Seán Ó Conlaín and Caroline Whyte speak with Nicholas Shaxson about his advocacy work on tackling the power of monopolies and on tax justice. Conversation topics included the relationship between Ireland’s corporate tax regime and its Foreign Direct Investment; the reasons why Nick has expanded his focus to include monopoly power as well as tax…
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Interview by Seán Ó Conláin (FEASTA & EHFF) with Philip McDonagh. Philip is the author of several poetry collections and the Director of the Centre for Religion, Human Values, and International Relations at Dublin City University. A former diplomat, he was involved in the Good Friday Agreement peace process in Northern Ireland, and he served…
Integrating conventional and traditional medicine (including research on herbs), while also making use of new technologies to help ensure that patient care is personalised as possible – these are some of the themes discussed by Takis Kotos, founder of the Cambridge Medical Academy, with David Somekh and Caroline Whyte. FEASTA and EHFF · Bridging the…
Bridging the Gap episode 10 The Importance of Being Seen In the first podcast of 2024 Seán Ó Conláin speaks with Thobile Chittenden, network co-lead of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), about her early childhood at the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa and how that experience has influenced her, leading eventually to…
Healthcare on a burning platform In this month’s podcast, David Somekh of the EHFF and Caroline Whyte spoke with Bogi Eliasen, the Director of Health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS). Bogi initiated the Nordic Health 2030 process and has a key role in both the global Future Proofing Health Index and Movement Health 2030, that…
Transforming the treadmill : work in a post-growth economy In the latest episode of the “Bridging the Gaps Podcast” by our partners at Feasta Caroline Whyte spoke with Katy Wiese, the Policy Manager for Economic Transition and Gender Equality at the European Environmental Bureau, and Jan Mayrhofer, the Policy and Advocacy Manager for Sustainability at…
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte interview futurist Bill Sharpe, author of the book ‘Three Horizons: the Patterning of Hope’. Bill explains how he came to be working in this area, the potential offered by the Three Horizons method, and describes some recent projects in healthcare and regenerative agriculture. FEASTA and EHFF · Three horizons, hope and…
Beyond Growth, Beyond Europe…and Beyond Politics In this podcast, Seán Ó Conláin and Caroline Whyte exchanged some initial thoughts on the European Parliament’s recent conference, “Beyond Growth: Pathways Towards Sustainable Prosperity in the EU,” which they both attended from May 15-17. They placed the conference in the context of a highly unbalanced world trade system that…
Politicians and the wellbeing economy David Somekh of the EHFF and Caroline interviewed Laura Rayner, who is a policy analyst at the European Policy Centre in Brussels. Laura is currently working on the Wellbeing Economy Policy Lab, which is a crosscutting work programme to analyse how the EU can develop and implement policies leading to…