Discussing the Future of Travel on Clubhouse
Can We Travel Sustainably? Join us in the Sustainability Room, Tuesday 4 May
In the Sustainability Room, I am joining moderator Sara Essa to encourage deeper discourse about how travel can truly affect positive change — inviting all to ask difficult questions and tackle uncomfortable topics (8pm London time). See you on Clubhouse or listen to the recording of our fireside conversation from 24 March, where listeners joined us on stage to ask questions about carbon emissions, wealth distribution, Indigenous people, and how to tackle population growth through the travel choices you make… Here’s to having more honest, open, two-way conversations about what sustainability really means. My Clubhouse profile.
Sara Essa started the Sustainability Hub on Clubhouse with the purpose of learning and sharing the learnings with everyone in this community. Their Club is now at 40k+ members, although their active audience is more than double this — and with this, their purpose has altered to a much bigger goal of mobilising a global community to take positive action towards creating a more sustainable world. I was honoured to be join Sara for a conversation about sustainable travel — this is a recording of our chat which included a lot of really interesting and challenging questions, which is exactly the kind of discourse we all need.
How does Clubhouse work?
Clubhouse is an invite-only, audio social media app (download from the App Store; not yet available for Android users). Once you create a profile, you choose topics you’re interested in. The main feed — or hallway as it’s called — will show a list of events. It’s best to join a scheduled discussion from the start, click on the title of the room to join, then listen in to the speakers. You will see the speakers “on stage” and can click on their profiles (the people talking or who have been invited up to talk or ask a question). You can scroll down to see who’s in the audience. It’s all about the audio and listening to the speakers.
Moderators set the rules and choose who can step up and speak (see in imge: Sara, with a green asterisk). Speakers are those who are on stage (Juliet is the speaker, she’s been joined by those asking a question as invited up by Sara). Listeners are all those in the audience — don’t worry your mic is automatically muted when you enter a room and nobody can hear you unless you are added to the stage by a moderator.