“When I lived in the Netherlands, even when you work on a project that you hope fixes something, like plastic recycling, at the end of the day you go to a supermarket to buy something, like a banana, shipped from Columbia. Then you sleep in a house that’s built from concrete, then you take a car somewhere, then there’s the roads, the lights that are always on, just to keep that Dutch system going. Or not necessarily a Dutch system, a western system. They leave big footprints, way more than people in other countries in the world. So I felt very much like, ‘Damn you are trying to fix problems, but you are here part of the problem by living here in this world.’ How can we structure life that you can still work on these things, but you don’t make a mess somewhere else.”

Dave Hakkens is an award winning and disruptive designer from the Netherlands. Graduating and launching two projects, Phone Bloks and Precious Plastic in 2013, he continued to develop open-source projects that address global environmental problems. Dave is a maverick in his field, and continues to learn and develop the skills to build communities around interconnected problems, in the hope for a better world. 

Listen to Dan and Dave discuss:
 
- The journey from a design graduate to an army of change makers
 
- Phone Blocks: A modular phone design where parts, not the whole device, can be upgraded
 
- Precious Plastic: Open-source plastic recycling machines for all


- Evolving team, community, funding and awards for Precious Plastic
 
- One Army: Interconnected communities that solve global problems 
 
- Developing skills in how to build a community around a problem
 
- Project Kamp: Prototyping a way of living that’s least wasteful
 
- Observing land to see what she and the community needs

- Full time van life; is it cheating? 
 
- Intentional living and our interdependence with the natural world
 
- Power of the internet, simplicity and playfulness to communicate with the world
 
- Fixing Fashion: Using the power of fashion to dictate what is cool, especially repaired clothes.
 
- Building software to help build effective communities
 
- It’s time to serve the environment on Spaceship Earth
 
Community and Links 
 
Projects:
Fixing Fashion - https://fixing.fashion
One Army - https://www.onearmy.earth
Precious Plastic - https://preciousplastic.com
Phone Bloks: https://www.onearmy.earth//project/phonebloks
 
 
Places: 
Netherlands
Portugal
 
Connect:
https://www.instagram.com/davehakkens/
 
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Play out track:
Glimmer in the Dark by Trilucid & Esque
https://www.beatport.com/track/glimmer-in-the-dark-extended-mix/14389742
 
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Edit: Charlie Shread
Shownotes: Vicki Turner
Music: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson
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Episode 48  - Dave Hakkens - Designing our way out of this mess

A spontaneous mix recorded just before the rise of the full moon yesterday. It’s a set I imagined playing to honour the full moon rising in the sky above me. A selection of tracks that have been connecting with me of late - deep, cosmic, entangled, emotional - Sort of how I’ve been feeling recently. I don’t know about you but I’ve been really missing dancing with people, dancing outside, feet on the earth, letting it go. I shed a few tears at moments in this mix, the sheer beauty of this life combined with the overwhelm of these times means my heart is easily breaking open by loud soaring strings, hi hats, snares, cosmic vocals and deep throbbing basslines I find.  The mix closes with some wise words from a previous guest on my podcast Amisha Ghadiali  - someone I admire for honouring the cycles, rhythms and patterns of our living world, of which we are all part of. So this is a gift for the full moon rising, the buck moon of July. I hope it moves you in some way. Massive gratitude to all the artists and producers of these tracks. Full tracklisting on the site. #earthsessions #housemusic #gratitude #interconnected #fullmoon 

Tracklisting:
Vessels - Elliptic
Lee Burridge/Lost Desert - Loopyjazz
Bona Fide & Wassu - Sila
Noha - 4 walls ( Lost Desert mix)
Frost - Overtones
Sasha - HNDI
Cassian - Open Up ( Durante mix)
Tim Green - Coriolis
Ambassadeurs - Takeda
Double Touch/Reigan - Greatest Day
Sebastian Leger - Stevie
Lee Burridge - Satellite Gorl ( Tim Green mix)
Play out words @Amisha Ghadiali from TSE episode 41

Earth Sessions 24.07.21  - Dan Solo in the mix - Full Moon Rising

Finishing the year with a cheeky mix offering from the shed

Deep, pumping, cosmic, emotive, full of light, love, grief, confusion, darkness and slightly twisted. 

Bit like my year.

A mix to shuffle, shape-shift, stomp and sway into the Winter Solstice.

To mark the end of this cycle of the sun. 

And the letting go of a year.

Impossible to express in words.

(Better through music)

Marking the start.

Of a time of rest, reflection and gratitude.

