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A 12-part documentary podcast about the notorious free-love commune, Centrepoint. There are crimes. But this isn't a whodunnit. It's a whydunnit.Podcasts like this one take a lot of time and resources to create. To help cover some of that cost, you will hear some ads during this episode. For an ad-free experience go to listen.stuff.co.nz/truecrime to get access to this and three other Stuff True Crime podcasts ad-free, for about the price of a cup of coffee… and you'll be helping us make more great podcasts, like this one. more

Another World is still Possible. The old system was never fit for purpose and now it has gone- and it's never coming back. We have the power of gods to destroy our home. But we also have the chance to become something we cannot yet imagine, and by doing so, lay the foundations for a future we would be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn. What happens if we commit to a world based on generative values: compassion, courage, integrity? What happens if we let go of the race for meaningless money and commit instead to the things that matter: clean air, clean water, clean soil - and clean, clear, courageous connections between all parts of ourselves (so we have to do the inner work of healing individually and collectively), between ourselves and each other (so we have to do the outer work of relearning how to build generative communities) and between ourselves and the Web of Life (so we have to reclaim our birthright as conscious nodes in the web of life)? We can do this - and every week on Accidental Gods we speak with the people who are living this world into being. We have all the answers, we just (so far) lack the visions and collective will to weave them into a future that works. We can make this happen. We will. Join us. Accidental Gods is a podcast and membership program devoted to exploring the ways we can create a future that we would be proud to leave to the generations yet to come. If we're going to emerge into a just, equitable - and above all regenerative - future, we need to get to know the people who are already living, working, thinking and believing at the leading edge of inter-becoming transformation. Accidental Gods exists to bring these voices to the world so that we can work together to lay the foundations of a world we'd be proud to leave to the generations that come after us. We have the choice now - we can choose to transform…or we can face the chaos of a failing system. Our Choice. Our Chance. Our Future. Find the membership and the podcast pages here: https://accidentalgods.life Find Manda's Thrutopian novel, Any Human Power here: https://mandascott.co.uk Find Manda on BlueSky @mandascott.bsky.social On LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandascottauthor/ On FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/MandaScottAuthor more

Nice Try's second season, Interior, is all about the lifestyle products that have been sold to us over and over, and the promises of domestic self improvement they have made, kept and broken.From Curbed, New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. more

A comprehensive, long-form history podcast about Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge and the Pol Pot Regime.

Dystopia Now is a show where a comedian (Kate Willett) and an academic (Emile Torres) explore the philosophies and religions of Silicon Valley and tech billionaires shaping our country, our world, and our future. more

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh rose from a precocious boy in India to a spiritual guru to tens of thousands of people worldwide. He became famous for his controversial teachings and lavish lifestyle, leading some to call him a cult leader. Building Utopia paints an immersive, unflinching portrait of Rajneesh and the people who chose to devote their lives to him -- including his top lieutenants, who fled his Rajneeshpuram commune in 1985 amid a cloud of criminal allegations. Building Utopia will captivate those familiar with Rajneesh, as well as those who have not yet discovered his fascinating and troubling story. more

Reflections on the Rise and Fall of Christendom

This 'Enlightened' New World utopia isn't turning out to be all it was cracked up to be. Society is disenchanting, but are the only alternatives hiding out in the hills or burying yourself in books? With an air of levity and a touch of humor, John Heers teaches how to examine the confusing New World by calling upon the mind and wisdom of oft-forgotten Old. Heavy Things, Lightly. johnheersftf.substack.com more

Take an inside look at the beautiful and messy realities of creating and sustaining an intentional community. Enjoy useful and inspiring stories to support you on your journey towards resilience, sustainability, and connection. Join community builder Rebecca Mesritz for interviews with experts in a variety of topics related to living communally --- from governance and decision making to ownership models, from navigating coparenting to navigating finances, from how to find your people to how to actually live with them. Learn more and support at ic.org/podcast more

It's hard to imagine a bright future in the face of the climate crisis. This new podcast, from Hugo Award winning podcaster and author Emma Newman,  will take you on a journey from despair to the most radiant, radical hope. Made in partnership with Friends of the Earth, Imagining Tomorrow shows how we can create a future that is good for people and for nature, based on innovations in technology and community action that are already having a positive impact. Join Emma as she pieces together the roadmap to utopia by interviewing amazing inventors, communities and award-winning science fiction authors. We can't build a better future until we can imagine it, so let's imagine it together. more

