New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast

Aiming to provoke people to think — and therefore act — differently about the global issues that are shaping their future, the Tällberg Foundation is sharing some of its conversations in podcast form. The podcast invites you to hear from leaders from different sectors and geographies as they explore issues that are challenging and changing our societies.

Leadership Society & Culture News Politics Earth Sciences Innovation Science

Update frequency: every 6 days
Average duration: 33 minutes
Episodes: 244
Years Active: 2020 - 2025

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Worth Repeating: Code Red: not for Earth, for Humanity?

"Human pressures on earth have reached dangerously high levels" which could imperil humanity’s survival,

“For the first time in human history, we face a planetary emergency.” Those words were written…

00:36:54 | Thu 25 Aug 2022

From the Lab to Your Kitchen: Growing Tomorrow’s Dinner

David Kaplan believes that the food he and other scientists are growing in their labs can eventually feed a hungry world.

At least one in nine of the almost eight billion people who live on earth are…

00:33:40 | Thu 18 Aug 2022

Worth Repeating: Are You Listening?

Too many people seem voiceless or, at least, don’t think their voices are heard by those whose decisions shape their lives. Is the problem that too many are voiceless or that too many are not listeni…

00:44:34 | Thu 11 Aug 2022

Can Tech Save Us?

Can innovations be transformed into practical realities at the necessary speed and scale, and in ways that allow mankind to flourish?

Our world has become a weird combination of dangerous, existentia…

00:35:32 | Thu 04 Aug 2022

Worth Repeating: Sweden Burning? Really?

Listen as Lars Åberg explains what Sweden has done right, but also what it has done wrong.

We live in the age of the refugee—and the numbers of people fleeing their homes are almost certainly going t…

00:36:50 | Thu 28 Jul 2022

Worth Repeating: Welcome to the End of Democracy

Joel Kotkin argues that the withering of democratic process and institutions reflects the deeper transformation of American and European societies.

"We may remain, as we are now, nominally democratic…

00:32:10 | Thu 21 Jul 2022

Worth Repeating: Save the Seas

Do you care about the future of the oceans? Oceanographers Sylvia Earle and Asha de Vos talks about water, the oceans, threats, and solutions.

Do you care about the future of the oceans? Are you worr…

00:43:16 | Thu 14 Jul 2022

Should We Be Celebrating Erdogan’s Leadership?

What President Biden calls leadership Michael Sahlin, former Swedish diplomat with deep experience in Turkey, thinks is more like a cat landing on its feet after falling out a window.

At the recent N…

00:38:21 | Thu 07 Jul 2022

Worth Repeating: The Whole World is Watching!

Back in March we talked to Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats at the beginning of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Listen to her tell it like it is!

In August, 1968 American anti-war protesters c…

00:38:19 | Thu 30 Jun 2022

Code Red: not for Earth, for Humanity?

Human pressures on earth have reached dangerously high levels" which could imperil humanity’s survival,

“For the first time in human history, we face a planetary emergency.” Those words were written …

00:36:54 | Thu 23 Jun 2022

Worth Repeating - Them vs Us: What Ukraine Is Really About

Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan patriot, explains how the fight to save Ukraine reflects a much bigger, existential fight for freedom everywhere.

As Russia's war on Ukraine grinds on with no end in sigh…

00:35:37 | Thu 09 Jun 2022

Are You Listening?

00:44:34 | Thu 02 Jun 2022

Don’t Fool with Mother Nature!

We live in an era of accelerating, disruptive climate change, with catastrophic consequences that every credible forecast says will worsen.

We live in an era of accelerating, disruptive climate chang…

00:40:47 | Thu 26 May 2022

Speaking Truth to Power in the Real World

Listen as three of the good “guys” discuss the reality in the trenches of the fight for human rights.

At a time when autocrats are rampaging and our democracies are weakening, the need for citizens t…

00:35:47 | Thu 19 May 2022

Ukraine Changes Everything

This war is far from over and its reverberations will be with us for a long time. Most importantly, the war seems to be the straw that is breaking the camel’s back of the post-Cold War world order, w…

00:38:11 | Mon 16 May 2022

Sweden Burning? Really?

Listen as Lars Åberg explains what Sweden has done right, but also what it has done wrong.

We live in the age of the refugee—and the numbers of people fleeing their homes are almost certainly going t…

00:36:50 | Thu 05 May 2022

Them vs Us: What Ukraine Is Really About

Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan patriot, explains how the fight to save Ukraine reflects a much bigger, existential fight for freedom everywhere.

As Russia's war on Ukraine grinds on with no end in sigh…

00:35:37 | Thu 28 Apr 2022

Poland to the Rescue

Marta Górczyńska, a Polish human rights lawyer, has dealt with her country’s efforts to close the border with Belarus as well as its enthusiastic opening of the border with Ukraine (at least for Ukra…

00:29:33 | Thu 21 Apr 2022

How Worried Are You?

Dr. Tytti Erästö's key assumption has long been that rational leaders would never use nuclear weapons. But now she is asking, what about irrational ones?

One of the many unintended consequences of th…

00:34:23 | Thu 14 Apr 2022

Does China Have Russia’s Back?

Tough question that may be impossible to answer, but Alicia Garcia-Herrero recently offered some possibilities.

Perhaps the biggest known unknown in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is China's role. But …

00:39:01 | Thu 07 Apr 2022

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