Audio and video
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A Secret History of Rural Norfolk | Rockland St Mary
Rupert Read interviewed Paddy Flynn about everyone’s life off grid, in the old days, in Rockland St Mary, Norfolk. A treasure trove of back to the future ideas.
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Truth to Action: The Transformation the Climate Crisis Requires | The Way Forward.
In this powerful episode, Rupert Read challenges us to confront the stark realities of climate breakdown and political instability. Offering a unique blend of radical honesty and transformative action, Read illuminates pathways forward through emotional resilience, transformative adaptation, and community empowerment. This isn’t a conversation about easy fixes; it’s a compelling call to face our crisis head-on, together.
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Activating the Climate Majority | MarketingKind
At the MarketingKind gathering, Rupert Read led a powerful discussion on how we can engage the climate majority in taking on the needed work of transformative and strategic adaptation to climate change.
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Insurers can be heroes, and not just for one day: for ever and ever
Rupert’s speech to to an audience of mainly young insurance professionals at the Better Insurance Network https://betterinsurancenetwork.com/ and Next Generation Insurance Network (“NGIN”)’s https://www.nginlondon.com/ mentoring, panel discussion and networking event, ‘Climate Action: How to Make an Impact as an Insurance Professional’.
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How We Adapt to Climate Collapse: Transformative Adaptation with Rupert Read and Manda Scott
Transformative Adaptation (TrAd) helps us to transform our civilisation to be in readiness for the future and makes life worth living. Impacts beyond 1.5oC, the agreed maximum limit-target for global overheating, are already here. In this context, adaptation, preparedness and resilience-building are no longer optional. They become central, pivotal to whether we survive, let alone flourish. In this expansive conversation between Permaculture magazine’s editor, Maddy Harland, Emeritus Professor, Rupert Read, and award-winning author, Manda Scott, we learn how we can all use Transformative Adaptation to create a path towards a flourishing future. Understand what Transformative Adaptation is, how we can become agents of positive change and the fundamental connection to Nature that…
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A hopeful dialogue on spiritual adaptation to our climate nemesis with Stephen Wright
This conversation between Rupert Read and Stephen Wright (‘Fugue: Climate, Collapse and Contemplation’) was recorded at Redmire Farm in Cumbria on 24 Feb. 2025. Topics covered include what we can still actively hope for, different forms of climate adaptation, the role of the difficult emotions, the fundamentality of love, and animism vs a biocentric spiritual ethic.
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Love & Liberation in Times of Crisis | Love & Philosophy
For full details, visit the website here.
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How Bad Will it Get? Thrutopias and the Need for Transformative Adaptation | Urgent Futures
Rupert joined Jesse Damiani for the Urgent Futures podcast. Find more information here.
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The Bridge Between Spirituality and Eco-Awareness | Tom Llewellyn
Tom is a well-being facilitator, writer, and teacher of meditation, yoga, lucid dreaming, astral projection, sound healing and meditation. He also offers online courses, coaching and retreats. You can find out more about his work here: www.soulremember.com
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DIRECT: response to Trump’s inaugural -The return of ‘Might makes right’? …& climate-driven decline’
Across the UK in communities, workplaces and wherever they have power, people from all walks of life are organising the kinds of serious climate action that will make governments take notice. The Climate Majority Project is a rallying place for citizen climate action. We help projects to grow, get funding, and connect with as many willing hands as possible.