Podcast appearances and mentions of dave erasmus

The Possibility Club podcast: Practical Bravery     GOING OFF-GRID!       It is easy to say that we are all climate activists now.   Even the most traditional, fossil-fuel powered businesses will have their compostable coffee cups, car pool incentives and commitment to using bags for life.   But, are we even close to getting real?   Survey after survey shows that there is serious intention, backed-up by a serious kicking of the can down the road.   The climate emergency needs both small and big change. Incremental and urgent.   So - WTF do we do, to balance urgency and stability? How do we live both on and off grid?   In this episode Richard Freeman meets Tech and nature entrepreneur, speaker, writer, broadcaster and facilitator  - Dave Erasmus.   ------   https://www.daveerasmus.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/daveerasmus Insta: https://www.instagram.com/daveerasmus1/?hl=en Medium blog: https://daveerasmus.medium.com/   “Seeing this mobile, social, technology shift coming along and thought, if this is transforming society, what are the best behaviour sets we could encourage? And so I built a donation platform called Givey to try to encourage the daily habit of giving.” https://www.givey.com/about   “If you look at the twenty apps on the front of your smartphone, it's a nice thought to say what do they say about me? Who am I? What do I engage with every day?" “When the VCs finally took the company off me (which is another story) I ran out of map, I ran out of direction. Internally and externally I had nowhere to turn, no-one to turn to, so I ended up finding my way into the woodland.” "What I found there was a gentle momentum, a life beyond purpose, a way of being that was outside of goal setting and goal achievement. Kind of a life beyond narrative.” “I found this whole other space of human being, rather than human doing.”   “I was living this hyper-local life between the woods and the pub but I had this community globally, with people sending me socks from Australia and giving me advice through my YouTube videos. This wasn't off-grid living, there was a lot more space created for the ‘off' but I was still benefiting from being ‘on'. This lifestyle didn't fit in either of the worlds.” YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/daveerasmus     “I guess that is my answer to the “New York grind” story. I don't see it as sustainable, I don't see genius ideas coming out of that constant grind, that echo chamber.” “I had all the options, this is what I chose to do. As it happens, I've probably neglected financial capital, I've probably optimised too long for social and intellectual capital, ie having time to learn and be with friends, and that is a constant balancing act.” “The research all shows that earning more than £70k a year, there's no correlation between happiness, wellbeing and money above that. We all need a certain amount not just for basics but for some luxuries and agency and choice, but above and beyond that there's no discernible correlation.”     “Possibilities come from open awareness. From seeing the glimmers on the edge of your peripheral vision. Things that you can hear in the background. And that antenna is not up if you're driving towards a goal. That's not where you find new emergent possibilities. So for me, putting your foot down, then taking your foot off, being ‘on' and then being ‘off', and learning how to go back and forward is where we get ultimately most efficiency, although ‘efficiency' is a reductive word for what I'm talking about.”     Wilderness Farm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wilderness_farm/ https://www.corcova.do/   “I've probably had a day's worth of difficult conversations with smart people, which have cost me money, to invest in myself and my self narrative and find that and get that iterative process. It is hard to do on your own, you do ideally need friends or relationships that help lead you into that place because brands — and your boss — are marketing at you all the time, and they're pretty damn good at it by this point.”   Filippo Landi — ‘Boy' (Spotify link — from the album Upside Down) https://open.spotify.com/track/0PbCDaKbOnJ89HtNkz526R   Dave Erasmus poetry EPs (Spotify link) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wCRhp6ubrLP80yMQVKuvw “Make a name for somebody else.” — Steve Cole   Broadplace — company Dave set up at 19 https://www.broadplace.com/ “Ultimately I want to be me, I want to be original.”   “The off-grid part of life is needed more than ever at the moment, in order to recover our relationships — workplace and otherwise — to a place of creative balance with productivity, so we can make our organisations sustainable.”   New business about listening to the ocean — https://aqoustics.com/   -----------     This episode was recorded in February 2023 Interviewer: Richard Freeman for always possible Editor: CJ Thorpe-Tracey for Lo Fi Arts   For more visit alwayspossible.co.uk

