Accidental Gods

How can we reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, build living soil from the chaos of industrial farming, while growing healthy nutritious food and restoring our devastated ecosystems?  Regenerative farming has so many of the answers and this week we speak to the host of the FarmGate podcast, Ffinlo Costain. Two parts - this is Part One. We live in an era of empty food, vast food miles and a burgeonin...

How can we build a progressive political movement that spans the world and that will take us to where we need to be: a future we can be proud of and towards which all of us will want to work?  Taking politics, activism, progressive ideals with Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London. This is one of our most nakedly political conversations - becau...

How can we embrace our humanity and use it in service to the earth and all that lives?  How can we bring the best of ourselves to the best of the Web of Life in full understanding of the chaos of the moment, with full and open hearts?  Deena Metzger has given her life to finding answers - and shares them here. From her experience at three years old when she saw the spirit of her grandmother at the...

In a world of uncertainty, transformation and potential catastrophe, how can we find our own truth and, from there, speak with authenticity to the children and young people in our lives about the world that is coming?  Louis Weinstock is a celebrated psychotherapist who finds ways to help people of all ages connect with their own truth and share it.  In this episode, we explore our attitudes to de...

How can sound edge us closer to the centre of ourselves, bring us closer into connection with our own authenticity and with the heart of the earth?  Caro C has produced the Accidental Gods Podcast since its inception.  Here, she talks about the wild magic of sound in all its forms.  Caro C has been described as a Soul Enchantress (BBC Radio 3) and a 'One Woman Electronic Avalanche' (BBC Introducin...

Ece Temelkuran is an astonishingly astute, great-hearted writer. Joining us from Zagreb, she gave us an hour of wisdom, insight and compassion, based around her book 'TOGETHER: 10 Choices for a Better Now' - with an international audience and some cracking questions, this is our gift to you this weekend.  Ece Temelkuran is an international columnist, political analyst, novelist and sharp, brillian...

How can we embed circular thinking in our food, energy, water & waste to benefit people and the planet?  LEAP Micro Anaerobic Digestion is building the systems in the UK, Nigeria, Malaysia and around the world to create local zero waste cultures that provide food and energy to their communities.   Rokiah Yaman is the Project Director for LEAP Micro Anaerobic Digestion. A part of the project fr...

In a world where the only constant is change, how can we find the best of our wisdom?  How can we find true connection to the spirits of the places we live so that we might learn better how to be in the transition that is coming?  How, above all, can we approach death with equanimity, and even joy?  This week, we explore all of this with author, mythicist - and elder - Sharon Blackie. Dr. Sharon B...

How are we going to create the power that we need in a world where fossil fuel use has to end?  How can we end the central control of power and keep safe our data in a world where data-mining is a pernicious - and lucrative - as coal mining?  Howard Johns has spent all his professional life finding answers. He shares them here.  Howard was a climate activist on the front lines until he realised th...

How can we begin to reverse the destruction of our countryside, the pollution of our rivers - and our disconnection from the Natural World?  Beavers, of course.  Eva Bishop of the Beaver Trust tells of the UK introduction of beavers and puts it in a whole-system context.   The Beaver Trust is a small group of committed individuals who understand the deep interconnectedness of life.  By bringing be...

When Forrest Landry was 16 years old, he took a vow to meet the Natural World openly, fully, without any projection or expectation on his part - he was not going to take one step and wait for the rest of the world to take 99 steps to him - he was going to go all the way.  His life has been shaped by the experience - and he talks to us this week about where that has taken him.    " Love is that whi...

COP26 takes place in Scotland in November. How can ordinary people persuade our elected Overlords that they need to change the system?  Across the UK, Climate Actions are being prepared. We speak to two people involved in Pilgrimages to Glasgow about what drives them and what they hope will change.  COP26 takes place in Glasgow, Scotland in November of this year.  This is our best  - possibly our...

