by Mark Swilling | Dec 3, 2018 | Talks
My keynote address to the 4th Global Change Conference, with 600 delegates most of whom are students. Minister of Science and Technology opened the conference. I attempted in this talk to address a theme that infuses the new book I am writing, namely how mainstream...
by Mark Swilling | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog
Significant letter on climate change from a South African civil society coalition: 23 October 2018 Open Letter to President Ramaphonsa Demand for an emergency sitting of Parliament to deliberate on the recently issued UN report on 1.5℃ increase in planetary...
by Mark Swilling | Nov 12, 2018 | Blog
Last week was the Research Workshop and Colloquium – my favorite week in the year! The first three days is about preparing those exiting our course-work Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Development (PgDip-SD) for entry into the Mphil in SD, which is about...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog
Coming to the end of my first proper back at work after my long sabbatical. So amazing to back in the space of the Sustainability Institute, and tomorrow I’ll return to the CST (Centre for Complex Systems in Transition) to see if I still have a desk. Just...
by Mark Swilling | Sep 26, 2018 | Blog
I have been at Yale since mid-March (except for a month of teaching in August back in Stellenbosch). My aim was to write a book called Just Transitions in a Complex World: Reflections of an Enraged Incrementalist. I have just completed Chapter 8 – two more...
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