The Tools at Hand with Harrison Gardner

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• Clare Noone: Understanding the System We're In 10.06.2026 45นาที

  Dr Clare Noone has sat in the rooms where the world tries to agree on its future. As a climate scientist who attended the most recent COP summit in Brazil, she has seen up close the gap between what the science says and what actually gets decided. She and Harrison talk about turning research into action, what it costs to keep communicating clearly when the stakes are this high, and what the rest of us can actually do with that information.Contains strong language.Brought to you by Bord Gáis Energy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Ankur Delight: Conflict as a Place to Build From 03.06.2026 1ชม. 7นาที

  Ankur Delight is a conflict mediator, farmer, mathematician, and one of Harrison's oldest friends. They met at the Gandhi Ashram and in this conversation they explore why conflict might actually be a gift, what really happens in a mediation room, and what it means to build community and connection in a world that keeps pulling itself apart.Contains strong language.Brought to you by Bord Gáis Energy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Ainle Ó Cairealláin: Language as Infrastructure 27.05.2026 57นาที

  Ainle Ó Cairealláin has just returned from Cuba, where he travelled as part of the Nuestra América Convoy's humanitarian mission. He's also one of the most compelling voices in Ireland on the relationship between language, community, and identity. He and Harrison talk about language as a form of infrastructure, what it means to hold a culture together from the inside out, and why the communities with the least are often the ones who know most about resilience.Brought to you by Bord Gáis Energy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Clare Dunne: Making the Thing You Need 20.05.2026 59นาที

  IFTA award winning actor and writer Clare Dunne joins Harrison in the studio. Clare's performance as Amanda Kinsella in Kin has made her a household name, but what Harrison really wanted to talk about was Herself, Clare's film about a woman who builds her own home when the system fails her. She and Harrison talk about craft, identity, and the courage it takes to make the thing you need when nobody else will make it for you.Contains strong language.Brought to you by Bord Gáis Energy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Matt Smith: Planting for the Long Game 13.05.2026 55นาที

  After years on the ocean, and then years growing vegetables, Matt Smith co-founded the charity Hometree to restore native woodland across Ireland. He and Harrison talk about ecological restoration, long-term thinking, and what it takes to build something with results you may never see.Contains strong language.Brought to you by Bord Gáis Energy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Aoife Dunne: Building a Life That Makes You Laugh 06.05.2026 48นาที

  Aoife Dunne is repeatedly selling out her hit comedy show GOOD GRIEF across Ireland and lucky for us, she found a moment in the middle of it all, to join us in the studio. In this episode, she and Harrison talk about what it actually takes to build a creative life, trust your own voice, and use comedy to process the harder parts of being alive with some honesty.Contains strong language.Brought to you by Bord Gáis Energy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Seán McCabe: Owning the Future Together 29.04.2026 56นาที

  Most climate action starts with a government or a corporation. Seán McCabe started with a community football club. As the Head of Climate Justice & Sustainability at the Bohemian Climate Cooperative, he and his community are using cooperative ownership to fund renewable energy and retrofit homes from the ground up. He and Harrison talk about what it really means to give people a stake in something, and why that changes everything.Brought to you by Bord Gáis Energy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Iseult Ward: Rescuing Food, Building Systems 22.04.2026 48นาที

  Every day in Ireland, good food is thrown away while families go without. Iseult Ward co-founded FoodCloud to close that gap and has built one of Europe's most effective food redistribution systems. She and Harrison talk about what it takes to turn a good idea into real infrastructure, and why food is rarely just about food.Brought to you by Bord Gáis Energy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• Using What You Have to Create What You Need 15.04.2026 1ชม. 4นาที

  Before the guests arrive, Harrison sets out the idea at the heart of this podcast. From a slum in Ahmedabad to Gandhi's salt march, a piece of American legislation that affected everyone… but that nobody read, and a damp stone cottage on the west coast of Ireland, this is the episode that explains why the show exists and what it is for.Brought to you by Bord Gáis Energy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
• The Tools at Hand Podcast 14.04.2026 1นาที

  Ten conversations. Ten people who stopped waiting and started building. The Tools at Hand podcast. First episode drops this Thursday, and then every Thursday after that.Brought to you by Bord Gáis Energy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.