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The DRIFT Transitions Podcast

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How is it that societies can plot the same course for years and years and then suddenly change at lightning speed? And why do sustainable innovations seem to pop up everywhere, while so few of them truly break through? To understand this, perhaps a new perspective on fundamental change can help. If we want to grasp how our society can truly transform, we must look at it through the lens of transition thinking. In this show, Wouter Mulders and a rotating cast of colleagues speak to a number of theoretical and practical experts about transition science. Because by understanding transitions toward sustainability and justice, we can also accelerate them—or at least, that’s what we hope. The DRIFT Transitions Podcast is produced by DRIFT, the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, part of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Episodes

Whoosh #3: The true value of not being disturbed

*heads-up: somewhere in this episode you may experience something strange in the audio. But don't worry, it's all part of the plan* In the final episode of 'Whoosh', we're ripping off a band-aid. What if, despite the opportunity to make renewable energy and ecology go hand in hand, there is a clash? What does it look, sound and feel like when offshore wind energy development is at odds with nature conservation? And what can help balanced decision-making when economy, carbon accounting and the tr...

May 29, 202543 minSeason 2Ep. 3

Whoosh #2: Marrying lines and blobs

This is ‘Whoosh’, a three-part audio series on listening to different voices in the wind energy transition. ‘Whoosh’ is produced by DRIFT as part of the JustWind4All project. In these three episodes, colleagues Wouter Mulders and Stéphanie van der Raad are trying to shift perspectives by listening to sounds that they believe deserve to be better heard when it comes to offshore wind energy development. — In the second episode of ‘Whoosh’, Wouter and Stéphanie continue their journey into the compl...

May 15, 202541 minSeason 2Ep. 2

Whoosh #1: Free energy?

This is ‘Whoosh’, a three-part audio series on listening to different voices in the wind energy transition. ‘Whoosh’ is produced by DRIFT as part of the JustWind4All project. In these three episodes, colleagues Wouter Mulders and Stéphanie van der Raad are trying to shift perspectives by listening to sounds that they believe deserve to be better heard when it comes to offshore wind energy development. — In the first episode of ‘Whoosh’, Wouter and Stéphanie accept the challenge to dig into diffe...

May 08, 202537 minSeason 2Ep. 1

#4: Living within just boundaries (and not just safe boundaries), with Joyeeta Gupta

Who is responsible for the climate crisis? And how safe is it actually for everyone when we keep within established planetary boundaries? For the first season of the DRIFT Transitions Podcast, we are republishing a number of English-language episodes on transition science and practice that we previously recorded for our Dutch-language channel. Wouter Mulders and Neha Mungekar are very honoured to get to wrap up this season by discussing such questions with Joyeeta Gupta. She is a professor of En...

May 07, 202529 minSeason 1Ep. 4

#3: Justice as the oppositie of exclusion, with Daniëlle Hirsch

For the first season of the DRIFT Transitions Podcast, we are republishing a number of English-language episodes on transition science and practice that we previously recorded for our Dutch-language channel. What is it like to work on environmental and human rights issues from both ends, so from both the Global South (or majority world) and the Global North? And not to work *for* but *with* global organisations that are seeking justice, pointing out that those in power have to be more inclusive?...

May 07, 202527 minSeason 1Ep. 3

#2: Looking at nature in a new light to foster biodiversity

For the first season of the DRIFT Transitions Podcast, we are republishing a number of English-language episodes on transition science and practice that we previously recorded for our Dutch-language channel. In this episode, we're taking a hike. Together with Mara de Pater, transitions researcher specializing in biodiversity, and Samuelle van Deutekom, forest ranger, we're walking through the Dunes of Schoorl. It's a coastal area an hour’s drive North of Amsterdam, and we think it’s a prime exam...

May 07, 202526 minSeason 1Ep. 2

#1: The X-curve – where transition treasure is buried

In this first episode of The DRIFT Transitions Podcast, we're talking you through how to draw an X-curve: a simple model that explains why so few sustainable and just initiatives break through. And why societies can plot the same course for years and years and then suddenly change at lightning speed. Applying the x-curve helps explain how change really happens across the systems, society, and sectors you are part of. In ten minutes, this introductory episode explains how niche innovations—like m...

May 07, 202510 minSeason 1Ep. 1
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