians.This is also a special episode for us - being the first Ocean Mic episode - a new collaboration between The Spaceship Earth podcast and Finisterre.Available on all platforms#thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew #oceanmic

Why do rivers need guardians ?What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ?Can nature have legal rights?Paul Powlesland is a civil barrister, environmental activist and guardian of the River Roding in East London.Over the last few years single handedly bringing life back to this river and growing a community of crew re-connecting and regenerating the river and exploring what the legal rights of a river might look like.Paul is shaking up what it means to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis.After practising as a barrister in London for a decade, Paul realised the urgent need to create greater respect and protection for the natural world within our legal system. He founded Lawyers for Nature to represent the natural world and all who are seeking to defend it in the courts as best he can within the current legal framework. He has a deep affinity for wild water, lives on a boat, on a stretch of tidal river, and has founded community project The River Roding Trust to bring life back to the River Roding in East London.This episode weaves many threads including -- what it means to be a lawyer in a time of environmental crisis,- the importance of reconnecting with nature, our more than human family - the beautiful inquiry into making rivers sacred again and giving them legal rights.This is also a very special episode for us - being the first Ocean Mic episode - a new collaboration between The Spaceship Earth podcast and Finisterre.

Why do rivers need guardians ?What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ? Can nature have legal rights?An Ocean Mic episode in collaboration with Finisterre dropping very soon, exciting on many fronts.#thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew #oceanmic

Bayo is an author, writer, celebrated speaker, teacher, and self-styled trans-public intellectual - whose vocation goes beyond justice and speaking truth to power to opening up other spaces of power-with, and queering fond formulations and configurations of hope.Bayo invites us to see the crises of our times with a post activist, post humanist lens, revealing cracks and bringing much-needed trouble to settled narratives.His writing and speaking is prolific, vital and so generous.His provocations and the invitations that sit under them are not always fully comprehended in our more comfortable human centered cultures of progress which Bayo speaks to with clarity in this conversation.This was a shorter episode recorded online at the end of a slightly frazzling week, but as ever with Bayo this conversation is full of gifts, stunning insight, provocation and fertiliser for navigating these mysterious times.Bayo is one of our special guests on The Remix kicking off in May - a 3 month action learning adventure for story rebels from Becoming crew.Applications open https://www.becomingcrew.com/theremix

This beautiful prayer was born during the conversation between V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Bayo Akomolafe - The Promise and Limits of Restitution: Returning to 'Congo' from the Democracy & Belonging Forum.In the spirit of experimentation Bayo invited V to co-create a prayer for this moment, for what this moment calls us to attend to. A prayer for becoming other, for becoming more than human. We were deeply touched not just by the words that emerged but also by the spirit of the invitation and witnessing of the beautiful dance between V and Bayo and all that is present through them. Evva has been sharing the prayer during some of our becoming crew gatherings and it continues to be deeply appreciated.So we made a recording of Evva reading the prayer and added some audio vibes.And with the blessing of V and Bayo we release it into the wild.A true prayer for this moment in time.One for headphones and turning up.If it speaks to you please share.Original talkhttps://www.youtube.com/live/7JgcAqzDbUA?fhttps://www.eveensler.org/https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/

Episode 64 with Dougald Hine.Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast.Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son.And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation.In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations to be considered and explored as we face into the unravelling mystery of these times - times of endings.‘At Work in the Ruins’ is a gift for this moment for those who know in their heart and gut that now is a time for inquiry, courage, letting go and becoming.We highly recommend this book.Available everywhere you get your podcastsWe hope you appreciate this episode. Please do share, rate and review if this speaks to you.#atworkintheruins #thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew

Teaser of Episode 64 is hereIn this episode Dan is in conversation with Dougald Hine.Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast.Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son.And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation.In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations to be considered and explored as we face into the unravelling mystery of these times.Dan says - “At Work in the Ruins' is a book of wisdom for these times.Times which often to me feel full of cleverness which no longer makes much sense.”‘At Work in the Ruins’ is a gift for these times and we highly recommend it.The audio here is Dougald reading a section from the introduction of the book.Full episode dropping shortly.Available everywhere you get your podcasts#atworkintheruins #thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew

In this first full length episode to kick off 2023, Dan introduces in much more depth the Becoming Crew (un)learning adventures for navigating mysterious times.These have been gestating through the podcast since it began and prototyping over the last two years and are now being offered into the world.The episode then deepens and expands into reflections on experiences and learnings from 2022 and intentions for 2023 with fellow Becoming Crew guides Mark Sears and Evva Semenowicz.This was recorded in mid January in a cottage on Dartmoor, Devon during days of intense rainfall where the three of us gathered for a few days to pause, reflect and dream.To find out more visitwww.becomingcrew.comThanks for listening and please do share, comment, rate and review if this speaks to you#becomingcrew #inservicetolife

We have a new learning experience offering to accompany the podcast. Becoming Crew - (un)learning adventures for navigating mysterious times.It's been prototyping and gestating for some years.And we released into the wild at the end of 2022.The first offer is Community Solo, a 5 week experience for a crew of individuals which our first cohort completed in mid December.We have a second crew departing on 26th January, with some spots still available.This is a short explainer from Dan (on a ramble in the woods) on the dream of Becoming Crew, an overview of Community Solo and his own profound experience of guiding and participating in the first run last year.Interested in joining the next one ? Jump through the portal...https://www.becomingcrew.com/community-solo

Former professional big wave surfer Fergal Smith walked away from professional surfing a decade ago to begin a journey of becoming a regenerative farmer on the West coast of Ireland.In this conversation recorded in June 2022 Dan revisits Moy Hill for a third time and catches up with where Fergal is at on the evolutionary journey of Moy Hill Farm . Fergal is now working with livestock as a core tool in bringing back soil health, bio-diversity, carbon drawdown and growing nutritious food for the local community. This conversation is an open exploration of the challenges, complexity and nuance required in bringing life back to landscapes, feeding people healthy food and dealing with the challenges of the urgent transition from industrial agriculture to regenerative farming.https://www.moyhillfarm.com/

New Earth Sessions Mix from @dan__burgess :

I’m struggling with my voice at the moment.

And words.

So I’ve been taking a pause from recording conversations.

The podcast is in a composting phase

Which feels absolutely right for this time.

Autumn has always been an important season for me.

I feel the transition in a very embodied way.

Deep in my psyche and bones.

The letting go.

The breaking down

Of what was.

A clearing of space.

For what could be.

A grieving of sorts.

In a beautiful way.

In recent years Autumn had also become a time of unexpected challenge.

So this mix is an ode to Autumn and all the feels that I’m feeling right now.

Autumnism.

125 BPM

Play loudly, for running, dancing and moving through these darker times.

A new season of the podcast will be emerging from the compost.

Massive respect to all the producers featured in this mix. Thank you for your beautiful sonic offerings.

Available on all podcast platforms.

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Tracklist on site.

Hamish Evans is a Permaculturist, Market Gardener, Regenerative Farmer, Community and Climate Activist and Co Founder of MiddleGround Growers and Weston Spring Farm in Bath, Somerset in the UK.

Hamish is another extraordinary human, who in his 20’s is bringing inspirational vision, energy, connection and healing to the lands of Bath and the communities here.

In this long conversation which is packed with insight from Hamish’s experiences we explored many many threads, including how to shift our grief and despair around climate and ecological action and social justice and direct our own energies towards creating projects with the potential to heal, bring people together and co-create new life sustaining systems. What Hamish calls Prefigurative action - building the future we envision in the belly of the destructive systems.

We explore new forms of activism, our relationship to the land around us, repairing our divided cultures and communities through starting with the ground we stand on, food cultivation, exploring shifts in diets and the foods we eat, how to open up land access to young, marginalised and new types of community growers, new forms of small scale regenerative farming, permaculture approaches and collective design processes which are inclusive, radical co-operation and new forms of food systems grounded in place, as bio-regions and shaping new types of local economies. In short - how land itself could be the catalyst for the personal, cultural and systems transformations that are being called for.

And we dig into the question - what will it take for a city such as Bath to be able to feed itself when it comes to food security and food poverty and climate challenges ?

As we witness now in real time the effects of climate breakdown in the UK, with water shortages, soil degradation and crop failures now finally being talked about in mainstream media, the question of how will we feed ourselves becomes perhaps the post powerful call to action to step into service in these times, and the possibilities here for reimagining and redesigning our relationships with, food, the living world, with the landscapes around us and how we relate to each other is both profound and exciting.

Enjoy, share and do leave us some feedback if you can

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Live DJ set recorded at the Sancho Panza festival - 'Campo Sancho' in July 2022 in the UK. 90 mins back to back with my great friend Jay Bold which kicked off Saturday night in the Snare and Hi hat tent. Brilliant crowd, mega sound system, awesome festival. Grateful for the opportunity. Massive kudos to Matt Brown and Jim Angel. Respect to all the producers in this recording. Enjoy!

https://www.sanchopanza.org/campo-sancho/

Following on from Episode 60 - this is a bonus episode - a 5 minute meditation to help you connect more deeply to Gaia - our living Earth - taken from Stephan Harding’s first book - Animate Earth and narrated by Dan Burgess.

You’ll need to go outside, or inside Gaia herself - a garden, park, wood, river, ocean - anywhere that speaks to you where you can lie on your back, on top of Gaia herself and feel safe. From here you can start the meditation.

Try it out and let us know how you get on ;-) If you enjoy it please share with others and keep the practice

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Dr Stephan Harding is a Holistic Scientist, Deep Ecologist and co-founder of the legendary Schumacher College. Stephan’s work intersects scientific ecology, with gaia theory and our psyche and soul. Author of two books, Animate Earth and new publication, Gaia Alchemy. Stephan has worked and taught alongside the world's leading ecological thinkers, feelers and activists. And has worked closely with scientist James Lovelock, a mentor, who developed the Gaia theory hypothesis.

Join Dan and Stephan discuss:

Who is Gaia and what’s her history?
James Lovelock an independent scientist and great mentor
From the scientific study of the Muntjac Deer to the deep connection of the wholeness of nature
We are not just thinkers. We’re equally, feelers, sensors and intuitors
We’re inherently animistic with a spiritual connection to nature. And we can still value science
A cultural revolution needs to happen quicker than any other, for the sake of all beings
Gaia Alchemy. Why put alchemy with science?
Healing a crisis of meaning and the Azoth of Philosophy
Valuing the psyche over the ego. Do we invent ideas or do we receive them?
Find your Gaia place
We have two bodies. One, a human body which lives inside the wider body of the Earth, Gaia.

For full show notes and links please visit The Spaceship Earth website: https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/6/10/episode-60-stephan-harding-a-kingdom-beyond-measurement

This Earth Sessions mix is dedicated to Mother Earth, our one and only home planet. It’s for dancing and moving through overwhelming times. It’s for the love of all that I know and experience of this Earth. And to honour the vast unknowable intelligence beyond my human knowing. —— Imagine if we began to see the Earth and the more than human world as our family ? (As many indigenous brothers and sisters have always done) Just a shift in perception. And an ongoing practice No technology or markets required. _______________________

The mix begins and ends with wisdom from two amazing guests on the podcast this year. Two humans who are working towards this shift in beautiful ways. Kicking off with an invitation from Imagination Activist Phoebe Tickell (EP 57) To find the courage to cultivate our moral imagination capacities. And consider the more than human and our future ancestors as we re-imagine our human systems that can, should and must be changed. We close with beautiful wisdom from Nadeem Perera ( EP 59) To consider and accept the true order of life, where nature, Mother Earth is the director of the show. _______________ The track selection attempts to express the urgency, beauty, mystery, love and possibility of these times. Music that’s been moving me of late. Organic, cosmic house sounds which connect me to rhythms, patterns and love of Mother Earth.

Massive respect and gratitude to all the artists and producers featured in this mix. Go buy these tracks if they move you too

Hope you enjoy the mix - feedback always appreciated

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Alarm Call (French Dub) - Bjork The Slide - Wild Dark Fewer - Gadi Mitrani Felt - Erdi Irmak Moon by day - Hermanez/Simon Vuarambom 1996 - Simon Vuarambom Hael - Volen Sentir Circadian Rhythm - (Hraach mix) Soul Button Lagom - Lukas Bohlender Nano - Tamir Regev Mythical Mirage (Erdi Irmak mix) - Serious Dancers Vutuka Fet Junior - Lost Desert/Lee Burridge Rain in June - Mass Digital Solnce - Krasa Rosa

Bird recordings via @fintanobrien

Nadeem Perera is a birder, wildlife TV presenter, activist, youth mentor and co-founder of Flock Together.

Flock Together is a birdwatching collective for people of colour who have felt unwelcome and marginalised in spaces that should be for everyone. Together they are reclaiming green spaces and rebuilding relationships with nature - one walk at a time. At twenty eight years of age, Nadeem is more than his deep fascination with birds, his youth work, values and unique personal qualities are essential in the world today.

