Accidental Gods

Regenerative Farming - or Agro-ecology - is being widely recognised as one of the best ways to mitigate the climate crisis. But how does it actually work? What can we do with our back gardens, our rooftops, our local verges to make a difference?  Navona Gallegos explains the science - and the spirit - of working with the land. We first spoke with Navona Gallegos  in podcast #55 ( here ) when she h...

Imagine a world where money works differently. Where there's enough for everyone's needs, not their greed and where we work together for a life we all want.  In this week's podcast, Jonathan Dawson, head of the Regenerative Economics program at Schumacher college explores how.  Jonathan Dawson, co-creator of the Masters in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher college, is a sustainability educator...

How can we bring vibrancy, life, diversity and connection back to the land?  How would we be if we listened to all the wild plants of our land?  Katrina Blair first listened to plants at the age of 11 - and is now transforming her local community.  In this inspiring podcast, she leads us through ways we, too, can connect with plants as our teachers.  Katrina Blair began studying wild plants in her...

“No decision shall be made and no action taken unless it holds the good of the children of all beings, of this generation and seven hence, at its heart.” How would our world be if we based every act on the impact it would have down the generations?  What do our children - and their children - need us to do now, to grant them a flourishing future?  A simple video asks that question and invites our...

Why does the law not protect us?  Why does our government not strive every sinew to keep us safe at all levels?  What would it look like if the law did protect, care for and sustain common people?  Answers on this, and the depths of life from Mothiur Rahman, pioneer member of XR Muslims. Mothiur Rahman speaks with raw courage and a unique combination of vulnerability and strength as he describes h...

How does it feel to commit - completely, without reservation - to the flow of life? Where do we find the courage and resilience to take the first steps on the path? And how does the world - that same flow of life - support us when we have done so? In this second of two parts with Alan Watson Featherstone we explore more deeply the creation of Trees for Life - how it arose and what it entailed... I...

What are we here for?  What - exactly - is the purpose of life? Imagine a world where finding our life's purpose - and having the courage to follow it - was at the core of everything we did.    Alan Watson Featherstone listened to the prompting of his heart and set up Trees for Life to ReWild the Great Caledonian Forest in Scotland. Three decades on, there are thousands of acres alive with new gro...

Suppose we all made this year the one where we choose to make a difference?  We could take a sabbatical and join in the actions around COP26. Or we could go to work and do whatever it takes to make our business regenerative.  Or we could join Parents For Future and build a world that we are proud to leave to our children.  Rupert Read on his new book: Parents for a Future and how now is the time t...

Suppose we already have all the answers to the crises that assail us?  Suppose countless people, companies, non-profit organisations and local community groups were already working to change the way things work?  And suppose we could knit these together into a movement for change? Donnie Maclurcan of the Post Growth Institute explores the ways we can find a generative future. Donnie is a facilitat...

Imagine a world where we didn’t always feel as if money was tight. Imagine an economy that works for the health and welfare of people and planet rather than all of us working for the health of the economy. Richard Murphy describes where money comes from and how we could use it differently. We all know the economy is broken - that the experiment of free market capitalism has driven us to the edge o...

We all know national politics is in chaos.  But local governance can be a place of enlivening, inspiring, radical change. Pam Barrett speaks of her work to change the nature of her local town council - what she achieved - and how we can do the same.  Pam Barrett worked at the heart of the Westminster government's civil service. Then she moved to picturesque Buckfastleigh, a mill town on the edge o...

How does it feel to know we're really living our purpose? What's the felt sense inside that tells us to keep going in a particular direction? Or to stop?  Radical evolutionary, Chris Taylor explores the pathways to right being that will let us transform what it is to be human.  Chris Taylor, author of 'The Tao of Revolution' is a Tai Chi teacher, regenerative farmer, musician, performance poet, fa...

How different would our world be if we understood how our minds - and feelings - worked?  How would our workplaces change if everyone was doing their best to understand how everyone else experienced the world? Dr Rachel Lilley describes how shifting our perspectives changes everything - from work to home to government.  Rachel combines extensive  academic research with  many years practical  exper...

