Description: Today we are talking about the Future. What then of our future? Yours and mine. How do we, as a society, think about the future? How do we think about our future becoming better for more people? How might we think, plan, and work towards the kind of worlds we want - rather than the kind of worlds we just stumble upon? Well, on today’s show we talked to some people who wake up…

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Description: In the 10+ years since the explosion of documentary films related to issues of the environment, like an Inconvenient Truth, we’re considering the way some people are using film as a point of departure for deeper, personal reflections on climate change action. Seems to be a “less film, more dialogue” sort of approach to filmmaking. Rather than focusing on expert opinions, these filmmakers provide a platform for a wider variety of people to share…

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Description: Issues of sustainability are typically tied to the language of science research. Solutions are often described in technical terms without much mention of the broader public who will ultimately be affected and have to participate in some way, shape or form. In episode 2, we looked into the research-side of this question when we discussed transdisciplinary research. Today we're gonna try to tackle the communications side of sustainable transitions for the worlds we want…

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Description: Future Earth has a mandate to explore transdisciplinary research, but what does that even mean? Some of you might be familiar with other kinds of research such as multi- or interdisciplinary research. In this episode, we explore this emerging research paradigm through interviews with members of the Future Earth network (part 1) as well as with a guest appearance (part 2) with Dr. Jochen Jaeger, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and…

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Description: This podcast was birthed in a small carpeted office on the corner of Guy and Ste. Catherine Streets in Montreal, Canada. It came out of the desire to share some of the work being done by Future Earth members while participating in the 2017 annual meeting. The main intent of this podcast series is to explore positive approaches to transitions in the age of climate change or, what is also called “the Great Acceleration”.…

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