Needem Perera Insta - https://www.instagram.com/birdnerdeem Flock Together - https://www.flocktogether.world

For full show notes and links please visit The Spaceship Earth website:

https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/4/15/episode-59-nadeem-perera-flock-together-return-to-the-source-of-love

Coming next - in conversation with Nadeem Perera - Birder, Wildlife TV, Youth Coach, Activist and Co-Founder of Flock Together @birdnerdeem https://www.flocktogether.world/

What is this podcast all about ? Here's a bit of the vibe. Nearly 70 episodes of long form conversations, a lock down experimental series, music mixes, audio rambles and much more to come. Rambling on since 2018 Becoming Crew on SpaceShip Earth

Felipe Viveros is a British-Chilean writer, independent researcher, artist and strategist. His work focuses on the intersection of on-line organizing, digital storytelling, policy and systems change. He has worked with governments and organisations globally, served as the chair of The Rules, and acted as the European representative of the GNH Centre Bhutan. Felipe is a fellow of Bertha Foundation, a member of the UN Harmony with Nature initiative and a commissioner for the Sacred Headwaters Initiative, always championing epistemic justice, social justice and indigenous people’s rights.

For full show notes and links please visit The Spaceship Earth website: https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/3/29/episode-58-felipe-viveros-survival-of-the-beautiful Play out track: Nick Mulvey In the Anthropocene ( Elder Brother Remix)

Coming next - in conversation with Felipe Viveros - artist, researcher, strategist and activist @nawelcura

ChooseEarth

https://www.chooseearth.co/

Welcome to this Bonus episode 57

with our guest Phoebe Tickell

In this we offer you an invitation to listen to a 5 minute story called the Impossible Train, created by Moral Imaginations and narrated by Phoebe Tickell.

The Impossible Train Story is a tool that can be used by anyone, alone or in groups in all settings to catalyse a process of deep reimagining of the future post-COVID and all that it has revealed.

The entire process can be done in under 20 minutes.  

The story you are about to hear will build up a sensory experience of a portal into a metaphoric world not far away from this one — where a group of human beings have to make a decision on what to do next with their future after experiencing a Great Pause in their everyday world  .

Take 5 minutes to listen to The Impossible Train Story, and be ready with a pen or an open document to start writing immediately after the story ends.

You could set a stopwatch for 7 minutes and start to write freely when the narration is over.  

When you’re finished, you could find a friend to chat what you discovered and wrote, or if you do it with someone else, use the remaining time you have to read each other your reflections.  

Remember, there is no right or wrong answer, and each time you listen to the story you will have a different response emerge from you, depending on what is going on for you on that day and specific moment.

You do not need to show anyone what you wrote, in fact, some people have been using it as a prompt to use solo when journalling. It can be used as a reflective tool and a way to access deeper imagination and ask big questions that these times are calling for.

But if you wanted to share it with us you can do so.

Peace and Out

https://www.moralimaginations.com/

Phoebe Tickell is a Biologist and Systems thinker who develops methodologies and approaches suited to a better world. With a degree in Biological Natural Sciences she brings her understanding of biological networks and systems thinking into governance, organisational structures, narratives and imagination. From co-founding multiple organisations, designing and implementing learning programmes to facilitating groups across the world, Phoebe has been called a voice of the emerging future and one of the most important systems thinkers of her generation.

Recorded in the Devonian woods around a campfire, Dan and Phoebe discuss:

Reflection, peace and slowness in a time when there’s lots to do
The rejection of indigenous wisdom/science unless ‘discovered’ by western science
Systems change; yet aren’t we the system?
In times of grief, what would a sane culture do?
Evolving from a self-exterminating society to a self-sustaining society
Caring for young imaginations in an era of technological entertainment
Moral Imagination. Imagination activists. And imaginal zones
Subsidising slowness, not speed and rewiring our economy
Power of the ‘sit spot’, make believe, masks and role play
Relationships and value between the human and more-than-human world
Everything is not in the government's hands. We can be empowered to create our own reality
Designing systems with wisdom. Bring it on!

Play Out Track: Bonobo - Sapien From the Album ‘ Fragments’ https://music.apple.com/gb/album/sapien/1584968878?i=1584969129

Sound Credits: Features birdsong recorded by Fintan O'Brien https://soundcloud.com/fintanobrien

Full Shownotes: https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/3/3/episode-57-phoebe-tickell-imagination-activism

Hello 2022, hope this finds you well.

I’ve been composting 2021.

Episode 56 kicks off with something a bit different.

An audio experiment to start the year.

A story about stories.

Last year I was invited to do a TED X Talk about the climate and ecological crisis, I wasn’t really sure what to talk about to be honest.

I was struggling to think of what another white man, 50 years old could possibly add to all the noise in these extraordinary times.

I was also feeling fairly burned out by the last two years, had just returned from COP26 and was strangely disoriented and quite frazzled.

I decided to focus in on what I felt was the most valuable and useful learnings I have, that I could offer up in these unravelling and unknowing times. Even though I knew it might feel uncomfortable and challenging. I wanted to find a way to weave the vital threads of my inquiring over the last 15 years together with where my attention and work is deepening and orienting towards.

It was quite a task to create, but I felt it didn’t end up working quite so well in a short talk format.

Because it’s really a story about stories.

So I decided to evolve and expand it and record it as a podcast, but a bit more immersive.

It’s definitely right on my learning edge and I’m feeling a bit vulnerable putting this out. But that often means it needs to leave the nest.

I really hope it speaks to you and if it does please consider sharing it with someone else. We’d be most grateful. And whatever it makes you think or feel - I'd love to hear any feedback.

There are so many amazing humans and more than humans who have influenced the creation of this episode.

You know who you are.

I’d recommend headphones or a decent speaker setup for this one. And being still. Enjoy

A massive shout to Charlie Shread - Audio Jedi for making this sound awesome.

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Link:

The Great Acceleration

https://www.slideshare.net/IGBPSecretariat/great-acceleration-2015

https://stories.life/ https://stories.life/chapter/the-narrative-of-separation/

Thanks for listening to The Spaceship Earth Podcast.

Host: Dan Burgess @dan__burgess

Edit: Charlie Shread

Shownotes: Vicki Turner

Music: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson

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Finishing the year with a cheeky mix offering from the shed

Deep, pumping, cosmic, emotive, full of light, love, grief, confusion, darkness and slightly twisted.

Bit like my year.

A mix to shuffle, shape-shift, stomp and sway into the Winter Solstice.

To mark the end of this cycle of the sun.

And the letting go of a year.

Impossible to express in words.

(Better through music)

Marking the start.

Of a time of rest, reflection and gratitude.

Massive respect and gratitude to all the artists and producers featured in this mix. Your gifts keep me moving.

Steven Weston- The Solent Aparde - Integrity (Lusine mix) Junior Akwety - Vibe with Me Proff - Whale Song Mass Digital - Joie de vivre Gilad Bemamram - Impossible Love ( Guy Mantur mix) Sex of insects - I can hear the light (Dave Pad mix) Cornucopia - Letter for Poly Halo Vargo - Future ( Guy J mix) Tim Green - Over the water (Tim Green & Izvhevski mix) Soma Soul - Eclipse feat Ed Begley ( Edu Imberno mix)

Big Earthy Hugs To everyone I’ve connected with this year. Those I’ve worked with, created with, plotted with, played with, despaired with. My family, friends and community for endless love and support. To all the incredible guests on the podcast. To my podcast crew. To everyone who has listened, shared, commented and reviewed. Thank you. There’s more coming in 2022. Big shout to the Becoming Crew Learning Marathon. To all the mind-blowing activists, campaigners, artists, creators, writers, designers, podcasters, film makers, farmers, growers, change-makers, imagineers, storytellers, lovers, carers, healers, nurturers, connectors and mischief makers who continue to keep it real when things can feel hopeless. To the NHS. To the more than human crew on Spaceship Earth who create the conditions for all life. To all those midwifing a more beautiful world. Keep the love, care and kindness strong. We live on a life going rock called Earth, hurtling through space. Lets dance. And rest. Peace and out.

"Carbon is the basic building blocks of life. It’s not actually a negative thing. Very rarely in a natural system is something objectively negative or positive. It plays its role. And so actually storing carbon and having carbon in your soil is incredibly important. And of course huge amounts of carbon has been lost from the soil. So there’s huge potential to store carbon in the soil. However I will say that we will get ourselves in trouble if we turn farming into a carbon storing exercise. I believe that we can store carbon in the soil and it’s really important for farming, and really important for the environment and the future. But I’m worried if we go down the route of only farming to store carbon, we lose the holistic understanding of nature and we end up back in a reductionist system where we are only thinking about carbon storage. To thrive we have to consider everything, and we have to understand the ecosystem in its entirety.”

Will Rolph works with his brother Harry, farming olives at Two Fields in Zakros. After moving to Zakros they soon discovered a beautiful olive craft passed down through generations that was under threat from a broken industrialized food system. Diving deep into regenerative farming and rebuilding land & soil, they work together with their family and community to produce small batches of olive oil.

Listen to Dan and Will discuss:

Journey from sustainable design, craftsmanship to regenerative olive farming
Chemical, reductionist and monoculture farming works. But only for the short term
In regenerative farming we give more than we take
Becoming ‘more forest, than field’
How are we repairing our planet and building a future that’s possible
Strength in diversity
Farmers and customers become trapped in a system that only benefits the corporation
The gift of mentorship and the proud nod of ‘you’ve got this’
Land can’t give anymore than it is given
Learning from the ancient and wild olive trees found in the mountains
Deep connection to land and tasting the fruits of your labour
Sharing the stories of Zakros through natural ingredients
Joy to be found in limits and constraints
Small is beautiful and powerful
What we do to our soils, we do to ourselves
Industrialisation disconnects us from valuable felt experiences
Be an enquiring mind. Ask real questions
Look after one another

Community and Links

Places: Zakros

Connect: Two Fields - https://twofieldszakros.com Instagram - @twofieldszakros

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“Now there are lots of writers who talk about how foundational stories have been across history. Just take Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, in it he maps that without story, humans wouldn’t have been able to live in civilisations larger than about 20,000. That myth and story have been fundamental to our evolution as a species. And if we want to shift stories, we need to start thinking of them as technologies. We need to recognise them for the complex and potent things that they are.”

This episode explores the role of stories and narrative as a technology for foundational economic system change. Stories For Life is a project authored by Dan Burgess and Paddy Loughman in collaboration with The Green Economy Coalition and The WellBeing Economy Alliance. Collectively they explored how stories may help design an economy in service to life. To weave this narrative requires engagement across cultures. It needs everyone who brings stories into our cultures to participate and play. This podcast was recorded at The Stories For Life event hearing from those working to create new narratives through creative culture, arts, activism, new economic design, leadership, community action and more.

Listen to speakers:

Dan Burgess - Our current destructive narratives - What if we could evolve these stories? - What if we can jump into uncertainty? - What if this is the most exciting and imaginative time?

Paddy Loughman - Symptoms of a deadly economy and how to design an alternative in service to life - Separation and competition over kindness, compassion, cooperation, diversity, creativity and care - Economics are not fixed, they were designed. So they can be redesigned. Upgraded

Ella Saltmarshe - Myth and story are fundamental to the evolution of our species - Change the Things. Change the Relationships. Change the goals - Donella Meadows - The values we hold will determine the stories we collectively have - What changes when we understand ourselves as good ancestors? - Radical kinship and care

Carlota Sanz - A new vision for the 21st century - A doughnut! - An inherited degenerative system to a new regenerative and cyclical system - What would it take to realise the new doughnut economy? - Change makers to change makers. The most effective way to realise a new paradigm

Kumi Naidoo - What’s the biggest contribution we can make to the cause of justice? It’s not about giving your life, but giving the rest of your life - Activists no longer speak the same language of the people - What is needed? System innovation. System redesign. System transformation - Bravery is required to tackle the root of our problems - The focus is too much on what people don’t have, not what people have. - An appeal for a just social contract

Andres Roberts - How do we change the story of human progress by working with nature? - Nature works in cycles and webs of connection, not straight lines, pyramids and hierarchies - Humanity’s guiding principle is growth. Yet nature is based on optimisation - When we listen and observe to nature, a new kind of knowledge arises - We have emerged from nature. If we connect back to this truth we’ll rekindle our feeling of belonging

Community: Green Economy Coalition - https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org Wellbeing Economy Alliance - https://weall.org The Longtime Academy - https://www.thelongtimeproject.org Civic Square - https://civicsquare.cc/team/ Donut Economics Action Lab - https://doughnuteconomics.org Bio-Leadership Project - https://www.bio-leadership.org Power People & Planet - Kumi Naidoo https://www.powerpeopleplanet.org/ Stories For Life (You Tube) - https://stories.life/get-involved ————— Thanks for listening to The Spaceship Earth Podcast. Host: Dan Burgess @dansolo__ Edit: Charlie Shread Shownotes: Vicki Turner Music: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson Join us on Instagram: @thespaceship.earth Subscribe to monthly newsletter: https://becomingcrew.substack.com/welcome

“What I'd say is for people my age it’s totally about intersectionality and recognising that to fix one thing, we need to fix various other things as well. One thing I really noticed while writing ‘We have a dream’ was how young so many of the people were when they started, it isn’t teenagers, it’s young children; seven, eight, nine year olds taking it upon themselves to make things better because they were seeing a failure from generations before them. I think while in some ways it’s incredibly inspiring to see people feeling capable to go out and change the world like that, in some ways I think it’s incredibly sad that kids feel the need.”

Mya Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl is a racial equality & climate and environmental campaigner and activist. Nineteen and British-Bangladeshi, she’s the youngest British person to be awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science for fighting for equal access to nature and ethnic diversity in the environmental sector. As her name suggests, she’s a passionate birdwatcher, a speaker, once sharing a stage with Greta Thunberg, and the President of Black2Nature, a charity providing nature camps for teenagers introducing them to the natural world.

