230. Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection - Part One - Living FROM Nature
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This week, Christiana Figueres introduces a new mini-series, Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection. Over three episodes, Christiana and guests will shine a light on our relationship with the rest of nature. Does transforming our connection with the natural world hold the key to transforming our response to the multiple environmental, political and social crises we face?
Christiana’s accompanied on this journey by co-host Isabel Cavelier Adarve. Isabel is a former negotiator for Colombia and co-founder of Mundo Comun.
In Episode 1, Living From Nature, Christiana, Isabel and guests delve deep into the roots of humanity’s separation from nature. They explore moments where cracks may have appeared and widened, including the advent of farming and a particular interpretation of the Book of Genesis. How have certain ideas shaped different cultures’ relationships with the natural world, and what are their consequences? Is our distance from nature related to other forms of separation, like colonialism? How can we nurture and narrate new stories of our relationship with nature to address 21st Century problems?
The best and brightest minds from around the globe contribute to Our Story of Nature, including Peter Frankopan author of the Earth Transformed: An Untold History; Janine Benyus, co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8; Dr Lyla June Johnston, indigenous musician and community organiser; Krista Tippett, award-winning journalist and author Reverend Doctor Augusto Zampini Davies, former adjunct Secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development ; Wolf Martinez, Traditional Medicine Person, Guardian and Keeper of the old indigenous ways; Arturo Escobar Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Xiye Bastida the co-founder of Re-Earth Initiative.
Once listeners have heard about the roots of our rupture from nature, tune in for the second episode of the series - Living With Nature. A stellar cast of experts will join Christiana to explore how our current systems - food, economy, energy, design - have been built on a mindset of extraction and separation. With characteristic optimism, they will give us a glimpse into how these systems, in many places, are planting the seeds for a more regenerative future.
The third and final episode, Living as Nature, is where the science of awe meets spirituality. Christiana and Isabel invite listeners to contemplate what it will take for each of us to fully awaken to our interconnectedness as the starting point - the foundational stone - without which no new home can be built for a truly regenerative future.
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GUESTS
Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University Website | Twitter | LinkedIn
Janine Benyus, Co-Founder Biomimicry 3.8 and Biomimicry Institute Biomimicry Institute | LinkedIn | Twitter
Krista Tippett, award-winning journalist, author and host of On Being podcast Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook
Reverend Doctor Augusto Zampini Davies
LinkedIn | Laudato Si Platform | Laudato Si Movement | Laudato Si Research Institute, University of Oxford | The encyclical Laudato Si | European Climate Foundation
Arturo Escobar, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Xiye Bastida, Co-Founder Re-Earth Initiative, Indigenous Wisdom, TIME100Next, UN HLC Ambassador, TED Speaker Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | TED
Dr. Lyla June Johnston, Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages Website | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook
Wolf Martinez, Diné, Lakota, & Spanish. Two Spirit. Speaker, Ceremonialist and practitioner of Ancient Healing Arts. Therapist. Lover. Human Being. LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook
Sister True Dedication, Zen Buddhist monastic teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village Community
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Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, Public Intellectual, Author, Professor and Chief Curator, The Emergence Network Website | Course webpage | LinkedIn | Facebook
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I am |
| 0:02.0 | Outrage and Optimism. I'm Christina Figuero. |
| 0:04.0 | We have a treat in store for you and it's called Our Story of Nature. |
| 0:11.0 | A new miniseries where we dive deep into our relationship with nature, or more accurately, |
| 0:17.5 | with the rest of nature. It's a story of rupture and reconnection. Thanks for us here. You might have noticed in the quick introduction that you did not hear |
| 0:46.0 | Tom's voice, you did not hear Paul's voice because they are not co-hosting |
| 0:52.0 | this. I am truly delighted to be joined by my very good |
| 0:57.1 | Colombian friend Isabel Cabellier who is the co-founder of Mundo Como and I say |
| 1:05.2 | Ola oha oha Christina I think you can introduce yourself thank you |
| 1:11.6 | Christina I am so thrilled to be here with you. Indeed, I am the |
| 1:16.8 | co-founder of Mundo Comone and a long friend of yours and another fellow |
| 1:22.0 | human committed to responding to what is happening today in the world. |
| 1:27.0 | Isa, can you perhaps summarize for us if that is possible? |
| 1:32.0 | Because this is a pretty complex topic but can you |
| 1:35.1 | summarize what what are we trying to do with this series? We were both thinking |
| 1:40.3 | about how we can respond to the current moment of our times. |
| 1:45.0 | Some call the ecological crisis or the poly crisis or you can call it the climate |
| 1:50.0 | crisis. In any case, where were its roots? |
| 1:54.0 | Many of us have become disconnected from the rest of nature. So you and I, Christina, have spent the last several months talking to some of the best and the brightest minds around the world about how this separation from the rest of nature |
| 2:15.2 | might have been the origin of this current polycrisis. |
| 2:20.0 | What were its consequences? |
| 2:22.4 | And most excitingly, what are the new stories that are now emerging and that are replacing that separation story? |
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