The Sustainable Century

Drew Tulchin from Upswing Associates, is an American social enterprise Super Hero. Twenty-five years of helping social enterprise from finance to food to Indigenous Nations, Drew has been there and done it.

In this episode of The Sustainable Century Podcast, host Marc de Sousa Shields and Drew talk about how not to play by the economist rules and reinvent how to measure value beyond income!

Elevating purpose to power our economic needs while making us happy. Social enterprise can do this.

Emma Kirke began her career as an environmental activist and conversationalist early, and her sense of urgency for finding ecological balance, justice, and quality of life for all is inspiring and uplifting.

Join Emma and The Sustainable Century Podcast Host, Marc de Sousa Shields as they discuss urgent solutions for climate change, environmental justice, equality, and biodiversity.... An up and coming leader.....

Myriam Fallon, Senior Communications Campaigner at the Sunrise Project, has spent time on Greenpeace boats, marched in protest, and managed global corporate campaigns trying to get companies to not only respect the environment, but do something positive about reversing their climate change, biodiversity loss, and more.

Join Sustainable Century Podcast host Marc de Sousa Shields as he talks with Myriam about Blackrock (the $7 trillion) asset management company, #BLM, campaigning, corporate change and hope for the future.

This Week in Sustainability waxes manic, again. The EU is going green, will the US? Not likely. Blackrock, the asset manager, continues its gaseous words of sustainability, while the uber talented and amazing Melaw Nakehk’o, Dene artist, model, actor, and more, took her family to live in the bush in the Northwest Territories to get away from the white guy's pandemic. All this and more in This Week in Sustainability.

Transition to the desperately needed regenerative economy is possible, but, like the Covid pandemic, will require massive government support as we rapidaly phase out the fossil fuel economy – the only economy we have ever known. A guaranteed income scheme might be an important part of the transition.

How likely is this?

Join me and find out on This Week in Sustainability…

Part 2 of Memo to a Dying Species and Homo Sapiens Secret Code to Survival, feature podcast on The Sustainable Century.

It was mid-March. I was on my way back from Manila to Mexico, transiting through San Francisco.

A number of folks, like me, had congregated at a bar, perhaps for the last time in a long while, chatting nervously about the emerging coronavirus pandemic. Suddenly, a woman appeared. A gauzy scarf wrapped loosely in many layers about her neck over a slivery dress, set off by spidery web gold earrings and necklace.

She said nothing at first, standing there like wisdom personified, listening to the rest of us, cocking her head to one side whilst enjoying her cocktail. Then, as suddenly as she had appeared, and without due hesitation, she announced, “This thing…” pausing for a sip, “it’s a culling of the herd, nothing personal.”

With that, she tipped her glass, drained her drink, licked her lips, looked at each one of us in turn, mysteriously whispered some words none of us could hear, turned and walked away without a glance back.

Is America coming apart at the seams? What about a green Coronavirus recovery? The Capitalists' axe over the head of Jane and Joe? And freedom and the transition to a sustinable economy found in guaranteed income....?

All this and more in This Week In Sustainability

Eric Steedman is a leading Canadian social enterprise expert whose mission is to make business responsive to the needs of community and the environment.

Join Sustainable Century Solutions Podcast host Marc de Sousa Shields and Eric as they discuss how social enterprise can address critical social and economic challenges. From bee keeping to communal gardens, to food security work to housing, Eric describes numerous, exciting social enterprise working to make communities healthier, happier, and more sustainable, including his own intergenerational home rennovation project.

In this Sustainable Century Solutions Podcast, we speak with long time community development expert Alan Okagaki. Alan has been helping communities around the United States and Canada define and develop their visions from community finance, housing, and micro and small business.