FEASTA and EHFF

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This series of podcasts is a collaboration between Feasta and the European Health Futures Forum. Feasta is an open-membership think tank whose aims are to identify the characteristics - economic, cultural and environmental - of a truly sustainable society, articulate how the necessary transition can be effected and promote the implementation of the measures required for this purpose. While rooted in Ireland, Feasta has international membership and its focus is often on the global-level systemic changes that we believe to be vital to our future.

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FEASTA and EHFF

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Basic Income and the global pandemic struggle 31.03.2020 32:49

We interview Dr Evelyn Forget who describes the social and health effects of a basic income trial carried out in Canada in the 1970s. Then, Paul Harnett and Laura Bannister make a case for a World Basic Income that would go to everyone on the planet, as a way to help counter the COVID-19 outbreak.

Economic and political aspects of enough 28.02.2020 30:55

In this second podcast of our series Bridging the Gaps we hear a short talk by Anne Ryan on the concept of ‘enough’, from Feasta’s December 7 event ‘Living well in the face of climate and ecological crises’ (which was featured in our first podcast of this series). Then guest host David Somekh of the EHFF interviews two ethicists, Richard Turnbull of the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics an...

Living well in the face of climate and ecological crises 31.01.2020 45:05

This podcast features recordings from a seminar organised by Feasta in Dublin on December 7 2019. Through a combination of interview-style conversation, presentation and small-group discussion, this event explored the mental and emotional toll of our increasing awareness of climate change and environmental destruction with a view to building up resilience, both personal and community. Speakers and...

Revitalising Irish farming 16.09.2019 30:03

Revitalising Irish farming by FEASTA and EHFF

The future of healthcare 14.07.2019 27:33

For our fifth podcast we welcome guest host David Somekh of the European Health Futures Forum. David hosts a round table discussion with three guests: Zuzanna Cichon, a master student in Global Health at Maastricht University who is currently in Barcelona working on her thesis about the predictive capacity of climate variables for dengue epidemics in Venezuela, and who provides an overview of the...

Reinterpreting money 17.06.2019 26:50

A discussion with economist Mary Mellor and currency innovation strategist Graham Barnes about the potential for changing to a growth-neutral and fairer financial system.

Identity, ownership and the commons 16.05.2019 29:31

We hear the poet Paddy Bushe reading his Migrant Poet's Ecological Manifesto. Then we're joined by Claire Holohan in an interview with Órla O'Donovan, who has done extensive research into the commons as an alternative to state- or market-based ownership.

Measuring the immeasurable? 18.04.2019 27:34

Measuring the immeasurable? by FEASTA and EHFF

Assembly Line 18.04.2019 6:38

Zheng Xiaoqiong reads her poem 'Assembly Line' in her native Sichuan dialect, followed by an English version read by the translator Yu Yan Cheng, and finally a Mandarin Chinese version.

Climate obligations - our children are wakening 15.03.2019 22:58

In this podcast, one of a six-part series by Feasta and the European Health Futures Forum with co-hosts Seán Ó Conláin and Caroline Whyte, we hear from two young participants in the climate strikes and from Professor Barry McMullin on the possibilities for decarbonising Ireland.