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Act with a sense of urgency in the present, support adaptive sustainability long-term, grounding both in understanding the past.

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Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises & Principles

This book introduces Blue Marble evaluation, which provides a framework for developing, adapting, and evaluating major systems change initiatives involving complex networks of stakeholders.
Author
Michael Quinn Patton
Year
2019

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Principes du Blue Marble

Author
Andrealisa Belzer and Seyba Cissokho
Year
2021

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Learning as you go: Becoming part of the solution as a Blue Marble Evaluator navigating the pandemic

This webinar is now complete. Please click here to watch a recording.

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The 2021 World Food Systems Summit & BME

In 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Summit aims to support transformation of the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about food.

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Principios Blue-Marble

Author
Pablo Vidueira
Year
2020

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Effects of transformations to climate-neutral societies on low- and middle-income countries

Sida-commissioned report demonstrates how good business intentions might “bite back” in low- and middle-income countries and offers insights into how to avoid it.

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Author
Per Olsen
Year
2020

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The Love in Deep Adaptation – A Philosophy for the Forum

In this blog, Jem Bendell and Katie Carr explore "deep Adaptation" - the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for – and live with – a climate-induced collapse of our societies

Author
Jem Bendell and Katie Carr
Year
2019

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Principles-Driven Responsive Philanthropy: Building Bridges Across Communities for Peace, Prosperity and Planet

This webinar provides an in-depth look at how one foundation applied the Blue Marble Evaluation principles to their work. 

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2020 in Words: Insights into the Trajectory of Humanity on the Blue Marble

"Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” 

- Rita Mae Brown, American feminist writer


At the end of each year the Oxford English Dictionary selects a word of the year. The selection is both retrospective, chosen because of dramatically increased use in both published and social media, but also prospective, for calling attention to the word of the year tends to increase its use.

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Reflection on Curves: Pandemic curves, climate curves, social justice curves, and humanity’s learning curve

It seems like a long, long time ago when the clarion call for managing the coronavirus pandemic was flattening the curve, but it was only seven months ago. In this blog, Michael explores what Blue Marble Evaluation lessons can we extract from the impact of the curve?

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