About the Club of Budapest and The Laszlo Institute

About the Club of Budapest and The Laszlo Institute

by | May 17, 2021 | Affordable and Clean Energy, Clean Water and Sanitation, Climate Action, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Gender Equality, General, Good Health and Well-Being, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Life Below Water, Life On Land, No Poverty, Partnerships for the Goals, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Quality Education, Reducing Inequality, Responsible Consumption and Production, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Zero Hunger

The SDG Thought Leaders Circle thanks the Club of Budapest and the Laszlo Institute for these additions to the SDG Thought Leaders Circle’s Commentaries. See also their listing in the resource area under Activities. The Club of Budapest (est. 1993) is a group of...
A Holistic View of the SDGs

A Holistic View of the SDGs

by | Mar 1, 2021 | Affordable and Clean Energy, Climate Action, General, Good Health and Well-Being, Life On Land, Partnerships for the Goals, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Quality Education, Reducing Inequality, Sustainable Cities and Communities

Taken as a whole, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals represent a framework for equitable global prosperity. Since the United Nations began considering development on a worldwide scale, our understanding of the interrelatedness of all their component parts has...
Sacred Earth Enterprises and Climate Restoration

Sacred Earth Enterprises and Climate Restoration

by | Feb 27, 2021 | Affordable and Clean Energy, Climate Action, General, Good Health and Well-Being, Life On Land, Partnerships for the Goals, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Quality Education, Reducing Inequality, Sustainable Cities and Communities

The UN’s admirable SDGs were developed by 193 separate nation states. This fragmentation reflects the fundamental assumptions of humanity’s disconnected worldview. Nations, like people, cannot be united in the absence of a recognition of oneness, a common story that...
An Essential Shift is Necessary for Conscious World Citizens

An Essential Shift is Necessary for Conscious World Citizens

by | Feb 25, 2021 | Affordable and Clean Energy, Climate Action, General, Good Health and Well-Being, Life On Land, Partnerships for the Goals, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Quality Education, Reducing Inequality, Sustainable Cities and Communities

We are all citizens on this planet, nurtured and supported by the planet’s ecology. We are World Citizens in the Awareness that this is a shared ecology where what we do has consequences throughout the world – beyond borders and national identity. …The Essential Shift...
Challenges of the SDGs Arise From the Underlying Current of Fear

Challenges of the SDGs Arise From the Underlying Current of Fear

by | Feb 21, 2021 | Affordable and Clean Energy, Climate Action, General, Good Health and Well-Being, Life On Land, Partnerships for the Goals, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Quality Education, Reducing Inequality, Sustainable Cities and Communities

The vast and disparate issues of our world that the Sustainable Development Goals seek to address can all be traced to a common origin; the insidious, systemic fear of individuals for their personal wellbeing. When the underlying program running for most of humanity...
Heeding the Adage That We Cannot Solve Our Societal Problems With the Same Methods That Created Them

Heeding the Adage That We Cannot Solve Our Societal Problems With the Same Methods That Created Them

by | Feb 17, 2021 | Affordable and Clean Energy, Climate Action, General, Good Health and Well-Being, Life On Land, Partnerships for the Goals, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Quality Education, Reducing Inequality, Sustainable Cities and Communities

The adagio that we cannot solve our societal problems with the same methods that create them is well known. The vision that inspiration and motivation for ‘new methods’ need to come from deeper thinking about who we are as individuals and groups and about how to...