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    Time is not Money, Risk is! A step towards a sustainable and equitable financial analysis practice

    Time is not Money, Risk is! A step towards a sustainable and equitable financial analysis practice

    Volume 11 | Issue 4 | December 2020 By David Espinoza, Jeremy Morris, Alice Hill

    1.0 Introduction As financial markets blossomed in the early 20th century, the need to compare simple investment instruments such as bonds with different maturities and default risks arose, sparking the development of the discounted cash flow (DCF) concept which relies on discount rates to set cash streams that take place at different times on …

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    Science, Belief, and Democracy

    Science, Belief, and Democracy

    Volume 11 | Issue 4 | December 2020 By Robert Costanza

    The United States was founded on ideas that reflected Enlightenment thinking, including the importance of science and the separation of church and state. People were allowed the freedom to believe whatever they wanted, but those beliefs were not to interfere with the operation of the democratically elected government. Maintaining the …

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    Time to Declare a Planetary Accounting Emergency

    Time to Declare a Planetary Accounting Emergency

    Volume 11 | Issue 4 | December 2020 By Mark McElroy, Martin P. Thomas

    Part 1 – Introduction The acclaimed systems thinker and sustainability guru, Donella Meadows, once wrote, “People can’t respond to information they don’t have.  They can’t react effectively to information that is inadequate … or achieve goals or targets of which they are not aware.”  Missing information, she explained, “is one of …

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    The Regenerative Palm Initiative:  Palm Oil as a Keystone Crop for Regeneration in the Humid Tropics

    The Regenerative Palm Initiative: Palm Oil as a Keystone Crop for Regeneration in the Humid Tropics

    Volume 11 | Issue 4 | December 2020 By Monique van Wijnbergen, Luke Smith

    The Origins of Palm Oil If you were to walk through the palm oil groves of equatorial West Africa, you might find it difficult to distinguish between these man-made agroforests and the native forest from which they emerged. Such is the diversity and complexity of these traditional agroecological systems. In them lies the key to […]

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    COVID-19 And The Transition To A Sustainable Wellbeing Economy

    COVID-19 And The Transition To A Sustainable Wellbeing Economy

    Volume 11 | Issue 2 | May 2020 By Robert Costanza

    The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on human health in the short term. How do we slow the spread of the virus and contain the damage? It has also revealed the dependence of the global economy on long supply chains and high demand for services.  The likelihood of a global economic crisis caused by […]

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    Mid-Course Correction Revisited Excerpts for the Solutions Journal

    Mid-Course Correction Revisited Excerpts for the Solutions Journal0

    By John A. Lanier

    In a word, Ray Anderson’s story is legendary. As the founder of Interface, Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of modular carpet, he was an accomplished businessman and entrepreneur. He was your classic small-town kid who happened to make it …

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    Leaving A Place Better Than You Found It; Making A Difference And Restoring Ecosystems On The Great Barrier Reef

    Leaving A Place Better Than You Found It; Making A Difference And Restoring Ecosystems On The Great Barrier Reef0

    By Anna Phelan, Kathleen Doody, Jack F. Ward, Zheng Yen Ng, Ebony Watson, Lily Fogg, Kate Dutton-Regester, Rocio Vargas Soto, Karla Ximena Vazquez Prada, Hongmin Yan, Annaleise Wilson, Timothy Vanden Berg, Alexander Arkhipov, Jessica Bugeja, Matthew Allen, Stefan Hinkelmann

    Introduction To ‘leave a place better than you found it’ is easier said than done. Yet on a small island at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), one visionary with a team of dedicated individuals is doing just that. Part of the GBR …

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    A New Water Policy For Paris, Democratic And Socio-Environmental Sustainable

    A New Water Policy For Paris, Democratic And Socio-Environmental Sustainable0

    By Anne Le Strat

    From 2001 to 2014, a new water policy was implemented in Paris when I was in charge of this sector. We carried out a major overhaul of the water policy, not only on the organizational level but also in terms of perspectives, taking a holistic …