Massive respect and gratitude to all the artists and producers featured in this mix. 
Your gifts keep me moving. 

Steven Weston- The Solent
Aparde - Integrity (Lusine mix)
Junior Akwety - Vibe with Me
Proff - Whale Song
Mass Digital - Joie de vivre
Gilad Bemamram - Impossible Love  ( Guy Mantur mix)
Sex of insects - I can hear the light (Dave Pad mix)
Cornucopia - Letter for Poly
Halo Vargo - Future ( Guy J mix)
Tim Green - Over the water (Tim Green & Izvhevski mix)
Soma Soul - Eclipse feat Ed Begley ( Edu Imberno mix)

Big Earthy Hugs
To everyone I’ve connected with this year. 
Those I’ve worked with, created with, plotted with, played with, despaired with. 
My family, friends and community for endless love and support.
To all the incredible guests on the podcast.
To my podcast crew.
To everyone who has listened, shared, commented and reviewed.
Thank you.
There’s more coming in 2022.
Big shout to the Becoming Crew Learning Marathon.
To all the mind-blowing activists, campaigners, artists, creators, writers, designers, podcasters, film makers, farmers, growers, change-makers, imagineers, storytellers, lovers, carers, healers, nurturers, connectors and mischief makers who continue to keep it real when things can feel hopeless. 
To the NHS. 
To the more than human crew on Spaceship Earth who create the conditions for all life.
To all those midwifing a more beautiful world.
Keep the love, care and kindness strong.
We live on a life going rock called Earth, hurtling through space.
Lets dance.
And rest.
Peace and out.

Earth Sessions 21.12.2021 - Into the Solstice - Dan Solo in the mix

Hello 2022, hope this finds you well.

I’ve been composting 2021.

Episode 56  kicks off with something a bit different.

An audio experiment to start the year.

A story about stories.

Last year I was invited to do a TED X Talk about the climate and ecological crisis, I wasn’t really sure what to talk about to be honest.

I was struggling to think of what another white man, 50 years old could possibly add to all the noise in these extraordinary times.

I was also feeling fairly burned out by the last two years, had just returned from COP26 and was strangely disoriented and quite frazzled.

I decided to focus in on what I felt was the most valuable and useful learnings I have, that I could offer up in these unravelling and unknowing times.  Even though I knew it might feel uncomfortable and challenging. I wanted to find a way to weave the vital threads of my inquiring over the last 15 years together with where my attention and work is deepening and orienting towards.

It was quite a task to create, but I felt it didn’t end up working quite so well in a short talk format.

Because it’s really a story about stories. 

So I decided to evolve and expand it and record it as a podcast, but a bit more immersive.

It’s definitely right on my learning edge and I’m feeling a bit vulnerable putting this out. 
But that often means it needs to leave the nest.

I really hope it speaks to you and if it does please consider sharing it with someone else. We’d be most grateful. And whatever it makes you think or feel - I'd love to hear any feedback.

There are so many amazing humans and more than humans who have influenced the creation of this episode. 

You know who you are.

I’d recommend headphones or a decent speaker setup for this one. And being still. 
Enjoy

A massive shout to Charlie Shread - Audio Jedi for making this sound awesome.

#becomingcrew #thespaceshipearthpodcast

Link:

The Great Acceleration

https://www.slideshare.net/IGBPSecretariat/great-acceleration-2015

https://stories.life/
https://stories.life/chapter/the-narrative-of-separation/


Thanks for listening to The Spaceship Earth Podcast.


Host: Dan Burgess @dan__burgess

Edit: Charlie Shread

Shownotes: Vicki Turner

Music: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson

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Episode 56 - Dan Burgess - Becoming Crew - A Story about Stories

Phoebe Tickell is a Biologist and Systems thinker who develops methodologies and approaches suited to a better world. With a degree in Biological Natural Sciences she brings her understanding of biological networks and systems thinking into governance, organisational structures, narratives and imagination. From co-founding multiple organisations, designing and  implementing learning programmes to facilitating groups across the world, Phoebe has been called a voice of the emerging future and one of the most important systems thinkers of her generation.

Recorded in the Devonian woods around a campfire, Dan and Phoebe discuss: 
 
- Reflection, peace and slowness in a time when there’s lots to do

- The rejection of indigenous wisdom/science unless ‘discovered’ by western science  

- Systems change; yet aren’t we the system?
 
- In times of grief, what would a sane culture do?

