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[This podcast is recorded in German] What is the root of hatred, greed and a false sense ofseparatism in this world? Doesn’t it always start with the connection to ourselves? Someone who is in peace, who feels centered and is connectedto themselves and earth, attuned harmoniously to the world around them will notengage in wars, coups, betrayal or inclined to divide and spread hatred. So it starts...

Nikki (@girl_on_gaia) is a special soul who is one of thosepeople defining herself, her purpose and place and this earth in multi-faceted,earth-connected and freedom seeking ways. In this episode we speak about what different ways ofrelating to earth within the current socio-economic systems might look like. New ways of generating an income that are independent from this system butstill utilizes i...

Tess van Zalinge , a designer from the Netherlands, started her brand in 2016 with the urge to make sustainable couture. What makes her brand unique is that Tess and her Team create entire collections made from waste materials, crafting truly extraordinary pieces that prove that sustainability never diminishes the beauty of fashion but only adds to the allure because it was designed consciously by...

Stop Ecocide International ‘s goal is to create a new international Crime of Ecocide (long-standing, wide-sclae, severe damage to the environment) within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court where it would sit alongside the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression as one of the “crimes against peace”, which are those crimes which are consider...

Ange Chakana is a permaculture & Montessori school teacher as well as a forest educator. She was also one of my own teachers during my Permaculture Design Course this summer. Ange started Earth Keepers camps two years ago after leaving the US and struggling to find good ways to teach permaculture to children in the school system. We speak about how permaculture is so much more than just land m...

This episode features Andreas Koch , founder of Tourythm which is about creating a new rhythm in the tourism industry to help the people in it to regenerate the world and themselves. A business sector that needs a lot of impulses towards more conscious, earth-aligned practices – the travel and tourism industry -which produces 10 % of GDP and employs 10 % of humans on the planet. Andreas works with...

Claire Murigande is the host and executive producer of the "Narratives of Purpose Podcast" in which she speaks to global changemakers about social impact topics that are aimed to inspire action. Claire is a scientist (life sciences), speaker and podcast host, with a mission to amplify the voices of changemakers around the world. In this wonderful conversation we are speaking about her co...

In this episode I am joined by the beautiful Amy Jane Storrønning who ventures out alone into the wild as a way to re-connect. In the spirit of the saying “We can only truly receive when we are empty” Amy has found a way for herself to strip away the impositions of the world and society when she needs a break and a recharge. Discomfort is radical. Silence is radical. Finding peace within is radica...

You want to know more about the world of sustainable investing? About the opportunities, obstacles, how reliable ESG criteria are and what it would potentially take to overpower the harmful investments which are still ruling the industry - then this is the episode for you. Karen Wendt is the CEO of ECCOS Impact , ECCOScience Researcher and Lecturer, Editor for the Springer Nature Series "Inve...

-Midwifery care that bridges the sacred and the scientific- Melissa Chappell has been helping babies enter this world in holistic ways for many years and is a vessel of knowledge when it comes to preserving the naturally induced physiological state women go into during the birth process that is vital for a natural birthing scenario. She got her licensure in 2016 and opened her first birth birth ce...

10 % of American women are diagnosed with Endometriosis. That is millions of women! Worldwide, fertility issues and inflammation related diseases are extremely relevant topics. In this episode Matilda Rosengren is sharing her personal experiences with fertility and Endometriosis and her motivation to start her online platform Mind and Womb which offers tools and support to those women trying to co...

Erik G. Turner has a background in chemical and process engineering and started his career in the Pharma industry. Currently working for Neustark , an ETH spin off which works in the carbon removal space, transforming old concrete and CO2 into recycled concrete, he is contributing to the transformation of one of the largest waste streams in the world. Erik got interested in sustainability in 2018,...

Cate Zoltan is CEO of the Undo App , which is designed to activate self-healing through deep body meditations. In this episode we discuss how Cate found her way to the concept of natural meditation, what it means to live a more "natural life" and how we can re-connect with our "original self" through meditation, which requires slowly carving our way back to who we are at our co...

