How Advocacy Shapes the Future Across Generations with Reto Knutti & Marie-Claire Graf

How Advocacy Shapes the Future Across Generations with Reto Knutti & Marie-Claire Graf

How Advocacy Shapes the Future Across GenerationsSeason 1 - Episode 6 Reto Knutti - Climate Scientist Marie-Claire Graf - Intergenerational Advocate Climate urgency shifts systems when facts meet feelings and responsibility. In a world where climate science grows ever more conclusive, this episode explores how facts, feelings, and power intersect in the politics of change. Bruno Giussani joins climate scientist Reto Knutti and youth activist Marie-Claire Graf for a conversation that starts with clear data on climate and moves into questions of human behavior, political will, and intergenerational voice. This dialogue challenges the belief that more reports and sharper numbers will be enough, and instead asks what kinds of stories, emotions, and social innovations are needed to match the scale of the crisis. It reveals how fear, anger, and eco-anxiety can sit alongside courage, rest, and solidarity, and how young people are creating their own seats at decision making tables. This episode invites you to treat urgency as a lived practice, weaving honest facts together with brave empathy, reflection, and collective pressure. Connect with [y]our2040Website: www.your2040.com [https://www.your2040.com/] Linktree: Explore all our platforms [https://linktr.ee/your2040?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeE7HY0w9HpjrYh4TWgCPjGNO2geUJu50MggXYJMP7TSjEYlZCGvBPRObZz3w_aem_G-pH1au8SSdozC0DWNpZww] Credits: Host: Bruno Giussani - Author & Advisor Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2021

What Food Systems Can Teach Us About Circularity with Sue Tobler, Anastasia Hofmann, Naomi MacKenzie & Beat Karrer

What Food Systems Can Teach Us About Circularity Season 1 - Episode 5 Sue Tobler - Astrophysicist Anastasia Hofmann - Entrepreneur Naomi MacKenzie - Entrepreneur Beat Karrer - Designer Change in the food system begins when people stop treating waste as an accident and start treating it as a design choice. In a world where perfectly good food still ends up in bins behind hotels and conference centers, this episode looks closely at what it takes to redesign that pattern from the inside. The conversation brings together Sue Tobler, Naomi MacKenzie, Anastasia Hofmann, and Beat Karrer, four entrepreneurs who work across the food system from cooking, measurement technology, and bioplastics, each of them driven by the moment they realized that business as usual was simply not good enough. This episode challenges the assumption that awareness alone will shift behavior and shows why hard data and visual feedback can move kitchens far more than abstract concern. It reframes food waste by asking what happens when you track every plate and every bin as carefully as revenue. It reveals that real progress lives in the tension between patience and urgency, between prototypes and regulation. We invite you to see every meal, every bin, and every rule as a practical place to start changing the system you live inside. Connect with [y]our2040Website: www.your2040.com [https://www.your2040.com/] Linktree: Explore all our platforms [https://linktr.ee/your2040?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeE7HY0w9HpjrYh4TWgCPjGNO2geUJu50MggXYJMP7TSjEYlZCGvBPRObZz3w_aem_G-pH1au8SSdozC0DWNpZww] Credits: Host: Chris Luebkeman Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2021

How Urgency Can Create Stronger Climate Action with Tim Jarvis

How Urgency Can Create Stronger Climate Action Season 1 - Episode 4 Tim Jarvis - Explorer and Environmental Scientist Clarity emerges when urgency becomes a catalyst for both courage and collective responsibility. In a world where environmental warnings are no longer distant forecasts but daily realities, this episode explores how one person translates extreme expedition experience into practical guidance for climate action. Environmental scientist, author, and polar explorer Tim Jarvis joins Chris for a conversation that moves between the icy expanse of Antarctica and the complex landscapes of corporate and political decision making. This episode challenges the assumption that urgency must rely on fear and instead introduces pragmatic optimism as a disciplined balance between truth telling and possibility. It reframes leadership by asking how you speak to diverse motivations while still moving everyone toward a shared outcome. It reveals that the real work lies in meeting people where they are and shaping messages that resonate with their values rather than only with your own. This episode invites you to see urgency not as alarm but as an active practice of influence, grounded action, and courageous communication. Connect with [y]our2040Website: www.your2040.com [https://www.your2040.com/] Linktree: Explore all our platforms [https://linktr.ee/your2040?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeE7HY0w9HpjrYh4TWgCPjGNO2geUJu50MggXYJMP7TSjEYlZCGvBPRObZz3w_aem_G-pH1au8SSdozC0DWNpZww] Credits: Host: Chris Luebkeman Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2021

Why Science Matters More Than Ever with Holger Hoff & Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

Why Science Matters More Than Ever Season 1 - Episode 3 Holger Hoff - Environmental Scientist Adrienne Gret-Regamey - Urban Systems Professor Lasting change emerges when knowledge, emotion, and local experience are treated as equally vital forms of intelligence. In a time when we can measure almost everything yet still hesitate to act, this episode explores what climate implications mean for different landscapes and communities. David Bresch from ETH Zurich in dialogue with urban landscape planner Adrienne Gret-Regamey and planetary boundaries scholar Holger Hoff. Together they address how retreating glaciers, new lakes and shifting mountain economies are opportunities for new cultural landscapes. This episode challenges the assumption that more data will lead to different choices and reframes adaptation as a practice of empowerment, shared vocabulary, and attention to who actually holds the power to change land use. It reveals that the real work lies in linking quantitative insight with lived experience, local dialect, and the courage to keep going even when early efforts fail. We invite you to see your own region as a place with diverse voices that shape practical, place based responses and honor planetary limits. Connect with [y]our2040Website: www.your2040.com [https://www.your2040.com/] Linktree: Explore all our platforms [https://linktr.ee/your2040?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeE7HY0w9HpjrYh4TWgCPjGNO2geUJu50MggXYJMP7TSjEYlZCGvBPRObZz3w_aem_G-pH1au8SSdozC0DWNpZww] Credits: Host: David Bresch - Professor for Weather and Climate Risks Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2021

Why Architecture Must Become Regenerative with Michael Pawlyn

Why Architecture Must Become Regenerative Season 1 - Episode 2 Michael Pawlyn - Architect Real change in the built environment begins when we stop relying on exemplar projects and start shifting the paradigm that shapes them. In a world where climate reports warn of collapse while markets still claim they are not ready for real solutions, this episode explores why transformative ideas struggle to take root and what it takes to change that. Architect and author Michael Pawlyn joins Chris to trace his journey from pioneering green projects to questioning why so many never leave the drawing board. The conversation turns to Donella Meadows and the question of leverage, revealing that many designers intervene at the shallow end of complex systems instead of at the level of mindset and story. This episode challenges the assumption that more demonstration projects are enough and reframes change as a shift from sustainable thinking that mitigates harm toward regenerative thinking that optimizes positive impact. It invites you to see yourself as an active shaper of new paradigms, not just a witness to failing ones Connect with [y]our2040Website: www.your2040.com [https://www.your2040.com/] Linktree: Explore all our platforms [https://linktr.ee/your2040?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeE7HY0w9HpjrYh4TWgCPjGNO2geUJu50MggXYJMP7TSjEYlZCGvBPRObZz3w_aem_G-pH1au8SSdozC0DWNpZww] Credits: Host: Chris Luebkeman Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich Recorded in 2021