# Changing the Narrative
> Independent media changing the narrative on our economic, social and political systems. Podcasts, articles, photo essays, and documentary films.
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## Pages
- [About Changing the Narrative](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/about.md) - Everything we believe about the world, about others, and even about ourselves is a story — a narrative shaped by the cultures that surround us. These narratives are not fixed. They can and do change. But changing them requires more than facts alone — it demands functioning alternatives, critical th…
- [Articles](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/articles.md)
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- [Saved Posts](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/bookmarks.md)
- [Labels](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/labels.md) - Changing the Narrative produces content across distinct editorial labels — each with its own focus, identity, and voice, but connected by a shared mission: to challenge prevailing narratives and showcase alternatives that already exist. How Not to Do Business Stories of breaking convention We're to…
- [Photo Stories](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/photo-stories.md)
- [Podcasts](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcasts.md)
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## Posts
- [Taxing the Banks: £29 billion in profit, and who is paying for it](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/taxing-the-banks-29-billion-in-profit-and-who-is-paying-for-it.md) - Britain's four biggest banks made £29bn in six months. Hannah Dewhirst of Positive Money on where that money came from, and who is really paying for it.
- [Neighbourhood Care: The nursing model where better care costs less - Buurtzorg](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/neighbourhood-care-the-nursing-model-where-better-care-costs-less-buurtzorg.md) - Jos de Blok started Buurtzorg in 2006 with one team of nurses and no managers. It now runs around 900. He says doing the right thing costs the system less.
- [Corporation tax:  How you know if a company is good or bad,  regardless of its size](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/corporation-tax-how-you-know-if-a-company-is-good-or-bad-regardless-of-its-size.md) - The Fair Tax Foundation created the world's first Fair Tax Mark. Paul Monaghan and Jaime Boswell on why celebrating the companies getting tax right may do more than naming the ones that don't.
- [Making locally-grown organic food more accessible](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/making-locally-grown-organic-food-more-accessible.md) - Debbie and Kellie of Unicorn Grocery on chalking their prices next to Tesco's, giving before profit, funding their growers, and never opening a second shop.
- [Giving Nature a Voice: From the Boardroom to the Courtroom](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/giving-nature-a-voice-from-the-boardroom-to-the-courtroom.md) - A company can go to court. A river can't. Brontie Ansell of Lawyers for Nature is working to change that — giving the natural world a voice in law, in policy, and even inside the company boardroom.
- [The tech agency with no boss and no shareholders](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/the-tech-agency-with-no-boss-and-no-shareholders.md) - A digital agency in Finsbury Park, London, owned by the people who do the work — where decisions are made by consent, the profits fund a community, and now that "being good" has gone mainstream, standing out is its own kind of problem.
- [Written into the constitution: How Italy nurtures and protects its co-ops](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/written-into-the-constitution-how-italy-nurtures-and-protects-its-co-ops.md) - Professor Vera Zamagni on the constitutional article that's shielded Italian cooperatives since 1948, why small firms and cooperatives coexist rather than compete to the death, and why she thinks artificial intelligence — not politics — is now the bigger threat.
- [How a worker co-op outlasted the collapse of London's print trade](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/how-a-worker-co-op-outlasted-the-collapse-of-londons-print-trade.md) - Cherry Haynes and Siôn Whellens of Calverts on hiring sceptics, refusing to compete on price, and why control matters more than ownership.
- [Exploring Community Wealth Building with Neil McInroy](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/exploring-community-wealth-building-with-neil-mcinroy.md) - Scotland has become the first country in the world to write community wealth building into law. But what does that mean for the places where people actually live and work — and can a framework like this hold against the pull of global capital, data centres and footloose investment?
- [Inside Europe's largest equal pay workers' co-operative](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/inside-europes-largest-equal-pay-workers-co-operative.md) - This deep dive explores their innovative approach to ownership, pay equity, decision-making, and resilience in a capitalist world.
- [Fact and Fiction - The books I'm reading](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/fact-and-fiction-the-books-im-reading.md) - I wanted to share some ot the non-fiction and fiction books I've been reading recently, and would recommend to anyone who hasn't yet come across them.
- [Another way is possible: Businesses and economies can serve people, rather than the other way round](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/another-way-is-possible-businesses-and-economies-can-serve-people-rather-than-the-other-way-round.md) - Conventional business practices are choices, and are not the only means by which success and growth can be achieved. The means of production can be owned by the workers instead of the capitalist class. The surplus produced by a company can be shared among the workers who sustain it.
