Turning Season Episode 2: Regenerative Smart Villages (with Jay Wong)
Episode 2 is waiting for you at turningseason.com/episode2
It's a conversation with Jay Wong, who’s developing “regenerative smart villages” in Portugal. What would it look like to have residential, commercial, and agricultural life happening in a multi-generational community, one that handles waste, water, food and electricity sustainably?
That’s a big question, and Jay’s learning about all aspects of the answer, in the project he co-founded: Inspira Villages.
Find Turning Season Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, or head to turningseason.com/episode2 to hear us talk about:
- Jay’s journey from living in “business as usual,” through deep sadness about “the great unraveling,” to his current role, generating solutions at the perimeter of mainstream society
- how to bring these topics up with people who aren’t already thinking about them
- what he loves about being alive on Earth, and what breaks his heart
- our need for a whole-systems approach, thinking about ecological health, not just carbon and our ticking clock
- new ways of designing cities, with innovations at the level of infrastructure and core utilities (rather than making incremental changes in existing cities)
- plus dry toilets, circular economy, cradle to cradle, and more