Conversations That Shape Tomorrow

How We Regenerate from the Inside Out Season 3 - Episode 7 Luea Ritter - Process Designer Brandon Hill - Artist Regeneration begins when lived pain is met with honesty, creativity and shared responsibility rather than avoidance. Ecological urgency collides with personal fracture. In this conversation, we explore regeneration as an embodied practice shaped through human stories. The dialogue brings...

How Can Institutions Regenerate Season 3 - Episode 6 Marc Buckley - Ecological Economist  Pavlina Pavlova - Circular Economy Expert   A regenerative mindset only becomes real when it reshapes how people meet the future rather than react to it. Sustainability fatigue and policy gridlock are colliding with rising climate volatility. This episode situates the conversation inside a global shift from r...

What Inner Work Teaches Us About Planetary Change Season 3 - Episode 5 Diego Hangartner - Meditation Guide Claudia Roosli - Earth Observation Expert Thomas Crowther - Ecologist A single act of attention can redraw your sense of scale. Planetary change feels both accelerating and uneven. This conversation traces how clarity emerges when you move between the vast view from orbit, the granular work o...

Why Regeneration Needs to Move From Theory to Practice Season 3 - Episode 4 Daniel Wahl, Advisor, Educator & Activist Christa Hermann - Regenerative Practitioner   A living planet teaches you far more than any abstract model can. Ecological stability is slipping faster than our institutions can adapt. This conversation examines how regeneration becomes real only when it is practiced in specific pl...

Creating Self-Regenerating Systems Season 3 - Episode 3 Tobias Luthe - Professor   Tobias Luthe — Professor Regeneration begins inside the people who shape places and systems.   Climate stress and social fragmentation force design to become political and practical at once. This episode is a compact conversation with Tobias that broadens into a wide dialogue about systems, practice and craft. Tobia...

About Designing Resilient Futures with Marc Buckley Season 3 - Episode 2 Marc Buckley - Ecological Economist   Inner renewal becomes possible when you stop adapting to a system that asks you to shrink, and instead align yourself with the deeper patterns that sustain life.   Speed, extraction and constant mobility shape daily experience for many of us. This episode examines what it means to practic...

Lessons in Regeneration with Daniel Christian Wahl Season 3 - Episode 1 Daniel Christian Wahl - Advisor, Educator & Activist Regeneration begins when a place becomes a living system. Regions everywhere are wrestling with ecological limits and economic uncertainty. This episode examines what it means to rebuild our relationship with the places that sustain us, following a conversation rooted in bio...

How a Movement Gained Momentum Season 2 - Episode 6 Ben Nott - Architect Christian Bartsch - Entrepreneur Cynthia Hansen- Managing Director Daniela Weinmann - Artist Kaitlin McNally - Policy Coordinator Martin Rust - Sustainability Officer Tobias Luthe - Professor One goal of the inaugural [y]our 2040 gathering in 2021 was to help community members develop ideas worth implementing. That work produ...

How Systems Thinking Changes Everything Season 2 - Episode 5 Parneet Pal - Wellbeing Advisor Tobias Luthe - Professor Christian Binz - Innovation Researcher Systems thinking is increasingly recognised as essential to building regenerative, holistic futures. To understand any system, we need to respect its complexity, see how it functions, trace the impacts it produces, and learn which levers can s...

How Water Access Shapes Human Possibility Season 2 - Episode 4 Joana Bacallo - Water Storyteller Imani Black - Oyster Farmer & Marine Biologist Christopher Friedrich - Humanitarian Aid Worker & Researcher Access to water is a fundamental human right. Yet it remains far from guaranteed. Across the world, water is unevenly distributed, in law and in practice. Demand continues to rise, while in many...

What Melting Ice Teaches Us About Planetary Change Season 2 - Episode 3 Jerome Chappellaz - Glaciologist Sophie te Wierik - Green & Atmospheric Water Expert Felix Keller - Glaciologist & Fiddler Water looks simple on paper: H2O. Two small, positively charged hydrogen atoms bonded to one larger, negatively charged oxygen atom. In practice, it is one of the most consequential substances on Earth. Ev...

Can Global Resources Be Shared Fairly? Season 2 - Episode 2 Desiree Ruppen - Environmental Researcher Omar Malmo Sambou - Environmental Activist Christian Stamm - Environmental Chemist Water is fundamental not only to life, but to a functioning economy. How we manage and distribute it shapes daily decisions, culture, and the long term success of civilizations. Water supports agriculture, mining, c...

