Funding for the Future: New Ways to Value Life on our Planet

612 Ocean Street,Santa Cruz CA 95060

02 November, 2022

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Registration is by donation and includes a follow-up recording. Suggested donation between $1-10. Please register as we may not be able to offer tickets at the door. If possible, we will also Zoom the event. For everyone's safety, please bring proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test result within 24 hours of the event. What can we do in Santa Cruz except say "Welcome!" when a visitor from Kim Stanley Robinson's novel, The Ministry for the Future, turns out to be a real person!Dr. Delton Chen, founder Global Carbon Reward (GCR), is a visiting geo-hydrologist from Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Chen’s GCR policy inspired Robinson’s game-changing “Carbon Coin” in the novel and is a bold new policy idea to inspire and incentivize effective action in support of a healthy biosphere. Meet Dr. Chen himself on November 2 to learn more, ask questions, and discover a way to fund the future by increasing environmental wealth rather than extracting it. To learn more in advance, check out this 40-minute introduction by Dr. Chen on YouTube: Introduction to Global Carbon Reward (2020) Imagine a global monetary policy, backed by the world's central banks, that rewards all players from corporations to municipalities to individuals for certified actions that effectively remove carbon from the atmosphere, increase biodiversity, and reduce environmental harms. The Global Carbon Reward is a big and potent carrot to draw the world toward a liveable future. Della Duncan, Renegade Economist, Co-Founder of California Doughnut Economics Coalition (CalDEC) and a Public Banking Advocate from San Francisco (and a recent transplant to Boulder Creek) addresses additional theories of economic change designed for justice and climate solutions. Della invites you to “unlearn everything you thought you knew about economics” with her Podcast Upstream: Radical ideas and inspiring stories for a just transition. She will address ideas around De-growth and the questioning of “Green Capitalism” as applied to the Global Carbon Reward. Experience Della in this excellent audio documentary produced by her team at The Upstream Podcast: “The Green Transition: The Problems with Green Capitalism, Part 1” Moderator: Christine Barrington, KSQD 90.7 FM (Host for Talk of the Bay) More Info: https://globalcarbonreward.org/gcr-public-event-in-santa-cruz/ By hosting this event, the following co-sponsors are Celebrating Solutions-Focused Santa Cruz Sponsors: Solar Dividends, a proposal to end poverty and the need for fossil fuels (Robert Stayton); Vital Cycles, Women-Led Permaculture Design & Human Ecology Program (Lydia Neilsen and Anne Freiwald); Sustainable Solutions Research Foundation (Ronnie Lipschutz and Associates); Santa Cruz Climate Action Network (Pauline Seales and Team); Central Coast Public Banking (Ellen Farmer "ask me!"and Colleagues) Advance Tickets by donation. Register to attend in person and also receive recording link via email. To keep all participants safe and healthy, proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 24 hours will be requested for entry at the door. A recording will be available for those who prefer not to meet in-person.