Category Archives: Communicating Sustainability

Join us on the Thrivable World Quest on the Island of Sustainability and Organisational Evolution

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The Thrivable World Quest is a global quest to chart how organizations must be so people and the planet can thrive. It mixes delightful, engaging in-person events and a kick-ass information platform which allows us to share the ‘booty’ across cities and with the world.

The quest seeks to document, elaborate and accelerate the wave of “positive mutation” that is already transforming how we conceive of organizations and how work is done, so that our collective actions more consistently create the conditions essential for life to thrive at every level.

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Guest Blog – Sustainable transport – Driven to destruction?

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One of the great ironies of the Paris Climate Change Conference is the carbon footprint left by the 40,000 attendees who have journeyed across the globe to visit the French capital. It’s estimated that 300,000 tonnes of CO2 was generated by the two week summit, and Barack Obama’s travel arrangements alone will send more carbon dioxide into the air than the combined annual emissions of 31 US homes.

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On the ninth day of COPmas… can you eat nine seasonal veggies? #12COP21

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Where would we be without agriculture? We’d be very hungry for a start! Whilst food is the most obvious of benefits, agriculture provides fuels, raw materials and medicines that we simply couldn’t do without. In essence, agriculture is indispensable to our everyday lives in many more ways than simply satisfying our hunger pangs.

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Fresh water & its challenges: resources, resilience & availability

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Guest blog by professor Steven Loiselle, Research Manager, Global Freshwater Research, Earthwatch

Dwindling water supplies and decreasing water quality are among the most significant issues facing society. World leaders’ pledges for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG) ‘Ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all’ will be one of the most significant and decisive for society today and the next century. Every other SDG relating to health, food security, climate change, resiliency to disasters and ecosystems hinges on the availability of water.

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