In this series we are focusing on empowering individuals and communities to create a world where we all have the capacity to thrive, flourish. to be and feel healthy on a planet with a vibrant and healthy biosphere and life support systems. In this episode, I am going to talk about the biggest mistake I see people making when they want to be environmentally sustainable, take climate action and even change their diets. This will lead to the next episode where I start showing you a ...

This episode is the first in a new series. This new series is going to focus on empowering individuals and communities to create the systemic transformation we need, so that that we all have the capacity to thrive, flourish on a planet with a vibrant and healthy biosphere and life support systems. Although some of the themes running through this series are fundamental in nature and are topics that underpin many aspects of our lives and societies, I am focusing on food, building human sc...

On this episode I want to talk about my (Dr. Tara Naylor's) own background, and how and where my ideas and beliefs around transforming our lives and societies from where we are, to living an abundant, healthy, thriving life within the limits of Earth’s biosphere. I am also going to talk a bit about why I think the future is in our hands, the everyday people to create the systems we need. I am not going to tell you my whole story, but just the parts that have really shaped my thinking a...

Hello and welcome to another episode of flourishing within planetary boundaries, with your host Dr. Tara Naylor. Today, I am talking about a topic that drives me crazy and that is the word and concept of sustainability. Because.. when it comes to the health and wellbeing of people and planetary living systems, words, images, and emotions matter. Then I plan to shift to an idea and term that is much more inspiring and empowering and that is regeneration. I tell you a story a...

On this episode I, Dr. Tara Naylor is talking about building resilience into our energy and food systems. The topics that are being explored are: What resilience is, in this context, Why it is important andWhat some of the characteristics of resilient systems are. I also want to talk about some of the ideas that excited me as a young engineer on the food and energy front. I also plan to discuss some of our key challenges going forward and some of the ways we can fa...

This episode discusses our bodies’ connections to their environments and reconnecting to nature through food. I talk about some of my own experiences of feeling disconnected after a relatively short period of time in urban and suburban environments. This disconnection, leaves me wondering what effect does living in some urban and suburban environments do to people for the long term. Especially as our world has become more urbanized? Because we human have so many connections to our environment...

On today’s episode I want to talk about reconnecting the food cycle. When it comes to food, we spend so much time talking about what food we eat, and how that food is grown, that we miss the bigger picture connections. But, the fact is that if you want to eat food that is nutritious and tasty, then the whole food cycle matters. If you want to solve problems like food waste, energy and resource use in our food systems, then the whole food cycle matters. What I am illustrating is that whe...

On this episode, I am talking about creating the world we want, with imperfect action. We are going to talk about my own process to create this as well as common challenges and mistakes we make. It is no secret that my own vision, is to create a world, where we all have the capacity to thrive, flourish, to be and feel healthy, and have the capacity to live to our full potential, on a planet with abundant, thriving living systems. This vision is summarized by the phras...

On this episode, we are going to dive into Nature’s strategies for abundant, healthy, resilient, ecologically sustainable food. I have had my frustrations with food and food systems since I was a teenager, the concerns at that time were food colourings and additives, and later I had concerns about animal welfare in industrial farms. In university, I added the equity of people around the world to the list, as well as the environmental impacts associated with food systems. And my frustrat...

Today’s topic is creating healthy people and planet from the bottom up. This episode is in response to the biggest mistake I see people making when they want to be sustainable, take climate action and even change their diets. What do these things have in common? They are systemic problems. But there is also a lot of similar messaging and emotions that happen both around dieting and environmental sustainability efforts. The fact is, that if we want to make meaningful change and dea...

This episode is about “transforming ourselves and our world with food” When I talk about food and transformation to some people, they automatically think about those before and after weight loss pictures. This is not what I am talking about, I am talking about something much bigger and deeper. In this episode I am going talk about why I think changing our food and food systems can change the world, and why this change will come from the actions of individuals, and communities; and...

This episode is really about setting the scene on what flourishing within planetary boundaries is all about. This is the show where we embrace the real physical limits that exist on this planet, and learn how to work with them, to create thriving and flourishing people, communities, and ecosystems. All to often when it comes to planetary health, we talk in symptoms for example climate change is a symptom as is biodiversity loss and deforestation. For me they are symptoms tha...