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*English + German* I am Christina Wunder. And I wonder: Why is the world the way it is? Why is it so hard to change anything? And what can we all do to make our world a better place? In this podcast I want to learn from people who are already actively working to improve and restore our world - small and large. Christina Wundert sich: Warum ist die Welt wie sie ist? Warum ist es so schwer, etwas zu verändern? Und was können wir denn jetzt trotzdem konkret tun? In diesem Podcast möchte ich von ...
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It’s hardly a secret that fashion has a problem. Or rather, it has many: carbon emissions, water use, micro-plastic, chemicals, human exploitation, waste. How do brands get away with this? Kiki Boreel explains how models are complicit in this, by selling us things we don’t need and won’t like - by making ugly things look beautiful. In all this, Kik…
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To understand the carbon economy, we have to first… well, understand the economy. We must acknowledge that it’s run by human beings, who operate based on incentive structures and belief systems. Sevim Aktas, founder of the EU Green Deal Brief on Instagram, explains how she had to venture out of her bubble to learn to be less judgemental and gain ne…
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Tamara Makoni, award-winning diversity and inclusion specialist and CEO of Kazuri Consulting, knows for a fact: stories connect us all on a human level and help us empathise in a way that cold, hard facts and statistics don’t. And people always have a story. Each and every one of us. In this episode, she shares some learnings from her work - and ho…
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Aikaterini Liakopoulou is a business coach for "clean tech" and "deep tech" startups - these are businesses that want to advance clean tech, artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing and more to tackle global and environmental challenges. In her talk, Aikaterini explains why this space is not as new as some might think it is, what its pa…
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One thing Tino Chibebe noticed upon entering the Venture Capital space was: none of the leaders and decision makers there looked like him. The consequence: businesses and solutions that work for only for a small, homogenous group of people - while neglecting large chunks of the population. What to do about this? Tino's proposal is simple and effect…
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I am curious to learn about new and experimental ways to organise community work, local politics and nature restoration. Today’s guest Leen Schelfhout, who is a Freelance facilitator, deep democracy trainer, co-organiser of the Regens Unite conference, and Executive Director at AllForClimate - a collective of local climate projects. I wanted to kno…
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In this episode I present my new Peer Mentorship Space in Brussels. We're a community for people in tech, policy and sustainability, who are passionate about improving the communities around us. Here, mentorship is a decentralised concept: we all teach, influence and support each other - whether we notice it or not. While many of our community memb…
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This is a special English speaking edition of “Christina Wonders” - a Podcast where I ask: why is the world the way it is? Why is it so hard to change anything? And what can we all do to make our world a better place? In this episode, I am sharing a talk I gave at the women.code(be) community. I speak about why I believe we should all prioritise me…
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In dieser Folge geht es um ein Thema, das einen schlechten Ruf hat: Gefühle. Emotionen sind etwas, was weder am Arbeitsplatz, noch in der Politik etwas verloren hat... oder? Ich behaupte das Gegenteil: dass wir unsere Emotionen weder anerkennen noch zulassen, ist das eigentliche Problem. Denn das führt dazu, dass wir es nicht schaffen, sie in angem…
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Möchte man die Welt verbessern, stößt man recht schnell an ein und dem selben Endgegner: Das Politische System. Und Fakt ist: Die Macht um hierin deutlich die Richtung anzugeben, wird bei denen liegen, denen wir in der Bundestagswahl am 26. September 2021 unsere Stimme geben. Wem möchte ich diese Macht anvertrauen? Und wer schnappt sie sich, währen…
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Christina Wundert sich: Warum ist die Welt wie sie ist? Warum ist es so schwer, etwas zu verändern? Und was können wir denn jetzt trotzdem konkret tun? Ich bin Christina Wunder. Und in diesem Podcast möchte ich von Menschen lernen, die schon aktiv daran arbeiten, unsere verrückte Welt ein kleines bisschen besser zu machen - im Kleinen wie im Großen…
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