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Nations can find their way out of our social and environmental crises in their traditional wisdoms, which usually express their own version of the story of interbeing. Unlike the Western emphasis on individuality, they tend to emphasize our relational nature, as well as our belonging and responsibilities toward a community. In their RIO + 20 […]

Our nations lost their ways as economic development became an end in itself rather than a means to live well. Economic production measured in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which since its invention in 1934 has been the main metric to assess the development of nations, is now widely recognized as a broken compass […]

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, […]