Wonderspace

This week on Wonderspace, we welcome Dr Eeva Houtbeckers, a scholar, writer and speaker active in the degrowth movement in Finland and the co-founder of the Degrowth Journal and Untame.

This week on Wonderspace we ask our six questions to Magid Magid who was a member of the European Parliament and also the Lord Mayor of his beloved city, Sheffield. Magid was named one of TIME’s 100 rising stars shaping the future of the world and today he is the Founder & Director of Union of Justice which is an organisation dedicated to racial and climate justice.

Orbiting with us on the Wonderspace Podcast this week is TV and Film writer and director Nate Michaux from Los Angeles. We are so grateful to Nate for engaging with these questions in such an honest and vulnerable way, talking about working through his addictions and also the highs and lows of making it work as a creative in New York and LA.  

This week the Wonderspace podcast is capturing stories of hopefulness at the Blue Earth summit in Bristol. For three days hundreds of makers and mavericks, founders and activists, adventurers and investors came together with a collective desire to see business as a force for good in protecting our planet and all people.

Orbiting with us this week on Wonderspace is Marine Scientist Sheena Talma from the Seychelles.  Sheena is the science program manager at the Nekton Foundation which is focussed on accelerating scientific exploration and protection of the ocean.  Their aim is to highly protect at least 30 per cent of the ocean by 2030. Sheena also works with the Save Our Seas Foundation which has funded over 400 marine projects in over 80 countries around the world.

On Wonderspace this week we are joined by Audrey Lin in San Francisco.  Audrey is one of many people around the world who volunteer with ServiceSpace which is a non-profit dedicated to transformative volunteerism.  They leverage technology to encourage everyday people around the world to do small acts of service.  

This week's Wonderspace orbit is from the Fixing The Future Festival in Barcelona organised by Atlas of the Future.

Joining us today in Wonderspace is Nicole Yershon, a maverick, consultant, mentor and connector.  Before founding the NY Collective, Nicole ran the Ogilvy Labs for ten years and today sits on the board of Creative Conscience and a school for 'rough diamonds’ which is also the title of her book.

For the first Wonderspace podcast episode of our new year we welcome Sophie Shnapp who is a climate specialist and on the founding committee of Brian Eno’s music and climate charity EarthPercent. Sophie is also a driving force in Culture COP that's going to be held in tandem alongside COP27 in Egypt.

Intro music: Steve Mortimer

For the last Wonderspace podcast before our summer reset we welcome a regular contributor to the Wonderspace Podcast, Andrew Howley who has spent over 10 years working for National Geographic, is now the Chief Editor of asknature.  Over the past 40 episodes, Andrew has been producing mind-blowing one minute pieces of audio to help us re-wonder.