Wanderful - Inspiration On The Go

Web: https://wanderfulpodcast.com

Twitter: @davidpearlhere

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Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... Season 5 Omnibus

Tue, 02 May 2023 22:02:51 +0100

Hello wanderers… welcome to the finale of our fifth season of ‘Wanderful’".

If you’ve listened to any of the previous episodes, you will know this is a podcast which has been designed to be walked to, providing you with some ‘inspiration on the go’

Every week we invite an inspiring guest to join us… somebody with a refreshing take on life and its various twists and turns.

What you don’t know is that lots of the wonderful conversations get left on the cutting room floor.

However… David and our producer, Andrew, have scooped up some of that interview gold so you can take a wander through the magic we missed out on.

As ever… you can listen to this podcast in your home, but we think you will get the most inspiration if you boot up and join David @davidpearl_here @streetwisdom_ out on the streets or https://wanderfulpodcast.com

Season 5 finale features conversations with pianist, singer, choir leader, environmental campaigner and curator, Holly Cullen-Davies: Bestselling author, broadcaster and two-time TED speaker and voice of the Slow Movement, Carl Honoré: Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk, Satish Kumar: Senior Partner McKinsey & Co, Arne Gast: Historian and author of several novels, journalism, politics, and philosophy; radio presenter, documentary film maker and public lecturer, Philipp Blom: The ‘Stand Up Drummer’, musician, key note speaker and team builder, Tom Morley and executive creative director, founder of ‘This Morning Walk’, co-host of the podcast This Morning Walk and author of ‘Do Walk’, Libby De Lana

TED Course: How to slow down

Time Line

00.00 - 00.44: Theme

00.45 - 02.50: Introducing Season 5 Omnibus

02.51 - 03.55: Introducing Libby De Lana

03.57 - 08.09: Libby DeLana: The Hell Yes Chapter!

08.10 - 10.00: Introducing Tom Morley

10.02 - 15.53: Tom Morley: A Brush With The Law

15.55 - 18.40: Introducing Philipp Blom

18.42 - 21.29: Philipp Blom: Grouse & Imagine: The Culture Of The Cafe

21.30 - 23.52: Introducing Arne Gast

23.55 - 29.40: Arne Gast: Riding the S-Curves

29.45 - 31.08: Introducing Satish Kumar

31.10 - 33.13: Satish Kumar: A Maternal Wisdom

33.20 - 35.07: Introducing Carl Honoré

35.10 - 37.34: Carl Honoré: The Genesis of (B)older

37.40 - 39.00: Introducing Holly Cullen-Davies

39.04 - 41.54: Holly Cullen-Davies: Thula Mama

41.57 - 44.00: Epilogue: Gratitude

44.00 - 44.26: Closing credits

Quotes

Libby DeLana

“I’m a big believer in the beginner’s mind. Starting things is terrifying and wonderful and interesting, so am I a beginner? I’m a 60 year old beginner of everything.”

Tom Morley

“The Clash sung ‘I fought the law and the law won.” I would love to re-mix that and call it ‘I fought the law and the people won.’ We have to stand up for our eroding rights.”

Philipp Blom

“The coffee you buy (in the cafe) is in fact not a cup of coffee: it’s an entrance ticket. It entitles you to sit there as long as you want… that means of course, that things can develop and you can sit there and watch people, and sit there and read your novel or sit there and write your novel. It’s such a luxury in today’s world.”

Arne Gast

“ I see that my (S) curve is flattening when i become at ease; when I feel like I got this, I like this, that’s the moment the inner voice starts saying… hmm.. let’s do another near-death experience, start anew somewhere.”

Satish Kumar

“Whatever you see… is divine, is sacred. There is no separation between humans and nature and no separation between God and nature. This is the beauty of Indian culture: everything is God, everything is divine, everything is nature. This is what I learned from my Mother.”

Carl Honoré

“In the blink of an eye, I went from goal-scorer to Grandad… age took on this terrible power… defining and limiting me. I just thought this can’t be right. Why was I feeling a door was being slammed in my face just because of the numbers on my birth certificate?”

Holly Cullen-Davies

“Singing is proven to release endorphins in the same way as exercise is and it’s proven to release more endorphins when you do it with other people and I just see these people light up.”

Links

Libby DeLana

Web: https://libbydelana.com/

Twitter: @parkhere

Instagram: @parkhere

This Morning Walk: https://www.thismorningwalk.com/

Tom Morley

Website: https://tommorley.com/

Twitter: @TomMorley

Instagram: _tommorley_

Philipp Blom

Blomcast: https://blomcast.buzzsprout.com/

Website: https://philipp-blom.eu/cms/en/

Arne Gast

Website: https://aberkyn.com/humans/arne-gast/

Satish Kumar

Website: https://www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar/

Carl Honore

Instagram: @carlhonore

Twitter: @carlhonore

YouTube:@carlhonore

Facebook: @carlhonore and @carlhonorepage

LinkedIn: @carlhonore

Pinterest: @carlhonore

TED Talk 1: Slow

TED Talk 2: Age

Holly Cullen-Davies

Web: https://www.concertsdontcosttheearth.org/

Web: http://www.hollycullendavies.com/

Instagram @daviesanddaughters

Instagram @thulamamalondon

David Pearl (Host)

Web: https://wanderfulpodcast.com

Twitter: @davidpearlhere

Instagram: davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Holly Cullen-Davies

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:14:00 +0100

“Find what you’re best at and do that”

Holly Cullen-Davies is a pianist, singer, choir leader, environmental campaigner and curator. Holly has been performing regularly since the age of six and working as a freelance musician for over fifteen years.

She studied at the CNR de Lyon, France, The Royal Northern College of Music and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama studying with Kasia Borowiak, Carole Presland, Charles Owen and Martin Roscoe. She set up Live Junction which received an Emerging Excellence Award from Help Musicians UK in 2013 and The Kids’ Concert Company which has been funded by The Arts Council for the last 4 years to take professional concerts in to primary schools.

More recently she set up Concerts Don't Cost The Earth to bring together the two things she is most passionate about: live music and protecting the planet for our next generation. Concerts Don't Cost The Earth supports both musicians and our precious world at the same time. You can find out more about how to support it or get involved here: www.concertsdontcosttheearth.org

Time Line

00.00 - 00.44 Intro

00.45 - 05.13 Introducing Holly Cullen-Davies

05.17 - 07.20 The inspiration behind 'Concerts Don’t Cost The Earth’

07.35 - 09.02 The role music can play in having difficult conversations about the climate

09.05 - 12.45 Holly’s musical journey

12.46 - 16.16 Introducing classical music to unusual spaces

17.12 - 21.46 Holly introduces and plays Chick Corea's Children Song no. 6

21.48 - 24.15 The element of surprise and the juxtaposition of unusual things

25.10 - 26.54 The etymology of ‘concert’

26.55 - 31.37 What fuels Holly’s activism?

32.22 - 34.47 Find what you’re best at and do that: being the change you want to see

34.50 - 36.01 Subsidise the trains campaign - an activist’s song

36.03 - 41.27 Holly introduces and plays Alberto Ginastera's Danza del gaucho matrero (Dance of the outlaw cowboy) from Danzas Argentinas

41.30 - 43.50 How people can organise a ‘Concert Don’t Cost The Earth’ concert

44.00 - 47.34 David introduces ‘pogging’

47.35 - 48.00 Outro

Quotes

“I’ve always loved the intimate concerts… up close… where you can hear the workings of the instrument.” (Holly)

“Concerts Don’t Cost The Earth exist to start conversations about the climate crisis through the power of music.” (Holly)

“What I really got a kick out of was introducing classical music to people that didn’t usually hear it and putting it in spaces where you didn’t usually hear it. I did a lot of gigs early on where I was the classical act in a cabaret of other acts and it kind of blew people away.” (Holly)

“I hate people looking at a programme during a concert. I think that’s a shame for them to be sidetracked. I’m hoping that I’m compelling enough as a pianist that they’re just listening.” (Holly)

I want people to feel the breath, the moment between the pieces and not know what’s coming next.” (Holly)

“Every percentage of a degree is absolutely critical and going over 1.5 or certainly going over 2.0 degrees will have catastrophic runaway effects that could lead to the end of all life on earth.” (Holly)

“When we do risk assessment in other parts of life: medicine, building bridges, flying aeroplanes… we don’t take risks. If the scientists are saying this could be a disaster, we don’t administer that drug, we don’t build that bridge, we don’t fly that aeroplane. And the risk here (climate) is huge. And the answer is we have to stop using fossil fuels… we have to phase them out completely by 2030.” (Holly)

Links

Holly Cullen Davies (Guest)

Web: https://www.concertsdontcosttheearth.org/

Web: http://www.hollycullendavies.com/

Instagram @daviesanddaughters

Instagram @thulamamalondon

David Pearl (Host)

TED Course: How to slow down

Web: https://wanderfulpodcast.com

Twitter: @davidpearlhere

Instagram: davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Carl Honoré

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:20:44 +0100

‘I think of each year of my life now, as a level… in a game.’

Carl Honoré is a bestselling author, broadcaster and two-time TED speaker. He is also the voice of the Slow Movement.

After working with street children in Brazil, Carl covered Europe and South America for the Economist, Observer, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, National Post (Canada), Time and other publications.

