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"suzannah" Discussed on The Green Insider Powered by eRENEWABLE
"Very special announcement coming from the renewable executive team as co founder and ceo. Mike nimmer is going to discuss two major additions to the executive group Mr steve berberick former. Ceo of the california iso Is going to join the renewable board. And we're excited to announce susannah cass. A power one hundred climate fifty member one of the top most influential climate change thought leaders in the industry and she's also an energy fellow at stanford university among many other things is also joining the renewable executive team as an executive advisor. So very excited about what's going on right now with the renewable team as we get ready to close out twenty twenty one here. Is mike namer in his thoughts. On adding mr steve berberick to that you renewable board brad. Today i'm pleased to announce some tremendous additions of executive statue for renewable. So i we have joining us on. Our board is mr steve. Berger steve is a former president ceo of the california so former president of geo fifteen association of the largest global. Reduce operators is a former president of the ice. Oh and our te'o council and association of the north american oh and artigas brings inexperienced us that we didn't have you know i'm a former oil and gas after forty years. I don't have a lot of power experience. you don't get much more experience. Mr burg steve is gonna add that experience in his executive position of running the couch for for the last ten years. The president and ceo. And it's gonna bring an experienced us we just didn't have to before you know conceptually. I know however things should work united traitor commodities a combined. You just gotta know how to plug it in. There's a lot of spots in power that i don't know how to plug it in. What i'm thinking. Steve can contribute. They help me plug in with our customers looking for making irritable much more successful now. We had a chance to catch up with mr sebert as well as susanna caz and get their thoughts on joining the renewable group. Here is steve berg talking about joining the renewable board number one. What intrigued you about joining the renewable board. Well the humor awards. The superintendent one is people and then to the product. And i i think the people there involved the renewal have a vision and expertise and get can provide some significant night. I also think that we're an inflection point. Now where more and more communities and businesses and others are going to be interested in procuring renewables and procure them at a cost effective basis and. That's exactly what he renewables dust so the product is great. The people are great. That's why you'll have the opportunity to see firsthand about the aspirations of communities that are interested in finding clean energy in creating jobs in their local communities and i saw what their aspirations or. I saw them firsthand. I got to know those people. I know what their value proposition is. What they're looking for. And i think that's the kind of information i can. You know instruction. I can bring to the team further. These are more. Mike evasive but the entire industry is on a significant change. Right now from you know from big big generation transmission lines more microbe distribution for resilience for all kinds of other reasons. And those the kinda value propositions of urinals earning so i think matching up what i've seen with what they can do. We can bring to market quite effectively not to mention too and i know we touched on this a little bit on the podcast as well but you know doing what you guys did over in california and the work and experience that you've had their sets a really good example and just gives you a great baseline for kind of how the rest of the country can kind of adapt to a more renewable and sustainable future as well early. Used to give a speech. When i was the ceo so basically the speech was called. This is coming to a theater near you. So i would tell them. What a lot of people california's on. Yeah just you know a little bit crazed if you will but in fact the cost of rubles have come down dramatically. It's the cheetah's former generation now and it whether you believe in trying to decarbonised brit or just simply economics all of those trends points more rubles on the grid. More storage more of that. Technology and as communities become more aware of their of the value of the dieting proposition. Two constituencies are looking for. They are going to pursue that as well. I'll also note that. Many of the corporations in the united states have made commitments to carbon reduction and so two recurring clean energy to produce the products and services. So i think the market is immense. Get chatter with this. The energy transition is in full swing. What's it been like now this last year so that you've been able to kinda sit back and watch all this unfold in retirement. A great question. I to candy with your retirement condescending because i get back in the game well i you know i. I always felt that the industry that i was in is intriguing. It's it's even cool and to see the changes that occurred in california and to see them spreading into know how to integrate renewables and how dispatch storage. And do all those things They still intrigued me. In the technology's evolving very quickly too so being just being a curious kind of person being part of that and continued to pursue that is is still a passion of mine and i still want to be involved in that so while i may play a little bit more off now more. I'm involved in the single energy system in the transition that it's into going in under and frankly i talked to some italians yesterday. As an example this is a worldwide phenomenon. Just here not here just in. us things. That mr steve berg once again. Here's mike nimmer. On the announcement of miss susanna cass joining the renewable team as an executive advisor susannah. Brace a world of experience. When i say world i do mean world. She is the data center adviser for the united nations sustainable development goals team and so she lectures all around the world and that experience has now been given to our executive team by having suzanne on board with this. I met susannah back at the name. A conference in october of two thousand nineteen. Our listeners are very familiar with name. Because for biweekly name. A news minute that we do and susanna and i stayed in touch. Continue to talk until the time was right in that time is now so she's officially aren't executive advisor. Suzannah's experience ranges all the way from being the ceo of ebay international to be an energy fellow both stanford and cornell university. She lectures all around the world. She's a guest lecture. At the national university of singapore she does research for the intergovernmental panel on climate change and most recently susannah has the distinction being now a member of the power one hundred and a member of the climate fifty of the top most influential climate change leaders in the net positive impact for the ict sector so bringing her experience. Not just in the data center world or in the ebay world with a fortune fifty world that she participates in bringing that experience to our team speaks volumes. It helps us gain traction. We probably wouldn't have gained without her because she is known all the way around the world. So i miss susanna. Cast and mr steve. Berberick gives us a worldwide presence on both their accounts because both of them lecture not just in the united states but around the world and we are very proud to have both been joining the renewable team. Take that once again. Mr mike nemo and here is susanna. Cass and her thoughts on what it means to join the renewable team in what she hoped to accomplish.
