Our host Vicki Robin is joined today by Asher Miller, Executive Director of Post Carbon Institute and co-host of Crazy Town. They reflect on Alnoor Ladha’s interview from What Could Possibly Go Right? Episode 19, touching on future designs needed for society, the power of language, and our connection to spirituality.

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Political Strategist, Writer, Activist & Board Member at Culture Hack Labs
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Alnoor Ladha is a political strategist, writer and activist, with a focus on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, structural change and narrative work. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules (TR), a global network of activists, organizers, and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change. He is a co-founder of Tierra Valiente, a post-capitalist community and healing center in the jungle of northern Costa Rica. He is a board member of Culture Hack Labs and The Emergence Network. 

Alnoor brings spirituality and big picture thinking to today’s conversation on What Could Possibly Go Right? including:

• The question of “for whom” when asking what could go right, plus the understanding that right and wrong isn’t binary
• The debunking of the belief that the pandemic, climate crisis or impending financial recession are a disruption on progress as “the way things were supposed to be”
• That embracing uncertainty and being at peace with ambiguity is cultivating a more resilient character for us
• That we need to fundamentally rethink our economic operating system, away from a globalized system of extraction when only a few people are holding the power. A post-capitalist reality may be emerging.
• That this is the moment for us to say what we actually stand for, not just stand against. What do we want to live for and what are our values?
• That we've inherited a story in a system that doesn't serve the majority of humans; and as none of us are outside the system, there is no such thing as apolitical

Resources

• The Rules therules.org 
• Culture Hack Labs culturehack.io 
• Tierra Valiente braveearth.com 

Additional reading by Alnoor Ladha

• What is Solidarity? - Kosmos Journal
• The Poverty of Progress - New Internationalist
• The ‘lungs of the Earth’ are really its heart: an Indigenous cure to save the Amazon - The Correspondent

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Vicki Robin and Jason Bradford, Post Carbon Institute Board Director, reflect on her interview with Severine von Tscharner Fleming on Episode 18.

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Website: greenhorns.org
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Severine von Tscharner Fleming is a farmer, activist, and organizer based in Downeast Maine. She runs Smithereen Farm, a MOFGA certified organic wild blueberry, seaweed, and orchard operation which hosts summer camps, camping, and educational workshops. 

She is a founder and board member of Agrarian Trust and current director of the Greenhorns, a 13 year old grassroots organization whose mission is to recruit, promote, and support the incoming generation of farmers in America. 

Severine brings her influences and analogies from the agricultural space to “What Could Possibly Go Right?”, including:

• The “desire of humans to move geographically”, including a current fleeing and resettling driven by climate, ambition, hopes, and fears.
• The concepts of land commons and ocean commons, including for other cultures who care for crops and benefit collectively without private ownership.
• The need to transition stewardship of land owned by older generations to young farmers, and how to pass this on through purchase, gifting or passing on estates.
• That the word subsistence and its connotations may distract from the “shiny, glistening abundance”.
• That those willing to do the reparations and healing of the land for our collective good should earn an enduring right to subsistence.

Resources 

• Greenhorns greenhorns.org
• Agrarian Trust agrariantrust.org
• Global Earth Repair Conference globalearthrepairfoundation.org
• Somali Bantu Association somalibantumaine.org

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Our host Vicki Robin reflects on politics and our role in democracy, following her interview with Claudine Schneider on Episode 17.

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Website: www.ClaudineSchneider.com / www.RepublicansforIntegrity.org
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Claudine Schneider was the first woman elected from Rhode Island to the U.S. House of Representatives and was the first Republican Representative to serve the state in more than 40 years. She is Co-Founder of the Republicans for Integrity and is a progressive leader in policies related to climate, energy, environment and ecological economics.

Claudine brings the themes of racial inequality, job development, politics and the environment to this conversation on “What Could Possibly Go Right?, including:

• The Black Lives Matter movement is awakening corporate sensitivities and encouraging change.
• There are well-thought-out ideas available for national police reforms, focusing on strategy, technology and science.
• Job losses can be addressed in part by pursuing opportunities in the renewable energy sector and environmental initiatives, such as creation of power micro-grids and net zero energy buildings.
• Everybody can be an agent of change and needs to remember that as consumers, employees and community members, we can drive positive action.
• Businesses are increasingly recognizing that corporation action has benefits for both profit and social/environmental progress. 
• While more people are getting engaged in politics right now, we should continue to educate ourselves and encourage others to register to vote.

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Website: www.ClaudineSchneider.com / www.RepublicansforIntegrity.org
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Our host Vicki Robin reflects on her conversation with Jane Davidson, as heard on Episode 16.

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Jane Davidson is the author of #futuregen: Lessons from a Small Country, the story of why Wales was the first country in the world to introduce legislation to protect future generations. She is Pro Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. From 2000-2011, Jane was Minister for Education, then Minister for Environment, Sustainability in the Welsh Government.

Jane shares her thoughts on “What could possibly go right?” including:

• The desire to take out short termism from politics, and encourage every country to factor future generations into their thinking.
• The Brundtland Commission’s definition of sustainable development is important in making sure future generations can meet their own needs, through our actions in the present.
• That Wales’ Well-being of Future Generations Act makes it the only country in the world to have put the Sustainable Development Goals into law.
• The bringing of four pillars into decision making is key for sustainable development - social, environmental, economic and cultural. 
• The exciting sense that Britain has returned to loving nature during this time of COVID.
• That you need visioning, truth telling, learning and loving to inspire positive change.

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Today, our series host Vicki Robin answers the question herself of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” In interview with Amy Buringrud of Post Carbon Institute, Vicki shares what she’s learned from the series’ guests so far, including:

• That this moment of humility has us recognizing that our cleverness fits on the head of a pin and our ignorance is vast.
• That his period of time has revealed to us the shadow of our bright light; removing our blinkers and bringing many to an embarrassed awakening of “How could I have missed that?
• That we are connecting more to a higher or deeper source that has us part of a harmonious whole.
• That a sense of social solidarity is needed to get through the challenges together.
• That business is relocalizing and rediscovering its purpose as being for exchange within communities, not simply to generate profit for shareholders.
• That there’s an immense sense of insufficiency on a planet where there's enough.
• That there’s a growing drive in people to reconcile their personal finances with the ecological and social conditions in this world. 
• That the gift in this big question is the encouragement to see positives in what is emerging and an expectancy of beautiful and beneficial things.

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Rob Hopkins is an author and a Co-Founder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network. He approaches the question of “What could possibly go right?” with a fascination in the power of imagination for our future. His insights include:

• That we need to create the conditions for the human imagination to re-emerge.
• That trauma, anxiety, loneliness and systemic problems have caused our imaginations to shrink, which can put at risk our ability to reimagine everything needed in these times.
• That to some extent, COVID has provided us some space for us to think in a different way and pause to “take a collective breath”.
• That we may each emerge from lockdown as different people than we went in, in a profound and extraordinary way.
• That we need to be wary of governments without imagination, which are only thinking of how to get back to the way things were.
• That this has been a phenomenal global act of love and solidarity in history.
• That any solutions will start with us, working together in communities with a sense of solidarity and mutual aid.
• That community movements need proper support and resources, with governments recognizing that allocating money effectively towards these has spin off benefits for public health, mental health and social cohesion strategies. 

Connect with  Rob Hopkins
Website: https://www.robhopkins.net/
Twitter: twitter.com/robintransition

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