His first book, In Praise of Slow, chronicles the global trend toward putting on the brakes in everything from work to food to parenting. The Financial Times said it is “to the Slow Movement what Das Kapital is to communism”.

Carl’s second book, Under Pressure explores how to raise and educate children in a fast world and was hailed by Time as a “gospel of the Slow Parenting movement”.

Carl’s third book, The Slow Fix, explores how to tackle complex problems in every walk of life, from health and relationships to business and politics, without falling for superficial, short-term quick fixes.

His fourth book, Bolder: How To Age Better And Feel Better About Ageing, is a spirited manifesto against ageism.

Carl recently published his first children’s book, It’s The Journey Not the Destination

Published in 35 languages, Carl has landed on bestseller lists in many countries.

In Praise of Slow was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and the inaugural choice for the Huffington Post Book Club. It also featured in a British TV sitcom, Argentina’s version of Big Brother and a TV commercial for the Motorola tablet.

Under Pressure was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Award, the top prize for non-fiction in Canada.

Bolder was also a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week as well as a Reader’s Digest (UK) Book of the Month.

Carl featured in a series for BBC Radio 4 called The Slow Coach in which he helped frazzled, over-scheduled people slow down. He also presented a television show called Frantic Family Rescue on Australia’s ABC 1.

Carl lives in London. While researching his first book on slowness he was slapped with a speeding ticket.

The Podcast was recorded live at The Kings Place London on the 27th February, 2023.

Timeline

00.00 - 00.44 Theme & Intro

00.45 - 03.28 Introducing Carl Honore

03.30 - 07.55 How Carl came to write a book on ageing: The London Jets

07.56 - 10.09 Myth-busting Ageing: The Story of Jacko

10.10 - 13.14 The Effects of Ageism

13.15 - 14.00 The ‘Still' Syndrome

14.00 - 15.44 Inter-Generational Activities

15.45 - 18.00 The ‘Village’ School

18.00 - 23.52 David Pearl - ‘Tanzlied des Pierrots’ by Erich Korngold’s from Die tote Stadt (The Dead City)

23.54 - 32.34 Ageing and Singing: How the voice evolves with age

32.36 - 35.25 How does Carl now feel about age?

35.26 - 37.40 Drawing the line of your life: where do you put the ‘x’?

37.41 - 38.36 David Pearl - ‘Ideale’ by Paolo Tosti (excerpt)

38.38 - 40.15 Epilogue

40.16 - 40.37 End Titles

Quotes

“All of my books start with an existential crisis.” (Carl)

“The thing about ageism is that it falls more heavily on us who are in the later years of life, because it has got tangled up in the cult of youth, the idea that younger is better. Ageing is seen, especially in our western cultures, it is seen as something to be ashamed of, to feel guilty of, to be disgusted by… to deny.” (Carl)

“One of my bugbears is the phrase… showing my age. We should be showing off our age” (Carl)

‘When you don’t know people of different ages, into that space rush all the grim toxic stereotypes about ageing. What they do find is that as soon as you start breaking down the silos and mixing people up that the stereotypes start to fall away.” (Carl)

“Before writing ‘Bolder’ I was a full card carrying member of the cult of youth. I never would have given my age. I would have low-balled it. I just felt awful about the whole idea of growing older and would have pushed it away. Now I feel genuinely at ease with it.” (Carl)

“My metaphor for ageing is a gaming analogy. I think of each year as a level in a game. Right now I’m at level 55. I’m enjoying level 55 to the hilt. I’m gathering as much treasure as I can have. I’m enjoying all the adventures.” (Carl)

“Every age has its pros and cons. Every age can be glorious and wonderful but only if we embrace it.” (Carl)

Links

Carl Honore (Guest)

Instagram: @carlhonore

Twitter: @carlhonore

YouTube:@carlhonore

Facebook: @carlhonore and @carlhonorepage

LinkedIn: @carlhonore

Pinterest: @carlhonore

TED Talk 1: Slow

TED Talk 2: Age

David Pearl (Host)

https://www.resurgence.org/membership/satish-offer.html

Twitter: @davidpearlhere

Instagram: davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Anthony Ingle (Piano)

Website: https://impropera.co.uk

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-ingle-3339a915/

Fiona Finsbury (Opera Singer & Actor)

Instagram: @fionafinsbury

Genevieve Tawiah (Performance & Vocal Physiotherapist / Dancer)

Instagram: @tawiahphysio

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Satish Kumar

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:40:44 +0000

Satish Kumar

‘Goodbye, Rene Descartes!’

Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. Aged 9, Satish renounced the world and became a wandering Jain monk. Then in his 20s, he undertook a pilgrimage for peace, walking for two years without money from India to America for the cause of nuclear disarmament. Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration, social justice, and spiritual fulfilment.

A world-renown author and international speaker, Satish founded The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity that seeks to inform and inspire a just future for all. He was the Editor of the charity’s change-making magazine, Resurgence & Ecologist, for over 40 years, making him the UK's longest-serving editor of the same magazine. He continues to serve this publication as Editor Emeritus and by writing for each and every trailblazing issue.

Satish would like to offer you 20% off membership of The Resurgence Trust. When you join, you will receive a range of membership benefits including the hope-inspiring, bi-monthly Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, and support Satish (and the charity he founded) in protecting the future of people and planet. Find out more about Satish’s work and this offer.

Timeline

00.00 - 00.43 - Theme

00.44 - 05.05 - Introducing Satish Kumar

05.06 - 09.20 - Explaining Soil / Soul / Society: A new trinity for our time

09.21 - 11.55 - Making soil and planting our own food in cities

11.56 - 14.18 - Humans are nature too - we are not separate

14.19 - 15.40 - Revering nature at home

15.41 - 16.56 - Meditating on the river

16.57 - 20.20 - The intelligence of nature - a living organism

20.21 - 21.24 - Moving from ‘ego’ to ‘eco’

21.25 - 24.09 - Where Satish draws his energy, motivation and hope

24.10 - 26.50 - The link between economy and ecology

26.52 - 30.50 - Pilgrimages and walking for peace

30.51 - 32.41 - The freedom from walking

32.42 - 36.30 - How to engage with strangers: trust and love: the state of mind of the pilgrim

36.30 - 38.36 - Re-writing Descartes

38.43 - 40.35 - The Wanderful Exercise: The Trust Walk

40.56 - 44.05 - Epilogue: Trust is a powerful thing to spread around

44.06 - 45.18 - End Credits

Quotations

“I wanted to have a new trinity for our time and that trinity should represent holistic thinking… everything connecting with each other. So I came up with a new trinity for our time and I called it soil, soul and society.” (Satish)

“Human beings are literally soil beings. Human comes from the Latin ‘humus’ and humus means soil. So human beings are soil beings. Our bodies are soil transformed.” (Satish)

“We are all nature, there is no separation. We have to think about living in harmony with nature and making good use of nature not mis-use of nature, because we are nature.” (Satish)

“Don’t trust a philosophy that has not been tested by walking.” (Satish)

“When you are walking you are free. You are a free spirit. Your body is free. Your mind is free. You are not bound.” (Satish)

“When you are walking for peace, you are putting your body where your mouth is.” (Satish)

“My friend and I decided to walk to the four nuclear capitols of the world. So we started from New Deli and we walked to Moscow, Paris, London and Washington DC. 8000 miles. 2.5 years.” (Satish)

“If you are walking, even if in a city, if you are walking, you are free. Walk everyday if you want to experience and taste of freedom. When you are walking you carry no burden on your shoulders, you are not worried, you are just walking. By walking you connect with the soil, you connect with your soul, your spirit, your consciousness, your imagination, your answers come when you are walking. All your questions can be answered when you’re walking.” (Satish)

“Let go of fear and cultivate trust. Trust everybody and talk to everybody. People are good. Enemies are only creations of the mind.” (Satish)

“If you have the state of mind of a pilgrim, then you trust. If hardship comes, if difficulties come, welcome it. This will make you strong. “ (Satish)

Links

Satish Kumar (Guest)

Website: https://www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar/

David Pearl (Host)

Website: https://www.davidpearl.net

Website: https://www.wanderfulpodcast.com

Intagram: @davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Instagram: @Sonicoyster

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Arne Gast

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 08:51:20 +0000

Arne Gast, Senior Partner McKinsey & Co

“We have to re-write all the rules.”

The core of Arne’s work is creating organisations for the future and making change personal and systemic in high-stake transitions.

As the global lead of McKinsey’s “Powering Performance Transformations” offering, Arne helps to create positive change – through shifts in culture, stronger leadership, new capabilities and liberating structures. McKinsey’s team of more than 1,000 change experts include their own Aberkyn facilitators, communication mavericks, implementation experts, learning architects and organization specialists – trying to combine the best ideas and evidence- based methods for the leaders they serve.

Currently, Arne is working on a book called “Schokland” – exploring the role of leadership teams in this decisive decade. Previously, he was part of the teams writing the books Leadership at Scale, Beyond Performance, Reorg and (as a student at INSEAD) Blue Ocean Strategy.

Arne’s social impact passion is education. He co-founded Leerkracht Foundation with a committed team, and over the years helped more than 1000 Dutch schools with an inspiring cultural change approach to improve outcomes. He also worked with the Dutch-Moroccan Leadership Institute, Young Leaders Malaysia, schools for highly gifted children, and multiple universities including the founding of ISB in Hyderabad, India. His own educational background includes an MBA from INSEAD Fontainebleau, and a MSc Organization Economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam –preceded by a year of Liberal Arts at Ole Miss, the University of Mississippi.

