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

By Kaméa Chayne

Society & Culture

What's Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration about?

Green Dreamer is a community-supported, in(ter)dependent podcast exploring our paths to collective healing, biocultural revitalization, and true abundance and wellness *for all*.

Curious to unravel the dominant narratives that stunt our imaginations and called to spark radical dreaming of what could be, we share conversations with an ever-expanding range of thought leaders — each inspiring us to deepen and broaden our awareness in their own ways.

Together, let's learn what it takes to thrive — in every sense of the word.

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400) Anand Giridharadas: Ex...

05.22.2023

For Green Dreamer’s 400th episode, we welcome Anand Giridhardas, a writer and journalist whose books include The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy (2022), Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the ...

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

05.22.2023 400) Anand Giridharadas: Expanding empathy and breaking political binaries For Green Dreamer’s 400th episode, we welcome Anand Giridhardas, a writer and journalist whose books include The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy (2022), Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the ...
05.12.2023 399) Vince Beiser: The global sand trade and how it remade 'modernity' “Hundreds of people have been murdered over sand in the last few years. Even though most of us barely ever think about it, sand is actually the most used natural resource in the world after air and water.” In this ...
05.05.2023 398) Helena Norberg-Hodge: Artisanal futures and economics of happiness “Once you start rebuilding more localized systems, they are almost without exception, going to be kinder to the environment and kinder to people structurally. ” In this episode, we are honored to welcome back our guest Helena Norberg-Hodge, a linguist, ...
04.28.2023 397) Rosamund Portus: A preemptive mourning of bee decline “When I talk about extinction as a bio-cultural process, what I’m seeing or what I’m talking about is the fact that there’s lots of different species who are alive and who are working within a cultural entanglement which is shaping ...
04.20.2023 396) Staci K. Haines: Somatics for trauma healing and transformative justice “If we’re soaking in all these default practices that are power-over practices that are reflected to us through the media, through our families and communities, through how the economy works, it means we’re embodying things that we might not even ...
04.13.2023 395) Andreas Weber: The ecological dimension of love Dr. Andreas Weber is a biologist, philosopher, and writer, whose work focuses on re-evaluating our understanding of the living and dying. Andreas proposes understanding organisms as subjects, and hence the biosphere, as a meaning-creating and poetic reality. Accordingly, he holds ...
04.06.2023 394) Vijay Prashad: Reviving collective life and scaling small gestures of care “Where is the space for a collective life? If you yell at the planet and say, ‘Why aren’t you acting collectively?’ You don’t understand this social system. This economic system has stolen collectivity from people.” In this episode, we welcome ...
03.30.2023 393) James Bridle: Artificial intelligence and the fallacy of a computerizable world In this episode, we welcome writer, artist, and technologist, James Bridle. James’s artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. They are the author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being ...
03.23.2023 392) Eben Kirksey: Boundless entanglements with the virosphere “I like thinking with viruses because they’re constantly infecting us, changing our nature. Some of them are even changing our genome. We’re constantly in relation with the world around us even though we can barely perceive and understand all of ...
03.16.2023 391) Enrique Salmón: Ancestral foodways that enrich local landscapes "I came up with the idea of ‘Eating the Landscape’ because I was thinking about our Indigenous ancestral foodways. It’s not just about food. It’s not just about nutrition. ‘Eating the Landscape’ is about this large, interconnected matrix of our ...
03.01.2023 390) Rosetta S. Elkin: Troubling mass tree-planting and afforestation “What we might want to do is learn where the word desertification comes from and when it should be used and when it is ill-used, at least to move forward into a more hopeful, more informed, more generous future that ...
02.22.2023 389) Dany Celermajer: Multispecies justice and more-than-human entanglements “I use the language of entanglement rather than interdependence because entanglement implies that what’s fundamental is relationships.” What are some of the limitations of human rights frameworks and the institutions that uphold them? What does it mean to go beyond ...
02.15.2023 388) Daniel Immerwahr: Empire remade in form through technology “One thing that the United States got really good at doing was basically replacing all colonial products with synthetic ones—swapping technology in for territory and replacing colonies with chemistry.” How have synthetic chemistry and technology allowed the United States as ...
02.08.2023 387) shakara tyler: Black farming as joyous, victorious, glorious “We often forget that Black farmers were the foundation of the civil rights movement. Actually, a lot of Black agrarian scholars and organizers, and even some policy advocates that have been doing this work for a long time, would say ...
02.01.2023 386) Jen Telesca: The managed extinction of the giant bluefin tuna “What I find worth remarking upon is the fact that the vast majority of people are so alienated from the Bluefin’s life world that they don’t know what an extraordinary creature she is—and instead just widely see her as a ...
