It’s time to rethink sustainability
Everything is connected. Converging global and local crises affect everyone. Major socio-economic and environment crises—climate change, war, inflation, food and shelter insecurity, superstorms—are all aspects of one living system. Our world and everything that exists within it are part of a collective ecosystem.
To advance the readiness of humanity to survive and thrive, we must stop working in silos. We must adopt an inclusive approach to discovering and creating systemic scalable solutions to the issues we are best prepared to address together.
For RSI, it begins by addressing people’s essential needs and interdependencies for thriving today and into the future. Leverage strategic foresight and capacity building to create rapid and positive social, environmental, and economic change.
Accelerate positive change
RSI uses foresight to collaboratively discover and use solutions to advance our readiness to thrive. We lead and accelerate positive change for a resilient and thriving world through a three-step process:
Ensure a thriving future
RSI drives positive change for a thriving future. Our collaborative ReThink-Convene-Act approach helps break the cycle of fragmented hopelessness in today’s climate. We focus on what can be done to future-ready our world to thrive and provide options for getting involved.
To mobilize positive change, we interconnect all strategies and initiatives with systemic challenges. We prioritize the following areas of focus to bridge initiatives between corporations and communities:
- Transition to Net Zero (SDGs 7, 13)
- Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG 8)
- Sustainable Food, Production and Supply Chains (SDGs 2, 12)
- Infrastructure and Housing (SDGs 1, 10, 11)
Take positive action today with RSI
Rethink Sustainability Initiatives (RSI) is a positive change acceleration leader and convenor of action partners. Our galvanizing purpose is to help shape a thriving future for all.
How does RSI do this?
- We engage and collaborate with forward-thinking leaders, subject matter experts, organizations, communities, and civic society.
- We help to discover, create, and use scalable solutions to systemic sustainability and resiliency challenges impacting our planet, people, and social & economic well-being.
- We speed up discovery to action through outcome-driven knowledge exchanges, future-readiness foresight, and systems thinking for identifying what’s possible and most likely to succeed.
- Through our FutureREADY programs, we work with organizations and communities to advance their future readiness and the stakeholders they serve.
OUR LATEST WORK
SOME EXAMPLES OF HOW WE HAVE TRANSLATED OUR MISSION INTO ACTION
PUBLICATIONS
Reimagining the Future of Buildings and Work
The business environment has changed rapidly since the pandemic. We have all been permanently uprooted—both physically and culturally—from what used to be the status quo. These systemic changes continue to affect everyone, both directly and indirectly. Every company has [...]
Putting Food on the Table: Solving Canada’s food accessibility crisis
RSI founder and roundtable moderator, Yasmin Glanville, kicked off the session noting that 15% of Canadians live in food-insecure households (Statistics Canada, 2021). The roundtable’s goal, she said, was to explore the scale of the food crisis, assess the [...]
The St. James Town Journey, a Playbook for for Climate Change Action
St. James Town Journey, A Playbook for Climate Change Action in Urban High-Rise Communities This Community Climate Action Playbook describes a journey of discovery by real people and organizations, each with their different perspectives and interests in the community. [...]
INSIGHTS
Why can’t we Canadians be more like the Danes and really recycle?
By Alexander Hay It is perhaps unfortunate that giving people the information they need to make better-informed decisions or to change their behaviour rarely—if ever—has that effect. We instinctively resist change. Nowhere is this more of a problem than [...]
How is plastic pollution threatening the health of Oceans, Marine Life and Humans?
By Moojan HaidariHow connected and dependent are humans and marine life on the health of oceans? To explore this important question, I did some investigative research from several trusted sources. The findings are both alarming and, if we act now, [...]
We must Cut Carbon out of Construction – NOW!
By Paul Dowsett, OAA, FRAIC, LEED AP Principal Architect — Sustainable. Architecture for a Healthy Planet. We have only five months to transform the construction industry.There is no option - or planet - B.The act of city building needs the [...]