Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

378) Asad Rehman: The end of imperialism in a radical green new deal

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Our economies globally have forced the Global South to be commodity-driven, export countries, with powerful multinationals. [The] profits that come...

377) Heather Davis: Living in 'Petrotime' and seeing plastic as grand-kin

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“What [the plastiglomerate] really highlights is the fact that plastic is now so incredibly ubiquitous that it can’t be taken out or removed. It i...

376) Craig Santos Perez: Poetry as therapy and political speech

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Poetry has always been a powerful space for healing, dealing with trauma, cultivating resilience in times of crisis or even depression..." In this ep...

375) Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen: Reclaiming 'traditional' and recovering nordic animist relations

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Mythology is a language that places knowledge of relation into relation with people—[in a] way that appeals to our emotions and imaginations. It ...

374) Sharon Blackie: Re-enchanting the earth through mythology

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Story helps us weave ourselves into the land and feel a sense of wonder and awe when we step outside. This re-mythologizing, restorying to me is a ...

373) Mark Rectanus: Reclaiming the arts from corporate influence

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"In many cases, corporations are using [the museum's cultural capital] to reaffirm their status in a local community... Artists are increasingly conce...

372) Sinegugu Zukulu: Resisting imposed development in the Wild Coast

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“So-called ‘development’, envisioned outside of the community, more often than not brings challenges to the community because it doesn't take in...

371) Brett Scott: Money consciousness and the war on cash

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"If you're looking at the broad trajectory of corporate capitalism, it's towards institutional intermediation in everything... This 'unbanked' concept...

370) Christine Winter: Rethinking the philosophies underlying settler politics

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"To try and resolve the environmental problems that we're facing from within the same ontological and epistemological frameworks that have created the...

369) Andy Letcher: Cultivating reciprocity with animistic views of relationality

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“An animistic worldview is one I think that is deeply embedded in relationality, exactly the kind we need at this moment of crisis. So far from it b...

368) Christian Parenti: Recognizing capital as a social relation

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The idea of the catastrophic convergence essentially looks at how climate change interacts with the pre-existing crises of the legacy of US imperiali...

367) Mia Birdsong: Deepening our interdependence with community

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Freedom and friendship have the same etymological root, which means beloved... [Historically, freedom] was about your people and that collectively,...

366) Daniel Heath Justice: Indigenous literature and decolonial libraries

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“English embeds certain things just by virtue of its structure. It’s a very thing-ifying language; it’s very noun-heavy. Most of the Indigenous ...

365) Sophie Strand: Rewilding myths and storytelling

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The transition from oral cultures into written cultures, for me, really signals a conceptual change that then uproots us from an embedded, environmen...

364) Helena Norberg-Hodge: Reorienting towards economics of happiness

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“There’s a lot of awareness about the direct lobbying of big money in politics. But that doesn’t take into account the much more dangerous way t...

363) Annie McClanahan: The possibility of a world disentangled from wages

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Under a capitalist system of production or any system of production based on the extraction of value via wages, it’s always going to be the case ...

362) Catriona Sandilands: Botanical colonialism and biocultural histories

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"We sometimes forget that the knowledge systems we use to conceptualize the world are not necessarily exactly the same thing as the world that we're c...

361) Micha Rahder: Thinking through the ecology of knowledges

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“We are all pretty familiar with the concept of the ‘biosphere’, which is the ‘living layer’ of the earth. The ‘noosphere’ is the ‘thi...

360) Sophie Chao: Pluralizing justice amidst the expansion of palm oil projects

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Lies, deceit, and dupery are also very much part of the story. Often, these promises are made in the early stages of oil palm development, but they...

359) Gavin Van Horn: The practice of kinning as porous beings

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Instead of being head over heels, be heels over head—privilege your sense of touch. I think that shifts the weight of an overactive mind back into ...

358) Dimah Mahmoud: The power in culture and the revolution of consciousness

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"We are not a lacking people. We are more than capable to provide for ourselves. The issue is those who continue to pretend that they are here to help...

357) Guillaume Pitron: The shifting conflicts and costs of ‘green’ energy

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“The sooner we are able to get rid of these two commodities, oil and coal, the better it will be... But 'green' technologies such as electric ...

356) Rami Barhoush: Occupation, identity, and olive trees in Palestine

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“For Palestinians, agriculture seems to be the only option. This is why we see the vicious, atrocious, and systematic attacks against Palestinian fa...

355) A. Naomi Paik: Sanctuary for all, sanctuary everywhere

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“If you’re actually targeting migrants as the source of the problem, if we’re thinking about climate migration as one of the amplified 'threats'...

354) Johann Hari: Reclaiming our capacities for deep thinking and intimate engagement

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"“There’s a lot of evidence that the world, and our experience of life, has massively sped up... We’re all speed-reading life now, and we’re l...

353) Jason Moore: The impossible endless accumulation of capital

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we welcome Jason W. Moore, an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of so...