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    America’s Farms: Water Risk and Opportunity in the Agricultural Supply Chain

    America’s Farms: Water Risk and Opportunity in the Agricultural Supply Chain0

    By Kirsten James

    Farmers are the foundation of our $5 trillion global food system, responsible for growing the wheat, corn, soy and other agricultural commodities at the core of global supply chains. However, the agricultural industry is facing an imminent …

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    A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan

    A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan0

    By The Club of Rome, The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

    For 10,000 years, human civilisation has grown and thrived because of Earth’s remarkable climate stability and rich biological diversity. In the last 50 years, human activity has severly undermined this resilience. Our patterns of economic …

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    Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work

    Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work0

    By Cosmas Gitta

    Robertson Work joins a growing number of public intellectuals who warn of existential threats to humanity and the planet, while highlighting the unprecedented opportunities available to improve our life on a healthy planet. In the book A …

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    It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On

    It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On0

    By Hunter Lovins

    Planetary Emergency We are in a planetary emergency.1 Make no mistake about that. As the twinned crises of climate2 and biodiversity loss3 worsen, apocalyptic messages become more common.4 Yet is all really doomed?5 Mathis Wackernagel of Global …

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    Nature-Based Solutions for Coping with Natural Disaster and Climate Change Risks— An Approach that Needs to be Rooted in Social Learning

    Nature-Based Solutions for Coping with Natural Disaster and Climate Change Risks— An Approach that Needs to be Rooted in Social Learning0

    By Radhika Murti, Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel

    Can nature provide society with the solutions it needs to cope with great challenges such as global climate change and increased occurrence of natural disasters? Nature-based Solutions to Societal Challenges (NbS) is an approach that can support …

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    Climate Consciousness Artist Kito Mbiango on the Power of Art to Drive Action on Climate Change

    Climate Consciousness Artist Kito Mbiango on the Power of Art to Drive Action on Climate Change0

    By Jill Van den Brule

    We have a climate emergency. Regardless of where one stands on this issue – this is our ‘inconvenient truth’. Yet the power to reach people has never been greater. Close to 3.2 Billion people today are online, about 2 Billion are from …

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    Lessons from Denmark: Enhancing Human Well-being with Urban Green Spaces

    Lessons from Denmark: Enhancing Human Well-being with Urban Green Spaces0

    By Danielle Vermeer, Lauren Bell, Camille Medeiros, Tatyana Plummer, Scott Cloutier

    In a world of rapid urbanization, communities are losing green spaces to concrete jungles. Without green spaces, the economy, the environment and society are compromised. Imagine taking a walk through a modern city. You could be on your way to …

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    Mid-Course Correction Revisited Excerpts for the Solutions Journal By John A. Lanier
    Leaving A Place Better Than You Found It; Making A Difference And Restoring Ecosystems On The Great Barrier Reef By Anna Phelan, Kathleen Doody, Jack F. Ward, Zheng Yen Ng, Ebony Watson, Lily Fogg, Kate Dutton-Regester, Rocio Vargas Soto, Karla Ximena Vazquez Prada, Hongmin Yan, Annaleise Wilson, Timothy Vanden Berg, Alexander Arkhipov, Jessica Bugeja, Matthew Allen, Stefan Hinkelmann
    A New Water Policy For Paris, Democratic And Socio-Environmental Sustainable By Anne Le Strat
    America’s Farms: Water Risk and Opportunity in the Agricultural Supply Chain By Kirsten James
    A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan By The Club of Rome, The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
    Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work By Cosmas Gitta
    It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On By Hunter Lovins
    Nature-Based Solutions for Coping with Natural Disaster and Climate Change Risks— An Approach that Needs to be Rooted in Social Learning By Radhika Murti, Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel
    Climate Consciousness Artist Kito Mbiango on the Power of Art to Drive Action on Climate Change By Jill Van den Brule
    Lessons from Denmark: Enhancing Human Well-being with Urban Green Spaces By Danielle Vermeer, Lauren Bell, Camille Medeiros, Tatyana Plummer, Scott Cloutier

