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THE TOOLS AT HAND is a podcast about using what we have to build what we need. borrowing ideas, building capacity, and learning as we go.
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From Sailing to Antarctica to Becoming a Polar Bear Guard | Sarah Schwimmer (opens the original)
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Sarah Schwimmer is a naturalist, ecologist and polar expedition leader who has spent the last decade guiding more than 125 expeditions around the world. In this conversation, Sarah talks about her upcoming expedition to Svalbard aboard a first-of-its-kind solar-powered polar expedition vessel, how she dropped out of university to sail across the Atlantic at 19, and how following her curiosity shaped the life she built. We also talk about Antarctica, the realities of working in the polar regions,
Paul Noonan & Brian Crosby: From Bell X1 to Pilgrims, Music Therapy & Breathwork (opens the original)
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Paul Noonan and Brian Crosby have been making music together, in one form or another, for decades. From Juniper and Bell X1, through 16 years of separate creative journeys, they eventually found their way back into a room together. What started with Brian’s solo piano record Imbrium and a voice note from Paul during COVID became Pilgrims — a new project built from everything they had learned and experienced in the years apart. In this conversation, we talk about what it means to return to a crea
Why Education Keeps Preparing Kids for the Wrong Future | Owen Losse (opens the original)
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What if we're preparing young people for a future that will never exist? After more than 15 years working across education systems and helping schools improve outcomes for students, Owen Losse has reached a surprising conclusion: we spend too much time trying to predict the future, and not enough time understanding how people actually learn. In this conversation, Owen draws on his experience as an education leader to explore one of the biggest questions facing education today: How do we prepare
Earthships: Houses From Cans and Tires Without Utility Bills | Mike Reynolds (opens the original)
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What if your home could produce its own water, energy, food, and comfort? For more than 50 years, Michael Reynolds has challenged conventional architecture by building off-grid, self-sustaining homes from materials most people consider trash. As the creator of the Earthship movement, he believes our homes should take care of us, not the other way around. But this conversation isn't really about architecture. It's about independence. It's about questioning the systems we've come to depend on and
The Question I've Been Trying to Answer for 20 Years (opens the original)
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When I was 19, I went to Kenya because I wanted to make myself useful in the world. Instead, I found myself caught in the middle of the 2007–08 post-election violence and came home with a feeling of helplessness and a question that has stayed with me for almost 20 years: why do some people keep believing their actions matter while others eventually stop trying? Years later, I went back to the journal I kept during that time and started looking at the experience differently. In this episode, I ex
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