A Strong Sense of Fairness: Ben Rawlence

Award-winning author and co-founder and director of the pioneering Black Mountains College, **Ben Rawlence** joins us this week. He shares how his life has been guided by a need for fairness for all and a deep commitment to morally important campaigns. That work in policy and human rights has taken him to the USA, to his beloved Tanzania, and across Africa, a career that someone recently described to him as a graveyard of good intentions. Through all of it, one question has kept him steady: "what's the right thing for me to do right now?" Right now for Ben, that means building this unique college in and around the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park in Wales, creating a future where nature and people thrive together. Black Mountains College takes on the challenge of our times: how to build a fair and just society within safe planetary boundaries. More about Ben:  **Ben Rawlence** is the is the award-winning author of *Radio Congo, City of Thorns, The Treeline* and *Think Like a Forest.* His writing has been translated into a dozen languages*. The Treeline* won the 2023 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the 2022 Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications among others. He is the co-founder and director of the pioneering educational institution, Black Mountains College in Wales. His next book chronicles the Gulf Stream system: *The River in the Sea: The Ocean Current That Made the World As We Know It* (out in 2027). Ben's latest book is *Think Like a Forest, Letters to My Children Children From A Changing Planet.*  Subscribe for more stories and practical tools from Reboot the Future. www.rebootthefuture.org