by Mark Swilling | Jun 12, 2018 | Blog
The Sustainability Institute has issued an annual report for 2017 (see link below) that gives an account of the amazing work that it does, and has done for nearly 20 years now. This is such an achievement in a world that regards innovation as the primary goal of...
by Mark Swilling | Jun 11, 2018 | Blog
Just back today at Yale, after about 10 days away in China. I started off at an International Resource Panel meeting in Shenzhen, and ended off spending a few days with my friend Maarten Hajer in Hong Kong just walking the city and visiting a ‘new town’ of...
by Mark Swilling | May 25, 2018 | Blog
Had an amazing few days in Costa Rica last week, and back now at Yale, New Haven. The blossoms have gone and the tree-line streets are lush and green. The bicycle path I ride each day stretches for a hundred miles, through extra-ordinary countryside, and many...
by Mark Swilling | Mar 21, 2018 | Blog
This morning I received this extra-ordinary email from my colleague Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti who has up until now headed up the Centre for Governance Innovation at Pretoria University: “Dear WE-Africans: as many of you will have seen through social networks and...
by Mark Swilling | Mar 20, 2018 | Blog
I started a 6 month sabbatical at Yale today! Wow, I have dreamed of something like this for years and years, and somehow never taken a proper sabbatical. I will return to Stellenbosch for a few weeks of teaching in August, but should be here almost continuously until...
by Mark Swilling | Feb 10, 2018 | Blog
The Class of 2018 has founds its way to the Sustainability Institute and the Lynedoch EcoVillage. It is our largest class since we started in 15 years ago, with a total of 58 registered! 40 out of the 58 are women, which means there are more men this year than last...
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