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Blog – an integrative framework How can we unify a diverse movement that is not yet aware of itself around the need for a new development paradigm focused on being? My ambition with the politics of being is to propose an integrative framework that can accommodate all relevant claims and initiatives. I have mapped the […]

As we grow aware of the systemic nature of our problems, everybody talks about the need to shift our paradigm. In books or reports dealing with our current global issues, you will often find this quote from Albert Einstein: “You can’t solve a problem with the ways of thinking that created it.” In my professional […]

Only by flourishing can a tree sustain itself, the birds, the bees and the whole ecosystem it is part of Let’s first have a look at the definition of sustainable development. While its objective of meeting “the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” is valid, […]

Part 3: the professional journey In 2003, I started to work in Mexico in the microfinance sector. It showed me that a beautiful idea conceived for the greater good could easily be transformed into an instrument of exploitation by corrupt minds and systems. The same technology can be used to help people come out of […]

Part 2: the scientist’s journey  As I really wanted was to work for the Earth, from 2007 to 2013 I did a PhD in (ecological) economics. I studied the Costa Rican national program of economic incentives for forest conservation (“payments for environmental services”). This PhD thesis taught me two main things. First, by looking through […]