Shows
Alinternet reflectionsDegrowthHow degrowth can provide the solution to environmental and social problems, when guided by participatory action methodologies2022-11-0620 min
Alinternet reflectionsHow community co-ops are competing with unsustainable agricultureA research report on three co-ops in Sydney and how they are disrupting cruel and wasteful processes of big supermarkets with market share2022-06-0922 minAlinternet reflectionsHow community co-ops can help us to reclaim our citiesForces like Neoliberalistic Capitalism and the constant pursuit of surplus capital are transforming our cities into elite playgrounds. Community-owned co-ops might hold the solution in taking it back2022-06-0922 minAlinternet reflectionsHow the rich are stealing your future - episode 1The power of the profit-motive2022-03-0715 minAlinternet reflectionsWhat is caring?What is caring? How do we give care, take care, live in care - all whilst living in love and not fear?2022-01-261h 24Alinternet reflectionsCritical Thinking ep 4 - Critical Thinking part 2The next one.2022-01-253h 00Alinternet reflectionsFear-baitingHow to get the fuckers.2022-01-2413 minAlinternet reflectionsRespect your elders.Mum: an abuser who takes sick pleasure at the torment of others. Dad: a coloniser, who likes to force his will (among other things) on those weaker than him. Parents: no longer. How shall they be punished? Think creatively!2022-01-2104 minAlinternet reflectionsClubhouse ep 3 - Critical Thinking Part 1Do you even know how to think?2022-01-202h 31Alinternet reflectionsClubhouse ep 2 on Multispecies JusticePart 22022-01-191h 55Alinternet reflectionsClubhouse ep 1 - Multi-species Justice (2nd half)How can we better live in harmony with the natural world? A quartet of beautiful opinions2022-01-1945 minAlinternet reflectionsRespect your eldersLeave the Earth for the next generation, please.2022-01-1706 minAlinternet reflectionsFear-baiting (mechanism of transformation)If love is the answer, what do we do with our fears?2022-01-1713 minAlinternet reflectionsMy race (human)The only boundary I see is values-based.2022-01-1102 minAlinternet reflectionsTools for healthHow to conquer your bad habits this year. Tools for having self-discipline, as well as self-compassion, learning how to hold yourself to account whilst holding space for yourself. New year, new year, new gamified habit system2022-01-1131 min
Alinternet reflectionsNYE LinsightsA tasting plate of epiphanies - from work and play, to rhythm and melodies to adhering to principles and spontaneously making meaning. Happy 2022 everybody, may the next year be as rich as your imagination. 2022-01-0608 min
Alinternet reflectionsMy bodyEmily Ratajkowski, in sharing her experiences of growing up as a model with all of its personal and professional complexies, invites us to examine concepts of ownership, sexuality, identity, security and power.2021-11-1712 min
Alinternet reflectionsWhat is caringIs caring based in attachment or acceptance? In letting go or in resisting? In wanting to preserve or in accepting destruction? And how can we use this concept of our ethic of care in approaching saving the planet?2021-11-0308 min
Alinternet reflectionsThe separateness of humansCan we ever be part of the great Earth metabolism? And by doing so would we fill the void first created by seeing ourselves as separate?2021-09-2610 minAlinternet reflectionsOur mental and planetary resiliencePlanetary and mental resilience are linked – we need to heal ourselves to heal the world. Climate change has traumatised us and our industrialised ways of living speak of dissociations with our natural world. Healing ourselves mentally and emotionally is the best way to save the planet.2021-09-0628 min
Alinternet reflectionsCritical ThinkingThe importance of this skill and how it can permeate through society2021-08-1615 min
Alinternet reflectionsEnergyAn examination of the mechanics and philosophy behind how we manifest energy into our reality and how we can bring the world into a higher vibrational state.2021-06-2334 min
Alinternet reflectionsLove: Society's missing PeaceAn examination of the fear-based dynamics of western society and a guide on how to bust through our collective neuroses with love. Adult content warning.2021-06-0559 min
Alinternet reflectionsThe ethical ambiguity of volunteerismWhat is the value of values and how do we ensure that those who volunteer to protect values are properly valued in return?2021-05-1004 min
Alinternet reflectionsDistinction-makingThis podcast examines the cognitive skills needed for living a sustainable life aligned and in-flow with a natural environment. Distinction-making capabilities helps us learn skills, practice music, think and tolerate one another.2021-04-2707 min
Alinternet reflectionsChallenging waste and exploitationWaste and exploitation are intimately connected and contained within our cultural DNA. How do we imagine new, grassroots and decentralised ways of tackling them and discovering a better, fairer and more connected future?2021-02-0318 minAlinternet reflectionsFreedomHow to stop being who you think you are and find your own path (spoiler alert: involves jumping)2021-01-3008 min
Alinternet reflectionsKindness bidding (accepting and advancing the offer)How practicing kindness, rapport and gratitude can transform communication and change the world - one relationship at a time.2021-01-2921 min
Alinternet reflectionsLanguage and Memory SystemsThis blog examines the relationship between linguistics and systems of memory, including schema (gestalt) building via language; Theory of Mind (ToM) and its relationship to learning how to articulate and communicate at an early age; Semantic, Episodic and Procedural memory systems and the role of short vs long term memory. (All material sourced from University of Sydney Psychology Degree).2021-01-2920 min
Alinternet reflectionsPartial mistrust and total acceptance (morality)Take a little mud and expose the diamonds2021-01-2203 min
Alinternet reflectionsWhose shoes are you wearing? (2003)A discompassionate tale of empathy2021-01-2203 min
Alinternet reflectionsAccepting abundanceWhy do we ask for less, and how do we live in a world of more?2021-01-2102 min
Alinternet reflectionsPsychosisOr the ravings of a questioning mind?2021-01-1802 min
Alinternet reflectionsHistorical Psychology (feeling like a Freud)In this podcast I discuss the reasons for and traditions in psychology over the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries. Are our current knowledge paradigms still relevant or just relentless white noise?2021-01-181h 14
Alinternet reflectionsAre we selfish?Well, are we?2020-12-1618 min
Alinternet reflectionsA Vicious Cycle (2006)A short story examining the transmission of toxic masculinity down through generations and how this can shape and break lives.2020-11-0238 min
Alinternet reflectionsInternational environmental governance - a Japan whaling case studyWhat can Japan's decision to leave the International Whaling Commission in 2018 tell us about the state of international environmental politics, and how could the solution lie in increased localisation?2020-09-2317 min
Alinternet reflectionsDeath and Immortality (2005)A short story written in 2005 about what the social implications would be of discovering the secret to immortality. Would it be just another weapon of class division? Themes of class struggle, religion, relationships, economics and environmental ethics are all explored in this short feature article style vignette.2020-09-1519 minAlinternet reflectionsManifesto on simplicityShould materialism be the end-goal of humanity?