Listen to Dan and Mya-Rose discuss:

From birding, blogging, to activism
A childhood of ecological awareness
Equity in the climate change movement and the challenges of modern colonialism
Access to nature as a human right for all not just the privileged
Black2Nature - A Visible Minority Ethnic led organisation to give access to VME communities who are excluded from the countryside
‘We Have A Dream’ a book to amplify the voice of thirty young indigenous people and people of colour protecting the planet
Joy of watching under appreciated birds
How capitalism has contributed to disconnecting and undervaluing the natural world
Burnout, The Resilience Project and birding as meditation
Hope for COP 26
Activism. Fueled by my love for birds and the planet

Community and Links

Projects:

Black2Nature - https://www.birdgirluk.com/black2nature/ The Resilience Project - https://www.theresilienceproject.org.uk Youth for our Panet - https://youthforourplanet.com

People: Greta Thunberg

Books/Films/Talks:

We Have A Dream - https://www.birdgirluk.com/shop/ My Octopus Teacher - https://www.netflix.com/title/81045007 Youth Strike 4 Climate Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLxyfpYr8mw

Places:

Bristol Bangladesh

Connect:

https://www.birdgirluk.com @birdgirluk

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“I think fundamentally it all comes down to the systems and structures we live within. We are all trapped within this economic structure at the moment. We are trapped in a carbon structure. I mean even what we do every day - let’s be brutally honest - we all go to work and do things that are reliant on those things. It’s not straight-forward. What I do think, is that there’s paralysis within the government because of that. The changes that we need are pretty dramatic. It will cost jobs from certain industries, in fossil fuels and in damaging industries. But it has to be presented as creating new opportunities. Renewable and sustainable businesses. The benefits we’ll get at protecting big parts of our world and taking the public on a new journey through that. And people also need to talk about western consumption levels, which are absolutely unsustainable.”

Hugo Tagholm is the Chief Executive of the national marine conservation and campaigning charity Surfers Against Sewage. He is an environmentalist, campaigner, surfer, charity professional and public speaker. A rare breed, Hugo embodies a wildness from his deep relationship with the ocean and the natural world. He mobilises and helps enable community led participation in change and has vision for how we can evolve. With courage and energy he uses his influence on business and politics to help make the transformative shifts we need for all future life.

Listen to Dan and Hugo discuss:

Creating change together in the most radical decade of environmental activism
The fear yet also the strength, lessons and impact made throughout the pandemic
Hybrid activism. Embracing diversity in campaigns
Decade of government action required to bring back thriving natural systems
Trapped within human made systems and structures
On a knife-edge. The pandemic highlights how fragile society and individuals have become
Economic systems rely on exploitation and destruction. Individual choice is not enough. Entire systems need to reform and change
Impacts of large businesses extracting nutrients from communities
Social media’s ability to dis-connect us from life
Diversity of collaborations to enrich discussions and solutions
Changing our stories from scarcity and competition, to abundance, generosity and reciprocity
Active hope for life. And catching waves
Action is a non negotiable. And many still have the imagination to dream up new possibilities
G7 protests call for urgent action on the ocean and climate crisis
Radical action. Radical humans

Community and Links

Projects: Surfers Against Sewage - https://www.sas.org.uk Biosphere 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

Books: Active Hope - https://www.activehope.info/the-book

Films: Spaceship Earth Documentary - https://mattwolf.info/Spaceship-Earth

People: Tom Kay Prince Charles Joe Biden Justin Trudeau

Places: Cornwall

Connect: https://www.instagram.com/surfersagainstsewage https://twitter.com/sascampaigns

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Play out track: Blurred by Kiasmos (Bonobo Remix) https://kiasmos.bandcamp.com/track/blurred-bonobo-remix

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In this episode I'm in conversation with Tom Kay founder of ocean inspired outdoor clothing brand and BCorps Finisterre. This shorter than usual conversation took part just before Sea 7 - the world's first Ocean activist training camp, dreamed up and bought to the world by Finisterre with design partners Protect Blue, just before the G7 world leaders gathering in June down in Cornwall - the home of Finisterre. I had the honour of hosting the 6 hr event which included talks, panels and workshops from the world's leading ocean activists, scientists, campaigners, designers, working tirelessly to protect and regenerate our planets life support system - the ocean. In this conversation I caught up with Tom to explore the thinking behind Sea 7, some reflections on the Finisterre journey of the last 19 years, the impacts of the pandemic and what next for the brand in these unravelling times. We then swiftly jumped in the ocean before kicking off Sea 7. Stay locked for the outro track, an ocean flavoured remix of our title music which includes a gift of a poem from podcast mixmaster @Charlie Shread - Earth Origin

https://sea7.finisterre.com/

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Kate Robinson is a writer, speaker and director of Nevergrey and the daughter of the late Sir Ken Robinson. Her work is dedicated to his legacy and she continues to share his passion of human potential and empowering every person and every organization on the planet to imagine, reimagine, create and recreate via the platform - Imagine If. She was the founding Editor in Chief and Head of Strategic Operations of HundrED, a Finnish-based initiative designed to seek and share the most inspiring innovations in education globally and was awarded a thought leadership award for her Outstanding Contribution to Education Empowerment.

Listen to Dan and Kate discuss:

A Year of grief, relocation, marriage, a pandemic, and a new legacy business
Life as the daughter of Sir Ken Robinson
Myths and misunderstandings of creativity
Education stripping us of our human resources, thus stripping the planet of it’s natural resources
Great gardeners don’t grow a plant. They create conditions for plants to flourish
Rock and Roll was not a government led initiative. Real change comes from the ground up
Traditional education is conformity and standardisation. Yet life comes from diversity
Education discourages making mistakes. Yet mistakes makes us both human and creative
Love letter and celebration of human potential
Resistance and mutiny
The more complex the issues of our world become, the more creative our solutions need to be to solve them
We create the worlds in which we live. And there’s always the possibility of recreation
Imagine If. A rallying cry to continue Sir Ken Robinson’s work
Different capacities of imagination. And imagination as a practice
Beneficial environments for learning and creativity
Agency. Taking responsibility for our own lives and our shared planet

Community and Links

Projects: What If - https://imagine-if.com/schedule Nevergrey - https://www.nevergrey.org The Call to Unite - https://unite.us Mind Up - https://mindup.org/about/ United World Colleges - https://www.uwc.org Hundred - https://hundred.org/en Big Picture Learning - https://www.bigpicture.org

Talks: Do Schools Kill Creativity Ted Talk - https://tinyurl.com/a7p7vma

Books: Out of Our Minds - https://tinyurl.com/4a55t4h2 Creative Schools - https://tinyurl.com/3425ckaj Be More Pirate - https://tinyurl.com/5f8y5s8w Connect: https://www.instagram.com/itskaterobinson/ https://www.nevergrey.org Email : skr@nevergrey.org http://sirkenrobinson.com ————— Play out track: Life is Beautiful - A Reminiscent Drive A cheeky bootleg by Dan - featuring words from the late Sir Ken Robinson recorded during an interview with Dan in 2016 Host: Dan Burgess @dan__burgess Edit: Charlie Shread Shownotes: Vicki Turner Music: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson Join us on Instagram: @thespaceship.earth Subscribe to monthly newsletter: https://becomingcrew.substack.com/welcome

A spontaneous mix recorded just before the rise of the full moon yesterday. It’s a set I imagined playing to honour the full moon rising in the sky above me. A selection of tracks that have been connecting with me of late - deep, cosmic, entangled, emotional - Sort of how I’ve been feeling recently. I don’t know about you but I’ve been really missing dancing with people, dancing outside, feet on the earth, letting it go. I shed a few tears at moments in this mix, the sheer beauty of this life combined with the overwhelm of these times means my heart is easily breaking open by loud soaring strings, hi hats, snares, cosmic vocals and deep throbbing basslines I find. The mix closes with some wise words from a previous guest on my podcast Amisha Ghadiali - someone I admire for honouring the cycles, rhythms and patterns of our living world, of which we are all part of. So this is a gift for the full moon rising, the buck moon of July. I hope it moves you in some way. Massive gratitude to all the artists and producers of these tracks. Full tracklisting on the site. #earthsessions #housemusic #gratitude #interconnected #fullmoon

Tracklisting: Vessels - Elliptic Lee Burridge/Lost Desert - Loopyjazz Bona Fide & Wassu - Sila Noha - 4 walls ( Lost Desert mix) Frost - Overtones Sasha - HNDI Cassian - Open Up ( Durante mix) Tim Green - Coriolis Ambassadeurs - Takeda Double Touch/Reigan - Greatest Day Sebastian Leger - Stevie Lee Burridge - Satellite Gorl ( Tim Green mix) Play out words @Amisha Ghadiali from TSE episode 41

In this episode I’m in conversation with Andy Cato, an award-winning mixed arable and livestock farmer and co-founder of Wildfarmed Grain.

This was a treat on many fronts. Not just because Andy is a fascinating human doing extraordinary work to regenerate our planet but this conversation connects up many of my own deep interests.

Before forming Wild Farmed Grain Andy was one half of music act Groove Armada and started his journey with music in the early nineties going on to become a massive global artist and DJ, releasing over 8 albums, touring all over the world and next year will celebrate 25 years of music.

But Andy’s story continued to evolve as he learnt about the impacts our industrial food systems are having on both planetary and human health which kickstarted his inquiry into food growing, farm ownership and his own stark experiences witnessing dying soils and the devastating impacts of industrial agriculture.

His experimental nature and curious enquiring mind led him to the conclusion that regenerating soils for both climate and food is an urgent and pressing task for humanity and he has spent a decade developing farming methodologies where plants, animals and soils are all working in deep symbiosis, and farmers, bakers, millers and customers work together to create highly nutritious grains, flours and products in a value system that works for everyone.

Cut to 2021 and Wild Farmed Grain is making noise and beginning to spread from the underground, fast becoming the flour of choice of chefs and bakers around the country. His original 100Ha farm in Gascony, where his farming journey began, was recognised as the most innovative farm in France when awarded the prestigious Lauréat National de l'Agro-Ecologie 2020. He is the first Englishman to be awarded the Chevalier L’Order Merit de Agricole - the equivalent of a knighthood for services to agriculture.

Now on British soil, Andy is on a mission to take what he’s learned and help other farmers adopt his WildFarmed system so they can produce wheat that is not only more tasty and nutritious, but that eats up huge quantities of CO2 and restores soil health and biodiversity.

This was a wide ranging conversation, Andy has lived an extraordinary life and his knowledge, energy and dedication to building a new regenerative and community led food system is incredible - and for me to have a conversation which included raving , house music, the symbiosis of plant and animal relationships, soil health, complexity, human health, climate action and sourdough was an absolute treat.

I hope you enjoy it. Available on all podcast platforms.

Community and Links

An Agricultural Testament - Albert Howard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Agricultural_Testament

The One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/976905.The_One_Straw_Revolution Kiss the ground https://kisstheground.com/ Groove Armada https://www.groovearmada.com/ We Are Grow https://wearegrow.org/

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“When I lived in the Netherlands, even when you work on a project that you hope fixes something, like plastic recycling, at the end of the day you go to a supermarket to buy something, like a banana, shipped from Columbia. Then you sleep in a house that’s built from concrete, then you take a car somewhere, then there’s the roads, the lights that are always on, just to keep that Dutch system going. Or not necessarily a Dutch system, a western system. They leave big footprints, way more than people in other countries in the world. So I felt very much like, ‘Damn you are trying to fix problems, but you are here part of the problem by living here in this world.’ How can we structure life that you can still work on these things, but you don’t make a mess somewhere else.”

Dave Hakkens is an award winning and disruptive designer from the Netherlands. Graduating and launching two projects, Phone Bloks and Precious Plastic in 2013, he continued to develop open-source projects that address global environmental problems. Dave is a maverick in his field, and continues to learn and develop the skills to build communities around interconnected problems, in the hope for a better world.

Listen to Dan and Dave discuss:

The journey from a design graduate to an army of change makers
Phone Blocks: A modular phone design where parts, not the whole device, can be upgraded
Precious Plastic: Open-source plastic recycling machines for all
Evolving team, community, funding and awards for Precious Plastic
One Army: Interconnected communities that solve global problems
Developing skills in how to build a community around a problem
Project Kamp: Prototyping a way of living that’s least wasteful
Observing land to see what she and the community needs
Full time van life; is it cheating?
Intentional living and our interdependence with the natural world
Power of the internet, simplicity and playfulness to communicate with the world
Fixing Fashion: Using the power of fashion to dictate what is cool, especially repaired clothes.
Building software to help build effective communities
It’s time to serve the environment on Spaceship Earth

Community and Links

Projects: Fixing Fashion - https://fixing.fashion One Army - https://www.onearmy.earth Precious Plastic - https://preciousplastic.com Phone Bloks: https://www.onearmy.earth//project/phonebloks

Places: Netherlands Portugal

Connect: https://www.instagram.com/davehakkens/

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“The truth of it seems to me that it’s not that the more than human world is something which some people have a particular affinity for and other people don’t, we all do. It’s something from childhood. Children adore animals, they dream of animals so often. Their sense of curiosity and comfort is often from animals. Their companions are very often from the more than human world. I think, in a sense that maybe that’s part of the clue to why so many people lose it, is because it’s treated as if it’s something that we grow out of. As if we move from that, living beautiful, welling-up word, of zest, of spirit, of vitality, as if we move out of that, into this concrete enclosed world and that is what growing up is about and that is what this so called real world is about.”

