“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
Antoine Saint-Exupéry
Sustainability in Action
Businesses need practical solutions and capable leaders for their transition towards sustainability. We can walk that path with you!
Sustainability Consulting
Sustainability principles: learn how to integrate sustainability throughout your organization and your life!
Sustainable Mindset Indicator
An instrument that maps and profiles where an individual is on their journey towards a Sustainability Mindset.
Frugal Innovation
Doing more with much less: learn how to address resource scarcity while creating prime-value for your sustainability-minded clients
What makes our time so challenging?
People say we live in challenging times. Imagine what a soldier in the Roman empire would have thought?
Or a monk during the Renaissance? Or…?
What makes our time so challenging?
From a geological perspective, we live in what is called the Anthropocene: the most recent time period of our planet earth in which it is (heavily) influenced by human activity.
Have you been in any place lately that you would call untouched by humans?
Why do we need Sustainable Business Models?
People
- Due to exponential population growth, human needs and wants exceed natural resources
- Social injustice prevalent challenge of the 21st century
Planet
- Human activity can results in irreversable changes to our biosphere that threaten the continuation of production and provision of basic needs, such as food and clean water (the period of the anthropocene)
- Examples: Climate Change, Air and Water Pollution, Loss of Biodiversity
Prosperity
- Sustainable business models offer opportunities for cost savings, for attracting sustainability-conscious consumers, and for creating a brand-image of a responsible corporate citizen
- Social injustice prevalent challenge of the 21st century
The Sustainability Mindset Indicator
The Sustainability Mindset Indicator is a personal development instrument that maps and profiles where an individual is on their journal towards a Sustainability Mindset.
It lets you explore your cognitive, behavioral and affective development towards a mindset that creates, nutures and promotes sustainability.
The authors, Dr. Isabel Rimanoczy and Dr. Beate Klingenberg invite you to take a trial exploring the Mindset Principle of Both-And-Thinking.