A simple solution to complex problems: a simple life.2020-08-2603 min
Alinternet reflectionsHero Worship (2009)Why do we do it, and what's the point of a hero anyway?2020-08-2607 min
Alinternet reflectionsCannabis (2008)It's joys, it's impacts, mental health, crime, it's history in Australian society and whether a criminalisation or harm minimisation approach work best for regulating its use in society.2020-08-2610 min
Alinternet reflectionsWhere's family gone? (2016)Ramblings on the breaking up of communities and rise of industry; and the impact that both these forces have had on individual potential and values.2020-08-2605 min
Alinternet reflectionsAbout meMy life since 2011 has been rocked and defined by climate change and a growing awareness of the challenges that face all human societies. My personal journey involves starting degrees in Communications, Psychology, and the Environment, and finding first psychosis and then clarity.2020-08-2610 min
Alinternet reflectionsOn communicationHow does language shape thought? The shape of the book; orality vs literacy; jargon (standardisation of language) vs meaning-making (and use of rhetoric); and how their mastery enables deep learning and brings mindfulness are all explored in this series of short essays.2020-08-1717 min
Alinternet reflectionsRethinking the economy to solve global problemsCarbon emissions, deforestation, plastic waste. What follows is a collation of international environmental law essays which examine how the composition of state-based economies frame a collective inability to solve global 'wicked' problems. The beginnings of an examination of how use-based (instead of materials-based) economies could bear the solution.2020-08-1727 min
Alinternet reflectionsPlanetary Boundaries (2018)An analysis of Steffen et al's paradigm shifting 'Planetary Boundaries' framework, first published in 2015. What does it mean for Earth, how does it communicate this message and is it already too late for change?2020-08-1207 min
Alinternet reflectionsOn dominionFor whatever you take control of, takes control of you.2020-08-1201 min
Alinternet reflectionsWhat could democratised education look like?Could it be contained in an app? Is there a different way for society to share knowledge and gain skills then being forced through a series of institutions at great financial and time-based cost? I have an idea, and I think it's a good one.2020-08-1207 min
Alinternet reflectionsTowards a community-based and grassroots societyWhat could our collective future look like? How do we get there? My 2022 Master's thesis seeks to tackle these questions by facilitating a spectrum of different people with different backgrounds and perspectives to collectively daydream a new way of existing.2020-08-0802 min
Alinternet reflectionsDrilling the Great Australian BightIn 2019 Oil Giant Equinor got approval to begin drilling the Great Australian Bight - one of the last pristine marine ecosystems on Earth. This was despite overwhelming opposition from people-powered protests and NGOs. This audio-essay examines the stakeholders, timelines and outcomes of this case - and looks at solutions in how we can protect our precious ecosystems from further future destruction.2020-08-0820 min
Alinternet reflectionsEnvironmental Justice Q&AAssorted writings surrounding modern day justice and how to practice it with regards to the environment2020-07-3123 min
Alinternet reflectionsParisien reflectionsI spent the Summer of 2012 in Paris as a waitress. These are my thoughts on the experience.2020-07-2221 min
Alinternet reflectionsTreatise on multi-species justiceWhat rights does nature have and how can we use this rights framework to save the earth from our own destruction?2020-07-2008 min
Alinternet reflectionsHuman WeedsHow can we constructively confront our own damaging impacts on our planet?2020-07-2012 min
Alinternet reflectionsThinkings on the Indigenous - past, present and futureA collation of short essays on the colonised indigenous experience, and imaginations of pathways into a different future2020-07-2046 min
Alinternet reflectionsWhat could reconciliation look like in Australia?If we restored indigenous ways and stopped suppressing them, our environment and our own peoples.2020-07-1917 min
Alinternet reflectionsTransformative JusticeIs our whole society built on violence? If the way we practice justice is also violent, how do we transform it to deliver restorative climate justice?2020-07-1705 min
Alinternet reflectionsDecentralisation - the solution for transitioning to a renewable society?Centralisation is the mechanism by which governments and multinationals are able to coerce citizen decision-making. Could decentralisation be the solution for how to disrupt these power structures and peacefully take back control?2020-07-1707 min
Alinternet reflectionsIn who can we trust?What are the impacts of a decayed sense of faith in our society doing to us?2020-07-1702 min
Alinternet reflectionsWhy can't we change? A commentary on man's inability to evolveWhy can't humanity change to adapt to the challenges of climate change? This podcast explores our sense of species exceptionalism, the rights of living systems, the potential impacts of climate change and the need and orthodoxy behind changing a paradigm.2020-07-1725 min