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5 Ways for Social Innovators to Use the Power of the SDGs
by May East
The Sustainable Development Goals are here to stay. If you are an early adopter and have already aligned your core growth strategies to the global framework or if you are just beginning to explore the added value the SDGs can bring to your business, here are 5 ways that can help you unlock the power of the SDGs to propel your social innovation to greater and more widely shared prosperity for all by 2030.
1. Shift to Regenerative Frameworks
The SDGs will c…
Life’s economy is primarily based on collaborative rather than competitive advantage
Excerpt from the Economic Design course
By Daniel Christian Wahl
A holistic understanding of modern evolutionary biology suggests that life evolves by a process of diversification and subsequent integration of diversity through collaboration (John Stewart in BioSystems, 2014). As our focus shifts from individuals and individual species as the unit of survival to the collective of life — its complex dynamic interactions and relationships — we begin to see that collaborative and symbiotic…
SDGs Training for Multipliers in Review from Migrant Communities to Social Innovators
The Sustainable Development Goals have been carefully developed through a three-year process involving UN Member States, 83 national surveys engaging over 7 million people, and thousands of actors from the international community, making it the biggest consultation in UN history. A people-friendly language was adopted at the very beginning of the process to enable the mass global participation invoked at the inception of the Goals.
Transformative Change: conversations with Fritjof Capra
by Daniel Christian Wahl
On Monday 29 January 2018, Gaia Education and Fritjof Capra’s ‘Capra Course’ collaborated in offering a free webinar on ‘Transformative Change, Sustainability and Regeneration’ as part of our recently launched ‘Glocalisers Webinar Series’. I am delighted to have been able to weave this partnership. So much of my own learning — that has informed the content of Gaia Education’s online course in ‘Design for Sustainability’ (GEDS) — has been influenced by Fritjof’s …
In gratitude to Fritjof Capra for planting the seeds of the Regeneration
by Daniel Christian Wahl
Fritjof Capra and his work have had an important influence on my own path towards becoming a glocal change agent in the transition towards diverse regenerative cultures. I first came across his work in the spring of 2000. At the time, I was living in a caravan in the fertile valley of the Alpujarras in Southern Spain, working on a plan to create an ecovillage and sustainability education centre that would demonstrate to people how to ‘live the solutions, rather than…
Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings
“For wholeness — the basis of health — we need nourishment at every level. The complex and dynamic organisation of the physical body underpins our relationship to spatial qualities. Life enhancing qualities around us support our life energies. Colour, harmony, multi-sensory delight support our feeling life, particular moods redressing personal and situational imbalances. … Buildings built upon these principles are buildings to nurture the whole human being.”
Ecological Design Education for Sustainable and Regenerative Futures
The Ecological Design dimension of the full Gaia Education Design for Sustainability (GEDS)course starts 15 January 2018. Join our online course and become an ecological designer to create the change we would like to see in the world as a leader, facilitator and Glocaliser with local grounding and worldwide reach.
By Peter Gringinger, Gaia Education Certified Trainer and Acting Head of Innovation |
On a daily basis we are bombarded with bad news stories on social and ecological…
A Vision of Ecological Design
Article Series: Ecological Design for Sustainable and Regenerative Futures. Read about the series below.
by Declan Kennedy
Declan demonstrates the vastness of his experience with a truly comprehensive vision of Ecological Design — a vision as enticing as it is practical. Since this vision is listed as so many points, it also could be considered a comprehensive checklist of design criteria for sustainable settlements. Declan emphasises that ecological design is a process, and since the bigg…
Glocal Learning Centre in Lahel for a Thriving Senegal River Valley
A comprehensive education programme aiming to establish a fecund partnership within and between local communities to reverse the current ecological and socio-economic climate in the Senegal River Valley.
by Dr Ousmane Pame, President of GEN Africa & REDES |
The Senegal River Valley lies on the borders of the Sahel Region and the Sahara desert. It is at the front line when it comes to dealing with the entangled challenges of desertification, climate change, mass impoverishment and immigrati…
Zambia’s Youth applying Whole Systems Design for Sustainability in their Central Province
Agriculture is the lifeblood of Zambia’s rich resource-based economy, contributing significantly to employment, economic growth, exports, poverty reduction, food security and nutrition. Agriculture also plays a critical role in ensuring sustainable use of natural resources.
by May East