Co-Creators of the future: exploring the birth of a new education system with YouthxYouth co-founder Zineb Mouhyi
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zineb Mouhyi is the co-founder of two charitable organizations, YouthxYouth & the Weaving Lab. ...
A Wild Farming Life: Building a regenerative croft from scratch with Lynn Cassells
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer met while working as rangers for the National Trust and soon realised ...
The Politics of Being: Wisdom and Science for the new world with Dr Thomas Legrand
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Holding a Ph.D. in (Ecological) Economics and having studied international development, political sc...
Banking on the Beetles: Creating a local circular agro-economy with Liberty Nimmo of The Three Turnips
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By now it's obvious that our current system is destroying all life on the planet - and our food/farm...
Of Course We Can! Lifting the lid on possibility with James Brown, mulit-Paralympian Gold Medalist and Climate Activist
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
James Brown is an athlete, inventor, social entrepreneur, multi-Paralympian gold medal winner - an...
Bridging the Gap: finding truth, reconciliation and climate justice with Saurav Roy
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With a track record of founding startups at a young age, and executing entrepreneurial roles in glob...
Trees, Trees, Trees! How we can grow food around, within and on them - with Ben Raskin
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ben is head of Horticulture and Forestry at the Soil Association. Author or co-author of eight boo...
Weaving with the Land: The future of regenerative farming with Caroline Grindrod
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Grindrod is a consultant and coach in regenerative systems and leadership. Along with backg...
Finding the adjacent possible: routes to political and social transformation with Dave Snowden of The Cynefin Company
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He is the creator of the Cynefin Framework, and originated the design of SenseMaker®, the world’s...
Designing Education fit for the 21st Century with Prof David John Helfand
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a world where facts are at our fingertips and yet we increasingly live in conceptual silo...
How the World is making our Children Mad - and what to do about it - with Louis Weinstock
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we create a world where our children can grow in safety - both physical and emotional? How...
Connecting with Power: How the media could reframe our world - and why they must - with Donnachadh McCarthy
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do we bring the world's media on board with the climate and ecological emergency? What would h...
Net Positive: Designing a regenerative future with Prof Janis Birkeland
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do we design our built environment to be more than just 'sustainable' (doing things slightly les...
Imagination Activism: exploring radically better futures (and SolarPunk) with Phoebe Tickell
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are the most effective tools we can engage to create new, different, better futures? How do w...
BioRegionalism: The Design Path for Regenerating Earth with Joe Brewer
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Holocene is over, we all know this. The Anthropocene may segue into the Symbiocene, with the o...
Regenerative Renaissance: Managing the new economy with Rieki Cordon of Seeds. Part 2 of 2
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Revolutions don't work, and we don't have time. What we need now is a Regenerative Renaissance where...
Regenerative Renaissance: Weaving new worlds with cryptocurrencies based on community, with Rieki Cordon of Seeds. Part 1 of 2
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that our economic system is broken - that the ways we share value are skewed so that the...
Thrutopia Bonus: 10th Anniversary of Sacred Economics: Charles and Jimi Eisenstein with Della Duncan
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's long been said that it's easier to imagine the total extinction of humanity than it is to imagi...
Waking Up: Power, possibility and politics in a Fractal Age with Indra Adnan
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the current system of politics and governance is utterly dysfunctional. But what will it...
Beautiful Methane: Powering the transformation with Will Llewellyn
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that methane is a far more dangerous greenhouse gas than CO2. But what if we could har...
Transformative Connection: Mapping the way through with Thrutopia's originator: Rupert Read
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a world in existential crisis, deep within what Joanna Macy called The Deep Unravelling, we have ...
Down to Earth Derby: Growing a city Green from the inside out
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As our world balances on the edge of transformation, how do we rewild ourselves and our inner cities...
Buccaneer Economics: Blowing away the old and inventing what works with Prof. Steve Keen
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our current economy is based on idiocy, selfishness and bizarre ideologies. What happens if we compl...
The Business of Awakening: Finding a generative future within our businesses with Garry Turner
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If we are to create a regenerative future we'd be proud to leave to the generations that come after ...
