In this episode I’m in conversation with Andy Cato, an award-winning mixed arable and livestock farmer and co-founder of Wildfarmed Grain.

This was a treat on many fronts. Not just because Andy is a fascinating human doing extraordinary work to regenerate our planet but this conversation connects up many of my own deep interests.
 
Before forming Wild Farmed Grain Andy was one half of music act Groove Armada and started his journey with music in the early nineties going on to become a massive global artist and DJ, releasing over 8 albums, touring all over the world and next year will celebrate 25 years of music.
 
But Andy’s story continued to evolve as he learnt about the impacts our industrial food systems are having on both planetary and human health which kickstarted his inquiry into food growing, farm ownership and his own stark experiences witnessing dying soils and the  devastating impacts of industrial agriculture.
 
His experimental nature and curious enquiring mind led him to the conclusion that regenerating soils for both climate and food is an urgent and pressing task for humanity and he has spent a decade developing farming methodologies where plants, animals and soils are all working in deep symbiosis, and farmers, bakers, millers and customers work together to create highly nutritious grains, flours and products in a value system that works for everyone.
 
Cut to 2021 and Wild Farmed Grain is making noise and beginning to spread from the underground, fast becoming the flour of choice of chefs and bakers around the country. His original 100Ha farm in Gascony, where his farming journey began, was recognised as the most innovative farm in France when awarded the prestigious Lauréat National de l'Agro-Ecologie 2020. He is the first Englishman to be awarded the Chevalier L’Order Merit de Agricole - the equivalent of a knighthood for services to agriculture.
 
Now on British soil, Andy is on a mission to take what he’s learned and help other farmers adopt his WildFarmed system so they can produce wheat that is not only more tasty and nutritious, but that eats up huge quantities of CO2 and restores soil health and biodiversity. 
 
This was a wide ranging conversation, Andy has lived an extraordinary life and his knowledge, energy and dedication to building a new regenerative and community led food system is incredible   - and for me to have a conversation which included raving , house music, the symbiosis of plant and animal relationships, soil health, complexity, human health, climate action and sourdough was an absolute treat.
 
I hope you enjoy it. Available on all podcast platforms.
 
Community and Links

An Agricultural Testament - Albert Howard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Agricultural_Testament
 
The One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka
 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/976905.The_One_Straw_Revolution
Kiss the ground
https://kisstheground.com/
Groove Armada
https://www.groovearmada.com/
We Are Grow
https://wearegrow.org/

Connect:
www.instagram.com/wildfarmed
https://wildfarmed.co.uk/
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Play out track:
Sasha  - Corner shop
https://sasha.bandcamp.com/album/luzoscura

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Host: Dan Burgess @dansolo__
Edit: Charlie Shread
Shownotes: Vicki Turner
Music: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson
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Episode 49 Andy Cato - Wild Farmed Grain - Fix Food. Fix the planet.

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

In this episode I'm in conversation with Tom Kay founder of ocean inspired outdoor clothing brand and BCorps Finisterre. This shorter than usual conversation took part just before Sea 7 - the world's first Ocean activist training camp, dreamed up and bought to the world by Finisterre with design partners Protect Blue, just before the G7 world leaders gathering in June down in Cornwall - the home of Finisterre. I had the honour of hosting the 6 hr event which included talks, panels and workshops from the world's leading ocean activists, scientists, campaigners, designers, working tirelessly to protect and regenerate our planets life support system  - the ocean. 
In this conversation I caught up with Tom to explore the thinking behind Sea 7, some reflections on the Finisterre journey of the last 19 years, the impacts of the pandemic and what next for the brand in these unravelling times. We then swiftly jumped in the ocean before kicking off Sea 7.
Stay locked for the outro track, an ocean flavoured remix of our title music which includes a gift of a poem from podcast mixmaster @Charlie Shread  - Earth Origin

https://sea7.finisterre.com/

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 51  - Tom Kay  - Finisterre - Ocean of Life

Welcome to this Bonus episode 57

 with our guest Phoebe Tickell

In this we offer you an invitation to listen to a 5 minute story called the Impossible Train, created by Moral Imaginations and narrated by Phoebe Tickell.

The Impossible Train Story is a tool that can be used by anyone, alone or in groups in all settings to catalyse a process of deep reimagining of the future post-COVID and all that it has revealed.

The entire process can be done in under 20 minutes.  

The story you are about to hear will build up a sensory experience of a portal into a metaphoric world not far away from this one — where a group of human beings have to make a decision on what to do next with their future after experiencing a Great Pause in their everyday world  .

Take 5 minutes to listen to The Impossible Train Story, and be ready with a pen or an open document to start writing immediately after the story ends. 

You could set a stopwatch for 7 minutes and start to write freely when the narration is over.  

