We're Three (years old). What this podcast will lend you, and why.

Like me, you're curious, creative, conscientious, if a little concerned. Or, I don't know, maybe a lot concerned.

I spend time with people who think we're pretty close to a climate induced extinction or civilisation collapse. A not so happy point where rising temperatures disrupt weather, spanner food (that's a technical term for harvests failing, and food not finding it's way to the shops we're dependent on), cook the seas, killing the oceanic plankton so rendering the oceans effectively dead. That'll be the end of breathing then. And various other cataclysmic bits too, should we need more. After not breathing. Oh, and all this in the coming decade or two.

Oh, is that all, I hear you say?

Listen. Who knows. It all sounds plausible enough to me, if not very cheery, I accept.

Worry not. That's not what the podcast is about. Well, not directly anyway.

It is about you, and your mind. And topping up your creative juices. Feeding your health and wealth (the well-being kind) and happiness more generally, so you might feed those around you. Not to avoid the above, but to act anyway.

It's about connecting to and meeting the teachers championing the ideas on the margins, the periphery. Because that's where the ideas which will shape the mainstream tomorrow - whatever that may look like - are marinading today.

My hope is these conversations help you think differently, and maybe inspire you to some kind of action. And, most all, I hope that together, me telling you and you telling others, that we slowly weave new story into culture. 'Cos that's one of the things we need: new stories. Stories shape how we think, feel and do.

We are all nodes in this complex, adaptive system we call life. The work we do is important. The time we spend. How we invest our time, energy, resources. We are active agents. Everything a contribution to a future we're creating.

Whatever the reality of a coming collapse, I see fragile systems and hollowed out hearts everywhere. These need nourishing, regenerating.

I choose to work in service of something else, a different more beautiful future, in the words of provocateur extraordinaire Charles Eisenstein.

This podcast just a small contribution to that.

If you'd like to dip into these conversations, and the associated writing, please do. And share. And tell me what you think.

Did I say we're three today?

Happy birthday to us.