Episode 72: Interview with Rob Hopkins, founder of Transition movement
People feel defeated when they hear the grand cost of achieving carbon neutrality. But what if some of the solutions were to be found in revitalising the collective imagination,...
Episode 71: Interview with evolutionary biologist, Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris
In this interview with Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris, we explore the Gaia hypothesis or metaphor of a living earth, integrating physics, biology and spirituality. Indigenous cultures have long viewed the...
Episode 70: Interview with Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth Systems Science, UCL, author of The Human Planet
The scale of human impact on our planet is not easy to engage with – even scientists often have a narrow focus on the specific problems they’re trying to...
Episode 69: Interview with Marc Ventresca and Michele Scataglini
Solutions to many of the major problems in the world have been identified in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, funding these SDGs remains an immense challenge, in the region...
Episode 68: Interview with Rachel Dreskin, US Executive Director at Compassion in World Farming
Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) (www.ciwf.com) is a leading international charity working to improve farmed animal welfare around the world. Its mission is to end factory farming and advance...
Episode 67: Interview with Ann Pettifor, director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME)
Since the 1970s, credit has become increasingly easy to acquire. We have become a consumption-based society driven by our wants, supported by credit, rather than a sustainable society driven...
Episode 199: Author Manda Scott on Conscious Evolution, Systemic Change, and the Power of Storytelling
In this thought-provoking episode of The Sustainability Agenda, Fergal Byrne speaks with Manda Scott—award-winning novelist, podcaster, and shamanic practitioner—about the...