Jun
25
10:00pm
The Intersection of Basic Income and Climate: Continuing the Green Resilience Project (GRP) Conversation
By The BIG Conference
This session discusses the results of the federal government-funded Green Resilience Project that involved 33 conversations with over 900 people facilitated by local community partners. The report https://greenresilience.ca/final-report/ with recommendations was just released in April 2022.
Our goals were:
- Getting community perspectives on the ways in which income security policies (like a basic income) can help build resilience and encourage local action on all the aspects of the climate crisis—from the response to local climate impacts to the transition out of fossil fuel employment.
- Building understanding across the climate and energy, income security/inequality sectors, and including people who are too often left out of policy discussions and decisions.
- Including a diverse range of communities from the far North to dense inner-city neighbourhoods, and from east to west coasts.
Key themes and recommendations that came out in the report will be highlighted. We will follow a modified conversation process like the ones that inspired ideas and action in our project communities.
Speakers
Sheila Regehr, Basic Income Canada Network
Sheila is a founding member of the Basic Income Canada Network and former Executive Director of the National Council of Welfare. Her 29 years of federal public service spanned front-line work, policy analysis and development, international relations and senior management, with a focus on improving fairness and equality, and on gender and race in particular. She has policy expertise in areas of income security and taxation, such as child tax benefits, child support, maternity/parental benefits, pensions and social assistance.
Mitchell Beer, Energy Mix Productions Inc.
Mitchell Beer is publisher of The Energy Mix, a news site and e-digest on climate change, energy, and the shift of carbon. He traces his background in renewable energy and energy efficiency to 1977, in climate to 1997, and was one of the lead partners for the Green Resilience Project, a community conversation series that linked basic income, climate resilience, and a just transition for fossil fuel communities. A proud moment was building a model wind turbine out of wooden stir stick with his then-11-year-old daughter, and improv comedy practices are often the best part of his week.
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