The Gentle Power of Craftivism: With Sarah Corbett of the Craftivist Collective
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What can you do if you want to be a gentle, careful, strategic activist? The kind who catalyses chan...
What's an Economy for, anyway? Building an economy for people and planet with Yannick Beaudoin
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's our economy for? Does it have to keep growing at the expense of all we hold dear; the things ...
Manda's Basic Tips for Writers
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thrutopia is open to everyone who tells stories in whatever form. But if you're in the early stage...
Daring to risk: finding our purpose in a turbulent world with Maggie Ostara.
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do we do when the world isn't working for us? When our every fibre rages against the machine an...
Activism by Design with David Johnson of the Stanford Law School
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we use the leading edge of design thinking to create climate activism that really works? Dav...
Stairway to Heaven: Food, Farming and the Regeneration of our landscapes with Patrick Holden of the Sustainable Food Trust
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we improve our health, reduce the costs to the NHS by 50%, restore soil biodiversity, reduce...
The Whispers of a New World: Stepping into a different future with Tamsin Omond, activist and visionary
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we shape our culture to be one where everyone thrives? How can we write our new stories wh...
Thrutopia Masterclass: Writing our Way to a Future we can be Proud to leave as our Legacy.
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live on stories. We thrive on visions of futures we want - or terrify ourselves with those we def...
Business Unusual: Can Business sweep us to a Regenerative Future? With Nathalie Nahai
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where governments are failing on all levels, can regenerative business be the change we n...
Earth Alchemy, Ceremonies and Soul Journeys with shamanic teacher Isla McLeod
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is the nature of being and belonging in the current world? How can we honour the rite of passag...
The UnderTorah: Exploring an Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams with Rabbi Jill Hammer
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do we understand dreams in ways that make sense of 21st Century life? How can we interpret the...
Communities of craft and purpose: building a future that works with Alice Holloway of the London Urban Textiles Commons
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we find joy in life again? How can we create beautiful things to wear that allow us to be th...
Parenting in the Climate Emergency: Building a future we'd be proud to leave to our children - with Eva Bishop
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we be the best possible stewards of the future for our children? How can we meet their eco...
Power to change the world - for good or really, really bad. With Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is Power? How do we use it: both power over each other, and the power that fuels the world? ...
Three-Way Solstice PodBoom: The Hive, Upstream and Accidental Gods virtual solstice party
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we head down into the dark nights of the year, the quiet time of introspection, of assessing the ...
Winter Book Round up with Manda - Best of the Fiction, non-fiction - and podcasts - to share this season
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are the best, most readable, most inspiring and most give-able books this season? Manda's s...
Ministry for the Future: exploring the ways through that work with Kim Stanley Robinson
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we get from the current edge-of-catastrophe to a world where we have addressed the huge issu...
Your money or our lives: Economics, Green New Deal and a post-COP world with James Meadway
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we shape our economies in a post-COP, decarbonising world? How can we build a way of exch...
Weaving the Web of Meaning: Building Eco-Civilisation with Jeremy Lent
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do we evolve the radical new sense of community, connectivity, mutual support - and resilience -...
Transport for a flourishing Future: Zero deaths, Zero Emissions, Zero Carbon - with John Whitelegg.
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we lurch towards irreversible climate chaos, how can we begin to pull back from the edge? This ...
New Myths for Humanity: With Alina Siegfried, author of 'A Future Untold'
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If the stories of our culture are of separation, scarcity and powerlessness, how can we build new st...
Untangling the Entanglements of Activism with Anthea Lawson, activist, author and organiser
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anthea Lawson is a campaigner who’s interested in the connections between our inner lives and the ...
COP26 and Beyond: Future strategies to keep us alive with Rupert Read
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the bare minimum we need world leaders to agree at COP26 and what can we do if they fail? ...
Be What you Love: total systemic change, one fractal conversation at a time: with Dr Anna Birney of Forum for the Future
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If we are going to meet the challenges of the climate, ecological and cultural crisis, we're going t...
The Future is Farming - Part 2 of 2 with Ffinlo Costain
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we understand more of the climate and ecological emergency, it becomes increasingly clear that Re...
Regenerative Farming - the key to the Climate and Ecological emergency: with Ffinlo Costain - Part 1 of 2
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, build living soil from the chaos of industrial farming...
