November Newsletter
Greetings Earthling
hope this finds you well!
Here’s some offerings, updates and invitations for November.
It’s been a tough year here and we are really hoping to get some rest in the coming month, composting the remains of 2021 - inspired by the falling leaves.
But there’s also exciting plans afoot for the next season of the podcast in 2022, as well as expanding our community participation through gatherings and offering up radical learning/unlearning experiences to help more folks step into service and help bring life back on Spaceship Earth.
On that note we have a few questions that we’d love to hear your thoughts on to help us shape all of this.
This edition has a strong climate flavour post COP26….
Enjoy, thanks for your support and look after yourself
Dan and Crew
Invitation: We’d love your feedback on The Spaceship Earth Podcast to help shape our future plans
We are at an exciting stage of development in the journey of the Spaceship Earth podcast with some ace things going on behind the scenes that we are looking forward to sharing with you.
In the meantime we'd love to know what you think about a few things connected to the podcast, about what you enjoy, what you'd like to see more of and how you might want to support the next phase of this podcast. Your feedback is hugely helpful in shaping the direction and development of what next.
This form will take 5 - 10 mins max to fill out and most of the questions are multiple choice so there's only a few where you'll need to write your own response.
Feel free to drop us a message if there's anything else you'd like to share with us that this form doesn't capture or you just want to say hello. Or if you want us to send you a badge ;-)
hello@thespaceship.earth
Listen: Hugo Tagholm - Surfers Against Sewage - The Ocean Decade
You might have seen the news of late about how much shit we’re pumping into our rivers and ocean - this man Hugo Tagholm - CEO of Enviro-Surf charity - Surfers Against Sewage has been at the forefront of tackling this shit-storm for years. This is a deep and passionate conversation recorded with Dan in summer exploring the ocean and climate emergency. Available on all podcast platforms.
Read Meet the crew: First cohort on the Becoming Crew Learning Marathon
In September we kicked off the first Becoming Crew Learning Marathon, 12 participants on a peer supported 6 month learning journey each exploring their own missions to regenerate life on SpaceShip Earth, guided and hosted by Dan and using the Enrol YourSelf peer learning methodology. Read about the kick off on who’s on this first crew mission.
Watch: Climate Justice According to Kids
If you’ve been hearing the term ‘climate justice’ around COP26 and want to understand what it really means - this 7 min film nails everything you need to know. If you want to go deeper listen to Episode 46 with climate justice activist Daze Aghaji
Read: Indigenous Voices are still not heard
Atmos magazine speaks to environmental activist Nina Gualinga from Sarayaku, Ecuador about the urgency of redefining progress and why fossil fuel extraction must cease entirely.
Watch: Ocean Mic - An ocean and climate emergency from COP 26
Who speaks for the ocean? So much treasure in this latest chapter of Ocean Mic - a collaboration between Dan and ocean inspired clothing brand Finisterre - this time themed around the Ocean and Climate Emergency, #COP26 and filmed up in Edinburgh, Glasgow and online. Listen to the voices of marine scientists, blue health advocates, beat poets, activists, surfers and everyday citizens - diversity breeds magic.
Listen: Mya-Rose Craig - Birdgirl - We Have a dream
As #COP26 passes with a real sense of old power in the room and new power locked out on the streets this episode is timely. Mya-Rose Craig AKA @birdgirluk is a racial equality & climate and environmental campaigner and activist. Nineteen and British-Bangladeshi, she’s the youngest British person to be awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science for fighting for equal access to nature and ethnic diversity in the environmental sector. She’s just released her first book -‘ We Have A Dream’ a book to amplify the voice of thirty young indigenous people and people of colour protecting our planet. Enjoy.
Watch: Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson tell it as it is at COP26
Who do you trust on climate science? I trust UK climate scientist Kevin Anderson - I had the pleasure of meeting Kevin back in 2014 on a project I designed exploring why the advertising sector was silent on climate change. Kevin was one of the first scientists to really speak up with radical honesty on what the climate science tells us. This is some thoughts from him at COP26 recorded with Nick Breeze. Don’t believe the NETZERO hype. And if you want to hear more about what Climate Science was demanding at COP26 and what it means for our economic approaches and what our leaders are not telling us - I recommend watching this from Tim Jackson and Scientists Warning Europe.
Watch: A Story About Bread
If you follow me on instagram you’ll know that I love making sourdough bread, I’m a decade into my journey and it’s become a critical weekly practice. It’s a living process, it grounds me and if you work with quality flour, you can create a fermented super food. In Episode 49 I had an amazing conversation with Andy Cato, one half of Groove Armada and a regenerative farmer who has brought WildFarmed grain into the world - it’s one of our most listened episodes and this amazing film is fresh from Wild Farmed explaining their philosophy.
Watch: Clover Hogan deliver a masterclass in radical honesty and courageous leadership at COP26
Clover Hogan is the founder of Force of Nature, a mobilising platform supporting young people to turn their eco-anxiety into regenerative action. Clover is awesome and we’re hoping she’ll be in conversation on The SpaceShip Earth in 2022.
Listen: Tom Middleton - Isolated 100 mix
Chilled cosmic ambient brilliance from Tom Middleton, music to lie down and compost yourself
Support the Podcast
With nearly 60 episodes available now (some of them experimental to be fair) and the current momentum is releasing two per month. It takes time, energy and cost to get these out, and I’m keeping it ad free. I do all of this in the spirit of the gift, I won’t stop that but if you like what I’m doing with the podcast, newsletter, mixes etc and you want to support it there are three ways currently to do that.
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Much gratitude to you for being here.
“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.”
— R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER