Creatively United for the Planet | Bouncing Forward to a One Planet Region:Could COVID-19 be a Social Tipping Point? @creativelyunited | Uploaded April 2020 | Updated October 2024, 2 minutes ago.
While Covid-19 is a having a large social and economic impact, and a moderately serious health impact, this pales into comparison with the longer term, much larger and more serious health, social and economic impacts of the rapid and massive global ecological changes – including climate change – that we are creating. There is a danger that after Covid we will want to bounce back to the old economy as fast as we can, but that would be a tragic error. Instead, we need to ‘bounce forward’ to a new, more sustainable, just, convivial and healthy future.
There are a number of signs of hope and opportunity in the current crisis that, alone or together, could make this time the social tipping point we need to reach before the planetary tipping point we must avoid. What can we do, locally and beyond, to create a more positive and hopeful vision of a post-Covid world? How can we help bring about the cascade of virtuous changes that will take us towards a One Planet Region in a One Planet Canada in a One Planet world?
See other videos in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxtqhfCEPGuiG4cZ5T8bKKEBjvJffNU0T
Presenter Bios:
Dr. Trevor Hancock is public health physician and recently retired from his position as a Professor and Senior Scholar at the School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria. In the 1980s he helped to create the global healthy cities movement, and has been an internationally recognized leader in this area for more than 30 years. In recent years he has focused on the concept of a ‘One Planet’ community/region as a way to integrate the concepts of healthy and sustainable communities, and in retirement has started a new NGO, Conversations for a One Planet Region, to explore and popularize these ideas locally.
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Nigel Seale is a Victoria, BC based realtor, who founded Earth Day Canada in 1990 and was global chairman of Earth Day International in both 1991 and 1992. His actions resulted in hundreds of thousands of people awakening to the necessity of caring for our planet… and he did it in the pre-internet and cell phone era.
Nigel was also responsible for helping to convince McDonald’s restaurant chain to switch from using styrofoam to 100% post-recycled paper and vegetable based dies in their tray liners – a major corporate first.
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From 1991 to 2014, Jed Goldberg was the President of Earth Day Canada, a national charity with a suite of programs motivating environmental behavioural change in demographic audiences across the country.
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Pierre Lussier
Pierre has been in charge managing and overseeing the design and implementation of programs and initiatives for Earth Day in Quebec since its founding in 1991 and is currently the president of Earth Day Canada.
Special Musical Guest
Brian Yoon
Cellist Brian Yoon has been described by the CBC (Canadian Broadasting Corporation) as “Canada’s next cello superstar”. Currently the Principal Cello of the Victoria Symphony, he has been a guest principal with the Kingston Symphony and the National Arts Centre Orchestra.
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climateandthearts.org
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While Covid-19 is a having a large social and economic impact, and a moderately serious health impact, this pales into comparison with the longer term, much larger and more serious health, social and economic impacts of the rapid and massive global ecological changes – including climate change – that we are creating. There is a danger that after Covid we will want to bounce back to the old economy as fast as we can, but that would be a tragic error. Instead, we need to ‘bounce forward’ to a new, more sustainable, just, convivial and healthy future.
There are a number of signs of hope and opportunity in the current crisis that, alone or together, could make this time the social tipping point we need to reach before the planetary tipping point we must avoid. What can we do, locally and beyond, to create a more positive and hopeful vision of a post-Covid world? How can we help bring about the cascade of virtuous changes that will take us towards a One Planet Region in a One Planet Canada in a One Planet world?
See other videos in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxtqhfCEPGuiG4cZ5T8bKKEBjvJffNU0T
Presenter Bios:
Dr. Trevor Hancock is public health physician and recently retired from his position as a Professor and Senior Scholar at the School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria. In the 1980s he helped to create the global healthy cities movement, and has been an internationally recognized leader in this area for more than 30 years. In recent years he has focused on the concept of a ‘One Planet’ community/region as a way to integrate the concepts of healthy and sustainable communities, and in retirement has started a new NGO, Conversations for a One Planet Region, to explore and popularize these ideas locally.
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Nigel Seale is a Victoria, BC based realtor, who founded Earth Day Canada in 1990 and was global chairman of Earth Day International in both 1991 and 1992. His actions resulted in hundreds of thousands of people awakening to the necessity of caring for our planet… and he did it in the pre-internet and cell phone era.
Nigel was also responsible for helping to convince McDonald’s restaurant chain to switch from using styrofoam to 100% post-recycled paper and vegetable based dies in their tray liners – a major corporate first.
--
From 1991 to 2014, Jed Goldberg was the President of Earth Day Canada, a national charity with a suite of programs motivating environmental behavioural change in demographic audiences across the country.
--
Pierre Lussier
Pierre has been in charge managing and overseeing the design and implementation of programs and initiatives for Earth Day in Quebec since its founding in 1991 and is currently the president of Earth Day Canada.
Special Musical Guest
Brian Yoon
Cellist Brian Yoon has been described by the CBC (Canadian Broadasting Corporation) as “Canada’s next cello superstar”. Currently the Principal Cello of the Victoria Symphony, he has been a guest principal with the Kingston Symphony and the National Arts Centre Orchestra.
creativelyunited.org
climateandthearts.org
ecoforestry.ca
