Extinction Rebellion Podcast

Extinction Rebellion Podcast episodes:

• 04.13.2024

  News from a World in Flux Ep. 10: The problem with tree planting and insure our future

   Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important...

  
• 03.13.2024

  News from a World in Flux Ep. 9: Finance + Physics = Climate Repair? Ft. Delton Chen

  EPISODE 9: Finance + Physics = Climate Repair? Ft. Delton ChenIn this episode Clare and Delton Chen explore Delton's work on a concept of a global carbon reward, an economic concept which could provide a carrot and not just a...

  
• 02.23.2024

  News from a World in Flux Ep. 8: £500,000 damage and not guilty! The HSBC 9 trial

  Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. Their aim, to make sure that the latest science news and important reports...

  
• 01.04.2024

  News from a World in Flux Ep. 7: COP28: What happened!?

   Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important...

  
• 12.13.2023

  News from a World in Flux Ep. 6: Everything you need to know about the COP process ft. Paddy Loughman.

  Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important...

  
• 12.05.2023

  News from a World in Flux Ep. 5: The carbon death footprint and conservative science

  Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important...

  
• 10.22.2023

  News from a World in Flux Ep. 4: The shadowy companies holding back progress on climate

  Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important...

  
• 10.06.2023

  News from a World in Flux Ep. 3: Rishi backtracks, California vs. big oil, and the Dutch rebel!

  Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important...

  
• 08.25.2023

  News from a World in Flux Ep. 2: Aerosol masking, geoengineering, and the pension problem

  Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important...

  
• 08.17.2023

  Episode 1: News From A world in Flux Ep. 1: Net Zero's not enough, and the war on climate action

  Clare and Charlie discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime, and make sure that news in science and important reports that are relevant to climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are...

  
• 04.04.2022

  The Power to Change with Margaret Atwood and Richard Black

  This podcast episode is all about energy and features an extract from our longer interview with the celebrated writer and activist Margaret Atwood While Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil are holding up tankers and stopping oil refineries, the government is...

  
• 02.16.2022

  Episode 23: Parables of Nutmegs and Genocide

  In this podcast we're glad to feature the eminent writer Amitav Ghosh who is an influential Indian environmental thinker who has won many honours for his fiction. He's also an academic and author of several substantial works of non-fiction, including...

  
• 10.26.2021

  Episode 22: Episode 22: Lies Lies Lies. The rise of climate contrarianism with Richard Black

  Did you catch the BBC drama The Trick? If not, it is still on BBC iPlayer (apologies for non-UK friends). It shows the birth of the arch denialist group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) in 2009 from the point...

  
• 04.16.2021

  Episode 21: Episode 21 - It’s Not Illegal To Care: The Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill

  The episode begins with the stirring words of XR’s Clare Farrell and Marvina Newton from ‘United for black Lives’ speaking against the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts bill in parliament Square on April 3rd at a Kill the Bill coalition...

  
• 04.09.2021

  Race to Save the World - Rebel Radio Special

  In this collaboration with Rebel Radio, Anna Hyde hosts this Special with the director and some of the protagonists of the film 'Race to Save the World'. Anna first speaks to director Joe Gant about what made him create this...

  
• 03.12.2021

  Episode 20 - This Is An Ecological Emergency

  In this episode Jessica is joined by artist Tom Stallard, a member of the XR samba band and Walthamstow XR. Jessica interviews with Dr. Charlie Gardner, a conservationist and researcher based at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at...

  
• 02.02.2021

  Episode 19 - Tree Protectors

  This episode Jessica Townsend and Ferghal McEntee look at some brave people putting their lives on the line to protect trees both in the UK and in the Amazon. We begin with the fierce anti-felling poem Heartwood written...

  
• 12.12.2020

  Episode 18 - Young People Vs. The UK Government

  On this fifth anniversary of the Paris agreement, three young people are launching a case against the British Government for their failure to safeguard their futures and those of their families in the global south. We talk to one of...

  
• 11.24.2020

  Episode 17 - No More Lies, with Zadie Smith, George Monbiot, Jay Griffiths and more at Tufton Street

  Where is the heart of climate denial in the UK? Who are the main individuals & organisations coming between the people and the policy progress we need to address the climate & ecological emergency? Questions like this led Writers Rebel to...

  
• 11.24.2020

  Episode 33: Episode 17 - No More Lies, with Zadie Smith, George Monbiot, Jay Griffiths and more at Tufton Street

  Where is the heart of climate denial in the UK? Who are the main individuals & organisations coming between the people and the policy progress we need to address the climate & ecological emergency? Questions like this led Writers Rebel to...

