Future Forces That will Disrupt Sustainable Business
Wed, Aug 5, 2020 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM EDT
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In early 2019, the Global Environmental Management Institute (GEMI) and the Institute for the Future (IFTF) began a ten-year forecast project to examine the challenge of doing business in a rapidly changing world, where the definition of ‘sustainability’ is broadening every business wants to build and maintain a ‘sustainable’ business model. The resulting report “Future Forces That will Disrupt Sustainable Business,” examines four future forces that are external drivers of change that IFTF believes have the power to upend today’s business models over the coming ten years, including New Spectrums of Meaning New Spectrums of Resources New Spectrums of Time New Spectrums of Value Creation. The report is built around the idea of full-spectrum thinking, a concept pioneered by IFTF distinguished fellow Bob Johansen in his new book called Full-Spectrum Thinking: How to Escape Boxes in a Post-Categorical Future. Full-spectrum thinking is the ability to seek clarity across gradients of possibility—while avoiding the temptations of certainty. Building on the foresights in this new forecast, GEMI is planning a new Sustainability Disruption Project to bring corporate sustainability leaders together to continue to understand and develop strategies to help business to efficiently respond and lead through emerging disruptions such as those identified by IFTF. Join SSF, GEMI and IFTF in a 60 minutes discussion of future forces that will disrupt sustainable business.
Join the Security and Sustainability Forum and George Washington University in a 60 minutes discussion with Maroš Šefčovič and former Hungarian Ambassador to the US and NATO, András Simonyi.
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Better Food, Less Carbon in the New Digital Economy
Fri, Aug 21, 2020 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EDT
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Smart systems can link agricultural stakeholders with farmers, ranchers, and foresters. Traditional agriculture negatively affects biodiversity and emits about 26% of global greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. The agriculture ecosystem comprises land use, crop production, livestock and fisheries, and the food supply chain. In this system lies meaningful, measurable, and sustainable regenerative applications that can greatly reduce the impact of agriculture on the planet. Farming data and smart technology solutions can combine to enable customers to make choices through market signals that can drive the industry to regenerative practices that both reduce atmospheric carbon, increase resilience and biodiversity in our food systems, and help improve farming profitability. Panelist from John Deere, Land O’Lakes and the Farmers Business Network explore opportunities to lower carbon emissions, improve biodiversity, and increase the resilience of foods systems world-wide by digitally connecting it from soil to fork.
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Visualization Tools to Mimic Nature and Promote Sustainability
Thu, Jul 30, 2020 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM EDT
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Biomimicry is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems. Join SSF and biomimicry pioneer Hugo Araujo in a demonstration of visualization tools to empower people to learn and apply nature-inspired strategies in sustainable design.
Hugo is the co founder of 7 Vortex and will demonstrate the firm’s mind mapping platform to help visualize system relationships for policy making, education, and corporate enterprise resilience.