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
RSI Leadership Series, Spring 2019 – Thought Leadership Report
RSI Leadership Series Spring 2019 – Trusted AI Thought Leadership Report This thought leadership report features actionable insights from our April CEO Trusted AI dinner-dialogue, including key takeaways for a creating sustained competitive advantage, powered by trusted AI. You can [...]
RSI Leadership Series, February 2019 – Executive Summary
RSI 2019 Leadership Dinner & Dialogue Series, February 19, 2019 Executive Summary from February 19th, 2019, Leadership Dinner & Dialogue Series is now available for download. Executive Summary-February 2019
RSI Founder Speaking at University of Toronto
In conjunction with Professor and RSI Director Alexander Hay's CIV460, 4th-year engineering class's final project to help improve the resiliency in Belize in the likely case of a hurricane; RSI Director, Yasmin Glanville, led the class in thought-provoking exercises and discussion.
INSIGHTS
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 [...]
Sustainability by design: letting go is hard to do!
And why this is important for future of energy in the built space by: Dr. Yannick Beaudoin As society has moved into the 21st century, it has not significantly addressed a critical blind spot: the fundamental human system [...]
Developing Trusted & Transparent AI: The CEO Imperative
by: Dr. Cindy Gordon Stage Setting Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most disruptive advances in technology in our lifetime. However, understanding the ethical issues associated with AI is posing major educational know-how gaps with CEOs. C-level leaders must [...]