The position of an initiative on the weak/strong sustainability continuum is a debate that is rooted in economics but is now central to sustainability discourse, pertaining to both research and practice. The weaker-to-stronger sustainability debate is a spectrum between those…
From the 1972 Conference on Human Environment and the 1987 Brundtland Commission report to the 2002 and 2012 Earth Summits, the message has been loud and clear: the world needs to be on a more sustainable pathway quickly, if we…
Advancing community sustainability requires viewing the community as a complex, adaptive, and networked socio-ecological system through interdisciplinary lens. Elinor Ostrom and Donella Meadows proposed frameworks that emphasise complexity and the need to consider all of the system’s levels (larger systems…
I’d like to share with you my perspective on regenerative systems education in brief:
By Riley Yesno. Reposted from Alliance 2030. Published on June 11, 2019. Of all the guiding principles for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, one stands out most to me: No one is to be left behind, and the…
Repost from The Lancet – originally published on October 20, 2021. Executive summary The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration that independently monitors the health consequences of a changing climate. Publishing updated, new, and improved indicators each year, the Lancet…
By Daniel Christian Wahl, March 30, 2017. Reposted from Design For Sustainability. [This article is an excerpt from the Worldview Dimension of Gaia Education´s online programme in Design for Sustainability. The course is based on four dimensions plus a design…
