by Stogov Anton, High Academic School of Graphic Design, Russia
The advertising industry is at the heart of today’s culture of consumption. Glossy magazine spreads convince us that we’ll be respected and envied if we drive a new car, seductive billboards tell us that a new perfume will transform our relationships, and televised juice adds make us believe that a happy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sustainability’
Advertising for Good
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: July 31st, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
by Stogov Anton, High Academic School of Graphic Design, Russia
The advertising industry is at the heart of today’s culture of consumption. Glossy magazine spreads convince us that we’ll be respected and envied if we drive a new car, seductive billboards tell us that a new perfume will transform our relationships, and televised juice adds make us believe that a happy [...]
For Rio+20: A Charter for a New Economy
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: June 20th, 2012
By Gus Speth
The following article is reposted from Solutions Online.
The overarching goal at the upcoming Rio+20 summit must be achieving sustainable prosperity for all. Within this broad objective, the subject is bracketed, if you will, by two of the greatest challenges faced by the international community: the greatest social challenge, world poverty, and the greatest environmental challenge, climate change. There can be [...]
The Sustainability Leaders Network
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: May 30th, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
Congratulations to Edie Farwell and Dominic Stucker of the Sustainability Leaders Network (SLN) for carrying on the leadership trainings and sustainability work they started through the Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program! The SLN continues to connect and engage with each of DMI’s 74 Fellows to deepen their impact as they address today’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.
In addition to [...]
Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) in the USA!
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: April 17th, 2012
Sterling College, Craftsbury, Vermont
August 15 – September 1, 2012
Last call for applications! Deadline is May 14, 2012
The Donella Meadows Institute (Norwich, Vermont), in collaboration with ACTIS and the Alliance for Global Sustainability (a university partnership between the ETH Zürich, MIT, University of Tokyo, and Chalmers University), is pleased to announce our 2012 Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) course for the first time in [...]
… on a sustainable world
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: October 19th, 1993
“I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. I mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years, toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship, and spiritual realization.”
—“Beyond the Limits”, speech given in Spain, Fall 1993
