This letter was written to a student who approached me for advice on how to engage a company that was just not showing any interest in sustainability ... Dear ______ Thanks for your patience, it's been a terribly busy time ... kids starting school, me starting work ... but I am happy to have this … Continue reading Letter to a Struggling Business Change Agent
Author: Alan AtKisson
Pyramid 2012: The Story of Building a Shared Dream
This is the personal “back story” on the origins of the Pyramid 2012 campaign, which published its final report on 18 June 2012. For the official story of this two-month-long “global workshop,” in which well over a thousand people participated, spread across twenty countries, please visit the campaign website to read the press release, 14-page … Continue reading Pyramid 2012: The Story of Building a Shared Dream
Is “Sustainable Development” Dying?
This short article's title does not refer to the upcoming Rio+20 summit, which even Ban Ki-moon is publicly worried about (see my piece about managing expectations for the summit, link below). But of course, it could. Nor does it refer to the general, spreading sense of malaise felt by many sustainability activists and professionals — … Continue reading Is “Sustainable Development” Dying?
Two Excerpts from Alan AtKisson’s “Collected Poems, 1982-2009”
Here are two poems from the volume, written in the mid-1990's. The first is an excerpt from the "Fugue" series, experiments in capturing trains of thought in the moments between wakefulness and sleep. The second, "The Work of the Animal Nations," was first published in the literary journal Point No Point. © Alan AtKisson, all … Continue reading Two Excerpts from Alan AtKisson’s “Collected Poems, 1982-2009”
Stockholm+40: Dreaming about revolution
I thought I would write blog entries throughout the Stockholm+40 conference. Instead, I listened – not so much to the formal presentations and speeches, though there were a few good ones. I listened to my friends and colleagues. "What are you working on?" I wanted to know. "How is it going?" For me, the sustainability … Continue reading Stockholm+40: Dreaming about revolution
Stockholm+40 and the King of Spain: No hiding from the truth
This is the first in a series of posts that I will make from the Stockholm+40 conference, 23-24 April 2012. For more on this conference, please see the official website: http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/15451 It is dizzying to think that the world has been wrestling with the problem set we call "sustainability" for forty years now. There is … Continue reading Stockholm+40 and the King of Spain: No hiding from the truth
Subject: Sustaining happiness (or, Why I didn’t go to a meeting on Happiness)
[Copy of Facebook Status Update] Friends, if you follow my Twitter feed, you'll see a note from friend Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir saying she missed seeing me at the High-Level Meeting on Happiness hosted by the Prime Minister of Bhutan at UN headquarters in NY. This is a very significant meeting, and I was pleased and … Continue reading Subject: Sustaining happiness (or, Why I didn’t go to a meeting on Happiness)
NEW: Green Economy + National Happiness = ?
Can we create “happiness for all” while preserving the planet? Will humanity manage to create “green economies”, and convert our current economic systems from destructive forces to sustainable and indeed restorative processes, in time? The new report Life Beyond Growth — issued on March 1, 2012, by the Tokyo-based Institute for Studies in Happiness, Economy, … Continue reading NEW: Green Economy + National Happiness = ?
Life Beyond Growth—download free report
New report traces revolution in how we think about "progress" Is there Life Beyond Growth? The new report by that name declares decisively yes, citing more and more countries that are seriously questioning the "Gross Domestic Product" (GDP) and traditional economic growth as their default definition of "progress." Despite all the economic and political turmoil … Continue reading Life Beyond Growth—download free report
Why Russia Should Invest in Sustainability
Seven Reasons why Russia Should Invest in Sustainability — Three of Them Unconvincing by Alan AtKisson CEO, AtKisson Inc. & Author, The Sustainability Transformation On Wednesday, 10 February, I made the second keynote presentation (after Ashok Khosla's opening) to a conference in Moscow called "Innovative Russia: Responding to Global Challenges." The other participants on the … Continue reading Why Russia Should Invest in Sustainability
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