Jay Griffiths is a courageous and award winning writer and author. Her writing feels crucially important to these times we are living in. Along with her books including, Why Rebel, Wild: An Elemental Journey and Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape, she also writes for The Guardian, The Idler and Orion Magazine. Jay is a fierce advocate for wild places, the landscapes we belong to and our relationship to the more than human world.

Listen to Dan and Jay explore her new book - Why Rebel, which she reads from in this podcast, as they discuss:

Early threads of interest in a writer’s life
Awakening to what we all know
Why Rebel. Letter to an Endling
From silence to speech
Non violent protests evolving culture
Extinction Rebellion. Knowledge, understanding, devotion, service and disciplined fury
The danger of lies and the importance of truth
Integration of the ancient and the modern
Children carrying the burden of responsibility
Indigenous philosophy; Seven Generations and Who Speaks for Wolf
Recognising english history and the celtic connection to land
Land knowledge rather than land ownership
Insects and tears
Stupidity and genocidal capitalism
It’s not about speaking better. But speaking differently
The wonder and life beneath our feet. Not on Mars
Court statement that brought judge to tears

Community and Links

People: Nick Hayes (Author, The Book of Trespass) Guy Shrubsole ( Author, Who owns England)

Projects/Books: Extinction Rebellion - https://extinctionrebellion.uk Why Rebel - http://jaygriffiths.com/books/why-rebel/

Places: Wales Ireland Cornwall England West Papua Bristol (Enslaver, Edward Colston)

Connect: Jay Griffiths - http://jaygriffiths.com

Buy Why Rebel http://jaygriffiths.com/books/why-rebel/

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“So when we start looking into ideas like regenerative cultures, you can see the ways we’ve learned to treat one another, which starts to link to the social justice element, of ways of using each other, abusing each other, and treating each other like shit, to be quite honest. And what we’ve done is taken that same energy to the earth, but the earth is kicking us out like we’re bad tenants; and that’s what’s happening with climate change. And the only way we can really resolve the issues with the environment and climate, is by solving the ways that we treat one another and puting love, duty and care at the heart of everything we do and this is where I feel that Covid has really began to highlight that for us; what can society look like when we help each other?”

Daze Aghaji is a climate justice activist and a history and politics student at Goldsmiths University. In 2019, she became the youngest person to run as a MEP candidate at just nineteen years of age. Her advocacy for radical systemic change has seen her work with major NGOs, leading charities and grassroots change makers all across the globe. She’s currently a member of Extinction Rebellion and a trustee at Belgrave Trust, championing regenerative cultures, intersectionality, environmental justice, youth political engagement and funding social change.

Listen to Dan and Daze discuss:

Formative years and the journey into climate activism
Reflections as a European member of parliament candidate
Covid lifting the veil upon systemic injustice
Finding and raising our voice as a collective
Resilience, self belief and community care
Identifying blind spots and inviting marginalized voices to help find solutions
Encouraging and supporting young dreamers to envision new futures
Overcoming conditioning and human constructs to make change
Uncovering the hidden consequences of destructive actions
How to support and empower those suffering eco-anxiety
Healing; an inside job.
Mixed feelings for COP26. When will something be done?
Community solutions. No-one is forgotten
Involvement creates change. How can you better this world?
We’re all crew upon Spaceship Earth!

Community and Links

People: Roger Hallam (Co-founder of XR) Greta Thunberg

Projects: Extinction Rebellion - https://extinctionrebellion.uk Force of Nature - https://www.forceofnature.xyz/ COP26 - https://ukcop26.org

Places: London Lincolnshire Skegness Europe

Photo: Amber Pinkerton

Connect

Instagram: @dazeaghaji

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“I think we’ve had to move from teacher to student. On environmental work and on outdoor experiences, for a long time we’ve been in a position of authority, if that’s the right word, but at least a voice that people looked to or listened to when we’ve wanted to talk about outdoor sport, great product, and environmental work. But with regards to climate justice, social justice and anti-racism, we’ve had to really step into the seat of the student. And that is humbling, but it’s what’s needed.”

Alex Weller is the Marketing Director for Patagonia in Europe. With a bold company mission, ‘We’re in business to save our home planet’, Alex builds communities in outdoor sport through environmental activism and participates in bringing forth a new paradigm of regenerative business. A passionate snowboarder, a trustee of Protect our Winters and an advisor for Creatives for Climate, Alex’s relentless devotion to planetary health is both impressive and inspiring.

Listen to Dan and Alex discuss:

His transformative journey to Patagonia
Working with an intimidating yet empowering company mission statement
The intersection and complexity of brand building in outdoor sports and environmental activism
Supporting employee activism
Patagonia’s foundation, One Percent For The Planet
Films to increase awareness of environmental issues and lead people into action
Dark truths, corporate and political powers behind extractive industrial systems and the importance in sharing these stories
Drawing attention, excitement and participation in community owned clean renewable energy with new campaign We the Power
Meaningful ideas distorted into polarised politics
Intersectional crises of climate justice, social justice and anti-racism
Consumerism; the elephant in the room
Repair, recycle, recommerce and regeneration - Patagonia Worn Wear
A new philosophy; design for repair (not obsolescence)
Vjosa Forever campaign
Global justice

Links: We the Power https://www.patagonia.com/stories/we-the-power/video-97465.html Power For The People: https://powerforpeople.org.uk Blue Heart: https://blueheart.patagonia.com Vjosa Forever: https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/films/vjosa-forever/ Artifishal: https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/stories/artifishal/video-79192.html Public Trust: https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/films/public-trust/ Worn Wear https://wornwear.patagonia.com/ Action Works https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/actionworks/ Dream Space https://thedreamspace.co.uk/exhibition/

Books Let My People Go Surfing: https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/product/let-my-people-go-surfing-revised-paperback-book/BK067.html https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/product/the-responsible-company-what-weve-learned-from-patagonias-first-forty-years-paperback-book/BK233.html https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/family-business/

Connect:

https://eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/home/

Instagram: @alex_weller @patagoniaeurope @patagonia

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This is episode 3 of a 3 episode series from Dream Space hosted via The SpaceShip Earth podcast.

“There has been a shift globally in the way in which racial disparities are spoken about. This is no longer a conversation happening ‘off the record’ for fear of backlash, this is a conversation happening out in the open. I truly believe that having conversations, listening to stories, and recognizing the experiences of members of our community creates space for healing, growth, and change. Hopefully, this episode will be an opportunity for you to learn something or confront an uncomfortable topic or maybe this episode will allow you to realize you’re not alone if you have also experienced racism in Bath.”

Ruqia Osman is an Anti-Racism activist and Dream Space crew member, and hosts this episode ‘Life in Bath and experiences of racism,’ bringing together some of the powerful and moving personal stories shared with Dream Space in Autumn/Winter 2020. Through poetry, spoken word, reflections and ramblings, these stories give us a unique insight into what it’s like to experience racism in the city, the challenges but also opportunities for change, and how together, we can create a kinder and more inclusive Bath. Stories shared in October 2020, and podcast episode recorded in February 2021 - Listen to this selection of stories and discover: The different forms racism can take, from direct abuse to microaggressions, and how these impact people’s lives in the city every day The positive change happening in Bath to address racism Why now is the time to address the culture of whiteness How allies can become actively anti-racist How, we as a community, can create a more inclusive Bath Links: The Dream Space Website: https://thedreamspace.co.uk The Dream Space exhibition: https://thedreamspace.co.uk/exhibition featuring a series of short films, podcast episodes and stories gallery and all of the stories shared with Dream Space, which revealed the lived experiences of the pandemic, racism and the climate & ecological crisis in Bath. Thanks for listening to The Dream Space Bath podcast Host: Ruqia Osman @itsruqiaa (instagram) @ruqiaOsm (twitter) Edit: Charlie Shread Shownotes: Bex Fox Join us on Instagram: @the_dream_space #DreamSpace Bath Dream Space is a collaboration with Good for Nothing and Wild Labs supported by the Emerging Futures fund from the National Lottery

Organisations / Resources mentioned

Bath Against Racism - https://m.facebook.com/Bathonelove (organisers of the Blacks Lives Matter peaceful protest)

Black Families Education Support Group - https://www.educationequals.org.uk/

Privilege Cafe - https://twitter.com/privilegecafe

University of Bath Amnesty Society - https://www.instagram.com/bathuniamnesty

Good for Nothing - https://www.goodfornothing.com Wild Labs - https://wildlabs.is/ https://www.emergingfuturesfund.com/

This is episode 2 of a 3 episode series from Dream Space hosted via The SpaceShip Earth podcast.

“2020 was the hottest year on record, I mean, we’re just breaking records left, right and centre, is a terrifying reality, particularly when most of the world’s population didn’t go anywhere, and life as we know it was on hold. However, despite this huge huge challenge ahead of us, I do feel hopeful, and genuinely the reason I feel hopeful, is by hearing stories like this, whether it’s knowing there’s a way through climate grief, or hearing about all the brilliant work happening on a local level, which is being led by grassroots community organisations, you know we’re not waiting for change to happen elsewhere, we’re taking that and owning it….”

Dream Space crew member, Bex Fox has been involved in the climate movement since moving to Bath five years ago, and hosts this episode ‘Life in Bath and the climate & ecological crisis,’ bringing together some of the fascinating and inspiring personal stories shared with Dream Space in Autumn/Winter 2020. Through poetry, reflections and ramblings, these stories give us a unique insight into Bath’s climate movement, and encourage us all to imagine what a city in balance with nature could look like in the future. Recorded in February 2021 - Listen to this selection of stories and discover: The different paths a green journey can take What it means to be an activist or ‘actively’ involved in the climate movement on a local level How communities are leading climate action in Bath The challenges of working / gifting time in this space, and how we can overcome them The opportunities for change here in Bath Links: The Dream Space Website: https://thedreamspace.co.uk The Dream Space exhibition: https://thedreamspace.co.uk/exhibition featuring a series of short films, podcast episodes and stories gallery and all of the stories shared with Dream Space, which revealed the lived experiences of the pandemic, racism and the climate & ecological crisis in Bath. Thanks for listening to The Dream Space Bath podcast Host: Bex Fox @bexbexfoxfox (twitter + instagram) Edit: Charlie Shread Shownotes: Bex Fox Join us on Instagram: @the_dream_space #DreamSpaceBath Dream Space is a collaboration with Good for Nothing and Wild Labs supported by the Emerging Futures fund from the National Lottery

Organisations / Resources mentioned

Bath & North East Somerset Green Party https://bath.greenparty.org.uk/ Blooming Whiteway https://www.bloomingwhiteway.com/ Extinction Rebellion Bath https://xrbath.org.uk/ Extinction Rebellion Bath Youth https://xrbath.org.uk/event/bath-xr-youth-130820/ / https://www.instagram.com/xryouth.bath/ FACE (Families Acting on Climate Emergency) http://www.familiesactingonclimateemergency.org.uk/ Greenpeace Bath - https://greenwire.greenpeace.org.uk/s/group/0F94H000000CHkxSAG/bath-greenpeace Liveable Neighborhoods - https://beta.bathnes.gov.uk/liveable-neighbourhoods The Work That Reconnects - https://workthatreconnects.org/ Tufa Field Campaign - https://tufafield.ddns.net/

This is episode 1 of a 3 episode series from Dream Space hosted via The SpaceShip Earth podcast.

“The pandemic has touched every single person in our city, but although we’re in the same storm, we’re all in very different boats. Life in Bath has changed forever. So, with the UK Government's big reveal of the roadmap onto the other side of the pandemic, I feel its increasingly important to take some time to reflect on what we’ve been through, to understand the things within Bath that absolutely have to change as and when we go forward, and explore the possibility of creating a brighter, kinder and more compassionate future here.”

Bex Fox is a Bath resident and member of the Dream Space crew, and hosts this episode ‘Life in Bath and the Pandemic,’ bringing together some of the incredibly powerful and moving personal stories shared with Dream Space in Autumn/Winter 2020. Through spoken word, poetry, songs, reflections and ramblings, these stories give us a unique insight into how Covid-19 has changed life in the city we call home, and encourage us all to imagine what life could be like in Bath in the future.