Our 49th Wonderspace coincides with the start of COP26. For this episode we are heading for the ocean and asking our six questions to the My Changing Planet crew who over the past month have sailed from Cornwall to COP in Glasgow. Dave Erasmus was our 24th guest and one of the six crew members on board. He asks our six questions whilst sailing on choppy waters near the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Hebrides. For more information: https://www.mychangingplanet.com/ + http://instagram.com/mychangingplanet The Crew: http://instagram.com/ourjourneyboat Andy : instagram.com/andy_lindsell Paul : http://instagram.com/vetpaulramos Jackson : http://instagram.com/jacksonkingsley Sean : http://instagram.com/thatvetsean Jack : http://instagram.com/jackfisherfilms Dave : http://instagram.com/daveerasmus1 To view the episode page with a summary of the interview, links to social media and projects mentioned, go to https://ourwonder.space/episodes/_49 View the video orbit here: To listen to the previous 48 Wonderspace editions go to. https://ourwonder.space/episodes -------------- More about Wonderspace: https://ourwonder.space Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBUt53ifgsf4Hu9tQTWjEmA/videos Facebook: http://facebook.com/ourwonderspace Instagram: http://instagram.com/ourwonderspace Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourwonderspace --------------- Music: https://theade.me Re-wonder: https://asknature.org

Tim is joined by Social Entrepreneur Dave Erasmus to talk about his life and career and how he managed to live 'off-grid' in modern Britain. Sponsored Quooker.

Orbiting with us this week is digital entrepreneur, business coach and public speaker Dave Erasmus. As you will hear, Dave spends part of the year off-grid in the woods and the other part in the modern world, developing concepts around combining technology, ecology and its relationship to the human experience. His Youtube channel is definitely worth checking out - https://www.youtube.com/user/daveerasmus Find out more about Dave on his website - http://daveerasmus.com See the shortened video episode here: https://youtu.be/lqnDBqMyRfw -------------- More about Wonderspace: https://ourwonder.space Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBUt53ifgsf4Hu9tQTWjEmA/videos Facebook: http://facebook.com/ourwonderspace Instagram: http://instagram.com/ourwonderspace Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourwonderspace Online community: http://wonderspace.mn.co/ --------------- Music: https://theade.me

