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FEASTA and EHFF
by FEASTA and EHFF
This series of podcasts is a collaboration between Feasta and the European Health Futures Forum. Feasta is an open-membership think tank whose aims are to identify the characteristics - economic, cultural and environmental - of a truly sustainable society, articulate how the necessary transition can be effected and promote the implementation of the measures required for this purpose. While rooted in Ireland, Feasta has international membership and its focus is often on the global-level systemic changes that we believe to be vital to our future.
Episodes
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The Role of Creativity in Health
The Role of Creativity in Health by FEASTA and EHFF
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Regenerative Economics in Secondary Schools (and Elsewhere)
Regenerative Economics in Secondary Schools (and Elsewhere) by FEASTA and EHFF
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The Social and Ecological Determinants of Health
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte speak with Professor Lindsay McLaren, who is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, Canada, where her research and teaching focus on the social determinants and political economy of health. Topics covered included…
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Tackling monopoly power, boosting tax justice
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…
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Perspectives on the Wellbeing Economy and Planetary Health from Mexico
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte speak with Simon Ticehurst, Advocacy and Movements Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. They discuss how the wellbeing economy concept can help tackle the urgent challenges of planetary health; covering topics such as Donut Economics, the historical challenges…
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Health and the Wellbeing Economy
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte spoke with Dr Tony Holohan, the former Chief Medical Officer of Ireland and the director of the new One Health Centre at University College Dublin. Tony and David reflected on the breakout session on health at the June 2024 Rethinking Growth conference. They...
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Rethinking Marketing
Doctor Sarah Browne from TCD Business School explains why she moved away from a traditional, mainstream teaching of marketing - including such subjects as ‘micro-targeting’ and ‘brand equity’. Instead, Sarah and colleagues, both in the Business School and elsewhere, are now taking a more critical...
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Care and the wellbeing economy
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte spoke with Mark Garavan, who is a senior lecturer in Social Care at the Atlantic Technological University and the author of the recently-published book ‘Care’. Topics discussed include the double-edged role of technology, the power of dominant narratives…
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Avoiding polarisation
In this podcast Seán Ó Conláin spoke 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 the Good Friday Agreement peace…
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Bridging the gaps between traditional and conventional medicine
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte speak with Takis Kotos, the founder of the Cambridge Medical Academy, about his work on 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...
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Achieving a just fossil fuel phase-out
In this podcast, Seán Ó Conláin and Caroline Whyte spoke with Harjeet Singh. Harjeet is the Global Engagement Director at the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative (FFNPT). He is currently also a member of the United Nations' Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management.…
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Reports from the COP28 frontline
Caroline Whyte interviews four of Feasta's delegates to the COP28 climate summit which took place in Dubai, in November 2023: Hania Imran (Pakistan), Angel Smith (USA), Theresa O'Donohoe (Ireland) and Barbara McCarthy (Ireland). Topics discussed include: - the influence of civil society on COP...
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The importance of being seen
Thobile Chittenden, network co-lead of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), speaks with Seán Ó Conláin about her early childhood at the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa and how that experience has influenced her, leading eventually to her decision to join the WEAll global...
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Resilience in times of turbulence
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte interviewed Professor Jane Gray of Maynooth University Department of Sociology on her research on resilience in times of crisis. We discussed two projects that she recently led which explored the ways in which families coped with the wake of the Great Financial...
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Taking stock and moving forward in environmental politics
Seán Ó Conláin and Caroline Whyte spoke with Molly Scott Cato. Molly was formerly a Professor of Green Economics and speaks for the Green Party of England and Wales on Economy and Finance. She recently published a book on Sustainable Finance (Springer, 2022). Between 2014 and 2020 Molly…
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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…
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Transforming the treadmill: work in a post-growth economy
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 the European Youth Forum. Katy and Jan discussed the recommendations in their...
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Three horizons, hope and the future
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...
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Beyond Growth, Europe, and Politics
Seán Ó Conláin and Caroline Whyte exchange 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 considered it a seminal event and felt it was far too rich an…
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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…
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Community Wealth Building and the next economic system
Caroline Whyte spoke with Sarah McKinley, who is the director of community wealth building programs for The Democracy Collaborative, working out of her home office in Brussels, Belgium. Sarah's background is in community development and has worked with community development organizations at...
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Wellbeing Frameworks: challenges and progress
Many people would agree that we need to change the way in which we measure progress and move past the current narrow focus on GDP. Ireland, along with many other countries, has been developing a wellbeing framework that contains a dashboard of indicators which are intended to give a snapshot of…
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Transforming chaos into coherence
David Somekh of the EHFF and Caroline Whyte spoke with Jim Garrison. Jim is the founder of Ubiquity University, whose founding purpose is to develop learning experiences grounded in the world’s wisdom traditions blended with practical interpersonal and entrepreneurial skills. Jim has a doctorate…
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Housing access and mass retrofitting in Ireland and Europe: challenges and solutions
Seán Ó Conláin and Caroline Whyte interviewed Anne Barrington, who is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Ó Cualann Cohousing Alliance in Ireland, and Uuriintuya Batsaikhan, an economist based in Brussels who oversees the research projects at Positive Money Europe. Topics covered in...
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Lessons for community health from the COVID pandemic
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte spoke with Lars Münter. Lars works on international relations for the Danish committee for health education, and he also manages the communication for Nordic Health 2030 and is a member of the EHFF’s Advisory Group and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance’s Danish hub....
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Empowerment through the arts
Cristina Ciampaglione, originally from Italy, is an artist and arts manager who has worked on a range of arts projects in Ireland and is a Project Manager with The Walls Project, which uses street art as a tool of engagement between communities and artists. She recently coordinated - and spoke at…
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Breaking down silos in healthcare and the economy
In this month’s podcast, David Somekh, the network director of the European Health Futures Forum (EHFF) who often co-hosts our podcasts, spoke with Caroline Whyte. Topics discussed include the challenge of breaking down silos and employing systems thinking and scenario thinking, the importance of...
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Supporting nature's connections
Seán Ó Conláin speaks with ecologist Julien Carlier about his research, including his doctoral thesis on mapping the ecological benefits of greenways, his current work on mapping High Nature Value farmland and forestry, and his impressions of the new CAP programmes which aim to pay farmers for...
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The theory and practice of Communities of Practice
Caroline Whyte and David Somekh of the European Health Futures Forum speak with Davie Philip about Communities of Practice. Davie is a community catalyst, climate coach and facilitator at Cultivate, the Sustainable Ireland Cooperative. Since 1997 Davie has been active in Ireland promoting...
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Problems of U.S. 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...
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A Small Farm Future
Seán Ó Conláin and Caroline Whyte spoke with Chris Smaje. 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. He now coworks a smallholder farm. He has written several…
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Bioregionalism, the Commons and the Doughnut
To kick off our 2022 series, Caroline Whyte of Feasta and David Somekh of the EHFF spoke with Isabel Carlisle, the director of the Bioregional Learning Centre in Devon in the UK. Isabel spoke about her earlier career as an archaeologist and in the art world, and how she became involved in the...
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Dispersing the looming cloud of digital waste
Caroline Whyte and Seán Ó Conláin speak with Gerry McGovern, who is a specialist in identifying and reducing digital waste and the author of the book 'World Wide Waste: how digital is killing our planet and what we can do with it'. Gerry has written eight books about digital design and has…
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Symbiosis and system change: potential lessons from mycology
Bill O'Dea, a specialist in mycology, talks with Seán Ó Conlaín and Caroline Whyte about the immense contribution that fungi make to the biosphere, their nutritional value, the threats they are facing, the complex symbiotic relationship which they have with each other and with other species, and...
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Growth-independence and clear communication in the wellbeing economy
This podcast includes two interviews/discussions, one with Jakob Hafele of the Zoe Institute for Future-Fit Economies and the other with Lars Münter of the Nordic Health 2030 Coalition. Both of their organisations are members of the global Wellbeing Economy Alliance, but have come to it from...
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Sidestepping the 'Growth versus Degrowth' debate
In this podcast we look at potential ways to get beyond the time-consuming, and sometimes quite heated, arguments between those who believe that aggregate ‘green growth’ is possible and those who believe that environmental constraints will oblige us to adopt a different economic goal. Beth...
