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Gen Z wants strong values and Positive impacts
We are living through an unprecedented moment in human history; a time of “perma-crisis”, where pandemics, war, global warming, economic turmoil and social division are, in varying degrees, threatening our stability and future. Younger employees especially fear for...
Sustainability is in our DNA
Children should be taught in schools how to save the earth! It is a fact and truth that man is perishing more than the earth is perishing! It is a fact that man and mankind are dying rather than progressing! It is true as always that man alone is progressing...
SDGs are like New Year’s resolutions: how to make them work?
A New Year comes with New Year’s resolutions. Many of us make new plans to exercise more, eat healthier and learn to be happier in the coming year. Yet, when time passes, our motivation drops. The United Nations also developed ‘resolutions’ for the world to become...
What Are the Solutions to Climate Change?
This year brought its share of devastating weather disasters super-sized by climate change. They included the Pakistan floods ($30B), Hurricane Ian (over $100B), summer heatwaves and drought across the U.S. and Europe ($20B), and even the recent extreme cold this past...
GDP is blind to human well-being, social well-being, and to the state of the planet.
GDP ignores nature. Its calculation specifies it clearly: "a purely natural process, without human intervention or control, does not constitute production in the economic sense." 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗳 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁, 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀....
Regenerating Respectful and Reciprocal Relationships to Nature is an Educational Priority
Young people around the world are rising up for Mother Earth. They are speaking back to political leaders, economic systems and oppressive worldviews which have created the current reality which denies them a promising future. Within education, our learners are...
Future of Work
People have been talking about the future of work for decades, and it’s always an interesting, controversial, and complicated topic. This Blog gives us new ideas how to address this large and complex issue. The goal is to discuss the big issues we all face by the...
How Behavioral Science Can Help Fight Climate Change
Behavioral insights offer effective tools to come up with innovative solutions to address people’s behavior and biases regarding climate change. In recent years, behavioral science has been used to inform policies in many domains, involving economic growth, poverty...
Climate change is not the problem. We can get to net zero tomorrow and still be headed towards the collapse of life on Earth.
Why? The problem is that our economy is a mega-machine that converts nature to waste. We take natural resources and transform them with energy into goods that will end up as waste and pollution in the natural world, in the form of solid, liquid, and gases. Some...
The time is now to Green the Economy
We are living in the middle of a historic transformation in how, where, and even why we work. we call this the Great Reshuffle. At the same time our world is facing an urgent need to transition to a green economy to address the threat of climate change. This is a...
We can all be leaders of change in transforming education
With the Transforming Education Summit coming up in New York, urgency for action is high. We were far from achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4—to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all—even before the...
ASSESSMENT: THE CRUCIAL 1ST STEP IN SUSTAINABILITY
Amongst the many lessons 2020 taught us, we learned a whole lot about the link between resilience and sustainability. The corporate world is increasingly confronted with the importance of sustainability and its role in transforming our economy for a greener, cleaner,...