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
Verifying green plans
RSI Board Directors Peter Love and Melanie Steiner provide expert advice on how to effectively measure your progress towards sustainability. Article Here
Nine Steps to Designing a Successful Sustainability Program
RSI Director Peter Love and RSI President Yasmin Glanville explain the process, from preparing the initial plan and benchmarking, to including other stakeholders.
What to do when you’ve picked all the low-hanging fruit
In this article, RSI Director Nadine Gudz shares some insight into how her organization, InterfaceFLOR Canada, continues to push towards their goals – now that the easy sustainability gains have all been ‘picked’.
INSIGHTS
Mobilizing Precision Agriculture
Summit Interview with Joseph Russo, PhD., ZedX Co-founder and Head of Research and Model Development at BASF Prognosticators tell us that the current wave of information technologies will create a level of social change equivalent [...]
Automation and Mobility: towards the future we want
Looking back at sepia-toned photos of dusty city avenues with crowded streetcars and horse-drawn carts, there’s no doubt that the automobile changed the face of cities. But now the question is: How will new technology, particularly [...]
Clearing away the Cost of Uncertainty
How AI can help improve our businesses and our lives Article by: Troy Wright Troy Wright is a career banker who reinvented himself as a fintech entrepreneur with Lendified.com. His [...]