Season 7 · Episode 89 · 30 Jan 2026
89 - Eeva Houtbeckers
With Eeva Houtbeckers
“"How can we work on our passions together with other people and more than humans, for a more ecologically and socially just society?".”
Reflections
Q1: Place
If we could do a flypast on any part of the world that is significant to you, which place, city or country would it be and why?
A library in the South of Finland
Q2: Life
Give us a glimpse into your life story so far with an emphasis on what you are doing currently?
I got into philosophy and moral philosophical questions in high school and then I ended up studying the economy, which was surprising to some extent but I realised that there's something with the way the economy organises our world. At business school, I used a lot of time looking into how businesses and corporate corporations could be used as a vehicle for a more sustainable society. When it comes to environmental issues, I consider myself as a late bloomer, so only when I was doing my doctorate studies, I got into environmental issues seriously. Today, as a postdoctoral scholar, I consider myself an as an eco feminist which combines the concerns of how humans live together on this planet, and then how humans live with other species on this planet on a very broad level. So now, I'm interested in the practices of how this is possible in various locations. And my research focuses in Finland, because this is where I live.
Q3: Reset
Where on earth is your place or reset or re-charge?
An allotment garden, a rented space from the city of Helsinki, where I live.
Q4: Wonder
What wonder of the natural world excites you the most?
How this more than human species interact together
Q5: Hopefulness
What is your story of hopefulness (not your own) about a person, business or non-profit who are doing amazing things for the world?
Location
Flyover
A library in the South of Finland
Guest
🇫🇮 Finland