  
• 10.23.2020

  Episode 16 - Citizens' Assemblies: Your Questions Answered

  Extinction Rebellion UK's Third Demand is a government commissioned, independently run Citizens' Assembly on Climate and Ecological Justice. But what does that mean? Join Marijn van de Geer as she speaks to XR UK's Citizens' Assembly Working Group (CAWG) to...

  
• 10.16.2020

  Episode 15 - Economics for the Planet with Kate Raworth, Author of Doughnut Economics

  This episode Jessica & #MoneyRebellion’s Will talk to Kate Raworth, the most influential alternative economic thinker of the present moment. Her book Doughnut Economics has been hugely influential amongst sustainable development thinkers, progressive businesses, and political activists. She has also...

  
• 07.27.2020

  Episode 14 – The Death of Berta Cáceres, environmental defender from Honduras

  This podcast focuses on the new book ‘Who Killed Berta Cáceres' by Nina Lakhani. The book is a compelling, thriller-like read based on the murder of the brave indigenous activist Berta Cáceres who was fighting the development of a dam...

  
• 07.09.2020

  Episode 13 – The Future is Local, with Helena Norberg-Hodge and Jyoti Fernandes

  In this week’s episode Jessica interviews two inspirational women: Helen Norberg-Hodge, the founder of Local Futures; and Jyoti Fernandes, from the Land Workers Alliance and La Via Campesina. We talk about why our futures need to be local rather than...

  
• 07.01.2020

  The Truth About Zane - Best of Rebel Radio (2)

  7-year-old Zane Gbangbola died after flood water carried the fatally toxic chemical hydrogen cyanide from a nearby landfill site into his home in Surrey. A Ministry of Defense whistleblower revealed it, but the government denies it. How can we get...

  
• 06.15.2020

  Transforming the Global Financial System, with Ann Pettifor - Best of Rebel Radio (1)

  Welcome to a new XR Podcast series: The Best of Rebel Radio. Here we take some of the wonderful content coming out of Rebel Radio and edit it into a podcast so you can listen again whenever you like. For...

  
• 06.02.2020

  Episode 12 - A Paradigm Shift, with Jeremy Lent

  Many people in the climate movement wonder why it’s so hard to get our message through. Could part of the problem be buried in the very language we use? In this episode we’re talking to Jeremy Lent, the author of The...

  
• 05.18.2020

  Episode 11 - "Less is More", with Jason Hickel

  We live in a society addicted to growth, yet on a planet with finite resources. Something needs to give. The Extinction Rebellion Podcast talks to a star of the degrowth movement, Jason Hickel. Jason is an academic and the author of The...

  
• 05.05.2020

  Episode 10 - 2050 is Too Late, with Kevin Anderson

  We need to act now if we want to avoid overwhelming climate and ecological breakdown. So why does the government tell us we’ve got until 2050? In this episode we’re exploring the government’s 2050 net zero emissions target and why that...

  
• 04.21.2020

  Episode 9 - XR takes on the Finance Sector

  Economics is not a side show in our lives. The coronavirus has shown that. But, what comes next? This episode is all about empowering you to take on one of the main influencers of our economy, and therefore the planet –...

  
• 04.06.2020

  Episode 8 - Global Justice is Climate Justice

  Jessica and Marijn speak to Rosanna Wiseman and Cameron Joshi from Global Justice Now about colonialism, capitalism and making Extinction Rebellion more inclusive. Plus, get a glimpse of what it's like to be part of Extinction Rebellion globally with our...

  
• 03.20.2020

  Episode 7 - "The Future We Choose", with Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac

  In this episode we’re talking to a world leader in the climate movement, Christiana Figueres. Christiana was the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016 and is credited with securing the Paris...

  
• 03.13.2020

  Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement - Rebel Book Club (1)

  This is the first of a brand new series by the Extinction Rebellion Podcast, with Writers Rebel, looking at iconic green books that shape our understanding of the new world we find ourselves in: after climate change, the sixth mass...

  
• 12.08.2019

  Election Special – Extinction Rebellion Podcast

  Join the Extinction Rebellion Podcast for the #ElectionRebellion, pushing the Climate & Ecological Emergency to the top of the political agenda. Hear about the Three Demands Bill, the hunger strikers, climate hustings, and our 12 days of crisis, including a severe...

  
• 11.02.2019

  Episode 6 - Writers Rebel, with Margaret Atwood

  This is the Writers’ Rebellion: Are You Here For This? The Extinction Rebellion Podcast is back to normal length; with an episode perfect to kick back to during the post rebellion regenerative period. It features a feast of stories and poems...

