Nudging the Herd

I'm excited by this episode. I love all of the interviews I do (maybe not my interviewing all the time, but I love all the stories) but this one was like interviewing the kind of person I hope to be in another decade or so – still committed to social justice, still passionate about what I do. Not bitter about the losses. Dare has just left her role as CEO of Reverse Garbage, which is a facility that diverts resources away from landfill and into creative and practical re-use. Need a whole bunch of shredded paper and foam bits and bobs? Go to Reverse Garbage. Social justice and equity, especially intergenerational equity, are the values that underpin Dare's career that has spanned health promotion, anti-slavery, refugee rights, gender issues, housing and neighbourhood development. When it comes to issues of sustainability and climate change, Dare hopes to help nudge us into the direction of a circular economy, as opposed to the linear economy that the Western world currently embraces. "There is a finite amount of matter in this planet so we're always turning one thing into something else… we need to keep working with that in a way that it keeps going." Dare is trying to help save us from ourselves. That is a story worth sharing.