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future. more

This is a podcast about utopian ideas and paradise lost. We look at utopian concepts from the past, present and future, as well as utopian societies and communes, which promise the world to eager followers but inevitably fail when it all starts to unravel. Some of these utopias just fall apart, while others devolve into true horrors and even brutal cults. I'll break down what these groups' leaders were thinking, what attracted their devotees in the first place, and how it all went wrong. more

RevolutionZ: Life After Capitalism highlights social vision and strategy. You can join our community and help us grow and diversify via our Patreon Site Page more

The Utopias Podcast with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan In the wake of an era where alarmism and crisis branding sells - whether in relation to climate change, new technologies, or polarization, we have a huge opportunity to embrace our capacity for innovation, empathy, and compassion towards one another. To get there it is high time to have creative, productive, and truly progressive conversations about our planetary future, and approach such from every discipline and perspective we can. Hosted by UCLA professor and public intellectual Ramesh Srinivasan, the 'Utopias' podcast presents a new narrative, a vision of life futures based on a set of conversations that celebrate the work and perspectives of 'dreamers', or those who represent and care deeply for the endless potential for human creativity, expression, and optimism. We share the stories of those who believe in the potential for our planet, and are doing the important work to try to empower our tomorrow in a way that we can all benefit from. This podcast brings back the realms of the scientific, emotional, artistic, legal, poetic, musical, ecological, and spiritual into conversation with one another as together, we imagine and advocate for futures for our planet and species that lift us all up. Dr. Srinivasan's guests shall run the gamut, bringing artists, journalists, politicians, scientists, environmentalists, monks and religious practitioners, and scholars together. Utopias shall inspire listeners to imagine new futures defined by compassion, an appreciation of diversity alongside unity, and the recognition that we live in an extraordinary time where we are all in 'it' together. Produced by Jack Garland. Music by Albert Ortega more

Who now has anything to say about the deindustrialisation of this country? Georgian townhouses on the moon. The highest GDP per capita in the Milky Way. Small modular reactors under every village green. This is Anglofuturism. Hosted by Tom Ough and Calum Drysdale. www.anglofuturism.co more

American Utopia tells the story of the Oneida Community, a radical 19th century free-love experiment in communal living. Building on his own research as well as interviews with top historians, host Dan Greenstone illuminates the fascinating lives of the liberated women and men who overturned society's conventions about marriage, love, sex, work and childrearing. Subscribe now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

Welcome to Nutopia, a documentary-style series exploring radical ideas, new myths and social movements for a positive future shaped by community, re-enchantment, sustainability, ecology, creativity, magic and compassion. Don't worry about poe-faced beard-stroking, there's plenty of mischief, weirdness and fun to be had. Written and presented by Sony award-winning broadcaster David Bramwell. With generous support from the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and Hawkwood College. more

Radio Utopistan brings you stories, people and ideas on how to build a just and joyful future. For yourself and the collectiveUtopian ideas drive us as humans, they drive humankind and humanity. And Radio Utopistan wants to find out what drives those visionary people. It was the belief that we could fly, conquer disease or live in permanent peace that gave women and men the courage to take risks, to step out, to try things and also to fail.Many things that we take for granted today, were mere utopias in their day - and the people who fought for them were ridiculed, shamed, harassed and also killed. 200 years ago the end of slavery was still utopia. The fall of the Berlin Wall just 40 years ago. And then the end of Apartheid 30 years ago. Where does that leave us today? What are the utopias of our time? What about gender equality? Basic income? Nature rights? Peace in the Middle East? Today we need Utopian ideas more than ever. To rebuild and reframe our global society in the aftermaths of Corona. Now we are being forced to see how everything is connected: China and Europe. Nature and humankind. We are all in this together. It's a global net. We are also shown on the one hand how huge political decisions like closing down airports all around the world are possible. And then how on the other hand small daily actions from each and every one of us like leaving the house or washing your hands have a huge impact on the world. So Radio Utopistan collects the stories of global and local visionaries, people that work on the outside or on the inside of humanity. The politician in Ecuador for example who sees nature as a person. He has written her as a legal person in his country's constitution. The engineer with high heels and headscarf in Gaza who brings solar energy into houses under occupation. Or the friend in a wheelchair who can only move his brain and his tongue after an accident but who hasn't lost his humor and keeps fighting for equality. Elisabeth Weydt meets people who are striving towards and fighting for their Utopias, people who want to change the system or build some space outside the system. Elisabeth is an award-winning multimedia journalist based somewhere between Hamburg and Haifa. She mostly covers topics which revolve around radicalism and resources. She loves cooking and will meet her guests preferably at home, in bars or in the jungle.The interviews on Radio Utopistan will mainly be in English. If not, there will be a summary about the guests and their Utopias in English.Let's go treasure hunting together. radioutopistan.substack.com more

