WorldWild Podcast

Who else lives here? 

Miles and Dave met in the Sussex countryside (in Dave’s garden) to talk about the multispecies relationships which underpin our lives. Their conversation spans the ecology of bees, planting for wildlife, pesticides, and bringing people home to interdependence. Miles and Dave shared a lunch of pasta with mushrooms, nettles, wild garlic, hogweed, and cow parsley.

Dave, professor of Biology at the University of Sussex and author of Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse, specialises in the ecology of insects, especially bees. He generously shares his research experiences and insight in their conservation conversation. By being attentive to the garden together, Miles and Dave share and grow in their understanding of what it means to live alongside so many other living things.

How can we work within the wounds of severance to bring repair to the trauma-induced damage of people and planet? 

Gail, one of the Co-Founders of Extinction Rebellion, and Miles walk from Brantham, Suffolk, to the nearby Stour estuary on a cold grey January morning. They chat about XR and protest, birdwatching, body politics, humans as a keystone species, psychedelics, and cultural change. After some time spent with the low-flying knots at the water, Miles and Gail forage some ingredients for lunch as they make their way back to the village. 

As they cook and eat together, they ask what community practices we need for a kinder future.

Gail is a Co-Founder of Extinction Rebellion. Her time is spent supporting people and actions to help us all meet the unfolding collapse of modernity. Dedicated to spreading dignity and freedom, reclaiming people power, and unifying with our global family, her activism has been a source of inspiration for many. Her doctorate is in molecular biophysics.

Here is a Greenbelt talk referred to in their conversation:

https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/product/the-religion-we-need-next/

Here are some of the books that they mention:

Hospicing Modernity - Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive - Kristen J. Sollee

At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Climate Crises and Other Emergencies - Dougald Hine

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World - Iain McGilchrist

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - David Graeber and David Wengrow

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Gail’s latest talk, So Now What blog, Just Transition blog, Lifehouse-Collapse Preparing Communities work

In this third and final episode with Dan Siegel, the journey back to Oxford centres around religion and what Dan describes as ‘communities of connection’. What new forms will emerge in future and how can we participate in fostering that emergence?

Dan and Miles start their walk in the Oxfordshire countryside contemplating access restrictions to land and the humble stinging nettle. The conversation moves on to the innate need for belonging but also the problematic reality that in group outgroup distinctions appear to also be innate. The question then arises as to whether our ingroup category can be extended to include not just all humanity but all living beings…

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This week Miles speaks to Dan Siegel during their journey into the Oxford countryside. Dan is an author, therapist and founder of the interdisciplinary science of Interpersonal Neurobiology. This episode, the first of 3, introduces our new format which has Miles chatting to guests as they go for a walk that includes foraging, cooking and eating a meal.

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'We would have had to move around to follow these foods'. This week we are joined by returning guest and good friend of the podcast Monica Wilde, author of The Wilderness Cure (Simon and Schuster UK, 2022).

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'We live right in the middle of tragedy. that's our daily life'. This week we are joined by Richard Trudgen, author of Why Warriors Lie Down and Die and long-time community educator working with the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, Northern Australia.

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‘You can’t think it, you can’t create it from your mind. It’s not like that. You see what’s next. You keep walking'. This week we are joined by Holly Bridges, a somatic therapist and author of Re-frame Your Thinking Around Autism...

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‘It's the collective unconscious of a community that draws forward ancestral ways that have been lost. because they are never really lost'. This week we are joined by Rachael Knight, an attorney with expertise in community land tenure security, community natural resource governance, legal empowerment, and community-led conservation and cultural revitalisation...

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‘How are things lost and forgotten, and when are they reclaimed?' This week we are joined by Nina Lawrin, an ethnobotanist, artist, urban forager, permaculture designer, and general world nomad...

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