- Evolving from a self-exterminating society to a self-sustaining society

- Caring for young imaginations in an era of technological entertainment

- Moral Imagination. Imagination activists. And imaginal zones 
 
- Subsidising slowness, not speed and rewiring our economy
 
- Power of the ‘sit spot’, make believe, masks and role play
 
- Relationships and value between the human and more-than-human world

- Everything is not in the government's hands. We can be empowered to create our own reality 
 
- Designing systems with wisdom. Bring it on!
 

Play Out Track:
Bonobo - Sapien
From the Album ‘ Fragments’
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/sapien/1584968878?i=1584969129

Sound Credits:
Features birdsong recorded by Fintan O'Brien
https://soundcloud.com/fintanobrien

Full Shownotes:
https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/3/3/episode-57-phoebe-tickell-imagination-activism

Episode 57 - Phoebe Tickell - Imagination Activist

Nadeem Perera is a birder, wildlife TV presenter, activist, youth mentor and co-founder of Flock Together. 

Flock Together is a birdwatching collective for people of colour who have felt unwelcome and marginalised in spaces that should be for everyone. 
Together they are reclaiming green spaces and rebuilding relationships with nature - one walk at a time. 
At twenty eight years of age, Nadeem is more than his deep fascination with birds, his youth work, values and unique personal qualities are essential in the world today. 

Needem Perera Insta - https://www.instagram.com/birdnerdeem
Flock Together - https://www.flocktogether.world


For full show notes and links please visit The Spaceship Earth website: 

https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2022/4/15/episode-59-nadeem-perera-flock-together-return-to-the-source-of-love

Episode 59 - Nadeem Perera - Flock Together - Return to the Source of Love

This Earth Sessions mix is dedicated to Mother Earth, our one and only home planet.
It’s for dancing and moving through overwhelming times.
It’s for the love of all that I know and experience of this Earth.
And to honour the vast unknowable intelligence beyond my human knowing.
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Imagine if we began to see the Earth and the more than human world as our family ? 
(As many indigenous brothers and sisters have always done)
Just a shift in perception.
And an ongoing practice
No technology or markets required.
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The mix begins and ends with wisdom from two amazing guests on the podcast this year.
Two humans who are working towards this shift in beautiful ways.
Kicking off with an invitation from Imagination Activist Phoebe Tickell (EP 57)
To find the courage to cultivate our moral imagination capacities.
And consider the more than human and our future ancestors as we re-imagine our human systems that can, should and must be changed.
We close with beautiful wisdom from Nadeem Perera ( EP 59)
To consider and accept the true order of life, where nature, Mother Earth is the director of the show.
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The track selection attempts to express the urgency, beauty, mystery, love and possibility of these times.
Music that’s been moving me of late.
Organic, cosmic house sounds which connect me to rhythms, patterns and love of Mother Earth.

Massive respect and gratitude to all the artists and producers featured in this mix.
Go buy these tracks if they move you too

Hope you enjoy the mix - feedback always appreciated 


#becomingcrew

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Alarm Call (French Dub) - Bjork
The Slide - Wild Dark
Fewer - Gadi Mitrani
Felt - Erdi Irmak
Moon by day - Hermanez/Simon Vuarambom
1996 - Simon Vuarambom
Hael - Volen Sentir
Circadian Rhythm - (Hraach mix) Soul Button
Lagom - Lukas Bohlender
Nano - Tamir Regev
Mythical Mirage (Erdi Irmak mix) - Serious Dancers
Vutuka Fet Junior - Lost Desert/Lee Burridge
Rain in June - Mass Digital
Solnce - Krasa Rosa

Bird recordings via @fintanobrien

Earth Sessions 22.04.22  - Love for Mother (Earth) - Dan Solo in the mix

Live DJ set recorded at the Sancho Panza festival - 'Campo Sancho' in July 2022 in the UK.
90 mins back to back with my great friend Jay Bold which kicked off Saturday night in the Snare and Hi hat tent.
Brilliant crowd, mega sound system, awesome festival. Grateful for the opportunity. Massive kudos to Matt Brown and Jim Angel.
Respect to all the producers in this recording.
Enjoy!

https://www.sanchopanza.org/campo-sancho/

Earth Sessions: Dan Solo B2b Jay Bold live at Campo Sancho Festival 30/07/22

New Earth Sessions Mix from @dan__burgess :

I’m struggling with my voice at the moment.

And words.

So I’ve been taking a pause from recording conversations.

The podcast is in a composting phase

Which feels absolutely right for this time.

Autumn has always been an important season for me.

I feel the transition in a very embodied way.

Deep in my psyche and bones.

The letting go. 

The breaking down
 
Of what was.

