The Great Simplification #28 – Joan Diamond: “From Kool-aid to Lemonade”

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The Great Simplification

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Date of Publication: July 20

Year of Publication: 2022

Publisher: The Great Simplification

Author(s): Nate Hagens

In this episode we meet with the Executive Director of Stanford University’s Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, Joan Diamond.

Diamond helps us imagine the future in an uncertain time. How can we create robust strategies to help us plan? How can we avoid thinking only of worst-case scenarios? Further, Diamond offers suggestions for how people can handle their hopelessness and rage following recent Supreme Court rulings. What options exist for people to change systems?

About Joan Diamond

Joan Diamond has an executive background in private and nonprofit sectors, comprising several Fortune 500 energy enterprises. This includes positions as executive VP of the Hawaiian Electric Company, vice president and corporate secretary of a Silicon Valley telecommunications company, and COO of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability. She is the Executive Director of Stanford University’s Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) and of the Crans Foresight Analysis Nexus (FAN).

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