THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST

Episode 75 is a reflective ramble in the woods from me your podcast host Dan Burgess. There are no guests (apart from wind, trees, a buzzard and a pigeon) The episode marks an end to this season of recordings and also to the format of conversations this year. And brings a pause in episodes until early Autumn. For me this episode was a chance to honour some shifts, reflect deeply, and to try and sp...

This episode contains two short audio essays from Christina Williams, a writer exploring the pathways that can connect us more deeply with the more-than-human world. She is passionate about complexity, systems change, and how narrative shifts can drive movements for change. Christina took part in The Remix 2023, our Stories for Life themed learning journey from Becoming Crew. She is based in Amste...

This episode is a basecamp crew conversation between Dan and fellow Becoming Crew guides Evva Semenowicz and Mark Sears. It speaks to this moment in time, where planetary boundaries are being crossed, Earth system tipping points are approaching, climate and ecological breakdown is being experienced all over western societies and yet the culture of denial, divisiveness and inaction is still dominan...

How might we make a habit of moving into uncomfortable spaces to begin cultivating new ways of being? What stories would the living world share if they had a seat at the table? What does a business in service to planet Earth look like? How might business unite behind forms of activism that can benefit the whole of society ? Matt Hocking is an extraordinary force of nature, a generous and humble be...

This offering comes from Becoming Crew Guide Mark Sears. It is an ancient myth from the Inuit tradition. It emerged from the back of the cave following our first session of our learning adventure The Remix and a provocation from Bayo Akomolafe. He invited us to consider the possibility of shapeshifting and the idea that it is only through strange encounters beyond our comprehension that new storie...

What if the health of the wild waters of the Earth are a reflection of human health? What if restoring our relationship with the wild waters on this earth was a way to restore and heal our own health ? How might moving into a more intentional relationship with water within us and around us help us through these times of fear, grief and complexity? How might cultivating practices and rituals with w...

Welcome to this first Stories for Life minisode from The SpaceShip Earth Podcast. The intention with these mini episodes is to serve up short form sonic offerings - poems, stories, readings, meditations and musical gifts. These offerings will either be riffing on 'love stories', helping us relate to ourselves, to each other and to this more than human world that we inhabit in more entangled, myste...

Love Ssega is a musician, songwriter and performing artist . He is weaving a beautifully diverse path collaborating across different art forms, whilst also speaking up for complex environmental, social and educational issues. The original frontman-songwriter of Grammy-winning Clean Bandit, he is currently Artist In Residence for Royal Festival Hall’s Philharmonia Orchestra. London-born, his music...

Why do rivers need guardians ? What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ? Can nature have legal rights? Paul Powlesland is a civil barrister, environmental activist and guardian of the River Roding in East London. Paul is shaking up what it means to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis. In this bonus episode following on from the previous long f...

Why do rivers need guardians ? What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ? Can nature have legal rights? Paul Powlesland is a civil barrister, environmental activist and guardian of the River Roding in East London. Over the last few years single handedly bringing life back to  this river and growing a community of crew re-connecting and regenerating the river and...

Why do rivers need guardians ? What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ? Can nature have legal rights? An Ocean Mic episode in collaboration with Finisterre dropping very soon, exciting on many fronts. #thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew #oceanmic Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

Bayo is an author, writer, celebrated speaker, teacher, and self-styled trans-public intellectual - whose vocation goes beyond justice and speaking truth to power to opening up other spaces of power-with, and queering fond formulations and configurations of hope. Bayo invites us to see the crises of our times with a post activist, post humanist lens, revealing cracks and bringing much-needed troub...

This beautiful prayer was born during the conversation between V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Bayo Akomolafe - The Promise and Limits of Restitution: Returning to 'Congo' from the Democracy & Belonging Forum. In the spirit of experimentation Bayo invited V to co-create a prayer for this moment, for what this moment calls us to attend to. A prayer for becoming other, for becoming more than human. We w...

Episode 64 with Dougald Hine. Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project. Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast. Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son. And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation. In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations t...

Teaser of Episode 64 is here In this episode Dan is in conversation with Dougald Hine. Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project. Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast. Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son. And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation. In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for diff...

In this first full length episode to kick off 2023, Dan introduces in much more depth the Becoming Crew (un)learning adventures for navigating mysterious times. These have been gestating through the podcast since it began and prototyping over the last two years and are now being offered into the world. The episode then deepens and expands into reflections on experiences and learnings from 2022 and...

We have a new learning experience offering to accompany the podcast. Becoming Crew - (un)learning adventures for navigating mysterious times. It's been prototyping and gestating for some years. And we released into the wild at the end of 2022. The first offer is Community Solo, a 5 week experience for a crew of individuals which our first cohort completed in mid December. We have a second crew dep...

Former professional big wave surfer Fergal Smith walked away from professional surfing a decade ago to begin a journey of becoming a regenerative farmer on the West coast of Ireland. In this conversation recorded in June 2022 Dan revisits Moy Hill for a third time and catches up with where Fergal is at on the evolutionary journey of Moy Hill Farm . Fergal is now working with livestock as a core to...

New Earth Sessions Mix from @dan__burgess : I’m struggling with my voice at the moment. And words. So I’ve been taking a pause from recording conversations. The podcast is in a composting phase Which feels absolutely right for this time. Autumn has always been an important season for me. I feel the transition in a very embodied way. Deep in my psyche and bones. The letting go. The breaking down Of...

Hamish Evans is a Permaculturist, Market Gardener, Regenerative Farmer, Community and Climate Activist and Co Founder of MiddleGround Growers and Weston Spring Farm in Bath, Somerset in the UK. Hamish is another extraordinary human, who in his 20’s is bringing inspirational vision, energy, connection and healing to the lands of Bath and the communities here. In this long conversation which is pack...

Live DJ set recorded at the Sancho Panza festival - 'Campo Sancho' in July 2022 in the UK. 90 mins back to back with my great friend Jay Bold which kicked off Saturday night in the Snare and Hi hat tent. Brilliant crowd, mega sound system, awesome festival. Grateful for the opportunity. Massive kudos to Matt Brown and Jim Angel. Respect to all the producers in this recording. Enjoy! https://www.sa...

Following on from Episode 60 - this is a bonus episode - a 5 minute meditation to help you connect more deeply to Gaia - our living Earth - taken from Stephan Harding’s first book - Animate Earth and narrated by Dan Burgess. You’ll need to go outside, or inside Gaia herself - a garden, park, wood, river, ocean - anywhere that speaks to you where you can lie on your back, on top of Gaia herself and...

Dr Stephan Harding is a Holistic Scientist, Deep Ecologist and co-founder of the legendary Schumacher College. Stephan’s work intersects scientific ecology, with gaia theory and our psyche and soul. Author of two books, Animate Earth and new publication, Gaia Alchemy. Stephan has worked and taught alongside the world's leading ecological thinkers, feelers and activists. And has worked closely with...

This Earth Sessions mix is dedicated to Mother Earth, our one and only home planet. It’s for dancing and moving through overwhelming times. It’s for the love of all that I know and experience of this Earth. And to honour the vast unknowable intelligence beyond my human knowing. —— Imagine if we began to see the Earth and the more than human world as our family ? (As many indigenous brothers and si...

Nadeem Perera is a birder, wildlife TV presenter, activist, youth mentor and co-founder of Flock Together. Flock Together is a birdwatching collective for people of colour who have felt unwelcome and marginalised in spaces that should be for everyone. Together they are reclaiming green spaces and rebuilding relationships with nature - one walk at a time. At twenty eight years of age, Nadeem is mor...