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Consider This from NPR
"suzannah" Discussed on Consider This from NPR
"Welcome to consider this from npr. And w amu. After the top story from npr. Stay with us for a look at what's happening here in the dc metro region from the w. amu newsroom. We did not go to afghanistan to nation bill a little over two months ago. President biden recommitted to ending america's longest war and it's the right and the responsibility of afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country almost immediately. The taliban made their move. These advances are incredibly significant washington. Post reporters suzannah. George described the advances after. They took control of three cities in a single day. The taliban's sweep across afghanistan. That began not long after The final phase of the withdrawal of foreign forces began it happened a lot. Faster than us and afghan officials were anticipating and then on august fifteenth. The fall of kabul the taliban the taliban took over the capital of kabul and walked back into power and the shudder the flag coming down. Now the us military is gone. Tens of thousands of afghans have been evacuated but for those left behind life under taliban rule has been changing and rapidly. Oh just say that. We're on the edge of disaster year new york times reporter matthew atkins we have long lines of people. Outside banks trying to take out money we have people were on the verge of starvation so if there's not urging action taken by the world we're going to have a massive humanitarian crisis. Consider this one month. Since the fall of kabul thousands of afghans were promised protection are now trapped under taliban rule and those who did escape face. An unknown future from npr. I'm audie cornish. it's wednesday. September fifteenth communica video prince. Rice sylvan's together. These are just three of the performance. We have lined up for our tiny desk concert takeover during hispanic heritage month. And who are the others. You gotta check out the all latino podcast from. Npr music to find out. It's considered this from npr. One of the afghans who's left behind is a man. We're calling con to protect his identity con worked as an interpreter for the us military from late. Two thousand four. To mid two thousand eight he was embedded with troops that he says routinely went on combat missions in taliban-controlled areas. You're lucky arrived. We survived like around trill ambushes because of his service khan was approved for a visa to come to the us but he wasn't able to get on a plane out of kabul so con- had to drive eleven hours back to his home in kandahar to wait for an email from the us embassy. I heard metting nutting khan told. Npr this week. What that silence felt like the mix. You feel disappointed that makes you feel left behind. That makes you feel you will be shot in did every day. You're living in the harir. All the talibans around deal working closely with the. Us makes con vulnerable to taliban reprisals and he says he seen neighbors captured. They've been to their home late at night and dig it you out. And some of them are returned back. Some of them are not yet been determined or released con moved into a small apartment with his wife and three children in an area of town where he feels less likely to be recognized. There's no other option. You.