If you enjoy this podcast, consider buying me a coffee: https://adamstoner.com/support The average UK citizen produces 8.45 metric tonnes of CO2 (tCO2e) per year. The average globally is 4.8. In the next ten years – and in order to prevent a 1.5 degrees of global warming – we need to reduce our individual carbon footprints by as much as 65%. These findings come from a report titled 1.5 Degree Lifestyles which states that worldwide, citizens and societies need to aim for per-person consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions targets of 2.5 tCO2e in 2030, 1.4 by 2040, and 0.7 by 2050 in order to keep global temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees of change. The Global Carbon Project (whose graphs are above) estimates we have less than 10 years at current levels of emission before our 1.5º budget is entirely spent. At that point, our ability to correct the see-saw and prevent the threat of climate change tipping points setting in – something which James Lovelock theorises is already happening – is seriously hampered. As Fiona Harvey writes in the Guardian, scientists are warning that beyond a rise of 2º, the impacts of climate breakdown are likely to become catastrophic and irreversible, yet current global commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement are estimated to put the world on track for 3º of heating. As the IPCC reflect in their Special Report, cutting our lifestyles to meet these targets isn't going to happen by magic nor is it going to happen overnight. We must alter our lifestyles and we must do it immediately. Pathways limiting global warming to 1.5°C with no or limited overshoot would require rapid and far-reaching transitions […] These systems transitions are unprecedented in terms of scale […] and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors, a wide portfolio of mitigation options and a significant upscaling of investments in those options – IPCC ‘Global Warming of 1.5º' We must accept these simple facts: Adapted from Professor Julia Steinberger's ‘10 Basic Facts for Human and Planetary Survival' diagram. The climate crisis is really bad. On our current trajectory it will become much worse. We can still prevent it from worsening. This will require rapid, far-reaching changes. This change is compulsory for human survival. The systems we operate in are responsible for this crisis. Maintaining the current trajectory is in the interest of most of these systems. Therefore, we should not expect these systems to change themselves. People built these systems. It is people who must change these systems. Survival depends on us changing these systems. To quote American architect and futurist Buckminster Fuller: You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. To cut down his carbon footprint in line with the targets that 1.5 Degree Lifestyles espouses, Lloyd Alter of Treehugger is trying to live what he calls a 2.5-tonne lifestyle. Meanwhile, British activist Rosalind Readhead is attempting to live a 1-tonne lifestyle and has been doing so since September 2019 using Professor Mike Berners-Lee's ‘How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything' as a guide. Rosalind says her ‘rapid, imperfect prototype' aims to ‘give life to what net zero carbon means from a personal perspective [and to] add human flesh to an abstract and remote number.' At its core, the climate crisis is a carbon crisis. There is too much carbon in the air and to fix the crisis we must commit to removing some. Planting trees to combat emissions is tantamount to carbon offsetting and whilst I respect that carbon offsets alone cannot solve the problem of global warming – and while there have undoubtedly been abuses in the way offsets have been marketed in the past – I do not feel this invalidates their use in relation to emissions which people are unable to reduce directly. That said, forestation projects are not certified carbon offsets. The carbon emissions they will sequester will happen in the future, with the vast majority of carbon being captured after 40 years. It is plainly obvious we should try and avoid as many emissions as possible today, then seek to offset the rest. I'm calling emissions I cannot avoid ‘circumstantial emissions'; they are emissions that are a consequence (of commuting, of living a modern and connected life) rather than a choice (going on jet-set holidays, buying clothes I do not need). I have calculated my own carbon footprint in a similar way to Rosalind, using Professor Mike Berners-Lee's ‘How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything' as a guide, by assuming worse case scenarios. My footprint turns out to be 4 tonnes of CO2e per annum. Dave Erasmus, modern day woodsman and leader of both an on- and off-grid lifestyle, has crunched the numbers and reveals that a Pinus Sylverstris (Scots Pine), which is classified as a slow growing conifer, will sequester, at conservative estimates, 355kg of CO2e over a 60 year period. If I've understood his numbers correctly, by year 60 and at its peak, the tree will sequester a kilogram of CO2e once every seven days. This equates to an average of 5kg CO2e per year over a sixty year period. A government forestry report states that trees in Kielder Forest absorb 2kg of CO2 per year on average whilst Madagascan charity Eden Reforestation Projects reckons that a mangrove tree will sequester over 308kg of CO2 from the atmosphere over the growth life of the tree, averaging 12.3kg per tree per annum. The success of tree planting as a carbon offsetting measure depends on three key factors: Commit to planting suitable trees in a suitable environments. Commit to taking care of them over their lifetimes. Commit to not burning them after their lifetimes. Burning the tree would release the carbon stored within it back into the atmosphere; a sixty-year lesson in futility. Scientists in Zurich have theorised that covering an area the size of the United States of America could be the most effective climate change solution to date. It would represent a greater than 25% increase in forested area, including more than 200 gigatonnes of additional carbon sequestered at maturity, capturing around two-thirds of carbon emissions released by humans since the Industrial Revolution. That is where this talk of ‘planting a trillion trees' that we heard so much of at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2020 comes from. Using Dave's calculations and basing all planting on our three tree rules, sequestering my 4 tonnes of CO2e over a 60-year period would require just 12 trees. Assuming I have been emitting 4 tonnes of CO2e per year for my 25 years so far and will continue to so until I reach the UK life expectancy of 80 I would need to plant one thousand trees. 4 tonnes in kilograms is 4,000. 4,000 x 80 years = 320,000kg. 320,000kg divided by 308kg (the amount sequestered per mangrove plant) = 1,038 trees. 320,000kg divided by 355kg (the amount sequestered per Scots Pine) = 901 trees I joined Bristol-based Offset Earth (now known as Ecologi) almost one year ago because I knew that tree planting was one of the ways forward. Buying the 1,038 mangrove trees via Ecologi that I would need to offset a 4-tonne lifestyle for 80 years would cost £123. Remembering that the average UK citizen produces 8.45 tCO2e per year, it would cost £325 to plant the 2,759 trees required. According to the World Bank, 1.236 billion people live in so-called ‘high income economies'; the current Gross National Income per capita of this set of people is $45,307. Assuming the average person works from 18 to the current UK retirement age, the £325 it would cost to offset their entire lifetime of emissions would equate to £0.56 pence per monthly paycheque. Even if we were to opt with costlier tree planting schemes like One Tree Planted where one tree costs one US dollar, planting 2,759 trees would cost less than a single months salary in a year, a cost that is plainly affordable when spread over a working career. You may think this is heading the direction of arguing for a so-called flat-rate ‘tree tax' and although it clearly has its advantages (and I support the idea of taxes) I do not feel the solution is a tax… So what is? I've written on multiple occasions about how the best way to affect positive change is to fund it. Giving regularly not only helps protect the causes you care about but it also helps charities plan ahead and make long term investments and improvements that change the world and the lives of people on it. – Myself, in 2019 I think the best climate change solution is simply the knowledge that your entire lifetime can be carbon-neutral (and even carbon-negative) for less than you spend on a spur-of-the-moment shopping spree one stuck-at-home Black Friday. I've been writing this essay on-and-off for the past year. It has sat in various states of completion and with various different conclusions for many of those months. Writing and researching this essay opened my eyes to plainly obvious solutions and answered questions I didn't know I had about climate change. I leave you with a question of your own to answer: Knowing that tree plantation programs are well within your budget and that the solution to catastrophic climate change is simply to pull carbon from the air, an act trees do by design, is it not a civic and moral duty to plant those trees? Ecologi (£0.12 GBP/tree) One Tree Planted ($1 USD/tree) World Land Trust (£5 GBP/tree) Trees For Life (£6 GBP/tree) Forest of Marston Vale (£20 GBP/tree)

