Tag: Future We Want

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Business Stepping Up Episode II: Entrepreneuring a Finer Future

Huffington Post L. Hunter Lovins August 2017 Episode II – Wrath of Businesses Stepping Up With Alejandro Crawford: managing director of Acceleration Group, and partner in Tangible Creative, As the U.S. steps back from the Paris Climate Agreement and doubles down on the economies of yesterday, business leaders must step up. Last week I presented the business case for sustainability. Today Alejandro...

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Crisis May Trigger Transition

Policy Forum February 2017 Could Trump be the catalyst for a seismic shift toward a sustainable and desirable future? The election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency could enable the creative destruction needed for the transition to a more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous world, write Robert Costanza, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Maja Göpel, Ida Kubiszewski, Hunter...

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The Future We Want is Now, According to Sustainability Expert William Becker

Written by Eryn Elder and Lenore Silberman 2012 Interns Our very own Bill Becker attended Rio+20, the United Nations sustainability summit in Rio deJaneiro, Brazil this June. Bill attended to display the Future We Want (FWW) in the form of a visual media exhibit—this project has become a global platform calling for positive solutions for...

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The Young Can't Wait

: Huffington Post 12 June 2012  It was 20 years ago this month that Severn Suzuki, then 12, gave the speech of her life. As she stood on the podium at the first Earth Summit, Severn’s admonition to dignitaries from 178 nations also became the speech of her generation. The topic was sustainable development. The...

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Let's Talk About the Future We Want

ALSO POSTED BY: Huffington Post 25 November 2011 Here are some questions for the Occupiers, the Tea Party demonstrators, the people engaged in the Arab Spring and those around the world who are too hungry, too tired, too discouraged or too occupied with basic survival to protest. These are questions, too, for the young people...