Press Rewind: A Prince Lyrics Podcast
"suzannah" Discussed on Press Rewind: A Prince Lyrics Podcast
"They They didn't they didn't always live in the same city but because their careers took them in different directions different paths but soon as they retired. They made sure that they lived within. You know driving easy driving distance. They're all in the same general vicinity saint metro area of a city. That was by design. They wanted to be close to each other in their retirement. Age and They've always have just been like in tune with each other super super close. So i can kind of relate i mean i don't stop me just a family member but still i see that from an outsiders perspective seeing their relationship Growing up when i would see them in how close they were like. Okay i get it. I totally get it. You know these. These women are Discloses to siblings can possibly be as close as siblings may be if they aren't twins twins just have different. There's just a different dynamic. And i don't want to speak for tanks. I'm not a twin. But any twins out there that feel the same way probably relate to that i would imagine but i would think so and you have the same sort of perspective not from a romantic obviously direction but the same sort of outside perspective of seeing your aunt speaks so close to one another but not being a part of that unit now obviously didn't need to break up that unit for any reason but no no and that that is the question that you brought it up like so why does and we won't have any answers. Of course prince feel the need to try to usurp suzannah's relationship. Yeah well and i. I really think my my answer to would be that. That's the kind of relationships that he desired from. All of his partners he wanted to be there singular focus. And that's gonna say this to the end but it fits here. he had. This is the kind of relationship he was chasing. Because it's the kind of relationship he had with music. He was looking for the same devotion and understanding that he had of music with a partner and he was chasing that and could see it in the if you look at his relationships and how they evolved and how they related to his music and the kinds of things he wrote about in when he was in different kinds of relationships he was really seeking the same deep level of understanding. He had with music as if music were really is ultimate partner who understood him completely but never really required anything of him food. He's he's looking for that in a human partner as well a romantic partner. He wants the same kind of relationship with music with a person that he has with the music. And it's just and he never quite found it. How could you yeah. Yeah they did. They just isn't the same they're not it's gonna. It would be a fruitless search forever form. If that's his goal was that that was his mom you know the way that he was approaching that in the way that he looked at relationships and way he has relationship with music was good doomed to fail because because humans have wants and needs and desires that differ from his own and he could master music and he can you know mastering another person or mastering. A relationship is much more difficult. Yes what thing. I just touched on it briefly but i just kind of reiterate so this was. The song is sung in the in prince's camille persona so it was one of the songs alike..
Woman's Hour
"suzannah" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"And so that's what we've been able to slowly slowly and pick in this in this plant that we work with cooled robert doses and that leads to my next question in layman's terms. How do plants have a memory. Well they actually It's the same memories in our own cells as a cellular memory and The genes in plant have the same proteins coating them as in our bodies and those are modified and so when the environmental signals come in. There's modifications happen on the dna and there's been remembered as the cells grow. There's modifications remain. So if you think about your own development you'll an embryo old of the cells in embryos were given instructions and then all cells remember those instructions through many many many stages of development beyond and it's the same in the plant. What's been amazing is to find that it's the same molecular instructions that remember winter as it's the as the same memory mechanism that remembers all these developmental instructions in the embryos of ourselves has fascinating I'm a novice gardener. Learning as i go loving the journey. I have to say. And and so say if i plan to you know some sees a few weeks behind our supposed which often do do they ever play catchup. Can they flower when they when they meant to recite it for the season. Well most of them would play catcher. They're very good at catching up. Except these ones that all evolved actually over winter. So let's say if you had an oilseed rape planet and you you had to win variety and you so those in spring they wouldn't catch up. They actually need a winter. So some we'll catch up and most of what you say will probably catch him. But the crop. Frontiers have been bred to actually have an absolute need for winter period. What pan all of this fascinating research. Tell us about other organisms. Well as i said you know when we looked in this particular plan is referenced. Plan to rob adopts this. We find the same memory mechanisms as in our bodies which then says all of the organisms in between. We'll have the same memory mechanisms..
Woman's Hour
"suzannah" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"This is a really interesting point. Rebecca in terms of local authorities in the government. What would the child care providers light to see from them in terms of supporting them with their needs right. Now the our school sector has Six england have really struggled route upon. They have happened. Dr racks for supports from. Uk government's is a different picture in scotland and wales. I'm imagining northern ireland. As well however in england there have been There's been no directly support direct to the factors support which is how to significant impacts on than they've had to rely on as many of the businesses across the half they've rely on and the fellow schemes keeper their stocks in employment and have no direct support for that business operations. Unfortunately what the that means. Is that the impacts of lies being swallowed up by a largely female lead workforce. I'm largely a sexist. Made a largely on small business owners Desperately trying to make ends meet whilst continuing to provide a service. The families that they all care very very deeply around. I'm not that limits. In terms of the support has meant that unfortunately the picture and mechanised pointed out is that weather is costing us sorry got to increase. Because of the cost of delivery of delivering the service needed to increase to the providers that is unfortunately being passed on to the parents. The raw some there is some supports available after the The holiday activity fayed skiing. I suddenly to receive free school. Males button also provide is able to access that support and pass that on to The families on it's only supporting a limited sensitive of the population who are eligible. So you're in that real difficult periods. The i guess the message from the factories that they very much wants to be heard. They won't be recognized as pass a valued part of the chat wide to childcare workforce and that they won't Direct proportionate appropriate support from from the government unfor- local authorities as well So that they can continue to prod serviceable full families I'm not certain messages. Come from the sectors route last eighteen. Monks relay is. They want to be respected. They won't say you'd recognize in terms of the value that they provide to parents so that they can continue for the support in the best way that they can rebecca jackson director of the of school alliance and megan jarvi head of the karma family and child out he. Thank you both for your insights there. This is no doubt a conversation that's going to be continuing amongst parents and child care. Providers is those holidays a will be upon us in a matter of weeks right onto a slightly different very different. Do plants have a memory. Yes according to the pioneering research of professor dame caroline dean a plant biologists to spend more than thirty years looking into how plants remember seasons. And what this can tell us that. She's just been awarded the prestigious wolf prize in agriculture which is considered by some to be the equivalent of a nobel prize in agriculture. Happy to say that professor dame caroline gene joins me now to talk through her extraordinary work and career. Thank you for your time and first of all..