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    Facing Extinction: Nine Steps to Save Biodiversity

    Facing Extinction: Nine Steps to Save Biodiversity0

    By Joe Roman, Paul R. Ehrlich, Robert M. Pringle, John C. Avise

    In 2008, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in the UK announced a final call to find the slender-billed curlew, a one-time resident of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, last seen in 1999. Meanwhile, scientists in Australia …

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    The New Green Revolution: How Twenty-First-Century Science Can Feed the World

    The New Green Revolution: How Twenty-First-Century Science Can Feed the World0

    By Olivier De Schutter, Gaëtan Vanloqueren

    Some crises appear and disappear in global media while remaining acute in the lives of real people. Global food insecurity is this type of crisis. In January 2011 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned that …

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    Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

    Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System0

    By Donella Meadows

    Solutions Classic How do we change the structure of systems to produce more of what we want and less of that which is undesirable? After years of working with corporations on their systems problems, MIT’s Jay Forrester likes to say that the …

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    How Germany Became Europe’s Green Leader: A Look at Four Decades of Sustainable Policymaking

    How Germany Became Europe’s Green Leader: A Look at Four Decades of Sustainable Policymaking0

    By Ralph Buehler, Arne Jungjohann, Melissa Keeley, Michael Mehling

    How does one “green” an economy? For governments seeking a cleaner, more efficient, and ultimately more sustainable pathway to economic prosperity, this question entails both promise and great challenges. For one, the scale of transformation it …

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    An End to Population Growth: Why Family Planning Is Key to a Sustainable Future

    An End to Population Growth: Why Family Planning Is Key to a Sustainable Future0

    By Robert Engelman

    Those who ponder humanity’s future in the twenty-first century generally take at face value demographic projections suggesting that the world population will reach something like 9 billion around 2050 and will then stabilize at about that …

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    Envisioning a Sustainable World

    Envisioning a Sustainable World0

    By Donella Meadows

    This is an edited transcript of part of a talk given by Donella Meadows at the 1994 meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics in San José, Costa Rica, and recorded by Peter Griesinger. Meadows, cofounder of the Balaton Group, …

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    American Prospect: Decline and Rebirth

    American Prospect: Decline and Rebirth0

    By Gus Speth

    Most of us who care deeply about the conditions of the United States and its public policy are sustained and carried forward by the expectation that serious progress in the directions we favor is coming, sooner or later, and that things will get …

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    Guarding our Future: How to Protect Future Generations

    Guarding our Future: How to Protect Future Generations0

    By Maja Göpel

    All over the world, climate change, environmental destruction, financial crises, and the widening gap between rich and poor are spreading insecurity and fear. Common sense suggests that these challenges are too big for one country to handle …

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    Saving the Whales

    Saving the Whales0

    Whale conservation just took a significant step forward. Earlier this year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a ruling that Japan’s whaling expeditions to the Southern Ocean are not scientific research and are therefore …

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    A Revolutionary Change: Making the Workplace More Flexible

    A Revolutionary Change: Making the Workplace More Flexible0

    By Jolynn Shoemaker, Amy Brown, Rachel Barbour

    Men and women as caregivers of children or elderly parents face unprecedented challenges in the worldwide workforce today. For the first time in our history, approximately four out of every ten mothers in the United States are primary …

