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...
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No Limits to Hope: A call for contributors
15 January 2025 - In 1972, The Limits to Growth warned of the potential collapse of human civilisations due to resource depletion and pollution. This was followed by No Limits to Learning in 1979, which emphasised the need to bridge the "human gap"—the disparity...
Learning as co-creation
25 November 2024 - On the 45th anniversary of the report No Limits to Learning, we are exploring the transformative power of learning. We talked to Karima Kadaoui, member of The Club of Rome and Co-Founder of the Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development in...
Science for a second chance on earth?
25 November 2024 - Modern society is one of fragmented logics. Business, finance, government, academia, all apply different logics in their operations. All of them make sense within their limited bubbles, all together create the conditions for self-extinction. ...
Learning for change
07 November 2024 - On the 45th anniversary of the report No Limits to Learning, we are exploring the transformative power of learning. We talked to Tom Cummings, member of The Club of Rome and advisor, entrepreneur and executive board member of numerous companies and...
Living systems change
30 October 2024 - On the 45th anniversary of the report No Limits to Learning, we are exploring the transformative power of learning. We asked Nora Bateson, member of The Club of Rome and Founder of the International Bateson Institute about how living systems change...
The Fifth Element: A global mission for self-liberation
24 October 2024 - Since the 20th century, The Club of Rome, among others, has been raising the alarm about the harm that extractive and exploitative economic growth would cause to social and ecological systems. Looking at this year’s World Economic Forum’s global risk...
Harnessing science to tackle global crises
22 October 2024 - Our world faces a convergence of complex, interconnected challenges. Climate change, biodiversity loss, armed conflicts, rising inequality, and mass migrations of humans and animals are combining to create a global polycrisis. The wealth of...
Conscience into action
22 October 2024 - On the 45th anniversary of the report No Limits to Learning, we are exploring the transformative power of learning. We talked to Mirian Vilela, member of The Club of Rome and Executive Director at Earth Charter International. She shared how she...
Sparking action through inner transformation and mutual learning
07 October 2024 - The seminal report of The Club of Rome, The Limits to Growth, published in 1972, focused on the physical constraints of the planet, and the report No Limits to Learning, released in 1979, identified the root problem as the widening gap between the...