Conversations That Shape Tomorrow

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The [y]our 2040 Podcast: Conversations That Shape Tomorrow shares live dialogues drawn from years of global gatherings, where people working across cities, systems and disciplines explore what truly matters. Each episode brings grounded perspectives, long term thinking and collective agency into focus, inviting you to engage with how positive and courageous futures are shaped in practice.

  1. 1 day ago

    About Designing Resilient Futures with Marc Buckley

    About Designing Resilient Futures with Marc Buckley Season 3 - Episode 2 Marc Buckley - Ecological Economist   Inner renewal becomes possible when you stop adapting to a system that asks you to shrink, and instead align yourself with the deeper patterns that sustain life.   Speed, extraction and constant mobility shape daily experience for many of us. This episode examines what it means to practice regeneration as a lived discipline rather than an abstract ideal, following a speaker who has spent sixteen years shifting from survival level adaptation toward a symbiotic way of being that treats personal health and planetary health as one continuous ecology.   This episode challenges the belief that regeneration is a luxury available only under stable conditions, showing instead how it can be sustained across thirty one countries and two hundred events a year. It reframes vitality as a microcosmos of the wider biosphere, asking what changes when you treat each place you enter as a system you are accountable to. The real work lies in embracing symbiosis as a method for human evolution, one that outperforms extractive models precisely because it creates the conditions where abundance can emerge. Connect with [y]our2040 Website: www.your2040.com Linktree: Explore all our platforms Credits: Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Producer: Jonelle Simunich   Recorded in 2023

  2. 18 Aug

    Lessons in Regeneration with Daniel Christian Wahl

    Lessons in Regeneration with Daniel Christian Wahl Season 3 - Episode 1 Daniel Christian Wahl - Advisor, Educator & Activist Regeneration begins when a place becomes a living system. Regions everywhere are wrestling with ecological limits and economic uncertainty. This episode examines what it means to rebuild our relationship with the places that sustain us, following a conversation rooted in bioregional thinking that asks how communities can meet their needs as regionally as possible while still engaging with global flows of exchange. This dialogue challenges the assumption that regenerative cultures are distant ideals, reframing regeneration as a practice of recognition, asking how social, ecological and economic actors can see what is already alive in their own landscapes. Daniel discusses how the real work lies in making existing efforts visible to one another, so that shared stories can emerge. As the conversation deepens, it becomes clear that shifting toward regenerative practice is also a shift in identity and narrative.   Connect with [y]our2040 Website: www.your2040.com Linktree: Explore all our platforms Credits: Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Producer: Jonelle Simunich   Recorded in 2023

  3. 11 Aug

    How a Movement Gained Momentum with Ben Nott, Christian Bartsch, Cynthia Hansen, Daniela Weinmann, 
Kaitlin McNally, Martin Rust & Tobias Luthe

    How a Movement Gained Momentum Season 2 - Episode 6 Ben Nott - Architect Christian Bartsch - Entrepreneur Cynthia Hansen- Managing Director Daniela Weinmann - Artist Kaitlin McNally - Policy Coordinator Martin Rust - Sustainability Officer Tobias Luthe - Professor One goal of the inaugural [y]our 2040 gathering in 2021 was to help community members develop ideas worth implementing. That work produced eleven project concepts. Nine months later, half of them were still underway or already completed. In this episode of Conversations That Shape Tomorrow, community members share what they built, how it happened, and what they learned along the way. Projects ranged from developing a [y]our 2040 manifesto and creating a community mapping platform, to scaling carbon accounting, crafting a metaverse project, and collaborating on what may be the first insect shell bioplastic cutlery. This session brings those stories to life, offering a view of the obstacles and breakthroughs behind real action, and inviting others to move from ideas to implementation. Connect with [y]our2040 Website: www.your2040.com Linktree: Explore all our platforms Credits: Host: Chris Luebkeman Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Producer: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2022

  4. 4 Aug

    How Systems Thinking Changes Everything with Parneet Pal, Tobias Luthe & Christian Binz

    How Systems Thinking Changes Everything Season 2 - Episode 5 Parneet Pal - Wellbeing Advisor Tobias Luthe - Professor Christian Binz - Innovation Researcher Systems thinking is increasingly recognised as essential to building regenerative, holistic futures. To understand any system, we need to respect its complexity, see how it functions, trace the impacts it produces, and learn which levers can shift outcomes in meaningful ways. From human anatomy and the microbiome, to buildings and cities, to nature and biodiversity, systems surround us. They interact, overlap, and shape one another, often in ways we do not notice until something fails. In this episode of Conversations That Shape Tomorrow, we explore water as a connective thread across these layers: how it influences mitochondrial energy in the body, how circular water systems in buildings can increase independence and resilience, and how nature based approaches can restore ecosystems while strengthening the environments we live within. Connect with [y]our2040 Website: www.your2040.com Linktree: Explore all our platforms Credits: Host: Chris Luebkeman Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Producer: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2022