Arne splits his time between the Netherlands and Malaysia, with his wife, 4 children and a selection of dogs and cats. In his free time, he loves playing or coaching field hockey, gardening and growing apples, dabbling with black-white Leica photography, and visiting small book stores and reading many, many books.

Timeline

00.00 - 00.44 Theme & Intro.

00.45 - 05:08 Introducing Arne Gast.

05.10 - 08.45 An inspiring teacher: the story of Mr Bone and the thirst for knowledge.

08:47 - 10.02 The areas of unknowing: the mischievous desire to help people touch the areas they are not familiar with.

10.05 - 11.30 How things work and re-writing the rules: re-inventing and finding a new world.

11.31 - 15.35 Arne’s appetite for the future comes from hope.

15.35 - 16.30 What we can learn from the Nordic countries.

17.00 - 19.39 Re-inventing how we talk to each other.

19.40 - 23:50 Rejoicing in the not knowing: thriving on reinvention.

23.51 - 26.43 Life was ‘easy’ for companies in the past - now we have to do things differently - considering C02 neutral / net positive / digital transformation /

you cannot source from China or Russia anymore / full diversity / climate cri sis - how do we do all of this?

26:48 - 30.40 The role of story and the methods we like to work with: What’s the new narrative?

31.00 - 31.30 What is to what if… rather than concentrate on what the current stories are and let’s imagine different futures.

31.31 - 33.15 The mind is like an art gallery - a lot of Rothko at the moment - can we put a Van Gough in there?

33.48 - 38.22 Telling stories and using experimentation as a way forward.

38.24 - 41:22 Arne’s metaphor - Schokland

41.25 - 44.00 The Wanderful Exercise: Seeing the world as an art gallery

44.15 - 48.45 Epilogue

48.47 - 49.54 Outro and Credits

Quotations

“We have to re-write all the rules. It is not the end of history. It is only beginning. It is our time in the next decade that we are going to re-invent it. We are going to do regenerative agriculture together and find the new world.” (Arne)

’Men will not survive, they will prevail.’ (William Faulkner)

“I like starting things anew and when something gets too stable, I want to move on.” (Arne)

“The wisdom is in so many different fragments of people that if we can talk to each other and co-create with each other then we can find a new place.” (Arne)

“I like to spark some joy in the unknowing. It’s all an experiment we are doing. There are no answers anymore and even the questions are unclear right now.” (Arne)

“Be kind with people.” (Arne)

“Narrative is one of the most powerful tools we have. It’s a way to really inspire people.” (Arne)

“Amplification of the bad news is going up and it limits people from taking agency to say what do I want and what is the world I want to create.” (Arne)

“Imagine different futures - let’s use that.” (David)

“The story is the first step. I’ve seen it without really being there. Just by thinking we get the medicine.” (Arne)

“Dip a toe in the water as an experiment but just keep telling yourself… it’s just an experiment.” (Arne)

Links

Arne Gast (Guest)

Website: https://aberkyn.com/humans/arne-gast/

David Pearl (Host)

Website: https://www.davidpearl.net/

Instagram: @davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Instagram: @Sonicoyster

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Philipp Blom

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:39:21 +0000

Philipp Blom

“History is a mess of facts.”

Philipp Blom (1970) is a historian and author of several novels, journalism, politics, and philosophy. He also works a radio presenter, documentary film maker and as a public lecturer.

Philipp was born in Hamburg and grew up in Detmold, in northern Germany. After studying history, philosophy and Jewish studies in Vienna and Oxford, he gained a D.Phil. on nationalism. During this period, he also worked in journalism, taught at a high school, and wrote a novel. Like many of his subsequent books it was written in English and translated into German by himself.

From 1997 to 2001 Blom and his wife, the writer Veronica Buckley, lived in London, where Philipp initially worked as an editor in a publishing house and as a foreign correspondent for German, Swiss and British newspapers and magazines (Guardian, Independent, the TLS, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Neue Züricher Zeitung) and for radio stations (BBC, ORF, Deutschlandfunk). 2001 the couple moved to Paris to concentrate on their books. Since 2007 they live in Vienna.

Next to his work in history, fiction, philosophy and art, Philipp presents the program „Punkt 1“ on the Austrian radio station Ö1. He wrote and presented a TV documentary, and curated exhibitions for, among others, the Wien Museum and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, where Philipp invited in 2010 to work for one year. Lecture tours and festivals take Philipp throughout Europe as well as to the USA, Canada, and South America.

Philipp Blom’s book combine historical research, philosophical enquiry and an essayistic, literary approach. Among his best-selling works are The Vertigo Years and Fracture, dealing with the cultural history of the early twentieth century, A Wicked Company, about the radical Enlightenment, Nature’s Mutiny an investigation into history and climate change in the seventeenth century and, more recently, What is at Stake, dealing with climate change, digitization, and democracy.

Philipp’s wide-ranging work and research interests have received numerous accolades. He won several international prizes (Premis Terenci Moix, Barcelona, Groene Waterman Prijs, Antwerpen, NDR Kultur Buchpreis, Wolfenbüttel), and his books are translated into sixteen languages. From 2009-2010 he was Fellow of the IFK, 2017 Visiting Fellow at the IWM, both in Vienna. 2018 he opened the prestigious Salzburg Festspiele with a widely-discussed speech on the future of the Enlightenment in a time of climate change.

Having wanted to become a violinist early in life, Philipp also continues to make music and presents a series of concerts at the Vienna Konzerthaus.

Timeline

00.00 - 00.44 Wanderful Intro theme

00.45 - 04.22 Introducing Philipp Blom

04.33 - 07.07 The Flaneurs: deliberately getting lost in the city

07.08 - 08.36 History as a mess of facts: knitting things together to make a pattern

08.37 - 11.00 Map making: showing the world as it isn’t

11.03 - 16.50 Nature’s Mutiny: What happened when Europe became 2 Degrees colder

16.51 - 18.27 Transforming society: the emergence of the enlightenment

18.28 - 23.25 Surviving the climate crisis: the need to change the way we see the world and how we see ourselves in it

23.28 - 26.25 Where the creativity for writing comes from

26.26 - 28.25 The monster of European colonialism

28.26 - 30.00 The Yeast Metaphor

30.01 - 36.20 Let’s talk about ‘systems’

36.23 - 39.18 Discovering your true self and exploring the weirdness of the world

39.20 - 41.38 David introduces the ‘Wanderful’ mapping exercise

41.55 - 44.23 Epilogue: Insights from the exercise

44.24 - 45.30 End Credits and Outro

Quotes

“History is a mess of facts. Out of all those facts you have to distil the fact that you think means something. You have to knit them together into a pattern and relate them to one another. ” (Philipp)

“Maps are useful because they show the world as it isn’t. They select, they say you don’t need to know that, but you need to know that. Whatever you want to know, there is a map for it.” (Philipp)

“If we want to survive this current (climate) crisis in some decent form… we need to accept the total transformation of our economic system, our political system , the way we see the world and how we see ourselves in the world.” (Philipp)

“If you live in a completely commercialised imagination, then the amount of stories you can tell declines dramatically… imagination becomes deadened by commercial interests.” (Philipp)

“If we are learning anything about nature it is simply the fact that we need to talk about ‘systems’.” (Philipp)

“The individual is only the mirroring of something which comes back from others.” (Philipp)

“We want to survive? We will need to find our survival inside.” (Philipp)

“With fossil fuels our technological reach has become so devastating, that it’s no longer a helpful way of thinking.” (Philipp)

“If we want to thrive, we need to foster what we rely on. We need to make it deeper and better and broader and then we can live better with it. If we’re constantly exploiting and impoverishing what we rely on… we’re part of that system… it’s going to come back.” (Philipp)

Links

Philipp Blom

Blomcast: https://blomcast.buzzsprout.com/

Website: https://philipp-blom.eu/cms/en/

David Pearl (Host)

Website: https://www.davidpearl.net/

Instagram: @davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Instagram: @Sonicoyster

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go with Tom Morley... ’irreverence, justified’

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:09:40 +0000

Wanderful with Tom Morley

“Irreverence, justified”

Team Building is needed more than ever in 2023. Face to face onsite interaction. A reason to come together. 200 people drumming. A thousand people singing in harmony. Things we can't do on Zoom.

Tom Morley has a 40- year track record of doing this. Scritti Politti, David Bowie, Madness, Blue Chips everywhere and now you. Exactly where you are. That's Tom's speciality, finding out where you are and starting there.

Following his time in the music business with the 80s band Scritti Politti Tom has developed a truly artistic way of living where every experience leads him to the humorous uncovering of some universal truth. He turns his disasters and successes into Keynote inspiration for tired conference audiences who think they've seen it all. Maybe they HAVE seen it all, but have they FELT it? Have they DRUMMED it? Have they CHANTED it? Have they HARMONISED it?

Four decades onstage, first behind a drum kit then being the front man for whole troupes of performers has earned him the name ‘The Stand Up Drummer’. What's he standing up for? You're about to find out.

Timeline

00.00 - 00.44 Theme & Intro

00.45 - 05.30 David introduces Tom Morley

05.30 - 10.00 Tom discovers ‘analog instagram’ and describes the way he looks

10.10 - 13.05 How the ‘groove’ is found at the intersection of discipline, surrender and mischief.

