Is Humanity Going to Be OK?
Amanda Joy Brings Audiences an Actionable and Optimistic View into the Regenerative Future
AMANDA JOY’S WEEKLY RADIO SHOW - RE&CO - Regenerative Ideas and Co-creative Synesthetic Jams
with the talented musical genius Jurgis Didžiulis, Amanda Joy co-hosts a weekly Radio show on air at Santa Cruz KPCR.fm and also on Clubhouse. Join in the jam on Wednesday’s at 9am pacific.
COMMONWEALTH CLUB CLIMATE ONE - PANEL
Me vs We: What Matters Most for Climate Action?
This program was recorded at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on February 26, 2020, just before coronavirus was declared a global pandemic and overturned our daily lives. As that drama started to unfold with frightening speed, Americans were encouraged to take individual action for societal benefit – echoing the calls for everyone to cut down on carbon emissions because of a societal benefit larger than ourselves.
“What are you able to do that other people aren’t able to do that’s going to be proactive, that you’re creating more good in the world.”
One person practicing social distancing may not seem to have an impact on the spread of coronavirus, but when thousands of people do it there is a real and measurable reduction in transmission rates. The climate challenge, on the other hand, won’t be solved by individuals focusing only on their own carbon footprints.
“An alternative would be what’s your carbon handprint,” suggests Amanda Ravenhill, executive director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and a co-founder of Project Drawdown.
What’s needed, of course, is collective action. But what does that really mean? According to UC Berkeley cognitive scientist George Lakoff, being part of a community and knowing that’s community institutions and values is key.
In other words, taking individual action means more than simply purifying our habits within a system that encourages over-consumption. Margaret Klein Salamon, founder and executive director of the Climate Mobilization, believes that what individuals can do is show their peers how they might transform our broken system.
“if we’re responsible for solving this then the idea of competition between organizations or organizers – forget it,” she says. “What we need is to build power until we can create unbearable pressure for our politicians and institutional leaders and turn this ship around radically and as soon as possible.”
AT A DISTANCE - PODCAST
“We should all be celebrating this idea of being able to see the whole - and being able to see across.”
Amanda Ravenhill on R. Buckminster Fuller’s Lasting Relevance
“If you stick your foot out in the right direction, the whole word can change.”
MEANT FOR IT - PODCAST
Amanda Joy Ravenhill knew she wanted to make a large impact on our society in her day-to-day work. And she gets the opportunity to do just that as the executive director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, an organization founded to remember and implement the ideas of R. Buckminster Fuller, a renowned 20th Century inventor and visionary. The Institute is dedicated to the same mission Buckminster Fuller had -- catalyzing transformative solutions to complex global problems through design thinking education. The Institute's programs offer a look at local needs and global trends to design a holistic approach that brings together art, science, design and technology. The organization is known for its flagship program, the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, which offers an annual $100,000 prize to support the creation and execution of a strategy that has the potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems.
THE FUTURE IS BEAUTIFUL - PODCAST
““I like to think of the moment we are in like the Millenium Falcon in Star Wars; we need to go sideways to get through the window of opportunity before it closes.” ”
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THE SEASTARS
A BAND OF SISTERS, UNITED NOT BY BLOOD BUT BY A SHARED PURPOSE TO EMPOWER THE WORLD THROUGH MUSIC AND ART WITH NEW NARRATIVES OF A FUTURE THAT WORKS FOR 100% OF LIFE ON PLANET EARTH.
Please help The Seastars create a music video for “Carbon Needs A Price Tag” Donate here: https://tinyurl.com/y63nomx7
A B O U T
The Seastars are a band of six sisters, united not by blood but by a shared purpose to empower the world with new narratives of a future that works for 100% of humanity. They are are dedicated to using art as a vehicle for collective engagement, and to re-frame paradigms in service of a regenerative future — moving from scarcity to abundance, from you-or-me to we, and from focusing on problems to working towards potential. They weave six-part vocal harmonies to remind us of the harmony of humans and nature, and the interdependence that fuels all Life. The Seastars have performed at sustainability conferences like GreenBiz's VERGE, major events including Global Climate Action Summit side events and Daybreaker, and festivals like Burning Man.
MEET THE REGENERATORS
We talk to pioneers blazing the regenerative path.
A giant wave of societal change is incoming. Just as earlier waves were shaped by journalists, campaigners, social entrepreneurs and exponential innovators, so this latest one is also now being shaped by a breed of change agents increasingly known as the “Regenerators.”
As in any market boom, there will be those who pretend to know what they are talking about, who profess to know the answers but do not. And there will be those who do know what they are talking about, because they are the true regenerators — but who are harder to track down.
We hope to give a following wind to those who are already helping to drive and shape the wave. Our aim is to bridge between their worlds and the wider economy. We are agnostic as to which solutions will eventually prevail, but our basic goal is to help others make business sense of the Regenerative Economy. That’s why we have been discussing the co-evolution of a global network of regenerators with Paul Hawken, whose latest book — Regeneration — will be published by Penguin in September 2021, and Damon Gameau, who directed the film 2040.
Our first series of interviews features people like Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, Azzam Alwash, who is successfully resurrecting the Iraqi Marshes after the ecocidal efforts of Saddam Hussein to destroy them, Daniela Fernandez, founder of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, and David Brin, the science fiction author who has given us books like The Postman and Earth.
Our ambition is to evolve an open access resource exploring how leading regenerators do what they do — and how they might be helped to do more. The interviews will be posted in video, audio and print formats, though our first one — with Yvon Chouinard — is print only.
