COVID-19 is a horrible global crisis. Yet, like previous horrible global crises, including WWI and WWII, it also presents an opportunity and an obligation to rebuild our global society to adapt to changing conditions. The question is: what kind of change trajectory do we want? One comparable to WWI’s vindictive Treaty of Versailles or one […]
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A Brief History of Sustainable and Impact Investment: It’s Still Not Too Late to Save the Planet
Sustainable and impact investment are on the rise around the globe today. Integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into investments is an increasingly accepted practice. Large investment managers now typically offer sustainability products and recognize climate change as a risk with which they must contend. Green bonds are a sought-after new asset class […]
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The Environmental Impact Nursery – Blueprint V10
In Brief The Environmental Impact Nursery™ is a business-for-purpose, regenerative capital model for implementing a goal-orientated and mandate-driven investment construct. It’s designed to deliver the right solutions for natural capital as qualified deal flow for institutional investors. This ultimately allows institutional investors to better engage in impact investing and mobilise its vast capital base via […]
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A Common Agenda for Collective Climate Impact
In Brief The climate movement is a vital force standing between humanity and climate catastrophe. The consequences at stake and magnitude of the challenge require that we maximize our effectiveness, avoid inefficient strategies, and align so that our power can be amplified. Here we provide a theory of change that can serve as a roadmap […]
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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in a Time of Pandemic
In Brief CoViD-19 is a complex multi-organ disease that kills 3-4% of the patients infected by the SARS-Cov2virus; and the virus is strongly contagious by aerosol droplets, and is, as per most recent data, airborne. The health risks associated with the virus and the disease has led to significant increase in the use of plastic-derived […]
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Cap and Adapt: Failsafe Policy for the Climate Emergency
In Brief Decades of continuing failures to achieve globally-agreed climate policy that is sufficient and fast enough to solve the climate change emergency is evidence that an additional policy track is needed, while the UNFCCC continues its effort. The article proposes a national-level policy framework that is capable of quickly cutting fossil fuel emissions to […]
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The Answer is not Eco-Socialism, It is Eco-Anarchism
Part 1: The global situation, and the alternative society required. The core Eco-socialist claim is that major problems, especially those involving the environment, cannot be solved unless capitalism is replaced by some kind of Socialism. This is a very strong claim. But the argument in this first of two articles to be published by The Solutions Journal is that […]
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Enabling People to Transition Land for Longevity, Profitability and Resilience
Have you heard of Community Consensus Institutes? You need to. It is a game-changing social technology for knowledge sharing and peer to peer support. With community consensus, the facilitator is “a guide on the side, not a sage on the stage.” In building consensus, the facilitator has minimal input beyond asking questions that work in […]
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Colombia’s Dynamic Rivers: Integrated Interpretations and the Rights of Nature
In Brief Integrated interpretations of rivers as vital and interconnected living and evolving entities have extensive practical application — from their revered preservation throughout Indigenous territories, to modern adaptations of holistic Indigenous worldviews, to advances in integrated research and policy whose goals are conservation, restoration and mitigation. Colombia is a “megadiverse” country, in culture, ecosystems […]
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Resolving trade-offs between food and ecological security in Punjab, India
In Brief Global agriculture aims to resolve trade-offs between food production and natural resources. We build on the concept of ecosystem services and analyse trade-offs between food and ecological security in Punjab, India, where agriculture adopted high input farming in 1960s. We then offer solutions by developing some alternative scenarios in order to resolve trade-offs. […]