Current extractive and wasteful economic practices are destroying biodiversity and vital ecosystems. This episode explores how a circular economy can tackle these root causes, creating new value

Current extractive and wasteful economic practices are destroying biodiversity and vital ecosystems. This episode explores how a circular economy can tackle these root causes, creating new value and regenerating nature, essential for a thriving future.

Speakers include Patrick Holden (Sustainable Food Trust), Luc Bas (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Felipe Villela (reNature), and Hanneke Faber (Unilever). Powered by Restream.

Tobias Kaufmann (WTPF-26 IEG Vice Chair) and Gretchen Bueermann (WTPF-26 secretariat) discuss preparations for the 2026 World Telecommunications ICT Policy Forum. WTPF-26 will address five

Tobias Kaufmann (WTPF-26 IEG Vice Chair) and Gretchen Bueermann (WTPF-26 secretariat) discuss preparations for the 2026 World Telecommunications ICT Policy Forum. WTPF-26 will address five priorities: bridging digital divides, green digital transformation, ICT resilience, space connectivity, and strengthening ICT innovation ecosystems.

Kaufmann highlights how these topics address global needs and challenges, emphasizing WTPF's role in fostering inclusive dialogue, sharing best practices, and shaping a shared vision for an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient digital future.

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The Big Food Redesign Challenge demonstrates the possibility of designing a food system where nature thrives. A new film from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation explores this journey and the future of

The Big Food Redesign Challenge demonstrates the possibility of designing a food system where nature thrives. A new film from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation explores this journey and the future of food. The Foundation, an international charity, champions a circular economy model that eliminates waste, circulates materials, and regenerates nature.

Learn more about our work and the circular economy at our website: www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org.

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Life on our planet faces imminent danger, demanding a shift from exploitation to caretaking and restoration. Cultivating our connection with nature is vital for both sanity and survival, fostering

Life on our planet faces imminent danger, demanding a shift from exploitation to caretaking and restoration. Cultivating our connection with nature is vital for both sanity and survival, fostering emotional and mental resilience amidst overwhelming challenges.

Psychotherapist Eva Jahn founded the Climate Emotional Resilience Institute (CERI) to address this crisis, providing coping skills and community support. She joins Paul Beckwith and Dale Walkonen for this conversation.

For more information about CERI and its 8-week online Thicket program, visit climateemotionalresilience.org. Explore further at the FacingFuture Library.

This interactive online Forum was hosted by the Pathways to Planetary Health initiative at the Garrison Institute.



On June 24, Garrison Institute Co-founder Jonathan F.P.

This interactive online Forum was hosted by the Pathways to Planetary Health initiative at the Garrison Institute.



On June 24, Garrison Institute Co-founder Jonathan F.P. Rose spoke with Jonathan F.P. Rose, Leonora Grcheva, and Erinch Sahan of Doughnut Economics Action Lab. In this thought-provoking discussion, they explored Doughnut Economics, which asks the question, "What is the goal of economics?" and answered it with a purpose: "Social and ecological wellbeing rather than growth or many other economic indicators that we pay too much attention to." They began with Kate describing the basic idea of Doughnut Economics, and then heard how Leonora, who leads the work with city and municipal governments at Doughnut Economic Action Lab (DEAL), is working with many cities to implement these ideas, and some of the exciting examples. Erinch then described how Doughnut Economics is being applied to businesses. This fascinating discussion was rich with ideas about how to improve the quality of life for all of life, and their application-- a wonderful example of the "Timeless Wisdom, Timely Action" that underlies all of the Garrison Institute's work.



About Kate Raworth: Kate Raworth (sounds like "Ray-worth") is a renegade economist focused on making economics fit for 21st century realities. She is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab. Her internationally best-selling book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist has been translated into over 20 languages and has been widely influential with diverse audiences, from the UN General Assembly to Pope Francis to Extinction Rebellion.

Kate is a Senior Associate at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute, where she teaches on the Masters in Environmental Change and Management. She is also Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.



About Leonora Grcheva: Leonora Grcheva has joined Doughnut Economics Action Lab to lead their engagement with cities, municipalities and other place-based administrations that are interested in putting Doughnut Economics into practice in their own context. Leonora is an urban planner, researcher and participation practitioner. She has over a decade of experience facilitating engagement with communities, cities and regions globally through her work as an urban planning consultant for UN-Habitat, a city leadership associate for University College London, and a community engagement consultant for built environment projects in the UK. She studied architecture in her home-country Macedonia, holds a Masters in Human Settlement from KU Leuven (Belgium), and a PhD in Urbanism from the IUAV University of Venice (Italy).



