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The RegenNarration

The RegenNarration

Written by: Anthony James
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Stories of the regeneration of the living world, not often on the news, often almost beyond belief. With award-winning host Anthony James. It’s ad-free, freely available and entirely listener-supported. You'll hear from high profile and grass-roots leaders from around Australia and the world, on how they're changing the stories we live by, and the systems we create in their mold. Along with often very personal tales of how they themselves are changing, in the places they call home, and with some of the music they love.

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  • We Can’t Scale Our Way To Transition (& Don’t Need To), with Richard Heinberg

    We Can’t Scale Our Way To Transition (& Don’t Need To), with Richard Heinberg
    Oct 13 2026

    I met Richard Heinberg by the clear running waters of a restored Santa Rosa creek a couple of years ago. Though it feels like yesterday, such was its impact. So my heart sank when I saw the subject line in an email, ‘In memoriam, Richard Heinberg’.

    Richard is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates on the urgent need, and inviting prospects, of a transition away from fossil fuels. He’s the author of 14 books including some of the seminal works on our current energy, economic and environmental crises.

    I had already been feeling like our conversation by the creek that day was worth re-releasing, even before hearing the sad news. Especially the last 20 minutes or so, where our podcast culminates in Richard’s clear framing of the unprecedented challenge facing us, and how we could pull it off. So here they are for you today.

    If you’d like to hear the rest of this conversation, listen to episode 205. It starts with the story of the creek you can hear. And delves more into Richard’s life journey through music, agriculture, energy, economy, psychedelics, Aboriginal Australia, Native America, and all that his decades of work have taught him.

    And if you’d like to read more about Richard’s personal story, including his magnificent musical journey, with some photos and videos, have a read of this tribute article I wrote back in July.

    If you’d like to go straight to a particular part of this episode, essentially viewing a table of contents, you can navigate via the chapter markers & transcript.

    Originally recorded 30 April 2024.

    Title image: the restored creek from where we sat.

    Thanks for listening.

    Music:

    Time to Go, by Tristan Barton (from Artlist).

    Regeneration, by Amelia Barden.

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    Please share this episode or the trailer with a friend, follow the podcast, and subscribe if you can.

    The RegenNarration is independent and ad-free, with hundreds of episodes freely available, thanks to the generous support of listeners like you. If you're enjoying the podcast, I hope you'll consider becoming a paid subscriber, from as little as around $1 a week, to gain access to a great community, subscriber events and giveaways, and to help keep the show going, on Patreon or Substack (where you'll find some writing, photography and tunes too).

    You can also donate directly via the website (avoiding fees) or PayPal.

    I hope to see you at an event soon, even the shop. Thanks so much for your support!
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    25 mins
  • A Vision, with Wendell & Mary Berry (A Tribute)

    A Vision, with Wendell & Mary Berry (A Tribute)
    Oct 6 2026

    The revered farmer, poet and prophet, Wendell Berry, died a little over a month ago. This special tribute episode, featuring the voices of Wendell himself, his daughter Mary, and friends, is one I feel extremely privileged to make and share with you.

    With heart-felt thanks and sympathies to Mary Berry, the broader Berry family and team at The Berry Center, Cole Mannix, with Gillian Kennedy, Lizzy Duffy Anderson and team at Old Salt Co-Op and Festival, Laura Dunn and Jef Sewell at Two Birds Film, and writer and land steward Meriwether Lewis Hardie, for your kind permission and assistance to be able to include the audio you’re about to hear.

    You can find photos and videos, related to what you’re hearing, in a tribute I wrote last month, that came to inspire this episode. They include the extraordinary opening sequence from the cinematic portrait of Wendell by Two Birds Film, called Look & See (also opening this episode); and Mary Berry in riveting conversation with Meriwether Lewis Hardie at the Old Salt Festival back in June, introduced by Old Salt President, and previous podcast guest, Cole Mannix.

    If you’d like to go straight to a particular part of this episode, essentially viewing a table of contents, you can navigate via the chapter markers & transcript.

    Title image supplied by Laura Dunn and Jef Sewell at Two Birds Film. To see more photos from Look & See, and to buy or rent the film, head to their website.