12.20.2022 385) Thom van Dooren: The evolving cultures of the more-than-human world In this episode, we welcome Thom van Dooren, a field philosopher and writer. Thom is Deputy Director at the Sydney Environment Institute and teaches at the University of Sydney and the University of Oslo. His current research and writing focus ...
12.13.2022 384) Rebecca Giggs: The world as reflected in the whale In this episode, we welcome Rebecca Giggs, an award-winning author from Perth, Australia. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Emergence, the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and in anthologies including Best Australian Essays, and Best Australian Science Writing. Rebecca’s ...
12.06.2022 383) Gabes Torres: Re-rooting therapy and re-membering community “One of the introductions to Counseling Psychology teaches the Freudian concept of neutrality—when the patient’s social identity, when politics leave the door and you start treatment. But if we leave out identity, if we leave out the very sources as ...
11.22.2022 382) Min Hyoung Song: From everyday denial to everyday attention “Where our power comes from actually is in that space between the 'I' and the 'you'—that shared space. If we could tap into that, if we can find ways of working together, to form what I called 'shared agency,' then ...
11.16.2022 381) Stacy Alaimo: Our bodies are the Anthropocene “All of these imaginings visually, as if we were in a spaceship and looking down on the Earth—whoever that we is, which is super problematic with the notion of the Anthropocene—safely above, looking at the mess we’ve created... And no. ...
11.09.2022 380) Loren Cardeli: Who really feeds the world? “For every $1 of aid Africa gets, $24 is taken out. We have to address something deeper, something more systemic, but we don’t want to talk about that. We want to talk about food waste, composting. Those are treating the ...
11.02.2022 379) Hi'ilei Hobart: Ambient sovereignty and the question of temperature control “When it comes to refrigeration, so many of us have just come to accept that that’s how things are done. But I think in the food sovereignty conversation, those dependencies can sometimes be overlooked when we’re talking about what it ...
10.25.2022 378) Asad Rehman: The end of imperialism in a radical green new deal “Our economies globally have forced the Global South to be commodity-driven, export countries, with powerful multinationals. [The] profits that come from the exploitation of countries in the Global South flow to the Global North. As I say, imperialism is as ...
10.18.2022 377) Heather Davis: Living in 'Petrotime' and seeing plastic as grand-kin “What [the plastiglomerate] really highlights is the fact that plastic is now so incredibly ubiquitous that it can’t be taken out or removed. It is, in fact, a part of geology at this point in time.” In this episode, we ...
10.11.2022 376) Craig Santos Perez: Poetry as therapy and political speech "Poetry has always been a powerful space for healing, dealing with trauma, cultivating resilience in times of crisis or even depression..." In this episode, we welcome Dr. Craig Santos Perez, an indigenous CHamoru from the Pacific Island of Guam. He ...
10.04.2022 375) Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen: Reclaiming 'traditional' and recovering nordic animist relations “Mythology is a language that places knowledge of relation into relation with people—[in a] way that appeals to our emotions and imaginations. It is a language that reaches deep into our instinctual system and our whole human constitution in order ...
09.27.2022 374) Sharon Blackie: Re-enchanting the earth through mythology “Story helps us weave ourselves into the land and feel a sense of wonder and awe when we step outside. This re-mythologizing, restorying to me is a really important way that we can find belonging to places from which we ...
09.20.2022 373) Mark Rectanus: Reclaiming the arts from corporate influence "In many cases, corporations are using [the museum's cultural capital] to reaffirm their status in a local community... Artists are increasingly concerned about the context in which their work is displayed and also the values of the museum and the ...
09.13.2022 372) Sinegugu Zukulu: Resisting imposed development in the Wild Coast “So-called ‘development’, envisioned outside of the community, more often than not brings challenges to the community because it doesn't take into consideration the aspirations, the culture, and the way of life of the people. It disregards the right of the ...
09.06.2022 371) Brett Scott: Money consciousness and the war on cash "If you're looking at the broad trajectory of corporate capitalism, it's towards institutional intermediation in everything... This 'unbanked' concept is always presented as if somehow it obviously represents a step up in the world. But [really], you're getting captured within ...
08.31.2022 370) Christine Winter: Rethinking the philosophies underlying settler politics "To try and resolve the environmental problems that we're facing from within the same ontological and epistemological frameworks that have created the problem just can't work. The Western world needs to be rethinking the way it approaches what it is ...
08.23.2022 369) Andy Letcher: Cultivating reciprocity with animistic views of relationality “An animistic worldview is one I think that is deeply embedded in relationality, exactly the kind we need at this moment of crisis. So far from it being a ‘primitive thing,’ I think actually it can show us ways forward ...
08.16.2022 368) Christian Parenti: Recognizing capital as a social relation "The idea of the catastrophic convergence essentially looks at how climate change interacts with the pre-existing crises of the legacy of US imperialism and Cold War militarism and neoliberal economic restructuring." In this episode, we welcome Christian Parenti, a Professor ...
08.02.2022 367) Mia Birdsong: Deepening our interdependence with community “Freedom and friendship have the same etymological root, which means beloved... [Historically, freedom] was about your people and that collectively, you were able to get the things that you needed for everyone to survive — food, shelter, water — and ...
07.26.2022 366) Daniel Heath Justice: Indigenous literature and decolonial libraries “English embeds certain things just by virtue of its structure. It’s a very thing-ifying language; it’s very noun-heavy. Most of the Indigenous languages that I know of are very relational and verb-heavy. It’s a fundamentally different way of relating to ...
07.19.2022 365) Sophie Strand: Rewilding myths and storytelling "The transition from oral cultures into written cultures, for me, really signals a conceptual change that then uproots us from an embedded, environmental, relational existence, in such a way that a certain analytical, linear, and reductionist thinking becomes possible." In ...
07.12.2022 364) Helena Norberg-Hodge: Reorienting towards economics of happiness “There’s a lot of awareness about the direct lobbying of big money in politics. But that doesn’t take into account the much more dangerous way that big money is shaping the narrative through the media, even through funding in science ...
07.05.2022 363) Annie McClanahan: The possibility of a world disentangled from wages “Under a capitalist system of production or any system of production based on the extraction of value via wages, it’s always going to be the case that mechanization leads to more work and lower wages...” In this episode, we welcome ...
06.28.2022 362) Catriona Sandilands: Botanical colonialism and biocultural histories "We sometimes forget that the knowledge systems we use to conceptualize the world are not necessarily exactly the same thing as the world that we're conceptualizing. We mistake the model of the model for the thing that is being modeled. ...
06.21.2022 361) Micha Rahder: Thinking through the ecology of knowledges “We are all pretty familiar with the concept of the ‘biosphere’, which is the ‘living layer’ of the earth. The ‘noosphere’ is the ‘thinking layer’ of the earth that grows in and from that biosphere. It includes human thought and ...
06.14.2022 360) Sophie Chao: Pluralizing justice amidst the expansion of palm oil projects “Lies, deceit, and dupery are also very much part of the story. Often, these promises are made in the early stages of oil palm development, but they do not end up materializing in practice.” In this episode, we welcome Dr. ...
06.07.2022 359) Gavin Van Horn: The practice of kinning as porous beings "Instead of being head over heels, be heels over head—privilege your sense of touch. I think that shifts the weight of an overactive mind back into the body, [towards] our full body-mind experiences." In this episode, we welcome Gavin Van ...
05.31.2022 358) Dimah Mahmoud: The power in culture and the revolution of consciousness "We are not a lacking people. We are more than capable to provide for ourselves. The issue is those who continue to pretend that they are here to help are here for other intentions.” In this episode, we welcome Dimah ...
05.24.2022 357) Guillaume Pitron: The shifting conflicts and costs of ‘green’ energy “The sooner we are able to get rid of these two commodities, oil and coal, the better it will be... But 'green' technologies such as electric cars, solar panels, and wind turbines, don’t come out of thin air.” –Guillaume Pitron ...
05.17.2022 356) Rami Barhoush: Occupation, identity, and olive trees in Palestine “For Palestinians, agriculture seems to be the only option. This is why we see the vicious, atrocious, and systematic attacks against Palestinian farmers.” In this episode, we welcome Rami Barhoush, an activist and president of the Arab Group for the ...
05.03.2022 355) A. Naomi Paik: Sanctuary for all, sanctuary everywhere “If you’re actually targeting migrants as the source of the problem, if we’re thinking about climate migration as one of the amplified 'threats' from the Department of Defense’s point of view, then you’re never actually going to solve the problem ...
04.26.2022 354) Johann Hari: Reclaiming our capacities for deep thinking and intimate engagement "“There’s a lot of evidence that the world, and our experience of life, has massively sped up... We’re all speed-reading life now, and we’re living at a pace that makes deep thought impossible.” In this episode, we welcome Johann Hari, ...
04.19.2022 353) Jason Moore: The impossible endless accumulation of capital In this episode, we welcome Jason W. Moore, an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology. He is author or editor of several books: most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life; ...
04.12.2022 352) Jessica Hernandez: Healing with Indigenous science and holistic thinking “In a way, Western science compartmentalizes a lot of the information through those boxes or as I say, through those puzzle pieces. Indigenous science looks at the entire picture to formulate our information and our questions.” In this episode, we ...
04.05.2022 351) Chelsea Mikael Frazier: Learning environmentalism through the lens of Black feminism “One of the most powerful untapped resources is spirituality. Spirituality—particularly spirituality from Black and Indigenous communities all over the world—has been so denigrated and so viciously attacked that many people are unaware of its transformative potential.” This is a replay ...

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