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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

286) Elin Kelsey: Remembering the critical role of hope in activism

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9661 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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About Elin Kelsey:

Elin Kelsey, PhD is a scholar, author, and passionate leader in the hope and environmental solutions movement. She co-created #OceanOptimism, a Twitter campaign to crowd-source marine conservation solutions which has reached more than 100 million shares.

Elin is also the author of numerous Adult and Children's books, including her latest for Adults, Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical For Solving The Environmental Crisis and her latest for children, A Last Goodbye.

 

Song featured in this episode: Less Traveled by Johanna Warren

Green Dreamer with Kamea Chayne is a podcast exploring our paths to holistic healing, ecological regeneration, and true abundance and wellness for all. Find our show notes, additional resources, and newsletter on our website: www.greendreamer.com

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I would interview scientists for my work and always ask them, what makes you feel hopeful?

1:14.9

And one thing that was true was they always had lots of examples.

1:19.4

But that wasn't what was being published in their papers.

1:22.6

It was something they were noticing or talking about.

1:25.6

So it led me to actively search for hopeful things.

1:29.3

And by doing that, I was inundated by hopeful things. And then it became my quest to figure out

1:33.8

how best to share those so that that doom and gloom narrative would have a counterpoint that

1:39.6

should sit alongside it.

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