Everybody Now Climate Emergency and Sacred Duty     We’ve caused a turning point in the Earth’s natural history. Everybody Now is a podcast about what it means to be human on the threshold of a global climate emergency, in a time of systemic injustice and runaway pandemics. Scientists, activists, farmers, poets, and theologians talk bravely and frankly about how our biosphere is changing, about gr...

Kindness costs nothing and it enhances our lives and those around us. And yet our world is full of random acts of unkindness.  How can we change this? How can we extend the boundaries of faith and spirituality to bring the best of ourselves to a world in crisis.  This week, podcaster, musician, writer, theologian – and deep spiritual activist – David Blower talks about Christianity and kindness an...

What if the Ocean were a living thing, in the way that the earth breathes as Gaia? The Maori say that if the Ocean is healthy, so, too, will the people be healthy.  And we are not healthy - nor is the Ocean. But we are intimately linked and Glenn Edney, Ocean Deep Ecologist explains how - and what we can do to heal ourselves and the waters of the Earth. Glenn Edney is a Deep Ecologist, an Ocean ex...

How would our world feel if our local, regional and national politics really listened to all the people, really brought together diverse views, and knew how to listen deeply to whatever was said? How would we be if our politics brought out the best in all of us, and worked for the living planet?  We talk to Trust The People , a new movement to bring this about - globally.  Trust The People is a mo...

What if we could see the nature of the stories that drive us, how would we be?  Would we be able to change them?  And what would we want in their place?  This week, Alnoor Ladha, mystic, visionary, activist and regenerative farmer explores the four ways to change the world. Alnoor Ladha's  work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking and narrative work. He was the co-...

What if we had a way to draw carbon out of the air, heal our ecosystems and feed the world?  We do: It's called Regenerative Agriculture and the understanding of how we do this is key to a flourishing future.  But we need to listen to the land first, as Navona Gallegos describes in this new Accidental Gods podcast. Navona Gallegos is an ecologist and farmer working to transition desert back into g...

An end-of-year round up of the best fiction and non-fiction books - and podcasts - of 2020.  All are my opinion and this is only a tiny selection of the really good stuff out there - but it's good.  Enjoy!   We have to stop consuming stuff... but we never stop imbibing ideas. So here are some to choose from - all links to Blackwells. For obvious reasons. Non-Fiction 'From what is to what if' by Ro...

It's our Birthday... and it's the December Solstice, the time of transition and potential transformation .  In honour of which, we are crafting a new tradition: a PodBoom shared with Della Duncan of UPSTREAM podcast and Nathalie Nahai of THE HIVE.    So, it's our Birthday - and it's that time of year when every pundit endeavours to look back at the year just gone and ahead to the one that is comin...

How can we make learning a genuinely transformational experience? One that's fun, and inspiring and that teaches us HOW to think, not WHAT to think? Rachel Musson had given her life to asking this question and ThoughtBox is her answer.  Suppose we all learned three things at school: empathy, critical thinking and systems thinking... imagine how different the world would be. Suppose we learned how...

How bad are things really? Is it too late to avert the climate and ecological catastrophe? And if not, how do we pull ourselves back from the brink? Exploring answers with Paul Behrens, author of 'The Best of Times, The Worst of Times'. We live on the edge of change - the facts can be terrifying, but the creative potential of our times is inspiring and just as jaw-dropping as the horrors of the re...

How can we take the radical, renegade, rule-breaking, revolutionary ideals of the golden age of Pirates and transmute them to gold in our world? Alex Barker, author of 'How to be More Pirate' lays out the maps to the treasure of change. The concept of radical, renegade, revolutionary insurgency based on the model created in the Golden Age of Pirates was given wings by Sam Conniff's best selling bo...

In the midst of nonviolent direct action, is a red thread, holding the liminal space between the old and the new, between action and re-action, between hope and extinction.  The Red Rebel Brigade is a distinctive feature of XR Actions and here we have a glimpse from the inside. More at  Red is the colour of our life blood. It joins us to the land and all the web of life.  It was chosen as the orig...