Covid 19

Seeing a familiar face, even if it's behind a mask

Seeing a familiar face, even if it's behind a mask

“Oh, Penny, I’d heard you were volunteering here!”

The woman behind the mask, arriving for her Covid vaccination, is a near neighbour, as is one of the other volunteers on this shift. At our local vaccine centre, you never know who you might see.

What shall we bring with us, into the new normal?

What shall we bring with us, into the new normal?

The future isn’t written yet. We co-create it with each other, sometimes deliberately and sometimes by accident. As we emerge from the huge disruption of the pandemic, what do you want to bring with you, from the time before - and from the time of – Covid-19?

What might a sustainable post-pandemic recovery be like?

What might a sustainable post-pandemic recovery be like?

More priority given to care and caring? Collective action for individual good? Cities designed to enable us to be good neighbours? Or inequalities made worse by stark divisions between the people who can work from home and those who can't? She is Still (virtually) Sustainable brought together a brilliant panel to explore what the future of sustainability looks like, from our vantage point within a pandemic and a lockdown.

She is Still (virtually) Sustainable - moving an event online

She is Still (virtually) Sustainable - moving an event online

It was to have been a two-day face to face event for 45 women who work in sustainability, with peer coaching, group cheers, a wall of achievement, keynote speakers and open space sessions. What on earth could we do instead? She is Still (virtually) Sustainable, of course!