The RegenNarration Podcast
The RegenNarration podcast features the stories of a generation that is changing the story, enabling the regeneration of life on this planet. It’s ad-free, freely available and entirely listener-supported. You'll hear from high profile and grass-roots leaders from around Australia and the world, on how they're changing the stories we live by, and the systems we create in their mold. Along with often very personal tales of how they themselves are changing, in the places they call home. With award-winning host, Anthony James.
Episodes
350 episodes
241. The Huge Untapped Potential of Aboriginal Tourism, with Dale Tilbrook at Maalinup Aboriginal Gallery
Dale Tilbrook is a much-loved native food specialist, educator, and passionate Aboriginal tourism advocate. Like a lot of Australia at the time of this recording, Dale was immers...
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Season 9
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Episode 241
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48:34
240 Extra. Rethinking Roads: Induced Demand, Urban ‘Lounges’ & Utopia
Today, a brief bonus featuring material from my conversation with Shannon Leigh that never saw the light of day, partly due to the wind that blew in, and partly due to Clean State’s mandate for shorter episodes. But it’s worth the listen, with ...
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Season 9
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Episode 240
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3:52
240. World’s Best Place for Active Transport, with Streets for People co-founder Shannon Leigh
Shannon Leigh is co-founder and Director of Streets for People, and previously an award-winning urban and transport planner at the Depar...
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Season 9
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Episode 240
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27:00
239. Bright Sparks in Our Energy Transition: Schools, solar & social enterprise, with ClimateClever co-founder Dr Vanessa Rauland
You might recognise Dr Vanessa Rauland from the renowned ABC TV series ...
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Season 9
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Episode 239
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27:28
238. Hidden Giants of Shark Bay: Seagrass Secrets, Blue Carbon & Cultural Connections with Professor Gary Kendrick
Professor Gary Kendrick’s great love is the WA coastline and its seagrasses. Gary and colleagues have been at the forefront of seagrass restoration and the blue carbon movement more b...
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Season 9
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Episode 238
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25:27
237 Extra. Renewables Double Edge, Repair Revolution & First Nations Radio Renaissance
A brief bonus featuring part of my conversation with Chantal Caruso that never saw the light of day, due to Clean State’s mandate for shorter episodes.A poignant moment occurred at the launch of The Clean State Plan, with a group of Fir...
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Season 9
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Episode 237
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7:14
237. Introducing the Clean State Stories, with former Director Chantal Caruso
As introduced last week, today launches a special festive season series of the Clean State Stories. This was a series of nine episodes I produced a few years ago for the Clean State podcast, dedicated to regenerative transitions in my home stat...
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Season 9
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Episode 237
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24:58
236. Returning to Fray: Reviving Memories & Stories of Regeneration
A brief new year's greeting from Guatemala, to herald a special festive season series of short episodes. Around four years ago, some of you might remember I produced a series of nine episodes for an organisation called Clean State ...
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Season 9
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Episode 236
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3:56
235. The 2024 RegenNarration Soundtrack: Highlights from our guests & their places
Welcome to the customary package of highlights from another brilliant array of guests throughout 2024, accompanied by some of the music and sounds of Country heard along the way – this time across two continents, 49 episodes and 78 guests, from...
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Season 8
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Episode 235
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1:04:18
234. 2025 Australians of the Year for WA: Dianne & Ian Haggerty, Natural Intelligence Farmers
A few weeks ago I released a podcast marking the premiere of an episode of Australian Story that featured the incredible story of regeneration at the hands of the Henggeler family at Kachana...
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Season 8
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Episode 234
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1:09:08
233. Honouring Carol Sanford: Quit talkin’ about what doesn’t work’
On the morning of Wednesday the 27th of November, I got the news that the legendary Carol Sanford had died. You might remember the conversation I was privil...
