“We talk about ‘throwing something away’, but there is no ‘away’. There is only here.”

- Michael Kennard. 

In this episode we speak with inspiring grassroots ChangeMaker Michael Kennard, founder of community composting business Compost Club, based in the Brighton and Lewes area of East Sussex, UK.

Compost Club is a social enterprise with a focus on soil regeneration, food waste emissions reduction and education. Their mission is to introduce as many people as possible to the world of composting and the many benefits it brings to our soil, air quality and water systems.

Michael comes from humble beginnings and has always been interested in the environment - his mum called him her “little eco-warrior”. Michael has been very open about his struggles with anxiety, and after years of feeling like he was sleepwalking through life, he went through what he describes as a “spiritual awakening” that revealed to him how everything is interconnected. This helped him reconnect to the natural world, rediscovering his passion for soil health and stewarding natural processes to bring about change.

As well as talking about Compost Club, we discuss themes of microbiology, spirituality, and education, weaving the connective tissue of life below, upon, and above our earth through the essentialness of good, healthy soil. 

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The Human Hive Podcast is a podcast for ChangeMakers. We define a ChangeMaker as a person or organisation actively striving to be the difference WITH, not FOR others - which means they work inclusively and collaboratively to solve collective problems, to regenerate People, Place, and Planet.

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The Compost Club: https://www.compostclub.online/

Kiss The Ground: https://youtu.be/64R2MYUt394

A Life On Our Planet: https://youtu.be/64R2MYUt394

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Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman

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“THIS GOOD EARTH is a film that offers answers to how change can happen, and points the finger at those standing in the way.  It is vital for young people in particular to look into their future.”

-Robert Golden

The Human Hive Podcast is a podcast for Changemakers. We define a Changemaker as a person or organisation actively striving to be the difference WITH, not FOR others - which means they work inclusively and collaboratively to solve collective problems that regenerate People, Place, and Planet.

In this episode we interview changemaker Robert Golden, director and producer of brilliant farming and climate change documentary THIS GOOD EARTH. 

THIS GOOD EARTH is a beautiful, emotional film providing a view of the destruction wrought by the globalised farming system of landscapes, animal and plant species. It talks of the trap farmers are caught in and the life threatening use of man-made fertilizers, toxins and huge soil crushing machinery. It explains the relationship between the long food chain of corporate power, political failures with the resulting rise of obesity, non-communicative diseases, poverty, early deaths, and the denial of basic human rights. And ultimately resulting in the global climate crisis. It’s a hard-hitting film, but also offers hope and possible solutions from a wide range of minds, including bakers, farmers, doctors, scientists, health officials and leading experts on food security, human rights and justice.

About Robert Golden

Robert Golden is an internationally known photographer and documentary film-maker.

In the 80’s and 90’s he was one of the most recognised and successful food and still-life photographers in the world and worked as director and director of photography on 900 television food commercials and two award winning feature films.

From 1999 to 2005, he created two successful television series: Savouring the World and Savouring Europe. These films are good-time stories looking at the food and culture of 26 different regions around the world.

He has since made 50 documentaries. His research into food production, his personal love of food and his care for those who work so hard to produce it, led him to make a second film focused on his home region of West Dorset - THIS GOOD EARTH.

Mentioned in the episode:

Robert Golden: https://robertgoldenpictures.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertgoldenpictures/

THIS GOOD EARTH: https://this-good-earth.com/

Join the Human Hive and start making a difference today!:

Join our Mighty Network - a beautiful community full of resources, training and inspiration.

Take our How To Make A Difference Course - just follow this link for a $10 discount, as a thank you for being a podcast listener!

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Welcome to The Human Hive Podcast, a show about people actively making a difference, WITH rather than FOR each other. The Human Hive is an ever-growing network of individuals and organisations who want to do things differently, who want to change the world collaboratively, make a sustainable impact and leave a lasting legacy.

In every episode we’ll focus on one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, humanity’s collective call to action to solve the most pressing problems facing people and planet today. We’ll share how people in our community are addressing those needs right now. And we’ll also give you easy, practical and inexpensive ways to start making a difference yourself, and share our toolkit for getting you from wishing the world was different to making it different.

Enjoy guest interviews with people running their own projects, snippets from our Human Hive school in the Dominican Republic, and listener questions, all focused around a different UN Sustainable Development Goal each time (with a sparkling new episode out every 6-7 weeks).

The Human Hive is a community interest organisation, and we’re all about linking up with others, so we’d love you to get involved! Follow us on socials under @humanhiveglobal, and join our Mighty Network - a private, online community where you can access our courses, trainings and programmes, get involved in projects around the world and meet like-minded people, all involved in Being the Difference wherever they are.

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Podcast Editor: Megan Bay Dorman

Podcast Music by Jim Pinchen