Eco Thoughts

Green activism is nothing new in Southeast Europe, but in recent years we have seen an upsurge in environmental mobilization in the region. This is a part of more general public protests against authoritarian and corrupt regimes and in reaction to foreign investments and EU-backed extraction projects. Historian Zlatko Jovanović and anthropologist Nikola Lero join CApE Fellow Tea Sindbæk Andersen to discuss how civil society and green movements are caught between capitalist interests, repressive governments with little concern for the environment, and EU’s demand for raw materials for electrification. Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Copenhagen Tim Rudbøg speaks to Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen Kocku von Stuckrad about the “relational turn” – a paradigm shift in the sciences and humanities that decenters the human. Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Joycelyn Longdon, author and scholar, speaks about her work with environmental justice. Longdon wishes to broaden the scope and understanding of environmentalism: she underlines that the work goes hand in hand with care work as well as a practice of allowing for differences to co-exist within the movement. She explains her ideas to director of the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, Stefan Gaardsmand Jacobsen. Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Artist–researcher Daniela Medina Poch and Bureau for Listening, an artist-led collective, meet at the nature reserve and landfilling site Amager Fælled in Copenhagen for an outdoor lecture, performance, and feast. Together with the audience, they explore what listening justice and reciprocity might mean in a time of climate crisis.  Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The event was hosted as part of the Listening Biennial 2025: bureauforlistening.com/applied-ecological-listening/ Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Curator and philosopher Dehlia Hannah talks to professor Sherryl Vint from the University of California Riverside and Max Haiven from Lakehead University in Canada. They have both written about science fiction and its relationship to technology and society, which is also where this conversation starts out before it arrives at today's apocalyptic tech oligarchy... Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Curator and philosopher Dehlia Hannah talks to philosopher Oxana Timofeeva about her forthcoming book "On the Soul" which explores the concept of the soul in Western philosophy since antiquity and into the modern era. Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

In this episode, Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, who is a postdoc at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, has invited two Copenhagen-based artists in the studio to ask them about their artistic practices and how they relate to ecology and politics. The two artists are Korana Jelača and Brian Kure who both recently contributed to an event at the center dealing with art and pollution. Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

How would the idea of the Anthropocene era look if, instead of looking at the state of the planet, we looked at the state of humans? In this episode, you’ll be introduced to the idea of "The Wasteoscene" – a word that comes from the title of a book by Marco Armiero who is a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Marco explains his concept and ideas to director of the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, Stefan Gaardsmand Jacobsen. Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

We continue our series of Transformative Talks with a conversation between two prominent figures within the Nordic field of alternative economic thinking. Emma Holten is a Danish cultural critic, public speaker and author of the book "Deficit – How feminist economics can change our world", and Tone Smith is an independent scholar involved in several Norwegian NGO's working with de-growth and the re-thinking of economics. The conversation is moderated by director of the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, Stefan Gaardsmand Jacobsen. Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sudden surges in support for renewable energy, rapid shifts in public opinion on ethical issues, striking school children around the world – these are all examples of social tipping points. Director of the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, Stefan Gaardsmand Jacobsen, sits down with Steve Smith from the University of Exeter in the UK and Franziska Gaupp from Osnabrück University in Germany to talk about their shared research interest in positive social tipping points and how they work. Join or read about University of Exeter's conference on global tipping points in june 2025. Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.