We’re All in This Together… Now What?, the final webinar of Creatively United’s Climate and Artists fourth season, explores how we can collectively reduce our carbon footprint by 40% by 2030 and transformatively shift to healthier, happier communities.

Hear from leading thought actionists and artists who are addressing this topic at all levels of engagement and offer uplifting perspectives of what’s happening and what’s possible.

“Spectacular webinar. Well done. I have pages of notes and ideas to follow up on. You are a connector and a solutions hub extraordinaire.” – Jim

Links & Resources

Being Connected Book
New Tomorrow Pledge
Drawdown BC
Drawdown Lift
Clean Bin Project
Giki Zero
Banking on a Better Future
Amplifying Youth Voices webinar
Iron & Earth
Student Energy
Transcendental Meditation
Lighter Living Pledge & Being Connected Book Draw
Shareable webinar YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NiZIwOpIUM

About Our Speakers

Clare Atwell is a textile and multi-media artist. When she is not working on her own art, she works as a community artist, using the arts in imaginative ways to help community groups explore complex issues such as cultural and spiritual identity, including community visioning.

Gwen Bridge, M.Sc Bio, works on natural resources issues with Indigenous peoples to ensure mutual benefits and equality in decision making with all levels of government. Adept in establishing new conceptual frameworks to support equity in negotiating government-to-government agreements, Gwen’s mission is to improve relationships between Indigenous nations and their partners so peoples and natural resource conditions are improved.

Gwen is a member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada. She received a Master of Science degree in Renewable Resources studying forest hydrology from the University of Alberta in 2000.

Jim Bronson comes to climate activism as a scientist and lover of the natural world who wants the best possible future for his grandchildren. In 2018, he began leading classes based on solutions to the climate crisis outlined in Paul Hawken’s book Drawdown, and was a founding member of Drawdown BC.

Jim leads online Saturday Solutions Synergy Sessions every two months, where people from the US and Canada meet to inspire one another with their work for a healthy planet.

John Cowhig worked in more than 100 countries with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation/TM, an international educational non-profit providing one of the most widely researched self-development techniques.

Maharishi set up countless pilot projects to inspire visionary leaders to bring prosperity to society, correct environmental imbalances and create world peace. Among the dozens of projects that John worked on, was one in the late 1980’s to help developing countries become food self-sufficient by cultivating organic food on their unused arable land. Other pilot projects, all ahead of their time, included electric-vehicles in the Netherlands and solar panel production in India. What most caught John’s imagination was the fundamental principle in all these projects: Consciousness First.

For 30 years, Susan Falch-Lovesey has been applying her skills and experience to projects that create social and environmental impact in the UK. She has developed environmental projects and services for charity, local authority and business, including working in partnership to establish a Forest School in Norfolk and a whole county energy program.

Since January 2017, Sue has worked in the offshore wind sector and has recently become Stakeholder Manager for Equinor, a Norwegian-owned broad energy company, in Norfolk. As part of her role, Sue eagerly develops and promotes career pathways into the industry, with a special interest in young people. Sue also has an Honourary Fellowship from the University of Suffolk.

Jo Hand is a social entrepreneur and sustainability, carbon footprint and employee engagement specialist. She is the founder of Giki, an evidence-led B Corp that helps people learn to live more sustainably and take step-by-step actions to cut their carbon footprint. Giki’s clients include Deloitte, NatWest Group, BBC and Oxford University.

Ella Kim-Marriott is a MSc Rural Sociology student at the University of Alberta who’s interest lies in the environment and social well-being. As Creatively United’s part-time social media coordinator, Ella keeps her finger on the pulse of the community and will be providing a brief overview of youth-led leadership and solutions to address climate change.

Thomas Teuwen is a biophiliac: dedicated to the survival of our civilization and all life on earth. He’s been deeply engaged in business, food production, oil exploration, mining, community economic development, manufacturing, information technologies, and all areas of politics. He lives on an urban farm where, he and his “Love” have effectively reduced their footprint by 80% while boosting their lifestyle to new heights.

Thomas’ experience has made clear to him that our future as a civilization depends on our ability to adapt our collective worldview so that we are able to embrace and solve the challenges of our time.

Additional Q&A

Please note: We have yet to obtain answers to these questions that were asked during the webinar for Equinor.

Q. How would Equinor prevent damaging the sea floor and life in that part of the sea? Will the equipment to prevent blow-out be built on-site so there would not be the situation that did so much damage in the Gulf of Mexico?

Q. Why is Bae du Nord better than Tarsands if it still expands extraction and uses tax money which I believe needs to go purely to renewable energy (electricity) when other world sources of easy-to-refine oil supplies are available in the world? Why does fracked methane still be considered to be necessary when we are trying to eliminate plastics and use substitutes which do not continue to destroy environments?