About Erinch Sahan: Erinch Sahan is the business and enterprise lead at the Doughnut Economics Action Lab. Recently, he was the chief executive of the World Fair Trade Organization and previously spent 7 years at Oxfam leading campaign initiatives and founded Oxfam's Future of Business Initiative. Erinch has also worked at Procter & Gamble as a market strategy manager, established a furniture business and worked for Australia's aid programme. Erinch is a board member of the Social Enterprise World Forum and teaches sustainable value chains at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He holds degrees in finance and law, and an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University.



About Jonathan F.P. Rose: Jonathan F.P. Rose is a noted global expert in sustainable development and regenerative communities. He is Co-Founder and Board Chair for The Garrison Institute, and Founder and President of Jonathan Rose Companies, a mission-driven company focused on enhancing the health and wellness of its residents with green, energy-efficient property improvements and through its Communities of Opportunities programming. In 2024, he was awarded Bhutan's prestigious Druk Thuksey Medal ("Order of the Beloved of the Thunder Dragon") for helping create and implement the Thimphu Structure Plan, a framework for sustainable development in Bhutan's rapidly urbanizing capital city. Jonathan founded the Pathways to Planetary Health initiative at the Garrison Institute.



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Climate is fundamental to all ecological, biological, and human systems. As we confront a long climate emergency, skilled leaders are uniting to transform our lifestyles and foster widespread

Climate is fundamental to all ecological, biological, and human systems. As we confront a long climate emergency, skilled leaders are uniting to transform our lifestyles and foster widespread resilience.

Key figures in this effort include Berkeley's Chief Resilience Officer Timothy Burroughs, Professor David W. Orr, and financial adviser Tom Van Dyck.

New_ Public is a home for those envisioning a diverse, community-serving, and anti-oppressive tech future. We connect thinkers, builders, designers, and technologists to share inspiration and

New_ Public is a home for those envisioning a diverse, community-serving, and anti-oppressive tech future. We connect thinkers, builders, designers, and technologists to share inspiration and create better digital public spaces.

It's a newsletter, magazine, and community, supported by Civic Signals. Stay updated on public-spirited tech by signing up for our dispatch: newpublic.substack.com.

Trust is fundamental, but what happens when it breaks? Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei offers a crash course on building, maintaining, and rebuilding trust.

Drawing on her

Trust is fundamental, but what happens when it breaks? Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei offers a crash course on building, maintaining, and rebuilding trust.

Drawing on her experience, including work at Uber, Frei emphasizes that increased mutual trust can lead to unprecedented human progress.

Do we have a right to be hopeful? With political and ecological fires raging all around, is it irresponsible to imagine a future world radically better than our own? A world without prisons? Of

Do we have a right to be hopeful? With political and ecological fires raging all around, is it irresponsible to imagine a future world radically better than our own? A world without prisons? Of beautiful, green public housing? Of buried border walls? Of healed ecosystems? A world where governments fear the people instead of the other way around? 

“A Message From the Future II: The Years of Repair” is an animated short film that dares to dream of a future in which 2020 is a historic turning point, where the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic and global uprisings against racism drive us to build back a better society in which no one is sacrificed and every one is essential.

The film is a sequel to the 2019 Emmy-nominated short film “A Message From the Future” with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and features the art of Molly Crabapple, with the political storytelling of Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis, and Opal Tometi. The cast of narrators from around the world includes Tometi, Emma Thompson, Gael García Bernal, and the Nigerian poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey.

Watch Part 1 "A Message from the Future" with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez here.

What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple.

Set

What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple.

Set a couple of decades from now, the film is a flat-out rejection of the idea that a dystopian future is a foregone conclusion. Instead, it offers a thought experiment: What if we decided not to drive off the climate cliff? What if we chose to radically change course and save both our habitat and ourselves?

We realized that the biggest obstacle to the kind of transformative change the Green New Deal envisions is overcoming the skepticism that humanity could ever pull off something at this scale and speed. That’s the message we’ve been hearing from the “serious” center for four months straight: that it’s too big, too ambitious, that our Twitter-addled brains are incapable of it, and that we are destined to just watch walruses fall to their deaths on Netflix until it’s too late.

This film flips the script. It’s about how, in the nick of time, a critical mass of humanity in the largest economy on earth came to believe that we were actually worth saving. Because, as Ocasio-Cortez says in the film, our future has not been written yet, and “we can be whatever we have the courage to see.”

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Future II is here.