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. 5d ago

    How We Regenerate from the Inside Out with Luea Ritter & Brandon Hill

    How We Regenerate from the Inside Out Season 3 - Episode 7 Luea Ritter - Process Designer Brandon Hill - Artist Regeneration begins when lived pain is met with honesty, creativity and shared responsibility rather than avoidance. Ecological urgency collides with personal fracture. In this conversation, we explore regeneration as an embodied practice shaped through human stories. The dialogue brings together Brandon, whose near death accident and long recovery reshaped his sense of purpose, and Luea, whose work bridges ethics, culture and ancestral ways of knowing rooted in place and relationship. What this conversation insists on is that regeneration is a deeply relational process that moves through grief, trauma and care. Personal breakdowns become a threshold where new forms of service and creativity can emerge. Accessibility, art, language and everyday practices carry complex ideas into communities often excluded from intellectual discourse. As individual healing, collective trust and cultural memory converge, regeneration emerges as something you practice daily, with others, even when the path is uncertain.   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 2023

  2. Sep 29

    How Can Institutions Regenerate with Marc Buckley & Pavlina Pavlova

    How Can Institutions Regenerate Season 3 - Episode 6 Marc Buckley - Ecological Economist  Pavlina Pavlova - Circular Economy Expert   A regenerative mindset only becomes real when it reshapes how people meet the future rather than react to it. Sustainability fatigue and policy gridlock are colliding with rising climate volatility. This episode situates the conversation inside a global shift from reduction oriented thinking to models rooted in renewal, with Marc Buckley bringing the long view of someone who has watched international frameworks stall, morph and occasionally break open into possibility, while Pavlina Pavlova anchors the discussion in the daily constraints and ingenuity of small and midsized enterprises. Together they examine why progress has been slow, why local actors often hold more transformative leverage than global institutions, and how regeneration departs from both mitigation and circularity by insisting on systemic abundance rather than managed decline. The shift is from sustainability as an incremental compliance exercise toward business resilience as a lived ecosystem logic, one where real change grows when global vision meets grounded, relational work. 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 2023

  3. Sep 15

    What Inner Work Teaches Us About Planetary Change with Diego Hangartner, Claudia Roosli & Thomas Crowther

    What Inner Work Teaches Us About Planetary Change Season 3 - Episode 5 Diego Hangartner - Meditation Guide Claudia Roosli - Earth Observation Expert Thomas Crowther - Ecologist A single act of attention can redraw your sense of scale. Planetary change feels both accelerating and uneven. This conversation traces how clarity emerges when you move between the vast view from orbit, the granular work of ecosystems and the interior landscape of the mind, bringing together Tom Crowther, Claudia Roosli and Diego Hangartner as they follow a shared line of inquiry into what shifts when you hold the local and the global in the same frame. What becomes visible is how ground research, satellite vision and lived experience inform one another in real time. The key is in restoring agency at every scale, from community action to the capacity to regulate your own thinking. 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 2023

  4. Sep 8

    Why Regeneration Needs to Move From Theory to Practice with Daniel Wahl & Christa Hermann

    Why Regeneration Needs to Move From Theory to Practice Season 3 - Episode 4 Daniel Wahl, Advisor, Educator & Activist Christa Hermann - Regenerative Practitioner   A living planet teaches you far more than any abstract model can. Ecological stability is slipping faster than our institutions can adapt. This conversation examines how regeneration becomes real only when it is practiced in specific places with specific people, opening the first dialogue of the gathering as Krista and Daniel ground their work in lived experience. Krista traces her path from geography to soil through a long personal regeneration after a life altering injury. Daniel describes his shift from global mobility to putting down roots on a half hectare agroforestry site in Mallorca, a deliberate choice to engage life as a planetary process expressed through place. What becomes possible is a different question entirely, asking what we notice when we stop abstracting issues and start paying attention to the potential already present in our communities. Systemic change requires both inner reorientation and outer structural shifts, and neither can be rushed without repeating the same patterns that created the crisis. We invite you to consider where, in your own life, the abstract has kept you from noticing what is already alive and waiting to be tended. 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 2023

  5. Sep 1

    Creating Self-Regenerating Systems with Tobias Luthe

    Creating Self-Regenerating Systems Season 3 - Episode 3 Tobias Luthe - Professor   Tobias Luthe — Professor Regeneration begins inside the people who shape places and systems.   Climate stress and social fragmentation force design to become political and practical at once. This episode is a compact conversation with Tobias that broadens into a wide dialogue about systems, practice and craft. Tobias, coauthor of a cross scale governance framework, explains regeneration as rooted listening to place coupled with active intervention across eight governance scales. Furthermore, this conversation discusses how self regeneration matters as much as system level change, and effective practice requires continuous movement between zooming in and zooming out.   We invite you to consider where in your own practice the smallest point of activation might shift the whole system around it. 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 2023

  6. Aug 25

    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

  7. Aug 18

    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

  8. Aug 11

    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

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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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