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    Facing Extinction: Nine Steps to Save Biodiversity By Joe Roman, Paul R. Ehrlich, Robert M. Pringle, John C. Avise
    The New Green Revolution: How Twenty-First-Century Science Can Feed the World By Olivier De Schutter, Gaëtan Vanloqueren
    Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System By Donella Meadows
    How Germany Became Europe’s Green Leader: A Look at Four Decades of Sustainable Policymaking By Ralph Buehler, Arne Jungjohann, Melissa Keeley, Michael Mehling
    An End to Population Growth: Why Family Planning Is Key to a Sustainable Future By Robert Engelman
    Envisioning a Sustainable World By Donella Meadows
    American Prospect: Decline and Rebirth By Gus Speth
    Guarding our Future: How to Protect Future Generations By Maja Göpel
    Saving the Whales
    A Revolutionary Change: Making the Workplace More Flexible By Jolynn Shoemaker, Amy Brown, Rachel Barbour

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    Creating a Palette-able Planet

    Creating a Palette-able Planet0

    By Jeremy Caniglia

    “UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Theodor Seuss Geisel, The Lorax The matrix of the universe is on a collision course. Dreamers have become tillers of an impoverished …

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    To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning, by Mitchell Thomasho

    To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning, by Mitchell Thomasho0

    By Natasha Seegert

    Mitchell Thomashow’s most recent book, To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning, arrives when we need it most. It is rooted not just in the exigency of climate change, but also in a pivotal historical moment, for tensions …

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    Radical Monarchs

    Radical Monarchs0

    By M. Billye Sankofa Waters

    I can’t recall how many years ago I was first introduced to the Radical Monarchs, then Radical Brownies, but I do know that within seconds, I was hooked! Growing up as a tween on the South Side of Chicago in the early 90’s, I had a wide range of …

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    Bending the Curve with Data: The Role of a Scientific Referee

    Bending the Curve with Data: The Role of a Scientific Referee0

    By Todd Halihan

    When working with the public as a scientist, you often encounter conflict between parties that are asking scientific questions. The conflict can be divided into two activities, analysis and deliberation. One can assume these are sequential, but …

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    Guiding Principles for a Catholic Perspective on Economic Policy Proposals

    Guiding Principles for a Catholic Perspective on Economic Policy Proposals0

    By John L. Knott, Jr

    In his encyclical letter, Laudato Si’, Pope Francis recalls that “Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us . . .[whose] climate …

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    Science, Belief, and Democracy

    Science, Belief, and Democracy0

    By Robert Costanza

    The United States was founded on ideas that reflected Enlightenment thinking, including the importance of science and the separation of church and state. People were allowed the freedom to believe whatever they wanted, but those beliefs were not …

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    Domestic Resilience is Homeland Security

    Domestic Resilience is Homeland Security0

    By Steve Smith

    It is important to consider the relationships between National Security, Climate Change Adaptation, and many other focus areas that bear upon the Domestic Resilience of America. Good governance truly is leading and managing a complex “system of …

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    The Capital Institute Presents: An Agenda for Genuine Financial System Reform

    The Capital Institute Presents: An Agenda for Genuine Financial System Reform0

    By John Fullerton

    An Agenda for Genuine Financial System Reform Ask yourself: What would a financial system need to look like to serve the emergence of regenerative economies? This is a call to transform finance. That transformation will remove obstacles to the …

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    Redefining Global Commons in the Anthropocene

    Redefining Global Commons in the Anthropocene0

    By Paulo Magalhães, Ana Barreira, Diana Chácon, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, Earl James, Magnus Jiborn, Sara Moreno Pires, Richard Ponzio, Izabella Teixeira, Will Steffen

    Redefining Climate as Common Good When in the 1980s climate change entered the UN agenda, one of the first questions raised was, “what is climate from a legal point of view?”. A stable climate is a visible manifestation of a …

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    A Paradigm Shift in Marketing: Creating Value For a More Sustainable Future

    A Paradigm Shift in Marketing: Creating Value For a More Sustainable Future0

    By Linda Irwin, Abigail B. Schneider

    Introduction Overconsumption, a major contributor to environmental degradation and climate change, is often attributed to the field of marketing because of marketing’s historical role in promoting resource-reliant goods and energy-dependent …

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