Ben Gill

Young people finding the gaps in climate strategy, and suggesting new solutions

Back in September, we started an initiative to work with Young Leaders to systems-map all UK local government climate strategies into a single networked database. While mapping all strategies has proven to be over-optimistic… with nearly 50 mapped and connected we’re already learning a lot! On the central page you can see all the plans...

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Felix Christoforou
Unite for Climate Action - OnePlanet.com - Pooran Desai, Mike Berners-Lee & guests

Unite for Climate Action: an Intergenerational Event

Save the Date! 12/12/23 It is vital that our climate action be joined-up and trans-disciplinary. On the 12th of December, we’re hosting an intergenerational event to reflect on the COP process and explore how systems mapping for joined-up climate action at the local government level can make a movement for change across the board. Our team of Young Leaders have been systems mapping...

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Peter Anderson
Donna Stimson, Building Bridges Hub - OnePlanet Ambassador

OnePlanet Ambassadors – Introducing Donna Stimson

I have recently had the honour of being appointed a OnePlanet Ambassador!  To say I am delighted is an understatement.  I will be working alongside Nicola Peel, the extraordinary environmentalist, solutionist and speaker, spent twenty years working in the Ecuadorian Amazon and created Rainforest Saver. Coincidentally, our charitable enterprises are taking us both to Anthropy...

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Pooran Desai
Social inclusion - One Planet Living - oneplanet.com

Why we need you now: Systems thinking and lessons from neuroscience

In a blog I posted back in January 2020 entitled New Reality, New Thinking, New Tools where I wrote about how understanding interconnectedness is at the heart of the new thinking we need to tackle the complex, interconnected problems we face today. I have worked in sustainability for over thirty years as a social entrepreneur and consultant as...

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Ben Gill
Greenwich Autumn

What are the impacts of an ‘unseasonably’ warm Autumn?

As we all basked in September and early October’s ‘unseasonably’ warm weather, a term that no longer holds any meaning, I began to wonder what are the impacts of a warm Autumn. We are all mostly familiar with the problems of an early spring; trees and plants starting to grow and blossoming early before a late...

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Ben Gill
First-Network-Node

Network Node, Helpdesk, and more…

Now that we’ve switched over to our new tech stack, we’re fully focused on developing the platform functionality to enhance collaboration in the achievement of Shared Outcomes, as well as enabling you to get the most out of the platform. To that end, we have developed a new fundamental piece of the OnePlanet platform architecture:...

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