By Vandana Shiva — 2016
In the wake of the Paris summit, Vandana Shiva suggests a manifesto for sustainability.
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Taking care of nature means taking care of people, and taking care of people means taking care of nature.
Knowing how environmental issues affect different groups of marginalized people in unique and often overlapping ways can help us build a more sustainable and equitable world.
From songs referencing grandma’s backyard garden to lyrics ripping government for destroying the water supply, many hip hop artists seamlessly weave climate justice into their sounds. After all, being sustainably savvy is how their grandparents and great-grandparents survived.
The world is experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation to becoming an ecologically literate and socially just civilization.
We need to value nature’s biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature is the best teacher.
A group of the world’s top ecologists have issued a stark warning about the snowballing crisis caused by climate change, population growth, and unchecked development. Their assessment is grim, but big-picture societal changes on a global scale can still avert a disastrous future.
Sustainability is often discussed in a high-level, conceptual way as the connection between people, planet, and profit. But in practice, it can be deeply intimate—a relationship to what nourishes us and enables us to thrive.
We might be able to save honeybees from viruses transmitted by invasive parasites without chemical treatment.
With the #MeToo movement and the many, often painful episodes of racial friction, we are reaching a new public consciousness and consensus around the need to understand each other’s perspectives.
No challenge derails managers from the goal of sustainability more than trying to understand what it means for an organization to really be sustainable.