Systems Change in South Asia
Academy Fellow, Kanwer Anwer Saeed, has founded The Jaulian Project in his quest to foster deep systems change in South Asia.
The Jaulian Project aims to bring together leaders to create a community that is committed to fostering positive change and creating meaningful impact to create stability in this world of chaos. It encourages using local tradition, wisdom and spiritual […]
Organic Tourism: Creating a more Sustainable Food System in Thailand
Udom Hongchatikul, a graduate of our Academy Fellowship program, is the founder of Thailand’s Social Lab and the co-founder of Thailand’s Sustainable Food Lab.
Udom is currently involved in promoting Organic Tourism across Thailand. Organic Tourism is a social movement that aims to create more sustainable food systems. Based on an inclusive business model, the movement is led by the private […]
Academy Fellow Runs for Federal Office
Academy Fellow, Mike Morrice, has won the Green Party nomination for Kitchener Centre, and is now running as a Green Party of Canada candidate in this fall’s federal election.
Running on a campaign for a made-in-Canada Green New Deal, Mike has spent the last decade working to bring people together to shift to the green economy. As the founder of two effective climate-focused organizations, he truly gets the reality […]
I Would Choose No Straw!
Academy Fellow, Marissa Jablonski PhD, is a development engineer and educator who collaborates and cooperates with transdisciplinary groups worldwide wrestling with complex concerns related to water, sustainability, and culture. In this blog, Marissa shares her recent experience working with hotels in Phuket, Thailand to eliminate single-use plastics in their rooms.
WHAT IF YOUR NAME GOT WRITTEN ONTO EVERY PIECE OF PLASTIC YOU USED… […]
Educational Ecosystems for Societal Transformation
Academy Fellow, Joshua Cubista, is an international experiential designer, facilitator, and strategist. This month Joshua co-authored and published the Global Education Futures Report: Educational Ecosystems for Societal Transformation.
We paradoxically live in the midst of accelerating global complex socio-ecological challenges while at the same time we are immersed in a windfall of increasingly vibrant human innovation and ingenuity the world over. […]
Focus on a Fellow: Udom Hongchatikul
Through our Academy Fellowship program, we worked with an extraordinary group of accomplished systems change leaders, each working to inspire and demonstrate ecological, social, economic, and spiritual well-being within themselves and for the communities, organizations, and networks that they serve.
Udom Hongchatikul holds his PhD. in Organization Development from Assumption University of Thailand. After 20 years working in different industries, small companies […]
Focus on a Fellow: Stephanie Daniels
Through our Academy Fellowship program, we work with an extraordinary group of accomplished systems change leaders, each working to inspire and demonstrate ecological, social, economic, and spiritual well-being within themselves and for the communities, organizations, and networks that they serve. In this Focus on a Fellow, Madison Sabol, the Academy’s Summer Intern, interviews Stephanie Daniels (pictured above, left) on her work […]
Focus on a Fellow: Beth Heller
Beth Fetterley Heller is (former) Senior Director of Education and Strategic Planning at the Urban Ecology Center. Since 2000, Beth has led the growth of urban environmental and sustainable education opportunities for youth and adults in Milwaukee, WI. Starting with a single classroom in a double-wide trailer, hosting 6000 students for nature-based field trips annually, her programs now run out […]