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Embodying a Regenerative Economy: EFN 2022 Retreat Keynote Talk

Stephanie Brobbey, Good Ancestor Movement and Aliyah Green, EFN Embodying a Regenerative Economy: EFN 2022 Retreat Keynote Talk

Posted on 29 Jul 2022

Stephanie Brobbey’s informative keynote talk during our annual retreat for funders this year was titled ‘Embodying a Regenerative Economy’. Stephanie laid out some of the problems we face — climate change, biodiversity loss, extreme inequality — and argued that to understand them we need to interrogate systems, starting with the economy.

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Is a shift in consciousness the key to pushing back Earth Overshoot Day?

Florence Miller, EFN Is a shift in consciousness the key to pushing back Earth Overshoot Day?

Posted on 29 Jul 2021

Today we hit Earth Overshoot Day, the day by which we’ve used up the ecological resources that the Earth could regenerate in one year – fully five months before the end of the year. This is utter madness: we have pushed the self-destruct button and piled our many possessions on top of it to hold it down. Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk may be choosing to launch themselves into the void to escape the – well, possibility of creating another void here on Earth – but what can be done to push that day back to 31 December or beyond? What is the role for philanthropy in creating human systems that cultivate life, rather than destroying it?

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Building an Effective Coalition for Radical Climate Action in the UK

Steven Smith and Ian Christie, University of Surrey Building an Effective Coalition for Radical Climate Action in the UK

Posted on 8 Jul 2021

Notes from Steven Smith's presentation on his hugely useful research on climate-focused organisations, followed by a discussion with Steven and his collaborator and advisor Ian Christie, at the 2021 EFN Retreat. One of the most significant insights produced by the research is the observation of the dominance of the coalition of organisations who believe that the best strategy for addressing the climate crisis involves a technological, growth-led transition to net zero by 2050. This, Steve argues, is politically viable -- but ecologically unviable.

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