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How Could We?

How Could We?

EIT Climate-KIC

The climate crisis is a complex global issue threatening the way we live and its impacts are being felt more more severely around the world. We wonder: how could we have let this happen? People increasingly recognise that gradual change is not enough. Join us for a series of conversations about building hope, curiosity – and excitement – for a just and desirable future. We’ll hear from some remarkable people who are putting truly transformative and innovative solutions into practice. We’ll ask them: "How could we achieve a climate-resilient, inclusive world for everybody?"
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Welcome back to season 3 of How Could We?, a podcast by EIT Climate-KIC.

Inspired by conversations we had with experts about the climate emergency, this season we’re digging into three themes that occupy the minds of many people in the climate change community: Climate Narratives, Confusion & Crisis and Radical Collaboration.

In this first episode, we talk to Neha Misra, a storyteller, climate justice advocate and a visual artist. We ask Neha how we can build stories of a future worth living in, talk about how art helps us tell the story of climate change, and discuss the importance of including - and valuing - the work of artists and diverse voices.

In this incredible interview, Neha thoughtfully shares her experiences and sources of inspiration. She says, “it is not ironic that we’re living in a burning world with burnout human beings' '.

We especially recommend listening to the end of the episode, as Neha shares her beautiful, eye-watering poem, “Enough”.

Check out Neha’s website and find out more about her work, including at The OpEd Project and Remote Energy.

In this episode, Neha also mentions:

This episode was presented by Anne-Sophie Garrigou & Stephanie Klotz and produced by Bárbara Mendes-Jorge.

If you’re interested in Sustainable Forestry and Land Use, check out Season 1. If you're interested in the New European Bauhaus initiative, check out Season 2.

EIT Climate-KIC⁠ is Europe’s leading climate innovation initiative, aiming to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate-resilient society by supporting innovative solutions helping society mitigate and adapt to climate change.

We want to hear from you! Share what inspires you and what you’re doing in your community to enact change by sending us an email to [email protected].

Visit our website – www.climate-kic.org

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In this special Climate Week NYC episode, we chat with Veena Balakrishnan, Co-Founder of the Youth Negotiators Academy, to explore how her organisation equips young people with essential skills and tools to engage in climate negotiations.

Discover how these future climate leaders are empowered to shape global discussions, ensuring their needs and ambitions are heard.

Veena shares insights on nurturing the next generation of educated, confident, and proactive negotiators driving meaningful change in the fight against the climate crisis.

This episode is presented and produced by Anne-Sophie Garrigou.

Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

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Welcome to Season 2 of How Could We?, a podcast by EIT Climate-KIC where we explore how to build a beautiful, just and climate-resilient future.

This season, we’re exploring how architecture, design, innovation, science, and art can help build sustainable solutions to the climate emergency. We talk to people across Europe who work on the New European Bauhaus, a creative and interdisciplinary initiative that encourages us to imagine and build together a sustainable and inclusive future.

In this episode, we speak to Anabella Costache, a cultural project manager at the FABER Cultural Centre in Timișoara, Romania, about the CONNECT project. CONNECT is one of the 14 projects selected as part of the EIT Community New European Bauhaus initiative. The project helps integrate Ukrainian people, particularly women, fleeing the war into the development of the city through artistic gatherings and sharing of history.

This episode was presented by ⁠Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠ and produced by ⁠Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠.

Look out for upcoming episodes in our New Bauhaus series, Season 2.

If you’re interested in Sustainable Forestry and Land Use, check out Season 1.

EIT Climate-KIC⁠ is Europe’s leading climate innovation initiative, aiming to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate-resilient society by supporting innovative solutions helping society mitigate and adapt to climate change.

We want to hear from you! Share what inspires you and what you’re doing in your community to enact change by sending us an email to [email protected].

Visit our website – www.climate-kic.org

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Inspired by conversations we had with experts about the climate emergency, in Season 3 of How Could We? we’re digging into three themes that occupy the minds of many people in the climate change community - ⁠Climate Narratives⁠, Confusion & Crisis and Radical Collaboration.

In this third episode - the season finale - we talk to Yiannis Chrysostomidis, Principal and Head of London Office at REOS Partners, a global organisation solving complex problems through the lens of radical collaboration. Yiannis' work supports changemakers to help shift the root causes of societal challenges, such as climate change.

In this episode, Yiannis discusses how talking about power can feel like a taboo subject, the importance of storytelling and understanding cultural differences when building coalitions, and how ‘network weavers’ - hidden actors who may not be considered typical power brokers - are key for enacting change.

Yiannis also outlines the key elements of REOS’ Radcal Climate Collaboration Guidebook and shares a few examples of some of the fascinating projects he’s worked on worldwide, including in Syria, South Africa and Mongolia.