If you enjoy this podcast, consider buying me a coffee: https://adamstoner.com/support When I shared my last update, the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis was still a tragedy happening in a country with little resemblance to ours, millions of miles away. Today, in the UK, we're faced with thousands of fresh cases and the prospect of hundreds of deaths each day. There's a lot of suffering and despair in the world right now, not just from those afflicted with the virus but also from small businesses that have shuttered and people whose lives have dramatically changed. But I also see a lot of hope. I see people mucking in and helping out locally, I see new businesses – and new ways of doing business – rise from the ashes of old ones. It might surprise some of you that I am an investor in a few independent businesses and, although the honey company I invest in has been hampered by the closure of the hospitality industry, and the beer business by the closure of gastropubs, I'm proud to report they're both doing well, taking care of their staff, and continuing to operate online. Support them, and your own local enterprises, if you can. I'm probably one of the exceptionally lucky ones in this crisis, managing to actually save some money due to the fact my £600-a-month season ticket habit is temporarily paused. I've been sharing some of that spare cash with Age UK – who are doing a great job supporting elderly people who are most at-risk at this time – and The Trussell Trust – who run food banks up and down the country. This crisis has also highlighted to me that humankind has the power to make significant change very quickly. We know in the face of immediate crises what needs to be done. Already, we see forms of community democracy and grassroots action starting to spring and I see an increased sense of autonomy among individuals and communities who are able to make their own decisions in the presence of slow moving professional advice. My hope, when this whole thing is over, is that we can turn this action into lasting system change. The fear we are all experiencing today is a revelatory one – it's of vulnerability and frailty – but it's important to remember that whatever you're doing to help, whether it's staying in or fighting on the frontline, helping in hospitals or shopping responsibly in supermarkets, sharing information online or in your community, we all have a part to play. I've been trying my best to play my part… As schools shut their gates for what could be the last time this academic year, Fun Kids – the UK's children's radio station that I work for – moved up a gear. I'm producing and editing a daily kids podcast called Stuck at Home. You can get Stuck at Home in all of your usual apps from Apple Podcasts and Spotify to Google Podcasts and, for the first time for an active podcast created by a commercial radio station, you can also discover a special version created for BBC Sounds. Shutting the office has turned me on to ways of working that I probably wouldn't have tried. Earlier in the month, I shared some of my favourite creative tools in a post titled Weapons of Mass Creation – you can read it at /weapons – but I've found a few to be vital for working from home: Slack and Zoom for communication (even though Zoom faces questions over its end-to-end encryption claims) Cleanfeed for high quality remote recording; we're using it at Fun Kids to record Stuck at Home and The Week Junior Show Dropshare for sharing files with people quickly and CloudMounter, which lets you mount services like Dropbox as if they were hard drives In the absence of a professional soundproofed studio, I've been using a Shure MV88 microphone plugged into my iPhone with a pair of Bose QuietComfort 35's to monitor the sound. It's what I am using to record my podcast, under a bunch of duvets! Let me know your favourite tools for working from home by dropping me a tweet (I'm @admstnr) or by emailing me by tapping here. Now that so many of us find ourselves working in places that were previously very not-work, I think having fun and interesting hobbies to separate those times are important. Spring is here and I've begun planting up my VegTrug. I'm growing onions, carrots, celery, tomatoes and, as always, chillies from the fantastic people at the South Devon Chilli Farm. Although I grow every year, I was inspired to get a move-on by Dave Erasmus – a longterm mentor of mine – who mentioned the importance of growing food in a video on his YouTube channel. I've also picked up my ukulele for the first time in a few months, strumming some tunes every now-and-then to help break up the day. I'll spare you a video of that, but you can hear a little in the podcast version of this newsletter – tap here to subscribe. Wherever you may be, I hope you're safe and well and manage to find that all important space and time for yourself. That's all for this month. Stay in touch. Your friend, Adam Stoner

