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Sweden in Transition
by Sonia Le Masne
The podcast that meets change-makers in Sweden. In a world in need of urgent reinvention, they do things differently and explain why. Arrived from France, Sonia Le Masne is eager to meet transitioners and share her conversations with them... with you ! In partnership with Stockholm Food Movement, an initiative powered by Impact Hub Stockholm, Sonia meets many activists and entrepreneurs making positive change within all things related to food; urban farming, food waste, alternative food networks, insect industry... She will explore the ideas of collapse, reinvention, happiness and purpose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Sweden in Transition #29 - Lindsay Bryson at MSF
Lindsay has been working for MSF for almost 20 years in various roles and locations mainly in Africa (Ethopia, Haïti, Congo…) and is now based in Stockholm. MSF. Médecins Sans Frontières is known internationally as Doctors without Borders. Founded 50 years ago in France by a group of journalists...
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Sweden in Transition #28 - Henrik Blind
Henrik BLIND is group leader for the Green Party in Jokkmokk. Henrik is also Sami and together we will speak about the Sami people, their history and culture as well as their rights and fights. TheSami are Europes’s only indigenous people whose land called Sápmi encompasses large northern parts…
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Sweden in Transition #27 - Three Swedish Dads
Today it is a new format: I will leave the floor to three dads so they can share their own experience on paternity leave. Emotion guaranteed! Parental leave is 480 days in Sweden, which are more and more shared equally between both parents. It is well paid and during this first year there is no...
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Sweden in Transition #26 - Johan Bävman on Paternity Leave
I have been willing to make an episode on paternity leave for a longtime, looking around for the right person to meet! That was until I discovered Johan’sexhibit called Swedish Dads. Johan Bävman is a photographer and has won several awards, including the World Press Photo, Sony Award, UNICEF...
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Sweden in Transition #25 - Sanna Ghotbi
Very happy to welcome Sanna Ghotbi to talk about Participatory Democracy ! After working in politics for four years, Sanna is now working with municipalities and public institutions to design participatory democracy processes. Together we discussed the need to reinvent democracy. We reviewed...
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Sweden in Transition #24 - Elvin Landaeus Csizmadia, Extinction Rebellion Activist
Extinction Rebellion (also known as XR) was born in 2018 in the UK and today claims 100,000 members across 60 countries. This collective defends a radical change in our environmental policies and advocates civil disobedience & non-violence. Occupations of places, blockades with human chains, art...
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Sweden in Transition #23 - Sepehr Mousavi on Vertical Farming
Sepehr Mousavi is the Co-Founder of SweGreen, where he is in charge of Sustainability, Innovation and R&D. He is also a Futurist and Green Tech advocate, TedX speaker and keynote for many otherconferences. SweGreen is an Agtech and Vertical Farming innovation company based in Stockholm. How do we...
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Sweden in Transition #22 - Helene Ählberg on Teal Organizations
Helene Ählberg is a Purpose guide, she helps develop progressive organizations with a purpose-driven culture where employees contribute and grow. She is also the founder of Teal for Teal Sweden. A network to spread ideas and models for new ways of working in our rapidly changing world. During…
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Sweden in Transition #21 - Joakim Levin on Slow Fashion
Joakim Levin, on slow fashion CEO of Nudie Jeans Joakim is the CEO of Nudie Jeans, a denim brand that has won many awards in the field of sustainability since it was created in 2001 by Maria Erixon. The fashion industry accounts for about 10% of global carbon emissions, and nearly 20% of...
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Sweden in Transition #20 - Linnéa Engström on Politics & Ocean's Governance
Linnéa Engström worked as a green member of the EU parliament for 5 years. She has written a book on climate justice and feminism. She was elected First Vice-Chair of the Committee on Fisheries and is currently working as program director at the Marine Stewardship Council. During this…
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Sweden in Transition #19 - Julian Reisz on Purpose at Work
Julian is the co-founder of Brave Business, a sustainability and innovation consultancy, but also co-founder of two start ups Brave Brews and Food Facts, a real slasher! During this conversation, you will learn more about all his activities but also about his personal journey and understand how…
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Sweden in Transition #18 - Pella Thiel on Ecocide
Pella Thiel, Founder of End Ecocide Sweden and Rights of Nature Sweden PELLA THIEL WAS APPOINTED SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL HERO OF THE YEAR 2019 Should Nature have rights? Today a corporation can have standing to be represented in court whilst animals or ecosystems can’t. President Macron said he…
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Sweden in Transition #17 - Tomas Björkman on Mindshift
Tomas is an applied Philosopher and a Social Entrepreneur, founder of the Eskäret Foundation and of many other initiatives in Stockholm, London and Berlin. In this conversation, we will speak about meta-crisis and the possibility that humanity is undergoing a ‘phase-shift’, this will raise...
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Sweden in Transition #16 - Kaj Török on replacing Beef Burgers
Can a burger company be a role model on sustainability? In Sweden, the favorite fast food starts with a M but it is not the one you think! It is Max Burger, a family owned company, that received UN’s Global Climate Action Award at COP25 in Madrid. Meet Kaj Török, Chief Sustainability Officer at…
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Sweden in Transition #15 - Jean-Baptiste Jouffray on Ocean in the Anthropocene
Jean-Baptiste introduces us to this Ocean, that represents two-thirds of the earth surface but is still vastly unknown. It is a reservoir for future discoveries with great potential on marine genetic resources and new medicines (which is particularly relevant in times of COVID), but also a life...