Woman's Hour
"suzannah" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"Summer. he holiday childcare. Sachse have really struggled over as many businesses through the pandemic An aunt she what would finding these much for meghan was saying that we've got A broad section of the sector who were really struggling to balance the demands in terms of what parents are she wants to need to access but also The difficulties facing in terms of operating under continued restriction necessary restriction in terms of the hybrid rated regulations which means that they're operating in small groups of no more than fifteen children necessarily impacting on the the cost of delivery the provisions on the places of ever available for families which has led to a situation where many settings the finding that it's unaffordable from to continue to contract with the some holiday permission because they simply can't take Families we have An interesting picture. She from the sex themselves many who was saying that she demand from parents continues to be low for some holiday. Interesting it is. i think we've got hatches where parents are away. We've got significant engine such as a funder. They actually comp the demand that they got because of the restrictions on because it's basis but then we did a very quick stroll whole last night For for some of these settings fewer responding and broadly speaking the picture from those he responded was that actually demand continues to lower eighteen proving but then have to remember that parental working patents have changed. Parental trust in terms of house accuser operating within crovitz guidance has also changed his impacted upon and that will say children's children's demands in terms of what they want to during the summer holidays and the impact. On kids of of living through hundai. Mickelson will have changed completely. That picture of how families looking engaged with which her during the summer holidays as we move forward keeping up some really good points there and meghan anecdotally we've heard from one parent who is going to have to give up her job to look after her daughter because of those costs some what if parents set you about the.
Woman's Hour
"suzannah" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"Give amazing berlin to here. It's an incredible piece. There's been an incredible response and it's such a striking image for our listeners. You seen it and we are posting it up on our twitter feed as well. Can you describe it for our listeners. Of course it considered all among who john tucker who's a farmer these big Rest jacket. I mean it's really not true and He just got night through his face. Needs behind the bonds in front of a bomb. sorry And he just really happy and to winning not true Competition now remember. It's very very impressive. there've been so many tweets about your incredible work on this one. How many remember their dad's say grandfathers walking in after a hard day's graft looking just like this. You could ask that man. What sorts of a day if you had so many people talking about how relatable the piece is who is the man though it. That's.
Woman's Hour
"suzannah" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"They're limited audience numbers. No international spectators. Not being able to shout or speak loudly. How is this going to impact athletes performances. You think yeah. I think he's going to be a fatty different olympics. I think it's going to be a very unknown olympics. thank you normally. You would go into games and you would know who the favorites wherein and you know what countries are going to do jail. And i think we go into this and it's very much it's it's very open because a lot of it. We based on who has managed the pandemic best and there could be situations when it starts where people test positive or have to self isolate so they'd cannot can't compete and so i think be. They'll be a lot going on. You know be very different and then you know i. I've been to chill and picks i went to. I got to go to london. Obviously be not home. Olympics of ain't got to go to where i wanna medal and so for me. Those experiences were when credible an indefinite. We's am talk. He's going to be very different. And i think for those athletes that have expedience olympic games before it's going to be very strange like for those reporting for their first olympics. You know it's not going to be the norm So yeah i think. I think it's just fatty unknown. I think we're just going to have to wait and see all unfolds and on the subject of the olympics We discussed on the program. Last week laurel hubbard becoming the first transgender athlete to complete to compete in the olympic games representing new zealand in weightlifting and emma her the scientific debate then That this this shouldn't just be based on testosterone levels but as an athlete. What do you think about the inclusion of trans athletes into the women's game. I think it's a very difficult. Subject thing is a very delicate subject. I think the trouble just know is. It's all being directed at lotto and ultimately it's not our fault you know she. She hasn't broken any rules. She is somebody who wants to compete at an olympics and is able to do that. I think what we need to look at is the governing bodies and those that are in charge. They are the ones that needs to make sure that women's you know that the women's sport is protected and that is fear and i think balado a law of states at higher which is not fair am by think in terms of you know looking at the scientific facts of it. That's what we've got to kennedy focused on and you know ultimately is it fair. Is it taken away from from. What's going on within sport. Just no and. I think that's who we. Luke is the governing bodies is people in charge. They're the ones that we need our faith in to to make sure spare on i you know. I don't think it isn't the moment. But like i think it's unfair that l. of criticism is towards lotto. Who simply is somebody who's one needs to take part and sports. She's wants us to participate olympic games. And she's able to do that..
