Back in July I had my first project working for the Global Ecovillage Network: The Ecovillages and Sustainable Living Conference 2011 – Strategies for Resillience took place in Tamera, Portugal, where I could not only get to know many representatives from worldwide ecovillages but also witness the spirit of this movement. It was an atmosphere [...]

By Umair Haque, Harvard Business Review (Blog), 20 May 2011 Here’s what I mean by opulence bubble: our conception of the good life, as I’ve discussed with you, has been centered on what I call hedonic opulence — having more, bigger, faster, cheaper, now. But we might be finding out, the hard way, that the [...]

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2011 is still young and a having lot of things to look forward to (more about this soon) – to start so (and to do more relaxed) it’s good to tick the to-dos that are still in the inbox. one is e.g my evaluation of the GreEn Forum. It actually took some time because since [...]

Dear colleagues, some members of the GEF international online community from Africa addressed their concerns to me regarding the GEF as well as our last December co- creation forum . Also other people who are not our online members contacted me with similar curiosity and questions. I had to contact them by internet , telephone [...]

I wanted to share with you the thoughts of  Oscar Motomura, who is the founder and president of Amana-Key Development & Education, a Brazilian organization specializing in management education for leaders of private, governmental, and non-governmental organizations. Talking about entrepreneurship in each possible direction and perception and sustainability as a question of ethic and understanding [...]

After hearing the inspirational speech of Lynne Twist about the “Soul of money” and the perception of abundance vs. sufficiency I ended up thinking about all of the different comments underneath this post by Elise. We live in a time in which the crisis might actually be the best thing that has happened to us. [...]

VIDEO INTERVIEW with Elise Bouvy, Program Coordinator of the GEF GreEn Forum during the Networking event of the GEF Co-Creation Workshop.

The digital platform of the GEF Forum on Green Entrepreneurship (GreEn) was the beginning of a journey. The real taste of how you can feel as a change maker, however, came for me during the past couple of weeks. By taking part in the organization of one of the biggest and honestly most innovative events [...]

As we are all part of a new generation, you will for sure recognize yourself in this new small video that he Brazilian research company Box1824 which specializes in ‘behavioral sciences and consumer trends’ just released. It is called ‘We all want to be young’. It seems this generation is definitely contributing to the new [...]