Local Futures Podcast

Local Futures Podcast


Latest Episodes

Re-embedding ourselves in the community of life – Liz Hosken
May 21, 2024

Liz Hosken is the Founding Co-Director of the Gaia Foundation. For nearly 40 years, Gaia has been upholding indigenous wisdom and working with both indigenous and industrialized communities to restore

Connecting the circle: true progress and the cycles of time - Rutendo Ngara
May 10, 2024

Rutendo Ngara is a holder of indigenous African knowledge systems and a transdisciplinary researcher. She is a practitioner of a number of physical disciplines, including dance and yoga, and has repre

Suicidal growth & the future of sustainable economies – Andrew Simms
April 30, 2024

A political economist and environmentalist, Andrew Simms is at the forefront of the movement for a new economy in the UK and around the world. His books includeCancel the Apocalypse,Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why it Matters, andEconomi

Mental health crisis: blame the system, not the individual – Eva Henje
April 19, 2024

In this episode, Eva elucidates some of the profound connections between the economy we live in and our most intimate experiences of being human. Exploring the root causes of the widespread mental health crises, Eva shifts the focus from individual pathol

Grassroots movements & initiatives are changing the world - Juan del Rio
April 09, 2024

Juan del Rio is a pioneer of the Transition movement in Spain, and the Co-Director of ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability. He is the co-fou

Illusions of progress and their countertrends in Japan - Keibo Owia
March 29, 2024

Keibo Oiwa is a professor, cultural anthropologist, and a widely respected philosopher and organizer in Japan. He co-authored, with David Suzuki, a book about bottom-up movements for peace, human righ

Localization: learning from indigenous communities – Thais Mantovani
March 19, 2024

Thais Mantovani is a young woman from São Paulo, Brazil, passionate about educationreform and eco-cultural regeneration. An alumnus of Schumacher College, she is the co-founder of EcoUniversidade, a Y

Agrarian localism: becoming 'ecological protagonists' – Chris Smaje
March 08, 2024

Chris Smaje is an author, small-scale farmer, social scientist, and food system analyst. His work explores the current moment of vast change, as the dynamics of climate, energy, politics and natural e

Car-free cities, corporate control and the power of people - Debra Efroymson
February 27, 2024

Debra Efroymson (Bangladesh/USA) is a tireless advocate for policies that support public health, wellbeing and happiness. She is the co-founder and Executive Director at Institute of Wellbeing, Bangla

Episode 19 - Jeremy Lent: Shifting Paradigms
December 28, 2021

Described by journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” Jeremy Lent is the founder of the Liology Institute and the author of ‘The Patterning Instinct’ and, most recently,