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Summary Description This module is designed to provide an introduction to the challenges and opportunities for business and society, in the contested transition to a sustainable world. It helps make ‘the case for change’ in business and economy, and introduces examples of ‘change for good’. Drawing on peer-reviewed research it explores the scale of interlinkedContinue reading “COURSE: One Planet Business: From Challenge to Opportunity”

A message below from Professor Carol Parkes, Chair of PRME UK & Ireland.   We are delighted to advise you of the above forthcoming event in collaboration with Green House Think Tank, to be held on Friday 26th January 2018 (11am -15.30pm) and kindly hosted by Oxford Brookes University. The event is aimed at a wide spectrum of academicsContinue reading “PRME Faculty Development Workshop – Post Growth Economics 26th January 2018”

This post is an introduction to OPEN Fellow Dr. Taryn Mead’s new book “Bioinspiration In Business And Management: Innovating For Sustainability”. “Bio-what?”  It’s been a common question in my career.  As a long time practitioner- turned-scholar of bio-inspired innovation (i.e., biomimicry, biomimetics, circular economy, cradle-to-cradle, industrial ecology, etc.), I’ve adapted my message for a diversity ofContinue reading “Bio-What?”

By Tony Cooke, CEO, One Planet Education Networks Lately, OPEN has been working collaboratively with an eclectic group of fascinating people and organisations under the banner of the SDG Transformations Forum. The brainchild of Prof Ioan Fazey of Dundee University and Steve Waddell of Networking Action, the SDG Transformations Forum seeks to explore routes toContinue reading “Are we still stuck in the Iron Age?”

OPEN is working with the Global Challenges Foundation to promote their newly launched Educators’ Challenge, which aims to encourage the development of innovative approaches to engage students and broader audiences in discussions on better frameworks of global collaboration. These approaches should provide a basis for continued ideation and discussion on how we can better addressContinue reading “The Educators’ Challenge”

“Digital Transformation” has become a buzz phrase to describe progress made possible by a wide use of digital technologies. Since the 1980s an explosive growth has actually happened in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and their pervasiveness brings a perception of accelerated innovation, as well as high expectations on their contributions to the sustainability of humanContinue reading “Workshop – Digital for Sustainability”

The global EcoChallenge is about to begin and there is still time to participate! Sponsored by the Northwest Earth Institute, the annual EcoChallenge gives you the tools and inspiration to reduce your impact on the planet and contribute to a healthy, vibrant, and sustainable future — while engaging the people in your life and having fun in theContinue reading “EcoChallenge 2017 is Here!”

For those able to get to Exeter, England on 19 October, here is an invitation to the first event in Exeter Business School’s 2017/18 MBA Speaker Series… Thursday 19 October, 6.15pmOne Planet MBA lectureThe One Planet MBA invites you to the first guest lecture of the MBA Speaker Series: “Inside the mind of Business Leaders”Continue reading “One Planet MBA lecture”

Here is a call for last minute registrations for the 5th Annual Humanistic Management Conference “A World Ethos for Global Business? Cosmopolitan Responsibilities of Management” 05 – 06 October 2017? To register for the conference, please visit: http://www.xing-events.com/WorldEthos_GlobalBusiness We have a world economy but no world government; nor can we expect, at least in the foreseeable future, aContinue reading “Invitation to 5th Annual Humanistic Management Conference, 5-6th October 2017”

The following conference may be of interest and relevance to our OPEN community. The notice is posted by Professor Witold Henisz of The Wharton School. ============================================================================ STRATEGY IN A POPULIST, NATIONALIST AND DE-GLOBALIZING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT   CALL FOR PAPERS 18th Annual Strategy and the Business Environment Conference The Wharton School & Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania AprilContinue reading “Call for Papers – 18th Annual Strategy & Business Environment Conference”