THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST

This episode was from a live panel I hosted recently here in my home city of Bath, UK. A conversation with a brilliant crew embedded with the lands and rivers who are working to steward, guardian, protect, connect and regenerate life between human communities and more than human ecologies. This was part of a community engagement day for West Country Bio-Regional project We Are Avon. We Are Avon is...

In deeply mysterious times I can think of no finer human to help us consider other ways of seeing, thinking and responding to the crises than Bayo Akomolafe who we welcome back for Episode 97. Bayo is a philosopher, writer, post-activist, professor of psychology and executive director of the Emergence Network. Bayo was guest in Episode 66 and this conversation was recorded live in a Becoming Crew...

Is it possible to create thriving, liveable futures without doing the work to acknowledge and process the destructive systems, stories and behaviours that are causing so much devastation to life on Earth today ? - To understand how these logics run deeply through us and our dominant ways of thinking, seeing and relating. - To create space to collectively compost these ways to ensure we do not cont...

Time for some tunes. Time for moving. As Autumn unfolds I offer you another Earth Sessions mix Falling A gathering of tracks that have been looping heavily of late for me. A deep, cosmic, organic house vibe. I hope they move you in some way as things fall. If you enjoy this, check out the artists, producers and labels in this selection, they are all exceptional creators with stunning offerings to...

What does one do when everything in our world feels so unhinged ? As the planet becomes swamped this week with flooding and hurricanes, climate protest as we know it, in the UK at least, carries an increasingly high chance of arrest and conviction. Politics even with a new administration feels as stuck, exhausted, divisive and non-participatory as ever. As the polycrisis intensifies, the systems o...

Episode 93: Ode to the Futures Recorded in the summer, this 6 minute immersive story is both a framing of the context we find ourselves in And… A sonic orientation towards the future - of this podcast, and the offerings and invitations of Becoming Crew. It’s an expression of the spirit of the ongoing inquiry of this work, the intentionality, manifested through the podcast and the action learning c...

Episode 92 is a conversation with three very smart, courageous and thoughtful humans from new regenerative venture with a massive ambition - Nature 2 Gail Gallie , Jay Lipman and Patricia Zurita are co-founders who between them represent highly experienced operators and practitioners across worlds of campaigning and mobilisation, ethics driven finance and global conservation. Nature 2 is a collabo...

My guest on this episode David Johnstone is in my view a beautiful example of a human taking responsibility and using their gifts, experience and influence to cultivate the courage and creativity to face into the uncomfortable questions we are being confronted with * To speak up to the messy contradictions of this moment * To raise awareness of the massive changes coming down the line * To  experi...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Jasmine Isa Qureshi - a multimedia journalist, marine biologist, queer ecologist, award winning spoken word / published poet and storyteller. She writes and studies across ecology, conservation, trans / queer / muslim identity, politics and sociology. Her work seeks to understand the systems by which we and nature have grown intertwined and apart, explore t...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Lily Cole. Lily is a model, activist, social entrepreneur, writer, actor and mother who has campaigned and acted persistently on multiple social, environmental and climate justice issues throughout her working life. She is committed to exploring new possibilities and ways of being which put care and life at the centre. I connected with Lily last year when w...

Recorded in 2021 I’m posting this Episode with Dr Wallace J Nichols today to honour his sudden passing this week. The most humble human who gave so much to widening our collective understanding of the human entanglement and interdependence with the waters of this Earth. His book Blue Mind is a must read and rightly influenced so many to see beyond water just as a resource to be protected but a sac...

In this Episode I’m in conversation with the brilliant Immy Kaur and Kavita Purohit from Civic Square in Birmingham UK. Civic Square’s mission is demonstrating neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social, ecological, economic, and climate transition. I’m a huge fan of their work, they are pioneers in the UK when it comes to demonstrating what communities can achieve when it comes to respon...

