the alternative

We all know the current system of politics and governance is utterly dysfunctional. But what will it look like - what will it feel like - to organise ourselves so that everyone has a voice, so that we come together as co-creators and build networks and movements based on our common visions and values?  With Indra Adnan of The Alternative Global, author of The Politics of Waking Up. 
Indra Adnan is a psychosocial therapist, founder of The Alternative Global and author of The Politics of Waking up: Power and possibility in the fractal age.  She has been a journalist, a director of a political think tank and a community organiser. She is always an activist.
Her passion is the creation of methods of connection that allow everyone to be fully themselves, to find the place from which meaning and purpose arise and to act from there.  She gave up her job at the think tank on the day the British MP Jo Cox was murdered in the run up to the 2016 Brexit Referendum, and has spent the time since then considering and creating ways to bring about the change we need to see if we're going to address the climate, ecological and cultural chaos of our time.

In this conversation, we delve deep into the ways we might do things differently - how does a different kind of politics and governance work? How does it feel? What are the logistics and how might we bring it about?  On the way, we consider the creation of an alternative media system - one that brings people together instead of splitting them apart - and the ways that local citizens action networks (CANs) can join together to create a movement of movements with unstoppable momentum. 

Indra's Book: https://systems-souls-society.com/insight/perspectiva-press/the-politics-of-waking-up-power-and-possibility-in-the-fractal-age/
The Alternative Global: https://www.thealternative.org.uk
Simon Anholt: The Good Country: https://www.goodcountry.org/simon-anholt
David Wood: London Futurists: https://londonfuturists.com/
Trust The People: https://www.trustthepeople.earth
Marge Piercy: The Low Road: https://thechangeagency.org/testimonials/marge-piercy/

Thrutopia: https://thrutopia.life

With interest in private markets rising, this week offers a look at what 2022 may bring for high net worth investors and their advisors.  Denise St. Ivany is joined by Macquarie Asset Management's Managing Director, Wealth Solutions, Andrea Mody.

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Macquarie Head of China Economics Larry Hu revisits the show to discuss the current monetary easing cycle in relation to China's management of its ongoing property crisis and zero-Covid policy.  Daniel McCormack moderates. 

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The first in a series of discussions with Peter Durante, Head of Technology and Innovation at Macquarie Asset Management, on climate change and energy innovation, leading to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) which begins October 31 in Glasgow, Scotland.   

For supplementary information on the topics discussed in this episode, visit the following third-party resources: 

1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - Sixth Assessment Report
2. NASA’s intro to climate change
3. International Energy Agency – ‘Net Zero by 2050’
4. BloombergNEF 2021 ‘New Energy Outlook’
5. Energy efficiency – Rocky Mountain Institute
6. The Jevons Paradox 

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