Hope Is A Verb
What does it take to change the world? This podcast will introduce you to the people who are who are mending our planet, stitching together a new future and showing us the best of what it is to be human. Hosts: Angus Hervey, Amy Davoren-Rose
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Can We Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts? (opens the original)
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What if we could catch the next pandemic before it starts? For most of human history, we’ve discovered outbreaks after people start getting sick. But what if we could spot a dangerous virus as it emerges, track it as it spreads and give health workers the information they need to stop it - in real time? Meet Dr Pardis Sabeti, geneticist, disease hunter and professor at Harvard University. Pardis has spent more than two decades on the frontlines of some of the world’s deadliest outbreaks, from La
It’s Time to Clean Up the Mess (opens the original)
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What if the knowledge we need most for the future is something we’ve spent centuries forgetting? Meet Victor Steffensen, Tagalaka man, author, filmmaker, musician and co-founder of the Living Knowledge Network. For decades, Victor has worked with Indigenous communities in Australia and around the world to revive traditional ways of reading and caring for Country. His new book, The Knowledge , asks a much bigger question: what have we lost by separating ourselves from the natural world - and what
When the Taliban Banned Girls From School, SOLA Kept Teaching (opens the original)
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Five years ago, the Taliban banned girls from the classroom. One school refused to stop teaching. In August 2021, as the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the staff and students of SOLA, the country’s first and only boarding school for Afghan girls, managed to escape to Rwanda, where they established a temporary campus to continue classes. Meet Shabana Basij-Rasikh, co-founder of SOLA, and our very first guest on this podcast when we launched in 2023. Five years since the Taliban takeove
The Future of Farming: Healthy Soil, AI and Food Security (opens the original)
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The story of farming has always been one of adaptation. The next chapter may be its most one important yet. In this special episode of Fix The News , we bring together two conversations exploring one of the defining questions of our time: how do we feed a growing world without destroying the planet that we depend on? Meet Professor Rattan Lal , one of the world's leading soil scientists and a World Food Prize laureate, whose life's work has transformed our understanding of the living world benea
The Teen Sisters Rebuilding Gaza: Earth Prize Winners Tala & Farah Mousa (opens the original)
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Since October 2023, much of the world's attention has been focused on the destruction in Gaza. This conversation is about something we hear much less about: rebuilding. Meet Tala and Farah Mousa, two teenage sisters from Gaza and winners of The Earth Prize Middle East , one of the world's leading environmental competitions for teenagers. Their project , Build Hope is recycling the enormous volumes of rubble left behind by destroyed buildings and transforming it into reusable bricks to help rebui
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