- [We need to change the narrative](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/we-need-to-change-the-narrative.md) - Prevailing narratives, while embraced by many and forces to be reckoned with, are not rigid, static things. They can and do change constantly.
- [Maren Krings - photojournalist and climate impact storyteller](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-maren-krings-photojournalist-and-climate-impact-storyteller.md) - Maren Krings is a German freelance photojournalist and climate impact storyteller whose work seeks solutions to socio-ecological impacts to help mitigate the current climate crisis.
- [Joanne Coates - Documentary Photographer](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/joanne-coates-documentary-photographer.md) - What really struck me about Joanne Coates was not only her work, but how in her biography and elsewhere she identifies as a working class photographer. I find that statement very powerful.
- [Think global, act local - documenting the lived experiences of others](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/think-global-act-local-documenting-the-lived-experiences-of-others.md) - Telling the stories right on our doorstep has the potential to have incredible impact on the critical issues of our time, while also reducing or avoiding the challenges and pitfalls that so often come with exploring stories within communities of which we are not a part.
- [Smita Sharma - Documentary photographer](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-smita-sharma-documentary-photographer.md) - In this episode I’m speaking to Smita Sharma - a Delhi-based photojournalist and visual storyteller reporting on critical human rights, gender, social justice and environmental issues – both in India and throughout the Global South.
- [Photography as a tool for change](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/photography-as-a-tool-for-change.md) - As documentary storytellers we are uniquely placed to inform and influence through the work we produce. However, our practice should not be limited to simply sharing stories — doing little else but informing others.
- [Natalie Keyssar - Documentary photographer](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-natalie-keyssar-documentary-photographer.md) - Natalie is a documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is interested in inequality, youth culture, and the personal effects of political turmoil and violence, primarily in the US and Latin America.
- [Gemma Atkinson - Documentary filmmaker](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-gemma-atkinson-documentary-filmmaker.md) - This week I’m speaking to documentary filmmaker Gemma Atkinson, who is based between London and Barcelona, and co-founded the production company Fat Rat Films 15 years ago where she is the current creative director.
- [The power and pitfalls of human stories](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/the-power-and-pitfalls-of-human-stories.md) - Human-centric stories can be incredibly compelling and inspire people to take action, but when exploring them we must ensure we are not inadvertently contributing to the very issues we are documenting and seek to address.
- [Michael Snyder - Documentary photographer and filmmaker](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-michael-snyder-documentary-photographer-and-filmmaker.md) - This week I’m speaking with Mike Snyder – a documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Charlottesville in the US. In his work, Mike explores the dynamic relationship between environmental and cultural change.
- [Savannah Dodd - Photographer and founder of the Photography Ethics Centre](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-savannah-dodd-photographer-and-found-of-the-photography-ethics-centre.md) - In this episode I speak to Savannah Dodd – a photographer and anthropologist originally from the USA, but now living in Northern Ireland – just down the road from my family as it happens.
- [Laurel Chor - Documentary photographer and filmmaker](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-laurel-chor-documentary-photographer-and-filmmaker.md) - This episode and features Laurel Chor – a documentary photographer, filmmaker and journalist who is exploring a range of different topics – from manta ray conservation to the war in the Ukraine, using a variety of media.
- [Stuart Freedman - Documentary photographer](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-stuart-freedman-documentary-photographer.md) - This week I’m speaking with documentary photographer Stuart Freedman.
- [Aubrie Canfield - Documentary film producer](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-aubrie-canfield-documentary-film-producer.md) - This week I’m speaking to Aubrie Canfield a media producer from the United States, and founder of a company called Actuality Abroad.
- [Klaus Thymann - photographer and filmmaker](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-klaus-thymann-photographer-and-filmmaker.md) - As a documentary storyteller, Klaus has walked an unconventional path, developing a range of different skills along the way that allow him to create and manage multidisciplinary projects.
- [Rebecca Conway - Documentary Photographer](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-rebecca-conway-documentary-photographer.md) - In this first episode of the new Documentary Storytellers podcast, I’m speaking to Rebecca Conway – a documentary photographer from the UK who won the Camille lepage prize at last year’s (2022) Visa pour L’Image photography festival in Perpignan, France.
- [Industrial Borderlands](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/industrial-borderlands.md) - Our urbanised, industrial societies rely on order – or at least the perception of it. They rely on things happening as they are expected to. The further away from an urban centre I travel, the more I witness the fraying of ordered society, as it becomes less and less feasible to maintain.
