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29. Carbon and the Grammar of Life
Manage episode 478473222 series 3526369
In this episode we’re joined by the renowned environmentalist, activist and author Paul Hawken to explore the lifeworld of carbon and its role as a vital agent in the story of life.
Paul speaks about the dysfunctions in Western language on how we speak about climate and nature, and why metaphors of war, control, and fixing actually perpetuate the very mindset that created the crises in the first place. We explore common traps we fall into, and how to recarbonize, to bring life back and restore relationality in how we think, feel, and act.
This is a wide-ranging and intimate conversation on language, grief, science, reverence, and what it means to come home to Earth and to the deeper meanings of life.
Episode Website Link
Show Links:
- Carbon, the Book of life (Paul’s book)
- Drawdown (Website & Paul’s book)
- Regeneration (website resources with projects)
- Regeneration (Paul’s book)
- Francis Weller Course on grief
- Closing Poem: Love in a Time of Climate Change By Craig Santos Perez
Look out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.
Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock & Ellie Kidd
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
68 episodes
Manage episode 478473222 series 3526369
In this episode we’re joined by the renowned environmentalist, activist and author Paul Hawken to explore the lifeworld of carbon and its role as a vital agent in the story of life.
Paul speaks about the dysfunctions in Western language on how we speak about climate and nature, and why metaphors of war, control, and fixing actually perpetuate the very mindset that created the crises in the first place. We explore common traps we fall into, and how to recarbonize, to bring life back and restore relationality in how we think, feel, and act.
This is a wide-ranging and intimate conversation on language, grief, science, reverence, and what it means to come home to Earth and to the deeper meanings of life.
Episode Website Link
Show Links:
- Carbon, the Book of life (Paul’s book)
- Drawdown (Website & Paul’s book)
- Regeneration (website resources with projects)
- Regeneration (Paul’s book)
- Francis Weller Course on grief
- Closing Poem: Love in a Time of Climate Change By Craig Santos Perez
Look out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.
Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock & Ellie Kidd
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
68 episodes
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