Conversations That Shape Tomorrow

[Y]our 2040

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.

Episodes

  1. 15 MAY

    How Urgency Can Create Stronger Climate Action with Tim Jarvis

    How Urgency Can Create Stronger Climate Action Season 1 - Episode 4 Tim Jarvis - Explorer and Environmental Scientist Clarity emerges when urgency becomes a catalyst for both courage and collective responsibility. In a world where environmental warnings are no longer distant forecasts but daily realities, this episode explores how one person translates extreme expedition experience into practical guidance for climate action. Environmental scientist, author, and polar explorer Tim Jarvis joins Chris for a conversation that moves between the icy expanse of Antarctica and the complex landscapes of corporate and political decision making. This episode challenges the assumption that urgency must rely on fear and instead introduces pragmatic optimism as a disciplined balance between truth telling and possibility. It reframes leadership by asking how you speak to diverse motivations while still moving everyone toward a shared outcome. It reveals that the real work lies in meeting people where they are and shaping messages that resonate with their values rather than only with your own. This episode invites you to see urgency not as alarm but as an active practice of influence, grounded action, and courageous communication. 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 Director: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2021

    33 min

  2. 8 MAY

    Why Science Matters More Than Ever with Holger Hoff & Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

    Why Science Matters More Than Ever Season 1 - Episode 3 Holger Hoff - Environmental Scientist Adrienne Gret-Regamey - Urban Systems Professor Lasting change emerges when knowledge, emotion, and local experience are treated as equally vital forms of intelligence. In a time when we can measure almost everything yet still hesitate to act, this episode explores what climate implications mean for different landscapes and communities. David Bresch from ETH Zurich in dialogue with urban landscape planner Adrienne Gret-Regamey and planetary boundaries scholar Holger Hoff. Together they address how retreating glaciers, new lakes and shifting mountain economies are opportunities for new cultural landscapes. This episode challenges the assumption that more data will lead to different choices and reframes adaptation as a practice of empowerment, shared vocabulary, and attention to who actually holds the power to change land use. It reveals that the real work lies in linking quantitative insight with lived experience, local dialect, and the courage to keep going even when early efforts fail. We invite you to see your own region as a place with diverse voices that shape practical, place based responses and honor planetary limits. Connect with [y]our2040 Website: www.your2040.com Linktree: Explore all our platforms Credits: Host: David Bresch - Professor for Weather and Climate Risks Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2021

    36 min

  3. 30 APR

    Why Architecture Must Become Regenerative with Michael Pawlyn

    Why Architecture Must Become Regenerative Season 1 - Episode 2 Michael Pawlyn - Architect Real change in the built environment begins when we stop relying on exemplar projects and start shifting the paradigm that shapes them. In a world where climate reports warn of collapse while markets still claim they are not ready for real solutions, this episode explores why transformative ideas struggle to take root and what it takes to change that. Architect and author Michael Pawlyn joins Chris to trace his journey from pioneering green projects to questioning why so many never leave the drawing board. The conversation turns to Donella Meadows and the question of leverage, revealing that many designers intervene at the shallow end of complex systems instead of at the level of mindset and story. This episode challenges the assumption that more demonstration projects are enough and reframes change as a shift from sustainable thinking that mitigates harm toward regenerative thinking that optimizes positive impact. It invites you to see yourself as an active shaper of new paradigms, not just a witness to failing ones 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 Director: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2021

    30 min

  4. 28 APR

    How We Make Decisions When the Future Is Uncertain with Nigel Topping, Patrick Frick & Viktoria Cologna

    How We Make Decisions When the Future Is Uncertain Season 1 - Episode 1 Nigel Topping - Climate Action Leader  Patrick Frick - Collaboration Designer Viktoria Cologna - Environmental Social Scientist Transformation begins when we stop seeking a one-size-fits-all solution and starts pulling various levers together with trust, clarity, and courage. In a world where climate disruption is no longer a distant warning but an everyday reality, this episode explores what it takes to shift complex systems at speed and scale. Nigel Topping, Patrick Frick, and Viktoria Cologna share a conversation that moves between global negotiations, local commons, and the psychology of how people decide to care and act. The episode challenges the idea that one master lever or single policy will save us and instead points toward law, investment, procurement, public pressure, and everyday conversations as interlocking forces. It reframes climate work as a question of who we trust, which values we share, and how we design rules that make regenerative choices the new normal. We invite you to join us in an honest, collective, and empowered conversation about systemic change. 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 Director: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2021

    38 min

  5. TRAILER ·  VIDEO

    Welcome to Conversations That Shape Tomorrow - Trailer

    The future is not somewhere we arrive. It is something we create. Introducing Conversations That Shape Tomorrow, the [Y]our 2040 podcast. Every episode draws from live conversations on the [Y]our 2040 stage, where foresight meets action and curiosity meets courage. Thoughtful practitioners from twenty-five countries, working across systems, disciplines and borders, all exploring one question: what does it take to create a positive + courageous future? If this sounds like your kind of conversation, follow along. We made this for you. www.your2040.com/podcast

    2 min

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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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