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Engaged generation

 

Shane Gallagher and Samuel Mann with Finn Campbell [ 56:02 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
  I realised, “Oh, crap. That’s going to have to be me.” Or that’s going to have to be people like me, who want to see the change going on, and realise that the political process doesn’t involve waiting every three years for an election to come along.   Shane: So our guest […]

Helping people transform themselves

We have a duty of care to set people up for a future that won’t look like it does now.

Samuel Mann with Glenys Ker [ 55:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Sam: Welcome to Sustainable Lens, Resilience on Radio, a weekly show on sustainability topics brought to you by Otago Polytechnic. This show is co-hosted by Shane Gallagher, who’s not here tonight that’s why I’m […]

Synthesis through design thinking

Shane Gallagher and Samuel Mann with Ray Maher [ 55:09 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
A collaborative model, a visual representation of the problem which actually brings together different disciplines and brings together different perspectives. Shane: So, our guest tonight is Ray Maher and he’s from the University of Queensland with the School of Earth and Environmental Science, and the Global Change Institute and its space in Australia. He […]

Designing learning that makes a difference

         

Shane Gallagher and Samuel Mann with Ray O'Brien [ 54:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
If we’re looking at repetitive consistent outcomes of people doing the right thing at the right time, then there probably is a place for that traditional role. Everyone wants people to actually make a difference to the world and be creative and do things that haven’t been done before […]

Investing in people and the planet

   

Samuel Mann with Robert Howell [ 51:42 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
  The way we run our investments and the way we run our business models and the way that we run our economic models, we are not living within the capacity for the Earth to support human life.   Samuel Mann: Welcome to Sustainable Lens, Resilience on Radio, a weekly show on […]

Creating opportunities for resourcefulness

Samuel Mann with Juliet Arnott [ 47:35 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
I think if we were living resourcefully, we would make the most of what we had around us, in a way that meant that we came together as communities, to share resources, and that we took responsibility for what happens within the life of the resources that we use, as individuals, and as families […]

Getting stuff done

Vicki Buck on getting stuff done.   And laughing a lot.

Samuel Mann with Vicki Buck [ 37:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
It seems to me that it’s self-evident that if you live on a planet that you don’t stuff it up. That you’re here for a relatively short period of time and what you do can make a difference. And if you don’t do […]

Passionate rationality

Gareth Morgan with Shane Gallagher and Samuel Mann [ 57:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Gareth Morgan on economics, inter-generational alienation, philanthropy, politics, Putaruru, and motorbikes and cats. I think the public are pretty well starved for quality…for intellectual contributions that are on par with them not reduced to the lowest common denominator Shane: And our guest tonight is Dr Gareth Morgan. Gareth was born and raised in Putaruru. He […]

Making a difference

  Steve Henry runs the Centre for Sustainable Practice at Otago Polytechnic. Making a difference takes a genuine commitment to change  

Samuel Mann with Steve Henry [ 57:04 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
  Sam: Welcome to Sustainable Lens, Resilience on Radio, a weekly show on sustainability topics brought to you by Otago Polytechnic. The show is co-hosted by Shane Gallagher and me Samuel Mann. […]

Captaining Direct Action

Samuel Mann with Wyanda Lublink [ 59:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
    We need to capture the moment that we find them hunting or killing whales because that’s what speaks to people’s imaginations. If they can actually see what’s happening, then people get upset and hopefully they will be upset enough to stand up with us and fight the governments on this. Sustainable Lens […]

Sharks! A sign environmental regulations are working

   

Samuel Mann with Chris Lowe [ 58:46 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
    The Environmental Revolution…we put in all this legislation because we recognised all those problems. Here we are 40, almost 50, years later, and we’re seeing the top predator in our coastal ocean recovering. I would argue that that is a sign that we’ve been doing some things right.     […]

Knowledge ecology for industrial design

Samuel Mann and Mauricio Novoa [ 56:22 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Mauricio Novoa is a designer and academic with 30 years of professional experience in a broad range of fields; from product to industrial, architecture, advertising, communications and marketing (2D, 3D and 4D time based, events and moving image).    He draws on his professional experience with special interest on new emerging technologies and their […]

Engaging community

 

Shane Gallagher and Samuel Mann with John Stansfield [ 55:21 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
John Stansfield teaches Community Practice at Unitec in Auckland where they teach both undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in community development as well as social work and counselling.  He’s worked extensively in community development in his own community – notably Waiheke Island – as well as Palmerston North, Papua New Guinea and other Pacific islands. […]

Artists shaping the future city
Frances Whitehead Image from http://www.makeartwithpurpose.net/projects.php?id=15&tp=4

Samuel Mann with Frances Whitehead [ 59:56 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Frances Whitehead is an artist working in the Chicago/Gary area of the great lakes basins of the USA. She is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago andwas in Dunedin for the Art and Future symposium at Otago Polytechnic.   She brings the methods, mindsets, and strategies of contemporary art practice to […]

Inspiring to make a difference

 

Samuel Mann with Gregory Fortuin [ 58:09 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Gregory Fortuin is the National Director of Employment Plus at the Salvation Army. He’s got a long history, from apartheid South Africa, insurance in Australia and New Zealand, South Africa’s Honorary Consul to New Zealand, Race Relations Conciliator in 2001 and 2002, and is on board of all of the big things in New […]

continuous happiness

 

Samuel Mann with Gagan Deep Sharma [ 57:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Dr. Gagan Deep Sharma is from the School of Management Studies at the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. He works and teaches in finance. with a focus on sustainable investment, humane business, and the response of technical education to sustainability.   Sam: Welcome to Sustainable Lens, Resilience on Radio, a weekly […]

Saving the world through computing(?)

Samuel Mann with Vanessa Thomas [ 53:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Vanessa Thomas hails from Alberta, Canada via Lancaster, England.  She’s a PhD candidate in the High Wire Centre and has worked in a lot of different areas, continually exploring the relationship between computing and sustainability.   Sam: Welcome to Sustainable Lens: Resilience on Radio, a weekly show on sustainability topics brought to you by […]

Sustainable messaging

Every student needs to understand that no matter what their life passion is, they can find a path to sustainability through what they’re doing.   Ferris Kawar is Sustainability Project Manager at Santa Monica College.  With a background in marketing, Ferris offers an insight into sustainability messaging both on and off campus.   Sam: Welcome to Sustainable […]

Samuel Mann with Ferris Kawar [ 56:26 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download