A New Publication for a Sustainable and Desirable Future

The aim of Solutions is to encourage and publish integrative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems: climate disruption, loss of biodiversity, poverty, energy descent, overfishing, air, water, and soil pollution, and human population growth, to name a few. There is already plenty of discussion about these problems, along with an abundance of isolated and technical solutions, some of which may prove to be extremely valuable. Solutions is a forum for putting the pieces together, prompting intelligent discussion of what can be done, and what should be done.

Solutions is an online and print journal, a hybrid between a popular magazine and a peer-reviewed journal. It is intended for a broad audience that reaches beyond traditional academic journals to the informed public. It will provide a much-needed forum, devoted to whole-system solutions and the design of an integrated human and natural world.

Solutions uses a much more constructive, transdisciplinary review process than typical journals. We encourage collaboration and co-authorship between original authors and reviewers.
This constructive review process improves the quality of articles and enables the development of innovative, integrative, and whole-system solutions. It allows for broader, more transdisciplinary perspectives on a topic, creating articles that appeal to a larger community, with a stronger chance of being implemented. Learn more >>

Editors
Robert Costanza, Paul Hawken, David W. Orr, John Todd, and many more >>

Call for Contributions
We are soliciting articles and ideas for articles describing solutions for a sustainable and desirable world. These solutions should employ whole-system thinking, be at the appropriate spatial and temporal scales, and address, but not be hobbled by, the institutional and cultural changes that may be required. A solution does not have to solve all problems, but it should recognize what problems it can solve, and what other problems it might cause.

Download the Call for Contributions flyer here.