Pushpanath (“Push”) Krishnamurthy is a climate activist and humanitarian who has been walking to create awareness about climate justice for years. He is originally from Bengaluru, India, and has spent three decades working with development, including with orgs such as Oxfam and Save the Children. His first walk was from Oxford to Copenhagen to raise awareness on climate change in 2009. He has walked 40 million steps since then. He sings, speaks and acts on his walks. In his past, he has worked on a range of campaigns to raise awareness about social, economic, or environmental injustice.

Pushpanath on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/pushpanathkrishnamurthy/

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Express Change is hosted and produced by Marina Gattás and Martin Oetting, with the team at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. Find out more at https://weall.org and https://martinoetting.com

Katherine Trebeck is a political economist, writer and advocate for economic systems change. She is a co-founder of WEAll, short for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, as well as WEAll Scotland, its Scottish hub. She also initiated the Wellbeing Economy Governments initiative, in which the governments of Scotland, Iceland, New Zealand, Wales and Finland work together on creating wellbeing economies. After working and living in Scotland for well over a decade, she returned to her home country, Australia, in 2023, where she is now working on a range of different projects to advance the introduction of wellbeing economies.

Katherine's website:

https://katherinetrebeck.com/

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From our conversation:

"This young Koala has a mental health problem."

⁠https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/05/young-koala-mental-health-problem/⁠

Text in the New Yorker, about Ayn Rand's influence on American culture, and her "optimistic cruelty":

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-persistent-ghost-of-ayn-rand-the-forebear-of-zombie-neoliberalism

"Yes Minister" page at the BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/february/yes-minister/

"Don't Look Up":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up

"Day After Tomorrow":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow

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Express Change is hosted and produced by Marina Gattás and Martin Oetting, with the team at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. Find out more at https://weall.org and https://martinoetting.com

Katja Iversen is the CEO of the "Museum for the United Nations - UN Live", an unconventional, borderless museum connecting people everywhere to the work and values of the United Nations. They work with popular culture players and platforms in film, music, gaming, arts and sports, curating cultural experiences and creating global connections through dialogues — to foster a stronger sense of shared belonging to this planet and positive action.

In the past, she has worked as an advisor to private and public sector institutions and leaders including the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, and the G7.

Museum for the United Nations — UN Live:

https://www.museumfortheunitednations.com/

Katja's website:

https://katjaiversen.com/

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From our conversation:

Top 10 Culture for Impact 2023 list:

https://www.museumfortheunitednations.com/collection/top-10-culture-2023

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Express Change is hosted and produced by Marina Gattás and Martin Oetting, with the team at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. Find out more at https://weall.org and https://martinoetting.com