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The RegenNarration

The RegenNarration

著者： Anthony James
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Stories of the regeneration of the living world, not often on the news, often almost beyond belief. With award-winning host Anthony James. It’s ad-free, freely available and entirely listener-supported. You'll hear from high profile and grass-roots leaders from around Australia and the world, on how they're changing the stories we live by, and the systems we create in their mold. Along with often very personal tales of how they themselves are changing, in the places they call home, and with some of the music they love.

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  • The River: A New Award-Winning Film, with Mara Tasker

    The River: A New Award-Winning Film, with Mara Tasker
    2026/07/21
    The Colorado River is vanishing in plain sight, and the most dangerous part might be how easy it is to feel detached from it. I’m joined by filmmaker Mara Tasker, whose new award-winning documentary The River follows the people living inside the Colorado River Basin, from farmers and ranchers to suburban families, tribal communities, and the seven state negotiators trying to rewrite the rules of a river that no longer matches the paperwork. What starts as a personal admission of “I didn’t really know the river I depended on” becomes a map for charting how we might be able to breathe life back into the Colorado, and for that matter, rivers everywhere. Mara’s story, too, is worth the telling – with no straight lines, from rabble rousing school girl, to gutsy cold calling young creative, with a passion for engaging with all kinds of people, and a river running through it all. Plenty of uncanny laughs run through this conversation too.I was introduced to Mara by Melissa Grumhaus, who was an Executive Producer on the incredible documentary film Bring Them Home, about the Blackfeet Nation's effort to restore wild buffalo herds. You might remember her from episode 278 in Denver last year. And this time, she’s part of the production team alongside Aussie company Songbird Studios. I noted recent popular podcast guest, Pete McBride, was also in the credits. So it was clear how good and meaningful this film was going to be. We talk about why the conflict around the river turns so quickly into finger-pointing and why that’s a sign to zoom out and look at systems: growth incentives, water rights that ignore hydrology, and a culture that treats water like an infinite utility. Mara explains her creative choice to put opposing users side by side on camera and to give the river itself a felt presence, not as a backdrop but as a living system with needs. Along the way we unpack the tension between agriculture and cities, the reality of Indigenous water rights, and the blunt truth behind reservoir “bathtub rings”: you can’t claim rights to something that is disappearing.Then we shift from awareness to action. Mara shares how community screenings and short post-film panels can turn a hard topic into a real conversation, plus why quietly reading the news and despairing helps nobody. If you care about the Colorado River and every other river crisis, along with drought and climate change, and practical water conservation choices that actually move the needle, this is your invitation to get involved. Subscribe, head to the film’s website, and share this podcast with a review so more people find the conversation.Featuring music from the film’s soundtrack: The Story of a River, and Eric’s Grasses, by Mark Crawford.Chapter markers & transcript.Recorded 26 June 2026.Host a community screening of The River.And a community screening of Bring Them Home.You can hear the podcasts with Liz Carlisle for ep309 (with her beautiful music), Pete McBride for ep305 (with his live mandolin), Jeff Goebel for, most recently on-location in New Mexico, ep211, and Judith Schwartz for ep175, all among my very favourites. Send us a voicemailApply now to join us for Confluence 2027, a week-long canoe journey on the spectacular Murray River, Australia. Just a few places left!Pre-roll music: Heartland Rebel, by Steven Beddall (sourced from Artlist).Support the showThe RegenNarration is independent, ad-free and freely available, thanks to the generous support of listeners like you. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber, gain access to a great community and some exclusive benefits, and help keep the show going - on Patreon or Substack (where you'll find writing too).You can also donate directly via the website (avoiding fees) or PayPal.I hope to see you at an event soon, even the shop. Thanks for your support!
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  • Whatever It Is, Floor It: Linley Dixon on Real Organic, Regen Threats & Becoming Irresistible

