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Imagining change
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Imagining change

A couple of days ago Rob Hopkins, the founder of the Transition Towns movement came to Vienna for a lecture and workshop. All of it organized by the Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development (RCE) Vienna at the University of Economics and Business and hosted at the office of Global 2000, the...

One Day Conference – solutions to change the system
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One Day Conference – solutions to change the system

On March 11th the One Day conference took place in Vienna organized by the youth organization Prime Movers to tackle societal challenges. Challenges like waste and food waste, digitalisation and gender equality. We were interested in everything about the first challenge. Watch our video for some insights into the day. Some more core takeways are...

The danger of a single climate story
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The danger of a single climate story

How to understand stories of change and tell your own. Are we right now telling a single story of climate change? Who is doing it differently and how can we tell a better story for social change? And where does journalism come in? Beginning of February in a village of Czech Republic. The world was...

PART 2 – The danger of a single climate story
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PART 2 – The danger of a single climate story

Read PART 1 HERE first 🙂 Then there’s the story of exponential transformation, which seems for the moment to be secluded to political talks without much substantial policy carrying it, while not being strongly and commonly carried ahead by the scientific community and civil society. Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention...