Alinternet reflections

A research report on three co-ops in Sydney and how they are disrupting cruel and wasteful processes of big supermarkets with market share --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Forces 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 back --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The power of the profit-motive --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The only boundary I see is values-based. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

How 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 system --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Emily 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Is 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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Can 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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Planetary 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The importance of this skill and how it can permeate through society --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

An 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

An 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What is the value of values and how do we ensure that those who volunteer to protect values are properly valued in return? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Waste 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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

How to stop being who you think you are and find your own path (spoiler alert: involves jumping) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

How practicing kindness, rapport and gratitude can transform communication and change the world - one relationship at a time. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This 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). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Take a little mud and expose the diamonds --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A discompassionate tale of empathy --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Why do we ask for less, and how do we live in a world of more? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Or the ravings of a questioning mind? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Well, are we? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A short story examining the transmission of toxic masculinity down through generations and how this can shape and break lives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What 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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Should materialism be the end-goal of humanity? A simple solution to complex problems: a simple life. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Why do we do it, and what's the point of a hero anyway? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

My 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

How 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Carbon 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

For whatever you take control of, takes control of you. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Assorted writings surrounding modern day justice and how to practice it with regards to the environment --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I spent the Summer of 2012 in Paris as a waitress. These are my thoughts on the experience. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What rights does nature have and how can we use this rights framework to save the earth from our own destruction? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

How can we constructively confront our own damaging impacts on our planet? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A collation of short essays on the colonised indigenous experience, and imaginations of pathways into a different future --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

If we restored indigenous ways and stopped suppressing them, our environment and our own peoples. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Is 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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What are the impacts of a decayed sense of faith in our society doing to us? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Why 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app