Moral Footprint
Moral Footprint
Podcast Description
Modern life's pursuit of endless growth is pushing us to the brink, where personal burnout mirrors planetary overshoot. MORAL FOOTPRINT, hosted by behavioural scientist Jeni Miles, explores how we can live and work within Earth’s limits.
Covering climate action, post-growth economics, modern motherhood and systems change, Season One maps our relationship with power, privilege and planetary boundaries.
Blending behavioural science & business, Jeni tackles key questions: How do we move beyond growth? How can we unlearn overconsumption and transform extractive systems?
Launching March 2025! 🌱
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers critical themes such as climate action, post-growth economics, modern motherhood, and systems change. Episodes delve into topics like corporate sustainability failures, the impacts of decolonizing design, and the intrinsic connections between personal burnout and environmental overshoot, with specific discussions on frameworks like matereality and indigenous knowledge.
Jeni Miles explores how we can realign life and work within ethical & ecological boundaries.
MORAL FOOTPRINT covers climate action, post-growth economics, modern motherhood & systems change, mapping our our relationship with power, privilege and Earth’s limits.
Blending behavioural science & business, Jeni tackles key questions: How do we move beyond growth? How can we unlearn overconsumption and transform extractive systems?
Learn more at JeniMiles.com
Post-growth economist Donnie Maclurcan joins host Jeni Miles to explore why systems transformation requires moving from thinking to feeling. From not-for-profit business models to the circulation of money and power, Donnie reveals how embodied wisdom might be our most revolutionary tool against extractive capitalism and why slowing down in urgent times could be the key to creating regenerative systems.
Key Takeaways
- Understand why capitalism creates disconnection from our bodies and embodied wisdom
- Learn the difference between not-for-profit businesses and B Corps or social enterprises
- Discover how debt expansion is a feature of capitalism, not the monetary system
- Explore moving from “systems thinking” to “systems feeling” for transformation
- See how moving your money, pensions, and investments can create systemic change
- Experience the offers and needs markets methodology for community resilience
Donnie Maclurcan is Director of Strategy with the Post Growth Institute. He joins us from Patagonia where he lives with his wife and their cats.
- Follow Donnie on LinkedIn: https://ar.linkedin.com/in/donniemaclurcan
- Follow Donnie on Bluesky: https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/donmacca.bsky.social
People and Resources Mentioned:
- Post Growth Institute: https://postgrowth.org/
- How on Earth? Book https://howonearth.us/
- Colin Saltmere: https://au.linkedin.com/in/colin-saltmere-09762485
- Better Off by Eric Brende (an Amish lifestyle experiment) https://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Flipping-Switch-Technology/dp/0060570059
- Offers and Needs Markets methodology: https://postgrowth.org/offers-and-needs-markets/
- Triodos Bank (sustainable banking example): https://triodos.co.uk/
- Bayo Akomolafe’s The Times Are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down open letter https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/the-times-are-urgent-lets-slow-down
- The Co-operative Bank (UK not-for-profit banking): https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/
- The WEIRD Study (research on Western assumptions): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1601785
- AORTA Co-Op: https://aorta.coop/
- BLIS Collective https://www.bliscollective.org/
- adrienne maree brown https://www.instagram.com/adriennemareebrown/
Sociocracy as a governance system https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy/
Follow Jeni on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenifisher/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCChD92b63Sfh5xeNFMM5lCA
Read the Moral Footprint newsletter: https://moralfootprint.substack.com
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