352) Jessica Hernandez: Healing with Indigenous science and holistic thinking

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“In a way, Western science compartmentalizes a lot of the information through those boxes or as I say, through those puzzle pieces. Indigenous scien...

351) Chelsea Mikael Frazier: Learning environmentalism through the lens of Black feminism

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“One of the most powerful untapped resources is spirituality. Spirituality—particularly spirituality from Black and Indigenous communities all ove...

350) Brad Evans: Reclaiming community and the power of silence

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“We’ve collapsed the idea of community with 'connectivity'. But being 'connected' doesn’t mean you have any sense of community. To have a commun...

349) Amalia Leguizamon: A mass consent for socio-ecological injustice

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Why is it important to focus on regular people, people in the in-between, people who bear some cost but also reap some profit? Because it gives us an...

348) Kregg Hetherington: The paradox of destroying lands in the name of social welfare

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“This is what I call the agrobiopolitical paradox at the center of the modern agricultural state: Paraguay trying to push hard to get more soybeans ...

347) Kai Bosworth: Mobilizing through pipeline populism

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"That neoliberal, technocratic environmentalism is also what we would call depoliticizing... it avoids the more transformative types of policies or so...

346) Emma Dowling: Understanding the care crisis

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emma Dowling IS a sociologist at the University of Vienna in Austria. She has previously held academic positions in Britain and Germany, and her most ...

345) Bram Ebus: Power, poverty, and criminality in the gold industry

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bram Ebus has worked on resource conflicts, drug policies, and state-corporate crimes in Latin America since 2010. He holds a master's degree from th...

344) Scott Timcke: Algorithmic capitalism and digital dehumanization

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Timcke, Ph.D., is a comparative historical sociologist who studies race, class, and technology in modernity. He is a research associate with the...

343) Beatriz Caiuby Labate: Sacred plant medicines and healing psychedelics

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) has her core interests in the study of psychoactive substances, drug policies, shamanism, ritual, and religion....

342) Harriet Washington: Confronting medical apartheid and the medical-industrial complex

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we revisit our past conversation with Harriet Washington, an award-winning medical writer and editor and the author of the best-selli...

341) John Hausdoerffer: Re-embodying our roles as placelings

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to understand our roles not as Earthlings but as “Placelings”? And as we deepen into the work of collective healing, what underl...

340) Liam Campling + Alex Colás: A tragedy of the commodity at sea

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How might we re-envision “international collaboration” beyond the political framework of nation-state institutions? And what could it mean to work...

339) Vanessa Raditz: Queering resilience in the face of climate catastrophes

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to queer resilience in the face of climate catastrophes? And how might the dominant modes of disaster relief reinforce the centraliz...

338) Vanessa Andreotti: Allowing Earth to dream through us

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What might it mean for humanity to reach a level of maturation to be able to confront the multilayered crises we now face—calling upon us to “grow...

337) Edgar Villanueva: Money as sacred medicine

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What would change if we viewed money as sacred, as a potential form of medicine? And how do the incentives embedded within the world of philanthropy a...

336) Max Ajl: A deeper green new deal for the people

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If the popularized vision of the Green New Deal were to be realized, how might that play out? And how do we contextualize the historical process of cr...

335) Emma Bedor Hiland: The digitization of mental healthcare

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What have been the shortcomings of the various technologies promising to make mental health care more accessible? And what does it mean to maintain a ...

334) Melanie Yazzie: Building Indigenous solidarity and power

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean for those working within academia to become scholar-activists—going beyond working to rise within the ranks of educational institu...

333) David Boarder Giles: A mass conspiracy to feed each other

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do we make sense of the contradiction of having both excess food and food insecurity at the same time? And how do counterculture movements like Fo...

332) Konda Mason: Holding love capital sacred

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How has philanthropy traditionally worked to uphold the extractive economic system? And what does it mean to recognize the various forms of capital th...

331) Monica Gagliano: Regenerating the human spirit

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How does viewing the Earth as an embodiment of imagination invite us to conceptualize or feel our ecological crises in different ways? And what does i...

330) Fariha Róisín: Finding healing beyond the wellness-industrial-complex

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How have the wellness and beauty industries thrived off of a dominant culture of non-acceptance? And what might be the healing potentials that lie in ...

329) Kristina Lyons: Soil as cultural, relational, historical

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to "see" soil beyond their chemistry and biology—understanding also their cultural, relational, and historical embodiment? How hav...

328) Nick Estes: Decolonial histories and The Red Deal

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we welcome Nick Estes, a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and co-founder of The Red Nation. Nick is a historian, journalist, and...

REFLECT | Charles Eisenstein: Expanding climate narratives

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we revisit our past conversation with Charles Eisenstein, a public speaker and author of the books Climate — A New Story, The More...

327) Shilpa Jain: Cycles of hurt, cycles of healing

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How might we lean into appreciative inquiry in support of a cycle of healing? And what does it mean to view conflicts as potentials for collective bre...

326) Pete Davis: Committing in an age of infinite browsing

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What signs are there that the dominant culture has trended towards one of “choice paralysis”, with many stuck in “infinite browsing mode”? And...

325) Karen Washington: Food security, justice, sovereignty

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What are the differences between “food security”, “food justice”, and “food sovereignty”? And while food aid and soup kitchens play a crit...

324) Alnoor Ladha: Sacred activism and contextualized spirituality

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How does viewing people as “contextual beings” help us to realize the systemic changes that need to be made? What does it mean to have spiritual a...

323) Raj Patel & Rupa Marya, MD: Deep medicine for collective healing

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to see the inflammation of our bodies and Earth as interconnected and as signals of what is wrong outside? How did the major philant...

322) Alexis Shotwell: Purity politics in compromised times

24 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is it that drives our individualistic pursuits for ethical purity? How do we embrace complicity as the starting point and begin to take responsib...

321) Tyson Yunkaporta: A different kind of growth

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If material, economic growth is merely an illusion within a closed-loop system, what does it mean to re-orient towards the growth of intimacy, depth, ...

320) Leny Strobel: Finding belonging and remembering how to dwell in place

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How might we think and act differently if we recognized ourselves in our “Long Body”—seeing our continually transforming identities beyond our p...

319) Errol Schweizer: Navigating the exploitive food system towards worker justice

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How might "eco-" or "ethical" certifications fall short of our hopes or expectations for what they mean and guarantee? What is it that leads many soci...

318) Riane Eisler: Shifting from societies of domination to partnerism

27 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why are the major social binaries inadequate in explaining the basis of our varied injustices? What is needed to translate our relational shifts from ...

317) Bayo Akomolafe: Slowing down and surrendering human supremacy

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean that we have a crisis in form—that our problems go deeper than the visible systems we often attribute them to? What might we gain ...

316) Gabriel Kram: Healing with the art and science of connection

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How does the dominant western society privilege certain ways of knowing over others—that may be critical to guiding our path to collective healing? ...

315) Karen Piper: Rethinking colonial water architecture in the face of ‘scarcity’

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How has modern water architecture changed our relationship with water? What are some success stories of resilience from communities pushing back again...

REFLECT | Stephen Pyne: a brief history of wildfires

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is the Pyrocene, and why do we need to tell a new narrative around fire? How did colonial forms of conservation disrupt Indigenous cultural burni...

314) Mark Rifkin: Queering time and moving beyond settler time

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is “settler time” and what does it mean to queer temporality? How might an expansion of who we include as family and kin help us to reimagine...

313) Daniel Lim: Building liberatory cultures and regenerative wealth

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What are some of the distinctive qualities of supremacist cultures—as opposed to liberatory ones? And if liberatory cultures do not have an inherent...

312) Brian Yazzie: Supporting tribal communities through Indigenous foods

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How can non-Native peoples engage with Indigenous cuisines in ways that are rooted in reciprocity and respect? How can people connect with and help to...

311) Candace Fujikane: Mapping for abundance against cartographies of capital

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How is mapping for abundance an act of defiance against cartographies of capital and commodification? How might shifting away from a worldview of scar...

310) Jamie Lorimer: Rewilding bodies and ecologies for a probiotic planet

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to shift our ways of addressing ecological imbalances and diseases from antibiotic to probiotic? How are large-scale rewilding proje...

309) Manpreet Kalra: Deconstructing saviorism from heropreneurship and voluntourism

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What harms do saviorist narratives perpetuate through voluntourism and heropreneurship—when they hold the intentions of doing good? How does the dic...

308) Suzanne Simard: Honoring the wisdom of mother trees and old-growth forests

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean for the world of conservation to see forest ecosystems as complex, sentient, and intelligent? How have the reductive tools of Wester...

307) Nishanth Chopra: Reviving seed-to-sew fashion systems based in community

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What are regenerative, seed-to-sow fashion systems? And what should we know about India's ongoing, historic farmer protests—and how it disproportion...

306) Jon Jandai: Unraveling dominant ideas of success to realign with true abundance

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What can the pandemic teach us about the true meaning of ‘security’? Why must we challenge the dominant culture's ideas of wealth and success—in...

305) Max Wilbert & Lierre Keith: How the green movement lost its way and remembering our roles as caretakers of Earth

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What if neither the Green New Deal nor the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals will help us address ecological breakdown? Why do frontline...

304) Luea Ritter: Recreating regenerative patterns as ancestors of the future

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to practice ‘systems sensing’ and lean into our different ways of knowing? How do we slow down in the urgency of the climate cri...

303) Steve DeRoy: Deepening geospatial knowledge through Indigenous mapping

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is the relationship between cartography and power? How are high-tech map-making tools being utilized to support Indigenous sovereignty and commun...

302) John P. Clark: Dreaming of liberation and a world beyond domination

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How might we reimagine education and the primary purposes it serves? What is the significance of having a regenerative revolution? In this episode, we...

301) Stephanie Rutherford: Illuminating how power shapes our relationship with Earth

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is green governmentality? How might the commodification of nature experiences limit our ways of relating to Earth? In this episode, we're joined ...