Nov 2021

BONUS Part Three Practice: Loving Kindness for Future Generations

This Loving-Kindness-meditation-with-a-twist asks us to generate care for people around us today, and for those in the future who have yet to be born. Co-created by Ella Saltmarshe and Headspace teacher Dora Kamau, who also reads the meditation. Learn more about your ad choices. ... Show More

14m 44s

Nov 2021

Part Four: Future Tense Politics

How can we do politics with a Long Time lens? So often it feels like our leaders are firmly stuck in the short-term, motivated by getting re-elected every four or five years and the sway of vested interests. In this episode we meet the people changing this both from within govern ... Show More

1h 6m

Nov 2021

BONUS Part Four Practice: The Words Before All Else

A gift to the students of the Academy from Mama Bear, Bear Clan Mother for the Mohawk Nation Council. This traditional Haudenosaunee practice expresses gratitude and empathic connection to all of creation. Usually delivered whenever people gather to make a decision, it can also b ... Show More

21m 12s

Dec 2020

Episode 3 - Economy

On the third and final episode of Planet B, we talk about the economy. We are joined by Fred Joiner, a poet; Keith Hart, an economic anthropologist; Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation; Flora Mile, a sustainability consultant; and Taylor Johnson, ... Show More

15m 35s

Nov 2019

Kate Raworth argues that rethinking economics can save our planet

Endless growth may actually be hurting our economy—and our planet. Economist Kate Raworth makes a case for “doughnut economics”: an alternative way to look at the economic systems ruling our societies and imagine a sustainable future for all.We're doing a TED Interview survey! If ... Show More

53m 59s

Dec 2019

An honest look at price, innovation and who powers the economy | Mariana Mazzucato

Where does wealth come from, who creates it and what destroys it? In this deep dive into global economics, Mariana Mazzucato explains how we lost sight of what value means and why we need to rethink our current financial systems -- so capitalism can be steered toward a bold, inno ... Show More

18m 41s

Mar 2018

Future Economics Part 1: The Money Talk

For this episode, Autumn and adrienne peel back the layers of story, assumption and shame around class, debt and money. This is the first of an on-going series that will look at post apocalyptic economics. Additional music from Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and Blue Dot Session ... Show More

1h 8m

Nov 2022

Live Event - Greta Thunberg in Conversation with Samira Ahmed

This week on the Penguin Podcast, from the Southbank Centre we bring you the live launch event of Greta Thunberg's The Climate Book. 'The Climate Book brings together an unprecedented collective of over 100 experts, activists and witnesses to t ... Show More

1h 11m

Aug 2022

Redesigning the future

In this episode, IDEO Chair and Co-CEO, Tim Brown, speaks to Joanna Choukier, RSA Director of Design and Innovation, Michael Pawlyn, architect and author of Biomimicry in Architecture, and David Wilkinson, VP of Agriculture and Dairy at Pepsico Europe, to explore the po ... Show More

21m 15s

Nov 2019

S2 Ep7: Can we be green and capitalist?

Many of our panellists in season two have described barriers that are standing in our way if we hope to restrict global warming to the 1.5 degrees C limit that the 2018 IPCC report outlined, and some have advocated how our current economic system could be used to overcome them. B ... Show More

1h 28m

Apr 2023

Is there a greener way to rank successful economies?

Many blame our obsession with economic growth as being one of the biggest drivers of climate change. The United Nations is currently looking at options for what might replace Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the world’s primary go-to indicator of success, taking into account fa ... Show More

27m 23s

Part Three: Once Upon an Economy