Earth Sessions are DJ mixes that I put out from time to time. This unravelling world makes me despair today. So I went down to the Spaceship shed and recorded this mix. Ruff and ready. When there are no words, there is music. House Music And Love. Respect to the artists and producers who have created these tracks that are alive for me right now. Full listing on site. Get full access to Becoming Cr...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Sarah Corbett, award winning campaigner, activist and founder of the Craftivist Collective. Craftivism, where craft meets activism, offers a unique, intimate, transformative approach to addressing the gnarly issues of our time, emphasising the importance of gentle, emotionally intelligent, creative and persuasive protest in fostering meaningful dialogue, co...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Adah Parris - keynote speaker, futurist,  visionary artist, and activist who inspires transformative change through her practice. Adah is working with many inquires - including ‘Cyborg Shamanism’ and the provocation ‘What kind of ancestor do you want to be ?’ And we dig into this and much more in this conversation. This is also a conversation which explores...

Every so often I record a conversation that feels absolutely vital for the stuckness of these times. Full of insight, provocation, intelligence, trouble and beautiful fertiliser for what could be. This is one of those episodes. A conversation with Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy - both long term activists, political strategists and in their words ‘accidental philanthropy advisors’. Alnoor and Lynn ar...

Originally released in June 2022, I’m rebroadcasting for Earth Day Episode 60 with Dr Stephan Harding - Holistic Scientist, Deep Ecologist, Author and Co-founder of Schumacher College who was mentored by the scientist James Lovelock - responsible for the Gaia Theory Hypothesis. Earth Day began in 1970 the year before I was born, and here we are 54 years later experiencing the accelerated unravelli...

Something a bit different this week from the deeper more than human dive we’ve been on in the last few episodes. I’m in conversation with Matthew Barr of Adventure Sport Podcast Looking Sideways Matt has released nearly 250 episodes on his podcast with some of the biggest, humblest and most interesting names in Surfing, Snowboarding, Skateboarding and related pursuits. Many of the conversations Ma...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Natasha Lythgoe, Vision Quest guide, retreat leader and mentor, who’s work and approach has been profoundly shaped by her life as an artist and through her buddhist practice. Natasha works with mind, body, psyche/soul and mystery, sharing the skills that have been shared with her over the last twenty five years of practice. I’ve been following Natasha’s wor...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Vision Quest guide David Wendl-Berry. David trained as a wilderness guide in the 1980’s at the School of Lost Borders in California, under the guidance of Steven Foster and Meredith Little – pioneers who first brought the Vision Quest into Western culture. David brought this Vision Quest approach back to the UK and has been guiding people through this power...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Sam Lee. Sam is a Mercury Music Award nominated folk singer, storyteller, song collector, climate and nature activist, conservationist, community builder and all round purveyor of life-centric vibes. Oh and he sings with Nightingales too. Sam is an inspiring and humble human, weaving so many beautiful threads through his work in service to life on this plan...

Welcome to this first full episode kicking off 2024. After a ramble from me reflecting on our break and the podcast intentions for this year - I’m in conversation with Dr Rosalind Watts someone who I think personifies the story of becoming crew on Spaceship Earth in 2024. Ros is a clinical psychologist by trade, a mother and lover of our living world. Her work as the clinical lead for Imperial Col...

In this very short episode, I set out some news on the future of The Spaceship Earth Podcast which I’ve been hosting since 2018. The podcast and the writing here has always been offered in the spirit of the gift, self-funded. However in 2024 we need to find ways to support the time and costs involved in recording and releasing these offerings, as we up our schedule to two episodes a month and publ...

It’s been a year since the last Earth Sessions mix. I finally got it together to record this. Mixed live in my garden studio while humanity continues to implode. Violence, suffering and despair spilling over on this Earth. These last few weeks have been overwhelming. But I remember today the power of music and dancing as one way to move the body and mind through dark times Heart vibes, to connect...

This episode has been created to honour ‘The Remix’ - our recent 3 month experiential (un)learning adventure for story rebels hosted by becoming crew. The Remix set out to explore the power of cultural stories in these times, and not in a shiny, universal, human-centered way. It was an invitation into a deep, creative, relational inquiry  - exploring the cultural stories we live by while at the sa...