Stories shared in November 2020, and podcast recorded in February 2021 - Listen to this selection of stories and discover: Bath citizens’ reflections and observations - what changed, the challenges, and the good that emerged How people managed, in their own ways, to cope - from music, poetry, wild swimming, to gifting time How the landscape in Bath has changed - from independent businesses, the arts scene, to sustainability in the city The beautiful spirit of the Bath community - initiatives that popped up to help those most in need The opportunities for positive change, the desire for connection and collaboration Links: The Dream Space Website: https://thedreamspace.co.uk The Dream Space exhibition: https://thedreamspace.co.uk/exhibition featuring a series of short films, podcast episodes and stories gallery and all of the stories shared with Dream Space, which revealed the lived experiences of the pandemic, racism and the climate & ecological crisis in Bath. Thanks for listening to The Dream Space Bath podcast Host: Bex Fox @bexbexfoxfox (twitter + instagram) Edit: Charlie Shread Shownotes: Bex Fox Join us on Instagram: @the_dream_space #DreamSpaceBath Dream Space is a collaboration with Good for Nothing and Wild Labs supported by the Emerging Futures fund from the National Lottery

Organisations / Resources mentioned BA1 Radio - https://ba1.radio/ Bath & North East Somerset 3rd Sector Group - https://www.3sg.org.uk/ Compassionate Community Hub - https://www.compassioncb.org.uk/wellbeing Bath Open Water Beauts - https://www.instagram.com/bathopenwaterbeauts/ Foldall - https://twitter.com/foldalluk (please note this project has now completed its mission and is closed) I Am We Are - Jamie Colston (the host of our Dream Space Pandemic gathering) http://www.iamweare.co.uk/ Theatre Bath - https://theatrebath.co.uk/ Good for Nothing - https://www.goodfornothing.com www.wildlabs.is https://www.emergingfuturesfund.com/

“Really the best way to understand blue mind is to start with what I call, red mind, and that is our new normal, we’re stressed, we’re anxious, we’re falling behind in many aspects of our lives. We’re distracted. We’ve got this technology everywhere we look. I’ve got technology in my face and in my ears, and that’s our new normal. We dive into a melee of input of sensory overload. And it takes it’s toll on us. Red mind is very useful, it’s the reason why we have that mind state because it’s powerfully useful, it’s where we get things done, it’s where we drive for advancements, it’s where we compete. But if you stay in red mind too long, you will end up in grey mind, which is burnout, and breakdown and disconnect.”

Dr Wallace. J Nichols is a renowned marine-biologist, wild water advocate and author of the bestselling book - Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do. His experiences as a field research scientist, government consultant, teacher, mentor, public speaker, parent, founder and director of businesses and nonprofit organisations, all support his quest to build a stronger and more diverse global blue movement.

Listen to Dan and Dr Wallace. J discuss:

Intersection of the personal and professional
Shades of mind. Red, grey and blue
Water, a conversation enhancer
Humans as aquatic creatures
Water as therapy and transformation
What’s your water story?
Access to water in times of ‘progress’
Blue mind intersecting with sustainability
Activating our blue mind
The blue marble

Links:

Blue Mind Book Club: https://www.facebook.com/wallacejnichols Blue Marbles: https://www.wallacejnichols.org/130/blue-marbles.html The Blue Mind challenge: https://www.wallacejnichols.org/116/1428/the-blue-mind-challenge.html

Connect:

Web : https://wallacejnichols.org/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/wallacejnichols

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“The fact that other people were trying to save my life, I can’t give up. I’ve been given a second chance, I can’t stop or not try. It makes you think how precious life is, and really any second, any moment, you can be put at risk, which I was. I was on the edge of living and dying. And I was so grateful to be given a chance again.” - Olive Burgess

I wasn’t sure I could continue with my podcast after my daughter Olive fell critically ill in November. I have struggled to find the point of it for the last couple of months. But with perspective I’ve concluded that the podcast is important to me, a regenerative practice that makes me a better human through the process of making them. So I’m committing to trying to record each week now in year 3(!) and release two a month. To mark this transition is this very personal episode 43, a conversation with my 13 year old daughter Olive Burgess - which took place early January, a couple of weeks after she came home from nearly 7 weeks in Bristol Royal Children’s hospital after emergency brain surgery following a sudden seizure one night in November. In some ways this conversation represents a part of Olive’s and my own sense making and processing of what was a hugely traumatic and terrifying experience, it tries to document what happened that night and the following days and weeks and then focusses in on Olive’s reflections on the whole experience and coming to terms with how this and the cause of it is impacting her life. Ultimately it’s a story of a courageous, determined, resilient and very humble teenager dealing with an enormous physical and mental trauma, it’s a story of learning to live with uncertainty and the flipside of that, of trying to be here now, living in the present of everyday. It's a story of the extraordinary NHS humans who treated and cared for her. It also reveals the tremendous power in the love and support of community, family, friends - known and unknown - who emerge, reach out and self organise in times of crisis to hold us through the darkest of times. I hope you take something from the listen. Peace and Out. __________

Olive Burgess, daughter of host Dan Burgess is a thirteen year old dancer and surfer who loves to cook. However on the evening of 12th of November 2020 she suffered a sudden and major stroke. Listen to Olive speak with great clarity as she reflects upon her life threatening experience:

Olive’s unexpected seizure, paralysis and emergency ambulance trip
Five hour brain surgery at Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital
Regaining consciousness and learning she had a stroke
Experience of confusion, tiredness, yet no fear
Deep connections made with nurses, patients and the rehab’ team
Six weeks of scans, tests and ward rounds
Unexpected difficulties of returning home with FOMO, frustration and sadness
Craving her thirteen year old life prior to the stroke
Living with an AVM condition
Expressing all the emotions as a form of medicine
Overwhelming support from family, friends and strangers across the world
Limitations, fears and invisibility whilst in a wheelchair
What got Olive through her experience? Percy Pigs and much more.

Special thanks to the NHS, family and friends, old and new, who showed support, love and community to the Burgess family

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Links

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/OliveBurgess https://www.grandappeal.org.uk/ Florence & The Machine - Spectrum ( Say my name) Calvin Harris Remix

“Human beings have been very, very good at talking about themselves, but actually we need to be better at telling stories about the other lives with which we share our planet. Because we are the crew, we are the ones currently trying to steer and drive. But actually we need to really pay attention to the stories of the other organisms that are down in the engine room, and in the passenger seats, and tell their stories too.”

Nicola Davies is a writer, author and activist. Trained as a zoologist, she went on to co-present the BBC wildlife programme, The Really Wild Show. However, more recently she has made her name as a children’s author including the book, The Promise a picture book of great beauty and hope about the power we have to transform our world.

Recorded in October 2020 - Listen to Dan and Nicola discuss:

Nature as a childhood companion. Zoology, TV presenting and writing
Emergent and sometimes laborious process of writing
Imaginal realm, connectivity, despair and resilience
Fundamental readjustment of our education system
Visceral experiences of our actions and attitudinal shifts
Unravelling the constructed world and imagining futures
The Promise, a book and animation empowering children to engage with the natural world
Indigenous cultures and linguistics as a catalyst for change
The skill to seek pleasure and comfort from the natural world
Eco-nomics. Good and sustainable management of our planetary household
Poo. A tool to understand animal behaviour

Links:

The Promise Website: https://www.thepromise.earth The Promise on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CFLQ04nBZB4 Grow - Secrets of our DNA: https://wordery.com/grow-secrets-of-our-dna-nicola-davies-9781406382778 Last (Nicola’s debut in Illustration): https://wordery.com/last-nicola-davies-9781910328484 Ride The Wind: https://wordery.com/ride-the-wind-nicola-davies-9781406379556

Connect:

Web : https://www.nicola-davies.com Twitter : @nicolakidsbooks

(Sorry for the glitch on Nicola's microphone)

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“What is it to be a leader? To me it is to be a human at this time on spaceship earth, we all need to be activated in our worth and in our vision, to understand our traumas and to be courageous” Amisha Ghadiali

Amisha Ghadiali is a practicing leadership mentor and guide, Yoga Teacher, healer, author and host of globally influential ‘The Future is Beautiful’ Podcast

Recorded in October 2020, listen to Dan and Amisha as they explore:

Origin and perceptions of ‘The Future is Beautiful’
Lived experiences, threads of connection and the tools gathered
Acts of care
Awakenings, breakthroughs and vulnerabilities
Self expression, awareness and community
Learnings in times of uncertainty
Exploring intuition
Visioning and non-attachment to outcomes
New forms of Leadership and embodiment
Creativity from chaos

Links:

Book : INTUITION

Course : The Beautiful Leadership Immersion

Connect:

Web : Amisha Ghadiali https://www.amisha.co.uk/ Instagram : @amishaghadiali Podcast and Community : The Future is Beautiful https://www.thefutureisbeautiful.co/

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Host: Dan Burgess @dansolo__ Edit: Charlie Shread Shownotes: Vicki Turner Music: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson, published by BMG Join us on Instagram: @thespaceship.earth

“What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we’re consumers 3000 times a day. Like, that’s the limit of your agency. The assumption that you’re a narrowly self-interested creature. When you’re surrounded with that story, whether that’s true or not, over time I have become increasingly convinced, and now absoloutely insistent, that human beings are not lazy and selfish, we’re creative, participatory, empathic, wonderful creatures.”

Episode Overview:

Jon Alexander is the co-founder of the New Citizenship Project, an innovation company that inspires and equips organisations of all kinds to involve people as citizens, not just consumers. Listen to Dan and Jon discuss how we can move from individualistic and passive consumers to participatory and creative agents of change. This episode was recorded in June 2020.

Transitioning from the advertising world to co-founding, The New Citizen Project
For new ideas to flourish, what do we need to dismantle?
Having creative agency and participating in the world.
Moving from individualistic interest to collective interest.
How a crisis can bring us together.
Breakdown. Breakthrough.
New utopia. Organic (unorganised), localised, shared values and understanding.
Deep ingrained obedience, to a messy, joyful and participatory world.
Unpicking of colonial history.
Human goodness.
Emergence of the citizen.
“Its not about citizens trusting government, it's the government trusting citizens.”
The power to unlock agency in citizens.
Local authorities aiding a citizen future.
Rapid democracy.
Hope & vision.
Holding different points of view.
Active not passive.

Mentions: Rebecca Solnit - A Paradise Built in Hell http://rebeccasolnit.net/book/a-paradise-built-in-hell/ Paul Hawken - Drawdown http://www.paulhawken.com

Janine Benyus - Biomimicry https://biomimicry.org/janine-benyus/

Alex Evans - Collective Psychology https://www.collectivepsychology.org/who/

Vinay Gupta - Repairing Society https://medium.com/@vinay_12336/a-simple-plan-for-repairing-our-society-we-need-new-human-rights-and-this-is-how-we-get-them-cee5d6ededa9

Matthew Taylor - Bridges To The Future https://bridges-to-the-future.simplecast.com/episodes

Bain - RAPID https://www.bain.com/insights/rapid-tool-to-clarify-decision-accountability/

Paddy Ashdown - Citizens of Britain. A Radical Agenda for the 1990’s https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/books/paddy-ashdown/citizen-s-britain/9781872180458?gclid=Cj0KCQjwreT8BRDTARIsAJLI0KLJzD0fhzz_cRPbqPhhQaDSTN6wUZYJFfgwPWkvLVXgA0e7N7UuBuYaAv25EALw_wcB

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Jon Alexander: https://twitter.com/jonjalex https://jonjalex.medium.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-alexander-11b66345/ https://www.newcitizenship.org.uk/

Editor: Charlie Shread Shownotes: Vicki Turner

The leaves are falling, autumn is coming, to me it's a season of tremendous gratitude, of reflection, change and of letting go. In this episode I offer you music, a mix to shuffle around your kitchen, car, headphones, garden etc. There is no conversation here, no guest, no me talking, just 70 mins of deep, cosmic house music, to dance to on the edges of an unravelling world, in times of huge uncertainty, unknowing, confusion, fear and grief and yet at the same time on the edges of huge possibility, potential and beauty. Leaves falling in Autumn to me always expresses a letting go, a beautiful expression of another cycle in the great circle of life. A time of change and of deep gratitude. Leaves seem to dance almost, to spin, float and move with grace as they take their final journey and leave the safety of their home tree. Leaves go on to break down, compost and feed the soil, helping new life to breakthrough, continuing the gifting principle of the more than human world, where there is no such thing as waste ( if they're not sucked up by pesky leaf blowing machines) What are you being called to let go of right now? How might that be compost for your future journey ? How might you move towards these edges of change and not knowing with more comfort? Are you being called to begin a new story? To serve life in new ways ? I know for me there are some very specific shifts arising. Huge gratitude to the most excellent producers of these tracks (you can shazam them, track list below). The intro is beautiful words I stumbled across on the web 'The Crucible of Corona' from Mind Sovereignty (link below), the outro is some owls in my garden recorded one night in lockdown. I hope this mix moves you and helps you to let go of whatever it is that seeks to move through you at this time. What a time it is to be alive. I believe we must keep this space of uncertainty open and resist the urge to 'go back to normal', I think we all know 'normal' never was. The unravelling will continue, but it is clearing the way for new growth, new beginnings, new space, for real breakthroughs in what it means to be human. What we do decide to do now in these times I'm certain will be how we are judged by future generations. We are not separate from nature , we are part of it, we are not separate from each other, we are interconnected with all life. Keep loving, keep caring, keep giving, keep listening, keep collaborating, keep dreaming, keep laughing, keep experimenting, keep reaching out to help others, keep standing up for the more than human world, keep looking after yourself, keep learning, keep the awe and wonder, keep noticing nature, keep dancing, keep the heart open, keep the courage up, keep on creating a more beautiful world. Feeling anxious and scared sometimes I believe means you are fully awake and alive! Keep on becoming crew on this spaceship earth.Turn the volume up! Peace and Out. ______________________________________ 'The Crucible of Corona' from Mind Sovereignty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKEsCGnyrY4

In this episode @dansolo__ is in conversation with Georgina Wilson-Powell, founder and editor in chief of @pebblemagazine. Pebble mag’s mission is to help folks live a more beautiful, fun and lower impact life on the spaceship earth. They are a magazine that inspires and informs about everything needed to crack on being more circular, less wasteful, more ethical, less plastic and so on. They want to help folks move away from overconsumption. They are big on community, and their online spaces are lively places to ask questions, share tips, eco-wins, new brands and anything else you love to talk about. And in a pre covid world they are all about events. We talk about the story of Pebble and its recent relaunch, what the community has been learning through lock down, exploring our relationship to stuff, food, community, waste, travel, fixing and mending, the responsibility of brands, having time vs materials. We explore hyper consumption culture, life in lockdown, fast living vs slow living, how folks have been feeling, this moment in time and the opportunity to hold on to new behaviours and lessons learned during the lockdown which might lead us to a more beautiful way of living on this planet. We also dive into the enormous tension and power of vested interests to get us ‘back to normal’. ( we get a bit ranty here, but this was recorded 4 months into lockdown) We get into the role of brands and stories in shifting behavior and tackling the big issues of our time, we touch on Facebook and media platforms and the ethics of advertising on platforms that are supporting hate. And much more. Georgina is an inspiration and her dedication and drive to build Pebble is something else. Do check out PebbleMag and hope you enjoy.

