Remember those Australian bushfires from the ancient past (February)? Climate issues have never been further from the front pages yet we have a once-in-a-generation chance to respond differently. Join the iconic author of 'No Logo' and 'On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal', as we consider transformative possibilities for the coming rebuilding of our inner and outer worlds. Whatever your politics, she has powerful ideas worth listening to.

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author who has been invited by the Pope to speak help launch his historic encyclical on ecology. She is a co-founder and advisory board chair of The Leap, a climate justice organisation that exists to inject new urgency and bold ideas into confronting the intersecting crises of our time: climate change, racism and inequality.

She is a familiar commentator in print, radio and television around the world, appearing on such shows as Fareed Zakaria’s GPS on CNN, BBC Newsnight and HARDTalk, Democracy Now, The Colbert Report, Charlie Rose and HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

She is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.

Why you should join?

Naomi Klein’s ideas can be shocking and highly disruptive but are grounded on real issues that it's hard for any of us to deny. Her first book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was translated into over 30 languages. The New York Times called it “a movement bible.”

Awardee of the Sydney Peace Prize

2016

She is one of the organisers and authors of Canada’s Leap Manifesto, a blueprint for a rapid and justice-based transition off fossil fuels. She is now a co-founder and advisory board chair of The Leap, a climate justice organization developed from the Manifesto that exists to inject new urgency and bold ideas into confronting the intersecting crises of our time: climate change, racism and inequality.

In Conversation with: Derek Handley

Derek Handley is a futurist, entrepreneur and the founder of Wiser, a platform helping people ask better questions to develop self-knowledge and purpose in their lives. Wiser programs have run at AUT University in Auckland where he is an Adjunct Professor and through workshops for families, professionals and elite athletes around the world. He is currently studying towards a Masters in Religion at Harvard.

Derek is also a founding General Partner at Aera VC, investing in transformative companies tackling the UN Sustainable Development Goals and an aspiring civilian astronaut signed up with Virgin Galactic. He co-founded The B Team, a business sustainability alliance with Sir Richard Branson.

He created the Aera Foundation in 2015 as a charitable studio catalysing social innovations to reframe the status quo for a sustainable future.

Wiser Conversations, Together at Home

'Together at Home' is an initiative of the Aera Foundation (a New Zealand-registered charitable trust) in response to the experience of being in global Covid19 lockdown.