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
Why is Bridging the Capability Gap Across Generations Important to Your Future Success?
The capability gap created by the upcoming exodus of knowledgeable retirees is not only widening, but is speeding up. To bridge this gap—and strengthen the future capability readiness of their organizations—leaders and entrepreneurs are investing in attracting and developing [...]
York University Environmental Studies 2016
Another Community Outreach by RSI in support of NextGen leaders
Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
The Globe and Mail- After Hurricane Sandy, Toronto Architects Design a Home to Endure Paul Dowsett, RSI Director and founding Principal Architect at SUSTAINABLE.TO Architecture + Building (STO), and his team explore the impact of Hurricane Sandy [...]
INSIGHTS
The CEO Imperative: Building Trust in AI
by: Dr. Cindy Gordon In our increasingly intelligent and 4th Industrial Age Economy, every company CEO must become an AI company and ensure trust in AI yields the promise it holds for both [...]
Opinion: Conversations Beyond Development
by: Yannick Beaudoin, PhD. "There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think." , Michel Foucault. [...]
Why Simple is the new Smart
by: Paul Dowsett, SUSTAINABLE.TO Architecture + Building Months after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, Toronto architect Paul Dowsett journeyed to New Orleans to see for himself the impact of the deadly storm [...]