Brym Labs

About Brym Labs

Signs of Hope: A global community fighting for equitable Climate solutions. brym.substack.com (https://brym.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Thomas Guest

Category

business · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Jan 2022

Latest episode

9 Jul 2023

Latest episodes

27 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Jul 2023

   Brym Season 2 Finale: Breakthroughs in Brazil!

   July 3rd was the hottest day recorded in the history of humankind (https://www.reuters.com/world/world-registers-hottest-day-ever-recorded-july-3-2023-07-04/) (since we started measuring). Yet, The Global Political Economy seems to constantly ebb and flow between progression and regression when it comes to climate action. One country that has stood out from the rest in the last year (in a great way) is Brazil. A home for our precious Amazon Rainforest, which absorbs 25% of the CO2 in our atmosphere, (https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/amazon-deforestation-and-climate-change/) so much of our global efforts on climate change hinge on the Brazilian activists, entrepreneurs, and political leaders dreaming of a new system. Thomas met Andréia Coutinho Louback (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreia-louback/) at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. She spoke on an incredible panel - Watch here at 1:47:55 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNk6gnOEPpg) - focused on climate action, justice, and unlocking capital for youth who want to launch their own initiatives. The panel, full of young women from across Africa and Central/South America spoke about the need for patient, flexible capital, distributed by donors who are youth themselves and can connect with our approach. Many times, established funders are from the generation before us and don’t quite align with or understand our approach to solution building - Andréia calls this our ‘Trust-Based Problem’. In our conversation together (interview above!) we dive into an analysis of this panel ^, the Loss & Damage Fund (https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/what-you-need-know-about-cop27-loss-and-damage-fund), the sentiment and feeling in Brazil now that leftist President Lula da Silva is back in power (https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1146518711/leftist-lula-brazil-sworn-in-president) for the third time with a focus on protecting the Amazon, and how young people across the world can access resources like: * Global Climate Justice Map (https://climatejusticemap.org/index.php/Main_Page) that can be a ‘common source of truth’ resource for: * Youth activists looking for inspiration on a new project * Youth Activists hoping to share their work with a larger audience * Funders looking for amazing projects to support! * HERO portal: * Youth Activists can take 5-7 minutes to fill out THIS FORM (https://32vwi7d75va.typeform.com/herocircleform) to be matched with relevant funding and operational support opportunities. * This Podcast (https://open.spotify.com/episode/0A7VgmSjwS5E1zG9zl4YME?si=5373e1db2c554d66&nd=1) shares more on the HERO process: * Community Climate Justice Guidelines: Andréia is currently building, along with a collective group of youth from the Global South, a guideline for projects and programs that hope to engage community based organizations in their deployment. This is the Season 2 Finale… so what’s next!!?? Thomas will be traveling to South Africa in July, Brym will be launching the flagship programs of our ‘Social Action Lab’ in August and we’ll re-launch our storytelling platform for Season 3 in September! Onwards… Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this fun ride so far. Excited to see where this goes alongside all of you. Thomas Guest, Brym Founder Get full access to Brym | Center for Sustainable Worlds at brym.substack.com/subscribe (https://brym.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

2. 

