Reimagined Futures

Reimagined Futures

Be inspired by stories of community resilience and transformation in the face of the climate crisis. This seven-part podcast series is produced by the Sydney Environment Institute (based at the University of Sydney), the Social Entrepreneurship Association (Auroville), and the India and Bharat Together Foundation (New Delhi).

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February 6, 2023 3 mins

Join us for Reimagined Futures, a seven-part podcast series produced by the Sydney Environment Institute, navigating the critical questions and myths surrounding life under a climate-changed future. We will be exploring how some of the most impacted communities in the world are engaging in collective action to reimagine a just and sustainable future for all.

This podcast series is produced by Sydney Environment Institute in partner...

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How can we so clearly understand the gravity of the climate crisis and what needs to be done and yet still not be acting fast enough? What gets in the way of all of us being part of making the change, or pushing for the changes that need to be made? In the opening episode of the Reimagined Futures series, Professor Danielle Celermajer reveals the barriers that are halting systemic change and the possibilities for transformative col...

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March 8, 2023 35 mins

On the south-east coast of India in the Tamil Nadu region, we visit a living laboratory for human evolution, called Auroville. We’ll learn from their community about the power of integral yoga and integral ecology to deepen people’s understanding of their place and belonging within the larger ecological worlds.

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Credits Narrated by: Deepthi Ind...

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March 8, 2023 35 mins

Moving to northern India, we gain altitude as we venture through the foothills of the Himalayas up to the mid-elevations of Uttarakhand. People here are facing the twin devastations of altered extreme seasonality and forms of so-called development that are overwhelming traditional lifestyles. Yet, in the face of these rapid change, two villages in this region are experimenting with regenerative farming practices that are also creat...

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March 16, 2023 27 mins

Flying across the Indian Ocean to Australia, we arrive in the small town of Moruya on the southern coast of New South Wales. We’ll discover how a not-for-profit community group called Sustainability Agriculture Gardening Eurobodalla (SAGE) formed, and about their dream to develop a strong community-based food system. We will also follow them through the fires and floods and hear how these climactic disasters forced them to re-evalu...

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March 16, 2023 32 mins

Being a cold desert even higher up in the Himalayas, the Ladakhi landscape is rugged and harsh for people and nature alike. Their survival is under threat because of untimely glacial melts, altered river systems and mismanaged interventions by local governing bodies. We'll discover how this ecosystem has been altered over the last two decades, and what its youth are doing today to mitigate their intensifying water crises.

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March 22, 2023 26 mins

We conclude the series in Perumbakkam, a community of resettlement sites in the southern Indian city of Chennai, one of the cities in South Asia most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. As a result of the government’s response to flood mitigation, marginalised communities are displaced to the outskirts of the city. In this episode, we hear from the community members involved in the housing rights organisation, Information ...

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You’ve journeyed with us through the valleys of the Himalayas, to the humid expanses of southern India, and across the ocean to the windswept eastern coast of Australia. Despite climate change undermining their vital life support systems, the communities we’ve met are acting collectively and creatively to reimagine their future and tackle the climate crisis head on. In doing so, they are creating new imaginaries. However, we can’t ...

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