Towards a Progressive Future: politics and activism in the world of climate change with Jeremy Gilbert
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we build a progressive political movement that spans the world and that will take us to wher...
Medicine Woman Speaks: Deena Metzger, elder, wisdom-keeper, poet and visionary brings 19 Ways to a Viable Future
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we embrace our humanity and use it in service to the earth and all that lives? How can we ...
Thresholds to Truth: Conversations on Climate Change with younger generations with Louis Weinstock
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a world of uncertainty, transformation and potential catastrophe, how can we find our own truth a...
Sounds like Magic: a journey into the wild magic of sound with Caro C
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can sound edge us closer to the centre of ourselves, bring us closer into connection with our ow...
Accidental Gods Podcast bookclub with writer and commentator, Ece Temelkuran
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ece Temelkuran is an astonishingly astute, great-hearted writer. Joining us from Zagreb, she gave us...
Circles of Power: Urban Micro Anaerobic Digestion with Rokiah Yaman
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we embed circular thinking in our food, energy, water & waste to benefit people and the ...
Thresholds of Being: Connecting to the webs of land, life and death with Dr Sharon Blackie
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where the only constant is change, how can we find the best of our wisdom? How can we f...
Power to the People: an Energy R-Evolution for the 21st Century with Howard Johns
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How are we going to create the power that we need in a world where fossil fuel use has to end? How...
Beaver ReWilding: Gateway to Transformation - with Eva Bishop of the Beaver Trust
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we begin to reverse the destruction of our countryside, the pollution of our rivers - and ou...
Meeting the World unmasked - with Forrest Landry
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Forrest Landry was 16 years old, he took a vow to meet the Natural World openly, fully, without...
Climate Pilgrimages converging on COP26 with Bamber Hawes and Benjamin Christie.
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
COP26 takes place in Scotland in November. How can ordinary people persuade our elected Overlords th...
A Bridge to the Future: Walking the path between Wisdom and Despair with Matthew Taylor
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is it that makes us human? How can we bring the best of ourselves to the current crises – ind...
Active Hope: bringing resilience and reconnection to the world with Chris Johnstone and Madeleine Young
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As our world hurtles towards tipping points, how can we be part of the solution? How can we find res...
Being, Belonging, Beyond: Bringing the sacred to a turbulent world with Sue Philips of Sacred Design labs
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we hover on the edge of the Great Turning, how can we find a spiritual practice that draws from t...
The Mermaids had to happen! Reflections on G7 activism - and beyond with Sophie Miller
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a world that is literally burning, with politicians whose positions of power are predicated on th...
Fire at Sea: bringing activism - and mermaids! - to the G7 summit with Sophie Miller
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i...
How to Save the our Planet: the Facts - with Professor Mark Maslin
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did we get here? How bad are things really? Is there still hope? (Yes!) and... crucially - wha...
Behave More! Rebuilding Our World Differently with Alexandra Kurland
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world where we listen to the voices of the young as much as the old, the women as much as ...
Behave! - Solving the existential crisis of our times, with Alexandra Kurland
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If we have all the technical and scientific answers to solving the climate and ecological crisis - w...
The Hijacking of our Common Law - and how to set it free: with Mothiur Rahman of the New Economy Law Center
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does the law take care of you? Does it work in your interests, for a common sense of justice - a...
Braver Angels: building trust, empathy and decency across the political chasm
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can be rebuild trust in politics, politicians and each other? How would it feel to be free of pa...
River Dart Wild Church: Druid Christian Sam Wernham, founder of a land-based church explores the nature of wild contemplation.
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does it feel to stand at the balance point between ancient Christian mysticism and the Druid's p...
Why dignity matters more than nationalist pride with bestselling political columnist Ece Temelkuran
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world where dignity is valued over nationalistic pride; where we know that 'enough' is the...
ReWorlding: Co-Creating a Politics of Wholeness with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How would the world flourish if our politics were based on trust? And how can we make that happen?...
Webs of Connection: Rebuilding soil, talking with bees and the magic of fungi with Navona Gallegos
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Regenerative Farming - or Agro-ecology - is being widely recognised as one of the best ways to mitig...