A clearing of space.

For what could be.

A grieving of sorts.

In a beautiful way.

In recent years Autumn had also become a time of unexpected challenge.

So this mix is an ode to Autumn and all the feels that I’m feeling right now.

Autumnism. 

125 BPM

Play loudly, for running, dancing and moving through these darker times. 

A new season of the podcast will be emerging from the compost.

Massive respect to all the producers featured in this mix. 
Thank you for your beautiful sonic offerings.

Available on all podcast platforms.
#gratitude #thespaceshipearthpodcast #housemusic #earthsessions #cosmichouse #organichouse
#becomingcrew 

Tracklist on site.

Earth Sessions - Autumnism  - Dan Solo in the mix

Former professional big wave surfer Fergal Smith walked away from professional surfing a decade ago to begin a journey of becoming a regenerative farmer on the West coast of Ireland.

In this conversation recorded in June 2022 Dan revisits Moy Hill for a third time and catches up with where Fergal is at on the evolutionary journey of Moy Hill Farm . 

Fergal is now working with livestock as a core tool in bringing back soil health, bio-diversity, carbon drawdown and growing nutritious food for the local community. 

This conversation is an open exploration of the challenges, complexity and nuance required in bringing life back to landscapes, feeding people healthy food and dealing with the challenges of the urgent transition from industrial agriculture to regenerative farming.

https://www.moyhillfarm.com/

Episode 62 - Fergal Smith - Moy Hill Farm - It's not the cow, it's the how

We have a new learning experience offering to accompany the podcast. 

Becoming Crew - (un)learning adventures for navigating mysterious times.

It's been prototyping and gestating for some years.
And we released into the wild at the end of 2022.

The first offer is Community Solo, a 5 week experience for a crew of individuals which our first cohort completed in mid December.

We have a second crew departing on 26th January, with some spots still available.

This is a short explainer from Dan (on a ramble in the woods) on the dream of Becoming Crew, an overview of Community Solo and his own profound experience of guiding and participating in the first run last year.

Interested in joining the next one ? Jump through the portal...
https://www.becomingcrew.com/community-solo

Becoming Crew & Community Solo - (un)Learning Experiences from The Spaceship Earth Podcast

In this first full length episode to kick off 2023, Dan introduces in much more depth the Becoming Crew (un)learning adventures for navigating mysterious times.

These have been gestating through the podcast since it began and prototyping over the last two years and are now being offered into the world.

The episode then deepens and expands into reflections on experiences and learnings from 2022 and intentions for 2023 with fellow Becoming Crew guides Mark Sears and Evva Semenowicz.

This was recorded in mid January in a cottage on Dartmoor, Devon during days of intense rainfall where the three of us gathered for a few days to pause, reflect and dream.

To find out more visit

www.becomingcrew.com

Thanks for listening and please do share, comment, rate and review if this speaks to you

#becomingcrew #inservicetolife

EP 63-Becoming Crew -Mark Sears and  Evva Semenowicz, Trust, thresholds and navigating the mystery

Episode 64 with Dougald Hine.

Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.

Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast.

Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son.

And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation.

In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations to be considered and explored as we face into the unravelling mystery of these times - times of endings.

‘At Work in the Ruins’ is a gift for this moment for those who know intuitively in their heart and gut that many things from 'modernity' need to end.

Now is a time for humility and creative courage, for letting go of stories, ideas, behaviours and systems that no longer serve life and crossing a threshold into imagining what could be and becoming the change.

We highly recommend this book.

Available everywhere you get your podcasts

We hope you appreciate this episode. 

Please do share, rate and review if this speaks to you.

#atworkintheruins #thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew

Episode 64 - Dougald Hine - At Work in the Ruins

Why do rivers need guardians ?
What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ?
Can nature have legal rights?

Paul Powlesland is a civil barrister, environmental activist and guardian of the River Roding in East London.

Paul is shaking up what it means to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis.

In this bonus episode following on from the previous long form conversation, Paul speaks specifically to the Rights of Nature movement, what it's all about and what the rights of a river might look like through his relationship with the River Roding, a river in east London which Paul guardians.

This is also a special episode for us - being the first Ocean Mic episode  -  a new collaboration between The Spaceship Earth podcast and Finisterre.

Available on all platforms


#thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew #oceanmic

Episode 67 BONUS - Paul Powlesland - The Legal Rights of Nature & the Rights of a River

Bayo is an author, writer, celebrated speaker, teacher, and self-styled trans-public intellectual - whose vocation goes beyond justice and speaking truth to power to opening up other spaces of power-with, and queering fond formulations and configurations of hope.