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Season 8
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Episode 233
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54:53
232. Dirtroad Debrief: Chloe Maxmin on the ‘Dirtroad candidate’ successes & what comes next?
This week we’re back with Chloe Maxmin, for a debrief that has been eagerly awaited – by me and many of you, I know – on how the Dirtroad candidates went at the recent US elections, and wh...
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Season 8
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Episode 232
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46:45
231. A Force for Mending? Reflections from the Regenerate conference & its election-week context
The Regenerate conference in Denver a couple of weeks ago was like no conference I’d experienced in the ‘regen ag’ / food systems space. Such a presence of next generations, women and varied cultu...
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Season 8
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Episode 231
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1:21:16
230. Chris Henggeler at Kachana Station: Marking a very special episode of Australian Story
One of the most remarkable stories of regeneration on this podcast – still the second most listened to episode -
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Season 8
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Episode 230
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1:18:44
229. Moving from Figure to Ground: With Douglas Rushkoff, ‘live in New York’
When we were in New York recently, I dropped by to visit Douglas Rushkoff at his Queens College office. For those who don’t recall Douglas from his
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Season 8
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Episode 229
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1:01:59
228 Extra. Q&A after the Rural Runners film screening in West Virginia
This is a bonus extra to episode 228, featuring the Q&A that took place after the film screening of Rural Runners in the Shepherdstown Opera House...
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Season 8
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Episode 228
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31:44
228. Grassroots Transformation in Rural West Virginia: Breaking the Political Mold with Lucia Valentine & Maria Russo
“I've had several folks share with me that they are voting for Trump. But they're also voting for me.” That’s what Lucia Valentine told me when I spoke with her and another first-time candidate for ...
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Season 8
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Episode 228
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49:52
227. Hemp is the New Buffalo: On the new Patagonia film out today, with director Joel Caldwell
‘The biggest strides in hemp-crete construction are going down on one of the smallest reservations in America.’ That’s how the bill reads on Patagonia Film’s latest production, The Green Buf...
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Season 8
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Episode 227
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31:16
226 Excerpt. Protecting my Conservative Community - As a Progressive, with Bill Pluecker (& Chloe Maxmin)
In some ways, the first 150 seconds of this excerpt from episode 226 with Bill Pluecker (alongside partner Chloe Maxmin), say everything that needs to be said about where politics is being done better in the US. They sum with the passage that b...
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Season 8
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Episode 226
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10:54
225 Excerpt. All Roads to a Just & Equitable Future Run Through Rural America, with Chloe Maxmin
The last 20 minutes or so of my conversation in episode 225 with Maine’s youngest ever female senator, Chloe Maxmin, has stayed with me since its release. And I’ve heard from a few of you saying similar. So in the interest of not letting ...
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Season 8
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Episode 225
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25:47
226 Extra. Common Ground Country Fair: A glimpse of an extraordinary 48 years
After recording with Bill and Chloe at Begin Again Farm for last week’s episode, Bill happened to drop word of an upcoming festival. And not just any festival, but the 48th an...
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Season 8
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Episode 226
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5:25
226. An Independent Farmer Wins in Maine: Transcending the 'battleground', with Bill Pluecker (& Chloe Maxmin)
There’s a ‘so-called’ battle for rural America at the heart of the coming federal election. But what if it needn’t be a battle? And in fact, what if heart is what’s really at stake? People who love their places – places, by the way, that consti...
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Season 8
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Episode 226
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48:29
225. Democracy on the Rise – in the US? With Maine’s youngest ever female Senator, Chloe Maxmin
This is one of my favourite conversations, and it starts a mini-series of sorts. I’ve had many listeners ask how things feel in this US election year. So, after months speaking with all kinds of people as we travelled through half the states of...
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Season 8
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Episode 225
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1:12:49
224. The Mail Run: Navigating hurricanes, mail & Apple's 30% fee controversy
This mid-week mail run comes to you from Savannah Georgia, as a hurricane nears the Florida coast and the storms begin here in advance of it. As usual with these brief episodes, I reply to text messages from listeners through the new link in ou...
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Season 8
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Episode 224
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9:30