199) Michael Brune: Enjoying and exploring wild spaces to sustain environmental activism
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Michael Brune is the Executive Director of Sierra Club, one of the most enduring and influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States. He is also the author of 'Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal.'
In this podcast episode, Michael Brune sheds light on why we cannot forget about exploring and enjoying nature as a part of our environmental work; the role of mobilizing grassroots efforts to leverage the power of a collective in driving societal change; and more.
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| 1:17.0 | A lot of different parts of our society are beginning to use their power for good. |
| 1:23.1 | And yet we still have lots of companies who don't act in that way. |
| 1:27.1 | We not only don't have |
| 1:28.8 | sustainability embedded within their own programs, but they're putting money into confusing |
| 1:35.1 | people about climate change, supporting candidates who deny that climate change even exists, |
| 1:39.7 | and they are actively, consciously, intentionally trying to stop progress from being made. |
| 1:45.0 | And that's wrong. |
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