Inspired to become a change agent for sustainability?
"The question of reaching sustainability is not about if we will have enough energy, enough food, or other tangible resources - those we have. The question is: will there be enough leaders in time?" - dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt
The Lotus – A Practice Guide for Authentic Leadership in Strategic Sustainable Development
How can you lead authentically and effectively engage groups in collaborative processes towards sustainability? The Lotus - A Practice Guide for Authentic Leadership in Strategic Sustainable Development - presents nine personal leadership capacities that authentic leaders, change agents and facilitators find essential in their work when facilitating large-scale, complex, transformational change in organisations and communities....
Leadership: the inside and outside
Leadership: a vague, ill-defined buzzword, or the ‘blind spot’ of our time? By being part of the MSLS programme, we get in touch with some of the finest leadership literature, research and practitioners, while at the same time, in the ‘outer world’, there seems to be a serious lack of leadership in institutions of every...
Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability
Since a good two months, I am pursuing a long-lived dream. I am partaking in a Master's programme on Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability, at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, a small town in the south-eastern corner of Sweden. This year, this weblog will be the place of reflections, thoughts, and articles related to this...
Heated debate
There's no such thing as right and wrong when it comes to tackling climate change, says Mike Hulme. That’s why we need to stop looking for scapegoats and start engaging in honest discussion
The problem with debates, and the art of dialogues
What if we abandoned the kind of arguing we've been used to for long, and try to have a dialogue with our peers, instead?
COP15 in retrospect, and our common future
What did the 'Mother of all Conferences' in Copenhagen do to us, and how did it change the way we see the world?
COP15
The battle of minds - New perspectives on responses to climate change.
No public issue or scientific discipline is as confusing and complex as climate change is currently. In the wake of potential catastrophes, we are trying to grapple with the alignment of widely opposing discourses, seemingly impossible to unite in a world ridden by confusion...
350: 24 October is the day
October 24th is shaping up to be the most widespread day of environmental action in the history of the planet (more than 4000 activities in 170 countries). All events are designed to do one thing: show the support for the most important number in the world: 350.
How on earth do we want to live together?
Today, on October 15th 2009, more then 13,000 bloggers all over the world are writing about “Climate Change”, the topic of the 2009 Blog Action Day.
Climate Collaboratorium: Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Climate Change Issues
Global climate change is perhaps the most pressing and important problem currently facing humanity. It is also unique by virtue of being a truly systemic problem of vast complexity: it affects every one of us, and is directly affected by every one of our actions. Like nothing else, dealing with climate change calls upon us...
Top 5 inspiration sources
Here is a shortlist of some – according to me – most valuable inspiration sources: 1. TED.com 2. ChangeThis manifestos 3. AskNature.org 4. Peter Senge (Books: a.o. The Fifth Discipline, The Necessary Revolution) 5. The Good Entrepeneur Don’t hesitate to share this shortlist! People who looked at this item also looked at… The Lotus –...