What might a good future look like? Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. Adam Becker. Each week, Adam and a new guest will try to find hope in the darkness of the current political moment through earnest (and entertaining!) conversations about what such a future might look like. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the public conversation about what our world can and should be. more

An engaging look at communes throughout American history. Intentional communities have always been testing grounds for radical innovations in family structure, sexuality, and property. This series features in-depth interviews with communitarians and historians, leavened with a healthy dose of humor. Hosted by Christian Goodwillie, Hamilton College, and Dan Greenstone and Travis Chandler, of the Francis W. Parker School. more

For anyone interested in utopian social theory but who don't want to read. The hosts read works in political and social theory and do our best to explain them in simple terms through casual conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

How can we build a better tomorrow? That's what The Utopian tries to uncover. Our diverse guests working in a range of disciplines share their insight into some of humanity's most pressing issues.Artwork by Josh Joseph, Hosted by Jeni Dhodary and Caroline Klewinowski more

Utopian thinking fosters tyranny and has been behind history's worst man-made disasters. This podcast explores the many permutations of Utopian thinking and, by taking an eclectic outlook, offers simple, independent solutions to this complex, multifaceted problem. more

🚨🎙️LINCOLNSHIRE's BIGGEST PODCAST🎙️🚨 🌎EXPLORING DREAM WORLDS!🚀 Come on a journey with the Utopian Gods as they ponder the imaginary perfect worlds of our guests! What would your dream planet look like? What would be the national anthem? Who would be your ambassador? How about your national dish? That's the simple stuff out of the way, What's being banned on your planet? and what would be the punishment for anyone who dared to defy you? From flags to fiery pits, we explore it all, even finding celebrities the perfect career paths in Utopia! Join the gods, Become a Utopian Today! more

THE PRESENT Our newly renamed podcast, Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast is all about radical hope and resistance in the age of climate disaster. This newest iteration of Solarpunk Magazine 's podcast will launch it's first episode on Monday, January 27, 2025. On Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast , host Justine Norton-Kertson (founder and co-editor-in-chief of Solarpunk Magazine ) envisions a world where humanity thrives in harmony with nature, equity and justice guide our communities, and creativity fuels solutions to our shared challenges. By imagining brighter futures and confronting current crises with resilience, we aim to cultivate hope and empower individuals to co-create a sustainable, inclusive, and thriving planet. Our mission is to inspire hope and action by exploring solarpunk ideas, sharing grassroots solutions, and amplifying the voices of change-makers who challenge dystopian realities. Through critical analysis, meaningful conversations, and creative storytelling, we provide listeners with the tools and inspiration to build a more just, equitable, and sustainable world while nurturing optimism in the face of adversity. THE PAST Our podcast began with the title Solarpunk Futures and has gone through a few different iterations. Starting in the fall of 2021, the original podcast ran for seven monthly episodes. Then beginning in fall 2022, the podcast was rebranded as Solarpunk Presents. That iteration was hosted by our then non-fiction co-editors Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha. In January of 2023, Solarpunk Presents branched off on its own as a separate podcast, and in the spring of 2024 Solarpunk Futures came back briefly for a few episodes before going on hiatus for a reworking and rebranding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

***ON HIATUS - please read more at our Patreon *** Solarpunk Presents is a podcast that explores the people and projects working on bringing us a better world today. Solarpunk is more than just an idea, more than just an aesthetic. Those inspire us, but where do we go from there? How do we put the values and visions described in solarpunk fiction and art into action in the here and now? What does that look like, translated into the reality of our present moment, into the places and spaces where we're at? Hosts Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha are producing podcast episodes featuring interviews with people working to make the world a better place right now, as well as discussions of solarpunk, DIY, aesthetic, housing, and more. Join us as we explore what #solarpunk looks like in the present. The best way to reach us is to email us at solarpunkpresents at gmail dot com or on our socials: Website : https://www.solarpunkpresents.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/solarpunkpresents Mastodon: https://climatejustice.social/@solarpunkpresents YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@solarpunkpresents Tumblr : https://www.tumblr.com/solarpunkpresentspodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