Bayo invites us to see the crises of our times with a post activist,  post humanist lens, revealing cracks and bringing much-needed trouble to settled narratives.

His writing and speaking is prolific, vital and so generous.

His provocations and the invitations that sit under them are not always fully comprehended in our more comfortable human centered cultures of progress which Bayo speaks to with clarity in this conversation.

This was a shorter episode recorded online at the end of a slightly frazzling week, but as ever with Bayo this conversation is full of gifts, stunning insight, provocation and fertiliser for navigating these mysterious times.

Bayo is one of our special guests on The Remix kicking off in May - a 3 month action learning adventure for story rebels from Becoming crew.

Applications open 

https://www.becomingcrew.com/theremix

Episode 66 - Bayo Akomolafe - Cracks, re-pairing and making new moves

Love Ssega is a musician, songwriter and performing artist . He is weaving a beautifully diverse path collaborating across different art forms, whilst also speaking up for complex environmental, social and educational issues. 

The original frontman-songwriter of Grammy-winning Clean Bandit, he is currently Artist In Residence for Royal Festival Hall’s Philharmonia Orchestra. 

London-born, his music blends a mix of New Wave, 80s Hip-Hop, African polyrhythms and NYC Disco into smart, modern Pop and has been played all over the world. 

In this conversation Dan invites Ssega to explore the question ‘What does it mean to be a music artist in a time of climate, ecological and social crisis’ ? 

And they journey through some of his amazing projects riffing on many threads.

Ssega  is weaving extraordinary magic through his actions and artistry - exploring climate justice, social and racial justice, air pollution, social housing issues and so much more through music, performance, collaboration and co-creation with communities, galleries, poets, orchestras, and more.

Please do check out Ssega’s abundant music and creative projects, you won’t be disappointed. 

And please comment and share if this episode speaks to you.

Links, show notes and tracklist via https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2023/5/12/episode-68-love-ssega-finding-another-way

Episode 68 - Love Ssega - Finding Another Way

How might we make a habit of moving into uncomfortable spaces to begin cultivating new ways of being? 

What stories would the living world share if they had a seat at the table? 

What does a business in service to planet Earth look like? 

How might business unite behind forms of activism that can benefit the whole of society ?

Matt Hocking is an extraordinary force of nature, a generous and humble being who has dedicated himself to serving our planet. 

As a designer, curator and connector he has channelled his energy into the creation of forward thinking, ecologically inspired, design agency Leap; developing Goodfest, a gathering for creative change makers in Cornwall, and as an ambassador for BCorp, encouraging more creative businesses to join the movement.  

Matt is a galvanising individual, a catalyst for interesting journeys and an advocate for challenging our settled concepts of 'sustainabilty'. 

In a little pocket of ancient woodland in Bath, Smallcombe Woods, Dan invites Matt in the company of two ancient oaks, surrounded by the aroma of wild garlic and the pitter patter of rain drops to delve into an exploration of Matt’s service to planet Earth and their common threads of inquiry.

The conversation weaves many threads

A reflection on the state of Britain’s natural world as a result of an ingrained colonial destructive and separation logic.

The importance of a sharing economy beyond material things

Appreciation for Goodfest, in creating a space where youth wisdom sits alongside elder wisdom. 

Bringing the voices of the living world into our discussions on climate action,

The dance of perfect imperfection along the journey to new, creative imaginings 

How businesses can take courageous action towards systemic change.

Episode 72 - Matt Hocking - Business from the heart

This offering comes from Becoming Crew Guide Mark Sears. 

It is an ancient myth from the Inuit tradition. 

It emerged from the back of the cave following our first session of our learning adventure The Remix and a provocation from Bayo Akomolafe. He invited us to consider the possibility of shapeshifting and the idea that it is only through strange encounters beyond our comprehension that new stories might emerge. 

This is a short tale, but a deep one and it begs the question - 'what have we sent into exile that we might need to reclaim right now in our culture where we find ourselves as lonely hunters at the doorway of our huts.'

As you listen perhaps you might want to ask yourself, where do you find yourself in the story?

Episode 71 - Stories for Life  - Mark Sears - Fox Woman Dreaming

This episode is a basecamp crew conversation between Dan and fellow Becoming Crew guides Evva Semenowicz and Mark Sears.

It speaks to this moment in time, where planetary boundaries are being crossed, Earth system tipping points are approaching, climate and ecological breakdown is being experienced all over western societies and yet the culture of denial, divisiveness and inaction is still dominant in government, media, and corporates.

