Positive change is what John Chambers is enabling through his life’s many aspects: start-ups; helping corporates innovate in a way that suits them best; working with people to help them grow; seeking ways to grow awareness and connection with Aboriginal Australians.
Subtle Disruptors
Conversations that gently help people have a realisation; sharing with others about your voting intentions; writing letters to local members of parliament: In themselves, they are not glamorous, they are not new, nor innovative. But they are the simple, difficult, actions that in aggregate can make a significant difference.
Stories of impending doom can have a numbing and resigning impact. But there are changes we can all make that will not only help create a movement that averts environmental crisis, but can enable us to live more connected, flourishing and well lives.
Matt Devine and his family are living off-grid in a way that enables them to connect to the land, connect with each, and become net contributors to this ecosystem we are all part of.
The impression of Samuel Alexander that lingers most is his empathy for our planet and his fellow humans, his willingness to challenge what it means to flourish as a human, and the alignment of what he talks and writes about with the way he lives.
Finally, the topic I have been avoiding some time: the disruption brought about through science and technology. Gus talks specifically about how we can harness it as a force that helps those most in need, using it to enable life to thrive on this planet, and how to build a movement around this quest through conditional optimism.
Growing our own food makes us more likely to eat healthily, be aware of our food system, and to get those happiness inducing soil microbes onto our fingers. In a city that becomes more densely populated by the day, where do we find the land to grow this food?
Not many of us take a moment to consider how and where our clothes were made when we purchase them or put them on each morning. For Siggi it was these types of musings that led her to devoting her working life to creating consciousness in the way in which we all relate to fashion.