Together, we are all facing uncertain and unprecedented times. RMI is quickly adapting and remains committed to our mission to create a clean, prosperous and?secure low-carbon energy future. In this virtual briefing, RMI CEO Jules Kortenhorst, Managing Director Ting Li, and special guests Carla Frisch and Uday Varadarajan share how RMI’s work to aggressively combat the effects of climate change continues in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Jason Mark of Sierra Magazine explains that we can't ignore climate risks where we live. Climate risk concealed by insurance companies and real estate agents will come to the surface when "the horizon of the 30-year mortgage starts to run up against very serious flooding and sea-level rise."

2017 Brower Youth Awards Speech by Dineen O'Rourke on her work in her community around community gardening and the importance of education. 

Find out how you can participate in creating a new economic system that helps humanity to live in harmony with each other and the planet: http://sustainablehuman.com/

The mission of Sustainable Human is to assist in creating and promoting a new economic system based on the collective voluntary gifts of everyday people. The goal is to transition from our current, scarcity-based economic system to a new system capable of creating abundance for all. Bypassing the monetary system, we will voluntarily collaborate on projects aimed at creating goods and services that are given freely to the world, helping to create a bottom-up, participatory, global gift economy.

After 7+ years of holding space for a conversation about the deep underlying roots of our many sustainability-related crises, the time has come to be more proactive towards a solution.

We recognize at the very root of many of our systemic issues is an economic system that measures progress and success in only one metric - growth or profit. Economic growth means consuming more resources each year than were consumed in the prior year, which means that more of Nature must be turned into product for human consumption. The scale has reached ecocidal proportions.

At the same time, fewer people are able to meet their needs from the present economic system as wealth inequality only continues to grow. Complicating matters is the fact that technology is rapidly replacing human workers in a variety of ways in both the virtual and creative markets. The idea of income being attached to work is coming undone.

We need a new economy and it is going to be up to each of us to co-create one.

Sustainable Human is creating a new, voluntary, global gift economy called the Sustainable Human Gift Economy Network (powered by Hylo - an emerging, open-source social network designed to help communities to collaborate). Its purpose is to transcend the economics of scarcity and transition humanity into the economy capable of delivering sustainable abundance for all.

The idea is simple.

We all have a gift to give. When we work together in sharing our gifts, we are able to accomplish amazing achievements. However, most ideas we create are limited by the need to make a profit. No longer.

Now we can voluntarily work together using our unique gifts and skills to create anything we want and give it freely to the world. As more people decide to join the gift economy, the size and scope of the gifts will grow to a point where people will be able to meet some of their needs through this economy, reducing the need for us to participate in the life-destroying, soul-crushing, industrial, growth economy.

Learn more about the gift economy at:
http://sustainablehuman.com/

The best part about the gift economy is everyone can participate. Join the gift economy here:
http://sustainablehuman.com/hylo-gift-economy-sign-up/

Learn how the Sustainable Human Gift Economy Network can help you to create and give your gift to the world:
http://sustainablehuman.com/#partfour

Questions? Check out the FAQ:
http://sustainablehuman.com/#faq

To learn more about the issues, click here:
Infinite Growth: http://sustainablehuman.com/#growth
Technological Unemployment: http://sustainablehuman.com/#tech
Extreme Inequality: http://sustainablehuman.com/#unequal
A Shift In Values: http://sustainablehuman.com/#values
Abundant Economics: http://sustainablehuman.com/#economy

Learn more about Hylo:
https://www.hylo.com/about

Christopher Lloyd of Verizon talks about community involvement and service. Employees donate over 700,000 hours a year as part of Corporate Citizenship.

Janet Nicholas of Dassault Systemes discusses how her company, a french company, is going global with their corporate social responsibility which starts with the question, Then What?

There is a Dessault Systemes video, What is Sustainable Innovation?

At Boston College International Corporate Citizenship Conference 2011, Christi Cruz, Senior Manager Community Investment, at Telus was interviewed by Peggy Connolly at BC's Centr for Corporate Leadership. Ms. Cruz discusses Telus' values around leadership - the best, brightest and most creative.

Barbara Simic, Manager, Community Investment & Volunteerism of ConocoPhillips Canada sat down for an interview by Peggy Connolly at the 2011 International Corporate Citizenship Conference, April 10-12, convened in Minneapolis by the Carroll School of Management Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College.

Jerald Barnes, Region & District Grants Manager of The UPS Foundation sat down for an interview by Peggy Connolly.  He emphasizes the importance of leadership and the roundtable.

3BL Media's Lorraine Smith interviews John Kelleher, President and CEO at R.J. McCarthy at the Ethical Sourcing Forum. He talks about two years ago when they banked their entire strategy on CSR. CSR requires top management support to drive real change.