Finding Nature
Find inspiration and guidance for the change you want to create and learn how others have achieved it in their life and work in pursuit of a more just, safe and healthier future.
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Episodes
116 episodes
A New Climate And Energy Dawn - Thom Woodroofe On The Path From The Paris Agreement To A Necessary Future
Today’s guest is Thom Woodroofe. Thom is the author of the latest In the National Interest series titled ‘Power, Prosperity and Planet: Climate and Energy Policy For All
Built To Create - Holly Rankin Is The Voice Of A Generation
As for remarkable and impressive people - Holly Rankin is one of those. Born and raised in regional New South Wales, she experienced the worst form of loss and trauma during her teenage years and over the past two decades has built a life and c...
Climate Change, Human Rights And The Law - Gillian Moon On A State Of Denial
Gillian Moon is today’s guest. Gillian is a legal scholar who in recent years has been leading the Australian Climate Accountability Project wi...
Forging New Paths - Matt Kean On The Impending And All Encompassing Climate Transition
Hello out there, welcome to or welcome back to the Finding Nature podcast. My name is Nathan Robertson-Ball and when I started this show in 2024 I could only have dreamt about having today’s guest on the show. Matt Kean needs no introductions, ...
Climate Apartheid - Beth Goldblatt On The Loss, Damage and Injustice Of The Status Quo
Beth Goldblatt is today’s guest. Beth is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney where her research and teaching sits at the intersection of feminist legal theory, equality, discrimination law and human rights. ...
Putting Responsibility Into Corporate Responsibility - Gerbrand Havercamp and Pauliina Murphy On The Myths of Trickle Down Sustainability
Gerbrand Haverkamp and Pauliina Murphy from the World Benchmarking Alliance join the show today. The WBA exists to assess, test and make transparent the performance of the world’s 2,000 mo...
Transforming Capital - William Burckart And The Necessity For Systems-Level Investing
William Burckart is today’s guest. Bill was recently in Sydney from New York where his list of credentials, accomplishments and titles is impressive - he’s the CEO of The Investment Integration Project, co-f...
Surrendering Attachment and Lessons from His Holiness The Dalai Lama - Geshe Lhakdor on What Ancient Spirituality Teaches Us About This Moment
Today’s guest was the person I needed to speak with - Geshe Lhakdor. Geshe is a Tibetan Buddhist monk who fled his homeland of Tibet when he was six years old and has committed his life to spirituality, Buddhism and service. Geshe served His Ho...
Don't Look Down - Emma Camp On The State and Future of Reefs
Today’s guest is Dr Emma Camp, a marine biologist who’s pioneering research into the resilience of coral reefs and their restoration. The awards and recognitions she’s alre...
Collective Intelligence or Collective Stupidity - The Choice is Ours, With Sir Geoff Mulgan
Today’s guest is someone who’s seen just about everything though, and is also the first person on the show with a knighthood - Sir Geoff Mulgan. Geoff is one of those people who’s seemingly done it all ...
Steve Martin on How Influence Works and Change Really Happens
Steve Martin is one of the world’s foremost experts on influence, persuasion and how change happens. Maybe I could have just read his research and books and acted on them instead of this elaborate rous, but that wouldn’t have been as fun. Steve...
Providing Sanctuary - Nicole Yade On Supporting Women During Australia's Men's Violence Perpetration Crisis
Today’s guest is Nicole Yade and this episode is about another crisis in Australia - the perpetration of violence, abuse and coercion by men towards women. Nicole is the CEO of the Women’s and Girls Emergency ...
Without Reality It Falls To Pieces - Nina Jankowicz On The Path From Disinformation To Autocracy
Hi out there, how goes it? My name is Nathan Robertson-Ball and welcome to the finding nature podcast. Today is a huge episode and one I’ve been excited to share with this audience for months. Nina Jankowicz is one of the world’s leading author...
Quit Now - Dr Nick Talley On How All Our Lives Depend On It
Now imagine receiving a life threatening health diagnosis and not only ignoring it, but speeding up the underlying causes and drivers of what’s making you unwell in the first place? Or imagine subsiding a product with public money that everyone...
Intelligence Systems And Threat Assessment - Miah Hammond-Errey On The Confluence of Chaos, Calamity And Conflict
Something I’ve been mulling over a lot the past couple months is this last point - what do we do if we can’t relate to each other? What if our information systems are fundamentally different on a person to person basis? What do we do without a ...
Strength in Unity - Reece Proudfoot on Regeneration, Language and Making What's Coming Next
Today’s guest is Reece Proudfoot, a co-founder and director at Regen Labs. I’ve known Reece for nearly a decade - and he’s always struck me as someone at the forefront of attempting to organise and reform systems and structures. Across his care...
State of Inertia - Iain Walker On The Necessity For New Democracy
On the show today is Iain Walker, Executive Director at the newDemocracy Foundation, a Sydney-based organisation that works to develop and deliver alternative decision making processes and outcomes ...
Clarity, Creativity and Connection - Dave Murphy On How Breath, Hypnosis and Visioning Are The Path To Flow State
Imagine if there was a way to improve your quality of living and wellbeing - from your sense of creativity to feelings of clarity, boost the performance of your immune system and reduce stress, enhance your sleep and gain insights into your sub...
Getting Up Close With The Whales - Jem Cresswell On Being Immersed In The Animal Kingdom And Photographing Life Underwater
So imagine swimming with humpback whales in the tropical waters of Tonga. Now imagine spending enough time swimming with them over five years to end up with 11,000 portrait photographs of them. Not wide angle shots from afar, but up close and p...
Best of 2025 - Part Two
This best of anthology is about showcasing the year that was on this show, as well as offering snippets from some of the brilliant people I had the pleasure of speaking with this year - either to be reminded of their wisdom or to discover who y...
Best of 2025 - Part One
I’ve had 50 incredible guests in 2025, and you guys, the audience, have been there throughout, I’m grateful for that and for your support and for everything that I've had the good fortune of experiencing as a result of going on this podcast jou...
Rising Above Loss and Languishing - Hector Arisitizábal on New Beginnings
Now today’s guest has experienced the despairing lows of being an exile from his home country, and the terrifying traumas of torture, being disappeared and the murder of his family and closest friends. When the daily going’s on seem overwhelmin...
Defiance And Discomfort - Bob Brown On Life Outside The Orthodoxy
This week’s guest is an icon of Australia’s environmental movement and someone I was both thrilled and daunted getting to spend some time with recently. Bob Brown is on the show and he is someone who needs little introduction. Politician, envir...
A Love of Life - Amanda Sturgeon Is Making The Wild Available
Welcome to or welcome back to the Finding Nature podcast. My name is Nathan Robertson-Ball and this is my show where each week I go longer form with the people who are on the vanguard of driving and delivering work that matters in pursuit of sa...
Art and Science - James O’Hanlon Looks For What Mother Nature Hides
Today on the show is James O’Hanlon, an author, artist and scientist whose career includes painting building-scale murals, several kids stories and now multiple fascinating and fun adult books. His latest bo...
