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welcome to this edition of when the
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biomass hits the wind turbine a
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discussion of sustainable living and
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what that means to you and me I’m Jay Warmke
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and I’m Annie Warmke you certainly
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are and today we’re gonna talk about
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activism or I’m mad as hell and I’m not
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gonna take it anymore or as they say in
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Minnesota right I’m mad as oh geez I’m
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mad as a double hockey sticks now you
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got my Minnesota going alright so Annie
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you you talk a little bit here
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I mean you’ve you’ve always maintained
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you’re an activist I was born an
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activist Jay and and we were talking
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about being accidental activists a while
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ago so so I think I think most activists
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would probably say I didn’t intend on
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doing this I just got mad and I did this
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I remember the first time somebody said
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to me oh you’re a community organizer
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and I looked up I was just out of
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college and I was you know 30 years old
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out of college and they said oh you’re
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community organizers and I looked at
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them and I thought wow that’s a cute
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little name but no I’m not I’m mad as
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hell and I’m gonna do something about
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this well I’ve never been in any
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organized community in my life so so I
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think we all need a little organization
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so go ahead talk about it I mean
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organizing I’m just trying I don’t know
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where you’re going with that organize my
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thoughts for me here might be an
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activist I’m proactive well I think in
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in terms of activism there are a number
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of things that go on in life that push
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us to really probably all be accidental
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in our activism and I think we’re at a
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time in our history as a nation and as a
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culture that lots of us are being
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activists without meaning to be I hear
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this all the time I hear people saying
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you know it doesn’t do any good to write
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letters anymore or go see my congressman
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or even to protest and so people are
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feeling quite frustrated and that’s the
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really first thing that you hope for in
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terms of
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trying to cultivate in somebody their
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ability to create change and that’s what
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activism is it’s acting on something
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that you believe in whether it’s
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something you want to change or
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something you want to promote and and
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then actually having some kind of
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strategy of how to change that or alter
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it in some way so I think the first
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thing though that has to happen is that
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we have to feel frustrated we have to be
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pushed off of our comfortable little
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place that we sit and we have to say I
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don’t know what else to do and maybe
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you’re even grieving I know after the
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election in 2016 we saw this in many
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many young people who come to us for a
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number of different reasons either
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through our internship or tours or
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whatever and they were truly grieving
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and they were grieving for something
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that really didn’t even ever exist at
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least in their lifetime and that was the
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ability to influence the government and
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to feel safe and that somebody’s going
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to come and rescue you and now that
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we’re in a period of time where none of
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those things are possible we’ve got to
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come up with some answers we’ve got to
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organize ourselves and but let me back
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up just a second because first off I’m
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going to ask the question for those
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people who are listening saying what the
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heck does this have to do with
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sustainability everything I figured it
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was because I agreed that we would do
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this as a show so I’m assuming it has
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something to do with sustainability so
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tie it all together and then go for it
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go go tell us how to change the world
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how to change the world well I don’t
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really want to change the world I think
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I want to just change the path I’m on
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and I think that’s where it all begins
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but the reason it has everything to do
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with sustainability is that we’re living
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in a day and age when basically the end
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of the world has been announced in the
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in 2030 which is 12 years from now
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government body says you know what we
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aren’t going to be able to inhabit the
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earth and so I think people are
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get min or hurry okay well I’m not gonna
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leave that one unchallenged cuz cuz as
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far as my memory goes the end of the
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world’s been coming ever since I could
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remember I don’t really care that isn’t
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the point the point is that that some of
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us are a lot more motivated and it’s not
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me I live my life every day motivated to
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live in a world that’s different but
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lots and lots of people who’ve never
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thought about this or had the luxury to
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think about that they have the ability
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to change something now feel incredibly
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motivated they see flooding they see
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horrible hurricanes
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they also see people don’t have enough
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they see the government falling apart
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there are all kinds of visible things
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that show us that we’re not living in a
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sustainable way right so I would say
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though for those people paying attention
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there’s always been a motivation to want
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to change our society I mean if you’re
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paying attention but now it’s really in
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your face that are just shouting at you
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saying look this is dysfunctional this
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is broken it should be different nobody
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who should be making these changes seems
