Endless growth is not sustainable by Dick Smith I am announcing Dick Smith’s Wilberforce Award – $1 million to go to a young person under 30 who can impress me by becoming famous through his or her ability to show leadership in communicating an alternative to our population and consumption growth-obsessed economy. I will be [...]

Event Description: European Youth Meeting for Sustainable Development organised by Sillamäe Society for Child Welfare with partners from around Europe will take place in Tallinn from 19th – 24th July 2011 in Estonia on the theme of youth involvement in ensuring sustainable development. What role can and should young people and youth organisations play in [...]

Fell upon this and thought you would enjoy ‘Al-Gore-ithms’ revisited – things to speed up in 2011! Posted by aheadahead on December 19, 2010 (http://aheadahead.wordpress.com) Three weeks ago I met Al Gore at a dinner meeting organized by Deloitte. He was speaking to a group of around 30 CEOs at Schiphol Airport Amsterdam. For me [...]

Hi everyone, It is great to be a newbie here at GEF. Lucy nudged me to share with you a project I am working on so here goes! This project journey coincides with my educational one and was born from a need. In 2008 I began searching for a degree program in sustainability. It took [...]

Thought this was very relevant to the GreEn Forum, two interesting contributions on the history of innovation that point to the power of collaboration…. ENJOY ‘Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From’ Extract: Kelly: It’s amazing that the myth of the lone genius has persisted for so long, since simultaneous invention has [...]

VIDEO INTERVIEW with Olivier Marquet, managing director at Triodos NV Belgium, during the Networking event of the GEF Co-Creation Workshop on GreEn.

A word by Maria Scordialos, Co-Founder of the Art of Hosting The art of hosting is a response to a world that is becoming increasingly complex and fragmented, where true solutions and innovation lie not in one leader or one point of view, but in the bigger picture that can be grasped only by our [...]

We all ask ourselves if there is some point in the next high level Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP). As we have seen the results and the lack of big resolutions after the end of COP15, we all doubt about the affluence of the coming big [...]

What will happen? What is at stake? How can we prepare for it? This open, flexible and evolving working document sets a basis for civil society co-ordination and co-creation. You will find some history, actors and above all VISIONS for a collective participatory dynamics. Let’s be ambitious and modest; idealistic and realistic; visionary and concrete! [...]

The’s a great article written about entrepreneurship which uses the analogy of pirates to show what it really takes: http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/31/are-you-a-pirate/ “I don’t care if you’re a billionaire. If you haven’t started a company, really gambled your resume and your money and maybe even your marriage to just go crazy and try something on your own, [...]