This episode was presented by⁠⁠ Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠Stephanie Klotz⁠⁠ and produced by⁠⁠ Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠⁠.

Listen to our previous episodes - Season 1 focused on Sustainable Forestry and Land Use, while Season 2 explored the New European Bauhaus initiative.

We want to hear from you! Share what inspires you and what you’re doing in your community to enact change by sending us an email to ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠.

Visit our website – ⁠⁠www.climate-kic.org

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Welcome to the final episode of Season 2 of How Could We?, a podcast by EIT Climate-KIC where we explore how to build a beautiful, just and climate-resilient future.

This season, we’re exploring how architecture, design, innovation, science, and art can help build sustainable solutions to the climate emergency. We talk to people across Europe who work on the New European Bauhaus, a creative and interdisciplinary initiative that encourages us to imagine and build together a sustainable and inclusive future.

In this episode, we talk to Mathilde Rubinstein, Deputy Director of La Citadelle de Marseille.

Since December 2021, her association is managing the Fort d’Entrecasteaux, a historical monument that used to be owned by the military. Their initial goal was to use this land in the city center to create an urban garden and open it to all citizens. However, a simple soil analysis found a substantial amount of pollution left over from military use as well as citizen use (think fireworks!).

Their project suddenly took a completely different turn - how could they communicate about this pollution without alarming the neighbourhood? And would they still be able to open the space to the public?

Through their project REMEDSPACE, Mathilde and her colleagues created workshops and discussions with a variety of stakeholders, from local governments to researchers and citizens, to talk about the situation and co-create the future of the space together. They even invited a ceramic artist, Louise Nicollon des Abbayes, who led workshops answering questions like: How can we capture the memory of a site, how can we represent the landscape, what is heritage?

REMEDSPACE is one of the fourteen projects that were selected as part of the EIT Community New European Bauhaus initiative.

This episode was presented by Anne-Sophie Garrigou and produced by Bárbara Mendes-Jorge.

Check out our other episodes in this New Bauhaus series.

If you’re interested in Sustainable Forestry and Land Use, check out Season 1.

EIT Climate-KIC⁠ is Europe’s leading climate innovation initiative, aiming to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate-resilient society by supporting innovative solutions helping society mitigate and adapt to climate change.

We want to hear from you! Share what inspires you and what you’re doing in your community to enact change by sending us an email to [email protected].

Visit our website – www.climate-kic.org

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Welcome to Season 2 of How Could We?, a podcast by EIT Climate-KIC where we explore how to build a beautiful, just and climate-resilient future.

This season, we’re exploring how architecture, design, innovation, science, and art can help build sustainable solutions to the climate emergency. We talk to people across Europe who work on the New European Bauhaus, a creative and interdisciplinary initiative that encourages us to imagine and build together a sustainable and inclusive future.

In this episode, we talk to researchers and architects Blanca Calvo Boixet and Raquel Colacios Parra, based in Barcelona, Spain, about ASD Publics, one of the 14 projects selected as part of the EIT Community New European Bauhaus initiative. The project has created new tools and methods for urban planning professionals to design sustainable and inclusive play areas for and with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families.

The ASD Publics: Activating Spaces for Neurodiversity project reimagines and transforms playgrounds in cities to provide design guidelines to increase the potential for inclusive play and nature-based solutions in public spaces and can be implemented in other cities or countries.

This episode was presented by ⁠Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠ and produced by ⁠Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠.

Check out our other episodes in this New Bauhaus series.

If you’re interested in Sustainable Forestry and Land Use, check out Season 1.

EIT Climate-KIC⁠ is Europe’s leading climate innovation initiative, aiming to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate-resilient society by supporting innovative solutions helping society mitigate and adapt to climate change.

We want to hear from you! Share what inspires you and what you’re doing in your community to enact change by sending us an email to [email protected].

Visit our website – www.climate-kic.org

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We launched a podcast to shine a light on climate crisis solutions making a real difference. In this third episode, we talk to urban specialist Tena Petrovic about the Bauhuette 4.0 project. The project aims to use home-grown timber from regional Brandenburg and Berlin forests to supply construction materials to create affordable housing from wood.

We talked about the importance of bringing together different stakeholders on a project like this, the challenges of forest mismanagement and how long-term planning will lead to Bauhuette 4.0's success - and eventual replication. Tena works with EIT Climate-KIC as a Breakthrough Initiative Developer on the Climate Smart Forest Economy Programme.

This episode was presented by Anne-Sophie Garrigou and produced by Bárbara Mendes-Jorge.

Listen to other episodes in our Sustainable Forestry series in Season 1. Subscribe to How Could We? for Season 2 coming in May 2023.