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to be effectively making these changes
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so each of us ends up with this thing of
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saying if they’re not gonna fix it I’m
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gonna do my bit to try and I don’t think
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we’re there yet
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I think they’re saying so who is going
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to come and we’ve talked about this in
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other episodes but the reality is the
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frustration is growing because it’s
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becoming more and more clear that there
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is nobody coming to help us so so as
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people who want to live more simply and
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want to try to stretch out the resources
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that are on the earth and in our
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neighborhoods and in our lives we have
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to as my grandma would say we have to
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don’t don’t say what your dad I knew
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what your grandma was gonna say she was
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more like a trucker
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so anyways oh my god so so basically
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what okay so so basically what you’re
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saying is in this in order to sustain
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this world you know in some manner form
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which we would like to inhabit it each
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of us will or a significant portion
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we’ll need to become activists we will
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have to change something about it how to
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take control well we have to first be
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activists with ourselves and change your
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own behavior and not feel like we’re
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giving something up but actually gaining
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something right the Gandhi thing would
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be the change you want to see in them
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but the other challenge is we get this
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grandiose idea that we’re gonna go out
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and change some big thing
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well maybe we might get lucky and you
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could call it lucky or not but the guy
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who set himself on fire and started the
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Arab Spring he did create a lot of
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change it doesn’t seem like his long
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last well he was the catalyst he was the
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catalyst for something that was ready
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ready – that’s right so timing timing is
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everything
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but the timing for right now is within
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each of us it isn’t about that we’re
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gonna change a lot of things around us
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because frankly the things that we need
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to decompose and decay and fall down
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have not quite fallen apart yet but
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those of us who’ve been thinking about
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this for a long time and recognize that
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we had the skills to be activists and
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organize people those people are coming
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forward and then I think some of us need
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to be saying how do we train other
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people to be able to channel that energy
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to change something within themselves so
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that then they can see what else they
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want to change whether it’s in their
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family or at their workplace or in their
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neighborhood or the universe okay so
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basically what you’re saying is you
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first off need to be aware that there’s
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a problem it typically has tick you off
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a bit most people just feel it they
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they’re not really sure what it means
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and then and then once you’re motivated
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usually through anger or depression or
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the 17 stages agree for whatever that is
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then you’re saying okay now you got to
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take it upon yourself and say you know
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what I’m gonna do I’m gonna be the one
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to take some action yeah and and then
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you’ve got to be at the right place at
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the right time typically because
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oftentimes people will say hey everybody
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follow me and let’s storm the castle and
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you’ll look behind and you’re the only
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one there most the time that you’re
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going to be the only one in the
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beginning and that’s why it’s important
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to as one of the first steps is
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to link up with other people mm-hmm
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because there are an awful lot of people
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right now in this culture who are
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incredibly frustrated and they don’t
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know what to do with it I just came back
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from a consulting project I did in
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Florida and I spent some time with
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people that I’ve known most of my adult
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life and and it was interesting to hear
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them talk about their relatives who are
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very upper middle class middle class
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they have everything they need and how
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frustrated they are that it isn’t doing
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any good to change things because they
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write letters or they go visit their
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legislators and that changes nothing
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everybody just smiles and and goes about
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what they’re going to do anyway
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and so they’re feeling frustrated
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they’re looking for some answers and
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that’s a unique group of people because
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they have the resources to live
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comfortably and maybe not quite notice
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what’s happening around them they can
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they can put themselves you know on the
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other side of the barrier so there are
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some things that that we have to think
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about and and I think the most important
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issue is to find a community a tribe
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even if it’s three or four people maybe
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it’s the local Unitarian Church or a
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committee that’s meeting at you know the
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United campus ministry in Athens or
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something like that well with today’s
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technology I mean social media is that
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way of gathering like-minded people
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together but how is that then how do you
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turn that slacktivism oh I tweeted
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something and therefore the world
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changed you know or just grousing about
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things online or complaining into I mean
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honey make that effective well I don’t I
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wasn’t really referring to that because
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I think what we do so it’s ineffective
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on the face of it well I think what we
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tend to do is be frustrated or sad or
