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
“Smart” Homes
The Globe and Mail- In the age of 'Smart' Homes, Sometimes Dumb is Best In this article, RSI Director and founding Principal Architect at SUSTAINABLE.TO Architecture + Building (STO), Paul Dowsett, explains the how in the [...]
BRIDGE: Alumni Chat
BRIDGE: Alumni Chat with Paul Dowsett In this article, Paul Dowsett, RSI Director and founding Principal Architect at SUSTAINABLE.TO Architecture + Building (STO), opens the doors for the next generation of architectural leaders. BRIDGE- Waterloo Architecture [...]
TECH – The Suffix That Disrupts Summary
TECH - The Suffix That Disrupts Summary There is no more disruptive force in business and society today than tech- nology. This Report highlights the key insights and action decisions arising from RSI’s rst speaker series [...]
INSIGHTS
Predictable Revenue: Using AI To Accelerate Top Line Revenue Growth
by: Cindy Gordon, PhD., CEO and Founder, SalesChoice Inc. This is an age where sales professionals must continuously coordinate with diverse stakeholders, while managing unexpected risks, market or customer changes, ‒ all within [...]
Better cities with shared, electric and self-driving cars
Society didn’t do enough thinking around the impact of the first cars. This time, we can make sure new technology actually builds more livable cities. Self-driving technology is advancing quickly, more than [...]
Let’s take on the future together
Harnessing the Power of AI as a Force for Good. The accelerating pace of progress in the fields of AI, machine learning, data science and other disruptive innovations is beginning to revolutionize both [...]