Making profit seems intrinsically linked to exploiting the planet for its finite resources, or treating members of our global society unequally. Companies getting away with exploitative practices is one of the biggest crimes of our time. But how do we tackle this? Join us as we take on some big picture questions including...
• Who has the power to drive change?
• How are businesses getting away with it?
• What laws are needed to protect the planet?
• Which companies and nations are breaking the mould?
• What can we do as individuals to support change?
Session lead: Thomas Empson, Sustainability Project Manager, LSBU
Joined by:
• Shane Holland, Executive Chaiman, Slow Food UK
More speakers to be announced
Biographies
Shane Holland is the Executive Chairman of Slow Food in the UK. He has held CEO positions within both the business and the third sectors and has chaired a number of large NFPS. Within the third sector his work has specialised in regards to our most vulnerable citizens, their issues of food poverty and food skills, education, offending, and access to service. His other current roles include Trustee of Borough Market, and sitting as a trustee of the charity United St Saviours, which gives grants to community groups and other charities of in excess of £1 million a year alongside running best in class almshouses. He is chair of Friends of Highshore School, a special school which has food education, growing, and food enterprise as an integral part of its curriculum. He frequently sits on expert panels, appear both in print and on TV and Radio; lectures at universities; has given a TED Talk as one of their “Architects of Tomorrow”; and carries out dozens of speaking engagements a year both within the UK and internationally.
Shane will be exploring we can hold businesses, and ourselves, to account, as well as discussing how to spot greenwashing, and why shopping is a little like voting - a pound coin changes nothing, but our pound coins together can change the world.
Visit: www.slowfood.org.uk.