In this episode, we discuss the importance of ecological design and living systems awareness with renowned environmental educator, Professor David Orr, and acclaimed ecological designer, Professor Seaton Baxter OBE.

David Orr is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA. He is a founding editor of The Solutions Journal and founder of The Oberlin Project, an all-encompassing joint venture by the town and college to create a thriving, sustainable, and environmentally friendly community in Oberlin. Orr is author of eight books, including Ecological Literacy, Earth in Mind, and Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse.

Seaton Baxter OBE is an Emeritus Professor at both the University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K. and the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Seaton lead the new MA in Ecological Design Thinking for 3 years at Schumacher College, Devon, U.K. before retiring from academia in 2016. Seaton has been on the Board of Scottish Natural Heritage and has worked with several environmental NGO’s in the voluntary sector. He was awarded an OBE for his services to Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish environment in 1998.

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Dr Daniel Christian Wahl works internationally as a consultant and educator in regenerative design, whole systems design and transformative innovation. His vast catalogue of forward-thinking work (notably his book Designing Regenerative Cultures) has inspired and enabled people from all walks of life to apply regenerative design to their own contexts.

Philipa Duthie is a transdisciplinary researcher at Nulungu Research Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Her work explores how ecological, literary, philosophical and scientific understandings of the natural world can contribute to a relational ecology of belonging. Along with co-hosting, Philipa is also the producer of Coming Home to Life.

In this episode, we discuss courageous optimism, climate grief and collective action with political strategist, author and podcaster, Tom Rivett-Carnac.

Tom Rivett-Carnac has spent more than 20 years working to address the climate and ecological crises. He previously served as Climate Strategist at X, the Moonshot Factory (formerly Google X), as Special Adviser to the Board of the Global Covenant of Mayors, and as a co-founder of Mission 2020. From 2013 to 2016 he was Senior Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Convention, a position from which he contributed to major parts of the strategy leading to the landmark Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2015. Together with Christiana Figueres, he is the co-presenter of the climate podcast, Outrage + Optimism, and co-author of The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis.

In this episode, we discuss language, perception and sensuous engagement with the more-than-human world with cultural ecologist, Dr David Abram.

David Abram is a cultural ecologist, geophilosopher, and the founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE). His books include Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World. David is the recipient of various fellowships and awards, including the international Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, David recently held the international Arne Naess Chair in Global Justice and Ecology at the University of Oslo in Norway.

In this episode, Daniel and Philipa welcome Dr Tyson Yunkaporta back for an extended yarn on relatedness and making embassy through community.

Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar, educator, maker, researcher, and poet. He is the founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and the author of two books, the bestselling “Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World” and the recently published “Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking”. Tyson’s work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises.

In this episode, Philipa and Daniel talk about post-activism, border transgressions and making sanctuary with Dr Bayo Akomolafe and Dr Tyson Yunkaporta.

Bayo Akomolafe is a widely celebrated international speaker, post-humanist thinker, philosopher, writer, activist and professor of psychology. He is the author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. Bayo is the Founder of The Emergence Network and and a Global Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley. He is also the Inaugural Scholar in Residence at the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar, educator, maker, researcher, and poet. He is the founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and the author of two books, the bestselling “Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World” and the recently published “Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking”. Tyson’s work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises.

In this episode, Daniel and Philipa discuss the practices that can help us reconnect with the living world with renowned author and activist, John Seed, and deep ecology practitioner, Skye Cielita Flor.

John Seed is the founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia. Since 1979 he has been involved in the direct actions which have resulted in the protection of the Australian rainforests. He has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has been conducting Councils of All Beings and other re-Earth ing workshops around the world for 25 years. With Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Professor Arne Naess, he wrote "Thinking Like a Mountain - Towards a Council of All Beings"(New Society Publishers) which has now been translated into 12 languages. He is an accomplished bard, songwriter and film-maker and has produced 5 albums of environmental songs and numerous films.

Skye Cielita Flor is South African born, now living on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne Australia. She is an Animist, Deep Ecologist, Grief Ritualist and Folk Medicine practitioner who is passionate about facilitating people through journeys that assist in the reclamation of Living Earth Perception, Ecological Awakening, Mythic Imagination and Ritual Rhythms.

In this episode, Philipa and Daniel discuss the kindness at the heart of reality with author and biophilosopher, Dr Andreas Weber.

Dr Andreas Weber is Dr. Andreas Weber is a biologist, philosopher, nature writer, and mystic. He focuses on a re-evaluation of our understanding of the living. He proposes to view – and treat – all organisms as subjects and hence the biosphere as a meaning-creating and poetic reality. Andreas is Visiting Professor at the UNISG, Pollenzo, Italy and a honorary teacher at the University of the Arts, Berlin. He has published more than fifteen books, including Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene, The Biology of Wonder, and Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology.

Andreas shares his work in two on demand courses with Advaya: The Ecology of Love and Heart Wisdom, both of which are available on the Advaya platform. Upcoming seminars and retreats are also listed on his website: https://biologyofwonder.org/seminarsretreats

In this episode, Daniel and Philipa are joined by award-winning permaculture teacher and designer, Morag Gamble, and best-selling author and integrator, Jeremy Lent. Together, they discuss the urgent need to realign our patterns of meaning with the life-sustaining patterns of our planet to create thriving, regenerative cultures.

Morag Gamble is an award-winning permaculture teacher and designer, who has been at the forefront of the permaculture revolution for over 30 years. She is the founder of the Permaculture Education Institute and the Executive Director of Ethos Foundation, a permaculture education charity for refugees. She hosts the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast, exploring what a thriving one-planet way of life looks like with leading ecological thinkers, activists, authors, designers and practitioners.

Jeremy Lent, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning, explores the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day. His new book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, offers a coherent and intellectually solid foundation for a worldview based on connectedness that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future.