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
Reimagined Future of Food Security and Climate Resiliency
Reimagined Future of Food Security and Climate Resiliency Reimagined Future of Food Insights for Action Playbook Advancing a future of more secure, accessible, health promoting food in today’s increasingly disruptive climate is not just a good thing to do. [...]
RSI Leadership Series, Fall 2019 – Rethink Waste Action Partners
RSI Leadership Series Fall 2019 - RSI Rethinking and Reshaping the Future of Waste Leadership Report This thought leadership report features actionable insights from our November 2019 Rethink Waste Action Partners dinner and dialogue, including key takeaways for Rethinking [...]
RSI Leadership Series, Summer 2019 – Shaping the Future of Energy & Buildings
RSI Leadership Series Summer 2019 - RSI_Shaping the Future of Energy and Buildings Leadership Report_2019 This thought leadership report features actionable insights from our June 2019 dinner-dialogue, including key takeaways for shaping the future of energy and buildings. You can [...]
INSIGHTS
What is Plastic doing to our Oceans and What does this mean for our Planet?
By Paula Bernardino Results of the 2018 UN Global Compact Progress demonstrate two SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) getting least attention from companies are Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (SDG 16) and Life Below Water (SDG 14). Similarly in KPMG’s February 2018 "How to [...]
Efficient buildings in the 2020s
By: Yves Lemoine Most people know about renewable energy generation, storage and electrified transportation, but their knowledge of cleaner, more efficient building options seems to be incomplete. There are many technologies, and numerous voices. LARGE NORTH AMERICAN BUILDINGS – KEY [...]
Top 5 Things Homeowners Can Do to Have a More Sustainable Home
By: Paul Dowsett We’ve put together a list of the top five things that homeowners can do to make their house more sustainable. This list focuses on reducing your energy use (and your energy bills!), which will reduce the amount [...]