'Compete with luxury brands and make caring the new currency’ is my motto. Coming from the world of marketing high fashion, this is not something that has resonated within "green" and "sustainable" circles. I was trying to convince dozens of nonprofits over the past 6 years...
Join us at the BoF Professional Summit on April 14, 2021 from 2-6pm BST. Stella McCartney will be the keynote speaker at the BoF Professional Summit: Closing Fashion’s Sustainability Gap, from 14:00 BST on April 14, 2021. McCartney is widely recognised as a pioneer in the...
With its motto PLANET LOVE the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2021 is dedicated to the greatest challenge of our digital age: climate care. PLANET LOVE means a fundamentally new relationship between people and planet, which aims at using the Earth’s resources considerately rather than maximizing their exploitation,...
COVID has made it clear that our economy doesn’t work for everyone. In this pandemic recession, financial devastation stalks historically precarious populations — people of color, women, front line workers, and even the small business owner — who don’t have the advantages of long-term savings,...
The two great Fedorovian projects—the geo-engineering of the earth and the resurrection of the dead—are linked together by a third project that underlies the other two. The most important part of Fedorov’s “common task” is the overcoming of human alienation. For Fedorov, the most pressing...
Big corporations use marketing to trick us into thinking that the solution to all our problems lies in buying more of their stuff. The real solution is often the exact opposite: it consists in consuming less, not more. In most cases, our problems are caused by...
We believe the future is decentralized and equally distributed. Are you in? [embed]https://vimeo.com/326523319[/embed] Bitcoin is back. Again. Nearly three years after it went on a hair-bending rise and hit a peak of $19,783, the price of a single Bitcoin rose above that for the first time on Monday, according...
"Our challenge is to create a new language, even a new sense of what it is to be human. It is to transcend not only national limitations, but even our species isolation, to enter into the larger community of living species. This brings about a...
On October 10, 2020, next to the USS Iowa in San Pedro, CA, our friends at AltaSea are hosting The Blue Hour, a drive-in fundraiser that will honor those who have paved the way for AltaSea and who will continue to forge new paths. Highlights of...
“Because mindsets and paradigms guide behaviors, changing them can have a profound impact… People who manage to intervene in systems at the level of paradigm hit a leverage point that totally transform systems.” — Donna Meadows, lead author, Limits to Growth² 1. Beyond GDP: Towards SDGs and...