Niamh James

How can the infrastructure industry help create resilient, regenerative communities and regions ?

 A guest blog by Melissa Zanocco OBE, industry transformation expert and CEO of Infrastructure Client Group. I believe that we need to create the future we want rather than being recipients of the future we get. To ensure a sustainable future for humankind and the planet, I see the future as a combination of outcome-focused, place-based decision-making...

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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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Niamh James
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

Following our dreams in the face of the climate crisis

Andres Pimentel interviews Pooran Desai where they get to talk about the role of following individual dreams in the face of the climate crisis, eco-anxiety, and more.

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