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Planting a different narrative

EVENT PREMIERE - FutureSeeds LIVE 26th May 2021, Byron Bay Australia

The event has passed. And how wonderful it was.
180 attendees, 3 presentations, 1 interview, ideation & connection session, Q&A, food & live music.

So many beautiful souls, so many beautiful conversations, so much hope for the future.

Reconnection with ourselves, community caring, economic localization, ethical investment, impact investment, democracy by the people and for the people, …

This event was the first of many. Stay tuned for more connection, more solutions, and more action…If you attended the event, please fill in our anonymous feedback form so we can make the next event even more powerful.

 

JOIN THE FUTURESEEDS COMMUNITY GROUP

 

 

Join the FutureSeeds community group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/426469831551813

26th May 2021

6 PM to 9 PM

Enjoy an evening of connection and positive outlook on the future

( and finish just in time to admire the total lunar eclipse happening at 9:18 PM 🌒 )

 

Event Premiere

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FutureSeeds

OUR MISSION

To facilitate remarkable conversations that inspire communities and drive engagement

FutureSeeds is a platform dedicated to foster multi-disciplinary conversations to breed a better understanding of where our world is heading, and where it could be headed if we saw all the possibilities that are available to us today.

Think global | Act local | Buy & Invest Sustainable | Connect & Deliberate

Speakers

Networking

Connect with like-minded individuals

Presentations

15 min. TED-like talks

Q&A

Exchange with the speakers

Raffle

Win a Subpod Grow composting system

Bar

During the breaks, connect and socialize at the Theatre Bar

Live music

Our event allows time for mingling and uplifting live music

“To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing”

Raymond Williams

Event Details

Facilitators

Networking and ideation facilitator

Design Thinking | Technology | Strategic Design

 

MC and networking facilitator

Mentor | Business Consultant | Life Engineer | Speaker

 

Host, MC and interviewer

FutureSeeds founder | Event organizer | Conversation facilitator | Podcast host

 

Presentations

Kyle Redman

Design & research at NewDemocracy Foundation, co-author of the United Nation handbook “Democracy beyond elections”

Democratic lotteries: Imagine being represented by people like you

“2021 is the 15th consecutive year of decline in global freedom”

Mara Bun

President of the Australian Conservation Foundation, director at Australian Ethical Investment

Investing in the Good

““Investors have injected 51 billion dollars into the sustainable development goals in 2020, that’s more than twice the year before”

Jean S. Renouf

Founder of Resilient Byron, and lecturer in international relations and politics

Community transformation in times of the Great Unraveling

“Australia is going to lose about 40 per cent of its beaches over the next 80 years”

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Founder of Local Futures and the International Alliance for Localization, and recipient of both the Right Livelihood Award and the Goi Peace Prize

The Fork in the Road Post-Covid

“In 2012, commercial ships produced over a million tons of CO2 per day – more than the emissions of the UK, or Canada, or Brazil”

Guest Artist

Full POWAH Soulful Earth Mama vocals with a lush honey like undertone melting into a unique flavor of Soul Funk Reggae Roots Jazz Hiphop RnB World fusion, the taste is bound to stay on your lips and dance through your mind with lyrics of powerful affirmations.

The Venue

The Byron Theatre

the beating heart of byron

The Byron Theatre is an amphitheatre style auditorium with tiered seating for 260 people, is fully air-conditioned, superb acoustics, and has a cinema size screen with state of the art audio-visual and sound facilities.

The Byron Theatre is part of the Byron Community Centres’ not for profit social enterprise model. As a social enterprise, tickets to events in the theatre are worth a lot more than their dollar value! This means that funds raised from ticket sales will go towards a good cause and are used to provide services, projects and events that benefit the local community in Byron Bay.

Mara Bun

President of the Australian Conservation Foundation
Director at Australian Ethical Investment

 

Live Interview

Investing in the Good

Mara Bun has a wealth of experience when it comes to ethical investments and how we can use money to steer the world in a positive direction. Cyprien Clerc, the host of the FutureSeeds podcast, will interview Mara live on stage, and have a conversation around the importance of money, and its ability to have an enormous positive or negative impact on our world, depending on how we use it.

