In this BEST IN CLIMATE episode, Rose reads the April 3 Facebook post of Laura Lentz, where the author remembers her long forgotten childhood days with nature, acknowledges their deep roots and asks herself how she can maintain those essential connections once the COVID-19 pandemic has passed.

With permission of author Laura Lentz

In this BEST IN CLIMATE episode, Rose reads from The Center for Transformational Presence's blog: The Great Slowing Down - Hearing and Responding to the Callings of Our Times , where we are reminded  "our job is to listen, sense, and intuit the messages, guidance, and potential that is hidden in plain sight all around us and within us."

With permission of author Alan Seale

The continuing Covid-19 pandemic is the focus of today's podcast. What could be  its effects on individuals and the global collective? Rose & Christine's far-ranging conversation explores the recent Tablet interview with Pope Francis, entitled "Pope Francis says pandemic can be a 'place of conversion', as well as David Suzuki's seminal talk "Force of Nature - From Monsters to Economy and Money",where he questions the current social paradigm with its emphasis on profits over people.

Christine reads MARY OLIVER for CORONA TIMES (Thoughts After The Poem "Wild Geese"), an updated variation on a favourite Mary Oliver poem shared on Facebook by Adrie Suzanne Kusserow. Professor Kusserow is a Vermont poet and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Saint Michael's College in Colchester.

This episode focuses on the effects on the oil and gas industry of a slowing global economy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics include decline in oil price per barrel as a result of  price war between Saudis and Russia, the possibility that now is the time to best time to implement a carbon tax and the idea that the future is still ours to make. Can we envision a world that our hearts know is possible?

Rose and Christine have a heart-felt discussion regarding the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, how we are all being affected, Christine's family on front line, and that we don't know the toll it will take on us individually and collectively. Is it possible to re-frame all the uncertainty?

In this BEST IN CLIMATE episode, Rose reads from the Heartward Sanctuary's blog: What if the the Virus is the medicine? which asks the question what if COVID-19 is happening for us and not just to us?

With permission of authors Jonathan Hadas Edwards & Julia Hartsell

The coronavirus threat has created a sense of urgency and the virus has quickly mobilize the global community into implementing drastic public health measures, with huge impacts on the economy. Why, in contrast, does the very real threat of climate change, and the climate emergency that scientists are warning about, continue to be treated with relative nonchalance and no sense of urgency by both governments and the general population?

In this BEST IN CLIMATE episode, Rose reads Daniel Christian Wahl's treatise Beyond Sustainability? We are Living in the Century of Regeneration,  originally published on Medium in April 2018. https://medium.com/@designforsustainability/beyond-sustainability-we-are-living-in-the-century-of-regeneration-4f2b116a65d1 Daniel Christian Wahl advises on regenerative bioregional strategy and is the author of Designing Regenerative Cultureswhere Daniel makes the clear cut case that now is the time for us to move from sustainable to regenerative

Christine and Rose address the fear that exists everywhere right now. From climate change to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting plunge in the stockmarket and panicked stockpiling of toilet paper, the amount of fear we encounter moment to moment can be overwhelming for many of us. And yet hope is a necessary component in order to live our best lives. How do we move from negative to positive? Rose and Christine share what works for them, and wrap up with a session of EFT Tapping focused on decreasing fear to make room for hope.