Woman's Hour
"suzannah" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"You can be ready and beer to compete but if your mindset is they are men and the performance doesn't come out and i think sports people yeah you learn a lot about the mindset. Will i certainly have the my Important the main does and like a save as a few sort of strategies. A few things that i used within my sport that actually relates to other parts of of life as well and have just proven to be really useful and thankfully. They've been kind of transferable to the gentleman. I was speaking to a local and it sounds like you're doing some tremendous work there I do want to talk about your career because they have been a lot of life. Changes for you in the line. Share you. welcome your little boy campbell into the weld. Congratulations great news You have had an injury as well. You had hoped to compete in the tokyo olympics. And then you announced your retirement talk us through that decision making process. Yeah i think for people who probably don't know me. I think the team is quite a sudden decision. Bit for me something. I've probably be thinking about probably for the last that your four years i remember coming back from the komo's games and the gold coast and that had been a really great championships me. I go to carry the flag for scotland. And i wanna mantle. I came back from that. I saw said to. My husband did not my coach. I'd be quite happy to retire. No you knew. I think off the back of that. A equipment high and i think as soon as you see the word retirement legs. It's the you're thinking of it. But there was always something to tool me back. And there was over another advance or another coalition that i wants to take part where kit going and then michael got pregnant twenty nineteen and the plan was after having my son to try and get back for the olympics had gone ahead and twenty twenty. I felt really good target to have try and get back to you know just to get me back. Physically am an and recovering after birth and realistically have begun ahead and twenty twenty. I would have retired after that. And but it was born. And i thought right. I'll just keep trading the week. He carried on trying to get back for the olympics. It's what you one bit. I must admit my motivation was was up and down. It was about all over the place and just within this last year having everything going on the appeal to go away and compete to to guten in pick edens. 'em was very different at didn't help that same excitement about that. How that seemed drives to go and it was just one day trade and my husband says may why are you. This and i i did have an answer. An thought actually. I've always done this because it's made me really happy. I've loved it and that's just not quite there anymore. Soul that traded. We just say to the actually. It's time to to stay away. And once i said a bill the can of weight off my shoulders i felt this real relief so have confirmed to me that it was the right time to to do it. Sounds like You know it's been a year of self reflection as it has been for so many of us and obviously having your baby has been a key part of this and there seems to be an emphasis on women continuing to compete and do well. Once they've had a baby for example we've heard about serena williams when it comes to this a great deal. What do you say to that. Yeah i think reno..
Woman's Hour
"suzannah" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"Listening listening to this is so very irritating. Women regenerating the highstreet pathetic argument and old fashioned. Everyday sexism will leave you to respond to that online if you wish and cubans been in touch to say hi. Streets need part us. Less chinese goods and people need higher wages so that they can buy better. Thank you to both of you for spending a bit of your morning with us. Let's move on to some sports. Now and eighty rural is scotland's most decorated track and field athlete of all time the olympic world european and commonwealth games medal holder the winner of seventeen international medals in the four hundred meter hurdles and relay. She had hoped to compete in the olympics in tokyo this month instead she has at the age of thirty four announced her retirement from the sport. She's now taking part in a new project with arba university where leading athletes coaches and sporting figures such as judy murray and tiny grey thompson share their experiences of unexpected setbacks and coping strategies with people who have been negatively impacted by covert or joins me. Now any first of all talk us through how this project works. M yes so i was approached am by professor david. Luckily who started the project and we a little bit worked together previously looking at some of the mental health issues. That are going on and then he said to me. He was wanting to to see sport in any retail. Help some issues with couvert em and he sort spoken to me about some of the things. I go through with my in my career setbacks. I've heard some of the coping strategies are used. And whether i'd be willing to to share these with people who are going through some difficult teams with couvert and i must have. I was a low apprehended to begin. With because i kinda thought well i can. I help pilot askin. I am do anything. And i was open to trying to help and trying to do something so i was putting contact with a gentleman who was suffering from long cuvette and basically. We just had a conversation about what he was going through and i just can't sheared a of my experiences about studies. That threat might career. The i've debt with hoping that something might resonate with him hoping something might help him. You know give him some sort of nugget of just some some strategy or coping mechanism. That might just give him a little bit but boost. And i must have. I wasn't sure anything which helped but thankfully haven't spoken to him. Afterwards there was some useful information there and that was worthwhile. It's interesting that you fool that you didn't have the skill set to help and yet here you are making a difference and it really feels like mental. Health has been a key part of this. Yes definitely and you know i. I'd like survey emphasize. I have no medical background you. I is from a an athlete. Point of view that. I'm cheating my stories by think within sport and we knew that the main destroyed port to physically..
