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BACKGROUND
The article which introduced the world to the concept of “wicked problems” >> Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning by Horst W.J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber.
OUR GUIDELINES
W1: The Death of Nature
READINGS
- The Plastic Waste Makers Index, Minderoo Foundation
- INTERVIEW: The politics of climate crisis Alyssa Battistoni interviewed by George Morris (Renewal)
- Chiara Falvo, Laura Galdi, The Word Crisis In A World Of Crises: The Interrelations Among Some Of Today’s Most Urgent Global Issues
- The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review and The Dasgupta Review deconstructed: an exposé of biodiversity economics
- Drivers of Food Wastage and their Implications for Sustainable Policy Development 2016
- Oxfam A billion people hungry
- Resource Revolution: Meeting the world’s energy, materials, food, and water needs
- TEEB Measuring What Matters in Agriculture and Food Systems
- Nathan Donley, The USA lags behind other agricultural nations in banning harmful pesticides
- An Unprecedented Opportunity for Corporate Social Innovation: The Future of Work and COVID-19 (Rutgers)
- Enrico Foglia, Christian Sarkar, and Philip Kotler, Regenerative Marketing: Lessons Learned from Italian Business, The Marketing Journal
BOOKS
- Cascades: How to Create a Movement that Drives Transformational Change by Greg Satell
- Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age by Greg Satell
- Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership by Edward Morrison, Scott Hutcheson, Elizabeth Nilsen, Janyce Fadden, and Nancy Franklin
- Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World: Designing for Emergence – Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian and John Seely Brown
- The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter
- Social Goodness: Essential Elements of the Greater Whole by Claire Burdett
- Green Swans: The Coming Boom In Regenerative Capitalism by John Elkington
- The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World by Raj Sisodia and Michael Gelb
- Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
- Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal Beyond Left, Right, and Center by Henry Mintzberg
- The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert Reich
- Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World by Stuart Hart
- Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail by Paul Polak
- Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
- The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens by Gabriel Zucman
- The Circular Economy: A Wealth of Flows by Ken Webster
- Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus
- The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
- How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky , Daniel Ziblatt
- Advancing the Common Good: Strategies for Businesses, Governments, and Nonprofits by Philip Kotler
- Confronting Capitalism: Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic System by Philip Kotler
- Grassroots Innovation: Minds On The Margin Are Not Marginal Minds by Anil Gupta
- Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear into Action to Change Your Life and the World by John Perkins
- Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns by Nora Bateson
- Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing
- Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow by Tim Jackson
- The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World by Ulrich Beck
- What’s Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
- Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles — and All of Us by Rana Foroohar
- The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War by Scilla Elworthy
- Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too by George Lakey
- The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway
- The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
- Seven Steps to Leading a Gender-Balanced Business by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
- The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives by Peter Diamandis
- Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society by Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, et al.
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
- Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results by David Peter Stroh
- What’s Next, Gen X?: Keeping Up, Moving Ahead, and Getting the Career You Want by Tammy Erickson
- Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines by Tom Davenport and Julia Kirby
- The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression by Peter Joseph
- The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution by Micah White
- How Soon is Now: From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation by Daniel Pinchbeck
- The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work by Richard Baldwin
- Jobs to be Done: Theory to Practice by Anthony Ulwick
- Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want by Curt Carlson
- Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future by Leonard A. Schlesinger, et al.
- Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
- Niche Down: How To Become Legendary By Being Different by Christopher Lochhead
- The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets by Thomas Philippon
- The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources by Michael Klare
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
- Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
- Brand Activism: From Purpose to Action by Christian Sarkar and Philip Kotler
OTHER WEBSITES
- The Regenerative Marketing Institute
- The Regeneration Journal
- Sustainable Prosperity (EU Policy Database)
- P2P Foundation
- Drawdown
- TED COUNTDOWN
- The Systems Thinker
- J-PAL (MIT)
- SOLVE (MIT)
- The Evolution Institute
- Commons Transition
- Commons Network
- The International Bateson Institute
- Eudaimonia & Co
- Pachamama Alliance
- FIXCapitalism.com
- ActivistBrands.com
COVID-related:
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John Hopkins’ visual dashboard
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