The Coconut Thinking podcast brings educational provocateurs and practitioners in the regenerative space together to ask: what would it take to create the conditions for all life to thrive? Conversations are as diverse as the guests, but each one participates in the ecosystem, and each one questions the dominant narrative. This is a show for those who are curious about learning, systems, and contributing to the bio-collective—all life that has an interest in the healthfulness of the planet.
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Welcome to your new favourite book club. If you enjoy deep dives into the greatest books ever written, you will love Hardcore Literature. Provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses. We don't just read the great books - we live them. Together we'll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy. We'll relish the most moving art ever committed to the page and stage from every age. Join us on the reading adventure of a lifetime.
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The Dr. Junkie Show is a podcast hosted by addicted person, convicted criminal, prison educator and college educator Ben Boyce. Topics include drugs and those who use them, media, and communication, along with an overall focus on systems of power.
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A series for people seeking practical examples of the pioneering organizations and communities going beyond sustainability and leading the way towards a better future. Regenerative organisation specialist Hannah Temple interviews groundbreaking entrepreneurs, activists and community leaders, inviting them to share their stories, work, lessons learned and personal practices. Listeners will gain inspiration, guidance and actions for how to make their own organisations and initiatives more supp ...
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Becoming-Through-Loss: The Groundwork of Metabolic Ontology
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What if life doesn’t fight decay, but feeds on it? In this episode, I explore metabolic ontology, a way of seeing being, learning, and ethics as continual re-organization. Entropy, loss, and transformation aren’t problems to fix; they’re the medium through which life keeps composing itself. Drawing from my work in regenerative education, I look at …
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School Isn’t Broken, It’s Working Exactly as Designed
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In this episode of the Coconut Thinking Podcast, I take a hard look at what school really does, and what it would cost to truly change it. We keep saying education needs fixing, but maybe it’s doing exactly what it was built to do: sort, rank, and hold the world in place. Drawing on Bourdieu, cultural capital, and the myth of meritocracy, I unpack …
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What if the way we eat could root us back into place, instead of tearing it apart? In this episode, I speak with Elspeth Hay. Elspeth is a writer, public radio host, and food systems advocate whose work explores what it means to live thoughtfully in place. Raised in Maine by birdwatcher parents, she grew up seeing how species adapt seamlessly to th…
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Josh Dorfman: The Lazy Environmentalist (not really)
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What if sustainability’s future was driven by passion, shaped with youth, and told through real stories? In this episode, I speak with Josh Dorfman. Josh is a climate entrepreneur, author, and media voice at the intersection of sustainability, innovation, and culture. He is the co-founder, CEO, and host of Supercool, the climate-tech podcast and me…
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How might we consider collapse as a a transformative process that brings us together through loss and renewal? In this episode, I speak with Maya Frost. Maya is a creative adaptation strategist, grief worker, and trauma‑informed facilitator who specializes in what she calls “creative adaptation": helping collapse‑aware individuals disrupt their des…
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171: Media, Monopolies, and the Fairness Doctrine
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This week I talk about who owns the media and why that matters. I get into the consolidation of media outlets from local owners a century ago to mostly multinational super-rich corporations today, and I unpack some of the ways that change has shaped the media we consume, which in turn shapes us. I talk about the Fairness Doctrine, the war on drugs,…
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Jennifer D. Klein: Leadership as resistance and risk
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How do you lead with courage and love for every child when the culture around you is demanding you do the opposite? Jennifer D. Klein is an educator, author, and global learning advocate with over 30 years in student-centered, project-based education. A product of the very pedagogies she champions, Jennifer has taught and led in diverse contexts—fr…
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This week I kick off a new section of the show by talking about the cycle of democracy, which philosopher Polybius outlined more than 2000 years ago. I cover aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy, anarchy, monarchy and tyranny, explaining the seemingly-unavoidable cycle that links them all together into a loop...one we appear to be nearing the end/begi…
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How might our relationships other-than-human animals help us consider sustainability and regenerative education in more life-centered ways? In this episode, I speak with Charlotte Hankin. Charlotte is an educator, sustainability consultant, and PhD researcher in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. Her doctoral work explores how r…
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Special Episode: Learning is a means, not an end
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How can learning&doing help us become good participants in the web of life? In this special episode, I speak about how systems change won’t happen if we replace names and labels but continue to do the same old thing. I propose that we move beyond assessing learning, competencies, soft skills for their own sake. Rather, what if we collected the voic…
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Dan Burgess: Passengers and Crew on Spaceship Earth
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How might we participate as Earthlings, part of a living planet, in kinship with the more-than-human? Dan Burgess is a regenerative practitioner, creative strategist, and facilitator working at the intersection of ecology, culture, and transformation. With roots in the worlds of storytelling, activism, and systems innovation, Dan helps individuals …
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169: Freud on Drugs, Religion, Guilt, Shame and Civilization (Civilization and its Discontents)
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This week I dive into some of the work Freud wrote later in his life, particularly a book called Civilization and its Discontents published in 1930. Freud believed that the evolutionary process we can use to trace the changes humans have gone through over the centuries can also explain why culture itself has evolved as it has. He basically thinks w…
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This week I talk about Freud's love of cocaine, the historical legacy of Freud's cocaine use, and the cultural changes that have occurred since then in relation to cocaine. The stories we tell about drugs impact the experience we have when we consume them, but Freud wasn't dealing with a century of propaganda. He was, in many ways, creating some of…
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Bas van den Berg, Mieke Lopes Cardozo, Koen Wessels: Regenerative Education requires Love, Presence, and Courage
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What does it mean to nurture good relationships through regenerative education in these times we live in? In this episode, I speak with the authors of the soon-to-be-published book, The Art of Regenerative Educatorship. Bas is an associate professor in regenerative leadership at the Mission Zero Centre of Expertise at The Hague University of Applie…