Woman's Hour
"suzannah" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"Saying we don't need to keep growing growing growing all the time on that we can give back and this one also few merry merry talks as though the uk is the only country in the world even if we did accept a zero growth policy which i incidentally agree with countries like china and india. A never going to accept it so for us to do so would just be an empty guest either. Of course where do you start. I could give up and say no. Let's not do that if the world is. We're all doomed. No we've got to start somewhere. I'm going to start in this country. And i like to be a voice for that. I'd like to see us have an economy that is based on in the way that send ardent talks in new zealand is actually based on how people are feeling and social progress actually feeds the wellbeing. Gdp has only measured one thing. We need to look at that and in doing so. It's forgetting all the stuff that you're talking about. Susannah the women who are behind half of these businesses that keep growing. Who are doing the shopping. Who are doing the cleaning. Who are looking after the families. We have to start somewhere. I'm starting with my country. Because i'd like to be proud of it and actually see some change happening susannah next steps practically speaking while i think the first thing is to look at policy and how it's affecting women as i said earlier we need to look at how to enable women and policy is a big part of that but the solutions really are to give women a reason to go to give them access and to feed their needs on the high street but also most important is actually to put women in positions of power. Women are not there in the retail sector in government in those places where they're going to make impact we don't have women and women change policy there change attitudes and social attitudes as well as well have changed with regard to women in society..
Woman's Hour
"suzannah" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"We need to look at the needs of women and designed it and involve women in all of the decision making the proper visits done on a a silent basis. we have landlord and retailer. There's a relationship. And very rarely. Do you get local or central coming in. Although i have to say we have an opportunity here to do this. And i do think this isn't gonna come from central government because we've been talking about this now for eleven years and they're what we should be looking at now is i think is some other cities. Are doing this brilliantly. Creating what was called the fifteen minutes city or town center which is looking at how the rhythms of our lives have so fundamentally shifted absolutely the social care. That's done the bind decisions. All of that stuff tragically. We're still talking about women taking up two percent of that time so we have to put their needs at the heart of this whether it's crushes whether it's social spaces where you can have children. Were all the stuff that you probably can't get within your house as well. This isn't just about retail. But more importantly i love the fact that we need to be looking at how we can create city centres town centres local shopping. That is feeding the planet and our wellbeing. So the fifteen minutes city. We should be looking at this. This should be something in central government saying. How can we have everything within walking distance or sighting distance within fifteen minutes. That's what we need to be looked at our lives of change even eleven years ago when i did the highstreet. Report is fundamentally changed through. Covert as well. We're going to be spending more time at home. Which his an opportunity to recreate local high streets that are fit for purpose. Stats of don. I'm sure you've done much more than me on this but stature being done that saying nearly eighty percent of women amp people will talk. Women are saying. I still want to support my local high street. I love that. It's a social infrastructure as well as the place that i can go and buy stuff from. That's what we need to put century and we need a new vision for the future but we can't ignore what's happening. The space is moving online. And i'm just wondering when we talk about convenience this whole fifteen minute round trip. Everything done which sounds dill iq. The convenience of online cannot be denied. How big an issue is this when it comes to reviving the high street when it's an enormous problem because the online sector is actually supporting busy. Women's lives and also people with older women with mobility issues online is useful for them. And we're not enabling women to get to the high street access is a major problem you know. We have an antique car policy at the moment. And we're trying to stop people. Accessing buy cars but for women who are very busy they have to nip nip out and often public transport is very expensive and also takes a lot more time and it's not accessible for many women also old women. There told me that they enjoy going in a car. It's comfortable it's warm. You get there you can go into the high street carry heavy bags back to your car and you're done saying that we you know we can't use cars is going to restrict women from going to the high street and also when you get there you like a nice environment but very often you blown to bits by the wind. It's raining it's cold. We have to look at how women are using high streets and their needs. Give them a reason to go. I know i had my children go to a dance class near bromley highstreet. Just around the corner. I leave them because women don't always like shopping with children and i leave them nip into the high street..
