Lifeworlds
Episodes
36. Stingless Bees, Ancient Honey & the Amazon's Future – with Dr. Rosa Vasquez Espinosa
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if one of the most powerful tools for saving the Amazon rain-forest was a bee most people have never heard of?Enter the stingless bee – a 65 mi...
35. From Stardust To Sentience: Astrobiology & Life in the Cosmos – with Adam Frank
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What is life, and are we alone in the universe?In this episode I sit down with Adam Frank, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Rochester, p...
34. Black Mountains College: Rethinking Education for Our Times
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode explores a simple but urgent question: is our education system still fit for the world we’re entering? Climate disruption, AI, and...
Poetry | Fruitful Darkness with Rilke
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Lifeworlds episode is a devotional journey into the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, the lyrical German poet of thresholds and embracing transformatio...
33. Empatheatre: Social Sculpture & Feeling Across Worlds
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore the role of theatre and empathy in transforming worldviews. Dr. Dylan McGarry is one of the founders of Empatheatre, a Sou...
32. Depth Psychology and Soul Initiation – with Bill Plotkin from Animas Valley Institute
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Bill Plotkin, founder of Animas Valley Institute. Over the past 40 years, Bill has developed intricate, nature-based ...
31. Holistic Landscape Restoration and Inspirational Returns – with Willem Ferwerda from Commonland
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Almost 40% of Earth’s land is degraded, meaning that the natural cycles that sustain biodiversity, water, food, and livelihoods are breaking down. T...
From Orbit to Intimacy | Beyond the Overview Effect
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the next shift in planetary consciousness didn’t come from looking back at Earth from space, but from listening deeply to the voices already...
30. Grief, Song and Ceremonies of Mourning - with Alexandra “ahlay” Blakey
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re joined by artist, musician and communal grief ritual facilitator Alexandra “ahlay” Blakey to speak about the cultural forgetting of ...
29. Carbon and the Grammar of Life - with Paul Hawken
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we’re joined by the renowned environmentalist, activist and author Paul Hawken to explore the lifeworld of carbon and its role as a ...
28. Whale Dreaming & Ocean Songlines - with WHAIA
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we journey into the vibrational worlds of sound, ancestry, and deep listening with Whaia, a Ngāti Kahungunu woman of Māori descent ...
Poetry | The World Thinks in Poetry
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a remote cabin in Vancouver Island in 2019, far away, I sat by the shore. I listened. I re-read poetry. I swam with jellyfish. I ate bright salmon ...
27. The Ecology Of Health - with Dr. Mackenzie Hall
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where does your body end and the Earth begin? In this episode, we explore the real and poetic parallels between human health and planetary health, and...
Soulfire Sessions II: with David McConville
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David McConville is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher who explores how technology shapes our perspectives of Earth—from local places to our ...
From Your Host: Season’s Reflections and Q&A
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I share some reflections on Season 2, before diving into our first listener-guided Q&A! You’ll be hearing from fellow listeners...
26. Speculative Designs & Embodied Imaginations - with Superflux
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could inhabit the future? In this episode, we dive into the work of Superflux, the visionary design studio turning imagination into tangib...
Practice | Body Compass
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is my take on ancient and intuitive sensory experience that taps into the innate intelligence of the human body, a blend of body compass, Zen Beg...
25. The Connected Wild: Earth’s Internet of Animals - with Dr. Martin Wikelski
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout history, many cultures have observed and interpreted animal behavior to predict events and read the landscapes around them. The multispecie...
24. Guardians of the Earth: The Rise of Ecocide Law - with Pella Thiel
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Could the destruction of nature become considered as serious a crime as that of genocide? How does the structure of law shape a civilisation’s norms...
23. Wild Avatars: Nature in Virtual Reality - with Marshmallow Laser Feast
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to breathe yourself into your own body? To flow with the out-breath of trees into your own fractaling lun...
22. Zen Buddhism and the Soul of Lifeworlding - with Brother Spirit and Sister True Dedication / Plum Village
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode brings us into the heart and philosophy of Zen Buddhism, as practiced by the Plum Village monastic community that was founded in 198...
Poetry | A Sunset with Mary Oliver
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Woven together loosely by my narrative, this special episode traces through a selection of five dazzling poems from the Pulitzer-prize winning poet Ma...
21. The Science of Plant Intelligence & Neurobiology - with Paco Calvo
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are plants conscious? Do they experience forms of cognition and intelligence that go beyond patterned and hard-wired evolutionary behaviors? Do intell...
Soulfire Sessions I: with Daniel Schmachtenberger
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Soulfire Sessions have come to Lifeworlds! These occasional special episodes will be our take on the good old concept of a fireside chat. Intimate, ph...
20. Seeds: The Life Keepers - with Milka Chepkorir Kuto
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seeds. Memory keepers. Speckled time travellers. Capsules of deep, earth wisdom. To control seeds is to control life. To be a seed is to hold the gene...