13.06 - 14.07 Addressing the ‘thing’ which the audience is thinking.

14.08 - 15.39 Irreverence Justified

15.40 - 21.21 Tom describes his work as a ‘polymath’.

21.22 - 23.00 Scritti Politti Anecdote - Mischief in action

23.10 - 29.02 Making good trouble - re-introducing people to their own creativity

29.03 - 35.27 The importance of dancing around the room - finding the flow - safety in the ‘groove’.

35.28 - 39.03 Playing with the walking rhythm - getting into the groove on the 2nd and 4th beat.

39.05 - 42.34 Don’t just walk from A to B - dance to A to B: Bring out the inner-adult

42.35 - 44.24 The Wanderful Exercise: Finding the Groove

44.24 - 48.48 Epilogue & End Credits

Quotations

“My mantra is ‘we’re better than this’. That’s what drives me on.” (David)

“Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin… all those people… they gave us permission to just jam clothes together.” (Tom)

“I look like someone you would want to have a conversation with and that’s because I’m shy. I can’t really start conversations from scratch, I have to get people to start conversations with me.” (Tom)

“The ‘groove’ is found at the intersection of discipline, surrender and mischief.” (Tom)

“Irreverence, justified.” (Tom)

“We are our own powerpoint. We just need to turn ourselves on.” (Tom)

“I’m there to re-introduce people to their own creativity.” (Tom)

“We are up against the very well funded status-quo.” (Tom)

“Drummers… what we do is make it safe for everybody… we keep the groove going.” (Tom)

“The irony is, the safer they feel with the groove, the groovier the groove is, the more attractive… then they will feel something new.” (Tom)

“We walk in rhythm, so you can play with the rhythm of walking. We pretty much walk in 4/4. If you want to get into the groove, emphasise the 2nd and the 4th beat. Then you get into the groove. It’s called the off-beat.” (Tom)

“What’s the purpose of the dance? It’s to dance.” (Tom)

“There is a lot to get done. As we do it, lets dance our way there, because we’ll get to better places if we do that.” (David)

“I’m not interested in bringing out their inner-child. I’m interested in bringing out their inner-adult.” (Tom)

Links

Tom Morley (Guest)

Website: https://tommorley.com/

Twitter: @TomMorley

Instagram: _tommorley_

David Pearl (Host)

Website: https://www.davidpearl.net/

Instagram: @davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Instagram: @Sonicoyster

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go with Libby DeLana

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:28:22 +0000

“I have exquisite wanderlust”

Libby DeLana is an executive creative director, founder of This Morning Walk and co-host of the podcast This Morning Walk with Alex Elle. She spoke at the 2022 Do Lectures with Cheryl Strayed about the transformative power of a walk.

Libby spent her career in advertising. She was the Director of Design at MullenLowe for 15 years, then went on to co-found the boutique agency Mechanica. Libby’s work has won many industry awards and been featured in publications including PRINT Design Annual, Fast Company, Graphis and Communication Arts. She has been profiled by the BBC Radio 4 series The Chain in which 'leading figures name the woman who has inspired their success'.

She is an advocate for female leadership, an aspiring pilot, rookie fly fisher, fan of a strong cup of tea and mum to two tall, smart, kind men. Do Walk is her first published book.

Timeline

00.00 - 00.46

The Wanderful Theme

00.47 - 05.55

Introducing Libby DeLana

05.57 - 11.18

Libby talks about ‘wandering’: The back story - How ‘This Morning Walk’ began:

What did Libby need to nourish her?
Missing the outdoors - the space between
Walking every day for the last 11 years
The ‘Practice’ is not about mileage
Treating the walk as a ‘practice’ in the same way as a seated meditation or a yoga sequence.
Even a 3 minute walk can have a profound effect
Libby’s mission to share this knowledge with all

11.19 - 14.30

Learning new lessons through every walk
Loving the fidelity of the practice: Keeping a commitment to herself
The ‘practice’ as a ‘radical act of love’: Attentiveness and mindfulness - taking a walk for ‘me’
Libby learns the most on the days she doesn’t want to go

14.31 - 21.08

What Libby learn’s from the practice and what’s the magic state?
Learning to tap into the inherent wisdom of what goes on in the chest (heart) and the gut (intuition), rather than ‘thinking’
Walking allowed Libby to put ideas down into heart and gut - what was embodied in that?
Libby holds a thought - takes it for a walk and it softens and she begins to understand it.

21.10 - 27.48

Walking the same loop: Focusing on each step and each breath
Submitting to the routine
Flipping the ‘inquiry’ from external to internal
Seeing the world feet first rather than head first
Not just walking through the streets - you were walking through yourself: what you find beautiful out there - resides in you.
Finding the internal beauty - is the ultimate self-care: By doing that - we are caring for our community
Walking with others - the walk-pod

27.50 - 31.10

Libby’s navigation system: trusting gut / age
Inquiry & Curiosity - what’s going to show up each day?
Things change all the time - embrace and lean into change?
The ‘Beginners Mind’

31.11 - 35.49

Waking up with the grumps - curiosity about the deep dark depths.
One of the most challenging walks Libby did.
Do I crawl into bed and pour a bourbon or do I need / want to get outside and walk?
Did the loop? And repeated the loop? After each loop - ask self - how are you doing?
Loops - Stomping / Screaming / Beyonce Lemonade / Crying - the best therapist and loving friend was the walk. Needing to know ‘what would come up’?
Not all walks are beautiful but there are lessons in it.
Libby loves her partnership with the walk and cannot imagine her life without it.

35.50 - 38.30

Moving through grief and sadness
Being curious about whats in the heart and in the gut.
Taking your ‘discomfort’ for a walk.

38.32 - 45.03

The ‘Wanderful’ Exercise: Holding your discomfort and taking it for a walk

45.04 - 46.04

End credits

Quotations

“Walking is an equivalent practice to one of meditation or yoga. It has become a place of quiet, of nourishment, sanctuary, healing of inspiration. I find it’s my most creative part of the day.” (Libby)

“Even a three minute walk can have a profound effect.” (Libby)

“I just love the fidelity of the (walking) practice - it feels like fidelity for myself. It’s not about steps and miles. It’s about keeping that commitment to myself. It’s a radical act of love.” (Libby)

“It’s about an attentiveness and a consciousness, about taking a walk for ‘me’.” (Libby)

“As I walked with a thought in my head… slowly it would come down into my heart and then down to my belly… it’s a way of me understanding my ancient knowing.” (Libby)

“As I walk, that ‘ball of string’ softens and loosens and I can become to see the individual thread.”

“(Walking) enables me to know more, feel more… and trust my heart and gut, versus everything I’m telling myself up in my head.” (Libby)

“I’m seeing the feet first and changing my gaze from external to internal.” (Libby)

“You’re not just walking through the street, you were walking through yourself. The thing you find beautiful out there is a reflection of the thing you find beautiful within.” (David)

“For me it’s constant curiosity and inquiry - what is going to show up each day. Who is going to show up? What kind of conversations are we going to have? Those are my navigation tools.” (Libby)

Links

Libby DeLana

Web: https://libbydelana.com/

Twitter: @parkhere

Instagram: @parkhere

This Morning Walk: https://www.thismorningwalk.com/

David Pearl (host)

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Website www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go with Paul Bulencea

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 16:52:10 +0100

“I sit for an hour and I get to know the neighbours - the more than human neighbours.”

Paul Bulencea is an experience designer focused on the nature of the transformational experience. He has created many experience concepts globally and is currently focusing on collaborating with wilderness to spark and maintain a much needed shift in perception. He is the co-founder of the College of Extraordinary Experiences, a global gathering that takes place in a 13th century castle in Poland with the aim of exploring the field of experience design. He is the co-author of Gamification in Tourism: Designing Memorable Experiences and is currently working on a second book about guiding transformations.

www.extraordinary.college

Timeline

00.00 - 00.44 Intro Theme

00.46 - 04.32 Introducing Paul Bulencea

04.34 - 06.20 Native Seed Shakers

06.25 - 09.40 Noticing the wilderness in the city

11.41 - 14.08 Creating edible landscapes

14.08 - 18.56 Community Supported Agriculture

18.56 - 21.50 Deconditioning industrial thinking

23.00 - How to do a ‘sit spot’ - connecting with nature

26.45 - 28.00 Honey (a sit-spot poem)

28.00 - 33.38 Wanderful Exercise: The Sit Spot

33.40 - Epilogue: The bells! The bells!

Quotes

“When you’re looking for wildlife, you will be surprised at the amount of wildlife in the cities… but that’s where the food is.” (Paul)

“You can eat all mushrooms, but some of them you can only eat once.” (Paul)

“What if we had cities inside edible landscapes?.” (Paul)

“We’re eating very few edible crops. We cultivate very few because we have this industrial thinking.” (Paul)

“This push for consistency - what’s so great about consistency?” (David)

“I sit for an hour and I get to know the neighbours - the more than human neighbours.” (Paul)

Further Information

Community Supported Agriculture - https://communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk/

George Monibot - Regenesis - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/317018/regenesis-by-monbiot-george/9780241447642

The plant David is sitting next to…we think…any knowledgeable horticulturalists, let us know! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerodendrum_infortunatum

Links

Paul Bulencea (Guest)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbulencea/

Instagram @paul.bulencea

David Pearl (Host)

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Website www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

The Green Room at COP26 - What (On Earth's) The Story?

