The Futuring Podcast
Can we reimagine our future? What do we want it to look like? How do we get there? In this biweekly podcast, the Futures Centre - powered by Forum for the Future, brings you chats with innovators, activists and thought leaders about leverage points for transformation in this decade of climate action. Visit www.thefuturescentre.org for more insights.
Episodes
18 episodes
Reflecting on almost 30 years of Forum for the Future and the wider sustainability movement - with Jonathon Porritt, Sara Parkin and Paul Ekins
In this special edition of the Futuring Podcast, Jonathon Porritt [Former Director, Forum for the Future] is joined by his fellow co-founders of Forum, Sara Parkin [Principal Associate, Sustainability Literacy Project] and Dr. Paul Ekins [Profe...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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59:24
Accelerating climate justice through intersectional multi-stakeholder coalitions with Susan Kruse and Zach Lou
In the final episode of our American Climate Futures miniseries, a special edition of the Futuring Podcast, Ksenia Benifand [Senior Principal Change Designer, Forum for the Future Americas] sits down with Susan Kruse [Executive Director, The ...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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47:54
Disrupting the current system with community-led, just and equitable climate solutions with Laprisha Daniels and Rev Vernon Walker | American Climate Futures
In the second episode of the American Climate Futures miniseries, a special edition of the Futuring Podcast, Ksenia Benifand [Senior Principal Change Designer, Forum for the Future Americas] reflects on climate, disasters, and adaptation with...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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46:08
Decolonizing conservation through radical collaboration and capital with Kim Pate and Noah Oppenheim | American Climate Futures
In this special edition of the Futuring Podcast, Sandra Seru [Former Managing Director, Forum for the Future Americas] is joined by Kim Pate [Managing Director, NDN Fund] and Noah Oppenheim [Homarus Strategies and National Policy Coordinator,...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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47:30
Could Earth observation data be the new GPS? Using satellite data to meet sustainable development goals with Carine Saut
In the third episode of the Futuring Podcast’s mini-series in collaboration with Capgemini, Sol Salinas (Global Executive Vice President & Sustainability Lead - The Americas) ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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27:36
How can we use futures thinking to reimagine how businesses can accelerate to a just and regenerative future? Featuring Alisha Bhagat
In this special edition of the Futuring Podcast, Sol Salinas (Global Executive Vice President & Sustainability Lead - The Americas) from Capgemini and Alisha Bhagat, Forum for the Future’s Futures Lead and teacher of Futures Studies and S...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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30:32
Why does your business exist? Discussing business, courage and humanity with Andrew Winston
In this special edition of the Futuring Podcast, Sol Salinas (Global Executive VP & Sustainability Lead – The Americas) from Capgemini and
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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35:22
With a narrow window for innovation, will our food systems transform or unravel? Featuring Lesley Mitchell and Charlene Collison
In this special edition of the Futuring Podcast, Forum’s Associate Director for Sustainable Nutrition, Lesley Mitchell and Forum’s Associate Director for Sustainable Value Chains and Livelihoods, Charlene Collison, reflect on the ...
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33:59
Global collaboration, ticking clocks and food as the great unlock with Dr Agnes Kalibata
In this special edition of the Futuring Podcast, Forum’s Director of Global Programmes, Caroline Ashley, is in conversation with Dr. Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 Food Systems Summit.
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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51:16
Intensive globalisation, recalling the triple bottom line and changing capitalism with John Elkington
In this special edition of the Futuring Podcast, Forum’s Founder, environmental activist, and author, Jonathon Porritt, sits down with John Elkington, Founder and Chief Pollinator at Volans and one of the original ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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55:41
Differing worldviews, indigenous people and the front lines of climate action with Archana Soreng
In this special edition of the Futuring Podcast, Forum’s Director of Global Programmes, Caroline Ashley, is in conversation with Archana Soreng. As a young woman activist from an indigenous community, she is on the front line of t...
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23:35
Irreversible tipping points, winning narratives and whether transformation will be too late with Johan Rockstrom
In this special edition of the Futuring Podcast, Forum’s Founder, environmental activist and author, Jonathon Porritt, sits down with Johan Rockstrom, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and former Direc...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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53:15
Changing role of business and governments, and the powerhouse that is youth with Jonathon Porritt
What have been the most significant shifts for the sustainability movement in the last 25 years? Where have we succeeded and failed? What lessons have we learned along the way? How can we transform ‘business as usual’? And what surprises might ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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42:10
Beyond measuring the impact of philanthropic funding with Cressida Pollock
Can we reimagine philanthropy as if it takes on transformational climate challenges in a more systemic grant process?In the fifth episode of the Futuring Podcast, Ivana Gazibara, Director of the
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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37:13
Developing, prototyping, and mainstreaming systemic investing with Dominic Hofstetter
How can the finance world adopt systems thinking and what are the radical paradigm shifts needed to facilitate large-scale impact? We know that capital can catalyze change but we are yet to deploy it effectively for system change.In the...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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29:32
What if nature was watching us? Climate justice with Daze Aghaji
Have you ever wondered how differently we'd act if we thought nature was watching and holding us accountable? In the third episode of the Futuring Podcast, Ivana Gazibara, Director of the Futu...
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33:46
Investing to decarbonise the global economy with Stephan Nicoleau, FullCycle
As impact investment gains momentum, how can we ensure our capital gets deployed to support the most climate-critical solutions?In the second episode of the Futuring Podcast, Ivana Gazibara, Director of the
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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33:43
Climate philanthropy and funding transformative change. How can we ensure capital flows into the right solution spaces?
Just 2% of philanthropic giving goes to climate action globally and only 3% of this 2% goes to Africa. How can we create system change strategies as funders and investors to support the change we need to see over the coming decade? In t...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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26:39