Sound Journey | Music of the Waters
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This musical journey has been produced for Lifeworlds by the vocal artist Moncaya. It is a sonic ode to the waters of the Earth and the rivers that fl...
19. Conservation Photography and Beauty Activism – with Cristina “Mitty” Mittermeier
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Audacious, spunky, courageous, defiant, sensitive, compassionate, fierce… These are just some of the words that I feel radiating from the formidable...
18. Satellites, Data and Earth Observation: Signal from Noise – with Dan Hammer
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can satellite data and computation fundamentally shift how we understand our place on a changing Earth, and amongst other species? Can we use all ...
Meditation | The Cosmos in Your Food
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A guided meditation to bring you into a state of communion and intimacy with the Earth through the daily, sacred act of eating. Many ancient trad...
17. Tales of the Arctic Deep – with Sylvia Earle, Johan Rockström and Taylor Griffith
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A special three part episode recorded onboard a Climate and Oceans expedition in the Norwegian Arctic. We’ll hear about the dark mysteries of the de...
16. Climate Grief, Eco-anxiety, and Loving a World in Turmoil – with Britt Wray
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A necessary and beautiful episode on the emotional terrain of climate grief, loss, sadness, anxiety, and all the ways we can cope either maladaptively...
Myth | Remembrance & Initiation of the Soul
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An essential part of living into different lifeworlds resides in the mythic realm – the currents of poetry, mysticism and story that stream in the a...
15. Re-Weaving Landscapes: Wildlife Crossings & Designing for Nature as the Client
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The roads on which we drive are unlikely to strike us as an exciting source of design innovation or interspecies dialogue. And yet, some of the most f...
14. Musicians of the Planet: On Making Interspecies Songs – with David Rothenberg
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A clarinet plugged into an underwater hydrophone, playing with liquid humpback whale songs below the surface. A huddled group of musicians under a nig...
13. The Sounds of Life: Bioacoustics, A.I. and Ethics – with Karen Bakker
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world around us is constantly vibrating with sounds we cannot hear. This magical soundscape evades our senses, tempts us by its elusive presence a...
Meditation | Deep Time
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a meditation I wrote and recorded to plunge us through epochs of cosmic time, through the tremendous evolutionary processes that preceded us, ...
12. The Art of Tracking & Wild Bison - with Toni Romani
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode weaves live narrative, interview and descriptions on Romanian bison, wild forest adventures, and the lost ancient art and science of trac...
11. The Inner Lives and Cultural Worlds of Animals – with Carl Safina
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Safina is an ecologist, author, conservationist, and animal translator whose body of work probes how free-living animals experience life. His boo...
Season 1 | Your Host's Reflections & Resolutions!
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My 2023 Reflections and Resolutions from Season One! I created this podcast to explore how people can learn to inhabit the world from multiple perspec...
Poem | Being Human
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since I watched Naima Penniman (from the duet Climbing Poetree) recount her poem in this bewitching video, I’ve returned time and time again to...
[Full Interview] Nature as Mentor - with Jon Young
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Young brings us into the ancient practice of nature connection mentoring. He describes how mentoring is a virtually extinct craft, and yet occupie...
[Full Interview] Nature as Mentor - with Darren Silver
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You may not yet know what a “vision quest” or a rite of passage is. But these traditions are as ancient as our bones. No matter whom your ancestor...
10. Nature as Mentor: Wilderness Rites and Tracking
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Darren Silver & Jon Young.You’ve heard from many voices in previous episodes on how they’ve learned to listen deeply to the world around ...
[Full Interview] Urban Ecologies - with John Thackara
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Thackara is a writer, curator and professor who develops design agendas for ecological restoration, urban-rural reconnection, and multi-species d...
[Full Interview] Urban Ecologies - with Gavin Van Horn
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Where does the city begin? How do animals disrupt our associations of what cities are? What even is urban wilderness?Gavin Van Horn, Executive Editor ...
9. Urban Ecologies: Where’s Nature in the City?
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Gavin Van Horn & John Thackara.How can people living in urban settings engage with a teeming animal world – right on their doorsteps? Can w...
[Full Interview] Multi-species Entanglements - with Dr June Harrower
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Specializing in multi-species entanglements under climate change, Dr Juniper Harrower works at the intersection of ecology, art, activism and policy. ...
[Full Interview] Multi-species Entanglements - with BeeWisdom
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do bees bridge people with nature? What is it like to be seduced by the sounds and smells of the hive? To be touched by a bee? In this conversatio...
8. Multi-species Entanglements, or, How We Become Rapt in Other Lives
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With BeeWisdom & Dr June Harrower.Today on lifeworlds, we’re going to spend some time with the humming, buzzing, delectable nectar of the bees. ...
Bedtime Story | Extinction is Loneliness
30 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I wrote this piece in a 6am flurry of sunrise inspiration, the words pouncing through me, stirred by a combination of books I’d been reading on plan...
