Green Pop – In Conversation with Jeremy Loops
Before ever he was a global music star, Jeremy Loops was busking the streets of Cape Town to raise money for local environmental projects. As the co-founder of Green Pop – focussing on sustainable...
Speaker(s): Jeremy LoopsNo Home, No Homeland: Israel’s Policy of Demolishing Palestinian Homes
The demolition of Palestinian homes in order to push the Palestinian population into disconnected enclaves is crucial to what major human rights organisations call Israel's apartheid system. Who...
Speaker(s): Jeff HalperOne Democratic State In Palestine/Israel: It’s Time
One country, one citizenship, one parliament and one shared civil society, in which the national, ethnic and religious identities of all the country's peoples also find expression. What would such...
Speaker(s): Jeff HalperLost In Trans-lation
A panel of trans and non-binary Greenbelters share their perspectives and invite your questions on what, in media discourse, has become one of the most weaponised and politicised of culture wars, but...
Speaker(s): Jay Hulme, SambamboChurch – The Two Thousand Year Experiment
If you've ever been part of a church then you've been part of a long-running mass experiment which many say has now run its course. Have we learned all we can from this extended test of faith? Is...
Speaker(s): Jane Shaw, Linda Woodhead, Brian McLarenGenz, Explained
Drawing on recently-completed research, Linda and Jane offer a portrait of Gen Z (born after 1995), the first generation who grew up with social media and mobile devices. They are intensely concerned...
Speaker(s): Jane Shaw, Linda WoodheadJoined Up Thinking: The Power Of Collective Intelligence
At a time of existential global challenges, we need our best brainpower to solve them. So how do we create genius environments, help our brains flourish, cope with wildly differing opinions, and...
Speaker(s): Hannah CritchlowThe Lightless Sky: An Afghan Refugee Boy’s Journey of Escape to a New Life in Britain
Former child refugee Gulwali Passarlay tells how he miraculously survived the harrowing year-long journey from Afghanistan to the UK on his own. Young and old alike will come to understand the...
Speaker(s): Gulwali PassarlayMeat And Our Planetary Future
It is well established that burning fossil fuels is incompatible with a habitable future for humanity. But what about meat consumption? Should we treat meat like fossil fuels, given that globally...
Speaker(s): GreenpeaceNomad Century: How To Survive The Climate Upheaval
Migration is not the problem, it is the solution The climate crisis is upon us and billions of people are at risk. Gaia Vince's book Nomad Century, for the first time, promotes the idea of...
Speaker(s): Gaia VincePrison is not the Solution; It’s the Problem
We have a justice system based on two-thousand-year-old principles of proportional revenge. It hasn't worked and it's not fair. It is time to abolish prisons and develop a new system of...
Speaker(s): Frances CrookScience And Spirituality: How Do We Respond To Experiences Of Awe?
Scientists feel awe at the vastness of intergalactic space, the complexity of living things, or when data fit together and make sense in an unexpected way. But how do they process these...
Speaker(s): FaradayThe Selfish Green?
"More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crisis until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one." So wrote Lynn White in 1967. Join this Faraday...
Speaker(s): FaradayTransgender Marxism
Spotlighting the pressures, oppression and persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, this session will help you understand the tenuous positions trans people hold in the...
Speaker(s): Elle O'RourkeThe Bright Side Of The Apocalpyse
Speaker(s): Baroness Lola Young