Río+20: the future we want?

‘The Future We Want’ –the main result from Rio+20— has generated disappointment in many people for it seems to be proposing the opposite of what the title suggests. This work first analyzes some partial positive and negative aspects of the document, and then explains the rationale for this disappointment from an economic perspective: the 16 references that document makes to ‘sustained economic growth’ as a necessity for sustainable development.... Read More

Collaborating for the Future We Want

The Good Life 2.0 – Community Resilience In A Changing World By Davie Philip “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” ~ Henry Ford In this Good Life 2.0 article, I want to further explore the themes of collaboration and the art of working together. In these challenging times, joining forces with others is both beneficial and cost effective. However, what I’m excited about is not the... Read More

For those of us who dream

This is a post from Alejo Etchart Ortiz, a Spanish sustainable development consultant who is now implementing a resilience-building, community approach to sustainable development in small rural areas called RESIVITAS. Here he introduces a vision of a community-based, resilience-building, systemic approach to sustainable development. Alejo also reviews how three of the pre-Rio 20 documents align with this vision of community resilience and comments... Read More