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Water From Oil
I was exploring Dubai, searching for sustainability lessons to share with students and clients who travel on study tours with Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability, and boy did I find a doozy. Dubai figured out how to turn oil … Continue reading
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Real Time Tragedy
Khonoma illustrates the real-time dismantling by global capitalism of generations-old knowledge and norms that sustain food, water, culture, and people. It’s a sadly familiar struggle that has played out countless times around the globe: here in Khonoma you can feel … Continue reading
Posted in Convergence 2050, India, Leadership
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Why India Matters
India is becoming the most consequential country in history (again). Over a million people a month are joining its workforce. Almost as many are moving into its cities. The bulge in educated and motivated people provides a “demographic dividend” with … Continue reading
Posted in Convergence, Convergence 2050, Leadership
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What Will You Do After Marching for Science?
Marching for science is worse than preaching to the choir. Continue reading
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Why I Won’t March for Science
Marching might do more harm than good if it makes scientist feel they have done enough and are excused to go back to their labs and books. Continue reading
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A Path Through Trump’s Minefield
Our rational, wonkish, scientific explanations are completely counterproductive. Continue reading
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The End of Expertise: And Why That Is A Giant Problem for the Anthropocene
The impacts of confirmation bias, identity protecting reasoning, and information access are combining to undermine rationality, expertise, and ultimately threaten democracy. Continue reading
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Leadership for the Anthropocene
We are living through something so rare that its frequency is measured in millennia, the emergence of a new geological epoch. Times of great change present great opportunities and challenges. Those who practice leadership can make a difference. See my … Continue reading
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Leadership 101 for Global Sustainability
2050 transitions require cross-sector leadership, collaboration and courage to fail Continue reading
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Leadership as Simple as DAC
Sustainable development requires collaboration among diverse stakeholders—none with authority over others. Collaboration is as simple as DAC: Direction, Alignment, and Commitment. These three outcomes are as simple in theory as they are difficult in practice. Direction: Leadership requires constructing … Continue reading
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