What is true and what is real ?

What will it take for more people with influence to step fully into this moment and begin to step into service to life on our home planet, for a sense of collective action to spread ?

We speak especially to the inaction in organisations and business, beyond their own agendas, why are orgs still so passive when it comes to responding to these crises, when the very conditions that enable their businesses to function are unravelling fast.

We unpack ‘What’s Yours to Do?’  - a new one day offer from Becoming Crew to support organisations to begin to step into this new reality and cultivate courage for their own unique forms of activism and participation towards halting the destruction of our living Earth and accelerate the shift towards life-sustaining cultures.

Recorded in a meadow in Somerset at sunset on a very dry June day the conversation picks up from our last session in Episode 63 in January, reflects on the launch of The Remix  - (un)learning adventure for story rebels and then into this moment and what is being called for from business and organisations and our offer of What’s Yours to Do ?

https://www.becomingcrew.com/1day

Episode 73 - Becoming Crew - Whats Yours to Do ?

This episode has been created to honour  ‘The Remix’ - our recent 3 month experiential (un)learning adventure for story rebels hosted by becoming crew.
The Remix set out to explore the power of cultural stories in these times, and not in a shiny, universal, human-centered way.

It was an invitation into a deep, creative, relational inquiry  - exploring the cultural stories we live by while at the same time re-entangling ourselves back into the vast web of life  - the world we have not made.

An intentional space to explore the intelligence, interconnectedness, kinship and mystery of life on this Earth and how that might shape and inform our creative practices, projects, the stories we carry and our ways of being in these times of great unravelling.

37 crew from 8 countries participated, guided by Dan Burgess and fellow guides Evva Semenowicz, Mark Sears, Mark De'Lisser,  and Kamara Venner.

We were joined along the way by 7 guest teachers, Bayo Akomolafe, Paddy Loughman, Phoebe Tickell, Felipe Viveros, Jay Griffiths, Easkey Britton and Sophie Strand.

Together we weaved a peer supported action learning community, cultivating deep entanglement practices with the more than human world in the places we call home,  participating in creative challenges and experiments while considering  - How might our stories help to seed and grow life-sustaining cultures ?

This episode is an audio artefact of the journey, it weaves contributions from all our guests, guides and participants, it is a memory bank for us, to remember the wisdom, connections and learning we received.

We recommend headphones for this one.

Full show notes via

https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast

Episode 76 - The Remix 2023 - Audio Artefact - (un)learning adventure for story rebels

It’s been a year since the  last Earth Sessions mix.

I finally got it together to record this.

Mixed live in my garden studio while humanity continues to implode.

Violence, suffering and despair spilling over on this Earth.

These last few weeks have been overwhelming.

But I remember today the power of music and dancing as one way to move the body and mind through dark times

Heart vibes, to connect to a deeper source within and to unite into new ways of being.

This mix signals the crossing of a threshold into darker mysterious times, towards winter.

To acknowledge the Celtic festival of Samhain (a few days ago) pronounced Sow (as in Cow)Inn

A time for dropping into mystery, decay, shedding, breaking down, letting go and composting.

Going dark and in deep in preparation for seeding new life.

Love in cycles.

This is an offering for this moment.

It’s deep, dark, trippy, fairly pumping, emotional.

Play in the dark, loudly. 

For running, dancing, crying and moving through darker times.

Respect to all the producers featured in this mix. 

Thank you for your beautiful sonic offerings.

Full tracklist on site

Episode 77 - Earth Sessions - Samhain deep - Dan Solo Mix

Into the Dark -  a deep, slow, wintery, sonic meander, through ambient electronic melancholy into deep house.

Sounds and tracks that I’m finding connection and curiosity with in these darker, colder times of breakdown, reflection, exploration and dreaming towards the light.

Tracklist on podcast website

I hope you enjoy it. 

If you walk with it, run with it, sit with it, drive with it, cook with it.

Dance with it

Earth Sessions: Into the dark - Dan Solo

Introducing the Annual 2024 - and the official Episode 100 of the Spaceship Earth Podcast.

A reflection of the year gone by with a nod to what it might be showing us about the future that is unfolding.

A curation of the highlights of 2024 on the podcast, it features clips, reflections, insights and learnings from many of the episodes.

It’s not exhaustive, not every guest is featured but I’ve included clips that felt to me to be fertile, wise and vital insights for these times we are travelling in.

So if you are a regular listener I hope this captures some of the highlights for you and you might appreciate the reflections and insights we share.

