Dr Jeff Rotman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Marketing and co-director of the Better Consumption Lab at Deakin Business School. He is the recipient of the 2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Early Career Researcher Award for Career Excellence. He specialises in research on consumer psychology with a specific focus on the areas of ethics, emotion, and sustainability. Links _______________________ Jeff Rotman: https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/jeffrey-rotman Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jkFkD3 Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3A4PPjZ Google Podcast: https://bit.ly/2SwB9Jr Instagram/Twitter/Linkedin: @utopiaisnow Timestamps ____________________ 0:00 - Teaser 1:34 - Our minds handle risk strangely – and that’s partly why we delayed climate action so long 12:46 - What is motivated reasoning and why is it crucial to understand? 22:18 - Group identity and survival 33:07 - Us vs. them morality, selective reasoning, and green beard traits 46:19 - What are the ways we can shift our perception to mitigating climate change? 53:28 - Is shame an effective motivator in mitigating climate change? 1:03:12 - Status seeking as a strategy for encouraging green solutions 1:09:28 - The one marketing insight that everyone should know 1:12:50 - What is Jeff’s Utopia? Credits ____________________ Thumbnail: Headshot Music: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X

Professor Harini Nagendra is the Director of the Research Centre at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India, and leads the University’s Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability. Nagendra is known for her research spanning over 30 years on forest conservation, and urban sustainability, with several seminal publications in both areas of work. Her interdisciplinary work on forests combines remote sensing, biodiversity studies, and institutional analysis, and is recognised for elucidating the link between pattern and process in the human-dominated landscapes of South Asia.

Links _______________________ Harini Nagendra: https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/people/harini-nagendra Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jkFkD3 Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3A4PPjZ Google Podcast: https://bit.ly/2SwB9Jr Instagram/Twitter/Linkedin: @utopiaisnow

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0:00 - Teaser 1:06 - Introduction 13:30 - If you could share one thing about India, what would it be? 15:03 - How much does India’s ecological history inform India today? 18:01 - Western vs Eastern mismatch of environmental problems and solutions 28:13 - How is India experiencing Climate Change? 32:15 - How is the Indian government responding to environmental & climate-related disasters? 35:04 - Transdisciplinarity, cognitive dissonance, and growth vs environmentalism 50:41 - The importance of culture, art, and literature in creating change 58:19 - Harini Insights as an author of fictional novels? 1:05:32 - Is a Green Party viable in India?< 1:10:40 - Outlook of India's environment

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#ecology #climatechange #india

Donnie Maclurcan Ph.D. leads the Post Growth Institute, an international organization exploring how we thrive within ecological limits. Believing purpose-driven enterprise is at the heart of a healthy market economy, he has consulted to over 500 not-for-profit projects and businesses, across 32 countries. His own initiatives include leading the development of the Offers and Needs Market, the Post Growth Fellowship, the Post Growth Alliance, Free Money Day, the (En)Rich List, the Not for Profit Way training, and the globally active #postgrowth hashtag. Affiliate Professor of Economics at Southern Oregon University and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Donnie is working on his fourth book: How on Earth: our future is not for profit.

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Contact: utopiaisnow2020@gmail.com 

Post-Growth Institute: https://www.postgrowth.org/

Paper Mentioned: https://bit.ly/3gg6E6B

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jkFkD3

Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3A4PPjZ

Google Podcast: https://bit.ly/2SwB9Jr

Instagram/Twitter/Linkedin: @utopiaisnow

Timestamps

_________________  0:00 - Teaser 0:41 - Who is Donnie? 6:50 - An introduction to post-growth 11:04  - Is emotional resonance a good way to evaluate the ‘correctness’ of an idea?  A brief digression on debt  18:48 - The role and value of not-for-profit businesses & mutual banks 26:44 - The tyranny of numbers 31:28 - A story on non-for-profits 37:59 - The ethical tension between growth & purpose 43:35- Do for-profit businesses have a place in future society? 48:41 - What is Donnie’s Utopia for a post-growth world?

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Chris has more than 15 years of experience in researching climate policy and climate communications. Chris is also a contributing author for the IPCC Working Group I Sixth Assessment Report, serves as a Non-Executive Director of the award-winning environmental news organization DeSmog, is an Associate of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and holds the position of Research Associate in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Chris's new book is titled Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change, which is the subject of the following podcast.

Links _______________________ Tim Buckley: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christopher-shaw-a5554214 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jkFkD3 Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3A4PPjZ Google Podcast: https://bit.ly/2SwB9Jr Instagram/Twitter/Linkedin: @utopiaisnow Timestamps ____________________ 0:00 - Teaser 0:32 - Chris’s Story 9:21 - What is liberalism and why is it a challenge to climate change 16:36 - Previous movements have brought about change, why can’t individuals bring about change to climate change action as well? 23:04 - Liberalism is complacent to catastrophe 28:12 - Are anti-liberal solutions to climate change a dog whistle for left-wing politics to thrive? 39:26 - What are some non-liberal solutions to climate change? 50:19 - Can the West give up liberalism in favor of mitigating climate change? 1:00:46 - Final takeaways Credits ____________________ Thumbnail: Headshot Music: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X #liberalism #climatechange #freedom

Tim Buckley, Director, Climate Energy Finance (CEF) has 30 years of financial market experience covering the Australian, Asian and global equity markets from both a buy and sell side perspective. Tim was formerly Director Energy Finance Studies, Australia/South Asia, IEEFA, and was a Managing Director, Head of Equity Research at Citigroup for 17 years until 2008.

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Contact: Tim Buckley: https://au.linkedin.com/in/tim-buckley-0a654313

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jkFkD3Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3A4PPjZ

Google Podcast: https://bit.ly/2SwB9Jr

Instagram/Twitter/Linkedin: @utopiaisnow

Timestamps

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0:00 - Why is Finance important for mitigating the ecological crisis?

9:30 - How is the green energy transition going?

29:23 - Are we decarbonising fast enough?

36:49 - Tim on governments being captured by fossil fuel interests

43:52 - How can financial analysts justify investing in fossil fuel companies?

54:59 - Parting thoughts

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#renewableenergy #climatechange #finance

Rodolfo Dirzo is Professor of Biology and Earth Systems Science at Stanford University. Rodolfo's scientific work examines the study of species interactions in tropical ecosystems from California, Latin America, and other tropical areas of the world. Recent research highlights the decline of animal life (“defaunation”), and how this affects ecosystem processes/services (e.g. disease regulation). Rodolfo teaches ecology, natural history, conservation biology, and biocultural diversity at undergraduate and graduate levels at Stanford, and conducts science education programs with underserved children in the Bay Area.

Timestamps _____________________ 0:00 - Teaser 0:49 - Introduction to Rodolfo Dirzo 8:39 - Defaunation & global trends in declining animal populations 15:13 - What is ecology? 18:12 - Risks of declining animal populations 27:49 - The Wolves in Yellowstone - Trophic cascading 34:24 - A slight digression on COVID-19 & animal trafficking 38:42 - What is the sixth extinction & why is it significant? 45:40 - What are the causes of the sixth extinction? 54:25 - Why Biological Loss is just as critical as climate change 1:05:21 - What can we learn from previous mass extinctions 1:08:10 - What can we do to mitigate biodiversity loss