FW: Quick update and a few follow-up opportunities
Philip Vergragt
From: Steven McGreevy <srmcg...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 10:20 AM
Subject: Quick update and a few follow-up opportunities
Dear Colleagues,
We are still in the process of analyzing the ideas, questions, offers, and asks generated from the Open Forum last week. We are going to distill a dozen or so of the most popular and salient themes brought up at the forum and provide a space (probably a Google Doc) where people can "sign-up" to work together on a topic. We hope to have this to you all by mid-week.
In the meantime, there are a few opportunities to follow-up with from participants on last week's call.
1) Amy Luers, Executive Director of Future Earth, is launching a foresight survey on "COVID-19 Crisis: Where do we go from here?" What are the biggest challenges and opportunities we will face when we begin to rebuild from this crisis? Are there new perspectives or new approaches that might emerge from this crisis that could help or constrain us from advancing toward a more resilient, sustainable, and equitable world?
Please participate in the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RXW2RCQ
2) Suez Jacobson, executive producer of “Wild Hope” (wildhopefilm.com) and a member of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness (greatoldbroads.org) board of directors, has written a guest blog about the Open Forum. For Suez, the COVID-19 pandemic reminds her of many of the ideas in “Wild Hope,” particularly the fundamental truth of our interconnectedness to the natural world. Her blog post can be found here: https://suezwrites.wordpress.com/
3) Andrew Revkin from The Earth Institute at Columbia University is hosting a live "Sustain What" webcast with Herman Daly and Kate Raworth on Pandemic-Resistant Economies on Tuesday at noon US Eastern time. A description follows:
Join our special Earth Institute conversation with leading sustainability analysts from two generations rethinking how human progress should be pursued and measured. Herman E. Daly, a founding force behind “steady-state economics,” will examine possible paths
to less fragile global systems with Kate Raworth, whose “doughnut economics” model aims to build economic policies and metrics that put thriving ahead of growing.
pscp.tv/revkin |
twitter.com/revkin | youtube.com/anrevk |
fb.com/andrew.revkin.5
Promote or post these links in advance to the scheduled event -
Facebook: http://j.mp/sustainwhat0331fb
YouTube: http://j.mp/sustainwhat0331youtube
Or follow Revkin’s broadcasts on Periscope : pscp.tv/revkin
SUSTAIN WHAT is a global conversation identifying solutions to the complicated, shape-shifting and epic challenges of humanity’s Anthropocene moment. A prime focus is making sense of, and getting the most out of, the planet's fast-forward information environment
-- the one Earth System changing faster than the actual environment.
The host is Andy Revkin, longtime environmental journalist and the founding director of Columbia University's Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability.
For the time being, these sessions will be focused on mitigating the unfolding societal disruption and devastation driven by the global spread of Coronavirus Disease 19, best known today as COVID-19. But we will dip into other subjects and solutions when the
time is right.
Find other @earthinstitute @revkin #SustainWhat videos at
http://j.mp/covid19impactvideos
Here's our new Columbia University Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability:
http://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu
Maurie Cohen, Joseph Sarkis, Patrick Schroeder, Magnus Bengtsson, Steven McGreevy, and Paul Dewick on behalf of the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production
JOHN DE GRAAF,* JOHN DE GRAAF
John de Graaf
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