Balancing Grassroots Action and Government Intervention in Climate SolutionsClimate Change |
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This excerpt is taken from an interview by Mary in March 2024 with Vivek Gilani. She discusses the question of whether change will come only from the grass roots/bottom up or top down? Is government /state intervention also required? This is an ongoing debate. We would love to hear your thoughts or experience on this question. 3rd Space: Isn’t this where we need government intervention? The affluent elite controlling global industries have the power to destroy. If they’re boiling the planet, no matter how much mitigation or regeneration is happening, don’t we need some form of government intervention to protect this? Vivek: One can’t survive without the other. However, the form that government intervention takes and the animating spirit of it, to me should be decentralised – that is,… |
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Finding Meaning Beyond WordsConsciousness |
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| This short video excerpt is from the podcast interview that Steve had with the author and journalist, Kübra Gümüsay in April 2024. Kubra asks in the video, “Are there things I perceive and feel that I am unable to put into any of the languages I speak?” We think that it’s important to try and make sense of the world, but sometimes when meaning only finds acceptability through language, other ways of experiencing and understanding the world are not validated. What do you think? | |
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Erminia Colucci’s Extraordinary ExperiencePilgrimage and Consciousness |
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| In this short unpublished out-take on Mary’s interview with Faheem Nusrat and Erminia Colucci in May 2024. In this clip Erminia talks about an extraordinary experience she had on the pilgrimage. | |
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The Struggle for Balance: Facing Truth Without Losing HopePolitics and Consciousness |
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This excerpt is from the article written by Mary on October, 2024, The Flight from Left To Right & the Fight for Charles Eisenstein’s “beautiful world”. “Looking past has become an art, an ability embedded into our social media-soaked culture. We look past Trump’s environmental record, we look past Biden’s serial vetoing of a UN ceasefire, we look past the inconvenient truths and inequities our modern lives are built and sustained on. We fear guilt, we fear responsibility, we fear knowing too much. We fear facing into reality, disrupting our own fragile equilibrium…We fear overwhelm. The challenges we face today are unprecedented, deeply entangled. But fears, if ignored, tend to dull us intellectually, spiritually. They dull our emotional intelligence, our conscience and capacity for… |
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Exploring Climate Solutions: Science, Society, and GovernanceClimate Change |
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| This video excerpt is from a podcast interview that Steve had with the author Dougald Hine in June 2023, about his recently published book, At Work in The Ruins. They discuss whether Science is sufficient as a response to the Climate Crisis. | |
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