  
• 10.20.2019

  XR & the Police – Extinction Rebellion Podcast Special 2.7

  Extinction Rebellion have always had a controversial relationship with the police. During the April Rebellion, there were chants of "we love you" and a practice of liaising with the police before actions. During the October rebellion, this relationship became much...

  
• 10.17.2019

  Doctors for XR - Extinction Rebellion Podcast Special 2.6

  700 health professionals have joined Doctors for Extinction Rebellion. Why are these pillars of the community willing to take part in civil disobedience, risk arrest, and, for some, glue themselves to government departments? Because, as the GPs in this episode of...

  
• 10.15.2019

  Changing the curriculum - Extinction Rebellion Podcast Special 2.5

  At the heart of October 2019's International Rebellion in London, as with any other rebellion, are Extinction Rebellion's (XR) Youth. Listen to the day they marched to the Department of Education and demanded a curriculum that meets the unique challenges...

  
• 10.13.2019

  BBC Tell the Truth - Extinction Rebellion Podcast Special 2.4

  Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) first demand is that the government and media ‘tell the truth’ about the climate and ecological emergency. In pursuit of this, on Friday the 11th of October 2019, hundreds of XR activists descended on the BBC’s HQ...

  
• 10.12.2019

  Faith Bridge - Extinction Rebellion Podcast Special 2.3

  One of 12 sites that was briefly held during the International Rebellion in London, Faith Bridge (formerly known as Lambeth Bridge) was co-ordinated by a multi-faith group of spiritual leaders, organisations, and citizens. In this episode, we speak to those people;...

  
• 10.09.2019

  Writers Rebel - Extinction Rebellion Podcast Special 2.2

  On Friday the 11th October 2019, from 5-9pm in Trafalgar Square (London), Extinction Rebellion will be launching Writers Rebel, an initiative to encourage writers to address the climate emergency in their work. In this episode we first speak to Writers Rebel...

  
• 10.07.2019

  Reclaiming the Streets - Extinction Rebellion Podcast Special 2.1

  The Extinction Rebellion Podcast is back with a series of podlets (mini podcasts) from October 2019's International Rebellion in London. On Monday the 7th, Extinction Rebellion managed to take 11 sites across the city. Our first podlet is a snapshot...

  
• 08.27.2019

  Episode 5 - Regenerative Culture, Joanna Macy

  In this episode, the Extinction Rebellion Podcast explores regenerative culture. What is it, and how can it be of use to rebels worldwide? Joanna Macy, PhD is a teacher and writer on issues of environmental justice, Deep Ecology, and Buddhist practice, as...

  
• 07.04.2019

  Glastonbury Special - Extinction Rebellion Podcast

  The Extinction Rebellion Podcast is back with a special, soaking up the atmosphere from 2019's Glastonbury Festival. We start with Sir David Attenborough's Sunday afternoon appearance on the pyramid stage, praising the festival for going plastic free! Then, we move to...

  
• 06.18.2019

  Episode 4 - Looking Forward

  In our first episode since April's International Rebellion, the Extinction Rebellion podcast discusses the future. Christiana Figueres was Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from 2010 to 2016. The 2015 Paris Agreement was her most notable...

  
• 04.30.2019

  Meeting Michael Gove Special - Extinction Rebellion Podcast

  On Tuesday, Extinction Rebellion (XR) met with Environment Secretary Michael Gove. The Extinction Rebellion Podcast brings you the thoughts of the XR representatives present at the meeting. Featuring Rupert Read, Clare Farrell, Farhana Yamin, Felix Ottaway, and Sam Knights. Presenter – Jessica...

  
• 04.29.2019

  Episode 3 - Citizens' Assemblies

  This episode was released following the news of our meeting with the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, in which we will be pushing for a Citizens' Assembly on the climate and ecological emergency. Featuring Matthew Taylor (Chief Executive of the...

  
• 04.19.2019

  International Rebellion Podlet #3 - Green Futures

  How do Extinction Rebellion families feel about the future? Podlet #3: Green Futures is live on all platforms now. Continuing XR podlets: mini podcasts from the International Rebellion. With thanks to Professor Jem Bendell. You can read his paper, "Deep Adaptation: A Map...

  
• 04.17.2019

  International Rebellion Podlet #2 - 340+ Arrestees

  What's it like being arrested for Extinction Rebellion? Podlet #2: 340+ Arrestees is live on all platforms now. Continuing XR podlets: mini podcasts from the International Rebellion. With thanks to Dr. Gail Bradbrook and, of course, all of our arrestees! The production team included:...

  
• 04.15.2019

  International Rebellion Podlet #1 - Claiming the Streets

  This episode is the first of several 'podlets', produced from London as part of this week's International Rebellion. It's shorter than one of our usual podcasts, but should give you a taste of what it's like to be part of...