    You can hear more from Di and Ian Haggerty, the 2025 West Australians of the Year, in episode 234.

    And from Tanya and Charlie Massy in episodes 115 and 103 respectively.

    Thank you for listening.

    Music:

    Working the Fields, by Falconer (from Artlist).

    Regeneration, by Amelia Barden.

    If this moves you, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs steadying words, and leave a review so more people can find these stories of land stewardship, homecoming, and regeneration.

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    Support the show

    Please share this episode or the trailer with a friend, follow the podcast, and subscribe if you can.

    The RegenNarration is independent and ad-free, with hundreds of episodes freely available, thanks to the generous support of listeners like you. If you're enjoying the podcast, I hope you'll consider becoming a paid subscriber, from as little as around $1 a week, to gain access to a great community, subscriber events and giveaways, and to help keep the show going, on Patreon or Substack (where you'll find some writing, photography and tunes too).

    You can also donate directly via the website (avoiding fees) or PayPal.

    I hope to see you at an event soon, even the shop. Thanks so much for your support!
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    19 mins
  • Fred Provenza with Live Audience: Myth & the Management of Natural Resources

    Fred Provenza with Live Audience: Myth & the Management of Natural Resources
    Sep 29 2026
    Welcome to our first online live audience event, featuring the legendary Fred Provenza. It took place on the Solstice in June, with an audience of paid subscribers, and was incredibly special. In another first, too, you can also watch this event in video mode where available, including Apple and Spotify, enabling you to see Fred and the artful visuals in his presentation.If you're not yet aware, Fred is the behavioural ecologist, author and mountain man who has revolutionised how we understand the nature of animal health and intelligence, and its connection to our human health and intelligence. And through his own deep personal trials and transformations, Fred has come to embody this knowledge in ways that shine a light not only on the extraordinary regenerative capacities of nature, including humans, but how regenerating all human systems stems from the wisdom of our bodies.Fred was first on the podcast almost four years to the day of this recording, for episode 123: The Wisdom Body: on a paradigm change in animal, human & planetary health. And two years ago, almost to the day, Fred stood on the back of a truck in a field at the Old Salt Festival in Montana, and gave a now famous talk called Cosmic Dreaming. The organiser Cole Mannix said he'd have run the festival for that alone (in an unforgettable end to ep.217). The talk has been in demand ever since, most recently by Holistic Management International and a holistic medicine group, and it has continued to evolve. In fact, Fred nearly made it to the recent Grounded Festival in Australia to offer the latest version, but not quite. And Fred has since retired from such events. So I asked him if he'd share a reading with us live online, of the updated never-before heard latest version, with a conversation afterwards, on the 2nd anniversary of its first run. Fred’s presentation runs for roughly the first half of the episode, and an intimate conversation follows, including some other legendary past guests on this podcast. The exchange between Fred and Terry McCosker at the end is worth the listen in itself.Co-hosted by my friend, previous podcast guest, and co-founder of our Confluence river journeys, Dr Katie Ross. If you’d like to go straight to a particular part of this episode, essentially viewing a table of contents, you can navigate via the chapter markers & transcript.Recorded 20 June 2026.And heads up, the next interactive online live podcast event will be at 6pm Wednesday 4 November 2026 AEDT. With some very special guests. All paid subscribers welcome.Title image: Fred happy at home on the Madison River - even with storm front approaching (pic: Anthony James).Thanks for listening!Send us a voicemailSupport the showPlease share this episode or the trailer with a friend, follow the podcast, and subscribe if you can.The RegenNarration is independent and ad-free, with hundreds of episodes freely available, thanks to the generous support of listeners like you. If you're enjoying the podcast, I hope you'll consider becoming a paid subscriber, from as little as around $1 a week, to gain access to a great community, subscriber events and giveaways, and to help keep the show going, on Patreon or Substack (where you'll find some writing, photography and tunes too).You can also donate directly via the website (avoiding fees) or PayPal.I hope to see you at an event soon, even the shop. Thanks so much for your support!
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    2 hrs and 5 mins
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