Full film: https://youtu.be/UWoO9UmWscM

Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go with Anuradha Chugh

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:25:08 +0100

"My purpose is to be a beacon for inspiration."

Anuradha Chugh is the CEO of Pukka Herbs since July 2021. She firmly believes that businesses can – and should – tackle climate change and address inequality. Anu has over 25 years’ experience in the CPG industry, holding positions in values-led progressive businesses like Ben & Jerry’s as Managing Director- Europe, as well as in some of Unilever’s flagship brands like Dove & Lipton, in different geographies of Europe, US, Latin America, Turkey & India.

Anu has demonstrated that she can lead businesses to thrive, transform and grow by creating value that is long-lasting and purpose driven. She is passionate about using the power of business to make a positive impact in society and is not afraid to step out of her comfort zone to drive change.

Anu is married to Rohit with whom she has two kids: Aditi and Varun, and loves spending time outdoors with their dog, Alfie.

Timeline

00.00 - 00.43 Theme

00.44 - 05.05 David introduces Anuradha Chugh

05.07 - 09.10 Speaking to and from the heart

09.12 - 11.50 Meeting people’s needs

12.20 - 13.30 Choosing ice cream over detergents

14.00 - 15.43 Where to find inspiration: How to be a beacon for inspiration

16.00 - 19.56 What inspires Anu?

17.00 - 18.21 Routes: Mentoring women who have come from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds

18.40 - 21.38 Doing good and doing well: Business and impact: Giving back to the Planet

22.50 - 24.22 Who benefits from Pukka Teas work?

26.40 - 25.49 The well being and health benefits of tea

26.41 - 27.57 How does Anu promote her own health?

28.00 - 31.25 Work in the post-pandemic world

29.41 - 33.54 The Wanderful Exercise: The Heart Led Walk

34.10 - 38.00 Epilogue

38.01 - 38.50 End Credits

Quotes

“I don’t think choices can be all that rational.” (Anu)

“Packaging has to emotively speak to you. It has to grab you emotionally, while you’re walking down an aisle. Something as functional as that really has to be emotionally driven.” (Anu)

“You gravitate towards what you find exciting - there is a little bit of intentionality that comes into it.” (Anu)

“You have to find the higher purpose of what really makes you tick in that space - you have to articulate for yourself the purpose of why you get up in the morning.” (Anu)

“I need to inspire myself and inspire those I lead. You get the best work from yourself if you are a beacon for inspiration.” (Anu)

“We’re rediscovering business as a force for good.” (Anu)

“The more you grow the more positive impact you have.” (Anu)

“In today’s world we all have to do business which is regenerative.” (Anu)

“As long as people keep buying what you’re selling, then everything that you then sell has a positive impact to that last person or maybe that first person who has been wild berry picking somewhere in Guatemala. And that’s the circle.” (Anu)

“The solution will be with business working with governments and charity institutions.” (Anu)

“You are putting health and well-being in their cup.” (Anu)

“You’re selling health.” (Anu)

“Life is more about being rather than doing.” (Anu)

Wanderful - A Stumbler’s Guide

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:45:16 +0100

‘What one mountain taught one Londoner about life …step…by wobbly step.”

This week’s episode is a little off the straight and narrow. But that’s what Wanderful is all about. Finding wonder in life’s side roads.

I reckon the planet needs us to be more creative. So for World Nature Conservation Day, we decided to get improvising. Our producer Andrew Paine took some words that came into my mind as I was struggling down an Italian mountain and asked the composer Laura Cannell to add whatever music came into her mind as she listened to the text. We’re calling it the Stumblers’ Guide. I deliberately didn’t listen to what she’s done so this is a premiere for you and me. And also a chance to say thanks to a mountain that taught me a lot.

Happy wandering (and stumbling)

David Pearl

http://www.lauracannell.co.uk/

Laura Cannell

Laura Cannell's music straddles the worlds of experimental, contemporary, early & medieval music, her semi-composed, semi-improvised music draws on the emotional influences of the landscape whilst exploring the spaces between early and experimental music. She has released seven solo albums to critical acclaim, mainly performing on Overbowed Violin and Double Recorders. Her new solo album 'Antiphony of the Trees’, was The Quietus Album of the week and month in March 2022, received a 4 star review from Songlines Magazine and is featured in the May Wire Magazine. Laura’s music has been used for film & television internationally.

Twitter @laurarecorder

Insta @lauracannellmusic

David Pearl (Host)

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Website www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

The Green Room at COP26 - What (On Earth's) The Story?

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go with Sarah Corbett

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:49:25 +0100

"My activism is just one tool in the activism tool kit."

Sarah Corbett is an award-winning activist, author, Ashoka Fellow and founder of the global Craftivist Collective. She grew up in a low-income area of the UK into an activist family and has worked as a professional campaigner for over a decade, most recently with Oxfam GB. She started doing craftivism (craft + activism) in 2008 to add a different tool of activism into the toolkit - a form of slow, quiet and intimate effective activism she calls ‘Gentle Protest’.

Due to demand, Sarah set up the award-winning Craftivist Collective in 2009, providing products and services for individuals, groups and organisations around the world to be effective gentle craftivists. Sarah’s work has helped change government laws, business policies as well as hearts and minds through her unique ‘Gentle Protest’ methodology. She works across the arts sector, charity sector and academia, as well as with unusual allies to reach people nervous of activism in an attractive and empowering way. Corbett regularly gives talks, events and happenings around the world. Her book “How To Be A Craftivist: the art of gentle protest” is now available in paperback. Her talk ‘Activism Needs Introverts’ was chosen as a TED Talk of the Day and has over a million views. You can preorder her Craftivist Collective Handbook here

https://craftivist-collective.com/

Time Line

00.00 - 00.45 Opening Credits

00.46 - 04.58 Introducing Sarah Corbett

05.00 - 06.25 Growing up in an activist family

06.25 - 09.05 Routes into Gentle Activism

09.10 - 13.00 The Canary Campaign

13.05 - 15.55 The importance of courage and care

15.57 - 18.10 Different forms of craftivism

18.30 - 23.15 Gentle protest & self control

23.18 - 26.35 Making change

26.38 - 27.41 Being ‘crafty’ but kind

27.43 - 29.30 How Sarah manages anger

29.35 - 34.25 The Tale of the MP & the Handkerchief

34.28 - 37.55 The Wanderful Exercise: In Their Shoes

38.12 - 41.29 Epilogue

41.30 - 42.16 End Credits

Quotations

“My activism is just one tool in the activism tool-kit.” (Sarah)

“I knew change doesn’t just happen in transactional and loud and public ways.” (Sarah)

“My craftivism is all about where are the gaps and where can craftivism fill certain gaps to compliment other tactics and where can it bring in audiences who are scared of activism but (who are) influential.” (Sarah)

“My approach to craftivism is Gentle Protest.” (Sarah)

“There’s something in the process of craft that’s really helping me slow down, calm down and think more strategically, so I thought there must be something in this.” (Sarah)

“If we want to make change then gentleness can be so powerful, and putting yourself in the power holder’s shoes, and not just the person affected.” (Sarah)

“The gentleness is treading lightly and being gentle with people.” (Sarah)

“It’s more about trying things out and being light touch on everything… not holding things and forcing things.” (Sarah)

“If you receive something which feels a little manipulative… you’re going to close off. You want people to feel genuinely encouraged and accountable.” (Sarah)

“When I’m angry… I jump it out, I dance it out, I power walk somewhere, I just shake the anger out of me. Long term anger is chronic and produces really bad health and mental health problems. I know anger is a good catalyst, but I need to shake it out.” (Sarah)

“I swing from really angry to okay.. .how am I going to use this anger in an effective, useful way, which won’t change the world dramatically but I can try and make some nudges and tweaks with the little power I have as one little scouser.” (Sarah)

Contact Information

Sarah Corbett

Twitter: @craftivists

Instagram: @Craftivists

David Pearl (Host)

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Website www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

The Green Room at COP26 - What (On Earth's) The Story?

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go with Dale Vince

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 16:26:55 +0100

Dr Dale Vince OBE

With more than 25 years experience as a green entrepreneur, Dale launched Ecotricity (http://www.ecotricity.co.uk), the world’s first green energy company back in 1995. Today, it powers around 200,000 homes and businesses across the UK with renewable energy from the wind and sun.

Dale also owns Devil’s Kitchen (http://www.thedevilskitchen.co.uk), which makes vegan school dinners, and his latest business, Skydiamond (http://skydiamond.co.uk) – creating lab grown diamonds from the wind, rain and sun. His work focuses on three key areas – energy, transport and food – collectively responsible for 80% of our own carbon emissions.

He is Chairman and owner of Forest Green Rovers (http://fgr.co.uk) - recognised by FIFA as the “world’s greenest football club” and became a United Nations Climate Champion in 2018. He launched his first book, Manifesto in 2020, and is Executive Producer of the Netflix Original documentary, Seaspiracy.