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Sweden in Transition #14 - Jonathan Milläng on Youth and Climate
Jonathan Milläng, on Happiness, AI, Freewill and Political Engagement Board member at PUSH Sweden and former Digital Director for Democratic super pac For Our Future Jonathan is a graduate student at Columbia in New York. He’s already had several working experiences in green finance, digital and...
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Sweden in Transition #13 - Mattias Goldmann, on coronavirus and beyond
Mattias Goldmann, one of Sweden's most influencial in sustainability accepted my invitation to share around this very special period we are living through and what good we can expect from it. We focused on the links that can be made with transition and climate change. Mattias points out that...
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Sweden in Transition #12 - Albert Norström (Stockholm Resilience Center)
Coronavirus is a huge test of resilience for our modern society. What is the capacity of our socio-economic system to bounce back, adapt and transform under this period of stress and disturbance? I met Albert Norström from the Stockholm Resilience Center a few weeks before the Coronavirus…
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Sweden in Transition #11 - Åsa Stenmark on Waste, Recycling and Circular Economy
So happy I met Åsa Stenmarck! Åsa is a researcher at IVL, the Swedish Environmental Research Institute, expert on sustainable consumption, circular economy and waste management. Why is it urgent that we reinvente our economic model, built around growth & stuff ? Does the Swedish waste and…
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Sweden in Transition #10 - Thomas Sterner on Carbon Tax
Thomas STERNER is a renowned environmental economist, he was involved in the IPCC as one of the authors in charge of the chapters on policy design. He has published hundreds of scientific articles and more than a dozen books on various topics such as energy, climate, transport, resource…
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Sweden in Transition #9 - Cindy Falquet, Green Party
Cindy is part of the Green Party Office at the Stockholm City Hall. During our conversation, she mentioned Sweden strengths such as ecological consciousness but also its paradox, like overconsumption, and questioned eternal growth in a world with limited ressources . We reviewed her other files…
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Sweden in Transition #8 - Viktoria Olausson on Human Rights
Viktoria Olausson is Chair person for FIAN Sweden. An international human rights NGO, whose mission is to expose violations of people’s right to food wherever they may occur. Today, we will discuss about food sovereignty in general and focusing here is Sweden. Viktoria will share issues faced by...
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Sweden in Transition #7 - Sara Jervfors, Södertälje Municipality
Sara Jervfors is head of diet in Södertälje and project leader for MatLust, a five-year EU project, whose purpose is to strengthen growth and sustainability of the food sector in the Stockholm region. She will share the initiative of this pioneer municipality to foster local food and nutrition!...
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Sweden in Transition #6 - Amanda Power, on the Anthropocene
Amanda Power is professor at Oxford University and historian of religion, power and intellectual life in medieval Europe. She is currently working on a monograph, "Medieval Histories of the Anthropocene", and also just wrote a small daring article « Notre Dame should not be restored – let it…
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Sweden in Transition #5 - James Ehrlich, Regenerative Villages
James Ehrlich is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University and is the Founder of ReGen Villages; desirable off-grid capable neighborhoods comprised of power positive homes, renewable energy, water management, and waste-to-resource systems that are based upon on-going resiliency research…
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Sweden in Transition #4 - Elin Aronsen Beis, Zero food waste
Foodloopz is a food waste marketplace B2B, so companies, organizations and the public sector with surpluses and wastage can meet other parties with needs. No company should destroy edible foods because they lack time, alternative customers or because of cannibalism of their own market. Instead…
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Sweden in Transition #3 - Jörgen Andersson, Regenerative Farmer
Jörgen is a regenerative farmer and Founder of the Savory Institute Nordic Hub. To feed our global population and meet our climate emission reduction targets, we know we have to reduce our meat consumption. But livestock integration can play an important role in regenerative agriculture, such as...
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Sweden in Transition #2 - Thomas Bjelkeman Pettersson & Anke Johanna van Lenteren, Aquaponics
Two of the four co-founders of Johannas Stadodlingar AB; a local aquaponics farm growing and selling fish, vegetables and herbs. We talked about their circular cultivation system, which allows to produce food, all year round, whether it is 30 degrees hot or minus 30 degrees cold! We explored how...
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Sweden in Transition #1 - Andrea Stover, Stockholm Food Movement
Founder of the Stockholm Food Movement, Andrea believes the food system should be regenerative rather than only sustainable. She will tell us about that and about some of the great speakers, who came over the past 3 years, for the monthly events she organizes through the support of Impact Hub...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The podcast that meets change-makers in Sweden.
In a world in need of urgent reinvention, they do things differently and explain why.
Arrived from France, Sonia Le Masne is eager to meet transitioners and share her conversations with them... with you !
In partnership with Stockholm Food Movement, an initiative powered by Impact Hub Stockholm, Sonia meets many activists and entrepreneurs making positive change within all things related to food; urban farming, food waste, alternative food networks, insect industry...
She will explore the ideas of collapse, reinvention, happiness and purpose.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
HOSTED BY
Sonia Le Masne
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