In our busier and busier lives, the art of connecting on a human level with those around us is becoming somewhat of a lost art ... lost in the noise of our every day, our phones, our work and more distractions. Yet when we encounter real connection it is striking and significant yet it can be the far down our list of priorities. Host Jordan Addison sits down with close friend Dave Erasmus to discuss and delve into the importance of Community and the Significance of connecting with those around you on a real, authentic & human level. Dave has spent the last 3 years using a secluded woodland in the heart of Sussex to explore these very ideas and using nature as a vessel for human connection, creativity as well as personal and business growth. So sit back, grab a brew and enjoy! G!RO: https://girocycles.com https://www.instagram.com/girocycles/ Jordan Addison: https://www.instagram.com/jordanaddison/ Dave Erasmus: https://www.instagram.com/daveerasmus1 Corcovado: https://www.corcova.do TED Talk: The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o

Welcome to New Agreements! The podcast with Dave Erasmus, asking some of the greatest thinkers, entrepreneurs and influencers what new agreements we need (personally, locally, globally) for the future. This is a short extract from our first episode with Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia.

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Dave Erasmus is unique. He’s a successful entrepreneur, a YouTuber and a terrific public speaker, but increasingly it’s his work experimenting with a new model of living that defines him. I left home at 7am [...] The post 012: Dave Erasmus, Entrepreneur & YouTuber appeared first on Thinky Thinky Make Make.

Dave Erasmus is a London-born, San Francisco-inhabiting startup founder, photographer, filmmaker, and poet - a "creative entrepreneur", if you will. We had a great conversation with Dave at Notes in central London, all about the different companies he's started, his work/life balance, his new poetry project, and much more. He made some really resounding and important points throughout the chat, so this one's worth a second and third listen. Enjoy the episode! Harry and Matt x -- Find Dave: www.twitter.com/daveerasmus www.instagram.com/daveerasmus1 youtube.com/daveerasmus -- We want your suggestions for guests to have on in Season Two! Tweet us your favourite creatives - filmmakers, photographers, designers, entrepreneurs... anything really! - to @fillerpodcast. -- Follow Filler on Soundcloud: @fillerpodcast Subscribe to Filler on iTunes here: www.apple.co/1cUvFxU Support Filler on Patreon: www.patreon.com/filler Buy Filler stickers: www.filler.bigcartel.com Subcribe to our Newsletter: www.bit.ly/1NbJaUY -- Find Filler: www.twitter.com/fillerpodcast www.instagram.com/fillerpodcast www.facebook.com/fillerpodcast Find Harry: www.twitter.com/harryhitchens www.instagram.com/harry_hitchens Find Matt: www.twitter.com/mattshre www.instagram.com/mattshr Social media photography by George Muncey - www.georgemuncey.com Theme music by Scott Quinn - www.soundcloud.com/scott_quinn