[Full Interview] Ecocentric Law - with Abhayraj Naik
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m joined by Abhayraj Naik, a lawyer and activist-academic who teaches interdisciplinary courses on climate, environment, justice, law, polic...
[Full Interview] Ecocentric Law — with Dr John Borrows & Lindsay Borrows
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The wonderful father-daughter duo of Dr John Borrows and Lindsay Borrows explore questions such as: Is law a noun or a verb? How can we read the archi...
7. Ecocentric Law: The Rights of Nature and Natural Law
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Dr John Borrows, Lindsay Borrows & Abhayraj Naik. This week we’re traveling from British Columbia to Bangalore, exploring two different leg...
[Full Interview] Designs For Life - with Herb Hammond
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Herb’s career in British Columbia has centered on forestry, land based communities and natural systems. From his work as a conventional forester he ...
[Full Interview] Designs For Life - with Dr Tara Martin
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I had the delightful honor of meeting Tara Martin when I lived on Vancouver Island. We canoed out to a tiny Salish Sea sand island and shared a delici...
6. Designs For Life: Priority Threat Management and Nature-Based Plans
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Dr Tara Martin & Herb Hammond. Today we are joined by Dr. Tara Martin and Herb Hammond, who have pioneered fascinating methods in developing ...
Meditation | Deep Ecology
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Without being awake in our bodies We can’t feel how our bodies belong to this earth Feel the touch of the world upon you. This one I will keep brief...
[Full Interview] The Indigenous View - with Joe Martin (Tutakwisnapšiƛ)
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a beautiful conversation with Joe Martin, who is also known by his traditional name Tutakwisnapšiƛ. We speak about his work as a master cano...
[Full Interview] The Indigenous View - with Tyson Yunkaporta
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A delightful yarn with Tyson Yunkporta, Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and aut...
5. The Indigenous View: Protocols, Ceremony and Totem Poles
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Tyson Yunkaporta & Joe Martin (Tutakwisnapšiƛ). Today we’re joined by two master indigenous scholars and artists, who will be laying down...
[Full Interview] Money: In Service of Nature? - with Eric Smith
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Smith has spent his career working at the intersection of economics and nature.Most recently he was the director of the venture capital vehicle N...
[Full Interview] Money: In Service of Nature? - with Lorenzo de Rosensweig
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lorenzo de Rosenzweig is what you might call an “OG” (original gangster) of the conservation finance world.An engineer and marine biologist by tra...
4. Money: In Service of Nature?
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Lorenzo de Rosensweig & Eric Smith.This week we’re asking whether it’s possible to support the lifeworlds of nature with the very same to...
Song | Mushroom Dance
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“An improvisation with the natural vibrations of a certain place and time – via plant bioelectricity, latent electromagnetic radiation, and even t...
[Full Interview] The Inner Lives of Fungi - with Sophie Strand
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Woodchucks and bald eagles. Fungal fermentation. Compost heaps. Animism. Deviant animal sex. Disability. Jesus and Dionysus. Fungi, microbes, and the ...
[Full Interview] The Inner Lives of Fungi - with Giuliana Furci
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Giuliana Furci. The woman who has been chosen by the fungi. The mother who is in love with the mould that grows on lemons. The founder and...
3. The Inner Lives of Fungi - Expeditions, Advocacy and Poetics
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Giuliana Furci & Sophie Strand.Oh, the fungi! Without them we’d have no plants, no trees, no chocolate, no beer, yogurt, baked bread – al...
Poem | Sometimes a Wild God
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Following the episodes on rewilding, I wanted to drive the message of wildness home with this spellbinding poem by Tom Hirons. It gives me chills ever...
[Full Interview] Rewilding - with Kris Tompkins
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kristine Tompkins is an American conservationist who is the president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, and former CEO of Patagonia.For ne...
[Full Interview] Rewilding - with Derek Gow
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With his hilariously sharp-witted, no-nonsense approach and radiating descriptions of nature’s landscapes, Derek Gow is a force to contend with.He’...
2. Rewilding – The Return of Exuberant Landscapes
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Derek Gow & Kris Tompkins.The rewilding movement is currently sweeping across the world’s landscapes, restoring ecologies and species, re-n...
Practice | Sensing Place
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of the Lifeworlds ‘bonus’ episodes, designed to help us tune in somatically to the living world. We need to be grounding our con...
[Full Interview] Unexpected Agricultures – with Michael Ableman
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Ableman is a farmer, author, photographer and urban food systems activist. Michael has been farming organically since the early 1970s and is c...
[Full Interview] Unexpected Agricultures – with Lyla June Johnston
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lyla June Johnston is an Indigenous public speaker, artist, poet, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) an...
1. Unexpected Agricultures – The Human in the Food Web
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Lyla June Johnston & Michael Ableman. We’re going to kick off the season by getting our feet down in the soil to talk about agriculture! Ou...
Trailer
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Lifeworlds - a podcast series that explores how to orient your life around nature. Join me on this intimate journey into the eyes and minds...