The Story of [y]our 2040 Season 1 - Episode 10

Reto Gurtner - Entrepreneur Chris Luebkeman - Futurist

A different future begins when we choose to look honestly at the world our children will inherit.

In a time when warning signs flash across climate, society, government, economies and local communities, this episode turns a gaze toward what it means to act together with intention. Host Jonelle speaks with the first co-founders of [Y]our 2040 - Chris Luebkeman and Reto Gurtner - about why they created the gathering, why they rooted it in Alpine villages, and how they imagine an event that returns every year from now until 2040.

This conversation explores their focus on information, inspiration and implementation, their insistence on diversity and trust as core conditions for change, and their desire to align inner motivation with outer systems. It frames impact as a shared journey, held in a very real place that already feels the shifts of climate and culture.

We invite you to consider what action you will bring to our collective future.

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Credits: Host: Jonelle Simunich - Designer & Strategist Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich

Recorded in 2021

Why Business Must Rethink Circularity Season 1 - Episode 9

Raphael Gielgen - Futurist Oliver Brunschwiler - Circular Economy Entrepreneur

Circularity becomes real when beauty, honesty, and responsibility meet in the objects we live with every day.

In a world flooded with short lived products and invisible digital systems, this episode explores what it truly means to design for a circular future. Jonelle sits with Rafael Gielgen from Vitra and Oliver Brunschwiler - formerly from Freitag - to explore how companies that make physical things face the hard truths of waste, materials, and time, while still creating objects people love, keep and want to use.

This conversation challenges the idea that circularity is solved through marketing or recycling alone, and instead insists that waste is a design error that begins on the drawing board. It reframes beauty as a guiding force, suggesting that people care for and repair what feels meaningful. It reveals that real progress depends on collaboration, courage to fail, and a willingness to speak uncomfortable truths within our own comfortable bubbles.

We encourage you to look at the things that surround you and ask where you can nudge processes and products from disposable to enduring.

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Credits: Host: Jonelle Simunich - Designer & Strategist Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich

Recorded in 2021

Government Strategies Transforming the Planet Season 1 - Episode 8

Hans Bruyninckx - Environmental Policy Scientist

Systemic change begins when we treat planetary limits as a starting point, not an afterthought.

In a Europe facing climate disruption, biodiversity loss, and widening inequality, this episode explores how the European Green Deal reframes economic and political agendas around planetary boundaries. Chris speaks with Hans Bruyninckx from the European Environment Agency about what it means to build systemic sustainability transitions grounded in science and honest about power, politics, and uneven responsibility. The conversation challenges the assumption that nature is an externality to be priced, and instead places it at the core of twenty first century prosperity. It reframes your role from passive consumer to active citizen who can demand that finance, food systems, and public institutions move beyond small efficiencies toward structural change. It reveals that progress depends not only on scaling new solutions, but also on the resolve to stop harmful subsidies, fossil fuel dependence, and unjust patterns of inequality.

We invite you to consider where your own influence lies and within which systems; and how you might support a more just and sustainable future.

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Credits: Host: Chris Luebkeman Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich

Recorded in 2021

What Investing for Impact Really Means Season 1 - Episode 7

Martina Mueller-Kamp - Financial Manager Nathalie Moral - Business Leader

Impact becomes real when we choose where to place our attention, energy, and courage.

In a moment when urgency is clear yet pathways forward feel crowded with uncertainty, this episode explores how individuals and institutions decide what impact truly means. Entrepreneur and moderator Sunnie Groeneveld brings together Martina Müller Kamp from Graubunden Cantonal Bank and Nathalie Moral of KlimaNow to examine how choices about time, resources, and strategy shape the futures we make possible.

Here we challenge the assumption that impact is simply the sum of good intentions and reframe it as a discipline grounded in clarity, informed decision making, and community involvement. Meaningful change emerges when diverse actors align personal conviction with transparent criteria, shared purpose, and a willingness to prototype before perfection.

You are invited to consider where your own resources can create the most resonance and what story you will write.

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Credits: Host: Sunnie Groeneveld - Entrepreneur Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich

Recorded in 2021

How Advocacy Shapes the Future Across GenerationsSeason 1 - Episode 6

Reto Knutti - Climate Scientist Marie-Claire Graf - Intergenerational Advocate

Climate urgency shifts systems when facts meet feelings and responsibility.

In a world where climate science grows ever more conclusive, this episode explores how facts, feelings, and power intersect in the politics of change. Bruno Giussani joins climate scientist Reto Knutti and youth activist Marie-Claire Graf for a conversation that starts with clear data on climate and moves into questions of human behavior, political will, and intergenerational voice. This dialogue challenges the belief that more reports and sharper numbers will be enough, and instead asks what kinds of stories, emotions, and social innovations are needed to match the scale of the crisis. It reveals how fear, anger, and eco-anxiety can sit alongside courage, rest, and solidarity, and how young people are creating their own seats at decision making tables.

This episode invites you to treat urgency as a lived practice, weaving honest facts together with brave empathy, reflection, and collective pressure.

