THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST

Time for another ramble.Recorded a week ago beneath an ancient Hawthorn at Ghostwood Down.I’m sitting with a lot of grief at the moment, so this was a spontaneous ramble from the heart.Riffing on:The sacred Hawthorn treeOn sitting with grief, loss, endings and death, the inner and outer.On the heart space and heart intelligence.On speaking more openly and honestly to the collapse of the systems, structures, stories and ways of modernityAnd asking what might emerge from that ?On imagining a UBI to support weavers of regenerative futures.On music, raves, dancing and connection.Featuring readings, shout outs and notices from:Tree Wisdom by Jacqueline Memory PatersonMortal Podcast - with Julia SamuelEarth Grief by Stephen Harrod BuhnerI Eat the Stars by Sarah WilsonImmy Kaur from Civic SquareCitizen Friday - from ActionismNorthern Exposure - Sasha and John DigweedWe Are Avon - Avonfest TicketsFamous for Five Miles - Fridays at GhostwoodMTTR - the coolest, post-capitalist denim brand on Spaceship EarthRequiem, Invitation, and Celebration: A Collection of Seasonal PracticesAvailable on all podcast platforms Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

Re-releasing this 25 min immersive audio story adventure written 5 years back, as it feels more relevant now than ever. Performed at festivals this summer - it landed with appreciation - so putting it out for folks who weren’t with us back thenAn exploration of how stories play a dominant role in shaping our perceptions and ways of seeing, being and relating in the world.And how one particular story of human exceptionalism and separation from the rest of 'nature' may well be at the centre of the meta/poly/everything crisis we are in today.Or at the very least in coming to terms with it.The origin story of becoming crew…Passenger or crew ?The choice is yours. I hope you receive something if you listen.This is one for the headphones#thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

My guest in this Episode is ecological artist, Anna Murray.Anna is also co-founder and creative director of conscious design studio Patternity, established on a core belief that a shared awareness and understanding of life's many patterns can create more regenerative and connected ways of living.Eight years on Anna returns to Spaceship Earth for a conversation recorded beside the waters on the land at Ghostwood Down.This conversation explores Anna's work as an ecological artist and creative human finding her way through these times by learning to trust her intuition, commitment to creative practice, and the power of connection and community.It asks: 'What if water is more than resource, but one of our oldest teachers?'Together with the stream alongside us, we go on a deep, babbling, meandering exploration of what it means to cultivate a deeper relationship with water, not simply as something we need to protect, but as something that has always shaped who we are as human beings.From rivers and rituals to beauty, creativity, loss, and grief, we reflect on the quiet practices and the deeper listening that help us remember our place within the living world.Anna shares the personal and creative journey that led to her new platform, Wellspace, and her first immersive exhibition, The Waters Are Speaking.This is an extraordinary tale of persistence, emergence, trust, and co-creation with human and more than human collaborators and why creating spaces of awe and reverence may be just as important as raising awareness in these unraveling times.This conversation is an invitation to slow down, to notice, to make time for beauty, and perhaps to rediscover that changing our relationship with the world begins by changing the way we participate in it.Water is the obvious subject, but this conversation isn't really about water. It's about remembering relationship and interdependence with all life through water.I hope you enjoy this, and if you get a chance go and visit Anna's exhibition, It will be wild, I'm sure.(All water sonics in this Episode are from the streams at Ghostwood Down)LINKSThe Waters are Speaking ExhibitionWellspace Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

Laura Storm, visionary leader in regeneration and founder of Regenerators, shares why she stepped back to explore death, endings and letting go. The conversation moves from boardrooms to forests. They discuss grief, ritual, deep listening, land‑based practice, eldership, and how surrender can open space for true regenerative change.