Swimming in a New Sea: creating a different world of money with Jonathan Dawson of Schumacher College
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world where money works differently. Where there's enough for everyone's needs, not their ...
Wild Weeds/Living Foods: Katrina Blair of Turtle Lake Refuge on Wild Foraging, Plant Whispering and healing the earth
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we bring vibrancy, life, diversity and connection back to the land? How would we be if we ...
Honouring the Children: We bequeath them the Earth. What do they need from us in this time of transformation?
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“No decision shall be made and no action taken unless it holds the good of the children of all bei...
Wild Law and Justice in action: Spiritual Activism with Mothiur Rahman, founder of New Economy Law
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why does the law not protect us? Why does our government not strive every sinew to keep us safe at...
ReWilding the Forests of Life: Alan Watson Featherstone, Trees for Life and moving forward
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does it feel to commit - completely, without reservation - to the flow of life? Where do we find...
Seeds of Change: Growing a different Future with Alan Watson Featherstone
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are we here for? What - exactly - is the purpose of life? Imagine a world where finding our l...
Parents for A Future: Creating a world we're proud to bequeath to future generations with Rupert Read
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Suppose we all made this year the one where we choose to make a difference? We could take a sabbat...
Meeting our needs, healing the earth: Donnie Maclurcan of the post growth institute
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Suppose we already have all the answers to the crises that assail us? Suppose countless people, co...
Breaking the Austerity Myth: The system is broken - but we can mend it. With Richard Murphy
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world where we didn’t always feel as if money was tight. Imagine an economy that works f...
The Town that shaped its world: Pam Barrett on FlatPack/DIY Democracy and taking charge of politics
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We all know national politics is in chaos. But local governance can be a place of enlivening, insp...
The Subtle Shaman: Chris Taylor, living our purpose and the Tao of R-evolution
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does it feel to know we're really living our purpose? What's the felt sense inside that tells us...
Models of Mind: bringing emotional intelligence into the heart of governance with Rachel Lilley
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How different would our world be if we understood how our minds - and feelings - worked? How would...
Everybody Now: A PodBoom on The Climate and Ecological Emergency
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody NowClimate Emergency and Sacred Duty We’ve caused a turning point in the Earth’s na...
Kindness, tribalism, faith, hope: exploring Christianity in the climate crisis with David Blower
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kindness costs nothing and it enhances our lives and those around us. And yet our world is full of r...
The Ocean is Alive: Ocean-shaman Glenn Edney speaks of the living waters of the Earth.
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if the Ocean were a living thing, in the way that the earth breathes as Gaia? The Maori say tha...
Trust The People: Creating a politics that works
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How would our world feel if our local, regional and national politics really listened to all the peo...
Four arrows flying: Alnoor Ladha, activist and visionary on changing the stories we tell ourselves.
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if we could see the nature of the stories that drive us, how would we be? Would we be able to...
Building Soil: Healing the Earth: Feeding Humanity - Regenerative Farming with Navona Gallegos
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What if we had a way to draw carbon out of the air, heal our ecosystems and feed the world? We do:...
All the Best of 2020: Books and Podcasts that will lift you into the new year - and beyond.
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An end-of-year round up of the best fiction and non-fiction books - and podcasts - of 2020. All ar...
Birthday/Solstice Celebration: a new Anniversary tradition, with Della Duncan and Nathalie Nahai
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's our Birthday... and it's the December Solstice, the time of transition and potential transforma...
Living to Learn: transforming education with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we make learning a genuinely transformational experience? One that's fun, and inspiring and ...
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Responding to Climate Change with Dr Paul Behrens
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How bad are things really? Is it too late to avert the climate and ecological catastrophe? And if no...
Breaking the Rules to save the world: How to be More Pirate, with Alex Barker
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we take the radical, renegade, rule-breaking, revolutionary ideals of the golden age of Pira...
Spiritual Activism, Raw Courage and Being the Change: Sophie Miller of the Red Rebel Brigade
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of nonviolent direct action, is a red thread, holding the liminal space between the old...
Codes for a Healthy Earth: New rules for a flourishing world with Shelley Ostroff
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Greta Thunberg says that ‘We cannot save the planet by playing by the rules, so the rules have to ...