  5. 28 Jul

    Why Water Access Shapes Human Possibility with Joana Bacallo, Imani Black & Christopher Friedrich

    How Water Access Shapes Human Possibility Season 2 - Episode 4 Joana Bacallo - Water Storyteller Imani Black - Oyster Farmer & Marine Biologist Christopher Friedrich - Humanitarian Aid Worker & Researcher Access to water is a fundamental human right. Yet it remains far from guaranteed. Across the world, water is unevenly distributed, in law and in practice. Demand continues to rise, while in many places water quality and quantity decline. Power shapes outcomes. Decisions about water often reinforce inequality, and in some contexts remain deeply discriminatory. Women and minority communities are often missing from formal decision making, yet they often carry the daily burden of water collection and face restricted access to rights, knowledge, and safe supply. In this episode of Conversations That Shape Tomorrow, we broaden the lens on water access worldwide: how water shapes health and well being, what sanitation looks like across different contexts, and which practical, implementable approaches can help close the gap between a declared right and lived reality. Connect with [y]our2040 Website: www.your2040.com Linktree: Explore all our platforms Credits: Host: Marie-Claire Graf, Climate Justice Activist Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Producer: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2022

  6. 21 Jul

    What Melting Ice Teaches Us About Planetary Change with Jerome Chappellaz, Sophie te Wierik & Felix Keller

    What Melting Ice Teaches Us About Planetary Change Season 2 - Episode 3 Jerome Chappellaz - Glaciologist Sophie te Wierik - Green & Atmospheric Water Expert Felix Keller - Glaciologist & Fiddler Water looks simple on paper: H2O. Two small, positively charged hydrogen atoms bonded to one larger, negatively charged oxygen atom. In practice, it is one of the most consequential substances on Earth. Every living organism depends on it. Entire climates, economies, and ecosystems turn on its movement and availability. Water circulates above, on, and beneath the planet's surface, but it also sits stored in less visible forms: locked in ice, held in aquifers, and contained within rock layers. Scientific thinking about freshwater has also expanded, with growing attention to both blue water in rivers, lakes, and groundwater, and green water held in soils and vegetation. Antarctica contains around sixty percent of the world's freshwater, preserved as ice. It is a living archive of the planet's climate history, and a critical frontier for research. In this episode of Conversations That Shape Tomorrow, we explore water's unusual properties, the governance possibilities opened up by green water, and the essential role of ice in keeping Earth's climate stable, in the past and in the present. Connect with [y]our2040 Website: www.your2040.com Linktree: Explore all our platforms Credits: Host: Chris Luebkeman Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Producer: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2022

  7. 14 Jul

    Can Global Resources Be Shared Fairly? with Desiree Ruppen, Omar Malmo Sambou, Christian Stamm & J. Carl Ganter

    Can Global Resources Be Shared Fairly? Season 2 - Episode 2 Desiree Ruppen - Environmental Researcher Omar Malmo Sambou - Environmental Activist Christian Stamm - Environmental Chemist Water is fundamental not only to life, but to a functioning economy. How we manage and distribute it shapes daily decisions, culture, and the long term success of civilizations. Water supports agriculture, mining, construction, and energy. It moves through our human systems and reshapes the environmental systems around them. It influences commerce, trade, and consumption. It can be priced, traded, and contested. Across history, access to waterways has often determined whether a city, region, or civilization flourished or failed. In this episode of Conversations That Shape Tomorrow, we explore the systemic implications of water dependence: the tradeoffs built into allocation decisions, the tensions between sectors and communities, and what it means to understand water's value in the way we work, live, and inhabit our environments today. Connect with [y]our2040 Website: www.your2040.com Linktree: Explore all our platforms Credits: Host: J. Carl Ganter Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Producer: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2022

  8. 7 Jul

    Why Water Holds the Key to Our Future with Ernest Bromeis & Natasha Fuerst

    Why Water Holds the Key to Our Future Season 2 - Episode 1 Ernest Bromeis - Water Ambassador Natasha Fuerst - Female Rights Activist It is human nature to explore the unknown, to seek what we have not yet seen, and to investigate what we find compelling. Water covers most of the Earth, and we all depend on it to survive, yet what happens in and on water remains unfamiliar to most of us. Deep sea divers often describe the ocean as another planet. Gravity feels different. Vast ecosystems remain unmapped. Species still exist beyond our knowledge and documentation. In this episode of Conversations That Shape Tomorrow, our discussion follows a single drop of water from a mountain peak to the open ocean. Along the way, we hear what it feels like to swim the length of the Rhine and to sail into the heart of the Atlantic. Connect with [y]our2040 Website: www.your2040.com Linktree: Explore all our platforms Credits: Host: Chris Luebkeman Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Producer: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2022

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The [y]our 2040 Podcast: Conversations That Shape Tomorrow shares live dialogues drawn from years of global gatherings, where people working across cities, systems and disciplines explore what truly matters. Each episode brings grounded perspectives, long term thinking and collective agency into focus, inviting you to engage with how positive and courageous futures are shaped in practice.

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