Green Dreamer
Long-form conversations about ecology, culture, justice and ways of relating that support collective and planetary wellbeing.
- Host
- Kamea Chayne
- Published by
- Green Dreamer
- Topic
- Nature & Biodiversity
- Format
- Interview
- Orientation
- Systems Change
- Themes
- Community-Led, Systems Thinking, Nature Positive
- Made for
- Professional / Practitioner, General Public, Creator / Journalist
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- Open episode
22 Oct 2026 · 53 min
Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé: How the monster of AI unsettles what makes us human
What might we see when we look to AI as a collective mirror? Philosopher, writer, and poet Dr. Bayo Akomolafe joins me today for the second time to explore how AI troubles our ideas of individual authorship, ethics, and human exceptionalism. When it comes to AI, issues of labor, ecological impact, and data mining are pressing and real — and they call for dedicated episodes that we'll be planning for. This discussion is not so much about AI itself as it is an invitation to sit with questions that are more ontological — reflecting back on ourselves, and on how we've come to define the human. As
- Open episode
15 Oct 2026 · 36 min
[ARCHIVAL] The times are urgent, let us slow down. – Bayo Akomolafe
Originally published in 2021, this conversation with philosopher, writer, and poet, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe explores our crisis in form. Bayo's latest book is Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader (Ayin Press, March 2026). Our round two discussion will be coming up next. Stay tuned! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
- Open episode
9 Oct 2026 · 32 min
A different kind of wealth, ft. Jon Jandai
Jon Jandai of Pun Pun Organic Farm and I sat down for an in-person dialogue when I visited Chiang Mai, Thailand, back in March of this year. It builds on our podcast conversation from years ago, during which he shared about how he grew up in rural Thailand, was told by people on TV that rural people are backwards and poor, and consequently moved into the city to work a job to make more money. But that led to an eventual revelation. As Jon reflected in our conversation: "I thought, ‘Why did I work 10 hours per day in the city, yet not make enough to feed one person, but when I came back to the