TFT folk recently participated in a Circle of Trust facilitated by Barbara Reid from the Centre for Courage and Renewal. Here I share a little about the Circle and introduce a podcast I recorded with Barbara.
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It was very easy chatting with Jeremy. When people are open and ready to discuss challenging issues with disarming honesty, chats flow. Like my discussion with Jesslyne Widjaja, after talking with Jeremy I was left hopeful for the future. We do need a strong, viable palm oil industry but we urgently need it to deal wholeheartedly with the sustainability issues embedded in its way of working over the last 30 years.
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Jesslyne is young, bright and highly educated. It’s fair to say that young, bright, highly educated women are not common in the palm oil industry, not impossible to find, just not ‘everyday’. Jesslyne and other young, new generation, emerging leaders represent the future of the palm oil industry.
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Ask yourself this, “How many certifications does Volkswagen have? How many systems, procedures and document-mountains must the company use to produce its cars?” I’ve got a picture in my head of a lot of framed certificates hanging on many gilded walls. How many hundreds of millions, billions even, of dollars, euros, francs, pesos, etc. has the company paid auditors to check that all is OK?
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I wrote recently about Barrie Oldfield, one of my heroes. Barrie is one of those people who believes that everyone can do something and he’s spent his long life doing things to make things better, to bring change and to help people. He’s an inspiration and I love him very much.
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Couldn't we have a more mature dialogue between companies and NGOs, encouraged by the reporters that tell their stories, where we get as much information and data as we can before we jump to judgment? Where we take people at their word that they are in fact serious about implementing their policies based on their fundamental values and beliefs? If we can, we might stand a chance of getting the better of these massive, wicked problems.
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The world's remaining Tigers, Orang-utans and other incredible and critically endangered species need a hell of a lot more than just some awareness raising day named in their honour. They need action.
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I’ve been lucky to have had a number of people in my life who have inspired me. They are my heroes, my “Legends”...“Why on Earth are you interested in meeting me?” Barrie Oldfield wondered as we sat opposite each other in the restaurant of a Perth hotel. “I’m just an old bloke who has planted a few trees.”
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Further to my post yesterday about the need for more cooperation, here’s a wonderful example of what’s possible when a diversity of folk get together....Cooperation isn’t easy and there are disagreements, gritted teeth and pragmatic compromises required but now that these folk are sitting at the same table...we’re taking great strides forward in tackling some really complex, wicked problems.
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As we surge toward a >6oC warming with species going extinct, oceans acidifying, forests disappearing, water shortages, land grabbing, deaths, etc etc etc, might we not pause a moment and wonder whether our approach for the last fifty years, fighting each other at every turn, might not be worth a rethink?
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For me, TFT is a very precious thing and to think that we really now have moved beyond forests is something I could never have imagined. We are still very deeply attached to our forests but we’re also deeply engaged helping people reconnect with Nature on many other fronts.
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More often than not we’d just stand there next to each other, looking out to the mountain, saying nothing. Mick said to me once “You love that mountain, don’t you?” and I responded with a “Yep” but in truth, I wondered whether I loved the mountain as much as I loved coming to chat with Mick.
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