Systemic change for ecologically sustainable degrowth societies, with Dr. Sabrina Chakori
Channel: Inside Ideas
Date: 2022-07-25

Dr. Sabrina Chakori is my guest on Episode 164 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. 

Sabrina is a Researcher at CSIRO - Australia’s Science Agency, Associate Lecturer University of Queensland, founder (Brisbane Tool Library), and Post Growth Institute, fellow. Sabrina holds a BSc. in Biology (University of Geneva) and an MSc. in Environmental Economics (The University of Queensland). Using a systems approach in her Ph.D. research (The University of Queensland) Sabrina explored packaged food reduction in food systems. Her work provides an understanding and repositioning of the socio-materiality of food packaging, politicizing packaged food, and highlighting the need to pursue degrowth strategies to increase the sustainability of food systems.

Post Growth Institute fellow, winner of 2020 Create Change 7News Young Achiever Award (QLD), and recipient of the Emerging Female Leader bursary from the National Council of Women of Queensland (2020), Sabrina is a multi-award social entrepreneur, researcher, educator, and dedicated activist. Sabrina is fully invested in creating systemic change that would build a more socially just and ecologically sustainable degrowth society.

Sabrina has advocated for a more sustainable society, leading numerous collaborations in various countries. For example, to translate into practice her knowledge and vision, in 2017, she founded the Brisbane Tool Library, a social enterprise that encourages people to borrow tools, camping gear, and other equipment. This community-driven circular model reduces productivism and consumerism. The Brisbane Tool Library is Australia’s first and only ‘library of things’ to be located within a public library (State Library of Queensland). 

Sabrina also co-founded the Degrowth Journal with a collective that aims at changing the academic culture, decommodifying knowledge, and supporting slow science.

https://www.ted.com/talks/sabrina_chakori_sharing_economy_towards_a_resource_light_lifestyle
https://www.innovatorsmag.com/what-does-a-degrowth-future-offer-the-world/
https://agriculture.uq.edu.au/profile/8807/sabrina-chakori
https://degrowthjournal.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/%E2%9A%92%EF%B8%8F-sabrina-chakori-19b782107/
https://www.facebook.com/SabrinaChakori/
http://brisbanetoollibrary.org/
https://twitter.com/sabrinachakori
Bhttps://twitter.com/BrizToolLibrary
https://twitter.com/postgrowth
https://medium.com/@sabrina.chakori

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00:00 - Systemic change for ecologically sustainable degrowth societies
00:41 - Introduction Inside Ideas guest Dr. Sabrina Chakori on Episode 164 with Marc Buckley
04:10 - What sparked you to take Social Ecological challenges?
07:40 - Activism 
10:00 - The root cause
12:19 - Do I need an education to take part?
13:59 - Collaborate as a community
17:32 - Ties to Limit to Growth book
18:17 - The System Dynamics Society https://systemdynamics.org/
20:20 - Food packaging 
22:43 - Subsystems
29:00 - Switched to a systemic approach to solve problems
32:00 - Think in systems
35:50 - The SDG - Economic growth
37:35 - Degrowth - what is it?
44:01 - Tim Jackson - Post Growth https://youtu.be/DnUV2Ncxj5A
49:38 - Brisbane Tool Library
52:18 - Ecological economic models
55:30 - Rethinking the purpose of our society
56:45 - Critics on Circular economy
1:01:45 - John Elkington’s recall of Tripple bottom line https://youtu.be/ETyAh1mxWyw
1:02:15 - On Regenerative Capitalism
1:05:57 - If money expires
1:09:20 - Local Futures organization Helena Norberg Hodge https://youtu.be/8yjMqHvPCgg
1:16:35 - More on Neo-Liberalism 
1:23:05 - What does a world that works for everyone looks like for you?
1:26:35 - Sustainable Takeaways
1:27:57 - What I wish I knew from the start