100) Humbling modernity while dreaming up a truly sustainable future with For The Wild's Ayana Young
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean that a lot of our current efforts to 'go green' could just be facades or short term solutions that might create another set of unintended problems? How do we deal with the loneliness and rage that might come from having woken up to a lot of our systemic issues which a lot of people around us might still not see?
Our guest on this episode is Ayana Young, a lover and protector of wild nature and the host of For the Wild podcast. Today, she teaches empowered earth stewardship, leads biodiversity enhancement workshops, and facilitates panels across North America with her team. Let's dive in.
HIGHLIGHTS
[5:12] Ayana: "I think the word 'sustainability' is thrown around way too much. It's become a marketing tool."
[8:30] Ayana: "When you think about 9 billion people all with iPhones, cars, being able to fly airplanes anytime... it really doesn't matter if you plug that into a solar panel or not."
[13:30] Kaméa: "Is this a matter of questioning what progress really means? Because we're headed in a direction that is called growth, but equates with a lot of destruction today."
[14:53] Ayana: "I really believe that creativity is the antidote to destruction."
[27:00] Ayana on how everyone we need everybody on board, and how everyone has a part to play.
[37:18] How Ayana deals with her rage and frustration, knowing she sees things so clearly while most people and especially decision makers may not.
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
| 0:07.9 | podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those |
| 0:13.7 | considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out. |
| 0:26.8 | We need your direct support in order to continue this podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | And you can help us out so, so much through a paid substack subscription to my newsletter at |
| 0:37.3 | camaya.substack.com or through a one-time |
| 0:40.4 | donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here. And we're so |
| 0:47.6 | grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:53.8 | I don't want to just be adding to the consumer marketing lie in myself. |
| 0:58.5 | I don't want to be telling myself lie so that I somehow feel better about my life. |
| 1:02.6 | I'd rather put everything on the table and actually look at things honestly and then try |
| 1:07.3 | to move from that place rather than moving from a place of this kind of |
| 1:11.2 | complicit environmental light green, quote unquote, you know, pseudo-sustainability. |
| 1:21.2 | What does it mean that even a lot of our current efforts to go green might just be a facade |
| 1:26.9 | or short-term solutions that in |
| 1:29.1 | of themselves may create a whole other set of unintended problems. |
| 1:34.0 | How do we deal with the loneliness and rage even that come with having woken up to our systemic |
| 1:38.9 | issues that a lot of people around us still don't see, almost like we're looking at the |
| 1:43.8 | world from the |
| 1:44.6 | outside in. That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today. To receive weekly |
| 1:49.8 | highlights from the podcast that can hopefully provide you with another dose of inspiration, |
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