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
336 episodes
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
223. GROUNDED! Launching a Holistic Farming Festival (& a book on Milk), with Matthew Evans
A new holistic farming festival is about to launch back home in Australia. Inspired by the famed Groundswell in the UK, GROUNDED! lands in beautiful southe...
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Season 8
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Episode 223
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40:53
222 Extra. Out on the Grasslands, with Kelsey Scott
After recording the main episode with Kelsey, we headed out for a very special tour through regenerating cultural and natural grasslands. We pick it up amongst the layered stories around the nearby Missouri River / Lake Oahe. That sets up a sen...
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Season 8
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Episode 222
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47:29
222. Resurgent Land, Culture & Food Systems on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, with Lakota Woman Kelsey Scott
Kelsey Scott is a 4th generation cow producer and 125th generation land steward at DX Ranch, on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South...
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Season 8
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Episode 222
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1:29:06
221. Restoring Dairy Farming with Family, Food & Festival: At Churchtown Dairy, with Judith Schwartz, Eric Vinson & Steffen Schneider
The extraordinary Churchtown Dairy in New York is restoring dairy farming in a context where such farms are still closing around them. They are doing it with nature, family, food and festival at it...
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Season 8
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Episode 221
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28:25
220 Extra. Out Among the Buffalo, with Pedro Calderon-Dominguez
The evening before we recorded the main episode with Pedro, we went out on the Plains to shepherd the buffalo to their next patch. This is a rare chance to hear one of the world’s most respected bison wranglers – and the animals themselves – at...
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Season 8
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Episode 220
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20:15
220. The Great Buffalo Restoration on the American Prairie, with ‘world’s top bison wrangler’ Pedro Calderon-Dominguez
Pedro Calderon-Dominguez is regarded as an extraordinary horseman. Though as fate would have it, his life took a series of unexpected turns, through wildlife ecology as the first to further Aldo’s Leopold’s work with black bears, into holistic ...
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Season 8
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Episode 220
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1:21:22
219. The Mail Run: From Churchtown Dairy
This week we’ve got some special news, and a mail run. That is, I reply to some of the text messages coming from you through the new link in our episode show notes. And I’m coming to you from the extraordinary
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Season 8
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Episode 219
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12:36
218. Visiting Aldo Leopold’s Shack: On the 75th anniversary of A Sand County Almanac, with Dr Katie Ross
Aldo Leopold has profoundly influenced the modern conservation and regeneration movement. He affected nearly every national conservation initiative in the US during the 1930s and 40s,...
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Season 8
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Episode 218
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39:43
217. Imagining a Society to Match the Scenery: Cole Mannix on founding Old Salt Co-op, Festival & food system revolution
Cole Mannix was featured in the New York Times a couple of months ago as part of a series called ‘Making It Work’, about ‘small-business owners striving ...
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Season 8
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Episode 217
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1:15:39
216. Allan Savory: On holistic management, scaling & a sense of survival
Allan Savory is a legend of regenerative agriculture - the ongoing force behind holistic management, a movement that has featured in so many stories on the podcast. Indeed, as we’...
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Season 8
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Episode 216
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1:16:15
215. Stories of Transformation from Next Generation Leaders: The CREATE Program's Global Impact
In episode 164 with Nicole Masters and Meagan Lannan (the infamous ‘armoured butts’ episode) we talked about the new ‘t...
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Season 8
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Episode 215
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1:10:10
214 Excerpt. One of the Great Ones: With Nina Simons & Kenny Ausubel
A number of you have said last week’s episode was one of the best, with legendary Bioneers founders Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel. So in honour of that, and in case you missed it, or haven’t heard through to the end, this week’s release is an e...
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Season 8
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Episode 214
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24:43
214. A Life's Wisdom, Transformation & Romance: With legendary Bioneers founders Nina Simons & Kenny Ausubel
This treasured and unique conversation is with the legendary founders of Bioneers, Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel. Bioneers is a cultural phenomenon - an innova...
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Season 8
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Episode 214
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1:16:31
213 Extra. Visiting Wendell Berry & A Psychedelics Resurgence Back-Story: Off-record with Andrew Stone
Andrew Stone and I continued on for another 15 minutes off-record, but with the recorder still on. The conversation was so fascinating that I asked him if he was ok with it going out to you. So here’s a bonus 15 minutes with Andrew, where we we...
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Season 8
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Episode 213
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15:36
213. From Tech Innovator to Mystic Farmer, with the fantastic Mr Stone
Andrew Stone has been dubbed the ‘solar mystic farmer’, as a pioneering solar passive designer/builder, former software developer of some of the commonplace apps today working alongside luminaries like Steve...
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Season 8
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Episode 213
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50:44