UK for Good

🌍 Join us for the B Local Cheshire Launch Event at Chester Zoo! 🐘 📅 10th October 2024 ⏰ 5:30pm Are you passionate about using your business as a force for good? 🌱 This is your chance to connect with like-minded changemakers, celebrate businesses that prioritise people and our planet, and have a fantastic time! 🎉 ✨ A Party with Purpose:  Expect inspiring stories from B Corps, delicious plant-based food, and a wonderful community of businesses that believe in building a better world 🌿. And the best part? All proceeds support the Act for Wildlife project at Chester Zoo! 🐾 Don't miss this opportunity to learn, celebrate, and grow together with other incredible businesses. Let's create positive change—one step at a time! 💚 Buy your tickets today and be part of the movement. See you there! 🎉 #BLocalCheshire #BTheChange #ActForWildlife #BusinessForGood #BCorp #ChesterZoo UK for Good #Cheshire Entyce Creative | B Corp™ Sykes Holiday Cottages Rumpus | B Corp Certified Graham Donoghue, KAVITA BASI UK for Good Ben Tolhurst Hilary Berg Maggie Chen Jan Chillery Julie Mogan Roy Shelton B Lab UK Sam Oulton Kyle Soo KAVITA BASI

Need a lift? My two recommendations for this morning; join us at 10am for the UK for Good Fireside Chat with John Elkington, and read the Fix The News update. The Fix the News newsletter really brightens up my day and proves that we humans really are capable of doing incredible things when we put our minds to it. Congratulations Amy Rose and Gus Harvey. #PositiveNews #Innovation #GreenSwans

In preparation for WWII President Roosevelt banned the production of cars so that aircraft could be manufactured for the war. We had very little time to prepare for WWII. We've had over 260 years to prepare for what most global climate scientists say is the fight of our lives, and indeed for our lives. It was 1856 when Eunice Newton Foote first raised the alarm on climate change. Yet rather than prepare to accept and adapt we have accelerated the likelihood of failure. We have continued to: 🙄 Overconsume 🙄 Intensively farm 🙄 Intensively travel 🙄 Grow the number of billionaires 🙄 Grow the number of people in poverty and homelessness 🙄 Increase the likelihood of food and water insecurity 🙄 Reduce the quality of water in our rivers 🙄 Reduce the number of species on earth 🙄 Increase emissions 🙄 Increase average temperatures beyond the Paris Agreement target 🙄 Breach planetary boundaries...the list goes on. Why? It just makes no sense. We know the Wicked problems we are facing. We have the solutions. We need to mobilise. Each and every one of us. "Everything, everywhere, all at once." Worth watching Lester Brown's short speech at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. It's more relevant than ever, and it was made nearly 10 years ago. ⬇️ UK for Good

"Everything, everywhere, all at once." "Delay means death" “Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity’s making – a crisis that will soon swell to an almost unimaginable scale," I'm honestly not sure how else António Guterres can express the urgency for all to radically reduce emissions, address, and adapt to climate change. It's crystal clear.

Thank you Mike Hudema for sharing this image. If only we humans prioritised and respected our interdependent and interconnected relationship with nature and each other. Sounds so simple doesn't it. #Nature #RestoreNature #Interdependence #Consilience #MutualRespect #WeAllBelong #Inclusion

Extreme temperatures, wildfires, water and food shortages, floods, droughts...climate change is starting to hurt isn't it. It's starting to hurt both in human cost and economic cost. This recent TED talk from Johan Rockstrom is a must-watch for anybody keen to understand the current state of play. Rockstrom gives a clear, evidence-based update to explain why we are where we are, and is clear on how we can avoid catastrophic tipping points. I say it's a 'must watch' because those tipping points may be far closer than most people realise. What's super-clear is that we absolutely MUST keep within the remaining carbon budget. And at the current rate of emissions that means we have five years. Just let that sink in; FIVE years. The window is rapidly closing, but leading scientists believe there IS still a window. We have reached a pivotal point and need to make a rapid and radical transition away from fossil fuels and building a cleaner, greener, fairer future. We have the solutions, and we need to implement them. Please look, learn, and act. #Environment #TippingPoints #UrgentAction #CleanerGreenerFairer #Climate

Ben Tolhurst | Samantha Cooper | Fiona Ellis | Sam Baker | Charlotte Sewell ⚡🔶🌿 | Kate Sandle | Will Richardson (FIEMA) | Jon Alexander | Sunita Ramani | Business Stand Up | New Economy Organisers Network (NEON) | Other Box #BusinessDeclares

Do you feel you really understand the metacrisis and the impact on our future? And do you feel you are doing enough and fast enough to shape a better world? These are questions I've been asking myself a lot. "How can I best match what makes me me (experience, connections, skills, passion, fear, values etc) with what the world needs?" That's the one that keeps me awake at night. And that's why I signed up to Project Tipping Point by (re)Biz. Part of the preparation for Session 2 included a video of Daniel Schmachtenberger. It blew my mind. Daniel explains so brilliantly clearly why the world is in the pickle it is, and what we can do about it. He says: "I’m here and I have some agency. I can do something about it. I don’t know how to yet. But I’m not going to let myself do anything other than figure out how. And then act on that. And then when it’s insufficient figure out how." Thank you Daniel for helping me to answer the question that's giving me sleepless nights. You can watch the interview here. I promise it's worth your time. #Agency #BetterWorld #TimeToAct #Leadership Ryan (Ra) James Erin Remblance Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov #Metacrises