If you are new to the podcast I hope this gives you a flavour of what we’re doing here and inspires you to dig into these conversations and episodes more deeply and jump into the becoming crew community

We’ve put a lot of time into creating this episode, I recommend putting the headphones on or turning up the speakers.

It's a sonic adventure.

This episode features sections from about 20 conversations across 2024 in just over 2 hours.

I have curated these through the following themes which were alive in 2024 and we are carrying into the podcast and the becoming crew offerings for the journey ahead:

1. The importance and possibilities of non-ordinary experiences through nature based rites of passage and rituals

2. Decolonising and growing post-capitalist realities

3. Practice-driven change for ways through the divisiveness and violence of these times

4. Honouring death, grief and composting our shit as vital regenerative practices

5. Shifting our relationality, seeing the natural world from transactional to sacred

6. Imagining and Re-membering alternative futures

7. The Future is Local - we can network for the rest

8. Centering the young/Intergenerational by Design

9. Now is the Time for Crews

Finally we'd love to hear your thoughts to help us shape the next year of the Spaceship Earth Podcast.

We want to keep crafting the offering to stay useful and relevant in these challenging and emerging times.

Your feedback helps us to understand where folks are at with the podcast in its current form.

It will take about 10 mins of your time and we'd be so grateful for your feedback.

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Episode 100: The Annual 2024 | Reflecting Back and Forwards

One from the archives! Twenty three years ago - a vinyl mix in the shed at Space.FM in East London

Deep tech-house vibes

Space FM Shed Mix  - January 2002 - Deep Tech House Vibes  -

A mix to honour this moment in the Earth's cycle. 

Tunes spanning 35 years, a few that were mainstays in my box of vinyl back in the late 90's. In the company of some more recent beauties. 

Big love to the amazing artists, producers and creators of these sonic gifts. Full tracklist on site.

This is a 120-122 bpm groove. For honouring the Sun, love, life, grief and joy of being alive on Spaceship Earth right now. 

And the possibility of dancing our ways into more beautiful  and peaceful future.

A big summer salute to the cuckoos of Dartmoor who also appear in the intro.

Earth Sessions: Into the Solstice - Dan Solo

How to learn to dance with complexity, contradiction, grief, beauty, uncertainty, horror and surprise without abandoning the dance-floor

Dancing feels like an interesting invitation to me for these times

It invites us into the body and out of our stuck heads.

It invites us into presence and relationship with life in the moment,

To be present with our bodies, with each other, with other life forms

It’s movement, spontaneity, flow, expression, vibe, response,

Response-ability.

Dancing is aliveness.

And we need alive-ness.

To break the numbness.


So on that, I offer a new Earth Sessions mix: Autumnism

For this season of letting go.

A collection of tunes, that have been moving me of late and that capture for me the feels of this season and these times - the endings, the abundance, the darkness, the joy, the mystery.

I hope they move you in some way.

Full tracklisting here: https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2025/10/20/earth-sessions-autumnism

And if you struggle with dancing, it could well be our deep patriarchal programming - you know the voice - ‘you can’t dance’

I offer some words a wise man once said about letting yourself go on the dancefloor…

‘No one’s looking at you and no one gives a fuck’

So stay awake to what is happening, what is ending, what needs to end and tend to what needs to begin.

Look around you, find the thing that speaks to you, find the others and get stuck in.

Love and care at the centre.

And try to stay curious with the trouble, the discomfort.

Do not abandon the dance-floor

REPEAT: Do not leave the dance-floor of life.

As Nena and WestBam said…

‘We are the future, that’s the past
We are the moment built to last
We are the up, that’s the down
We wear the newschool engine crown’

Earth Sessions: Autumnism | Dan Solo

In this episode I chat with David Stover co-founder of restorative venture Bureo who are turning ocean fishing net pollution into new materials and products, building a whole new supply chain system which supports people and planet. The interview is about how Bureo came to be. Enjoy. This was my first session recording via skype and garage band from my mancave in Bath to Ventura in California. So I was slightly distracted on making sure the recording was happening. Learning by doing! 

Rememeber there are no passengers on Spaceship Earth, we are all crew.
https://bureo.co/


Sound: New Binurial Beats from Will Flisk

THE SPACESHIP EARTH - EPISODE 1 - DAVID STOVER - BUREO

Sancho Panza carnival, one of the best gigs a DJ can do. and luckily I did a few. Possibly one of my favourite carnival set experience. sunday afternoon 4 till 5pm. road block, absolutely mobbed at middle row, chaos on the stage, the maddest crowd around. It was sunny, sticky and hot, the clouds started to gather during my set and just in the break of cowgirl, the heavens opened and it absolutely pissed it down. everyone went mental. awesome. will never forget. thanks for my little MD player.