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This week I dive into some of Trump's recent comments about "Venezuelan gang members" and the USA's legacy of dehumanizing people based on their drug use. I discuss Rodney King, Joaquín Guzman aka "El Chapo," George Floyd, dehumanization, Hannah Arendt's Banality of Evil, the art of shilling for Trump (aka "minionism"), and lots more. You can find …
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Special Nyepi Episode: Benjamin Freud, Ph.D. interviewed by Charlotte Hankin
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We honor Nyepi with this special episode, in which Charlotte Hankin interviews Benjamin Freud. Nyepi is the Balinese Day of Silence, and is a Hindu New Year celebration marked by 24 hours of complete stillness. No travel, no lights, no work, and no noise. It is a time for self-reflection and spiritual renewal. We recorded this episode a few days af…
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166: A Conversation with One of My Students about Drugs, Addiction and Neoliberalism (Maddy Grace/Levin)
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This week I share a conversation with one of my students, Madeline Grace/Levin, who is creating a podcast of her own called Dependence. I will update this episode description with a link to her podcast when it's live, but in the mean time I thought I'd share a cool conversation we had last week. We talk about religion, drugs, addiction, Michel de C…
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Ep 87 - Appreciating Shakespeare on My Birthday
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If you're enjoying the Hardcore Literature Show, there are two ways you can show your support and ensure it continues: 1. Please leave a quick review on iTunes. 2. Join in the fun over at the Hardcore Literature Book Club: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature Thank you so much. Happy listening and reading! - Benjamin…
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How might we shift our educational practices to deepen students’ ecological awareness, nurturing a culture of care and reciprocity with Earth’s living systems? In this episode, I speak with Katharine Burke. Katharine has been an educator for over 30 years, passionately advocating for ecological literacy, permaculture, and regenerative education. Sh…
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Regenerative Education with Benjamin Freud
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What is it for education to be regenerative? No matter how long ago it was for some of us, our experiences in educational settings have a huge impact on how we go on to behave in the world. The ideas we encounter, the values we form, the relationships we develop and the ideas of ourselves we create in these spaces and phases of our lives often prov…
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165: Beers with my Dad (Steve Boyce)
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This week I sat down to record a conversation with my dad, Steve Boyce. We talk about my childhood, his first marriage to my bio-mom, addiction and drug use in his life, what I was like as a kid, cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, and religion (plus more). Support the showBy Ben Boyce
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Regenerative Governance with Erica Neve and Patrick Andrews
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Nature on the Board? Steward ownership? Employee ownership? Self-managing teams? For those seeking to establish regenerative organisations, the options in terms of how those organisations should be governed can feel overwhelming. In this episode we dive deeper into the submerged world of governance and look at what it actually is, surface some prin…
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This week I talk about the kratom wars: the argument over whether kratom is a deadly drug or a miracle cure (or somewhere in between). While some states are currently trying to ban kratom, others are working to make it easier and safer to get. Meanwhile, the federal government has been a bit all over the place on it, and with Trump 2.0 gathering ea…
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Do we have what it takes to change our ways to ones that work with, rather than against, life? In this episode, I speak with Giles Hutchins. Giles is a leading voice in regenerative leadership and business transformation. With 30 years of experience—including roles as Head of Transformation at KPMG and Global Sustainability Director at Atos—he now …
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Regenerative Financing with Melanie Rieback
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What might it look like for the financing and other fundamental structures underpinning our organisations to truly help them create conditions for life's thriving? Dr. Melanie Rieback is CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world's first not-for-profit computer security company, and the "Post Growth" startup incubator Nonprofit Ventures. …
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Ep 86 - Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
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If you're enjoying the Hardcore Literature Show, there are two ways you can show your support and ensure it continues: 1. Please leave a quick review on iTunes. 2. Join in the fun over at the Hardcore Literature Book Club: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature Thank you so much. Happy listening and reading! - Benjamin…
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163: Kendrick, Drake, Christian Nationalism, and Accountability without Free Will
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This week I tackle some of the questions and comments I've been getting over the last couple months. I talk about Trump's neoliberal agenda, his capture of the Evangelical Right, Consistency and Accountability in both criminal justice and religion, and I clean up some of what I may have missed during the last few episodes I've done on these issues.…
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Regenerative Contracting with Annette Dhami
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We are so lucky in this episode to be joined by Annette Dhami from Dark Matter Labs. Annette leads the Beyond the Rules initiative which explores the organising and governance practices needed for an economy designed for life. Its work is in the rewriting, reinvention and reimagining of the rules, norms and laws that hold us in the current system. …
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Mike Edwards, PhD: Resonance with place and crises
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How might we weave stories together as a response to ecological breakdown, using sound to connect to place? In this episode, I speak with Mike Edwards. Mike began his career researching climate change in the Southwest Pacific, where his work—cited by the IPCC—was among the first to explore ecocolonialism: how climate discourse is manipulated by the…
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162: New Projects, Old Problems, and I Can't Leave Religion Alone (Dr. Christy Perez)
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This week Dr. Christy Perez (C Dreams) is back to talk about her new projects, and to be dragged back into old theological debates. We talk about trans rights, Christianity, the capture of Evangelical Christianity by MAGA, expectations for the next 4 years, the anti-fact stance of the recent anti-trans executive order, and we spend way too long spi…
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What happens when the way we see ourselves changes the way we see the world? In this episode, I speak with Steffi Bednarek. Steffi’s work explores the intersection of climate change, complexity thinking, and the human psyche. She is the Director of the Center for Climate Psychology. With over 25 years of experience in depth psychology, trauma-infor…
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