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Transformation catalysts part 2
This podcast continues with the theme of transformation catalysts which we also explored in last month’s eán 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...
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Transformation catalysts and narratives
Seán Ó Conláin interviews Dr Sandra Waddock on her decades-long research into the role that certain organisations can play in bringing about societal change on a profound level.
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Community Wealth Building: boosting agency and diversification
Sean O'Conlain and Caroline Whyte speak with Mary McManus, who has worked in the Welfare Rights Advice sector in Belfast for over 20 years, and from Seán Mc Cabe, the Executive Manager of the Climate Justice Centre of TASC, the Irish-based Thinktank for Action on Social Change, about the…
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Crises and collectivity
David Somekh of the EHFF interviews Professor John Drury of Sussex University and Cormac Russell of Nurture Development. They talk about their research into collective behaviour in terms of crisis, ways in which communities can come together when the circumstances call for it, and how a sense of...
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Health, justice and the environment - the core issues
The latest instalment of our podcast series ‘Bridging the Gaps’ begins with an interview by David Somekh of the European Health Futures Forum of Tsvetelina Filipova, who is involved in All Policies for a Healthy Europe, an intersectoral initiative that brings together a diverse group of NGOs,...
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Pitchforks and Arcadia: overcoming fear with a new vision
Seán O’Conlaín and Caroline Whyte speak with Mark Garavan, a lecturer in social care at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology. Mark has a doctorate in the sociology of environmental activism and is the author of the book Compassionate Activism, and he is also a Feasta Director. Topics covered...
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Pitchforks and Arcadia: overcoming fear with a new vision
Seán O·Conlaín and Caroline Whyte speak with Mark Garavan, a lecturer in social care at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology. Mark has a doctorate in the sociology of environmental activism and is the author of the book Compassionate Activism, and he is also a Feasta Director. Topics covered...
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Economic narratives and systems innovation
We interview Argentianian economist and Wellbeing Economy Alliance member Mariana Mirabile, who has a PhD in development economics and is a partner of Systems Innovation, on the reasons behind her shift in orientation away from a neoclassical approach to economics and towards ecological…
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Defending nature, supporting health
We hear from Oonagh Duggan, who is the head of advocacy for the conservation of birds and their habitats at Birdwatch Ireland and is on the Steering Committee of the Environmental Pillar, and also from Easkey Britton, who is a prominent and highly skilled surfer, as well as an academic with a PhD...
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Being young in a time of pandemic
In this podcast we explored the effects of the COVID 19 pandemic, and of the general economic context in which lockdown is occurring, on young people. We heard from Jonathan Laszlo, a health care researcher living in Belgium; Tommy Hickey, a law graduate living in the Dublin area; and Amber...
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Multiculturalism and Resilience
This podcast features Feasta's summer intern, Nadia Hansen, interviewing Dundalk-based social worker Dr Washington Marovatsanga on cultural competence, enforced absence, the relationship between power and knowledge production, the problematic history and orientation of social work, and how a…
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Towards Well-being
David Somekh of the European Health Futures Forum interviews Stewart Wallis, Chair of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, about the need to change track economically so as to optimise societal well-being, and how such a change might be brought about.
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Partnership-based organisation
Governments around the world are currently rethinking their approach to the economy and reflecting on their overall goals, and this is triggering many questions about how best to structure organisations, large and small, so as to improve our chances of achieving those goals. This podcast includes...
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The future of tourism and business travel
We interview Manuel Grebenjak of the Stay Grounded network, and Professor James Faulconbridge, head of the Organisation Work and Technology Department at Lancaster University, about the future of tourism and business travel in the wake of Coronavirus - bearing in mind the need to urgently reduce...
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This series of podcasts is a collaboration between Feasta and the European Health Futures Forum. Feasta is an open-membership think tank whose aims are to identify the characteristics - economic, cultural and environmental - of a truly sustainable society, articulate how the necessary transition can be effected and promote the implementation of the measures required for this purpose. While rooted in Ireland, Feasta has international membership and its focus is often on the global-level systemic changes that we believe to be vital to our future.
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