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  • With the World Wide Wander just weeks away, we've edited together just a few of our favourite guests from the Wanderful podcast - sharing what they love about taking their creativity for a walk.

    If you would like to join us in exercising your imagination, take a wander to https://www.theworldwidewander.com and sign up for free Walkshops across the globe, special guests, inspiration, ideas and laughter, all with like minded folk wanting to find #betterways

    Timeline:

    00.00 - 00.47: Intro Theme

    00.47 - 04.55: Introducing the World Wide Wander

    The Perfect Strangers

    04.55 - 09.04: Pippa Evans

    09.05 - 11.24: Ruby Rare

    11.25 - 14.33: Sarah Ellis

    15.12 - 16.50: Philip Cowell

    16.51 - 21.01: Deborah Coughlin

    21.02 - 23.13: Sir Tim Smit

    24.19 - 25.50: Traci Ruble

    25.51 - 27.20: Oli Barrett

    27.21 - 31.05: Kia Cannons

    31.06 - 34.24: Libby DeLana

    34.25 - 38.17: Tom Morley

    38.18 - 39.56: Satish Kumar

    40.25 - 41.30: Sarah Corbett

    41.31 - 42.40: Phillip Blom

    42.41 - 44.18: Tina Roth Eisenberg

    44.19 - 46.54: Introducing our Perfect Strangers / Reminder of the World Wide Wander

    46.55 - 47.15 End Credits

    Credits

    David Pearl (Host)

    Web: https://www.davidpearl.net

    Web: https://wanderfulpodcast.com

    Twitter: @davidpearlhere

    Instagram: davidpearl_here

    Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

    Twitter: @ItPainesMe

  • 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 HonorĂ©: 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

    https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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

    Instagram: @carlhonore

    Twitter: @carlhonore

    YouTube:@carlhonore

    Facebook: @carlhonore and @carlhonorepage

    LinkedIn: @carlhonore

    Pinterest: @carlhonore

    TED Talk 1: Slow

    TED Talk 2: Age

    TED Course: How to slow down

    Holly Cullen-Davies

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

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

    Instagram @daviesanddaughters

    Instagram @thulamamalondon

    David Pearl (Host)

    Web: https://www.davidpearl.net

    Web: https://wanderfulpodcast.com

    Twitter: @davidpearlhere

    Instagram: davidpearl_here

    Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

    Twitter: @ItPainesMe

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  • “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)

    Web: https://www.davidpearl.net

    Web: https://wanderfulpodcast.com

    Twitter: @davidpearlhere

    Instagram: davidpearl_here

    Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

    Twitter: @ItPainesMe

  • ‘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

    Instagram: @carlhonore

    Twitter: @carlhonore

    YouTube:@carlhonore

    Facebook: @carlhonore and @carlhonorepage

    LinkedIn: @carlhonore

    Pinterest: @carlhonore

    TED Talk 1: Slow

    TED Talk 2: Age

    TED Course: How to slow down

    David Pearl (Host)

    Web: https://www.davidpearl.net

    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

  • 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.

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

    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

  • 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

  • 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, SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung, Neue ZĂŒricher 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, WolfenbĂŒttel), 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 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

  • “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.

    https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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 betweenWalking every day for the last 11 yearsThe ‘Practice’ is not about mileageTreating 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 effectLibby’s mission to share this knowledge with all

    11.19 - 14.30

    Learning new lessons through every walkLoving the fidelity of the practice: Keeping a commitment to herselfThe ‘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 breathSubmitting to the routineFlipping the ‘inquiry’ from external to internalSeeing the world feet first rather than head firstNot 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 communityWalking with others - the walk-pod

    27.50 - 31.10

    Libby’s navigation system: trusting gut / ageInquiry & 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 sadnessBeing 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

  • “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.

    https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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)

    www.extraordinary.college

    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

  • "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.

    https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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)

    Further Reading

    Bianca Pitt - Co Founder of She Changes Climate

    https://www.shechangesclimate.org

    Pukka Teas - Impact & Sustainability

    https://www.pukkaherbs.com/uk/en/impact-and-sustainability

    Routes

    https://routescollective.com/

    Contacts

    Anuradha Chugh: @pukkaherbs

    David Pearl:

    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

  • ‘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

    https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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.

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

    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?

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

    Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM

  • "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://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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

    https://craftivist-collective.com/

    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?

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

    Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM

  • 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.

    https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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?

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

    Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM

  • “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://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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://creativemornings.com/

    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?

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

    Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM

  • "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://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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

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

    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?

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

    Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM

  • “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.

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

    Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM

    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.

    https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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

  • “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.

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

    Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM

    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’.

    https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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

  • “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.

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

    Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM

    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.

    https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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

  • ‘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’

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

    Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM

    https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

    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