It’s estimated we’ll need to raise 5 to 7 trillion dollars every year to fully address the United Nations sustainable development goals

 

Investors have injected 51 billion dollars into the sustainable development goals in 2020, that’s more than twice the year before

About Mara Bun

MARA BUN is a Brazilian/Australian nature lover (who sounds American). Her early career with Morgan Stanley’s technology group shaped a career in innovation, with roles including DIrector of Business Development for CSIRO, Strategy leader for Food Agility CRC, and Senior Internet Equities Analyst for Macquarie Bank. Her NGO experience includes senior roles at Greenpeace, Choice, Green Cross Australia and Bush Heritage Australia. She applies environmental and humanitarian values as a Non-Executive Director of Australian Ethical Investments, and as Chair of asset consultants Australian Impact Investments. Mara is a Founding Director of the board of Enova Community Energy.

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Helena Noberg-Hodge

Author and film producer, Pioneer of the local economy movement
Founder of LocalFutures, The Economics of Happiness

Presentation

The Fork in the Road Post-Covid

The COVID pandemic has strengthened two diametrically opposing movements worldwide: on the one hand global economic forces, with the help of national governments, are pushing for an ever-more competitive, fast-paced technological future; at the same time, from the bottom up, there is a widespread cultural turning towards more cooperative, feminine, community-based, ecological futures. People are recognizing that connection, both to others and to Nature, is the true wellspring of happiness. In almost every country, farmers’ markets, permaculture, community co-ops, local finance and business alliances, place-based education and nature reconnection testify to this great shift in values. In these ways, people are already sowing the seeds for a very different future, and demonstrating the way forward.

About Helena Norberg-Hodge

HELENA NORBERG-HODGE is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.” She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future (2019). She is co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up, and producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness. Helena is the founder and director of Local Futures and The International Alliance for Localisation, and a founding member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.

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Jean Renouf

Lecturer in International Relations and Politics at Southern Cross University
Founder of Resilient Byron

Presentation

Community transformation in times of the Great Unraveling

The Great Unravelling has started and will be part of our story for the rest of our life. It is an ineluctable dismantling of the fabric of life as we know it, leading to rapid and at times violent, changes to human societies. It is the result of humans pushing the boundaries of our planet beyond sustainable levels, leading among others to climate change, but also rapid loss of biodiversity, pressure on freshwater, and more. We are currently going through an acceleration of the Great Unravelling due to the confluence of the environmental crises with other crises. While the 2020-2030 decade will be affected by disasters of unprecedented scale, it will also be the decade of unprecedented societal transformation as a way to adapt to these. In Australia, there has been an enormous wave of community activities that have sprung since the Black Summer bushfire season and Covid-19. The confluence of crises have led to a realisation that we can’t continue living the way we do. Mindfulness, resilience and regeneration are emerging as key ways to navigate the Great Unravelling. There is a thirst for social and environmental connection and as a result an innumerable amount of grassroots community initiatives are springing. In the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Resilient Byron is a perfect example of it.

About Dr Jean S. Renouf

Jean is an academic at Southern Cross University, a firefighter and a dad. Prior to this, Jean spent years implementing emergency relief projects in disaster zones and countries at war, including Afghanistan, Congo, Haiti, Iraq, North Korea, etc. All of this informs his passion for climate change, community regeneration & resilience and non-traditional security, and led him to found Resilient Byron.

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Kyle Redman

Design and Research Manager, NewDemocracy Foundation

Presentation

Democratic lotteries: Imagine being represented by people like you

The original vision of democracy in ancient Athens used lotteries to select representatives, in order to prevent corruption and division. Now lotteries are again on the rise to form Citizens’ Panels and Citizens’ Assemblies around the world. These groups of everyday people investigate and shape public policy—without the campaigns, parties, and so much of what we dislike about politics.

About Kyle Redman

Kyle is the Research and Design Program Manager at the newDemocracy Foundation. He has designed and managed a number of newDemocracy’s projects, including the Democracy in Geelong, Yarra Valley Water, ACT Housing Choices, and Byron Shire Council projects. He has also worked with international partners to design democratic innovations in Eupen, Fortaleza, and Madrid. He has also co-authored the recently published handbook ‘Enabling National Initiatives to Take Democracy Beyond Elections’ for the United Nations Democracy Fund.

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