What's an Economy for, anyway? Building an economy for people and planet with Yannick Beaudoin

What's our economy for? Does it have to keep growing at the expense of all we hold dear; the things that make life worth living? Or can we re-imagine a new way of doing things that would value what matters most to us, and keep people and planet healthy?

Yannick Beaudoin is Director-General for Ontario and Northern Canada with the David Suzuki Foundation and Director for Innovation and forOntario with the Wellbeing Economies Alliance for Canada and the Sovereign Indigenous Nations. He brings a ‘new economics for transition’ lens to the organisation to enable the transformation of Canada towards social and ecological sustainability. He has a background in marine geology, was former Chief Scientist with GRID-Arendal, a United Nations Environment Programme collaborating centre - and has a Masters from Schumacher college in Economics for Transition.

We talk with him this week in his role in the Wellbeing Economies Alliance for Canada - and as part of the greater Alliance, which incorporates nations as far apart as Scotland and New Zealand, and organisations across the globe. David brings his sense of scope and place and humanity to the huge questions of today: What's our economy for? And if it's not fit for purpose, how can we shift the system to something which would bring people and planet into balance and harmony.

David Suzuki Foundation:
https://davidsuzuki.org

Wellbeing Economies Alliance
https://weall.org/

Weall Canada
https://weallcanada.org/

Theory U
https://www.toolshero.com/leadership/theory-u-scharmer/

Three Horizons Model
https://resources.h3uni.org/tutorial/three-horizons/

Thrutopia
https://thrutopia.life