In this Sustainable Century Podcast, I speak with Alice Korngold, of Korngold Consulting.  Our discussion examines how companies can positively act on pressing social, environmental and economic challenges by having employees work with non-profits on the front line of change.

A football stadium full of rabid fans has transcendental potential to address pressing environmental issues and ugly social and economic divisions. Imagine that: sustainability in sports!

A football stadium full of rabid fans has transcendental potential to address pressing environmental issues and ugly social and economic divisions. Imagine that: sustainability in sports!

Who should Head the World Bank, What about the Green New  Deal, and did you hear about The End of Capitalism?

Tune in with host Marc de Sousa Shields and guest John Friedman as they discuss this and more in The Sustainable Century Week podcast.

Rebecca Burgess shares an amazing wealth of information with straight forward candor that spells hope for a more ecologically balanced future, strong local economies, and a healthier, more just world. A dye artisan, weaver, and ecological futurist, Rebecca rejoices our inner beauty, works to restore ecological balance, and rejects fast fashion as a terribly destructive machine. Join her in this fantastic interview!

How too many Black Friday ‘s’ created an industry and threatens the planet with economic Patriotism

Have you seen Storage Wars? It’s the reality show where a cast of characters bid on the unseen contents of abandoned warehouse lockers.....

The US mid-term elections were all health care and hate, but they also projected America’s insecurity and desperate need for a more sustainable world.

Last week I suggested that we are witnessing the emerging confluence of authoritarianism, hyper-consumerism, and carbon. Or in the vernacular: Putin, plastics and profits.

I fear the emerging trajectories of climate change and the authoritarian right is seriously, if not irreparably damaging hopes for a democratic, market-based sustainable world order...

In a recording made late spring 2018, I had the honor to speak with Fazlul Kader, Deputy Director of the PKSF. Fazlul’s treasure chest of knowledge combines sweeping historic perspective with starkly honest assessments about his countries potential for sustainable development. This, combined with his exuberant good nature and fathomless optimism, provides hope for a more sustainable Bangladesh and world.

If movies tell us about our darkest thoughts, we should be scared. A dystopian future is upon us, and like deers in the headlights we start at end of the world movies in fascination, meanwhile the climate boils up endless hurricanes, droughts, resource conflicts and all things unsustainable....