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this is a way for us all to be
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frustrated and sad and angry – no no you
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that’s your thing no what I was getting
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at is that what often happens when
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people are in crisis is they find
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somebody and Facebook would be a good
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example or Instagram or
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send a tweet or whatever and they say
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what is frustrating them and then they
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temporarily feel better because they
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feel listened to and then off they go
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and they stop trying to make some change
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within themselves and so this is not
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what I’m talking about what I’m talking
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about is finding real live human beings
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I know this is a unique concept that you
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could have coffee with or tea with and
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you could sit down and say this is what
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I’m frustrated about and then what what
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you begin to do is to think about what
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what could we do about it and I don’t I
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I don’t I can’t say what that would be
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that would have to come out of that
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group but I think that this is what has
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to happen we have to organize ourselves
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and one of the things that we’re doing
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at Blue Rock station starting in January
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is we’re having an an accidental
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activist school that’s part of our free
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school so that we can begin to help
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people identify their true skillset so
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that’s one of the first steps is say
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well what are my real skills it’s not
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about where I graduated from University
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it’s whether I have the ability to move
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an agenda identify something and move an
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agenda and how that works and how it can
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work and how we can create networks and
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things like that so it’s really
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important to to not let yourself just
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sit there and say oh I told somebody I’m
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upset and now it’s all good because it’s
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not mm-hmm yeah because that’s basically
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Thanksgiving dinner I’m upset and it’s
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because of you so okay so we’re moving
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past there you’re saying one of the
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resources is other people that’s one of
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the resources that’s going to become
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effective and what I’m hearing you say
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is face to face you know right actually
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well there are a lot of roles that other
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people can play because if you want to
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create activism you have to be able to
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have a lot of different skill sets and
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obviously we don’t all have those skill
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sets so other people that know people
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other people that maybe have a the
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ability to give a little bit of money in
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case you need gas money or where you
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need
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pay a speaker to show up or whatever so
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benefactors we need benefactors and we
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can talk more about that after you do
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the call letters after I do the culprit
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okay so with that cue in mind you’re
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listening to when the biomass hits the
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wind turbine with Jay and Annie Warmke
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reminding you once again that it is in
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fact the end of the world as we know it
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and thank God thank God and let’s go out
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and be active about this yeah so I just
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wanted to share a couple stories that
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have to do with benefactors so in my
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work over my adult life I’ve started a
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number of projects and been a pioneer
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and the battered women’s movement and
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started some women’s funds and things
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like that but it always started out that
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there were benefactors and and I can
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honestly say I wouldn’t be sitting here
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today if it wasn’t for for some of those
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benefactors and they did a lot of
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different things but the one thing that
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I was good at and I’m still that didn’t
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change is is identifying people that
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have something in common with me with
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what I believe and then creating social
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situations and this isn’t manipulation
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or anything it’s saying hey you know
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let’s talk about what we have in common
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because I’m frustrated and so when we
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started organizing battered women’s
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projects in rural areas it’s because I
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had been a battered woman so there’s
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this in a rural area so there’s this
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self-absorption this hedonism that comes
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in to the activists well you have to
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bring your own unique experiences to the
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role but when you’re talking about
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bringing people together who have
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different resources it just reminded me
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because I know when you were dealing
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with battered women you were bringing
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you brought in the NRA the National
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Rifle Association saying hey guys you
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guys claim to be all about self defense
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this is about self defense isn’t this a
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common thing don’t we each have the the
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right to defend ourselves it did however
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we had to have an agreement that when we
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sat at the table they didn’t bring up
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anything except the right to self
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defense and they didn’t do anything that
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I didn’t ask them to do so
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those days letters made a difference
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plus they knew the governor they knew
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the cabinet members they could call them
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up and get them on the phone I mean I I
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did the same thing with the Junior
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League and Baptist women’s groups and
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you know these are not groups that
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necessarily would have agreed with me
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about anything else but they did agree
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that women had the right to live in a
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safe environment and they had the right
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to self-defense
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so again but there were benefactors
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there were powerful allies and I had the
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ability to bring them to the table and