Why Water Holds the Key to Our Future Season 2 - Episode 1 Ernest Bromeis - Water Ambassador Natasha Fuerst - Female Rights Activist It is human nature to explore the unknown, to seek what we have not yet seen, and to investigate what we find compelling. Water covers most of the Earth, and we all depend on it to survive, yet what happens in and on water remains unfamiliar to most of us. Deep sea d...

The Story of [y]our 2040 Season 1 - Episode 10 Reto Gurtner - Entrepreneur Chris Luebkeman - Futurist A different future begins when we choose to look honestly at the world our children will inherit. In a time when warning signs flash across climate, society, government, economies and local communities, this episode turns a gaze toward what it means to act together with intention. Host Jonelle spe...

Why Business Must Rethink Circularity Season 1 - Episode 9 Raphael Gielgen - Futurist Oliver Brunschwiler - Circular Economy Entrepreneur Circularity becomes real when beauty, honesty, and responsibility meet in the objects we live with every day. In a world flooded with short lived products and invisible digital systems, this episode explores what it truly means to design for a circular future. J...

Government Strategies Transforming the Planet Season 1 - Episode 8 Hans Bruyninckx - Environmental Policy Scientist Systemic change begins when we treat planetary limits as a starting point, not an afterthought. In a Europe facing climate disruption, biodiversity loss, and widening inequality, this episode explores how the European Green Deal reframes economic and political agendas around planetar...

What Investing for Impact Really Means Season 1 - Episode 7 Martina Mueller-Kamp - Financial Manager Nathalie Moral - Business Leader Impact becomes real when we choose where to place our attention, energy, and courage. In a moment when urgency is clear yet pathways forward feel crowded with uncertainty, this episode explores how individuals and institutions decide what impact truly means. Entrepr...

How Advocacy Shapes the Future Across Generations Season 1 - Episode 6 Reto Knutti - Climate Scientist  Marie-Claire Graf - Intergenerational Advocate Climate urgency shifts systems when facts meet feelings and responsibility. In a world where climate science grows ever more conclusive, this episode explores how facts, feelings, and power intersect in the politics of change. Bruno Giussani joins c...

What Food Systems Can Teach Us About Circularity Season 1 - Episode 5 Sue Tobler - Astrophysicist Anastasia Hofmann - Entrepreneur Naomi MacKenzie - Entrepreneur Beat Karrer - Designer Change in the food system begins when people stop treating waste as an accident and start treating it as a design choice. In a world where perfectly good food still ends up in bins behind hotels and conference cente...

How Urgency Can Create Stronger Climate Action Season 1 - Episode 4 Tim Jarvis - Explorer and Environmental Scientist Clarity emerges when urgency becomes a catalyst for both courage and collective responsibility. In a world where environmental warnings are no longer distant forecasts but daily realities, this episode explores how one person translates extreme expedition experience into practical...

Why Science Matters More Than Ever Season 1 - Episode 3 Holger Hoff - Environmental Scientist Adrienne Gret-Regamey - Urban Systems Professor Lasting change emerges when knowledge, emotion, and local experience are treated as equally vital forms of intelligence. In a time when we can measure almost everything yet still hesitate to act, this episode explores what climate implications mean for diffe...

Why Architecture Must Become Regenerative Season 1 - Episode 2 Michael Pawlyn - Architect Real change in the built environment begins when we stop relying on exemplar projects and start shifting the paradigm that shapes them. In a world where climate reports warn of collapse while markets still claim they are not ready for real solutions, this episode explores why transformative ideas struggle to...

How We Make Decisions When the Future Is Uncertain Season 1 - Episode 1 Nigel Topping - Climate Action Leader  Patrick Frick - Collaboration Designer Viktoria Cologna - Environmental Social Scientist Transformation begins when we stop seeking a one-size-fits-all solution and starts pulling various levers together with trust, clarity, and courage. In a world where climate disruption is no longer a...

The future is not somewhere we arrive. It is something we create. Introducing Conversations That Shape Tomorrow, the [Y]our 2040 podcast. Every episode draws from live conversations on the [Y]our 2040 stage, where foresight meets action and curiosity meets courage. Thoughtful practitioners from twenty-five countries, working across systems, disciplines and borders, all exploring one question: what...