Rebecca Black is founder and chief communicator at Black Current Marketing and co-founder of Women In Renewable Energy(WIRE). We talk about gender, feminism and sustainability. She explains how her values have evolved since her punk-rock roots and how the silver linings she sees in the COVID-19 experience make her feel hopeful.
“I’m trying to use this time to reflect on what might be next. From a climate change perspective, there are silver linings in this really terrible scenario and one of them is that we’re looking at alternative ways of being that may offer new insights into what the values are. Every night at 7:30 on the street that I live on in the west end of Toronto, people come outside their homes and bang on pots to show their appreciation for front line workers. So that in itself is lovely, but what is also really fortifying to me is that people are looking at their neighbours and banging their pots and smiling at each other and falling into rhythm and someone’s playing a tambourine and somebody’s got a trumpet. This is a neighbourhood that’s actually engaging in a way, every day, that it didn’t before. What are the possible implications of that? And so that gives me hope because I think a lot of the systems that we work within and we sort of mindlessly go about because that’s the way things are, are being reconsidered, and that makes me really hopeful because I think being busy all the time - it’s kind of a badge of honour, but slowing down and reflecting … these are little glimmers of opportunity that I see. And then there is the whole people aren’t driving as much. In some cities the air is cleaner than it’s been in generations.”
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