EIT Climate-KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation initiative, aiming to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate-resilient society by supporting innovative solutions helping society mitigate and adapt to climate change.

We want to hear from you! Share what inspires you and what you’re doing in your community to enact change by sending us an email to [email protected].

Visit our website.

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In this new episode of How Could We? recorded in the streets of Baku during COP29, Anne-Sophie Garrigou interviewed Rich Wilson, CEO of the Iswe Foundation, about the state of our democracies today and the role of citizen assemblies in making our democracies stronger.

In this episode, Rich says that we are at a pivotal moment for democracies today. Despite growing public demand for action, our governments and democratic systems are struggling to effectively address the climate crisis.

Rich discusses how citizen assemblies can help strengthen democracies by building agency for citizens, fostering learning, and being grounded in principles of solidarity and inclusion. The challenge, however, is in scaling them.

One of Iswe Foundation’s projects is to create a global, permanent citizen assembly to bring to COP30 in Brazil. Their goal is to support a new form of democracy and governance that can help address the climate crisis, by empowering citizens to drive change within their communities.

Visit the Iswe Foundation website to learn more: Iswe

Visit the Global Citizen Assembly website: Address the climate and ecological crisis | Global Assembly

Visit ⁠climate-kic.org⁠, and reach out to us at [email protected] with any questions.

This episode was presented and produced by ⁠Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠.

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Welcome back to season 4 of How Could We?.

In this season, we explore the need to redefine development funding. As outlined in this short teaser episode, hosts Anne-Sophie Garrigou and Solla Zophoniasdottir will be delving into the transformative potential of development funding, highlighting its crucial role in achieving a climate-resilient, inclusive, and beautiful future for all.

This season features insights from the Systems Innovation Learning Partnership (SILP), a collaboration between the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and EIT Climate-KIC. SILP is designed to foster adaptive and innovative approaches to development work, emphasising trust-building, flexible funding mechanisms, and genuine local capacity building.

This episode was presented by⁠⁠⁠ Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠⁠⁠ & Solla Zophoniasdottir and produced by⁠⁠⁠ Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠⁠⁠.

Listen to our previous episodes - Season 1 focused on Sustainable Forestry and Land Use, Season 2 explored the New European Bauhaus initiative, while in Season 3 we explored three themes related to the climate emergency: Climate Narratives, Confusion & Crisis and Radical Collaboration.

⁠⁠⁠EIT Climate-KIC⁠⁠⁠⁠ is Europe’s leading climate innovation initiative, aiming to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate-resilient society by supporting innovative solutions helping society mitigate and adapt to climate change.

We want to hear from you! Share what inspires you and what you’re doing in your community to enact change by sending us an email to ⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠.

Visit our website – ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.climate-kic.org

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Inspired by conversations we had with experts about the climate emergency, in Season 3 of How Could We? we’re digging into three themes that occupy the minds of many people in the climate change community - Climate Narratives, Confusion & Crisis and Radical Collaboration.

In this episode, we talk to Tonny Nowshin, a Bangladeshi economist currently based in Berlin. Tonny is also a degrowth and climate justice advocate, who focuses on centring the concept of justice in the climate movement.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Tonny talks about how the economic theory driving global decision-making disregards planetary boundaries, as well as her work with The Sunrise Project, which is trying to move investments away from fossil fuels.

Tonny also discussed the role of degrowth as a transformative solution for climate change - and other crises - the importance of creating accountability before a crisis hits and how Buddhist peace activist Thích Nhất Hạnh has inspired her life and her work - in the episode, we mention the Plum Village monastic community which he founded.

If you're interested in these topics, join us for our next Open Dialogue: Redefining Development Funding on November 22.

This episode was presented by⁠ Anne-Sophie Garrigou⁠ & ⁠Stephanie Klotz⁠ and produced by⁠ Bárbara Mendes-Jorge⁠.

Listen to our previous episodes - Season 1 focused on Sustainable Forestry and Land Use, while Season 2 explored the New European Bauhaus initiative.

⁠EIT Climate-KIC⁠⁠ is Europe’s leading climate innovation initiative, aiming to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate-resilient society by supporting innovative solutions helping society mitigate and adapt to climate change.

We want to hear from you! Share what inspires you and what you’re doing in your community to enact change by sending us an email to [email protected].

Visit our website – ⁠www.climate-kic.org

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How Could We? currently has 26 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Natural Sciences, Podcasts and Science.

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The episode title 'S3E2 - How Could We? Centre justice at a time of crisis and confusion' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on How Could We? is 23 minutes.

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Episodes of How Could We? are typically released every 7 days.

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The first episode of How Could We? was released on Nov 14, 2022.

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