When you’re finished, you could find a friend to chat what you discovered and wrote, or if you do it with someone else, use the remaining time you have to read each other your reflections.  

Remember, there is no right or wrong answer, and each time you listen to the story you will have a different response emerge from you, depending on what is going on for you on that day and specific moment.

  You do not need to show anyone what you wrote, in fact, some people have been using it as a prompt to use solo when journalling. It can be used as a reflective tool and a way to access deeper imagination and ask big questions that these times are calling for.

But if you wanted to share it with us you can do so.

Peace and Out

https://www.moralimaginations.com/

BONUS Episode 57  - The Impossible Train - Moral Imaginations

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

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

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

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

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.

LINKS

Our listener Survey - We’d so value your inputs in helping us shape the next chapter for the Podcast

Into the Dark - Our Winter Community Adventure - Join us

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

Last two hours of the night includes a suprise one more tune at the end of the night...

Dan Solo Live mix @ HOUSE WORK ELECTRIC BEAR

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

In this episode, I'm in conversation with Louise Middleton, founder of Kudhva -  an amazing collection of stunning hide-outs on a magical, elemental landscape on the remote and wild North Cornwall coast - a place for folks to disconnect to reconnect. Having spent the night in a Kudhva in a rocking gale,  I caught up with Louise to get the Kudhva story, the vision and journey of place making so thoughtfully in tune with the landscape, designing living experiences that help people connect more fully with themselves, to each other and the non human world around them. We explore how living more simply and intentionally seems to help us let go of stress, tune in to our creativity and connect better with ourselves and others.  Experimenting with the design challenge of creating balance between space for solitude vs community. At a time when we are faced with the most enormous and urgent challenges of lowering our carbon and ecological impacts particulalry in the west, and where we have often removed ourselves from place based community, what can we learn from places like Kudhva which we can bring back and build into our modern urban lives. Hope you enjoy. Please share and review if you like it.

http://kudhva.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kudhva/

The SpaceShip Earth - Episode 24 - Louise Middleton -  Kudhva - Hiding Out to Reconnect

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

In this episode I'm in conversation with the inspiring and wise Laura Storm and Giles Hutchins, co-authors of the book 'Regenerative Leadership'. Having booked this podcast weeks ago we recorded this conversation as the UK was preparing to lock down the country in the face of the coronavirus crisis, Laura based in Copenhagen was in her 10th day of isolation with her family. Because of this unprecedented context, this conversation is an open, honest, sometimes vulnerable exploration of living in this moment in time, the uncertainties we face as business, leaders, communities, citizens, parents and ultimately humans, as we rapidly adapt to global lockdown and how the principles of regenerative leadership might offer ways for navigating towards a thriving and flourishing world, a new way of being on this planet. We riff on everything from trust and letting go of old ways and the logic of command and control, how to work in these new remote times, dealing with the huge uncertainty of income and job loss, integrating family and community back into our lives, how to support the most vulnerable, noticing the natural world, and how we might move forward beyond this crisis.

https://www.regenerativeleadership.co/

https://laura-storm.com/

https://www.instagram.com/storm_laura/
https://www.instagram.com/regenerators.co

http://gileshutchins.com/

https://thenatureofbusiness.org/2020/03/22/can-the-darkness-of-crisis-reveal-a-new-dawn/

https://www.dominomusic.com/news/uk/jon-hopkins-shares-new-composition-scene-suspended-listen-now

Episode 32 with Giles Hutchins & Laura Storm - Regenerative Leadership in a time of systemic crisis

In this episode I’m in conversation with Tim Malnick. Tim is a coach, learning guide, activist, author, ex politician and Buddhist. He provides creative, thought provoking and highly impactful learning and development for individuals, groups and organisations who are waking up to the realisation that the way they work and do business contributes to the ecological, social and economic crises that we face today. He was a faculty member of Ashridge Business School where in addition to research and consulting work, was a core member of the team teaching the MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility and was my tutor when I completed it in 2010. This programme described in Harvard Business Review as ‘path breaking’  and ‘transformative’ maintains an international reputation for transforming people’s thinking and doing, allowing them to act more creatively and courageously for change within their professions and organisations. Tim has one foot in academic settings and one foot in practical settings – once referred to as a ‘scholar activist’ - he likes deep thinking connected with practical and bold doing.
A core belief underlying all his work is that individually and as a culture, people are waking up to the realisation that current patterns of work, organisation and business are unwittingly contributing to the ecological, social and economic crises that we face. Many people in every type of organisation now struggle with how to balance the demands of ‘making a living’ with their own sense of values, and a deep wish for their work to contribute to wider flourishing of communities, cultures and the planet.
He offers safe and structured space, proven frameworks and powerful practices to take that question seriously, and to help people use it as a gateway into more meaningful, creative and empowering ways of working and running organisations.
We talk about Tim’s story, and reflect on how his work is showing up in these times of interconnected crises. We also explore Tim’s work with Money, helping people makes sense of their relationship with money and the barriers and issues it creates in our lives. Tim speaks with wonderful wisdom and encourages a curiosity and awareness with ideas and practices to help reveal who we really are, to embrace that and go forth to co-create the more beautiful world. Do check out Tim’s work. I hope you enjoy this and please share and review if you do.

https://differentspace.co.uk/

https://differentspace.co.uk/events/

@differentspace1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crystal-Mirror-Stories-Tim-Malnick/dp/1908363096

Episode 34 - Tim Malnick - Different Space - What's at the centre ?

