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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

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The foundational thinking behind system-level investing

20 October 2025

By Andrea Caloisi, Researcher at Thinking Ahead Institute

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We are at a fork in the road. Will we choose solidarity over fear?

16 October 2025

By Carlos Alvarez Pereira, Secretary General of the Club of Rome, and Katherine Milligan, Visiting Lecturer at Geneva Graduate Institute and elea Fellow at IMD Business School