Eco Scale Radio

03/03/2025

Simple ideas that work with nature.....

23/02/2025

20/02/2025

"Humans have become maladaptive in the world that they created.

More and more of our capabilities are becoming useless although we seldom pay attention until we are unable to find productive opportunities.

From a positive perspective, this is good since it creates pressure for our own self transformation."

People power helped save a commuter who became trapped between a train and a station platform at Stirling station in Western Australia.

19/02/2025

I want to express my deepest sense of gratitude.

To our listeners.
Thank you for taking time out from your busy lives to listen to the inspiring guests we interview on Eco Scale Radio podcast. I hope these interviews inspire you to take bold new actions that help you give birth to the gifts you were born to share.

To our guests.
Thank you for sharing with us all the different ways you are helping to make a difference in this world.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Below is a list of inspiring guests we've interviewed so far:

Peter Fiekowsky
Rob De Laet
Carlos Terol
Jeremy Sampson
Vaughn Tan
Dan Sherrard-Smith
Jorge Lopez-Doriga
Louise Goodes and Manuel Brunner
Mathias Boissonot
Christopher J. Preston
Linda Aspey
Thomas Doherty

Together we can do the impossible.
Together we can make a difference.

Sincerely,
Jim Oliver

15/02/2025

The latest episode is now available.

An interview with Thomas Doherty.

Surviving Climate Anxiety.
Insights for Thriving in a changing world.

In this interview you'll discover ways to be effective for the long haul, including concepts like:

> personal sustainability
> realistic hope
> environmental identity
> the climate elephant

"Whether you're tackling climate change or growing your business, personal sustainability is the foundation for success."

Link to the interview is in the comments.

09/02/2025

Our modern culture’s relationship to nature is not the only way to relate to nature.

In The Lost World of the Kalahari, Laurens van der Post recounts his time living among the indigenous people of the Kalahari Desert. He describes their shock when they discovered that he couldn’t hear the stars.

At first, they assumed he was joking or lying. But when they realized he truly couldn’t hear them, they were deeply saddened. To the Bushmen, being unable to hear nature was the most serious affliction a person could have—a sign of profound disconnection from the world around them.

25/01/2025

What an insightful intelligent conversation about out current condition.

27/11/2024

27/11/2024

Smarter design matters

"Dotcon is a revolutionary innovation created by Japanese engineer Tatsuya Ozawa from Ozawa Sogyo, designed to address critical urban challenges like floodin...

14/11/2024

Fascinating.

13/11/2024

How should humans respond to the impact of climate change and loss of biodiversity?

Should we double down with more technology or should we sit back and let nature reset itself?

What roll does biophilia play in our response?

I hope this conversation helps change the way you look at wildlife, technology, and climate change. And hopefully stokes up your sense of biophilia (your love and connection with nature).

And perhaps motivate you to take proactive steps to help innovate and implement solutions to the many challenges that we are facing.

I recently had the good fortune of talking with Christopher J. Preston.

He is a writer and professor based in Missoula, MT.

His academic research centers on wildlife, technology, and climate change.

Christopher has written for The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Discover, Orion, The Conversation, the Wall Street Journal, and The BBC.

His recent book Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think About Animals investigates a number of species that came back from the brink of extinction.

Tenacious Beasts was listed by the New Yorker as one of their Best Books of 2023. And won the 2024 High Plains Book Award for non-fiction.

His previous book, The Synthetic Age: Out designing Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World, has been translated into six languages and won a silver medal from Nautilus in the ecology and environment category.

In this interview we talk about animals coming back from the brink of extinction, we also talk about whales and whale vomit, The Great Whale Conveyor, the impact of bison on creeks and forests, the impact of beavers, the impact of sea otters on kelp, and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome, and much much more. Link to podcast episode in Comments.

23/09/2024

Hmmmmm
A tsunami of change is near.
What are you doing about it?
Are you denying it?
Are you ignoring it?

When playwright David Finnigan launched a new play in 2014, controversially titled "Kill Climate Deniers," he was not prepared for the blowback. But the conv...

16/09/2024

Nature Deficit Disorder has an impact the quality of life for individuals and community.

How can we get people to care about and do something about climate restoration and ecosystem regeneration when they live their entire lives with Nature Deficit Disorder?

We need to reconnect people to nature. For the health of the individual, community, and the planet.

The journalist and advocate for children in the natural world, Richard Louv, guides us through the consequences of maintaining children sedentary within clos...

06/08/2024

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/philippe-birker-94960014_im-sorry-but-i-tried-this-is-the-minimum-activity-7226482129444995072-t_p7?utm_source=combined_share_message&utm_medium=member_ios

I’m sorry.

04/05/2024

How do we respond to the Merchants of Doubt?

Anjali Appadurai recounts a profound realization during a focus group with a young mother, highlighting her guilt over her contribution to climate change des...

02/05/2024

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240502-why-biophilia-needs-to-be-part-of-your-next-holiday

Engaging with nature on vacation can not only you make feel more rested and restored, it can also enhance wellbeing when you're back home.