Nadeem Perera is a birder, wildlife TV presenter, activist, youth mentor and co-founder of Flock Together.

Flock Together is a birdwatching collective for people of colour who have felt unwelcome and marginalised in spaces that should be for everyone.
Together they are reclaiming green spaces and rebuilding relationships with nature - one walk at a time.
At twenty eight years of age, Nadeem is more than his deep fascination with birds, his youth work, values and unique personal qualities are essential in the world today.

Needem Perera Insta - https://www.instagram.com/birdnerdeem
Flock Together - https://www.flocktogether.world


For full show notes and links please visit The Spaceship Earth website:

https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/4/15/episode-59-nadeem-perera-flock-together-return-to-the-source-of-love

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Coming next - in conversation with Nadeem Perera - Birder, Wildlife TV, Youth Coach, Activist and Co-Founder of Flock Together @birdnerdeem https://www.flocktogether.world/

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What is this podcast all about ?
Here's a bit of the vibe.
Nearly 70 episodes of long form conversations, a lock down experimental series, music mixes, audio rambles and much more to come.
Rambling on since 2018
Becoming Crew on SpaceShip Earth

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Felipe Viveros is a British-Chilean writer, independent researcher, artist and strategist. His work focuses on the intersection of on-line organizing, digital storytelling, policy and systems change.
He has worked with governments and organisations globally, served as the chair of The Rules, and acted as the European representative of the GNH Centre Bhutan. Felipe is a fellow of Bertha Foundation, a member of the UN Harmony with Nature initiative and a commissioner for the Sacred Headwaters Initiative, always championing epistemic justice, social justice and indigenous people’s rights.

For full show notes and links please visit The Spaceship Earth website:
https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/3/29/episode-58-felipe-viveros-survival-of-the-beautiful
Play out track:
Nick Mulvey
In the Anthropocene ( Elder Brother Remix)

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Coming next - in conversation with Felipe Viveros - artist, researcher, strategist and activist
@nawelcura
#ChooseEarth
https://www.chooseearth.co/

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Welcome to this Bonus episode 57

with our guest Phoebe Tickell

In this we offer you an invitation to listen to a 5 minute story called the Impossible Train, created by Moral Imaginations and narrated by Phoebe Tickell.

The Impossible Train Story is a tool that can be used by anyone, alone or in groups in all settings to catalyse a process of deep reimagining of the future post-COVID and all that it has revealed.

The entire process can be done in under 20 minutes.



The story you are about to hear will build up a sensory experience of a portal into a metaphoric world not far away from this one — where a group of human beings have to make a decision on what to do next with their future after experiencing a Great Pause in their everyday world

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Take 5 minutes to listen to The Impossible Train Story, and be ready with a pen or an open document to start writing immediately after the story ends.

You could set a stopwatch for 7 minutes and start to write freely when the narration is over.



When you’re finished, you could find a friend to chat what you discovered and wrote, or if you do it with someone else, use the remaining time you have to read each other your reflections.



Remember, there is no right or wrong answer, and each time you listen to the story you will have a different response emerge from you, depending on what is going on for you on that day and specific moment.



You do not need to show anyone what you wrote, in fact, some people have been using it as a prompt to use solo when journalling. It can be used as a reflective tool and a way to access deeper imagination and ask big questions that these times are calling for.

But if you wanted to share it with us you can do so.

Peace and Out

https://www.moralimaginations.com/

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Phoebe Tickell is a Biologist and Systems thinker who develops methodologies and approaches suited to a better world. With a degree in Biological Natural Sciences she brings her understanding of biological networks and systems thinking into governance, organisational structures, narratives and imagination. From co-founding multiple organisations, designing and implementing learning programmes to facilitating groups across the world, Phoebe has been called a voice of the emerging future and one of the most important systems thinkers of her generation.

Recorded in the Devonian woods around a campfire, Dan and Phoebe discuss:

- Reflection, peace and slowness in a time when there’s lots to do

- The rejection of indigenous wisdom/science unless ‘discovered’ by western science

- Systems change; yet aren’t we the system?

- In times of grief, what would a sane culture do?

- Evolving from a self-exterminating society to a self-sustaining society

- Caring for young imaginations in an era of technological entertainment

- Moral Imagination. Imagination activists. And imaginal zones

- Subsidising slowness, not speed and rewiring our economy

- Power of the ‘sit spot’, make believe, masks and role play

- Relationships and value between the human and more-than-human world

- Everything is not in the government's hands. We can be empowered to create our own reality

- Designing systems with wisdom. Bring it on!


Play Out Track:
Bonobo - Sapien
From the Album ‘ Fragments’
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/sapien/1584968878?i=1584969129

Sound Credits:
Features birdsong recorded by Fintan O'Brien
https://soundcloud.com/fintanobrien

Full Shownotes:
https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/3/3/episode-57-phoebe-tickell-imagination-activism

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Hello 2022, hope this finds you well.

I’ve been composting 2021.

Episode 56  kicks off with something a bit different.

An audio experiment to start the year.

A story about stories.

Last year I was invited to do a TED X Talk about the climate and ecological crisis, I wasn’t really sure what to talk about to be honest.

I was struggling to think of what another white man, 50 years old could possibly add to all the noise in these extraordinary times.

I was also feeling fairly burned out by the last two years, had just returned from COP26 and was strangely disoriented and quite frazzled.

I decided to focus in on what I felt was the most valuable and useful learnings I have, that I could offer up in these unravelling and unknowing times. Even though I knew it might feel uncomfortable and challenging. I wanted to find a way to weave the vital threads of my inquiring over the last 15 years together with where my attention and work is deepening and orienting towards.

It was quite a task to create, but I felt it didn’t end up working quite so well in a short talk format.

Because it’s really a story about stories.

So I decided to evolve and expand it and record it as a podcast, but a bit more immersive.

It’s definitely right on my learning edge and I’m feeling a bit vulnerable putting this out.
But that often means it needs to leave the nest.

I really hope it speaks to you and if it does please consider sharing it with someone else. We’d be most grateful. And whatever it makes you think or feel - I'd love to hear any feedback.

There are so many amazing humans and more than humans who have influenced the creation of this episode.

You know who you are.

I’d recommend headphones or a decent speaker setup for this one. And being still.
Enjoy

A massive shout to Charlie Shread - Audio Jedi for making this sound awesome.

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Link:

The Great Acceleration

https://www.slideshare.net/IGBPSecretariat/great-acceleration-2015

https://stories.life/
https://stories.life/chapter/the-narrative-of-separation/


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Host: Dan Burgess @dan__burgess

Edit: Charlie Shread

Shownotes: Vicki Turner

Music: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson

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Finishing the year with a cheeky mix offering from the shed

Deep, pumping, cosmic, emotive, full of light, love, grief, confusion, darkness and slightly twisted.

Bit like my year.

A mix to shuffle, shape-shift, stomp and sway into the Winter Solstice.

To mark the end of this cycle of the sun.

And the letting go of a year.

Impossible to express in words.

(Better through music)

Marking the start.

Of a time of rest, reflection and gratitude.

Massive respect and gratitude to all the artists and producers featured in this mix.
Your gifts keep me moving.

Steven Weston- The Solent
Aparde - Integrity (Lusine mix)
Junior Akwety - Vibe with Me
Proff - Whale Song
Mass Digital - Joie de vivre
Gilad Bemamram - Impossible Love ( Guy Mantur mix)
Sex of insects - I can hear the light (Dave Pad mix)
Cornucopia - Letter for Poly
Halo Vargo - Future ( Guy J mix)
Tim Green - Over the water (Tim Green & Izvhevski mix)
Soma Soul - Eclipse feat Ed Begley ( Edu Imberno mix)

Big Earthy Hugs
To everyone I’ve connected with this year.
Those I’ve worked with, created with, plotted with, played with, despaired with.
My family, friends and community for endless love and support.
To all the incredible guests on the podcast.
To my podcast crew.
To everyone who has listened, shared, commented and reviewed.
Thank you.
There’s more coming in 2022.
Big shout to the Becoming Crew Learning Marathon.
To all the mind-blowing activists, campaigners, artists, creators, writers, designers, podcasters, film makers, farmers, growers, change-makers, imagineers, storytellers, lovers, carers, healers, nurturers, connectors and mischief makers who continue to keep it real when things can feel hopeless.
To the NHS.
To the more than human crew on Spaceship Earth who create the conditions for all life.
To all those midwifing a more beautiful world.
Keep the love, care and kindness strong.
We live on a life going rock called Earth, hurtling through space.
Lets dance.
And rest.
Peace and out.

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"Carbon is the basic building blocks of life. It’s not actually a negative thing. Very rarely in a natural system is something objectively negative or positive. It plays its role. And so actually storing carbon and having carbon in your soil is incredibly important. And of course huge amounts of carbon has been lost from the soil. So there’s huge potential to store carbon in the soil. However I will say that we will get ourselves in trouble if we turn farming into a carbon storing exercise. I believe that we can store carbon in the soil and it’s really important for farming, and really important for the environment and the future. But I’m worried if we go down the route of only farming to store carbon, we lose the holistic understanding of nature and we end up back in a reductionist system where we are only thinking about carbon storage. To thrive we have to consider everything, and we have to understand the ecosystem in its entirety.”


Will Rolph works with his brother Harry, farming olives at Two Fields in Zakros. After moving to Zakros they soon discovered a beautiful olive craft passed down through generations that was under threat from a broken industrialized food system. Diving deep into regenerative farming and rebuilding land & soil, they work together with their family and community to produce small batches of olive oil.


Listen to Dan and Will discuss:

- Journey from sustainable design, craftsmanship to regenerative olive farming

- Chemical, reductionist and monoculture farming works. But only for the short term

- In regenerative farming we give more than we take

- Becoming ‘more forest, than field’

- How are we repairing our planet and building a future that’s possible

- Strength in diversity

- Farmers and customers become trapped in a system that only benefits the corporation

- The gift of mentorship and the proud nod of ‘you’ve got this’

- Land can’t give anymore than it is given

- Learning from the ancient and wild olive trees found in the mountains

- Deep connection to land and tasting the fruits of your labour

- Sharing the stories of Zakros through natural ingredients

- Joy to be found in limits and constraints

- Small is beautiful and powerful

- What we do to our soils, we do to ourselves

- Industrialisation disconnects us from valuable felt experiences

- Be an enquiring mind. Ask real questions

- Look after one another

Community and Links

Places:
Zakros

Connect:
Two Fields - https://twofieldszakros.com
Instagram - @twofieldszakros

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Edit: Charlie Shread
Shownotes: Vicki Turner
Music: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson
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