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Exploring Collective Leadership
This is a part of the Creative Problem Solving Toolkit (2023). Use when introducing Collective Leadership Framework What and Why?...
Jul 29, 20233 min read
3-way listening
This is a part of the Creative Problem Solving Toolkit (2023). Use to foster generous listening and sharing within a group setting. This...
Jul 29, 20233 min read
Taboo
This is a part of the Creative Problem Solving Toolkit (2023). Use when looking for definitions of abstract terms. This is a...
Jul 29, 20233 min read
Learning Cycle (“What?” “So What?” “Now What?”)
This is a part of the Creative Problem Solving Toolkit (2023). Use when debriefing. This tool uses both Divergence and Convergence. Can...
Jul 29, 20234 min read
Agile Planning
This is a part of the Creative Problem Solving Toolkit (2023). Use when planning for action. This tool uses both Divergence and...
Jul 29, 20233 min read
P.P.C.O. (Pluses, Potentials, Challenges, Overcomes)
This is a part of the Creative Problem Solving Toolkit (2023). Use when evaluating an idea/solution/proposal. This tool uses both...
Jul 29, 20233 min read
Hits, Clusters, and Highlights
This is a part of the Creative Problem Solving Toolkit (2023). Use when selecting most promising ideas to focus on after Brainstorming....
Jul 29, 20233 min read
Brainstorming and Angel’s Advocate
This is a part of the Creative Problem Solving Toolkit (2023). Use when looking for new ideas. This is a tool for Divergence. Can be...
Jul 29, 20234 min read
4 “I”s (Impact, Influence, Imagination, Interest)
This is a part of the Creative Problem Solving Toolkit (2023). Use when selecting a challenge to invest time and effort in. This is a...
Jul 29, 20233 min read
How Might We…?
This is a part of the Creative Problem Solving Toolkit (2023). Use when exploring what challenges need to be addressed in order to make...
Jul 29, 20233 min read


Training for 2022 North American Cohort Set for June
After making the decision last year to postpone the 2021-22, now 2022-23, North American Cohort of the Earth Leadership Program due to...
May 9, 20222 min read


Working outside the box: Stories, approaches and tools for transdisciplinary research
Ahead of SRI2021, join us for a pre-congress panel discussion and workshop on transdisciplinary research, convened by the...
Apr 27, 20212 min read


Postponing the 2021 North American Cohort of the Earth Leadership Program
The Earth Leadership Program was founded to better enable the world’s leading scientific researchers to accelerate transformations to...
Apr 27, 20212 min read


Diane Pataki: Urban Sustainability and Co-Implementation
Diane Pataki is a biology professor and the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on...
Feb 11, 20215 min read


Announcing the 2021 North American cohort comprised of 22 leading sustainability scientists
BOULDER, CO: In the midst of cascading crises from climate change to biodiversity loss and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Earth...
Jan 26, 20213 min read


David Hart: How Can Higher Education Help Mobilize Sustainability Solutions?
David Hart is the Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine, where he is...
Jan 20, 20217 min read


Earth Leadership Program Executive Director to lead Ecological Society of America
Sharon Collinge, CU Boulder environmental studies professor, will head nation’s largest ecological society Sharon Collinge, Executive...
Jan 14, 20211 min read


Lisa Graumlich, Advisory Board Member, will direct American Geophysical Union
Graumlich, dean and professor at Univ. of Washington, will begin presidential term in 2023 Lisa Graumlich, an Advisory Board member for...
Jan 12, 20211 min read


New Name, New Partnership, New Leadership: Earth Leadership Program Launch
Future Earth is excited to share some big news that will advance research and leadership in global sustainability! The Leopold Leadership...
Oct 22, 20201 min read


New Research: Tackling the Alarming Decline in Nature Requires a ‘Safety Net’ of Multiple, Ambitious
A ‘safety net’ made up of multiple, interlinked and ambitious goals is needed to tackle nature’s alarming decline. No single goal can...
Oct 22, 20201 min read
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