Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

What might we see when we look to AI as a collective mirror?
Philosopher, writer, and poet Dr. Bayo Akomolafe joins me today for the second time to explore how AI troubles our ideas of individual authorship, ethics, and human exceptionalism.
When it comes to AI, issues of labor, ecological impact, and data mining are pressing and real — and they call for dedicated episodes that we'll be planning for.
This discussion is not so much about AI itself as it is an invitation to sit with questions that are more ontological — reflecting back on ourselves, and on how we've come to define the human.

As we spiral into the violence of inclusion toward the end, I ask: What does it mean to resonate with something philosophically while acknowledging that there are urgent material conditions that need to be addressed?

Join us not to find resolutions but to be stirred.

Show notes: https://www.greendreamer.com/podcast/bayo-akomolafe-post-humanism

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Originally published in 2021, this conversation with philosopher, writer, and poet, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe explores our crisis in form.
Bayo's latest book is Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader (Ayin Press, March 2026).

Our round two discussion will be coming up next. Stay tuned!

Jon Jandai of Pun Pun Organic Farm and I sat down for an in-person dialogue when I visited Chiang Mai, Thailand, back in March of this year.

It builds on our podcast conversation from years ago, during which he shared about how he grew up in rural Thailand, was told by people on TV that rural people are backwards and poor, and consequently moved into the city to work a job to make more money.

But that led to an eventual revelation.

As Jon reflected in our conversation: "I thought, ‘Why did I work 10 hours per day in the city, yet not make enough to feed one person, but when I came back to the land, I worked only half an hour per day and I had enough food to feed six people?”

Thus seeded Jon's pathway to simple living.

Join us in this discussion as we chat about a different kind of wealth and security, how Jon views GDP growth as a sign of what we've lost, and more.

Show notes and transcript: https://www.greendreamer.com/podcast/jon-jandai-pun-pun-organic-farm

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Back in March, when I visited Chiang Mai, Thailand, I got to sit down and dialogue with Gregory Pettys and Ramphai Noikaew of Panya Forest, as well as Thai Elder Jon Jandai of Pun Pun Organic Farm.

This is the second of those three live-recorded conversations — during which Ramphai and I chat about her connection to the Pgakenyaw culture, how living at Pun Pun village helped her regain her sense of self and purpose, and more.

*Watch this video episode now at youtube.com/greendreamer*

The featured music in this episode is "Elephant Tribe" by Klee Bho — a Pgakenyaw artist collaborator of Greg and Ramphai.

This full video episode is now live on our YouTube channel! Watch now at youtube.com/greenreamer.

The audio version will be published here in the podcast feed next week.

Back in March, when I visited Chiang Mai, Thailand, I got to sit down and dialogue with Gregory Pettys and Ramphai Noikaew of Panya Forest, as well as Thai Elder Jon Jandai of Pun Pun Organic Farm.

This is the first of those three live-recorded conversations — during which Gregory and I chat about a different kind of materialism, a different kind of privilege, and what it means to not just be seed savers but also carriers of their stories.

*Watch this video episode now at youtube.com/greendreamer*

The featured music in this episode is "Sik Gong Gaw" by Klee Bho — a Pgakenyaw artist collaborator of Greg and Ramphai.

This full video episode is now live on our YouTube channel! Watch now at youtube.com/greenreamer.

The audio version will be published here in the podcast feed next week.

Watch the video version of this PRELUDE at youtube.com/greendreamer.

This is the PRELUDE to our upcoming mini series of 3 conversations that were recorded live in Chiang Mai, Thailand.