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No Limits to Hope: Making sense and practising change

2 February 2026

By Daniel Daruty de Grandpré, Programme Associate at The Club of Rome

Rethinking the path to change

21 January 2026

By Mik Aidt, Founder of Centre for Climate Safety

A woman with short grey hair, wearing sunglasses and a floral jacket, stands on a concrete bridge with a rusted metal railing, holding a black camera to her eye and smiling while looking over a river bordered by green vegetation under a partly cloudy sky.

Reclaiming the Earth for habitability and justice

19 January 2026

By Yvonne Wambua, Communications Fellow at The Club of Rome

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Collaborative artistic practices for building cohesive societies

15 January 2026

By Carmen Riestra, Arts, culture and sustainability at Quiero

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Rethinking environmentalism: Why African ways of knowing matter more than ever

11 December 2025

By Raad Sharar, Programme Lead at The Club of Rome

How artistic thinking can heal a mechanistic world 

4 December 2025

By Michael Chèze, Systems thinker, humanist and filmmaker

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Systems thinking: the key to solving interconnected crises

1 December 2025

By Martin Mbewe, Communications Fellow at The Club of Rome

From possibility to compossibility: The joy of crealectic intelligence 

20 November 2025

By Luis de Miranda, author, philosopher, adjunct professor, founder and president of Philosophical Health International

Youth thoughts for catalysing a human revolution

27 October 2025

By Lucy Plummer, Soka Gakkai International representative to the UN for Youth Engagement, with contributions from Louis Peters, Kerrin Heba Massarueh and Hemavathi S. Shekhar