Time Line

00.00 - 00.44 Wanderful Theme

00.45 - 04.25 Introducing Dale Vince

04.30 - 09.48 Travelling & living off-grid

10.05 - 13.25 The Origins of Ecotricity

13.27 - 15.33 Green Populism

16.45 - 19.10 Forest Green Rovers FC and the Green Agenda

20.00 - 21.40 Business versus Politics

21.50 - 23.00 Thoughts on Leadership - the Ecotricity ethos

23.40 - 25.27 Adopting the best elements of business

25.30 - 27.20 Business, Government and the People

27.25 - 29.12 The Wanderful Exercise - Slow Right Down

29.30 - 33.10 Epilogue

33.11 - 33.55 - Outro

Quotes

“ A term I learned in my twenties, was ‘new radical dis-possessed’ and we had been dispossessed… we are dispossessed by the system of wealth and wealth maintenance. Money stays with the people who have money and the rest of us are kind of cogs in the wheel.” (Dale)

“When were the first company in the world to start selling green electricity and were able to price match brown electricity… it seems obvious to me the way to get real traction for the environment cause for sustainability is for it to become a business opportunity or at least for it to be business like.” (Dale)

“The conventional environmentalist way of communicating is too often about doom and gloom and catastrophe on a global scale, which makes people feel a little powerless and a little bit hopeless. At the same time the presentation of living a green life is made to feel like we’re asking people to give up the way we live.” (Dale)

“Living a green life is just as good, it’s actually better - you will live healthier and longer.” (Dale)

“We have to get away from this altruism first approach, which says its about polar bears, melting ice and people somewhere else in the world and actually come back to the people in this country which we’re asking to change their lives and say ‘this is actually about you’, our economy, it’s about Green sustainable jobs, a stronger economy that supports our people better and in the process doesn’t create pollution of the air, the land and the water and then fighting the climate crisis just becomes a happy by-product.” (Dale)

“On day 1 of being in charge of a football club (Forest Green Rovers) I found we were serving red meat to the players and I got the manager and the chef together and we agreed to stop it on that day. The Sun called it a ‘red meat ban’ which was fantastic, we leaned into that infamy that they created for us and day by day I bumped into things that had to change in terms of environment and ethics. After a couple of weeks, I realised this meant we would be creating a green football club and we would be communicating to a very different audience, the world of football fans, and that appealed to me.” (Dale)

“Football is the most incredible platform to reach people..” (Dale)

“We have a one-page ecotricity manifesto, which we share with everybody that joins us. It talks about how we want people to treat other people - it’s about openness and honesty, admitting mistakes when made, so we can fix them and move on in a non-judgemental way, and treat people how you would like to be treated yourself.” (Dale)

“I think it’s really important to do something before you talk about it. Prove it, do it and then when you talk about it you’ve got a standing to persuade other people to then pick that up themselves. There are two ways to bring change in the world. One is to do it yourself, necessarily limited by what one person can do. The other is to be the catalyst for other people and it comes back to do it first, show other people you can become a catalyst and other people will follow you and then you create more change that way..” (Dale)

“There are three things, which between them, account for about 80% of everybody’s carbon footprint and general unsustainability - energy, transport & food - it’s about how we power our homes, how we travel and what we eat and these are things we all spend money on every day. If we choose to spend that money on a greener option, where we can, that sends a very big signal to businesses who are picking this up and changing what they do, adapting to what people want and then the government picks that up from business. And these three sectors from our society are the main players - business, government and the people - and we have much more power than we realise because ultimately - we’re the consumers of everything that’s produced, we are the people who drive demand and our money gets to choose which way the world goes round.” (Dale)

Links

Dr Dale Vince OBE

Twitter @DaleVince

Insta @zerocarbonista

David Pearl (host)

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Website www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

The Green Room at COP26 - What (On Earth's) The Story?

Wanderful - Inspiration On The Go w/ Tina Roth Eisenberg

Tue, 31 May 2022 14:43:21 +0100

“Trust Breeds Magic”

Tina Roth Eisenberg is a Swiss born and trained graphic designer. Over the past 16 years, she has started side projects that have organically turned into businesses: Tattly, Creative Mornings, Teux Deux and FRIENDS. Tina believes in generosity and kindness. She considers creating a fulfilling, kind work environment and welcoming, safe communities as her way of having a positive impact on the world.

Tina’s blog swissmiss launched in March of 2005 as a personal visual archive. Little did she know that it would eventually grow into a viral design journal with an average of 1 million unique visitors a month.

https://creativemornings.com/

Time Line

00.00 - 00.46 Wanderful Intro & Theme

00.46 - 04.09 Introducing Tina Roth Eisenberg

04.10 - 05.26 Swiss Miss: Designing our own lives

06.59 - 10.56 How the universe cheers Tina on

12.27 - 18.13 Origins of ‘Creative Mornings’

19.44 - 22.21 The link between creativity and innocence - everyone is welcome

22.38 - 23.38 Creative Mornings Manifesto

26.40 - 29.29 The Purpose of Creative Mornings

29.30 - 31.53 The ‘Field Trips’

32.50 - 35.30 Trust Breeds Magic

35.33 - 37.33 ’The Design Walk’ Exercise

37.54 - 40.26 Epilogue

40.27 - 41.12 Closing Credits

Quotes

“Your outer world is an expression of your inner world” (Tina)

“What would it be to live your life as if it were an art-work?” (Charles Handy via David)

“Creative Mornings has grown into the world’s largest face to face creativity community.” (Tina)

“There needs to be a bit more pure, honest, innocent gathering opportunities… we’re basically a church for creative opportunities.” (Tina)

“If you love something and you’re not insane, millions of other people will love it too, you’ve just got to find a way for them to find you.” (David)

“Living is a creative act and I don’t want to define creativity just by you outputting things that are on walls.” (Tina)

“In my world there are basically two modes… you’re either in love or you’re in fear.” (Tina)

“Trust Breeds Magic” (Tina)

Links

Tina Roth Eisenberg (Guest)

@swissmiss

https://www.swiss-miss.com/

https://tattly.com/pages/custom

https://teuxdeux.com/home

http://www.friendsworkhere.com/

David Pearl (Host)

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Website www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

‘Surface Of The Water’ excerpt by Andrew Paine & Caroline McKenzie

The Green Room at COP26 - What (On Earth's) The Story?

The Wanderful Podcast: Re-Wilding Special with Paul Bulencea & Valeria Roselli

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:58:00 +0100

"The wolves represent ‘wildness’ and if you ever have the occasion to see them and walk in the same place where they live and share the same territory as them, it's a privilege."

Paul Bulencea is an award-winning author, educator, entrepreneur and speaker inspiring forward-thinking Fortune 500 companies and governments to foster innovation and drive sustainable growth by shifting business models from services to co-creative transformational experiences.

Following his vision to help organisations migrate to the Experience Economy, he co-founded The College of Extraordinary Experiences in 2016, which serves as a worldwide community and think tank for experience designers. The College is described by creative thought leaders a must for pioneers in experience design.

Since she was a child Valeria Roselli walked along the paths through the forest of the mountains where she was born. Her curiosity led her to explore and get to know the territory. While listening to stories from older people in the area, Valeria learnt the importance of the local traditions and how necessary it was to preserve traditions and value the past.

Her love of nature and for the Abruzzo mountain’s became her passion, which in turn became her profession. She is now a nature guide, environmental interpreter and Nordic walking instructor and an expert guide in the Italian Apennines.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbulencea/

Timeline

00.00 - 00.44 Intro Theme

00.45 - 06.54 David introduces the re-wilding special

06.55 - 11.59 What is the fascination with ‘tracking’ wildlife?

12.00 - 12.48 Combining tracking with trailing

12.50 - 13.53 The benefits of sitting and observing

13.56 - 17.15 The story of the Red Deer

17.30 - 26.55 The Eye of the Wild Bison

26.57 - 29.54 What we can learn from the Wolves?

29.56 - 32.00 David’s ‘Sit Spot’ exercise - observing nature

32.22 - 36.08 Epilogue: The story of the fox

36.09 - Bonus Feature: David descends the mountain (field recording)

Quotes

“What I like about tracking is that it shows you how everything is inter-connected. (Therefore), it’s much easier to become self-aware and to understand how inter-twined everything is by observing and seeing and noticing.” (Paul)

“Trailing is where you follow the tracks until you find and discover the animal.” (Paul)

“The moments spent in nature are special. Every day is a new day for a new moment and a new emotion.” (Valeria)

“One of the Bison came very close, he was very curious… about 7 metres and was just looking at us. I made eye-contact and in that gaze with a wild animal… it felt like finding ‘home’. It’s very hard to describe because it’s an experience we rarely have nowadays.” (Paul)

“When you’re calm and not tense, then you start seeing things all around you.” (Paul)

"The wolves represent ‘wildness’ and if you ever have the occasion to see them and walk in the same place where they live and share the same territory as them, it's a privilege.” (Valeria)

Links

Paul Bulencea

Valeria Roselli

https://www.wildlifeadventures.it/en/meet-our-team/

David Pearl (Host)

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Website www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

The Green Room at COP26 - What (On Earth's) The Story?

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go w/ Johanna Gibbons

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 11:43:12 +0000

“Despite all our best endeavours… we rely on six inches of soil and the fact that it rains.”

Discover more stories of hope with Johanna and other climate innovators on the newly released ‘The Green Room - What (On Earth’s) The Story’ film on You Tube.

