Purpose Inspired #31
Prof. Wayne Visser
World Top 10 Pracademic on Regenerative Business, Innovation & Technology | Professor at Catolica Porto Business School | Fellow at Cambridge University | Author of 40+ Books | Inspirational Speaker
PICTURE OF THE WEEK - #BUTTERFLY
POST OF THE WEEK - #YOUTH
I recently came across an Asian businessman who said: “My teenage daughter broke down one day after doing some in depth climate change research, following an article I gave to her profiling Greta Thunberg. I realised then I needed to do a lot more to catalyse change and make a real impact.” Today’s youth are having an impact. Not only by joining climate change protests, but by questioning the status quo. By influencing their parents, teachers and peers. By refusing to be dismissed by adults and ‘experts’ who ignore the science and advocate business as usual or incremental change.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK - #LAND
“The land is not there to serve us, but we need to live in community with the land”
Quote from The Top 50 Sustainability Books | Quotes on social responsibility ?|?Quotes on sustainable business ?|?Quotes on transformational change
PODCAST OF THE WEEK - TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
In this episode, we start to explore the process of unlocking change through technological innovation. In particular, the episode includes the following topics: How To Use Technology To Make Our Planet More Sustainable, Not Less; Tackling the Food Waste Challenge with Technology; and Meeting Water and Energy Challenges in the Agri-food sector.
POEM OF THE WEEK - EARTH SPIRIT
Whenever life gets me down / When I feel disconsolate, disillusioned, disconnected / Wandering aimlessly and wondering wistfully / When something’s amiss and I don’t know what it is / I find it helps to call upon the spirit of the Earth / To invoke that which moves and breathes and infuses all life
To remind me of my vital place in the universe / Where I am inextricably linked, connected, enmeshed / Swaying in sync with the moon and tides / Stretching for the skies along with trees and birds / Singing in unconscious harmony with nature’s chorus / And never truly alone, or cut off or superfluous / Never really without direction or bereft of love
For the great Earth Spirit enfolds me and entwines us / It binds our actions and amplifies our intentions / It is the spirit of possibility and positivity / The source of our energy and the web of our dreams / It bathes us in the wisdom of countless aeons / And heals us with the gentle rays of time
Therefore, in our hour of need and season of doubt / Let us be open to the promise of the Earth Spirit / To the hope that rises within us / To the faith that extends beyond us / To the love that gathers around us / Let us welcome the invisible power of the planet / And the indivisible power of the people
Let us be guardians and advocates of our Earth / Even as the Earth nurtures and cares for us / Let our Earth Spirit invocation be a commitment / To live and love in the highest and truest way we know / For the sake of ourselves / For the future of our children / And for the life of our only home, Earth.
领英推荐
Poem link | More nature poems | Wishing Leaves (book)
BOOK OF THE WEEK - THE WORLD GUIDE TO SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE
The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise is the first comprehensive global compendium that clearly describes the national approaches to sustainable enterprise. Through a systematic review of each country, this quick-to-access reference guide?showcases the similarities and differences in each region. Every country profile includes key information about the relevant history, country-specific issues, trends, research, and the leading organizations operating in the field as well as best-practice case studies.?The guide comprises four volumes, each dedicated to a specific region of the world.??
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK - #ATTITUDE
Our attitude is the only thing over which we can have complete control
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"An effective educator, Wayne is also a poet—and it shows. The words, the language, in this book are chosen and honed to build a sense that even this existential crisis of ours can be successfully overcome. This stubborn optimism, as Christiana Figueres describes it, is critical if we are to make the transition to societies and economies that help create and sustain the conditions for more life, of all species. Wayne is above all else, a ‘possibilist’. And this is a state of mind, a state of being, that I recognise from all the great changemakers I have been privileged to meet and, in many cases, work with over the decades. It is time for us all to step up— or get out of the way. Wayne has stepped up in THRIVING - and invites us all to do likewise.”
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