Lydia Afriyie - Kraft was born and raised on a farm in Ghana, she holds a Bachelor in silviculture and forest management and a master of international management of forest industries. Currently she is providing consultation to European Wood Importers and on timber trade regulation. Her father, a cocoa farmer, cultivated land not only for cocoa, but also for palm oil production and growing food for...

Four extraordinary days in the Engiadin Valley in La Punt, Switzerland. Nestled in between mountains, next to a river where cool, clear water flows steadily is where [y]our2040 found its place for the third time since 2020. I was so very blessed to be part of the Team that delivered [y]our2040 in the summer of 2023 and it had me absolutely hooked. Four days of incredible conversations around all t...

Tobias Luthe is a professor at ETH Zurich, teaching in the fields of resilience and complex systems, systemic design and regenerative systems, traveling and adventuring through different countries and landscapes. Powered by a passion for outdoor sports, exploration and the active participation in regeneration. Tobias grew up in a very natural setting, immersed in nature and being introduced to bui...

Who we are as people, how we feel and receive ourselves, the state of our health, purpose, connection to nature and community determines our interactions, beliefs, choices in regards to the ways we act towards earth, other people etc. Nathan Maingard describes himself as having been a misfit in our society at a young age. Not fitting into the boxes that school, society, government, predetermined,...

John Fullerton imagines a world where we are not breaking the planet's boundaries with our economics. He argues that we have a superbly functioning model of living systems around us, which is regenerating all the time, that we could orientate ourselves toward. In this episode we Talk about clear design principles and processes that are important for us to consider in order to create a global r...

The more innovative and "developed" societies become, the more complex the issues within them - and today every issue seems to make its way to span the globe, asking for ever more complex solutions to ever more confusing problems that seem to be well stocked. Have we become too innovative for our own species to handle the issues that arise from all the developments? Or have many societie...

Marc Buckley is the founder of ALOHAS Regenerative Foundation , an Ecological Economist, Regenerative Futurist, and Solarpunk. He wrote the SDG Manifesto for the United Nations and has been working with the UNFCCC since 2019 on the next set of goals that come after the SDG’s the Resilient Development Goals through UNFCCC and Resilience Frontiers. Marc takes a systems view of life and addresses all...

"The fashion industry is better than other industries at covering up how polluting it actually is. It is a massive marketing machine and very good at selling you things you don't need - shaping ideas of desire and beauty." ~ Kiki Boreel The fashion industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world, in terms of water, air and soil pollution. Their annual greenhouse gas emi...

I met Natascha at the [y]our2040 gathering in Switzerland in June this year and spoke to her for a short interview where I found out that she had been part of the Exxpedition Atlantic crossing and wanted to know more about it. Somehow we managed to also discuss differing opinions on feminism and identity politics and the value of common decency which just made it all the more interesting : ) Exxpe...

Why would a teacher's pension fund be invested in fossil fuel holdings? Your guess is as good as mine and as Kim Benson and Jillian Maguire explain, there are surprisingly many teachers who don't know what their pensions are being invested in. The two women founded BCTF Divest Now to petition against their pensions being invested in unsustainable ways that they have no control over and to...

We flush tons of valuable materials down the drain everyday. This includes copious amounts of precious water as well as human output that would normally be part of a circular cycle in nature and can have manifold uses if we recognize it as more than material to be flushed and discarded. Kompotoi is a composting toilet that aims to change that narrative. In this episode I am joined by Kristina Hoch...

Friedensreich Hundertwasser: Painter, architecture doctor, ecological activist, philosopher. From the Hundertwassser Archive in Vienna, I am joined by Andrea Fürst to talk about the artist and visionary Friedensreich Hundertwasser. "Only he who acts in harmony with plants and trees, who acts in accordance with the laws of nature and the cosmic cycle cannot go wrong." This sentence encaps...