Living and breathing the mountains I feel a new urgency for the climate crisis - but I also feel overwhelmed and don't know where to begin. In the Sustainability Dialogues I ask leading sustainability expert Dr. Johan Rockström questions about the carbon crisis, extreme weather, veganism, electric cars, glaciers... Johan, although knowing all the most up to date science somehow Johan is able to be positive and inspiring regarding the developments of the climate crisis and gives us, as indivi ...
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Brought to you by Thule, You Inspire Us is all about people who inspire us to live a more active, fulfilling life. Every other week, downhill mountain biker and sports commentator Eliot Jackson will deep dive into conversations with athletes, adrenaline-seekers, and all-around adventurers. From snowboard legend Xavier De Le Rue to king of MTB Slopestyle Emil Johansson, we’ll be peeling back the surface to get to the heart of what motivates our guests to lead such active lives.
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BONUS! What do you want to do for yourself this year?
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Join us this week for another bonus episode of quick-fire questions with our guests! This week our question was: What is one thing you want to do for yourself this year? Eliot will listen and comment on the answers of Martin Söderström, Hannah Barnes, Tomomi Nishikubo, Brooklyn Bell, Mylo Fowler, Scotty Laughland, Emil Johansson, and Kurt Sorge. Ma…
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BONUS! What once felt impossible that now feels easy?
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Surprise! Even though we're in between seasons at the moment, we thought we'd be extra generous and bring you a BONUS episode this week. We asked our guests the following quick-fire question: When you started riding bikes, what did you at first think was impossible that today feels easy? Eliot will dissect the answers of Martin Söderström, Hannah B…
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E8: Emil Johansson, MTB Slopestyle superstar
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We’re ending the first season of You Inspire Us with one of Slopestyle’s greatest: Emil Johansson. This MTB superstar just keeps racking up titles. In this past year alone Emil has had a perfect season, winning all four Crankworx stops and claiming his fourth world championship title. His current 13 wins makes him the most successful Slopestyle cha…
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E7: Kurt Sorge on big mountain riding
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This week we’re speaking to Kurt Sorge, one of the greatest freeride mountain bikers of all time. Kurt is a three-time winner of Red Bull Rampage and has filmed iconic videos in some of the world's most stunning and remote places. He is also one of the founders of the Fest Series, a series of freeride MTB events organized by riders themselves. In t…
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E6: MTB, art, and activism w/ Brooklyn Bell
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Brooklyn Bell is truly a Jill of all trades. Not only is she a mountain biker and a professional big mountain skier, but Brooklyn also works as a graphic designer with a knack for storytelling. Brooklyn uses her art to raise awareness of the importance of diversity in outdoor sports. In this episode, Eliot and Brooklyn talk about how Brooklyn got i…
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E5: Scotty Laughland on racing, riding, and content creating
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As a mountain biker, Scotty got his start racing the Downhill World Cups and the Enduro World Series. He then transitioned to a career as a presenter for the Global Mountain Bike Network where he created more than 400 daily videos that racked up over 40 million views. Today, Scotty divides his time as a professional athlete and a content creator. T…
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E4: LIVE FROM CRANKWORX bike packing & photography w/ Mylo Fowler
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Mylo Fowler is a Navajo photographer who has shot for the National Geographic, Adobe Lightroom, Nike, and more. His interest in photography started while working at a tourist shop in Northern Arizona. There he saw photographers struggling to capture the local canyons because of the low light, and made it his mission to capture the beauty of his Nav…
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E3: Hannah Barnes on biking down a glacier and other adventures
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If there is one person who's not afraid of adventure, it’s Hannah Barnes. Not many people can say that they sailed a boat themselves from the UK to Norway at the age of 15, or biked down a glacier at the Megavalanche MTB race. After getting on a mountain bike for the first time as a teenager, cycling has become one of Hannah’s sports of choice — am…
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E2: LIVE FROM CRANKWORX w/ trials rider Tomomi Nishikubo
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Tomomi Nishikubo doesn’t shy away from a world-first trick. This might be why over the past couple of years, Tomomi’s biggest video projects have racked up over 13 million views. Initially starting out in motocross at the age of five, Tomomi soon moved on to riding trials. After becoming Japanese Trials Champion twice in 2016 and 2017, he decided t…
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E1: LIVE FROM CRANKWORX Martin Söderström slopestyle legend
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Have a listen to our first ever episode, which was live streamed from Crankworx in Innsbruck, Austria. Eliot speaks to Martin Söderström, freeride MTB legend who started out right when the slopestyle scene was just getting started. This episode was recorded right after Emil Johansson’s record-breaking 12th Crankworx slopestyle win – Martin and Elio…
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Introducing You Inspire Us, a podcast brought to you by Thule about people who inspire us to live a more active, fulfilling life. Every other week, downhill mountain biker and sports commentator Eliot Jackson will dive into conversations with athletes, adrenaline-seekers, and all-around adventurers. We're kicking off the podcast with our BIKE EDITI…
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The Sustainability Dialogues: Food with Xavier De Le Rue & Johan Rockström
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In today’s episode, Johan Rockström and myself are talking about food, which is surely one of the biggest debates in the climate crisis, one with so many conflicting arguments of what is the right thing to do but as always Johan brings clear and manageable solutions to the table. Food industry and carbon emissions Food industry and fresh water use:…
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The Sustainability Dialogues: Transport with Xavier De Le Rue & Johan Rockström
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In todays episode, Johan Rockström and myself are going to look at Transportation, this was recorded pre-corona lockdown, so I think some of our mindsets have already shifted a lot, but everything we discuss from electric cars, bio fuels, batteries, flying and carbon-offsetting remains relevant. You can find more information below - on on my websit…
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The Sustainability Dialogues: Ice, Glaciers & The Climate Crisis with Xavier De Le Rue & Johan Rockström
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In today's episode we start talking about a subject very close to my heart - the glaciers and the poles, which leads us down so many roads; from drinking water to sea level rise, geo-political security and the ascent of right wing populism all of which is pretty overwhelming and scary, but Johan is all about finding solutions and we go on to discus…
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The Sustainability Dialogues: Covid 19 & Climate Change
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In episode two, Johan and I discuss the Climate Crisis & Covid 19 and how they are inextricably interlinked. From the rise of zoonosis - diseases spread from animals to humans - to fossil fuels and the aviation industry, the trillion dollar bailouts earmarked for the economy, lowered emissions, cleaner air, temperature rises, eating local - it is a…
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The Sustainability Dialogues: The big picture, extreme weather patterns & how to beat the carbon crisis.
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Please find the show notes below. In episode one of The Sustainability Dialogues I (Xavier De Le Rue) talk with Dr. Johan Rockström who brings me up to speed on where we stand in regards to the climate crisis today, and what that means for our future and the future of the planet, before we go on to discuss extreme weather patterns and then some of …
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