   2 Jun 2023

   A Goddess Reborn: Claim Our Space Now

   Hello, Everyone! Welcome back to Brym (http://brym.co/) - it’s Season 2, Episode 12! After this morning, Only 1 more episode left in Season 2 after this before we unveil the next chapter of Brym. We can’t wait to share more… a new Website, Storytelling Form, Social Action Lab, Sustainable Business Model… we’ve got a lot in the works! Today we focus on building a life as an activist. Hint: It’s really hard, especially in our world today that doesn’t value work located outside the classic capitalist system. How do you build something from scratch? How do you organize your initial community? How do you develop that group into a movement that exists on a platform? How do you tell your story through multiple art forms? How do you do this all while paying for a roof over your head!?? Marla Louissaint (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlalouissaint/), producer, actor, artist, model, entrepreneur, Marla-verse, is accomplishing all the above as we speak. Her interview attached and resource collection below provides a blueprint I hope we can all try to follow. I’ve learned so much from her personally and Brym would not be where we are today without her guidance and wisdom as a member of the Brym Global Working Group. Take the time to enter into a space of learning… open the links below and work through them at your own pace. I’ll be doing the same over the coming weeks. Title: A Goddess Reborn: Black Panthers in the 21st Century Author: Marla Louissaint, June 2, 2023 Real Utopias! They're hard to imagine and even harder to create. But that's the work of the artist, to make the movement irresistible. At Claim Our Space Now (https://www.claimourspacenow.org/), we are building a creative library of resources and a plan for action to dismantle white supremacy, colonialism, and global capitalism. As we imagine what new versions of what our world could look like, please enjoy this bounty and engage. AfroMarxist Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2xX2FI6s4i9xz3t9qjayhg (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2xX2FI6s4i9xz3t9qjayhg) Black Panther Party Survival programs: Real examples of anti-capitalist programs and operational details for how to execute community movements focused on food, healthcare, housing, clothing, and a LOT more:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/18qytrqD_aJlG3m6gjK44qE1DhtV1SuOh/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/18qytrqD_aJlG3m6gjK44qE1DhtV1SuOh/view?usp=sharing)claimourspacenow.org (http://claimourspacenow.org/) for National Resources and organizations liberating black lives. marlalou.com (http://marlalou.com/) for Marla's individual site - book time with me to brainstorm projects you're working on! Pull up and connect! If you’re trying to build solidarity movements in your community, hit me up and let’s build together. Only one more episode left this season! Keep a look out and have a safe weekend! Get full access to Brym | Center for Sustainable Worlds at brym.substack.com/subscribe (https://brym.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

3. 

   11 May 2023

   Reimaging Energy for Our Communities

   Hello, Everyone! Welcome back to Brym (http://brym.co/) - it’s Season 2, Episode 11! This has been such an amazing season so far with people sharing their stories from all over the world! If you want to take a look back at all the amazing work being done, check it out here (http://brym.substack.com)! We will be producing 1-2 more stories in Season 2 before regrouping over the Summer to think about the next evolution of our Storytelling Platform. Hint: Video? Short Films? Documentaries? We’ll see :) Thank you for being here and a part of this exciting ride that’s just getting started! After almost two seasons of collecting stories from around the world, Food, Water, and Energy have emerged as constant points of community focus. Motifs and trends throughout these stories inform what Brym is working towards and how, especially as we move towards translating stories into projects through our upcoming Innovation Lab launching this Summer! Today, we dig into on of those focus areas: the world of Community Energy with two amazing leaders in the space, Crystal Huang (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thisiscrystal/) (who writes her story below) and Julius Mujuni (https://www.linkedin.com/in/julius-mujuni-707ba532/)!! There are a ton of great resources below shared by Crystal if your community is thinking about building decentralized systems of energy! That’s a huge focus of Brym as well, so feel free to reach out with any questions moving forward! If you’re not already subscribed, we’d love to have you along for the journey!! ‘Reimaging Energy for Our Communities’ Author Crystal Huang, People Power Solar Cooperative, May 11 2023 About the Author: Crystal Huang Crystal Huang is a Co-Founder and Worker Owner of People Power Solar Cooperative - a movement cooperative that aims to enable everyone to own and shape our energy future. She is a grassroots community-builder and a 2020 Roddenberry Fellow with more than 10 years of experience deploying climate solution technologies. For her work building popular education on energy and power, she serves on the Resilience Hubs Advisory Council for “Toward Resilient California Communities” Initiative funded by the Strategic Growth Council. Nationally, she also leads the Energy Democracy Project, a collaboration of close to 40 geographically and racially diverse organizations working to democratize the energy sector in the US. She is the Board Treasurer of the People’s Solar Energy Fund. Check out her story featured by Seventh Generation here. Get full access to Brym | Center for Sustainable Worlds at brym.substack.com/subscribe (https://brym.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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