Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
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As this chapter of Reasons to be Cheerful almost draws to a close we wanted to leave you feeling motivated and inspired to take action on the things you care most about, from climate change to inequality. Feeling disempowered and frustrated with the state of the world? Our three guests are here to tell you why doing your bit can be joyful, fun and might just restore your faith in humanity a little bit! We hear from Froi Legaspi from Citizens UK who tells us about his journey into community organising, from Emily Bolton who's working with Grimsby Football Club to build a more optimistic future for the town, and to Dan McCallum, who back in 1998 started an energy co-op in Wales that's now the biggest rooftop solar co-op in the UK.
Plus: Keep sending us your messages of what you've learnt from the pod since 2017! We'd love to hear from you at reasons@cheerfulpodcast.com
Guests
Froi Legaspi, Senior Organiser, Citizens UK (@FroilanLegaspi / @CitizensUK)
Emily Bolton, Founder, Our Future (@EmilyJBolton_ / @OurFutureGY)
Dan McCallum, Co-Founder & Manager, Awel Aman Tawe (@AwelAmanTawe)
More information
Check out the work of Citizens UK including their local chapters
Read more about the work of Our Future and of Awel Aman Tawe
Want to set up your own project? Go to Community Energy England, Wales & Scotland
Dan also mentioned Energy4All
Learn more about the work of We're Right Here, the campaign for a Community Power Act and of Locality
UCL's Policy Lab is undertaking a new project called Ordinary Hope, find out more here
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Reasons Revisited: Beyond GDP
It's fun to stay at the YHA: who gets to access the outdoors?
Loss, love and a calling to nature: Ben Goldsmith
The hidden story of Chinese food: Fuchsia Dunlop
How to fix the broken food system: Henry Dimbleby
What about men?: Caitlin Moran
How to end our very British culture war: Sunder Katwala
Throwing shade: why you’ll never take trees for granted again
Fields of Dreams: how music festivals moved from the margins to the mainstream
Never stopped us dreaming: the rise of women’s football
Driven to distraction: can we resist the attention economy?
Freewheeling: how to embrace the bicycle boom
Will there be a Hollywood ending? why the writers are on strike
The People's Plan for Nature: how re-imagining our democracy could save nature
Live at the RSC Part 2: the return of the Doctor
Live at the RSC Part 1: the fight for better climate education in our schools
Business as (un)usual: can people and planet really come before profit?
Reasons to be Letchworth: what can we learn from the garden city movement?
But what can I do?: a conversation with Alastair Campbell
Thank you, next: breaking up with the job for life
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