    Whatever It Is, Floor It: Linley Dixon on Real Organic, Regen Threats & Becoming Irresistible
    2026/07/14
    Linley Dixon is co-host of The Real Organic Podcast, the weekly Anthem Award-winning ‘Best Sustainability, Environment and Climate Podcast’, recently also named one of the ‘best climate podcasts’ by Earth.org. That pod is produced by The Real Organic Project, that Linley co-directs with Vermont organic farmer Dave Chapman, a farmer-led movement, and add-on food label, dedicated to preserving the integrity of organic food. Right now, Linley sees the same patterns that have beset organics, coming for the regenerative movement. And in response to a challenge from Paul Hawken, and inspiration from so many pioneers, including some Aussies, Linley argues it’s time to join forces. Linley is a power of knowledge and experience in all this, with an incredible story to tell. Having started with nothing, her family did the hard yards and made a go of farming, but in the face of industrialised headwinds almost had to give it up, before a legacy moment occurred. But then, a horror contamination event. It was gutting. And it transformed Linley’s life. Along with so many others now, in turn.Perhaps inevitably, as a fellow podcaster, Linley interviews me at times here too! So it’s a kind of 2-in-1. We compare all sorts of notes, including of our respective journeys across the States and Australia, speaking to people of all kinds, politics and other beliefs. Again, you guessed it, painting a picture you don’t commonly see on the TV, and mapping out the successful stuff we can build on. And again, it all culminates in an incredible exchange stemming from the music question! Before we go out with a subscriber voicemail.This conversation was recorded just before the article I published on Substack last week on Trump’s Executive Order apparently advancing regenerative farming, said to be in part some MAHA triage. But we explore all its contexts here, including MAHA, its promise, and signs of divergence from Trump. We also look for what actually works: alliances across labels, cooperative models, food-as-medicine programs, directories and online marketplaces that connect eaters directly to trustworthy farms, and the cultural fuel it takes to keep pushing when the system is designed for consolidation. So ultimately, this episode feels perfectly timed this week. It really felt like we’d settled in on the porch at the farm too. I hope you enjoy the Summer evening hang with us.Chapter markers & transcript.Recorded 2 July 2026.If you care about regenerative farming, organic integrity, soil biodiversity, pesticide contamination, and building a food system that earns trust, this one is for you. Subscribe, share it with a friend who buys groceries, and leave a review with the most important standard you think “regenerative” should require.You can hear our visit to Churchtown Dairy, with Judith Schwartz and company, in episode 221: Restoring Dairy Farming with Family, Food & Festival. And the first listener mailbag went out from there too, in ep 219.And the Grounded Festival podcast that features the session on Food as Medicine, with Steven Chen MD, and me hosting, is here.Music: Organic Reflections, by Roie Shpigler (sourced from Artlist).Regeneration, by Amelia Barden.Send us a voicemailApply now to join us for Confluence 2027, a week-long canoe journey on the spectacular Murray River, Australia.Music: Heartland Rebel, by Steven Beddall (sourced from Artlist).Support the showThe RegenNarration is independent, ad-free and freely available, thanks to the generous support of listeners like you. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber, gain access to a great community and some exclusive benefits, and help keep the show going - on Patreon or Substack (where you'll find writing too).You can also donate directly via the website (avoiding fees) or PayPal.I hope to see you at an event soon, even the shop. Thanks for your support!
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    1 時間 32 分
  • If Rewilding Is Colonised, How to Remake Wilderness? With Cal Flyn

    If Rewilding Is Colonised, How to Remake Wilderness? With Cal Flyn
    2026/07/07

    ‘A brilliant exploration of wildness in both nature and humankind.’ That's what Alice Winn said about the new book by Cal Flyn. Cal is an award-winning writer from the Highlands of Scotland, and the book is called The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness.

    A five-year odyssey she sometimes thought would kill her, Cal travelled the world exploring the concept of wilderness as it ‘shifted from a spiritual notion to an aesthetic and later to an (increasingly controversial) conservation ideal.’ Which led to a critical question, as we go about things like rewilding and the 30 by 30 conservation target, how do we decolonise that ideal, while not losing all it has gained?

    Then, having been introduced to the new book, I got even more excited looking over Cal’s back catalogue. Her previous book was the award-winning best-seller, Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape. What a collection of stories that was too. And out of both books, Cal says ‘coming out hopeful was a surprise to me.’

    But we start with her first book, being on her harrowing connection with Australia. Thicker Than Water emerged as she traced the path of a distant relative who became fêted as a pioneer hero in Australia, but has more recently been implicated as ringleader of a number of brutal massacres of the Gunai Aboriginal people.

    We talk about all this, the telling connections across some of her most extraordinary encounters, and what Cal’s found in herself, the rest of us, and the rest of nature, that continues to surprise and inspire.

    Chapter markers & transcript.

    Recorded 4 June 2026.

    Title image of Cal sourced from The Guardian.

    Music:

    Scotland Mountains, by Angel Salazar (from Artlist).

    Regeneration, by Amelia Barden.

    Subscribe for more conversations on rethinking conservation, decolonising wilderness, and building a future where nature and culture can both thrive, and share the episode and leave a review so more people can find it.

    Send us a voicemail

    Apply now to join us for Confluence 2027, a week-long canoe journey on the spectacular Murray River, Australia.

    Music: Heartland Rebel, by Steven Beddall (sourced from Artlist).

    Support the show

    The RegenNarration is independent, ad-free and freely available, thanks to the generous support of listeners like you. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber, gain access to a great community and some exclusive benefits, and help keep the show going - on Patreon or Substack (where you'll find writing too).

    You can also donate directly via the website (avoiding fees) or PayPal.

    I hope to see you at an event soon, even the shop. Thanks for your support!
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    1 時間 8 分
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