Show notes:

https://pebblemag.com/

https://www.instagram.com/pebblemagazine/?hl=en

https://www.stophateforprofit.org/

Dee Montero track > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRX8XyMLnLw

In this episode I’m in conversation with Josie Tucker and Richard Ashton founders of Adapt. Adapt is a climate club and creative organisation, using design, humour and contemporary culture to communicate climate issues in a new way. Adapt was created to share knowledge, encourage action and build a community of motivated activists. Josie and Rich are two creatives and climate activists. They were listed as one of the British Councils 10 emerging designers of 2019. Recorded in June during the easing of lockdown this conversation explores their journey to forming Adapt, their interest in working with humour as a way of engaging people with climate breakdown and action. We riff on their work, how they work together and highlights from events and exhibitions to climate speed dating experiments. We reflect on the pandemic and what it might mean for climate action, the intersectional crises of racial injustice, inequality and climate and ecological breakdown. We explore what’s been experienced during lockdown when it comes to climate action and living with lighter impacts on the planet. We talk about climate grief and the role of humour in helping people let go of old worldviews and ideas. These two are incredible committed humans and prolific creators dedicated to serving our home planet and the future - check out their work and get involved - enjoy!

https://www.instagram.com/adapt_____/ https://www.adapt-climate.world/ https://www.adapt-climate.world/2-0-work https://www.instagram.com/p/CDQzBfDnKTG/

In this episode I’m in conversation with Cassie Robinson. Cassie is a strategic designer and senior leader, currently heading up the UK portfolio at the National Lottery Community Fund.

Cassie has been pioneering change in systems and exploring how to serve the most vulnerable, oppressed and least understood in our society and culture since leaving the fashion world as a designer in 2006. An early service and social design practitioner working with organisations like thinkpublic, Participle, 00:// and the Young Foundation, her experience extends to Local and National Government - working with Government Digital Service, the Social Finance team in the Cabinet Office, and the Libraries Taskforce in DCMS. Cassie has also worked with corporates like the Co-op, designing ways national brands can be useful for local, social infrastructure. Prior to joining The National Lottery Community Fund she was the Strategic Design Director at Doteveryone, where her work focussed on ways of strengthening society - people, communities and organisations - to build a new social contract for the digital age. She is also the Co-founder of the Point People, helping organisations work together wisely and systemically to address the large, complex issues of our time.

She’s a Fellow at the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL where her research focusses on how society and social infrastructure can be supported to adapt and change as technology alters the fabric of our lives and communities. Social and climate justice sit at the heart of her work.

Recorded at the beginning of June, we explore Cassie’s journey, and riff on the converging crises of post pandemic social inequalities, racism, climate and ecology, the black lives matter movement and the role of community led change. We zone in on an emerging thread of Cassie’s work exploring living systems, the dying processes of organisations, and the role of intentional hospicing structures for organisations and ideas that are no longer serving society. We chat about another related and emerging field of work for Cassie around social dreaming, community imagination and collective consciousness and the role of dreaming and imagination in bringing forth a more beautiful world. Cassie is an extraordinary force for social justice and system change, do check out her work. Enjoy.

@cassierobinson

https://medium.com/@cassierobinson https://www.cassierobinson.work/ http://www.thepointpeople.com/ https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/ Berkana Two Loops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQWKmtx8L2s Closing track http://livingcolour.com/

In this episode I’m in conversation with Olivia Knight Liv is a social entrepreneur and the founder of collaborative gifting platform Patchwork. She is an activist on multiple dimensions at a community level and through serving social, climate and ecological challenges. She is playing a key role in the development of the UK sharing economy and is current chair of the movement. An ex brand strategist, she was a partner and strategist at eatbigfish and a creative director at climate and environmental creative platform Do The Green Thing Liv is someone with tremendous energy and vision, and a fierce believer in equality, fairness and social justice. We riff on her story, the birth of the Patchwork platform, consumption culture vs sharing and community participation, the social inequalities that the pandemic is revealing, how the sharing economy could develop as we look beyond just physical stuff to human connection, ecological healing and regenerating and re-imagining the places we live. This was recorded in early May. Hope you enjoy! Available all usual platforms.

thespaceshipearth #becomingcrew

https://patchworkit.com/# https://twitter.com/projectpatchwrk https://www.instagram.com/patchwork_it https://www.sharingeconomyuk.com/

In this episode I’m in conversation with Tim Malnick. Tim is a coach, learning guide, activist, author, ex politician and Buddhist. He provides creative, thought provoking and highly impactful learning and development for individuals, groups and organisations who are waking up to the realisation that the way they work and do business contributes to the ecological, social and economic crises that we face today. He was a faculty member of Ashridge Business School where in addition to research and consulting work, was a core member of the team teaching the MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility and was my tutor when I completed it in 2010. This programme described in Harvard Business Review as ‘path breaking’ and ‘transformative’ maintains an international reputation for transforming people’s thinking and doing, allowing them to act more creatively and courageously for change within their professions and organisations. Tim has one foot in academic settings and one foot in practical settings – once referred to as a ‘scholar activist’ - he likes deep thinking connected with practical and bold doing. A core belief underlying all his work is that individually and as a culture, people are waking up to the realisation that current patterns of work, organisation and business are unwittingly contributing to the ecological, social and economic crises that we face. Many people in every type of organisation now struggle with how to balance the demands of ‘making a living’ with their own sense of values, and a deep wish for their work to contribute to wider flourishing of communities, cultures and the planet. He offers safe and structured space, proven frameworks and powerful practices to take that question seriously, and to help people use it as a gateway into more meaningful, creative and empowering ways of working and running organisations. We talk about Tim’s story, and reflect on how his work is showing up in these times of interconnected crises. We also explore Tim’s work with Money, helping people makes sense of their relationship with money and the barriers and issues it creates in our lives. Tim speaks with wonderful wisdom and encourages a curiosity and awareness with ideas and practices to help reveal who we really are, to embrace that and go forth to co-create the more beautiful world. Do check out Tim’s work. I hope you enjoy this and please share and review if you do.

https://differentspace.co.uk/

https://differentspace.co.uk/events/

@differentspace1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crystal-Mirror-Stories-Tim-Malnick/dp/1908363096

The Crystal Mirror and Other Stories

I emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return? What has come in is deep observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. This is episode 7 featuring offerings from Deepak Ramola, Gina Rembe and Amisha Ghadiali I hope you enjoy listening to them Peace and Out Dan

I emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return? What has come in is deep observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. This is episode 6 featuring offerings from Alice Howard-Vyse, Al Kennedy and Natalie Fee. I hope you enjoy listening to them Peace and Out Dan

I emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return? What has come in is deep observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I get get them out every day or so as I can. This episode features Charlie Gladstone, Jeff Bowman and Louise Middleton I hope you enjoy listening to them Peace and Out Dan

In this episode I’m in conversation with Sophie Slater founder of ethical fashion brand BirdSong. In my opinion Sophie is building one of the most important fashion companies on the planet today. Birdsong is a total re-imagination of why a fashion brand exists and how it operates. She’s been working on this mission for several years since graduating from social change learning program Year Here. It's a super tough challenge, because to build a brand that actually looks after the people in the supply chain, that designs the business model around them and that seeks to cause minimum impacts to the natural world is really hard and not normal practice by the way. Because most fashion products we consume today support a system that creates misery for many in the supply chain and accelerate the extraction of natural resources and the destruction and pollution of critical ecosystems. You know, so we look cool. Birdsong challenges this model and system on every front. We riff on the challenges of building a social enterprise in a category where investors demand scale and fast returns, where destruction and misery is hidden behind the shiny cheap items we crave. We talk about the learnings from building something for a world and system that doesn't yet exist, yet you know intuitively is emerging fast and wanting to happen. Sophie is an extraordinary human, activist, co-designer and social entrepreneur with a deep drive for fairness when it comes to gender and the most vulnerable in our society.

If you like what Birdsong are doing, please support them through their products and/or their Patreon - details below. These lockdown times are even tougher for small social businesses, let's make sure businesses like Birdsong become the new normal. We are what we wear.

We recorded this episode as the UK was preparing for the pandemic lockdown on 20th March, so we were both a little anxious as things were super uncertain and changing fast! Enjoy

@birdsonglondon @sophie_avalon

www.birdsong.london www.patreon.com/birdsonglondon

I have emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return? And finally anything you wish to share with others right now - e.g a project, poem, song, book, action, words, story whatever you like. They are starting to come in, observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I plan to get them out every day or so if I can for the next few days. In this episode there are offerings from Matt Golding, Ella Saltmarshe, Matt Smith, Linzi Hawkin and Andy Middleton I hope you enjoy listening to them Peace and Out Dan

I have emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return? And finally anything you wish to share with others right now - e.g a project, poem, song, book, action, words, story whatever you like. They are starting to come in, observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I plan to get them out every day or so if I can for the next few days. This episode features offerings from Saskia Rysenbry, Andrew Wanliss Orlebar and Easkey Britton I hope you enjoy listening to them Peace and Out Dan

I have emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return? And finally anything you wish to share with others right now - e.g a project, poem, song, book, action, words, story whatever you like. They are starting to come in, observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I plan to get them out every day or so if I can for the next few days. Episode 2 features Tom Kay from Finisterre, Lucy Von Sturmer from The HumbleBrag/Creatives for Climate and Mark Sears. I hope you enjoy listening to them Peace and Out Dan

A week ago I got an email from my friend Charlie Gladstone who hosts the excellent Mavericks Podcast as well as founding the GoodLife Experience Festival and other amazing things. Charlie was inviting me to contribute to a remote podcast he was making about life in lockdown. He asked 3 questions and I sent him my answers by audio. He's now on about 8 episodes and they are really wonderful things to listen to, I link to my contribution episode below. Anyway Charlie inspired me to do something similar. So I have emailed a range of friends, previous guests and folks I admire to share some of their reflections during this great pause. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return? And finally anything you want to share with others right now - e.g a project, poem, song, book, action, words, story whatever you like. They are starting to come in and they are full of beauty, and I’m so grateful for all the contributions, so I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I plan to get them out every day or so if I can for the next few days. I hope you enjoy listening to them. I hope you enjoy listening to them. In this episode listen to George McCallum, Lauren Currie and Matt Barr. Peace and out Dan

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/love-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-ep-7/id1249333134?i=1000471468366

In this episode I'm in conversation with the inspiring and wise Laura Storm and Giles Hutchins, co-authors of the book 'Regenerative Leadership'. Having booked this podcast weeks ago we recorded this conversation as the UK was preparing to lock down the country in the face of the coronavirus crisis, Laura based in Copenhagen was in her 10th day of isolation with her family. Because of this unprecedented context, this conversation is an open, honest, sometimes vulnerable exploration of living in this moment in time, the uncertainties we face as business, leaders, communities, citizens, parents and ultimately humans, as we rapidly adapt to global lockdown and how the principles of regenerative leadership might offer ways for navigating towards a thriving and flourishing world, a new way of being on this planet. We riff on everything from trust and letting go of old ways and the logic of command and control, how to work in these new remote times, dealing with the huge uncertainty of income and job loss, integrating family and community back into our lives, how to support the most vulnerable, noticing the natural world, and how we might move forward beyond this crisis.

https://www.regenerativeleadership.co/

https://laura-storm.com/

https://www.instagram.com/storm_laura/ https://www.instagram.com/regenerators.co

http://gileshutchins.com/

https://thenatureofbusiness.org/2020/03/22/can-the-darkness-of-crisis-reveal-a-new-dawn/

https://www.dominomusic.com/news/uk/jon-hopkins-shares-new-composition-scene-suspended-listen-now

In this episode, recorded in January, I’m in conversation with Sean Pillot De Chennecy. Sean is an author, speaker, researcher and strategy consultant who’s spent his professional life exploring the leading edges of culture and how business and brands respond authentically to an increasingly uncertain world. He has authored two recent books, the first: The Post Truth Business: How to Rebuild Brand Authenticity in a Distrusting World out in 2018 and his latest Influencers and Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Business

This episode is a lively and lengthy exploration which meanders through fake news, technology disruption, populist politics, brand trust, UK Labour leadership, climate change and the ecological emergency, Extinction Rebellion and permanent protest through to surveillance capitalism and more.

We’re ultimately riffing on one of the biggest challenges that faces humanity - how do you mobilise the planet to act together on the urgency of climate and ecological collapse when what is true and what is fake is becoming increasingly difficult to figure out, dividing people more than ever. Enjoy!

