The Middle Way Society

Our guest today is Mike Berners-Lee. Mike is a UK-basedsustainability expert, professor at Lancaster University, and the founder of Small World Consulting, specializing in carbon accounting, sustainable food systems, and supply chain sustainability. He is the author of several books on environmental issues, including How Bad Are Bananas? and There Is No Planet B, and frequently appears in the media to discuss sustainability challenges. His work helps organizations, governments, and the public understand and respond to the climate and ecological crises of the Anthropocene. His latest book is entitled A climate ofTruth: How we need it and how to get it and this will be the topic of our discussion today.Hosted by Barry Daniel

Molly is a social historian and visiting research fellow at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. She has a PhD from the University of Bristol and has spent the last 10 years researching the social history of death and mourning. She’s also a bereavement counsellor and has had recently published the book ‘No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality and this will be the topic of our discussion today.www.middlewaysociety.org

Our guest today is  Oliver Burkeman. Oliver is a British journalist and author renowned for his insightful exploration of psychology and philosophy. He wrote the popular Guardian column "This Column Will Change Your Life" and is the bestselling author of "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals." His latest book, "Meditations forMortals," offers a practical philosophy of imperfectionism, encouraging readers to embrace life's limits and focus on what actually matters. An approach very much in accordance with the Middle Way and this is going to be the topic of our discussion today.

Our guest today is Jamie Bristow, who is a writer and policy expert working at the intersection of inner and outer transformation and sustainability.For eight years, he was Director of the Mindfulness Initiative and clerk to the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness. In 2023, he joined the Inner Development Goals team to lead on public narrative & policy development.He’s here to talk to us today about a Middle Way approach to the climate crisis

Our guest today is Chris Rose. Chris is the Director of Amos Trust, a small creative human rights organisation which has three main areas of work: promoting Palestinian rights, creating opportunities for girls and young women on the streets and calling for climate justice. Chris has travelled extensively to Amos partner projects and led many trips and activities with them, such as home rebuilding, cycling and marathons trips in Palestine. He cofounded the Street Child World Cup in South Africa in 2010 and led Amos’ Just Walk from London to Jerusalem in 2017. Prior to this he was CEO of Romsey Mill a highly innovative youth project in Cambridge. He is an ordained Anglican Minister and he’s here to talk to us today about the Amos project.