In this episode I’m in conversation with Olivia Knight
Liv is a social entrepreneur and the founder of collaborative gifting platform Patchwork. 
She is an activist on multiple dimensions at a community level and through serving social, climate and ecological challenges.
She is playing a key role in the development of the UK sharing economy and is current chair of the movement.
An ex brand strategist, she was a partner and strategist at eatbigfish and a creative director at climate and environmental creative platform Do The Green Thing 
Liv is someone with tremendous energy and vision, and a fierce believer in equality, fairness and social justice.
We riff on her story, the birth of the Patchwork platform, consumption culture vs sharing and community participation, the social inequalities that the pandemic is revealing, how the sharing economy could develop as we look beyond just physical stuff to human connection, ecological healing and regenerating and re-imagining the places we live.
This was recorded in early May. Hope you enjoy!
Available all usual platforms.
#thespaceshipearth #becomingcrew 


https://patchworkit.com/#
https://twitter.com/projectpatchwrk
https://www.instagram.com/patchwork_it
https://www.sharingeconomyuk.com/

Episode 35 - Olivia Knight - Patchwork - Sharing is the currency of connection

“The fact that other people were trying to save my life, I can’t give up. I’ve been given a second chance, I can’t stop or not try. It makes you think how precious life is, and really any second, any moment, you can be put at risk, which I was. I was on the edge of living and dying. And I was so grateful to be given a chance again.” - Olive Burgess

I wasn’t sure I could continue with my podcast after my daughter Olive fell critically ill in November. I have struggled to find the point of it for the last couple of months. But with perspective I’ve concluded that the podcast is important to me, a regenerative practice that makes me a better human through the process of making them. So I’m committing to trying to record each week now in year 3(!) and release two a month. To mark this transition is this very personal episode 43, a conversation with my 13 year old daughter Olive Burgess  - which took place early January, a couple of weeks after she came home from nearly 7 weeks in Bristol Royal Children’s hospital after emergency brain surgery following a sudden seizure one night in November. In some ways this conversation represents a part of Olive’s and my own sense making and processing of what was a hugely traumatic and terrifying experience, it tries to document what happened that night and the following days and weeks and then focusses in on Olive’s reflections on the whole experience and coming to terms with how this and the cause of it is impacting her life. Ultimately it’s a story of a courageous, determined, resilient and very humble teenager dealing with an enormous physical and mental trauma, it’s a story of learning to live with uncertainty and the flipside of that, of trying to be here now, living in the present of everyday. It's a story of the extraordinary NHS humans who treated and cared for her. It also reveals the tremendous power in the love and support of community, family, friends -  known and unknown  - who emerge, reach out and self organise in times of crisis to hold us through the darkest of times.
I hope you take something from the listen. Peace and Out.
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Olive Burgess, daughter of host Dan Burgess is a thirteen year old dancer and surfer who loves to cook. However on the evening  of 12th of November 2020 she suffered a sudden and major stroke. Listen to Olive speak with great clarity as she reflects upon her life threatening experience:

- Olive’s unexpected seizure, paralysis and emergency ambulance trip
- Five hour brain surgery at Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital
- Regaining consciousness and learning she had a stroke
- Experience of confusion, tiredness, yet no fear
- Deep connections made with nurses, patients and the rehab’ team
- Six weeks of scans, tests and ward rounds
- Unexpected difficulties of returning home with FOMO, frustration and sadness
- Craving her thirteen year old life prior to the stroke
- Living with an AVM condition
- Expressing all the emotions as a form of medicine
- Overwhelming support from family, friends and strangers across the world
- Limitations, fears and invisibility whilst in a wheelchair
- What got Olive through her experience? Percy Pigs and much more.

Special thanks to the NHS, family and friends, old and new, who showed support, love and community to the Burgess family

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Thanks for listening to The Spaceship Earth Podcast

Host: Dan Burgess @dansolo__
Edit: Charlie Shread
Shownotes: Vicki Turner
Music: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson
Join us on Instagram: @thespaceship.earth


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Links

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/OliveBurgess
https://www.grandappeal.org.uk/
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Episode 43 - Olive Burgess - Surviving a teenage stroke

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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