Presenting: 'Uncertainty and Possibility - Meeting the Climate Future'
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
What happens when three wise women get together? Just an incredible series of new, mind-blowing conversations, that’s all.
In this week’s episode we are THRILLED to bring you an edited version of the AMAZING ten-part video series Uncertainty and Possibility -Meeting the Climate Future featuring Buddhist teacher, Roshi Joan Halifax; writer/activist Rebecca Solnit and of course, our own remarkable Christiana Figueres.
Recorded by our friends at Upaya Zen Centre earlier this year while the three women were together in person, please do be sure to check out the full series in its entirety!
During the course of these discussions, Roshi Joan, Rebecca and Christiana go deep on topics ranging from personal reflections on climate grief, to how to be present to the current climate reality, to how we can rewrite the current narrative of the anthropocene. We guarantee you will leave this conversations with a deepened understanding of the transformation, both personal and systemic, required to meet the challenges of the climate crisis.
Huge thanks goes to the team at Upaya who recorded these interviews and kindly allowed us use of their audio, and to Roshi Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit and Christiana for the rich conversation.
If the episode leaves you wanting to hear more from these wonderful women, you can download the previous Outrage + Optimisms episodes where Roshi Joan Halifax
and Rebecca Solnit feature as guests.
Please remember to send in your questions for the Listener mailbag episode we are doing at the end of October. Either submit through our social media channels or email: contact@globaloptimism.com
NOTES AND RESOURCES
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Ten-part Video Series
Video Series: Uncertainty and Possibility—Meeting the Climate Future - Upaya Zen Center
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends it's Tom here and welcome to this special episode of Outrage and |
| 0:16.9 | optimism. With Christina and Paul away in Plum Village this week we have chosen to air a different type of conversation on today's show. |
| 0:34.0 | As regular listeners will know, we often host incredible conversations on the podcast between |
| 0:38.9 | the three of us and innovative leaders from the world of business, finance, technology, policy, climate activism and more, |
| 0:46.0 | hopefully bringing you our listeners a sense of where meaningful progress and momentum is being built towards solutions, |
| 0:52.0 | as well as where deeper change needs to happen. |
| 0:55.6 | It is in considering of this space of deeper change or mindset shift that today's conversation |
| 1:01.4 | between three very wise women, |
| 1:03.4 | Roshi Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit, and Christina Figueres |
| 1:07.2 | takes place. |
| 1:08.2 | This has been recorded in Uphaya, |
| 1:10.8 | Roshi Joan Halifax's Zen Training Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico earlier this year, |
| 1:16.4 | while they were all together in person. The result is a series of 10 short video conversations |
| 1:22.3 | named Uncertainty and Possibility, Meeting the Climate Future. |
| 1:27.0 | During the course of these discussions, Roshi Joan, Rebecca and Christina go deep on topics ranging from personal reflections on climate grief |
| 1:35.6 | how to be present to the current climate reality and how to rewrite our narrative of the Anthropocene. |
| 1:43.0 | What you will hear is an edited version of these conversations, |
| 1:46.0 | so be sure to check them out in full. |
| 1:48.0 | The link will be in the show notes. |
| 1:50.0 | And huge thanks goes to the team at UPAya |
| 1:52.0 | who recorded these interviews and kindly allowed us to use their audio. |
| 1:56.4 | And to Roshi Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit and of course Christina for the rich conversation. |
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