03 sancho panza carnival 2000

In this episode I’m with Chris Salisbury - storyteller, outdoor educator, nature connection guru and founder of WildWise in Devon, UK. We explore connection to nature through experience, embodied knowledge and opening the imagination, the need for soul work in our industrialised lives, the challenges facing children, teens and us older folks in a world that has shunned ritual, wildness, community living and spaces to connect with who we truly are. How time in nature can spark our curiosity and creativity,  the power of stories in oral form to inspire and support us in times of trouble. Includes guest vocals from Chris’s hens. Enjoy!

Show notes

https://wildwise.co.uk/

https://www.oxfordstorytellingfestival.co.uk/meet-the-team

https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/short-courses/call-of-the-wild-2019

Episode 18 Chris Salisbury - WildWise - Feeling our way back to nature

When things get dark, getting lost in music is fine medicine I find. Going back to my DJ roots, I'm ending this year with a mix to shuffle around your kitchen, car, headphones etc. There is no conversation here, no guest, no me talking, just 80 mins of deep, emotional cosmic house music, to take the edges off the crazyness of an unravelling world. Dancing has always united people in my experience, this mix represents the kind of vibes I'm playing in the mainroom on the Spaceship Earth. Huge gratitiude to the most excellent producers of these tracks (you can shazam them). The intro and outro is words of wisdom from Anna Murray @Patternity captured from a conversation in Episode 8. I hope some of this mix moves you. Keep loving, keep caring, keep on giving a fuck, keep giving, keep listening, keep collaborating, keep dreaming, keep laughing, keep experimenting, keep reaching out to others, keep standing up for the more than human world, keep looking after yourself, keep learning, keep the awe and wonder, keep dancing, keep on creating a more beautiful world. Turn the volume up! Peace and Out.

Episode 27 - Dancing in the Dark - Dan Solo in the Mix  - December 2019

In this episode I welcomed award winning campaigner, activist, author and speaker Natalie Fee to the SpaceShed in my garden.
Nat is a true maverick making incredible impacts through her organisation City to Sea and Refill - from an idea in her head which hatched a youtube video and a crowdfunder to bring attention to plastic pollution habits in our consumerist culture, Nat has built a 30 strong campaigning organisation and a fast growing community driven movement to encourage the spread of refill culture in our society. We riff on Nat’s journey from dropping out of University, searching for spiritual meaning, achieving material and financial success and not finding happiness with that and how stumbling across Chris Jordan’s Albatross project catalysed her to act on plastic pollution.
We talk about the rise of consumerism, plastic pollution, searching for meaning, community action, individual change and action as system change, following your heart and putting yourself out into the world and much much more. This is an open, honest conversation about Nat’s journeying to find meaning and purpose in her life which led to campaigning and innovating on plastic pollution, which has become a catalyst to connect more deeply to the earth and how Nat believes individual action to be a creative, powerful and regenerative act. Which is exactly what her new book ‘How to Change the World for Free’ riffs on. We talk about toilets a fair bit too and porn and flax seed lube. Enjoy!

www.citytosea.org.uk/

refill.org.uk/

nataliefee.com/
nataliefee.com/books/

www.instagram.com/nataliefee_/

www.instagram.com/citytosea_/

www.instagram.com/refillhq/

The SpaceShip Earth - Episode 26 - Natalie Fee - City to Sea - How to Save the World for Free

The story of Spaceship Earth is simple...

We live on a life giving rock called Earth hurtling through space.

Like a spaceship, we have a finite amount of supplies with an intelligent operating system, called nature, which keeps everything replenished as long as we all respect it and participate wisely. 

So a deep relationship with this mysterious system, along with spontaneous co-operation between humans and all life is essential to keep us thriving and the spaceship flying.

In this podcast I’m in conversations with folk involved in regenerating life, 

Shifting consciousness and re-imagining how we can live more beautifully and peacefully. 

I talk with artists, writers, activists, designers, adventurers, healers, farmers, creative mavericks and more.

Their stories invite us to  participate in the co-creation of life sustaining cultures.

In service to life.

Becoming crew on Spaceship Earth.

Rad cosmic intro music (now remixed) - with gratitude to  Matt Hales and Davide Rossi (Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson, published by BMG). 

Hosted by Dan Burgess, edit via Charlie Shread, engine room Seemah Nahome-Burgess
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