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Food Systems Summit Synthesis Deep Dive Reports

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / admin / October 18, 2022 / Agriculture, Children & Youth, Culture & Ethnicity, Decolonization & Indigenous Sovereignty, Equality & Justice, Food security, Food Systems Summit, Gender, Global Networks, Health & Well-Being, Human Rights, Race

Blue Marble Evaluation (BME) teams have been working to synthesize themes across the hundreds of Independent Dialogues, resulting in the following reports: Interim Synthesis Report 1: Based on the initial 17 feedback forms, presents a generative and illustrative set of emerging themes. Interim Synthesis Report 2: More than 100 Independent Dialogues have produced 10 guiding themes. Final Synthesis […]

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A Clarion Call for Food Systems Transformation

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / August 17, 2021 / Biodiversity, Climate, Consumption & Production, Culture & Ethnicity, Decolonization & Indigenous Sovereignty, Equality & Justice, Food security, Food Systems Summit, Gender, Health & Well-Being, Human Migration, Human Rights, Industrialization & Infrastructure, Innovation, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 10: Bricolage Methods, Principle 12: Skin-in-the-game, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 3: Transformative Engagement, Principle 4: Integration, Principle 5: Transboundary Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL, Principle 7: Cross-Silos, Principle 8: Time being of the essence, Race, Sustainability

As part of preparation and building momentum for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit more than 900 Independent Dialogues have taken place around the world. These Summit Dialogues aim to offer a seat at the table to all interested stakeholders, giving them an opportunity to debate, collaborate, and provide input into deliberations on the future of food. Conveners of

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Relational Systems Thinking

Leave a Comment / Webinar Recordings / admin / April 23, 2021 / Decolonization & Indigenous Sovereignty, Equality & Justice, Human Rights, Sustainability

This webinar was a celebration of the 1 year anniversary of the Transformation Systems Mapping & Analysis Working group and highlighted the work of the hosts of our 13th workstream – Decolonizing Systems Mapping. Turtle Island Institute (TII) is a global Indigenous social innovation think & do tank, a teaching lodge. Over the past couple of years TII

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

Leave a Comment / Webinar Recordings / admin / March 29, 2021 / Children & Youth, Culture & Ethnicity, Education, Employment, Equality & Justice, Gender, Global Networks, Health & Well-Being, Human Rights, Innovation, International Development, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 10: Bricolage Methods, Principle 12: Skin-in-the-game, Principle 13: Theory of Transformation, Principle 15: Transformational Alignment, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 3: Transformative Engagement, Principle 4: Integration, Principle 5: Transboundary Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL, Principle 7: Cross-Silos, Principle 8: Time being of the essence, Principle 9. Yin-Yang, Race

What are we learning in this pandemic? We are seeing that individuals matter: individual actions have reverberating consequences. We are also seeing that systems matter: how systems act to address the pandemic and protect peoples have dire consequences for the individuals that live in society and for the rest of us around the blue marble. Various levels of governments

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Evaluation Criteria for Evaluating Transformation: Implications for the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Global Climate Emergency

Leave a Comment / Articles / Michael_Patton / March 11, 2021 / Climate, Equality & Justice, Evaluation Criteria, Global Networks, Human Rights, Sustainability, Transformation

Fundamental systems transformations are needed to address the global emergency brought on by climate change and related global trends, including the COVID-19 pandemic, which, together, pose existential threats to the future of humanity. Transformation has become the clarion call on the global stage. Evaluating transformation requires criteria. The revised Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development

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TRUST on the leading edge of survival

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / November 6, 2020 / Equality & Justice, Human Rights, Peace & Security, Principle 12: Skin-in-the-game, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Trust

In January, before the pandemic, I offered a blog on Moving at the Speed of Trust: The Role of Blue Marble Evaluation. This is an updated review of how attention to trust has evolved during this turbulent year. In that new year’s blog I wrote: Trust matters for transformation. The Blue Marble theory of transformation hypothesizes

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Slave labor in the amazon has been linked to suppliers of Lowe’s and Walmart

Leave a Comment / Articles / admin / October 25, 2019 / Human Rights, Principle 4: Integration, Principle 5: Transboundary Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL

By André Campos Pacific Standard, 2017 “Products derived from timber extracted by workers living in conditions analogous to slave labor in Brazil are connected to a complex business network linked to the United States market— possibly reaching the shelves of large retailers and being used in renovation of landmarks — according to a new investigation conducted by Brazilian

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