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that was important but I also had people
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in my life like you who said when I was
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the most discouraged you know you you
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know why it’s working
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you know what’s happening is when people
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push back it’s because you’re winning
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and that made it so I couldn’t give up
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well that brings to the next question is
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is how do you deal with that inevitable
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pushback because almost by definition
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well certainly by definition if you’re
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being an activist you’re trying to
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change the status quo and Mister status
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and mister quo typically don’t want to
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be changed why guys do not give up power
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without it being taken I’m sorry to say
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this this this news right before we get
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to that before we talk about pushback
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and white guys and all that just a
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little bit about timing so timing can be
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everything right now the timing is
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fantastic if you want to be an activist
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it may not feel like that because
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everybody’s still trying to use the same
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old stuff with letters and just saying
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the right thing and they think that
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these people are going to do the right
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thing which they are not and they’re
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also thinking that people are going to
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come and help and they are not but the
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timing is fantastic for organizing folks
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because people are frustrated and they
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don’t know what the answer is and that
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is exciting because guess what we’re
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going to come up with some of the
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answers and that part is going to knock
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everybody for a loop so we have to also
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have people people who can help us
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develop strategies of what’s possible
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and for example one of the papers that I
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wrote an op-ed piece that I just saw
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in the file recently was where I wrote a
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whole thing about why aren’t we setting
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a date to end whatever it is we’re
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working towards so why aren’t we setting
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an 8 a date to end domestic violence or
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why aren’t we setting a date for world
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peace because the reality is if we can’t
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visualize it how are we ever going to
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get there strategies well I remember
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when you were first getting involved
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with getting mmm excuse me getting
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battered women released from prison down
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in Florida for defending themselves and
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you had struggled over this for a long
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long time and kept saying I’m not a
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lawyer I’m not a lawyer I don’t know the
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law I don’t know how I can help these
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women who are in prison and then one day
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you know having that kind of Eureka
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moment of going this isn’t about the law
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this has nothing to do with the law this
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is about public relations it’s about the
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positive life it’s if I can make the
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powers-that-be look ridiculous look
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embarrassed then we’re gonna get
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movement on this but the legal system
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also rarely has anything to do with the
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law well but the thing was we also
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manipulated the legal system and we
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trained law students you manipulate a
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lot of people the media the prison
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system Wow
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we were doing our jobs let’s put it that
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way well manipulate has a bad
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connotation but basically if you’re in
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activism you’re wanting to manipulate
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the system you want to change that
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system to do what it is you want them to
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do that is manipulation well it’s also
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having a strategy that says when things
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present themselves let’s go for it so I
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do remember once getting I had been
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hired to start a women’s fund in Florida
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and I got an invitation from the
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governor and I had been organizing these
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women who’d been in prison who were
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battered women and and we were trying to
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write letters and we had hundreds of
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letters had been generated saying what
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are you gonna do about women who are
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going to prison that don’t belong there
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that have acted in self-defense and and
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then I got this letter that invited me
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to the governor’s mansion to talk about
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the role of women at
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women’s funds but private foundations
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and the government because they had used
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that money to hire somebody to settle a
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lawsuit in the prison system and and I
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looked up at the woman who was helping
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me and I said we’re gonna go see the
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governor I mean how often to get invited
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to his house to eat dinner with them so
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well I don’t want to brag we’ve gone
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through the drive-through window anyway
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so what we ended up doing was we spent a
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lot of time creating a strategy that we
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would wear our really best hats because
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I loved hats and I had some really great
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hats and we would have one question we
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were gonna ask because I knew I was
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going to be nervous as I could be and so
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we drove all the way to Tallahassee four
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and a half hours we got out of the car
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and there was the governor holding the
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door for us it was like whoa it’s an
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omen and the whole evening was really
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crazy but when I finally did get to ask
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the question he screwed up the answer so
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badly that his public policy person I
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don’t remember I think she worked for
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the environment as public policy which
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meant she was an attorney and she had
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spoken to me at the meeting right before
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everybody started having the
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conversation where I asked the question
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she said to me oh I love what you’re
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doing with the Women’s Fund and I would
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love to participate are you looking for
