The Sustainability Revolution With Al Gore

05/20/20 • 45 min

“We are in the early stages of a sustainability revolution. It will have the magnitude of the industrial revolution yet the speed of the digital revolution”

In this special episode Nobel Peace Prize winner, former US vice president and one of the world’s leading climate activists shares his vision for a sustainable future – Al Gore.

Reflecting in the context of Covid-19 from his home in Tennessee, Al talks about the lessons for the climate emergency revealed by the current pandemic and his optimism for our capacity to forge a path out of the climate crisis. A just transition with millions of green jobs and redefining value to include not just profit but people and planet are key.

Peter is joined by Dr Aoife Brophy Haney, lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and Saïd Business School.

Featuring:

Al Gore @algore, former US Vice President

Dr Aoife Brophy Haney (@abhaney), Departmental Research Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the School of Geography and Environment and Saïd Business School.

Host:

Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford Saïd Business School.

Resources:

Al Gore’s website

The GOTO 2020 summit

GOTO 2020 behind the scenes series

“Coronavirus and the climate crisis are worsened by the same system”, Aoife Haney and Peter Drobac, the Independent.

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Have a question for Peter? Email him at [email protected].

Credits:

Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

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“We are in the early stages of a sustainability revolution. It will have the magnitude of the industrial revolution yet the speed of the digital revolution”

In this special episode Nobel Peace Prize winner, former US vice president and one of the world’s leading climate activists shares his vision for a sustainable future – Al Gore.

Peter is joined by Dr Aoife Brophy Haney, lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and Saïd Business School.

Featuring:

Al Gore @algore, former US Vice President

Host:

Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford Saïd Business School.

Resources:

Al Gore’s website

The GOTO 2020 summit

GOTO 2020 behind the scenes series

“Coronavirus and the climate crisis are worsened by the same system”, Aoife Haney and Peter Drobac, the Independent.

Want to learn more about the show? Check out www.reimaginepodcast.com.

Have a question for Peter? Email him at [email protected].

Credits:

Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Previous Episode

Gimme Shelter, Ending Homelessness

“I’m here to prevent the next generation of Big Issue vendors.”

Homelessness is an example of a wicked problem – a complex, messy problem with many causes, contradictory forces, and no easy solution. Wicked problems are rooted in broken systems.

It’s estimated that 2% of the world’s population are homeless. But many more – perhaps 1 in 5 people worldwide – may lack adequate and secure housing.

In this episode we focus on the situation in the UK, where an unprecedented number of people are without a home or living on the streets. That number has doubled since 2010, and continues to trend upward.

What will it take to shift the status quo on homelessness?

We start with a report from the frontline of care for homeless people during the pandemic, recorded for us by Sara Emerson of Brighton charity Justlife. The coronavirus lockdown has had the short-term benefit of getting people off the streets and into temporary housing. But that’s an emergency measure, not a solution.

Peter digs into the roots of homelessness with Dr Elisabeth Garratt from the Sheffield Methods Institute, who leads a research project exploring people’s experiences of homelessness in Oxford. And he talks to the founder of the Big Issue, Lord John Bird, about possible solutions, and how his own lived experience of homelessness helped him to redefine how we think about the problem.

Reimagine is a podcast about people who are inventing the future. Presented by Oxford Answers and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. New episodes on Thursdays.

Featuring:

Sara Emerson, Justlife, https://www.justlife.org.uk

Dr Elisabeth Garratt (@eagarratt), lecturer at the Sheffield Methods Institute

Lord John Bird (@johnbirdswords), https://www.bigissue.com

Host:

Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford Saïd Business School

Resources:

In 2019, Saïd Business School announced a three-year partnership with Homeless Oxfordshire, a charity that provides short-term accommodation to the homeless in the county alongside high-quality support and initiatives to help them regain and maintain independence.

Want to learn more about the show? Check out www.reimaginepodcast.com.

Have a question for Peter? Email him at [email protected].

Credits:

Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

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Next Episode

What Is Social Entrepreneurship? With Sally Osberg

If you’ve been tuning in to series 1 and want to know more about social entrepreneurship, or you’d just like to spend some time in the company of an extremely cool woman with a voracious intellect and a lot of wisdom about how change happens, then this bonus episode is just for you.

For two decades Sally Osberg has played an outsized role in growing the field of social entrepreneurship. She was the founding president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, one of the world’s leading organisations in this space. With Roger Martin, Sally was the author of the seminal book Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. And she’s also an Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School.

Reimagine aims to explore how change happens by getting into the minds of social entrepreneurs. And this episode is a chance to get under the hood to see how social entrepreneurship works. If you’ve been listening to Reimagine, you’ll hear a lot of familiar themes. But here, we’ll go deeper.

What is a social entrepreneur? Why do they matter? And what’s their special role during the era of coronavirus?

Featuring:

Sally Osberg (@SallyOsberg), author of Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works.

Host:

Peter Drobac (@peterdrobac), Director of the @SkollCentre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford Saïd Business School.

Want to learn more about the show? Check out www.reimaginepodcast.com.

Have a question for Peter? Email him at [email protected].

Credits:

Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.