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Credits: Host: Bruno Giussani - Author & Advisor Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich

Recorded in 2021

What Food Systems Can Teach Us About Circularity Season 1 - Episode 5 Sue Tobler - Astrophysicist Anastasia Hofmann - Entrepreneur Naomi MacKenzie - Entrepreneur Beat Karrer - Designer

Change in the food system begins when people stop treating waste as an accident and start treating it as a design choice.

In a world where perfectly good food still ends up in bins behind hotels and conference centers, this episode looks closely at what it takes to redesign that pattern from the inside. The conversation brings together Sue Tobler, Naomi MacKenzie, Anastasia Hofmann, and Beat Karrer, four entrepreneurs who work across the food system from cooking, measurement technology, and bioplastics, each of them driven by the moment they realized that business as usual was simply not good enough. This episode challenges the assumption that awareness alone will shift behavior and shows why hard data and visual feedback can move kitchens far more than abstract concern. It reframes food waste by asking what happens when you track every plate and every bin as carefully as revenue. It reveals that real progress lives in the tension between patience and urgency, between prototypes and regulation.

We invite you to see every meal, every bin, and every rule as a practical place to start changing the system you live inside.

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Credits: Host: Chris Luebkeman Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich

Recorded in 2021

How Urgency Can Create Stronger Climate Action Season 1 - Episode 4 Tim Jarvis - Explorer and Environmental Scientist

Clarity emerges when urgency becomes a catalyst for both courage and collective responsibility.

In a world where environmental warnings are no longer distant forecasts but daily realities, this episode explores how one person translates extreme expedition experience into practical guidance for climate action. Environmental scientist, author, and polar explorer Tim Jarvis joins Chris for a conversation that moves between the icy expanse of Antarctica and the complex landscapes of corporate and political decision making. This episode challenges the assumption that urgency must rely on fear and instead introduces pragmatic optimism as a disciplined balance between truth telling and possibility. It reframes leadership by asking how you speak to diverse motivations while still moving everyone toward a shared outcome. It reveals that the real work lies in meeting people where they are and shaping messages that resonate with their values rather than only with your own.

This episode invites you to see urgency not as alarm but as an active practice of influence, grounded action, and courageous communication.

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Credits: Host: Chris Luebkeman Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich

Recorded in 2021

Why Science Matters More Than Ever Season 1 - Episode 3

Holger Hoff - Environmental Scientist Adrienne Gret-Regamey - Urban Systems Professor

Lasting change emerges when knowledge, emotion, and local experience are treated as equally vital forms of intelligence.

In a time when we can measure almost everything yet still hesitate to act, this episode explores what climate implications mean for different landscapes and communities. David Bresch from ETH Zurich in dialogue with urban landscape planner Adrienne Gret-Regamey and planetary boundaries scholar Holger Hoff. Together they address how retreating glaciers, new lakes and shifting mountain economies are opportunities for new cultural landscapes.

This episode challenges the assumption that more data will lead to different choices and reframes adaptation as a practice of empowerment, shared vocabulary, and attention to who actually holds the power to change land use. It reveals that the real work lies in linking quantitative insight with lived experience, local dialect, and the courage to keep going even when early efforts fail.

We invite you to see your own region as a place with diverse voices that shape practical, place based responses and honor planetary limits.

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Credits: Host: David Bresch - Professor for Weather and Climate Risks Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich

Recorded in 2021

Why Architecture Must Become Regenerative Season 1 - Episode 2

Michael Pawlyn - Architect

Real change in the built environment begins when we stop relying on exemplar projects and start shifting the paradigm that shapes them.

In a world where climate reports warn of collapse while markets still claim they are not ready for real solutions, this episode explores why transformative ideas struggle to take root and what it takes to change that. Architect and author Michael Pawlyn joins Chris to trace his journey from pioneering green projects to questioning why so many never leave the drawing board. The conversation turns to Donella Meadows and the question of leverage, revealing that many designers intervene at the shallow end of complex systems instead of at the level of mindset and story.

This episode challenges the assumption that more demonstration projects are enough and reframes change as a shift from sustainable thinking that mitigates harm toward regenerative thinking that optimizes positive impact. It invites you to see yourself as an active shaper of new paradigms, not just a witness to failing ones

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Credits: Host: Chris Luebkeman Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich

Recorded in 2021

How We Make Decisions When the Future Is Uncertain Season 1 - Episode 1

Nigel Topping - Climate Action Leader Patrick Frick - Collaboration Designer Viktoria Cologna - Environmental Social Scientist

Transformation begins when we stop seeking a one-size-fits-all solution and starts pulling various levers together with trust, clarity, and courage.

In a world where climate disruption is no longer a distant warning but an everyday reality, this episode explores what it takes to shift complex systems at speed and scale. Nigel Topping, Patrick Frick, and Viktoria Cologna share a conversation that moves between global negotiations, local commons, and the psychology of how people decide to care and act. The episode challenges the idea that one master lever or single policy will save us and instead points toward law, investment, procurement, public pressure, and everyday conversations as interlocking forces. It reframes climate work as a question of who we trust, which values we share, and how we design rules that make regenerative choices the new normal.

We invite you to join us in an honest, collective, and empowered conversation about systemic change.

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Credits: Host: Chris Luebkeman Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich

Recorded in 2021