Maat and Ubuntu articulate core human values.
Mamphela Ramphele, honorary Club of Rome president, calls for pluriversality and inclusivity: many worldviews, one planet. Calling for leadership and policy rooted in human values.
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Yoshitsugu Hayashi’s has helped shape rail systems, rethink urban sprawl and design disaster-resilient communities, and weaves in culture using anime and judo to spark global conversations about empathy and coexistence.
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Decolonisation is a key to climate resilience in Africa. Read more in the new Earth4All deep dive paper: ‘Africa’s just transition opportunity: decolonising economic transformation for climate resilience’ by Fadhel Kaboub and Mohamed Adow➡️ vist.ly/4u8cq
Clothes on hangers with text: “The EU scheme must shift focus away from recycling fashion waste and towards upstream measures that limit overproduction.” Lewis Akenji, member of the Club of Rome and Executive Director of the Hot or Cool Institute
Up to tenth of the global greenhouse gas emissions are coming from the fashion industry. Lewis Akenji lays out five key questions that the EU’s new circular fashion law must answer to deliver real results ➡️ vist.ly/4u8bi
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Graphic featuring a portrait of systems thinker Donella Meadows with a quote: “The future can’t be predicted, but it can be envisioned and brought lovingly into being. Systems can’t be controlled, but they can be designed and redesigned.” Text below asks: “Do you want to explore systems thinking and learn how to apply it to drive systems change?”
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More than 50% of the world’s population is under 30.
The 50 Percent initiative supports young changemakers exploring systems thinking and learn to drive system change.
Applications are open for the Young Person’s Guide to Systems Change Fellowship.
Learn more and apply: vist.ly/4txxw
Who owns wealth? What is banking meant to do? What would an economy centred on wellbeing look like?
The award-winning Club of Rome Podcast invites these conversations.
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A Democracy in Action sign in front of the European comission building, with text: “Democracy is not Europe’s weakness. It is its most transferable contribution to a world searching for viable models of cooperative resilience.” by Petra Kuenkel member of the Club of Rome and Founder of the Collective Leadership Institute
Reflecting on the recent Munich Security Conference, Petra Kuenkel, member of the Club of Rome asks: what does strength actually mean in the 21st century?
Read more on the blog ➡️ vist.ly/4tt85
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A new article in our history series explores the Club of Rome’s connections with #Asia: how decades of exchange led to a turning point where Asia was recognised as central to planetary thinking.
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Runa Khan, Club of Rome member and Founder of FRIENDSHIP, reflects on conscience-led, systems-oriented leadership shaped by climate-affected communities in Bangladesh in a conversation with communications fellow Martin Mbewe.
Read more here: vist.ly/4tifa
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Are we too many? Or are we going to become too few?
In his new book, The End of Population Growth, Ugo Bardi looks at the factors influencing fertility rates across the world and explores how societies might adapt. Read his latest blog summarising the key findings ➡️ vist.ly/4tdjv
With new EU legislation incoming, can we hope for a circular fashion future?
@lewisakenji.bsky.social, Club of Rome member and co-chair of the Materials and Consumption Taskforce, highlights questions that the law must answer to ensure real results in a new piece: vist.ly/4t57m
How can AI and deep tech help the planet?
Mariana Bozesan speaks with Martin Mbewe about integral investing, a model that connects technology, values and capital to support the UN SDGs within planetary boundaries.
Watch: vist.ly/4t4qc
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In The End of Population Growth, a new report to the Club of Rome, Ugo Bardi challenges both traditional fears of overpopulation and optimistic assumptions that technological progress alone can sustain endless growth.
Read more and get the book ➡️ vist.ly/4sxaz
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What is the role of education in an age of rupture and regeneration? Club of Rome members Otto Scharmer and Michael Pirson identify twelve principles for reimagining universities toward human and planetary flourishing. ➡️ vist.ly/4sssj
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The 2010s were a turning point for the Club of Rome.
A new article explores how diversity, leadership change and planetary thinking reshaped the organisation in the 2010s–2020s.
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💭 Big ideas, bold solutions. 🔑
Explore the award-winning Club of Rome Podcast' episodes on economic justice and African feminism:
🔹 Universal Basic Dividend: A path to economic justice
🔹 Can feminism be African?
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Can the #SDGs still be achieved or is it time for a different path?
‘SDGs for All: Strategic scenarios’ uses the @earth4all.life.life model to compare “Too Little Too Late” with “The Giant Leap”, showing how bold policy choices today can deliver wellbeing for all.
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A book cover titled “The End of Population Growth” by Ugo Bardi appears on the left. On the right, a panel displays the text: “A new report asks: How will societies adapt to the end of population growth?”
Population decline will likely begin earlier than we thought, according to a new book. How will societies adapt? Read more in The End of Population Growth, by Ugo Bardi, member of the Club of Rome ➡️ vist.ly/4s4zk
Obiora Ike in a dark suit speaks into a handheld microphone at an event. Beside him is a blue graphic featuring a quote about African ancestral wisdom and the importance of turning thought into action, with the Club of Rome logo in the corner.
Obiora Ike turned early lessons in faith and service into a lifetime of leadership and development. From altar boy to global thinker, he works to empower youth, promote education, health and peace and guide ethical leadership in Nigeria and beyond.
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In her new blog, Petra Kuenkel, member of the Club of Rome, argues that extreme wealth accumulation, patriarchal power architectures and the normalisation of extraction are not separate from the sustainability crisis ➡️ vist.ly/4rykw
Graphic featuring the headline “An Era of Transition: The Club of Rome in the 1990s and Early 2000s” on a blue background, alongside a photo of a modern curved building reflected in water, promoting a series on the history of the Club of Rome.
The 1990s are often called a quiet decade for the Club of Rome. Yet behind the scenes, vital ideas on sustainability took shape. From The First Global Revolution to early thinking on resource efficiency, this period laid the groundwork for renewal.
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Applications for the interdisciplinary summer universities Alternative Economic and Monetary Systems and Green.Building.Solutions summer schools are OPEN! Learn more and apply ➡️ vist.ly/4ru7v
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There are a few days left to apply for the Club of Rome #Communication #Fellowship, a remote, paid 7-month opportunity for early-career professionals from Most of the World.
Apply now ➡️ vist.ly/4rq3x
⏳ Deadline: 20 February
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Who gets to shape global communications?
Philippa Baumgartner, Director of Platform, Engagement and Communications at the Club of Rome, shares why the Club of Rome Communications Fellowship was created
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The 1970s and 80s pushed the Club of Rome’s thinking further and began a slow shift from informal influence to more formal structures post-The Limits to Growth report.
This piece looks at how ideas endure when the moment that sparked them has passed.
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In his new book, The End of Population Growth, Ugo Bardi, member of the Club of Rome, delves into the consequences of population decline and explores the ways societies can adapt ➡️ vist.ly/4rap5
2025 Communications Fellow, Yvonne Wambua, reflects on how the Club of Rome fellowship expanded her practice working with a global communications team and system thinkers.
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Bayo Akomolafe reflects on crisis as a condition shaped by inherited ways of thinking, not just failing systems. The interview explores cosmology, colonisation beyond history and why slowing down may be necessary.
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The era of population growth is ending—and societies are unprepared.
Read more in The End of Population Growth, a new report to the Club of Rome by Ugo Bardi➡️ vist.ly/4qupi
50 years after ‘The Limits to Growth’, the questions are more urgent than ever.
‘Limits and Beyond’ revisits what we learned, what we ignored and what it will take to live within #planetarylimits.
A must-read for anyone thinking about systems, economies & the future.
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