Gratitude to Bean Downes for the edit Graeme Douglas/Bountiful Cow for hosting

Show notes: https://www.instagram.com/seanpdec/?hl=en

https://www.koganpage.com/author/sean-pillot-de-chenecey

In this shorter episode, I'm talking about a new collaborative leadership program for creative practitioners that I'm launching into the world in 2020 in partnership with Andres Roberts and The Bio-Leadership Project. I also have a chat with Andres to get an update on the Bio-Leadership journey and we talk about the Why, how and what of the collaboration.

Show Notes:

https://bio-leadership.org/

https://bio-leadership.org/clusters/creativecommunications

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIX-4DJLwRw&feature=youtu.be

https://medium.com/@hiutdenim/100-makers-and-mavericks-2019-2f9a6be1c0b2

Ted Hunt is a one off. A designer for these times. His work is unique, brilliant, provocative and can help us challenge some deeply flawed assumptions. The world needs Ted Hunt right now, his ideas are of huge significance to the challenges we are facing as a species. He's also a wonderful human. Recorded in London at Acast studios << much gratitude. Check out Ted's work! Enjoy. #Podcast #Design #nature #creativity #climatecrisis #thespaceshipearth #becomingcrew

Show notes

https://www.instagram.com/_ted_hunt/

http://www.ted-hunt.com/

http://www.circa.solar/

https://www.fastcompany.com/90382280/this-watch-app-will-help-you-re-orient-your-life-to-the-earths-natural-rhythms

In this episode I welcomed award winning campaigner, activist, author and speaker Natalie Fee to the SpaceShed in my garden. Nat is a true maverick making incredible impacts through her organisation City to Sea and Refill - from an idea in her head which hatched a youtube video and a crowdfunder to bring attention to plastic pollution habits in our consumerist culture, Nat has built a 30 strong campaigning organisation and a fast growing community driven movement to encourage the spread of refill culture in our society. We riff on Nat’s journey from dropping out of University, searching for spiritual meaning, achieving material and financial success and not finding happiness with that and how stumbling across Chris Jordan’s Albatross project catalysed her to act on plastic pollution. We talk about the rise of consumerism, plastic pollution, searching for meaning, community action, individual change and action as system change, following your heart and putting yourself out into the world and much much more. This is an open, honest conversation about Nat’s journeying to find meaning and purpose in her life which led to campaigning and innovating on plastic pollution, which has become a catalyst to connect more deeply to the earth and how Nat believes individual action to be a creative, powerful and regenerative act. Which is exactly what her new book ‘How to Change the World for Free’ riffs on. We talk about toilets a fair bit too and porn and flax seed lube. Enjoy!

www.citytosea.org.uk/

refill.org.uk/

nataliefee.com/ nataliefee.com/books/

www.instagram.com/nataliefee_/

www.instagram.com/citytosea_/

www.instagram.com/refillhq/

In this episode I’m in conversation with Zahra Davidson, Co-founder of Enrol Yourself. A venture helping people become lifelong learners through peer group supported 6 month learning marathons. Zahra created Enrol Yourself because she felt that there wasn’t anything out there which could help her explore her own curiosities and questions. What makes Enrol Yourself so interesting is there are no teachers or tutors, you write your own curriculum and you are part of a peer group who all support each other on their learning journeys. We explore how Enrol Yourself was born, in itself a brilliant example in the power of following your curiosity, prototyping and experimenting with many constraints and openly inviting others to participate in a pilot. We get into the development of the offer, developing learning questions, the role of learning hosts instead of experts, the magic of learning with and supporting others through peer supported groups. We riff on how our institutionalised learning systems are so ripe for change and dig into the enormous opportunity at this moment in time to develop an accessible culture of inquiry and lifelong learning and the positive role for self directed, peer and social supported learning in responses to the complex challenges we are facing today on our spaceship earth.

With a new year upon us, maybe you are starting the year with your own big questions, curiosity for new adventures or just feeling the need for personal growth and exploration. Perhaps you’re searching endlessly for that elusive course online or contemplating career changes or new skills or frankly maybe you’re just asking what to point your energy at in the world at this moment in time. Maybe it’s time to Enrol Yourself.

https://www.enrolyourself.com/ https://www.instagram.com/enrol_yourself/ https://twitter.com/zahradavidson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_for_Realists https://www.theschoolinthecloud.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Organised_Learning_Environment https://lumiar.co/en/ https://yearhere.org/

When things get dark, getting lost in music is fine medicine I find. Going back to my DJ roots, I'm ending this year with a mix to shuffle around your kitchen, car, headphones etc. There is no conversation here, no guest, no me talking, just 80 mins of deep, emotional cosmic house music, to take the edges off the crazyness of an unravelling world. Dancing has always united people in my experience, this mix represents the kind of vibes I'm playing in the mainroom on the Spaceship Earth. Huge gratitiude to the most excellent producers of these tracks (you can shazam them). The intro and outro is words of wisdom from Anna Murray @Patternity captured from a conversation in Episode 8. I hope some of this mix moves you. Keep loving, keep caring, keep on giving a fuck, keep giving, keep listening, keep collaborating, keep dreaming, keep laughing, keep experimenting, keep reaching out to others, keep standing up for the more than human world, keep looking after yourself, keep learning, keep the awe and wonder, keep dancing, keep on creating a more beautiful world. Turn the volume up! Peace and Out.

Ecological breakdown, Creative Courage, Climate strikes and Rebelling for life

This episode is a two for one bargain. The theme is the climate and ecological crisis and the enormous creative response needed from humanity at this moment in time. Kicks off with a ramble from me, some personal reflections into the sadness of the climate and ecological crisis and my journeying to deeper understanding through the last decade. To 2019 and the energy and urgency of the school climate strikers, collaborating with them through my Good for Nothing project, the call for adults to step up to the climate and ecological emergency from our kids. Designing creative interventions and experiments to nudge collective action and waking up the talent and potential of creative professionals to respond to this crisis. This is followed by a conversation with Will Skeaping from Extinction Rebellion (XR). Will talks about his journey into XR, the missions he’s currently involved in, the response from the Advertising industry so far to XR interventions and plans for the October rebellion, the global climate strikes on the 20th/27th September and and why everyone is needed. This is an open honest conversation, we cover grief, anxiety, despair, uncertainty, the global economic system that we’re all implicated in, the role of advertising, consumerism and materials economy at the root of the crisis, the need for creative visioning of a more beautiful world and how the responses we must find as a civilisation, will have to come from the most creative places, minds and radical collaborations. We riff on creative activism and participation culture. Some thoughts on what next and how to get involved in a load of great projects and collectives that are fast emerging from the crisis now the space has been created. I finish with musings on how Joanna Macy’s 'Great Turning' work might help with more intentional mobilisation within this industry and share the warning from the UN’s leading Biodiversity expert from just days ago that a complete redesign of our consumption and production culture globally is urgently needed if we are to protect a life sustaining earth for our future generations. Can the creative sectors lead the shift to a more beautiful world? It needs all of us. Enjoy. Please rate and review the show if you like it. Drop me a line > dan@thespaceship.earth / @dansolo Show Notes: Dan’s stuff https://medium.com/@dansolo/climate-breakdown-exceptional-circumstances-and-pissing-on-the-childrens-fire-39ca048d6a6d https://medium.com/@dansolo/fridays-for-future-for-everyone-48d9152de17d

Youth climate Strikes https://ukscn.org/ https://globalclimatestrike.net/

https://www.goodfornothing.com/ https://weglimpse.co/

Ad/Creative industry climate crisis interventions and initiatives

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/adland-challenged-mobilise-million-people-join-uk-climate-strike/1590526

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/05/17/extinction-rebellion-warns-ad-industry-you-didn-t-think-we-d-forget-about-you https://www.thecommslab.com/ https://www.purposedisruptors.org/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-crisis-summit-sept-16th-tickets-69868561749?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_cid=e2549959cf&mc_eid=%5BUNIQID%5D

https://www.creativeandclimate.com/

https://www.createandstrike.com/

Heading for Extinction Talk by XR co-founder Gail Bradbrook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2VkC4SnwY0

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/314/314671/this-is-not-a-drill/9780141991443.html

Save the date: October 7th - 19th: London.

http://www.extinctionrebellion.com

http://www.instagram.com/ExtinctionRebellion

http://www.twitter.com/ExtinctionR

Will Skeaping

http://www.instagram.com/skeapsnaps

http://www.twitter.com/skeapspeaks

Dan’s references at the end https://www.activehope.info/great-turning.html https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/30/tipping-point-un-biodiversity-chief-warns-burning-amazon-could-lead-cascading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oevXkJY-fE

In this episode, I'm in conversation with Louise Middleton, founder of Kudhva - an amazing collection of stunning hide-outs on a magical, elemental landscape on the remote and wild North Cornwall coast - a place for folks to disconnect to reconnect. Having spent the night in a Kudhva in a rocking gale, I caught up with Louise to get the Kudhva story, the vision and journey of place making so thoughtfully in tune with the landscape, designing living experiences that help people connect more fully with themselves, to each other and the non human world around them. We explore how living more simply and intentionally seems to help us let go of stress, tune in to our creativity and connect better with ourselves and others. Experimenting with the design challenge of creating balance between space for solitude vs community. At a time when we are faced with the most enormous and urgent challenges of lowering our carbon and ecological impacts particulalry in the west, and where we have often removed ourselves from place based community, what can we learn from places like Kudhva which we can bring back and build into our modern urban lives. Hope you enjoy. Please share and review if you like it.

http://kudhva.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kudhva/

In this episode I chat with Afdhel Aziz - Author of the book ‘Good is the New Cool - Market like you give a damn’, Keynote Speaker and Chief Purpose Officer at Conspiracy of Love. Afdhel is on a mission to help businesses find purpose and meaning in what they do, and he’s spent 20 years working at the highest level in some of the biggest brands on the planet -so he has a unique perspective on the workings of the corporation. We riff on his journey, the challenegs we face right now as a human race, why business has such a big role in the shift to a more beautiful world, the blockages to radical change in business, the climate and ecological crisis and the implications of that for consumer and brand culture - and why humans ultimately are the key to change. Enjoy!

https://www.afdhelaziz.com/

https://www.goodisthenewcool.org/

https://conspiracyoflove.co/team-1

https://www.forbes.com/consent/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/afdhelaziz/

In this episode I'm in conversation with Andres Roberts, founder of Bio Leadership Project, co-founder of Way Of Nature UK. Andres supports new forms of human progress by working with the principles of living systems and the wisdom of nature. We talk about Andres journey with his work, and how his practice has developed with Bio Leadership, the challenges of working and leading within dominant systems, different ways of knowing, working with the intelligence of the wider natural world through nature quests, wilderness solos, and basically we riff and jam on what its like to be alive right now at this moment in time, a time of climate emergency and ecological breakdown, the search for meaning and a sense of belonging and in particular what that means to lead and organise in this context and with this new knowledge. Enquiry based practice and asking courageous questions as a way to evolve. Andres shares stories, insight and learnings from his most current projects including his work with Patagonia Europe, it was a real pleasure to record this chat. Hope you enjoy!

Show notes:

http://www.bio-leadership.org/

http://wayofnature.co.uk/

https://www.sacredpassage.com/

https://rebellion.earth/

https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/05/17/extinction-rebellion-warns-ad-industry-you-didn-t-think-we-d-forget-about-you

In this episode I chat with James Turner Co-founder of Glimpse. Glimpse tap into a growing network of creative talent to create culture hacks and creative interventions that reimagine a beautiful future beyond mindless consumption, where nature flourishes and people are nice to each other. They are behind a load of genius activations including crowdfunding an entire London Underground Station's advertising space with posters of Cats, creating the first retail store where you purchase urgent items for refugees, and most recently getting birdsong into the UK music charts to raise awareness of the urgent decline in bird species in the UK. Today they are a creative studio who work with NGO's, charities and purposeful organisations who want to imagine a more beautiful world as well as developing their own activations and projects. We explore James' journey to Glimpse via his background as a broadcast journalist then as Comms Director for Greenpeace UK, about shifting creative energy and talent away from consumption culture towards more regenerative narratives and stories in our culture. The challenges we're facing right now with climate and ecological breakdown and massive social inequalities and the urgent need for more creative energy, talent and skills to step up and get involved. We also talk quite a bit about salad and birds. Enjoy!

Show notes

https://weglimpse.co/

https://www.goodfornothing.com/

https://medium.com/glimpsecollective/why-we-just-replaced-68-tube-adverts-with-cat-pictures-9ed1ae1177d0

https://choose.love/

https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/campaigning/let-nature-sing/

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/april-showers-trigger-outdoor-campaign/1582149

https://soundcloud.com/goodfornothing-1/birdstep-mashup

Good for Nothing #Homeful https://medium.com/@g00dfornothing/in-times-of-crisis-look-for-the-helpers-58b390e69ccd

A post by me on responding to the climate emergency >

https://medium.com/@dansolo/fridays-for-future-for-everyone-48d9152de17d Fridays for Future for Everyone by me > https://youtu.be/fjxkzwCboBc

http://extinctionrebellion.earth/

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/05/17/extinction-rebellion-warns-ad-industry-you-didn-t-think-we-d-forget-about-you

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/19/extinction-rebellion-urges-ad-industry-to-use-its-power-for-good

Break the Silence on climate change in advertising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUsbdtUuzIU

A conversation with education pioneer Melissa Kendall, who has established the first Lumiar School in the UK. The Lumiar methodology was developed by Brazilian entrepreneur Ricardo Semler. We chat about why Mel took the leap, the Lumiar methodology and approach and the plans for the school which is in its first full year. Enjoy.