- [Under the Surface](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/under-the-surface.md) - Everyone has their own, unique relationship with nature. It’s shaped by where we live - from the continent right down to the street.
- [The sands of time](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/the-sands-of-time.md) - Can the EU push back against the sands of time, or will it experience its own Dust Bowl?
- [Where there’s a will, there’s a way](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/where-theres-a-will-there-s-a-way.md) - Many attempts are being made to create scalable carbon capture and storage technology to suck CO2 from the air, store it and then use it. But within nature there already exists a means by which this can be achieved that’s easily scalable.
- [Out of sight, out of mind](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/out-of-sight-out-of-mind.md) - The responsibility we have for the waste we produce in our homes goes beyond separating it and throwing it in bins for collection, and it’s time we recognised that.
- [The grass isn’t always greener.](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/the-grass-isnt-always-greener.md) - How the impact of our diet is less about what we eat, and more about how it was produced.
- [Seeing the woods and the trees](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/seeing-the-woods-and-the-trees.md) - For tree planting to have the necessary impact on mitigating climate change we must also preserve the trees that already populate our woods and line our streets.
- [On the horizon](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/on-the-horizon.md) - The climate crisis is propelling us into uncharted territory, and our relationship with technology and nature will dictate how we navigate our way through.
- [Sean Gallagher - Photographer and Film-maker](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/episode-5-sean-gallagher-photographer-and-film-maker.md) - Sean Gallagher, a British photographer and filmmaker, who has lived in China the past 15 years, and during that time has explored a broad diversity of stories on the frontline of the climate crisis in China and the wider Asian region.
- [Ashley Cooper - Environmental Photographer](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/04-ashley-cooper-environmental-photographer.md) - Ashley Cooper, an environmental photographer who has witnessed an incredible amount of in terms of the impact of climate change to communities across the globe, and the mitigation and adaption efforts.
- [Afsaneh Rafii - Founder of Icarus Complex magazine](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/afsaneh-rafii-icarus-complex-magazine.md) - Afsaneh Angelina Rafii – founder and Editor-in-Chief of the independent magazine Icarus Complex. A bi-annual publication that Afsaneh launched last year, that offers and in-depth look at the issues surrounding climate change.
- [Damon Gameau - Documentary Film-maker](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/02-damon-gameau-documentary-film-maker.md) - Damon Gameau – award-winning documentary film-maker, and the person behind a recently released feature-length documentary on climate change called 2040.
- [Lo-TEK](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/lo-tek.md) - Designer and author Julia Watson describes the things she saw during a recent trip to Beira, Mozambique, as “the future of climate change”.
- [Toby Smith from Climate Visuals](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/01-toby-smith-from-climate-visuals.md) - I’m really happy to share with you a conversation I had with Toby Smith – an award-winning environmental photographer, and Programme Lead for Climate Visuals.
- [Bringing the Climate Crisis to Our Doorsteps](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/bringing-the-climate-crisis-to-our-doorsteps.md) - When you think of climate change, what images immediately spring to mind?
- [The Chef's Manifesto](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/the-chefs-manifesto.md) - Our food culture is shaped by many things, but chefs are some of the biggest influencers. Like supermarkets, their choices impact the whole supply chain - from farm to fork - and the very foundations of our food system and food culture.
- [Shaping the world around us](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/shaping-the-world-around-us.md) - We are in a geological epoch defined by human impact — the Anthropocene. What we do with that knowledge will shape the world for ever.
- [Beyond the aisles](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/beyond-the-aisles.md) - We all have a role to play when it comes to the issue of food waste — even what occurs outside of the household — but how do we take action against something we cannot always see?
- [Oddbox - bringing wonky fruit and veg to homes and offices](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/oddbox-bringing-wonky-fruit-and-veg-to-homes-and-offices.md) - Oddbox is a London-based box scheme that works directly with farmers and growers to take their wonky and surplus produce – so food that might otherwise have gone to waste - then deliver them straight to their members’ doors at a price that’s fair for both the farmer and their members.
- [Feedback - Ranking supermarkets on reducing food waste](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/christina-osullivan-ranking-supermarkets-on-reducing-food-waste.md) - In this episode of the Food Is Wasted podcast, I’ll be speaking to Christina O’Sullivan from Feedback – a London-based organisation running several campaigns related to food waste – such as the Gleaning Network and the Pig Idea – both of which feature on the Food Is Wasted website.