Woman's Hour
"suzannah" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"Was banging this drum in the seventies those businesses that put our wellbeing and social progress and connect to communities and play a part in our lives but actually also recognize that they have to give back to not only us as individuals and society but to our planet and not take from it. We've seen the cost of this is so we can do the short-term fixing to get his yes and there were there will be businesses during that. Don't worry i'm making profit. I'm keeping people in japan. I've heard that so many times and then actually what we're doing somewhere else is killing the planet so we have to look at these and we as people consume as not talk about women and she didn't like the term consumer because you judge me by what i buy rather than who i am as a human we as women have the power with every pound we spend to make change because every pound that we do spend is vote on how we want to live and we need to be connecting with browns and businesses. That are doing more than just taking. We talk about women as key cosima susannah. Let's bring you in here because you say. The decline of the town centre is rooted in a change in women's lives and shopping habits. Explain that to us. Well obviously shopping is women. Eighty percent of the as mary says eighty percent of shopping is done by women. There are becoming economically very powerful ernst and young their research showed that eighteen trillion dollars spent by women around the globe. That's they're worth but yet then non-existent in policy in all the government documents. The industry documents. That i read all the media and academic research women were just not there there the missing link on the high street. And there's an awful lot of government policy that impacts upon women but that impact is onward to the high street things like childcare free. Bus passes flexible working all of these things impact on women's ability to actually go to the high street and spend money but mary you talking about needs. The highest rate hasn't changed to reflect the needs of women. Women's roles have changed vastly. We're still doing. The roles of the nineteen fifties lost the women in this research. Said i still do all the cooking. The shopping the childcare looking after all the people and yet they're now professionals they're expected to be up in top management aspire to that they're doing more degrees than men now and yet with this change in role. The highstreet hasn't reflected this. They're too busy many of them to get onto the high street and this is an opportunity. We've got empty retail outlets galore on the highstreet. My heart is looking incredibly bleak. How do we capitalize on that opportunity. What how does the high street need to change to better reflect the modern woman what they need a reason to go. Give women a reason to go. The environment of the high street is poor. Often you know my mother always says that if men were to choose a color they choose black and they choose gray and she said if they get highly excited that might choose. Beige women's color palette. The where they connect with our environment is very different. They enjoy the greenery. Enjoy different colors yet. The highest rate is dominated by men regeneration of the high street design of the high street choices of shops even the retail sector dominated by men..
Woman's Hour
"suzannah" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"Athlete joins us to talk about a new project that she's involved in to help people with lung covert and of course. Her retirement from the sport ahead of the tokyo olympics. Pleased to get in touch on any of the stories that you hear. You can text book. Women's hour on eight four eight four four texts will be charged at your standard message rate and do check with your network provider for those exact costs and on social media. We are on the handle at bbc women's our and of course you can email us as well but let's start with the high street. The future of the high street it did look challenging before the pandemic but his shops of reopened. And of course some have not is to come evidence. Just how urgent. The situation now is walking through towns and cities up and down the uk. You'll see how many brands or outlets of either gone bankrupt or moved online. Over seventeen thousand chain stores shot last year and average of forty eight closures. Ajay and this includes the likes of debons top shop. And dorothy perkins just this morning. The clothing retailer gap announced. It is closing all eighty one of its stores in the uk and island to go online. Only i'm we've heard from asda. They are upping their online game with deliveries set to be offered within the hour. Suzannah clarke is a counselor and chair of lucia and planning committee and she has recently published academic research saying that women are key to the re-generation off the high street economy and a decade ago. Mary portas carried is a government review into this problem and she is now urging people to rethink their whole relationship with shopping on consumerism. And move towards what. She called a kindness economy and to that end. She's already done. A ted talk and a podcast arguing for business on consumers to take a new approach. And she's now written a book about it's caught rebuild. Mary ann susannah. Join me now in the studio. Welcome to the program could to have you both in hd. Oh what a treat is his. Mary let's start with you. We are coming to the end of furlough. It feels like a key moment..
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"suzannah" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"This is the bbc. This podcast is supported by advertising outside the u. k. Pvc sounds music radio podcasts. Hello i'm crew party and welcome to women's our from bbc radio four. How many of us have taken a trip to our local street. Only to find yes. Another empty unit another for sale sign plastered to a shop front with this has come job losses and that lack of zest which is so important to our town centres with furlough ending many businesses small and large. We'll be facing the true reality of what their future holds so in a moment we're going to talk about whether it's possible to rebuild our high streets with the retail expert. Mary portas and counselor suzannah clarke. What do you want to see on your high street as it tries to rebuild itself. What do you miss if anything or are you totally sold on doing all your shopping online also on the program some holidays are looming in fact they may have started for some young people in your life already and i for one after weeks of homeschooling and keeping the kids entertained through lockdown thought that planning for six weeks of summer holidays. That's going to be a breeze. I'm not sure how. I feel about it now but we're going to talk about childcare over the summer break a little later in the program and we want to hear about your planning. How's it going. You might be returning to the workplace. Some parents or guardians may have lost or change jobs during the pandemic money might be tight. What options are available to you are they. Affordable is this space at those camps and the club's tell us how things are shaping up you and the children that you look. After over the summer holidays you can email us and leave your number if you're happy to come on air and allie doyle scotland's most decorated track and field..
