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…
Growing a New Pattern for Health and Care EHFF attendance at the International Futures Forum Health and Care Gathering, Fintry Trust England June 14th 2023 EHFF has participated over the last couple of years in a monthly community of practice meeting focused on the UK NHS, led by Margaret Hannah, Director of Health Programmes at…
Problems of US climate politics (and maybe some solutions) Our guest this month is Professor Theda Skocpol, who is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, and the founder and director of the Scholars Strategy Network. Professor Skocpol has extensively researched the social and political dynamics that can bring about major…
UK-based smallholder Chris Smaje speaks with Seán and Caroline. Topics covered include agroecology, the need to balance different forms of property ownership, and the globalism/localism debate. Chris is based in Somerset in the UK and worked as an academic sociologist and anthropologist for some time, but then changed focus to the practice and politics of agroecology.…
This podcast continues with the theme of transformation catalysts which we also explored in last month’s Seán Ó Conlaín interviews Steve Waddell, who is the lead steward of the global Bounce Beyond movement which accelerates initiatives working to make regenerative, life-centered economies realizable at scale as “next economies” communities. Steve has a Ph.D. in sociology…