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A career-shaping experience as a communications fellow
21 January 2025 - The Club of Rome is an interesting space for a diverse group of people to come together and collaborate on the challenges humanity faces. As one of the Communications Fellows for 2024, I had the opportunity to be a part of this community and see...
07 March 2025 - As the world faces growing environmental challenges, the circular economy transforms a linear "take-make-dispose" model to a regenerative system focused on reuse, repair and resource efficiency. We can build a more sustainable and equitable future by redesigning ...
07 March 2025 - The Draghi report warns of stagnation, but does Europe need more growth—or a new economic vision?
The recent Draghi report on European Union competitiveness highlights the structural weaknesses that have contributed to the bloc’s relatively low economic growth ...
11 February 2025 - You have long advocated for biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability and currently, there is an emerging concept called ‘regeneration’. What does regeneration mean to you? How do you define it? What defines regenerative practices from ...
10 February 2025 - How did you get involved with The Club of Rome?
In 1977, I was invited to join the newly formed US Association of the Club of Rome after I ran into a member of the association while traveling to a meeting in Iceland on global sustainability and we chatted about ...
31 January 2025 - What motivated you to pursue a career in education and community development?
I was the very first university graduate from my family, and I have always understood the importance of education and how much my parents had to sacrifice and commit to creating ...
29 January 2025 - We have a billionaire problem.
Back in 1995, when I published When Corporations Rule the World, there was an awakening to the dangers of transnational corporations. Right now, in 2025, there is an awakening to the dangers of oligarchy—when a few billionaires ...
27 January 2025 - How did you get involved with The Club of Rome?
I knew about The Club of Rome for a long time. But I became very interested in the organisation in the mid 2000s when I started to be quite concerned about the environmental situation – mostly about what I saw in ...
22 January 2025 - The recent trend of wealthy individuals hiring private firefighters in Los Angeles is a deeply concerning sign of governments unable to fund essential services to support law and order and crisis management in times of great need. In California, the outdated ...
21 January 2025 - The Club of Rome is an interesting space for a diverse group of people to come together and collaborate on the challenges humanity faces. As one of the Communications Fellows for 2024, I had the opportunity to be a part of this community and see positive impact ...
20 January 2025 - What is green chemistry, and how has systems thinking influenced your work in this field?
If you look at the UN Sustainable Development Goals, each involves some material thing that must be eliminated, replaced or invented. Because our society has a very poor ...
17 January 2025 - Our distinctive human ability to learn gives us a corresponding capacity to shape the future of life on Earth. That ability has demonstrated itself in extraordinary ways during the past 90 years. During this brief and distinctive period of accelerated learning, ...
15 January 2025 - The Club of Rome Communications Fellowship was an extraordinary experience that not only introduced me to the world of communications but also immersed me in the ethos of an organisation with a rich history of shaping global discourse. While I had previously been ...
