The Decade Podcast

In the 21st episode of The Decade Podcast we had the pleasure of speaking to Joe Brewer. Joe has a unique background in physics, math, philosophy, atmospheric science, complexity research, and cognitive linguistics. More than a decade ago, he left the academics to trail blaze a path for other research practitioners to follow. Awakened to the threat of human-induced climate disruption while pursuin...

In the 20th episode of The Decade Podcast we had the pleasure of speaking with Eva Karlsson, CEO at Houdini Sportswear. Houdini is a progressive outdoor company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Eva has been working at Houdini for about 20 years, she’s been awarded The Sustainable Leadership prize by the network for sustainable business in 2018 and one can often see Eva speaking passionately about susta...

In this week's episode, the hosts behind this podcast, Melker & Jonathan talk about the intentions of this podcast and how this question of "how on earth can we live together?" became so alive for them. Moreover, they summarised some of the greatest lessons learned from all the inspiring guests that have been on this podcast during this spring. 

“We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or hate, to see or be seen. Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and hear silence, to name them, and then become a story-teller.” –  Rebecca Solnit  I...

Carl Lindeborg is a passionate advocate for sustainability, he's the founder of Leader Evolve, a catalyst for Future Proof Leadership where he helps leaders and organisations evolve into the future. He has published two books on personal leadership and he's also the co-founder of Lindeborgs Eco Retreat, the world's first carbon negative conference, retreat and training center. We really enjoyed ha...

Stephen is a change-maker and a committed believer in a better world. He's currently spending most of his time on Make Postive Impact , Positive is hosting a global community of Positive Impact Companies empowering a Regenerative Economy. Giving small to medium enterprises the tools and resources to make real change. Our conversation with Stephen mainly circled around "Why Sustainability is not en...

Todays guest, Pella Thiel describes herself as a systemic activist and cultural change agent. She organise, write and educate on issues related to adjustment for a society in harmony with nature. Pella is an educated ecologist and has been involved in starting Swedish parts of international networks such as the Network for Nature's Rights, End Ecocide Sweden (works for large-scale environmental da...

In this episode, we dive into personal development with behavioral scientist Jan Artem Henriksson. Jan works very closely with Robert Keegan that is well known for his theories about adult development. We discuss the importance of connecting with your inner values, the need of going beyond a socialized mind, what role self-discovery/development plays in our overall development as a species, and wh...

The modern world is a complex system of natural processes, human ambition and socio-cultural evolution, where adaptation and learning as a balanced dynamic is the key for survival, both for species in nature, (of which the human is one) as well as for organizations and their management teams. Generating a wide range of perspectives and in-depth experiences to explore the unpredictable future toget...

Jens Berggren is currently working as a Sustainability Expert at LRF, known as the farmers association in Sweden. The topic of conversation is the future of farming and we talked about Sustainable agriculture, incentives for farmers, what is needed for conventional farming to become more sustainable, and much much more. Jens speaks very passionately about Sustainability and his important work at L...

Owen Gaffney is known as a global sustainability strategist, he's a writer, producer and analyst focusing on the future of people and the planet. Owen is involved in several remarkable organisations, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Global Commons Alliance to mention a few. In our conversation with Owen we talked about the state of the planet,...

Laura works as a chemist with material innovation at Patagonia. We talk about Patagonia's inspiring corporate vision "We're in business to save our home planet" and how it is to work at a company like Patagonia that many view as synonymous with sustainability. Moreover we discuss the process of designing and producing a sustainable garment, the tradeoffs and complexities that comes with that proce...

Thomas Sterner is a professor in environmental economics. His research and publications are mostly focused on the design of policy instruments which address environmental problems. In this episode we discuss how the economy impacts the environment, we talk about capitalism, incentives and what drives humans and much much more. We were both very impressed how clear Thomas explained these complexiti...

The last episode of The Decade Podcast in 2020. You will get to know the two voices behind this podcast a bit better. We talk about our gained experience and knowledge from our podcast journey so far. Moreover, we point out some of the most interesting aspects that we’ve learned from our guests that have been on so far and we present some of the upcoming guests in 2021.

Rebecca Oliver has a great experience on a multinational level, she describes herself as a sustainability strategist. Her passion lies with using knowledge from all the places it can be found and to use that knowledge to make a better future for the people and the planet. In this episode, sustainable finance is the topic of conversation and we talk about how corporations can make sound business de...

Annika Shelly is a true world citizen and has a very diversified background. In our episode with her, she opened up about her full journey of life. She’s currently working as the head of communications for Save the Children. In our conversation, Annika shared heartfelt stories about her own experiences with depression, she talked about her experiences with inner work and Reiki healing. Moreover, w...

Mark has 20 years of experience as a psychologist, he’s now an assistant professor, teaching sustainability at Jönköping University. In our conversation with him we’re talking about connections between psychology and sustainability, Media’s important role in our evolution and how they lack responsibility to tell the real truth. We talk about the devastating effects of measuring economic progress t...

What is the connection between personal development and sustainability? Nils Von Heijne is such a big inspiration,  he shares his story about how he shifted from being a successful tech-entrepreneur and angel investor to work as a holistic coach and change maker with the purpose of working towards creating a more sustainable world. In this mind expanding episode with Nils we talk about consci...

How can better opportunities be created in post-war zones? In this episode Melker had the great pleasure of talking with Henrik Flodhammar who has a great passion for the forest, he is eager to give back to mother earth, and is currently working with different projects in Panama. His projects involve eco-tourism, carbon sequestration, helping people in post-war zones and he's involved with saving...

Does it necessarily need to be a conflict between profit and sustainability? In our second episode, we had the pleasure of talking with Niclas Appelquist, which is the innovation director at The Future of Packaging program within The Absolut Company. In our conversation with Niclas, we talked about how sustainability is an integrated pillar within their organization, how corporations should work w...

Are plastics really that bad? In this very first episode of The Decade Podcast we had the honour of talking with Amit Paul. Amit have an inspiring background as a pop star and are currently the managing director of a polymer chemistry company. We talk about his experience from the plastic industry, complexity thinking, the benefits of asking good questions and much more.  Amit's family compan...

Welcome to the intro episode of our podcast, The Decade. In this intro we present our purpose of creating this podcast, the idea behind our name The Decade & much more.