Do our global governance systems have the capacity to effectively address the challenges we face as a civilization? What are the viable pathways towards a fairer, more sustainable and viable future? 'Imperfect Utopias or Bust? Global Governance Futures' aims to present a space where these questions, and many more, can be addressed in a spirit of dialogue and exploration. more

Freedom in the United States is an abstract concept, not because we don't understand what it means, but because it has never been fully embraced. As a nation, we've prioritized maintaining the status quo at the price of true freedom. With increasing political polarization, continued systemic injustice, rising socioeconomic inequality, and growing distrust in the media, Caleb Chrisley is on a mission to imagine what a more free, equitable world might look like. It's hard to dream up anything different from our disastrous reality, but with hope, love and an open dialogue, anything is possible. more

What makes for a city that people love to live in? Why are some cities a joy to be in while others are a bore? Let's investigate with psychologist Dr. T Panova and documentarian Ariel Viera about what it takes to make the perfect city. more

This is a history podcast about the future, featuring stories from the past about how we might organise and structure a better world. Where did these plans go wrong or why were they never realised? And what can we learn from the dreams of those that came before us? Ewan Cameron speaks to architects, historians and journalists about that great human fascination: Utopia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

Capitalism reached it's peak. The world is catering to 1% of the world population, while the rest of the people are forgotten. How would a world look like when Money is abolished and no Government is necessary? This Podcast will inspire to see a future which is bright and for everybody, a shared wealth. The resources of planet earth are for everybody. Are you ready for change? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

Inspiring interviews with guests envisioning a just and compassionate future in line with Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT). We explore practical ways in which we can all move forward as a collective society to progressively enhance our wellbeing. more

Three creatives sit down and figure out their mental health alongside utopic world creation.

For many people another way of living has started with Diggers & Dreamers. Perhaps you're fed up with living in a little box. Maybe just by yourself. Maybe with your family. Just being a docile consumer alongside the billions of other docile consumers. And the combined outcome of it all is a wrecked planet. Isn't there something more to life than this? Couldn't we have access to many of the best things in life without doing such harm if we were prepared to share more with our neighbours? Perhaps in an intentional community that's a community that has come together by intention rather than by chance. Believe it or not, many people have been living in intentional communities like this for decades. And it's not all hippy crash pads where nobody does the washing up! Diggers & Dreamers will open your eyes to the multifarious ways in which communal living happens in the 21st century. It's your way into the future! more

'To be determined by and for the people'We are running Windows 1776 for our system of government and it's time for an update. [U]SA is a platform and movement to create a new vision for our country that we can truly be united around. www.undetermined.us more

Foster City wasn't just built; it was engineered with a vision. But behind the blue lagoons and planned neighborhoods lie stories of risk-takers, community pioneers, and the evolution of a modern utopia.The Foster City Historical Society Podcast dives deep into the archives to bring our local heritage to life. From the ambitious dreams of T. Jack Foster to the personal memories of the families who first called these reclaimed lands home, we bridge the gap between our city's unique origin story and its vibrant tomorrow.Whether you're a lifelong resident or a curious newcomer, join us as we explore the archives, interview local legends, and uncover the hidden history of the 'Island City.' more

Utopian and Dystopian Fictions is a podcast for scholars, thinkers, and anyone with an interest in utopian and dystopian theory, literature, film, and television. It's hosted by Dr Matthew Leggatt (Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Winchester) and Dr Liam Knight (Independent Scholar). In each episode we interview a different academic in the field and interrogate myths and common misconceptions about the genre. If you have any feedback or questions, please feel free to send us an email, using utopiananddystopianfictions@gmail.com. more

If you were put in charge of the world, what's the first thing you would do? Maybe you want to build a ladder to the moon? Or let everyone adopt a pet rock? Practicality is no barrier as we envisage the changes needed to build our utopia. Join us each week as we chat to our guests and question the sanity of their sweeping innovations and decide whose is worth implementing. more

Welcome to Faulty Utopia — an uncompromising look at the ethics of cutting-edge technology and the lines we're crossing too fast. We question the hidden human cost of tomorrow's breakthroughs. From grief bots to genetic alteration, we ask: Are we building a utopia, or just engineering a more expensive way to suffer? Join us as we explore our accelerating technological landscape and ask whether we can survive the future we're building. New episodes drop weekly. Hit follow so you never miss an episode. more