Sol-sticeSun stands still.The longest day.The shortest night.here’s an Earth Sessions mix from me inspired by dancing at sunrise and sunsets.or as Bucky Fuller put it…Sun-sight and sun-eclipseAs the sun isn’t movingBut we of course are on Spaceship Earth.Gratitude to all the artists and producers for creating these tracks.Full tracklist on https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcastListen on Apple Podcasts, substack and SouncloudEnjoy Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

This episode was a live panel recording from the We Are Avon community gathering in May. If you're a regular listener, you'll know about place-based initiative and bioregional project, We Are Avon, based in the Avon Valley in the West of England, where I live. A movement working to regenerate the landscapes, rivers, and communities of the Avon catchment.This conversation is an exploration around the power of pilgrimage, the ancient practice of walking land and rivers as a way to connect us back to self, each other, and the landscapes we're part of.I hosted special guest, Zofia Page, Executive director and Co-founder of Friends of the River Medway, an innovative non-profit restoring the river while reconnecting people to it as a living presence.Her work weaves together ecological action; the Rights of Nature movement; and a renewed, enchanted relationship with the more-than-human world.Over six years, she has brought the Medway from background to foreground through conservation, citizen science, advocacy, art, storytelling, and ceremony. Her vision found its fullest expression in the River Medway Pilgrimage, a pioneering source-to-sea journey that led to two councils acknowledging the Rights of the River Medway.Alongside Zofia was Hamish Evans, Regenerative Farmer of Middle Ground Growers, River Pilgrim, prefigurative activist, and co-director of We Are Avon.This was a beautiful conversation with two extraordinary young change-makers who carry incredible vision, wisdom, humility and dedication to our home planet.In a time where mainstream reality is falling apart rapidly, perhaps these ancient practices of walking the land, moving through landscapes together in community might offer us different perspectives, deeper connections, and other ways of seeing this moment and the future that we're being invited into co-creating.The We Are Avon pilgrimage is this solstice weekend 20-21st June.The Medway pilgrimage is 18th to the 27th of July.Everyone is welcome to walk as much or as little as you like, links below, there are river movements rising like springs all over the UK.Find one near you and find out what's yours to do.LINKSWe Are Avon pilgrimageRiver Medway Pilgrimage Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

A ramble from Ghostwood explores hazel wisdom, tree teachers and sacred places. Reflections touch on sleeping outside, dawn choruses and attuning to more-than-human life. Conversations about sanctuaries for falling apart, regeneration through letting things die, and shifting from digital time to deep place-based presence. Local projects and river pilgrimages surface as invitations to participate.

A new Earth Sessions mix from me: SpringingTo mark the light returning, the sun rising, warmth, blossoms popping, life coming back, possibility… love.A mix of vinyl and digital spanning 30 years - deep, housey, organic, trippy, vibey, and lively.I hope it makes you move wherever you are.With gratitude to the wonderful artists, producers and labels for these creationsTracklist via the Spaceship EarthListen on Soundcloud, Apple Podcast and SubstackLet’s stay togetherLet’s dance.Peace and OutDan Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

A wandering walk through Ghostwood Down explores land regeneration, willow groves and rituals that reopen belonging. The ramble celebrates unknowing, liminal spaces and creative practices like solos and councils. It questions hardened political logic, critiques war and media, and imagines grassroots, place-based care as a response to ecological and social collapse.

I originally recorded this episode with Chris Hines, EP 17, seven years ago in 2019.I’ve decided to repost it now. This week in the UK we had the launch of the Channel 4 real life drama series - Dirty BusinessA three part doc-drama based on a decade-long investigation into England’s water companies, it follows the story of two unlikely citizen detectives who notice that the fish in their local river are dying and are determined to find out why. Telling the real stories of whistleblowers and victims who believe their lives have been destroyed after encountering sewage polluted water, Dirty Business is a factual drama investigating one of the biggest corporate scandals in British history.And it is well worth a watch.It also features Chris Hines (through an actor) - surfer, environmentalist, sustainability innovator who over 35 years ago co-founded environmental surf charity Surfers Against Sewage in Cornwall UK.Their work has been pivotal over the years in connecting the s**t and pollution in the British seas and rivers to the gross negligence of the privatised water companies, extractive economics and short term politics.This conversation I hosted with Chris in Dublin back in 2019 explores that journey, what was happening at that time in the early 90’s and what drove Chris and fellow founders to build out this movement despite having no real idea what they were up against and with absolutely no resources.But this is a story to inspire all of us, that if you care enough about something then go and make stuff happen.It’s worth a listen in my view because it’s more relevant today for those who are feeling outrage and fury about all manner of things around them and want to do something about it.How with no resources and getting creative and working with your community extraordinary things can and do happen.Chris is wise, humble, a true elder.Let me know what you receive if you listen and do share with others that might appreciate itLINKSA Grain of SandSurfers Against Sewage Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe