Caroline welcomes Akaya Windwood, and Bill McKibben as we distill the responsibility-opportunity before us all… We can see the world organizing in support of Ukraine, but still around weapons/oil… So now we know we can organize – now to animate the story and liberate the dream of humans humbly cooperating with Nature’s Guiding Genius… All clear now War/oil or Earth. Take your pick.
Visionary Activist Show today 2pm pst/5 pm est
We see the world organizing in support of Ukraine, but still around weapons/oil…
So now we know we can organize-
now to organize for sane reverence, and altruistic ingenuity, assuming cultural narrative lead….
we gather to animate the guiding story (critique, vision, let’s go!)
and liberate the dream of humans humbly cooperating with Nature’s Guiding Genius…inviting the best in all…
More than perfectly, we welcome
Akaya Windwood, and Bill McKibben as we distill the responsibility-opportunity before us all…
Akaya Windwood is on a mission to transform leadership,
Yo Patreon back-stage team…So check out her Sun in Taurus (only earth planet, but that will do) T square with Pluto and Saturn…On a mission to transform leadership…within us all…
And two Venus, her Sun’s Taurus Venus
“Animism – not a belief – just good manners,” (said me)
and Neptune in Libra, cultural Venus realm.… Glad that my introducing her with that Sabian, “Men toiling in a dark pit – a woman calmly lowers a rope,” elicited a laugh… Crazy about the Taurus Libra conversation …to be an emissary betwixt wild Nature and human culture…
She advises, trains, and consults on how change happens individually, organizationally, and societally.
Uranus sextiles her Sun..
Now transiting Uranus sextiles her Chiron the centaur Mentor
“Mentors are the anti-dote to dementors.” (said me)
She is on faculty for the Just Economy Institute,
is Lead Advisor at Third Act,
and is founder of the New Universal, which centers human wisdom in the wisdom of brown womxn.
She was President of Rockwood Leadership Institute for ten years, and directs the Thriving Roots Fund, which supports young womxn’s finance and philanthropic learning and leadership based in generosity and interconnectedness…
and ran the Mycelium Fund….
Welcome Akaya!
‘Author, Educator, Activist’
Bill McKibben is indefatigable advocate for sane reverence,
a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice.
He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont.
In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament.
He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He has written over a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published in 1989, and the forthcoming The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
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Yes, as Bill alluded-we first “met,” aware of each other’s existence, when
a Doctor at Brown bought a reading for his newborn daughter…I just
spoke into a tape-recorder (pre-history), and apparently described her Dad
pretty well, though I had no idea who he was, the depth of his dedication ,
nor did hardly anyone at that point….
And loved, even though he has no air in his chart, he got playful…
His Venus in Capricorn (Transiting Mars exactly conjunct) “Gypsy
reading tea leaves.”
Loved how he had to leave for his dog’s 6th birthday party dinner…
Loved how when I asked them both about mentors – they both honored
trees!
Loved how synchronicity be afoot, that my next week’s guest, Ben Goldfarb is a buddy of Bill’s. And he raved about Ben’s book we will be honoring: “Eager- the surprising secret Life of Beavers” Because of Beavers we had vast wetlands, as giant sponge…In a mere 25 years trappers drove them to near extinction. But they are making a come-back – and we need them, and to help them return…
Also loved Bill’s Sun image: “Sunrise ceremony
dramatic comer-backs-always darkest before dawn, inner vitality overcoming outward circumstance.”
and his Mercury be”White-capped waves demonstrate the power of wind and water.”
“If we survive the interlocking plagues of climate change, right-wing authoritarianism, and savage inequality, future generations will utter the name of the New England moral visionary and activist McKibben with the reverence we speak of Emerson, Thoreau, and Garrison. ”
—Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-8)
Welcome Bill!
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Third Act
Thus a most opportune time to spiral forth – into collective mind (via the magic of radio) the irresistibly compelling opportunity-responsibility before us all…
“Caring about the people of Ukraine means caring about an end to oil and gas.”
Our Rogue species, has inventive altruistic ingenuity, and collaborative capacity, yet we have out-sourced leadership to those still under the thrall of avoiding the real danger, by defaulting to primitive blood sacrifice…Insourcing what we have out-sourced – leadership, to exhale, into sane reverence assuming cultural narrative lead…
The most crucial responsibility opportunity before us all is for humans to humbly cooperate with Nature’s Guiding Genius
“Only those serving an apprenticeship to Nature can be trusted with technology” (Herbert Read)
Third Act:
“Experienced Americans” are the fastest-growing part of the population: 10,000 people a day pass the 60-year mark. That means that there’s no way to make the changes that must be made to protect our planet and our society unless we bring the power of this group into play.