Show notes

https://www.lumiar.co.uk/

https://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_how_to_run_a_company_with_almost_no_rules?language=mg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=112&v=yGiUjkfjIag

A spontaneous ramble from the banks of the River Dart in Devon. Recorded mid April, this is a short reflection after spending 48hrs in the Devon landscape after a few months of working frantically. A riff on the healing nature of the land and water, a need for solitude, the wisdom that emerges from time outside. The insanity of the myth of continual progress in the industrial growth society. Falling in love with the more than human world, the intelligence and wisdom in looking backwards. Letting go, rituals, love, feeling and working from the heart.

In this episode I’m with Chris Salisbury - storyteller, outdoor educator, nature connection guru and founder of WildWise in Devon, UK. We explore connection to nature through experience, embodied knowledge and opening the imagination, the need for soul work in our industrialised lives, the challenges facing children, teens and us older folks in a world that has shunned ritual, wildness, community living and spaces to connect with who we truly are. How time in nature can spark our curiosity and creativity, the power of stories in oral form to inspire and support us in times of trouble. Includes guest vocals from Chris’s hens. Enjoy!

Show notes

https://wildwise.co.uk/

https://www.oxfordstorytellingfestival.co.uk/meet-the-team

https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/short-courses/call-of-the-wild-2019

In this episode I chat with Chris Hines, surfer, environmentalist, sustainability innovator who nearly 30 years ago co-founded environmental surf charity Surfers Against Sewage in Cornwall UK.

We chat about that journey, what was happening at that time and what drove Chris and fellow founders to build out this movement despite having no real idea what they were up against and with absolulety no resources.

This is a story to inspire all of us, that if you care enough about something then go and make shit happen.

enjoy!

http://agos.co/

https://www.sas.org.uk/

In this episode I head to Bristol with my son to join the Schools Climate Action strike - Fridays for Future and chat to students to gets a sense of why they're striking and what they hope to achieve. This is experimental, noisey and insightful! Enjoy!

Show notes

https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/ https://ukscn.org/ https://ukscn.org/ys4c-2 https://www.ipcc.ch/

A conversation with big wave surfer, social activist, researcher, writer and artist Easkey Britton. Following a workshop in Dublin I caught up with Easkey for a catch up on her work around the links between human health and environmental health, with specific focus on the ocean, as well as exploring her work around patterns and cycles in nature and in ourselves with reference to 'A Lunar Cycle' -her latest film project with ocean brand Finisterre. Always a pleasure to hang out with Easkey, this is a riff on water, ocean, health, connection to our bodies, communities and the wider natural world. Enjoy!

Show Notes

A Lunar Cycle film > https://vimeo.com/288338638

http://easkeybritton.com/

http://www.wavemakercollective.com/

http://www.finisterre.com/

In this episode I chat with Jaz O’Hara founder of the WorldWide Tribe. Jaz’s story is extraordinary. In my opinion she represents the best of what it means to be human in 2019 and her work is a total inspiration. Her story started in the summer of 2015 in the UK, by following her heart and acting on curiosity to really understand what was happening with the refugee crisis on the UK/French border in Calais. Much of the mainstream British media had been creating an atmosphere of fear and suspicion, Jaz and her brother wanted to hear the real human stories, why were these people risking their lives to get to Britain? They decided to head to Calais to find out, the rest as they say is history. This is a story of inspiration, intuition, human-ness, radical doing, creativity, leaning into uncertainty, of the positive power of the social web, of human kindness, of changing the way we see and think about issues we don’t properly understand and taking action about things we care about to make a more beautiful world. This is epic. Enjoy!

Show notes:

https://theworldwidetribe.com/

https://www.instagram.com/theworldwidetribe

https://janga.la/

https://www.thespaceship.earth/

http://wearelookingsideways.com/

https://thespaceshipearth.teemill.com/

Films…

Who Are the Worldwide Tribe > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4vlkM511KM

Jungala -Life in the Jungle refugee camp > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zER0aZCzSg

Lotus Flower - Don’t Bulldoze the Jungle > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbyCG3NA58Y

The End of the Jungle > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BEj9nsUURs

In this episode I chat with Laura Storm, sustainability pioneer and thought leader out of Copenhagen Denmark. Laura has been blazing a trail in the world of sustainable business practice for many years at a global level. Recognised as a young global leader by WEF she has been working towards shifting the global business community to more responsible ways of operating, from leading the development of the world leading Sustainia platform to collaborating on global policy change on climate action at the COP initiatives, including the infamous COP 15 in Denmark 2009.

But along with this Laura has a deep intuitive connection to the more than human world, and has been exploring her own relationship with that through her life journey. She believes that the next paradigm shift for our civilisation has to be working in relationship with the natural world, and is now building the Regenerators platform with fellow co-creators as a way of supporting a new form of regenerative leadership approach. We explore Laura’s story and riff on the breakdowns occurring across the planet, the pressing shift to a new way of working, leading and organising, more in tune with the wide natural world, with less fear and control. We riff on the intimate connection between human health and planetary health and the rise of a more holistic view of sustainability, where the health of self, community and planet are all interconnected and integral to a fully regenerative future. This isn’t a podcast about sustainable business, it’s a conversation about how we bring our whole selves into play everyday, the opportunity to design and create places, business and organisations with potential to regenerate people and planet and the wisdom and intelligence to be gained from a deeper form of listening, sensing and awareness. We also touch on the pain and breakdown often involved in radical self growth and shifts in being. Laura is a true force of nature. In honour of the vibe of this show, I end with a quick hat tip to fellow Nordic fearless Spaceship Earth Uber crew member Greta Thunberg, who's courage, actions and extraordinary dedication to the planet is absolutely rocking and hopefully a wake up call to those in positions of power with ability to influence the future for the next generations . I hope you enjoy the show.

Show Notes

https://laura-storm.com/

https://www.regenerators.co/

https://thesustainian.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference

@Laura_Storm

Greta Thunberg @ COP 24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkQSGyeCWg

Greta Thunberg @ Davos

https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2019/jan/25/i-want-you-to-panic-16-year-old-greta-thunberg-issues-climate-warning-at-davos-video

It's early January, there's a lot of chatter around giving stuff up, creating new habits and making goals and resolutions and getting healthy. I was lucky to have a very peaceful couple of weeks over the end of last year, but getting back into the groove this week reminded me how critical my practices for grounding myself are in amongst the chaos and distraction of modern life. I've also sensed quite a bit of edginess out on the streets. So in this short episode I visit the woods and share my sitspot practice, a simple and poweful tool, for reconnecting and grounding yourself. I explain why I do it, how it works, why its useful as a tool to help you feel calm, energised and focussed and how anyone can fit the sitspot into their lives, wherever they live. It also costs nothing. Oh and discover how to give yourself deer ears too. Hope it's useful. If you dig this, check out episode 4 for more sitspot and wellbeing hacks from the woods.

https://wildwise.co.uk/

In this episode I chat with the legend Joshua Coombes, hairdresser to the homed and homeless, social activist and his mission Do Something for Nothing. We chat about how his story started, the complexity of homelessness. How do we show up and be present for others around us in need. Being human, giving what you're good at, creative activism, being generous in a monetised world, getting out on the streets and much more.

Rad cosmic intro/outro music with gratitide to Matt Hales and Davide Rossi (Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson, published by BMG)

Show notes

https://www.instagram.com/joshuacoombes/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/dosomethingfornothing/ www.goodfornothing.com

In this episode, I chat with Ella Saltmarshe. Writer, strategist, campaigner, activist, systems thinker. We cover being a pluralist in a world of specialisation, system change what is it?, the role of stories and narrative in our culture and how we change the story especiallly when it comes to our relationship with the planet. Hacking popular culture, the concept of deep time, working from the heart and much more. Rad cosmic intro/outro music with gratitide to Matt Hales and Davide Rossi (Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson, published by BMG)

Show notes:

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/using_story_to_change_systems

http://www.thepointpeople.com/

https://www.thecommslab.com/ella-saltmarshe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwkkpROxp4

https://medium.com/@thelongtimeinquiry/the-long-time-3383b43d42ab

https://twitter.com/saltsea?lang=en

A conversation with Michael Stewart from Sustainable Surf recorded in his car to and from a cheeky surf session north of San Francisco. We cover the story of Sustainable Surf, how to use the scale and influence of surf culture to accelerate sustainable living. The power of branding, new environmental stories, regenerative business, circular design, ocean connection, climate action, creative responses to environmental issues and more. Apologies for the sound, it was spontaneous and unplanned and recorded on my iphone as Michael drove. It's basically a road trip. Music - Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson Matt Hales and Davide Rossi, published by BMG Show notes sustainablesurf.org/ https://vimeo.com/290345959 https://firewiresurfboards.com/sustainability-ecoboard/ https://vimeo.com/96916877 http://sustainablesurf.org/deepbluelife https://mafiabags.com/ https://www.sugamats.com/

A marvellous conversation with the inspiring Anna Murray, co-founder of Patternity Design Studio. We cover her journey from advertising creative to meaningful design studio with her co-founder Grace. How interest in pattern, its infinite quality and a way of noticing the world kickstarted the Patternity journey. We riff on the beauty of the world around us, noticing patterns, visually and in our own habits. About collaborations, putting stuff out in the world, commerical pressure vs meaningful creativity. About unusual business models, cycles, water, the moon, the rise of the feminine, gratitude, ecological awareness, connection to nature and the more than human world, experiences, workshops and practices that through pattern help us connect more deeply with ourselves and the wider world around us.

show notes www.patternity.org https://www.instagram.com/patternity/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/anna__patternity/ https://vimeo.com/235529098 https://redschool.net/ https://jonhopkins.bandcamp.com/album/light-through-the-veins

It's World Environement Day, so here's a spontaneous ramble on 'environment' what is it, where is it and what that really means ? Featuring reflections on being in water, constructured environments, separation from nature, poems, readings, cuckoos and music.

episode notes.. https://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane http://www.wavemakercollective.com/ Moy HIll community Farm https://www.facebook.com/moyhillcommunityfarm/ https://vimeo.com/229375689 http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/ http://williamayot.com/email-from-the-soul/ Chris Seeley - http://www.wildmargins.com/Artful_Knowing.html https://worldoceanday.school/ www.onceocean.fm https://www.sas.org.uk/uncategorised/atlantic-ocean-makes-waves-music-industry/

A conversation with Chrissy Levett, founder of Creative Conscience, a platform for inspiring, supporting, rewarding and recognising young creative talent using their gifts to make positive social change happen. We talk about the story of CC and how Chrissy brought it into the world. The shift in consciousness that is well underway, hacking meaning into educational institutions. Stories of brilliant projects from young creatives all over the world tackling everything from bullying to domestic violence and planetary healing. The struggles, anxiety, challenges and joy in bringing forth a major project into the world. www.creativeconscience.org.uk

Live from a beach in Nicaragua - another experiment in spontaneous planetary riffing - I share a slightly cosmic podcast connection story, the practices of spontaneity, openness and generosity as life centered - then with a nod to World Water Day - explore our connection to the ocean, the power of water to heal and make us feel good, our dependence on the ocean to support the life giving systems of the Spaceship Earth, eating rice and beans every day and more. Some links from this episode...

The magic Millz and his genius podcast and how my podcast met his - meta https://soundcloud.com/thejfdicast/gut

Blue Mind - great book and growing movement on the benefits of being near water > http://www.wallacejnichols.org/122/bluemind.html

Sylvia Earle - marine biologist and ocean legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Earle

Rice and beans (gallo pinto) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallo_pinto

The track I played out - 'Lost at Sea' - The Egg https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lost-at-sea/644013029?i=644013237

email me: dan@danburgess.earth twitter: twitter.com/dansolo insta: instagram.com/dansolos

Episode 4 and time for an experiment, I head into the woods, with no guest, just me Dan Burgess and no agenda, to sit and see what emerges in the woods. With special guest woodpecker. Covering Gaia theory, deep listening, wild health, trees to watch out for, industrial cleverness, life centered design, frazzled corporate cultures, regenerative potential of nature, deep time, woodpeckers and much more.

Riffing with surf photographer, film maker and co-founder of the Plastic Project - Tim Nunn. Tim has been capturing surfing and waves out in the thick of it for two decades- he's worked worked with the world's leading surfers, surf magazines and surf brands, he's travelled to some of the most remote, challenging and inpsiring parts of the planet and while he's been doing that he's noticed plastics washing up into these remote places. He started the Plastic Project as a way to document this with other pro photographers, he shares this story and more as we explore how we got into this mess, what it means for our beautiful spaceship earth and how we might evolve and get out of it. www.theplastic-project.com

Riffing on ocean connection, human health, gender, nature and wellbeing with Easkey Britton, internationally renowned big wave professional surfer, scientist, academic, social activist and artist from Donegal in Ireland. Remember there are no passengers on spaceship earth, we are all crew.

www.easkeybritton.com

In this episode I chat with David Stover co-founder of restorative venture Bureo who are turning ocean fishing net pollution into new materials and products, building a whole new supply chain system which supports people and planet. The interview is about how Bureo came to be. Enjoy. This was my first session recording via skype and garage band from my mancave in Bath to Ventura in California. So I was slightly distracted on making sure the recording was happening. Learning by doing!

Rememeber there are no passengers on Spaceship Earth, we are all crew. https://bureo.co/

Sound: New Binurial Beats from Will Flisk