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About the Club of Budapest and The Laszlo Institute
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...
A Holistic View of the SDGs
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...
Sacred Earth Enterprises and Climate Restoration
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...
An Essential Shift is Necessary for Conscious World Citizens
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...
SDG 2030: The Challenge To Find Sustainability While Preserving Our Most Cherished Human Values
There is a powerful place where science, policy and politics can converge as a gateway to our greatest expressions of creativity and potential. The same sweet spot of such possibility, however, also...
Challenges of the SDGs Arise From the Underlying Current of Fear
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...
Integrating Global Citizenship Into Student Learning
I co-chaired the 2016 United Nations DPI-NGO 66th conference in South Korea, Education for Global Citizenship: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for All. This was one of the first...
Heeding the Adage That We Cannot Solve Our Societal Problems With the Same Methods That Created Them
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...
Connecting Our Highest Values to the Domains of Power and Policy
The evolution of human societies en route to today's globalized world, has been fraught with suffering: wars, genocide, slavery and oppression, ecological/climate destabilization, species...
The Need For a WholeWorld-View to Fulfill the Aims of the UN’s SDGs
Whilst the formulation and adoption in September 2015 of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent the aspiration to resolve key global issues, the crucial challenge is...
Co-Create the World We Dream is Possible
For us to unify our world and remember that we are one human family, it takes a shared mission. The United Nations SDG goals offer a blueprint for what a more evolved, enlightened humanity can look...
The Humanization of the Anthropocene
The most effective means to change the outside world is to develop a solid core of resilience, kindness, and goodness within. As that core, deeply connected self develops, an understanding of the...
Nature is speaking to humanity. Are we listening?
Covid-19 has presented humanity with a unique opportunity to address the root causes of the issues driving each of the SDGs. The global impact of the pandemic has exposed the cracks in the veneer of...
Business as Usual is Not an Option
Taking action to manifest the SDGs with no reference to our interior values is a mistake. We must each answer the call to live consciously, and from this place, we must take action at every level...
Success Will Come With a Step into Higher Consciousness
The UN Sustainable Development Goals spell out a comprehensive vision of what is possible and essential for the betterment of our world. The question then becomes what are the best conditions and...
A Contemplative Renaissance Toward an Interconnected Global Network of Communities
Do you feel the winds of change blowing across our Earth, foretelling a great storm approaching on the horizon? A growing sense of chaos and fragility warns of a world out of balance, with various...
Igniting a Shift in Our Personal and Global Consciousness From “Me” to “We”
The first time, in the History of Humankind, most countries in our world (194) have signed the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals, (SGDs) and they have committed to achieve them by the...
United Nations SDGs Seeking to Make a Difference and Finding Effective Solutions
The Academy for Future Science supports sustainable development initiatives, particularly affordable, clean energy, and quality education. Through our work as social scientists in Africa and South...
The Challenge of the SDGs Gauges How We Respond in These Perilous Times
The dilemma of the Sustainable Development Goals is that their achievement is paramount to our world future, yet the current skillsets of our global structures and ethical and moral tenor appear to...
SDGs Embrace the Problem as the Solution
The SDGs reveal a UN alarmingly out of touch with humanity’s rush toward ever greater inequality, exclusion, environmental destruction, and ultimate self-extinction. They suggest we are making...
Attaining the SDGs Will Require a Global Trust Frequency
I respectfully propose that the SDGs are based upon a worldview built on outdated assumptions. While undeniably important and well-intentioned, they will not be attainable until the people...
Developing Our Skill-Sets to Achieve Real Peace
The UN Sustainable Development Goals offer humanity a blueprint framework for cooperation on behalf of the common good. History was made in 1945 as the UN was founded and we made a subtle shift...
Revolutionizing Education for a One Humanity
This coronavirus….a virus with a coronation….regal stature and life changing. And NOW is the opening of a window of opportunity. We are One Humanity suffering and learning together. What are we...
Revisiting and Evolving the Framework and Implementation Process into a Collective Compass
The SDGs have contributed to a unified understanding of many of the acute challenges we face, while also inspiring global solutions-oriented inquiry and action. In the context of our accelerating...
What’s Really Happening?
What’s really happening? Pandemic —> Recession/Depression —> Psycho-Cultural Shocks —> Myriad Cascades Contexts: An existential ecological crisis, amidst a crisis of sensemaking and meaning, on an...
A Clarion Call to LIVING the SDGs
The Pandemic is a clarion call for the world to change, to heal, to see ourselves anew and to deepen our connection to each other and the Earth as ONE PLANET. The SDGs are themselves a testament of...
Law and Legal Mechanisms Are Important Tools in Achieving the SDGs
The UN Sustainable Development Goals apply to all member states recognizing that every country is responsible for improving the lives of the world’s people. It encourages partnerships or cooperation...
This is the purpose of the SDG Synergy Circle
The UN’s SDG’s provide an excellent overview of the areas in need of urgent attention by humanity if the future is to be secured for the inhabitants of our planet. Unfortunately there is little...
Proactive Philanthropy and the Challenge of the SDGs
We align with the SDGs as a way of tackling the ‘symptoms’ of the current crises our planet finds itself in and a way of focusing energy and intention. However, we believe that without addressing...
SDGs and the Emerging Outer Space Economy
According to the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Director Simonetta Di Pippo, space benefits all 17 SDGs. As Chairman of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (founded by Captain...
Activating Universal Goals That Guide Us On a More Sustainable Course
We are at a moment in our world’s history where our thoughts and actions matter more now than ever before. Our choices affect not only our own lives but also the lives of every living being in our...