Johanna Gibbons is a Landscape Architect and Fellow of the Landscape Institute. Jo was named a Royal Designer for Industry for her ‘pioneering and influential work combining design with activism, education and professional practice’. She is founding Partner of J & L Gibbons practice, Director of social enterprise Landscape Learn and a core research partner with Kings College London of Urban Mind. Jo is a panel advisor to Historic England and the Forestry Commission. She is a Trustee of Open City and publishes and lectures widely.

Time Line

00.00 - 00.45 Opening credits

00.46 - 05.37 Introducing Johanna Gibbons

05.40 - 08.19 Johanna’s Origin Story

08.54 - 12.47 The untold story of the soil

13.07 - 16.10 How we can connect with the soil: re-wilding, composting, digging holes

16.55 - 19.15 Community effort and grass-roots

19.17 - 21.12 Day-lighting water and understanding natural processes

21.15 - 26.50 Johanna’s Four Steps

26.51 - 31.18 The Wanderful Exercise: Someone’s Something

31.36 - 35.05 Epilogue - Post Exercise

35.06 - 35.52 Closing Credits

Quotations

“ Landscape connects our family. It’s my work but it’s also all my passions - soil diversity, urban forestry, rain water management and the connection with the natural cycles and connection with everything that feeds the soul and gives you a joy of life.” (Johanna)

“To me, a city is a landscape.” (Johanna)

“It’s not muck-away, this is one of the most important, critical infrastructures of the planet and we talk about muck-away. It comes from ignorance, it comes from a mis-understanding or nobody pointed it out in the first place.” (Johanna)

“There is a disconnect with nature and the most fundamental aspect of terrestrial life on earth… is soil.” (Johanna)

“A handful of soil has more microbes than there are people on this earth.” (Johanna)

“We do like digging holes. Because when you dig a hole you reveal all sorts of secret horizons, a layer cake of human endeavour, of natural cycles, it depends if it’s urban, brownfield, greenfield… and therein lies the story.” (Johanna)

“The whole re-cycling energy is to do with the soil and not touching it… letting it repair itself.” (Johanna)

“Nature is resilient if we would let it be.” (Johanna)

“Composting… because it is (soil) like black gold. You take your good quality waste, you put it into a hot rotter (?) and it comes back as soil. It is quite a magical thing.” (Johanna)

“Despite all our best endeavours… we rely on six inches of soil and the fact that it rains.” (Johanna)

Social Media

Johanna Gibbons

Web: www.jlg-london.com

Instagram: @jlg_london

David Pearl (Host)

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Website www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go w/ Ben Morison

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:00:59 +0000

“In 2018 we built the world’s first sailing boat, made from already used plastic.”

Discover more stories of hope with Ben and other climate innovators on the newly released ‘The Green Room - What (On Earth’s) The Story’ film on You Tube.

Ben Morison is CEO of Far & Wide Travel, and has worked in the Africa travel industry all his life. He started the Flipflopi Project after witnessing the dramatic impact that plastics are having on the continent that has given so much to him. He became convinced that plastic was far too valuable, versatile and often beautiful to be used just once and thrown away. His mission; ‘a world without single-use plastics’.

Timeline

00.00 - 04.38: Introducing Ben Morison

04.44 - 07.07: Building a boat out of re-cycled plastic

07.10 - 08.35 : How Ben arrived at Flipflopi

08.36 - 10.54: Positive African Voices & Leadership Roles

10.56 - 14.20: Fast Emerging Consumer Populations and Winning the Plastics Challenge

14.24 - 18.15: Bringing value to re-cycled plastic

18.17 - 21.18: Using creativity to convene

21.20 - 24.11: The Wanderful Exercise: Finding value in ‘rubbish’

24.32 - 29.07: Epilogue: Waste as an act of appreciation

29.08 - 30.02: Closing credits

Quotations

“In 2018 we built the world’s first sailing boat, made from already used plastic.” (Ben)

“The reality of this challenge we have around plastic pollution and climate change generally, is it needs a holistic global approach. So what’s lacking here is confident, cheerful, positive voices from… African voices, who are taking leadership roles… and if you look around there’s not really many strong leadership roles, positive one’s too, that are coming from our environment. It’s really important for us to have that positive voice.” (Ben)

“The reality is, if I am a young man in Kenya and I am on a date with somebody, I’ll be in a car… I will wind down the window, I will drink my bottle of water and I will throw it out the window in a deliberate ostentatious show of… ‘I’ve arrived, I’m a consumer now.” (Ben)

“We as the developed world have had the starter, main course and dessert of this amazing thing called plastic… it’s developed our economies and now… just as some other parts of the world are just starting to develop consumer economies… we… how dare we go… oh we don’t want you to start with that (plastic). So, there’s some complexity to how we as a global community have this conversation. We have to be nuanced and thoughtful.” (Ben)

“If you give value to anything… stuff will happen. So what we wanted to show by building a boat was, using already used plastic… we can build a boat. That’s got value as a creative art object. It’s got value as something you go fishing in or take tourists in or travel in. It’s not really about the boat, it’s about the fact we were able to re-cycle or re-use and create something of value.” (Ben)

“The boat is a convener. If I arrive up the Clyde in a brightly coloured boat that looks like Elmer the Elephant, I can guarantee that the policy makers will definitely be keen to come and welcome it in and its going to draw lots and lots of crowds of people, because they want to see it. Of course, for the media it’s a very interesting thing to capture, so you now have the three ingredients you want to engage with.” (Ben)

Social Media

Ben Morison

Web https://www.theflipflopi.com/

Twitter @theflipflopi

Instagram @theflipflopi

David Pearl

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Web: www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go w/ Eliane Ubalijoro ”What we need is soils that are resilient… that are sponges”

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:24:27 +0000

“What we need is soils that are resilient… that are sponges”

Discover more stories of hope with Eliane and other climate innovators on the newly released ‘The Green Room - What (On Earth’s) The Story’ film on You Tube.

Éliane Ubalijoro, PhD, is the Executive Director of Sustainability in the Digital Age and the Future Earth Montreal Hub and founder and Executive Director of C.L.E.A.R. International Development.

She is a Professor of Practice For Public-Private Sector Partnerships at McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development, where her research interests focus on innovation, gender and sustainable development for prosperity creation and her teaching over the last decade has focused on facilitating leadership development.

In addition, Eliane is a Research Professor at Concordia University in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment. She is a member of Rwanda’s National Science and Technology Council.

Eliane is a member of the Impact Advisory Board of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet and a member of the Expert Consultation Group on the Post COVID-19 Implications on Collaborative Governance of Genomics Research, Innovation, and Genetic Diversity.

Eliane is a member of the African Development Bank’s Expert Global Community of Practice on COVID-19 Response Strategies in Africa.

She is a member of the Capitals Coalition Supervisory Board as well as the Crop Trust Executive Board.

Eliane is a former member of WWF International’s Board of Trustees. She was the principal investigator on a Gates Grand Challenges Phase I grant looking at Innovations in Feedback & Accountability Systems for Agricultural Development. Eliane was the project manager and an investigator on a Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health project led by Professor Timothy Geary, the director of McGill’s Institute of Parasitology from 2009 to 2014. As a result of this work, she has been a reviewer for the Grand Challenges Canada Stars in Global Health program since 2012.

Eliane is a co-editor of the 2021 book Building Resilient African Food Systems after COVID-19.

Timeline

00.00 - 00.43 Opening Credits

00.44 - 05.23 Introducing Eliane Ubalijoro

05.26 - 08.40 Sustainability in the Digital Age & Future Earth

08.41 - 10.43 Soils are sponges

11.25 - 12.42 The big stories Eliane is up against

13.30 - 15.04 Bridging the knowledge systems of the West & the knowledge of Eliane’s ancestors

15.06 - 16.00 Technology & sustainability coming together: the collective and planetary intelligence

16.07 - 17.20 The story of the fig tree

17.44 - 19.40 Planetary intelligence (Yesterday & Tomorrow)

19.56 - 21.26 Innovators and early adopters: connecting and supporting communities

22.11 - 24.41 Harnessing the collective intelligence with nature and artificial intelligence

25.28 - 26.16 The big lie: discounting nature’s intelligence

26.20 - 29.11 Leafy greens: healthy diets for the body and the planet: biodiversity thrives

29.21 - 30.31 The power of storytelling: cultivating planetary intelligence

31.00 - 32.39 The connection of the past, present and the future

33.10 - 34.51 Loving nature is not enough: the value of living with nature

35.27 - 37.25 Optimism v Realism

37.30 - 39.07 Dreaming is free

39.10 - 43.15 The Wanderful Exercise - Walking with our past and our future

43.34 - 47.10 Post exercise - epilogue

47.11 - 48.01 Closing credits

Quotations

“What we know is soils are a living space… soils that have worms, that have fungi, that have insects, can hold fifty times more water than soils that have been polluted or have no microbial life in them anymore.” (Eliane)

“What we need are soils which are resilient, which are sponges.” (Eliane)

“Part of my story is the story of an African woman, who was born in a space where I was deeply connected with nature and with the stories of my ancestors, who flew to North America for University, who went on to get her PhD in academia. And so I hold the knowledge systems of the West and the knowledge systems of my ancestors and so my work is about bridging both.” (Eliane)

“In the cosmology of the indigenous people it’s really how we are an element in the universe and so we look at time in different ways. In my native kinyawanda, ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’ are the same word… it’s ‘ejo’. It’s depending on how I conjugate my verb that you know whether I’m talking about yesterday or tomorrow. And so how we see our selves cosmologically is really critical to how we move forward and I think of living in Canada where indigenous populations always say… how do we govern for seven generations from now?” (Eliane)