- [Selina Juul - Denmark's food waste champion](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/selina-juul-denmarks-food-waste-champion.md) - When I was over in Copenhagen last year for a few days, I got in touch with Selina Juul – founder of the organisation Stop Wasting Food – to see if she would be willing and able to be interviewed, and she very kindly said she was.
- [Bubble and Squeak - a social enterprise run by school children](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/bubble-and-squeak-a-social-enterprise-run-by-school-children.md) - In this episode I speak to some of the children who run the social enterprise Bubble and Squeak, at their school in West London - selling surplus food in the school playground and to the local community.
- [Chef Tom Hunt - Promoting 'Root to Fruit' eating](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/interview-tom-hunt-chef-sustainability.md) - This podcast is a brief interview I conducted with the chef Tom Hunt. Tom is not just an award-winning chef and restaurant owner, but also a food writer, sustainability consultant and campaigner, as well as author of the book The Natural Cook.
- [When it comes to our food, knowledge is power.](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/when-it-comes-to-our-food-knowledge-is-power.md) - How much significance do you attribute to the best before date? And why do you trust it as an indicator of freshness?
- [Turning food waste into cash.](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/turning-food-waste-into-cash.md) - In an ideal world none of our systems — especially those providing our basic, essential needs — would produce any waste. But the food system in its current form, be it at a national or global level, produces a criminal amount of waste — much of it avoidable.
- [Seedling - Reducing Food Waste through Vertical Farming and Aquaponics](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/seedling-reducing-food-waste-vertical-farming-aquaponics.md) - In this episode, I’m speaking to Travis Andren from Seedling in Philadelphia, in the United States – an organisation working on bringing efficient forms of urban-based, vertical farming and aquaponics into the mainstream.
- [Pete Pearson - Director of WWF US food waste campaign](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/pete-pearson-director-of-wwf-us-food-waste-campaign.md) - In this episode I’m speaking to Pete Pearson – Director of the food waste campaign at the World Wildlife Fund’s US offices.
- [Food for Soul - Promoting social awareness about food waste and hunger](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/food-soul-promoting-social-awareness-food-waste-hunger.md) - In this episode I’m speaking to Cristina Reni from Food for Soul – an organisation based in Italy, set up by the chef Massimo Bottura, who runs the number one restaurant in the world.
- [Elysia - Meals and Catering using Surplus Food](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/elysia-meals-and-catering-using-surplus-food-featuring-chef-emily-roux.md) - In this episode I’m speaking to Sophie Andre from Elysia – a start-up social enterprise which buys food that would otherwise go to waste from various local, artisan suppliers in and around London, at a discounted rate, and uses them to create meals to order event catering.
- [Margaret Ritchie MP, of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-margaret-ritchie-environment-food-rural-affairs-committee.md) - In this episode I’m speaking to Margaret Ritchie, Member of Parliament for South Down in Northern Ireland, and a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.
- [SOS NI - Rescuing fresh food and redistributing to those in need](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-sos-ni-rescuing-fresh-food-redistributing-need.md) - I’m speaking to Pete Loughins from SOS Northern Ireland’s Food Programme, which gathers food and other goods from supermarkets that would otherwise go to waste, and redistributes them to other non-profit organisations which are providing frontline support to vulnerable members of the community.
- [Fruta Feia - Giving farmers a fair price for their wonky veg](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-fruta-feia-giving-farmers-fair-price-wonky-veg.md) - In this episode I’m speaking to a couple of people from Fruta Feia a co-operative with hubs around Portugal, that buys food from farmers that has been rejected by the retailers they supply, and would otherwise have gone to waste – selling this seasonal and locally sourced produce on to its members.
- [ReFood - Hyperlocal food rescue and redistribution](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-re-food-hyperlocal-food-rescue-redistribution.md) - In this episode I am speaking to Hunter Halder, founder of the ReFood movement in Portugal. Hunter is originally from the US, but has lived in Lisbon for many years. In the 5 years that ReFood has existed, it has gone from 1 volunteer to 4,000, and serving 2,500 people 46,000 meals in a month.
- [ChicP - Hummus from Surplus Fruit and Vegetables](https://content.changingthenarrative.media/podcast-chicp-hummus-surplus-fruit-vegetables.md) - This first episode of the podcast - which was recorded just before Christmas, hence the references to Brussel sprouts and the festive season - introduces the work of Hannah McCollum who founded ChicP.

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