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"suzannah" Discussed on The Michael Berry Show
"Little cypress to get to so turquoise kanak wards who pulled me over but the texas state trooper one. Tomorrow is any reason that you don't be having your seatbelt. I said yes because it's uncomfortable and mass my breast assist nerve right ticketing away scan. My car in amfiled my information. I felt so violated. I was to quit trying to raise money by barb in me and got the money for these people bama got. My mom went for him to give it back. When is that sequester supposed to kick in some. I need to ask my kobe. Whatever happened to that north vietnamese man. Kim style own channel or whatever. His name is one minute. He was blessed in bloviating and talking like the crazy last drunk man active carioca bar and now he's gonna disappear. Williams security guards slipped him some bad buddha and bows and the he wear. You'll never hear about it though. Replace them either. Just pick anybody the streak. And i told you trying to get me to run for city council earned. Oh no ma'am. I've watched that stuff on the local government access channel. They have them city council. Meeting that is televised chloroform. So what's on the menu at my house. I know you hungry. You will be hungry later today if you come by here. I'm having a baked potato festival. I've got that mcelwain fired up there. Two pounds of butter and some shredded government. Cheese actually runs drive out here. So if y'all home y'all come up at my house and get you a baked potato baby and now he come hot hot hot michael berry all aggravated and bothered about something getting to do some of that erstwhile yemen. And you know you wanna hear. That's why you listening that because you don't want to sit there and listen to. Npr talk about a transsexual art collecting the central african republic the third microeconomic human smugglers now offering an all inclusive vip package with promises of things like quote guaranteed security rides food lodging and no long walks. Wanna get away to america luxuriate in air conditioning. You won't be in the back of an eighteen wheeler locked in suffocating. You won't be dragged across the rio grande old. No no no. It will not be a long trek for you invade the usa the chronicles olivia talent writes quote susannah. A thirty five year old from el salvador desperate to come to the. Us had heard stories of migrants being raped and murdered so she paid a hefty. Ten thousand dollars early this year for a vip package. It came with the promise to smuggle her to houston with guaranteed security rides food lodging and no long walks susannah massachusetts in february but only after a harrowing month long journey and another two thousand dollar payment at the end of the trip. Oh i need my money back or like cruise lines and go. Okay you had a really crappy crews. Here's the deal. You can have another one for free though. The vip or all included packages often fall short of the guarantees. They are becoming more common as migrant smuggler adapt to increased restrictions at the border and greater demand from central american seeking to get to the. Us soussan did not want her last name identified because she is an immigrant in the country illegally and she said she feared for her safety. Oh honey you don't have to worry about. You'll be in the white house tomorrow. After a year of unemployment from the covid nineteen pandemic and watching her family go without food. She didn't hesitate. She took loans from friends in the us to pay for the all inclusive trip. You know i guess. Competition breeds better experience for the customer. The business of smuggling migrants grew more sophisticated during the trump administration which hardened policies for legal immigration and toughened enforcement against illegal entries migrants accounts studies and latin american media reports suggest that prices for smugglers services to come to america rose more than forty percent in two thousand seventeen. Oh there's inflation and inflation and illegal immigration the first year of the trump presidency. A trip like suzannah's went from seven thousand to ten thousand that year according to l. fato an investigative media outlet in el salvador and other reports. Seeing more and more people coming to houston using. Vip package is during the last couple of years said elbow an executive with the national day labor organizing network in houston now with the biden administration human smugglers are exploiting desperate migrants with the false idea of a new president in the white house. Who has opened the border making them think they can stay in the us. Once they cross so santa says the smugglers are very well organised. She said she and migrants coming with her. Had to wear a wristband while in mexico that identified which cartel or smuggling organization was handling them. The colored plastic wristband sometimes with written notes is more visible and unmistakable than traditional verbal codes. Us border officials say. It is a growing trend among the smuggling operations to track people paying to cross illegally. Numerous migrants told the chronicle that smuggling enterprise south of the us border often with impunity. They often function with the complicity of local law enforcement agents. Who looked the other way in exchange for a bribe. Sounds like america you. You may like district attorneys and judges don't prosecute murderers. Why why yes. We've we've heard of this terrible thing. It's happening in harris county where houston is. That's where that's happening. So let's get district. This woman's.