What is it that makes us human? How can we bring the best of ourselves to the current crises – individually, and as a civilisation? In this episode, we talk to Matthew Taylor, CBE FAcSS, and explore his ideas around ‘co-ordination theory’ and how we can use them to create new politics and new ways of organising our society to give more people a better, more equitable say in how we make things happ...

As our world hurtles towards tipping points, how can we be part of the solution? How can we find resilience, in ourselves, our lives and our communities? Above all, how can we bring Active Hope to the world?  Dr Chris Johnstone and Madeleine Young have set up an online training course based in Joanna Macy's work that reconnects and we talk about it in this week's podcast. With a background in medi...

As we hover on the edge of the Great Turning, how can we find a spiritual practice that draws from the roots of who we are and yet provides the sustenance we need to help us navigate our changing world? Sue Philips of Sacred Design Labs explores the possibilities.   Sacred Design Lab is a soul-centred research and development lab that explores and interprets the changing landscape of spiritual and...

In a world that is literally burning, with politicians whose positions of power are predicated on their not listening, what are the most creative, thoughtful, caring people on the planet doing to bring about change?   Sophie Miller of Ocean and Extinction Rebellions was an integral part of the stunningly impressive actions at the G7 summit earlier this summer. In this second of two parts, she refl...

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.'  As our world burns ever faster and our politicians cling ever more desperately to the old ways of being and behaving, Sophie Miller of Ocean Rebellion commits her creativity, artistry and courage to bringing truth to power.  Sophie Miller trained at Central St Marti...

How did we get here?  How bad are things really? Is there still hope? (Yes!) and... crucially - what can we do, individually, collectively, in our businesses, in our governments, around the world, to turn the bus from the edge of the cliff?  Professor Mark Maslin is a climate scientist with a mission to explain in clear terms all we need to know.  And he does it with panache, enthusiasm and optimi...

Imagine a world where we listen to the voices of the young as much as the old, the women as much as the men, all races, all abilities, all income streams - all species... where we honour difference, where compassion and empathy are our keynotes, not competition and separation.  If this is the world we want, how do we get there?  In this second of two parts, we explore the existential question of o...

If we have all the technical and scientific answers to solving the climate and ecological crisis - which we do - how do we bring the greater mass of humanity to a place where we all work together, bringing our boundless creativity to the creation of a regenerative world?  Exploring the world of behaviour with Alexandra Kurland, behaviourist, horse trainer and regenerative farmer.  First of two par...

Does the law take care of you?  Does it work in your interests, for a common sense of justice  - a genuine common-weal?  If not, why not? And what can we do to change the way things are going?  Mothiur Rahman of the New Economy Law Centre explores our current crisis of agency.  Mothiur Rahman is founder of New Economy Law and a pioneer member of XR.  In his first podcast with us, we explored the w...

How can be rebuild trust in politics, politicians and each other? How would it feel to be free of partisan divisions?  Could we heal our world in time?  Braver Angels is dedicated to helping people bridge divides - to find the better angels of themselves and each other.  Braver Angels - originally Better Angels - came into being after the divisive nightmare of the 2016 Presidential Election in the...

How does it feel to stand at the balance point between ancient Christian mysticism and the Druid's path of deep connection with the natural world?  What do we become if we marry the traditions of Christianity with the far older, land-based traditions of this land - and all lands?  In a living answer to these questions, Rev Sam Wernham founded the River Dart Wild Church and the Wild Monastics, as w...

Imagine a world where dignity is valued over nationalistic pride; where we know that 'enough' is the opposite of 'more'; where we understand the bonds that draw us together. Author Ece Temelkuran launches her new book 'Together' - and shares with us its message of human resilience.  More at https://accidentalgods.life Ece Temelkuran is one of the Turkey’s best known novelist and political commenta...

How would the world flourish if our politics were based on trust?  And how can we make that happen?  Eva and Justin are co-creating the 'ReWorlding' online conference in late May and we came together to explore how even the making of this has been an exploration of what it is to be human, to trust, to grow and to dare to be different.  Eva and Justin were guests of podcast 44 [https://accidentalgo...