Friday's Five ππΌ #107
Happy Friday's Five,
I took a train from Berlin to Brussels to surprise my sister for her birthday yesterday and we're now headed to our hometown for a funeral tomorrow.
What I'm reading
The Guardian this week launched extensive investigative reporting titled 'The Polluters' in which they dive deep into the the fossil fuel industry, and the structures behind it, which are driving the climate emergency. Learn about the top 20 firms behind a third of the carbon emissions, how think tanks spent years undermining climate science, and so much more:
βThe great tragedy of the climate crisis is that seven and a half billion people must pay the price β in the form of a degraded planet β so that a couple of dozen polluting interests can continue to make record profits. It is a great moral failing of our political system that we have allowed this to happen.β
What I'm listening to
A while ago, I interviewed actress and activist Sophia Bush for The Role Models Podcast. Sophia is a force and she recently started her own podcast called 'Work in Progress'. I enjoy listening to the episodes and liked the one with Crooked Media's Jon Favreau in particular in which he talks about his time working in Obama's White House as a main speech writer.
What I'm watching
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates. This is an excellent three-part Netflix series about one the richest people on the planet. Bill Gates co-founded and built Microsoft into a multi-billion company and now casually grabs breakfast with Warren Buffet when he's not busy combining innovation and philanthropy to address and solve some of the biggest issues of our time. Peek into a brilliant mind at work.
What I'm thinking about
"Don't lose what you have to what you have lost.β β Dr. Lucy Hone
What else?!
Mihela Hladin-Wolfe is Patagonia's Director of Environmental Initiatives for Europe and one of the key people in the company with the mission to be in business to save our home planet. We sat down with Mihela in der house in Amsterdam to talk about the climate crisis, Patagonia's new platform for activism called 'Patagonia Action Works', and how for-profit business can contribute to solving the crisis. Listen to it here.
Thanks for reading, have a great weekend!
David
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