The Colour Green

Baroness Lola Young meets Kareem Dayes at One Tree Hill in South London.

Show Notes

In this episode we meet community organiser, social entrepreneur and Founder of the pioneering community housing project, Rural Urban Synthesis Society, Kareem Dayes. Kareem is a musician who plays in the band United Vibrations, who is dedicated to building people power for positive social change. He has 8+ years’ experience of building grass roots community-led organisations, fundraising, working with young people, educating, public speaking and administration. Kareem chose the forest One Tree Hill in South London for his walk, a chance to reflect on the calming influence of nature in a crowded city, our need for community and how we might address our housing crisis and start to reclaim power from vested interests. 

Thank you to Kareem and Lola for their time and generosity.

Find out more about the Rural Urban Synthesis Society: https://www.theruss.org/
Listen to Kareem's music: http://www.unitedvibrations.co.uk/
Read about the ethos behind Kareem's childhood home on Walter's Way: http://www.segalselfbuild.co.uk/projects/waltersway,lewis.html
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What is The Colour Green?

The Colour Green is a new podcast from Julie’s Bicycle exploring the links between climate change, race, nature and social justice from the perspectives of people of colour in the UK.We are all stewards of our planet, but the effects of climate change are not shared equally. While it is people in the Global South and marginalised communities in the Global North who are the first to feel the impacts of environmental degradation, extreme weather events, food crop failure, and air pollution, their voices are rarely heard within environmental movements in the UK. Without representing communities at the sharpest end of climate impacts the stories we tell are incomplete; drawing focus to their lived experiences and creative responses are crucial to developing a holistic understanding of the causes of and solutions to this unfolding crisis.In The Colour Green podcasts, Baroness Lola Young is in conversation with artists and activists of colour who are at the forefront of social innovation - connecting climate justice, race, power and inequality.

This podcast has been developed by Julie's Bicycle as part of the Arts Council England Environmental Sustainability Programme.