Third Act is people over the age of 60 — “experienced Americans” — determined to change the world for the better. We muster political and economic power to move Washington and Wall Street in the name of a fairer, more sustainable society and planet. We back up the great work of younger people, and we make good trouble of our own.
Together we will campaign on issues of climate change, racial equity, and the protection of democracy. These represent some of the unfinished business of our lifetimes.
Protect our vote
Bug the Banks
Vladimir Putin only powerful because of oil and gas
(I’d like to entertain, a squosh more than Bill, Greg Palast idea, of recognizing the Gov of Venezuela, who then releases their oil reserves, sinking oil prices, sucking the chi out of Vlad’s economic war machine, and the $1 trillion he expects to make off this war…
Yes, more oil for a minute, but no longer a profit motive.)
UN report on Climate Change….
abrupt path to horror….
temp rising steeply
“on the brink”
Climate change
now to: solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries, now inexpensive…
Bill’s article in the Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/25/this-is-how-we-defeat-putin-and-other-petrostate-autocrats
“Caring about the people of Ukraine means caring about an end to oil and gas.”
“ways to dramatically reduce Putin’s power. One way, in particular: to get off oil and gas.
“This is not a “war for oil and gas” in the sense that too many of America’s Middle East misadventures might plausibly be described. But it is a war underwritten by oil and gas, a war whose most crucial weapon may be oil and gas, a war we can’t fully engage because we remain dependent on oil and gas. If you want to stand with the brave people of Ukraine, you need to find a way to stand against oil and gas.”
Finally, even the Biden administration – which has been playing its hand wisely in the lead up to the invasion – is constrained by oil and gas. As we impose sanctions, everyone’s looking for an out: the Italians want to exempt high-end luxury goods and the Belgians diamonds, but the US has made it clear that it doesn’t want to seriously interrupt the flow of Russian oil for fear of driving up gas prices and thus weakening American resolve.
As one “senior state department official” told the Wall Street Journal this week, “doing anything that affects … or halts energy transactions would have a great impact on the United States, American citizens and our allies. “
“So now is the moment to remind ourselves that, in the last decade, scientists and engineers have dropped the cost of solar and wind power by an order of magnitude, to the point where it is some of the cheapest power on Earth. The best reason to deploy it immediately is to ward off the existential crisis that is climate change, and the second best is to stop the killing of nine million people annually who die from breathing in the particulates that fossil fuel combustion produces. But the third best reason – and perhaps the most plausible for rousing our leaders to action – is that it dramatically reduces the power of autocrats, dictators, and thugs.”
Imagination is real!
“Imagine a Europe that ran on solar and wind power: whose cars ran on locally provided electricity, and whose homes were heated by electric air-source heat pumps. That Europe would not be funding Putin’s Russia, and it would be far less scared of Putin’s Russia – it could impose every kind of sanction, and keep them in place until the country buckled. Imagine an America where the cost of gas was not a political tripwire, because if people had to have a pickup to make them feel sufficiently manly, that pickup would run on electricity that came from the sun and wind. It would take an evil-er genius than Vladimir Putin to figure out how to embargo the sun.
These are not novel technologies – they exist, are growing, and could be scaled up quickly. In the years after Hitler invaded the Sudetenland, America turned its industrial prowess to building tanks, bombers, and destroyers. In 1941, in Ypsilanti, the world’s largest industrial plant went up in six month’s time, and soon it was churning out a B-24 bomber every hour. A bomber is a complicated machine with more than a million parts; a wind turbine is, by contrast, relatively simple. In Michigan alone (“the arsenal of democracy”), a radiator company retooled to make 20m steel helmets and a rubber factory retooled to produce the liners for those helmets; the company that made the fabric for Ford’s seat cushions stopped doing that and started pushing out parachutes. Do we think that it’s beyond us to quickly produce the solar panels and the batteries required to end our dependence on fossil fuel?”
And here we be, all positive sleeper cells, stirring (“Wait, didn’t we come here to do something?” Souls stirring – to dree our weird, to play our role in destiny…)
Moon Neptune, Jupiter (on their rendezvous road) (April 13th)
Sextile Uranus- Dreams, Imagination into incarnational actuality…
So let’s wake up and Dream,
re-assume our responsibility-opportunity of dreaming the desirable world into being!