“The big lie of today is the discounting of nature’s intelligence because we’ve had over 400 years of exploitation and colonisation of natural resources in order to gain more and more power and so we had to discount nature’s intelligence in order to exploit it in the same way that people of African ancestors or black had to be considered three fifths of a human being to say, ‘we can enslave them, because they’re not really people’ and so it’s how we create narratives that are exploitative and dangerous and allow disempowerment of whole systems.” (Eliane)

“We have the power of the media that need to harness these stories that you and I are cultivating and so part of it is how do I create spaces for more people to gain the needed knowledge, for them to have hope and to have the capacity for action.” (Eliane)

“How can storytelling bring out the beauty and truth of what we need to live our inter-dependence and so I’m excited about the mission of cultivating our inter-dependence and opening more people to cultivating planetary intelligence and respecting all these different knowledge systems, so we can resonate and work at a higher level of power and consciousness for everybody.” (Eliane)

“The more trauma we have, the bigger our dreams have to be, because if not, we can be swallowed up by the suffering and the pain… and be paralysed. That’s why I remind people… dreaming is free. Give yourself the opportunity to dream so audaciously that people are going to say ‘how dare you’ and that’s why I say, dare to dream beyond anywhere people think you can dream, but only share it with the people who can help you get there.” (Eliane)

Social Media & Links

Eliane Ubalijoro

Web https://futureearth.org

Twitter @elianeubalijoro

Linked In - linkedin.com/in/eliane-ubalijoro-1b8a7b

David Pearl (Host)

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Website www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go w/ Nigel Topping - ‘I’m the murmuration meister’

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:41:51 +0000

‘I’m the murmuration meister… I should put that on my business card’

Nigel Topping is the UN’s High-Level Climate Action Champion, appointed by the UK Prime Minister in January 2020. Nigel works alongside the Chilean High-Level Climate Action Champion, Gonzalo Muñoz. The role of the high-level champions is to strengthen collaboration and drive action from businesses, investors, organisations, cities, and regions on climate change, and coordinate this work with governments and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Nigel was most recently CEO of We Mean Business, a coalition of businesses working to accelerate the transition to a zero carbon economy. Prior to that he was Executive Director of the Carbon Disclosure Project, following an 18 year career in the private sector, having worked across the world in emerging markets and manufacturing.

‘Discover more stories of hope with Nigel and other climate innovators on the newly released The Green Room – What (On Earth’s) the Story film on You Tube’

Time Line

00.00 - 00.44: Opening Credits

00.46 - 05.08: Introducing Nigel Topping

05.15 - 07.51: The advantage of converging pathways

08.22 - 10.40: The collaborative process at COP26

11.00 - 12.19: Momentum and how to change big systems

12.36 - 13.34: Where Nigel finds his inspiration and energy - moving through despair

13.35 - 16:21: The 4 unhelpful micro stories

16:30 - 21:28: What are the helpful stories to tell ourselves?

20:30 - 24:36: David’s ‘Wanderful' Exercise: Recognising Patterns

24:59 - 28:42: Epilogue

End Credits

Quotes

“Changing big systems is very difficult and for all the clamour on the streets, there’s a lot of people who don’t want change… so… the louder the clamour gets, then the more it becomes a political force and so it opens up, but it’s only in the last few years that we’ve had that… it’s relatively new and it’s still only a minority of people.” (Nigel)

“Plenty of people who won’t allow politicians to move fast. It’s all very well saying you’ve got to move faster but we see CEO’s and politicians who have gone really fast, lose their jobs. The challenge is to take the WHOLE of society with us.” (Nigel)

“It’s not in the small hours, it’s in the middle of the day that I find despair and in Glasgow (COP26) I went through about three cycles of grief and joy per day.” (Nigel)

“The trick is not to fall on the two horns of the dilemma… there’s the ‘we’re so fucked, it’s not worth doing anything’ and ‘we’re so clever, it’s not worth worrying’. Both of those are bullshit.” (Nigel)

“I do think you should be scared and sceptical and so you should dip into those stories. For example, the science is a story, which is based on fact, right, but it’s still a narrative that shows you why you should be scared. And the history of in-action shows you why you should be sceptical… but… you shouldn’t get stuck in those stories, because there is very little agency in those stories and there’s a danger of being stuck in despair or anger.” (Nigel)

“Hope is an active choice… and hope and action are intertwined.” (Nigel)

“Choose hope…to try to do something… to make the world a better place… and then think about your skills and your influence.” (Nigel)

“If you’ve got kids, go to their school and see if the school will get involved in the ‘let’s get to zero initiative. If you’ve got access to business leaders, bring them into your work.” (Nigel)

Further Information

Nigel Topping

Twitter @topnigel

Instagram @nigel.topping

Web: https://racetozero.unfccc.int/

David Pearl

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Web: www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go w/ Gabrielle Walker - ”I’m A Woo-Woo Scientist”

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:23:35 +0000

"I'm a woo-woo scientist"

Gabrielle Walker, Founder and Director of Valence Solutions, is an expert strategist, speaker and moderator focused on unleashing capitalism on climate change. She works with global companies at boardroom-level, analysing emerging trends, challenging conventional thinking and driving meaningful action. Through its partnership with the UNFCCC High Level Champions for Climate Action, Valence Solutions participated in many COP26 events in Glasgow.

Gabrielle gives keynote addresses to corporate audiences around the world and is an accomplished moderator of high-level debates. She has presented many BBC TV and radio programmes, given a TED Countdown talk, was Climate Change Editor at Nature and Features Editor at New Scientist, has written extensively for many international newspapers and magazines including the FT, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and has authored four books. She earned her PhD at Cambridge University and has taught at both Cambridge and Princeton.

‘Discover more stories of hope with Gabrielle and other climate innovators on the newly released The Green Room – What (On Earth’s) the Story film on You Tube’

https://valencesolutions.org/

Timeline

00.00 - 00.48: Theme

00.49 - 05.04: Introducing Gabrielle Walker

05.10 - 06.15: What’s Gabrielle’s story?

06.20 - 09.10: When the ‘stories’ are broken and the thirst for a better story

09.11 - 12.07: The ‘removals’ story

12.09 - 15.23: Saints and Sinners Story (Good Guys v Bad Guys)

15.24 - 17.35: Holding up a mirror to myself

17.40 - 19.32: The Wooly Pigs Story & Bringing Green (Natural) and Chrome (Technology) together

19.35 - 23.40: David’s ‘Green & Chrome’ exercise

23.59 - 27.50: Epilogue

27.51 - 28.35: End Credits

Quotes

“We cannot now get down to net zero by 2050. We can’t stay below 1.5 degrees, this target we’re trying to get to, with all the means that we’re currently trying. We have left it too late.” (Gabrielle)

“ A much more heartening reason for getting behind carbon removals and taking CO2 back out of the sky (is) we can stop the problem getting worse and we can start to make it better… we can clean up our own mess and give the world a chance to heal.. and that… is a magical story.” (Gabrielle)

“You can store CO2 in the earth, in the trees, in soils, in ocean chemistry… you can store it in buildings, clothes, rocks, geological formations deep underground and probably other places we haven’t even thought of yet. And that means we can take it out of the sky and put it in all these other places and actually fix the problem.” (Gabrielle)

“You can use stories to connect individuals with people who don’t think in the way that you do in a way that they enjoy. Then you can make them feel safe enough to feel comfortable enough, for long enough to maybe go well ‘maybe it could be different’.” (Gabrielle)

“Go to the place inside where you can feel who you are and then go outside to the place to the friends around you… who helped me hold up a mirror to myself. And when I looked into the mirror and could go deeper… it’s a loving mirror, it’s the most wonderful thing anyone can ever give you. If you look into it you find a source of strength and power and energy and love that’s really spectacular.” (Gabrielle)

“I’m a woo-woo scientist” (Gabrielle)

Social Media

Gabrielle Walker

Twitter @GabrielleWalk3r

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/GabrielleWalk3r

Vimeo Channel https://vimeo.com/gabriellewalker

Websites https://gabriellewalker.com/

https://rethinkingremovals.org/

David Pearl (Host)

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Website www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go - Season 2 Finale

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:15:52 +0000

“Hello wanderers… welcome to the finale of our second season of ‘Wanderful’".

If you’ve listened to any of the previous episodes, you will know this is a podcast which has been designed to be walked to, providing you with some ‘inspiration on the go’

Every week we invite an inspiring guest to join us… somebody with a refreshing take on life and its various twists and turns.

What you don’t know is that lots of the wonderful conversations get left on the cutting room floor.

However… David and the team have scooped up some of that interview gold so you can take a wander through the magic we missed out on.

As ever… you can listen to this podcast in your home, but we think you will get the most inspiration if you boot up and join David @davidpearl_here @streetwisdom_ out on the streets.

The Season 2 finale features conversations with the founder of ‘The Eden Project’, Sir Tim Smit KBE, chief listener and volunteer executive director of ‘Sidewalk Talk’, Traci Ruble, the great connector, presenter and co-creator, Oli Barrett, columnist for Psychologies magazine, host of the ‘Happy Hacks’ Podcast and founder of ‘Untold Happiness’, Kia Cannons and multi-grammy award singer / composer, Nmon Ford.