Saturday, September 1st 2018
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The Downs
Clifton
Bristol
UK
Helena Norberg-Hodge participated in two different panel discussions during The Downs Festival in Bristol, UK. The subject of the first panel discussion was ‘Community Rebirth’.
George Monbiot believes that “through local initiatives we can regenerate our culture and make politics relevant again”. In this panel we meet some of the people in Bristol that are attempting to put this into action, and to fight against the divisiveness and detachment in today’s society and political climate.
The panel members were: Dave Hunter, Josh Coppersmith, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Sue Turner.
The subject of the second panel discussion was ‘Brexit 2019’. We need to talk about Brexit. Does anyone fully understand what is going on anymore? Where do we go from here?….
The panel members were: Femi, Gunter Walzenbach, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Will Hull, Kieran Glasssmith.
Panel members
Community Rebirth
Dave Hunter | Dave is a director of Bristol Pound CIC, the organisation behind the UK’s largest local currency, and also the national network of such currencies, the Independent Money Alliance. He is a solicitor with BWB, the only UK law firm currently a registered B Corp; sits on the Sustainable Future committee of Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust; and is a research fellow at the University of Bristol focusing on responsible business practice. As a director of The Community Farm, he also works with food as another fundamental element of developing local economies. |
Josh Coppersmith- Heaven | Josh is founder of the Easton Food Assembly, a new way of buying food in Bristol. Every week you’ll find the very best local and sustainably produced fare there and you can meet the farmers, growers and makers, as well as enjoying a new way to eat well while supporting local, sustainable agriculture. |
Helena Norberg-Hodge | Helena is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goi Peace Prize. Her inspirational book Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 35 languages. She is co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture and the producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness. She also is the director of Local Futures and the International Alliance for Localization (IAL), and a founding member of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) and Global Ecovillage Network. |
Sue Turner | Sue is the Chief Executive of Quartet Community Foundation – one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the UK. With an endowment worth almost £30 million, Quartet Community Foundation works across the West of England with individual donors, employers and the public sector to source, manage and distribute funds to support local communities. It also provides a tailored philanthropy service to fulfil donors’ charitable goals. Last year Quartet Community Foundation distributed over £3 million to nearly 1,000 good causes. |
Panel members
Brexit 2019
Femi | ‘Politicians failed this country by not giving them the facts about the EU that I learned in law school. I’ve worked in the field of European human rights since 2015, seeing first hand the value the organisation brings to this country. By anyone’s maths, the population that will be dealing with Brexit in just 5 years time will be one that voted remain in 2016. That’s an injustice I can’t ignore. It’s why I quit my traineeship at the EU agency for Fundamental Rights, because even though it was my dream role, if I didn’t do everything in my power to prevent Brexit, I would never forgive myself.’ |
Gunter Walzenbach | Gunter has taught Comparative, European and International Political Economy for the past two decades and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Ukrainian National Universities of Lviv, Mykolayiv and Odesa as well as a Consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). His most recent research papers have focused on the extension of governance thinking to regional trade agreements. Political commentary on current affairs has also featured in e-IR, news.am and the blog of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) |
Helena Norberg-Hodge | Helena is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goi Peace Prize. Her inspirational book Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 35 languages. She is co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture and the producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness. She also is the director of Local Futures and the International Alliance for Localization (IAL), and a founding member of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) and Global Ecovillage Network. |
Will Hull | Will is a member of Bristol for Europe, a cross-party, collaborative and pro-EU political pressure group working to keep Bristol and the UK at the heart of Europe and to stop Brexit. |