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board members and I said yes I am
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so when the governor was handling my
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question so poorly I could see her
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shaking her head and I thought I’m gonna
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get kicked out she’s gonna kick me out
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and when it was over she came rushing up
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to me and of course I knew at that
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moment I’m I’m toast
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and she said I’m so embarrassed the
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governor handled that so badly you call
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me on Monday and I’m going to make this
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happen okay so a couple of things
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occurred to me as you’re telling that
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story one is focus right I mean you had
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one question one issue mm-hmm went in
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there with your agenda and say instead
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of being all over the place about
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everything because when it comes to
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complaining we can we can all
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scattershot pretty easily so you’re
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saying kind of be laser-focused
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on your issue and and it occurred to me
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also when we talk about the pushback I
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remember through that process many times
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you were threatened you know threatened
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that you would be fired and the problem
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they had was you were doing it all for
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free you know well I I did have the
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board that night say to me they were
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gonna fire me because I spoke up in that
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meeting we are embarrassing them talking
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about women as a women’s fund well you
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should know better than that so so those
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are a couple of things well it you know
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I was talking with one of our interns
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about the the problem that I perceived
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with the Occupy Wall Street movement of
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a few years ago and it seemed like they
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were all over the place I mean they were
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they they were not focused
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they were there’s a lot of issues and
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they were very ineffective in my
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estimation and what was interesting
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there people who would disagree but well
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that’s you know and I’m getting to that
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because because our intern was saying
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look the the the effectiveness of that
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movement wasn’t in making change at that
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moment the effectiveness of that
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movement was bringing people together
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who were motivated and creating
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relationships that will make change for
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decades to come so so the action itself
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may have looked ineffective at the
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moment but now there’s all sorts of
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communities and all sorts of groups and
24:05
relationships that are going on there
24:06
that are making those changes and and
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that’s something that you know I was
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quick to dismiss until it was pointed
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out to me well and and and just to come
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back to that about building
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relationships when I was doing that with
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the governor and the cabinet and a lot
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of other powerful people that strategy
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work because the timing was good the
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strategy was right on and I was able to
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get an awful lot of people to come to
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the table so it was hard for them to
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look away but today that strategy would
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not work what does work though is the
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building relationship part and that is
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at a local level
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where we build relationships first with
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our own activism within ourselves and
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embrace that and say we got to do
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something and then the other thing is to
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build it with people who are like-minded
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think it doesn’t even have to be that
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like-minded it means we have to focus on
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what we have in common and then we can
25:04
go from there so those are the
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relationships we have to build today not
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the president you know of something but
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the guy who lives next door or the guy
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who runs the garbage truck or the guy
25:16
who the woman who hands out the stuff at
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McDonald’s where are those people in our
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life who have something in common with
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us well once you’ve identified the goal
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and you’ve gotten yourself motivated to
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do this how do you keep yourself
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motivated keep yourself moving forward
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well I think you have to have specific
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steps that you say you’re going to make
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and I highly suggest you write them down
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because sometimes it’s hard to remember
25:41
that you actually did anything because
25:44
it can seem so tedious and and lots of
25:47
pushing back although the more they push
25:49
back the more they tell you we’re not
25:51
doing that or whatever then the more you
25:54
know somewhere you’re making some
25:56
headway well but that can be very
25:59
discouraging well but it’s a fact of
26:01
life it’s all a part of that an equation
26:03
that’s about being an activist so I
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think a big part of pushback is that
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those of us who are not in that movement
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we have to be saying to you as an
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activist when you’re trying to do
26:15
something well done you’re making
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progress I know that’s what Awards mean
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to people is to get an award is only
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saying you you don’t stop keep going
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mm-hmm so there’s a lot of ways I mean
26:29
we had that in your situation there in
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Florida where you were feeling very
26:34
discouraged and then this national group
26:36
the giraffe foundation gave you this
26:39
award for sticking my neck and I
26:43
remember telling you well guess you got
26:45
to keep going because they gave you an
26:47
award yeah I was ready to quit I was
26:50
feeling pretty hopeless because I was
26:51
sick and and I didn’t know what I was
26:53
doing and I actually did win so let’s
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say you do win then what I mean you got
26:58
to have a strategy
26:59
jeetu actually win a lot of these people
27:01
they make all this movement they get
27:04
their goal and they don’t know what to
27:06
do with the ball once they caught it
27:07
well winning has a lot of definitions
27:09
and so winning could be that it’s all
27:12
about people working together and you
27:14
come up with a lot of cool things like
27:16
you were talking about with the the Wall
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Street issue group and so what does that
27:23
mean and I think you have to define that
27:24
but where do you want to be with that
27:26
and how do you want to use it once you
27:28
have it and maybe you just give it away
27:30
I don’t know but or maybe you never win
27:34
maybe it’s the process of trying to get
27:36
there and building these relationships
27:37
and seeing how those people go home and
27:39
do something again it’s all part of this
27:41
strategy and we’ll talk about it at Blue
27:43
Rock station when we have the accidental
27:46
activist mm-hmm so do not go calmly or
27:50
quietly into that good night okay well
27:53
you that mean well it’s an it’s a famous
27:55
poem about struggling against the
27:57
inevitability of old age but that’s a
27:59
whole different actively listening to
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