Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Michelle Knapik, Environment Program Director

It is easy to scan headlines, press releases and the like to see what people are against, but how often do we read statements of and perhaps even blueprints about what people are for? Yesterday’s teen temperatures made it easy to stay indoors and curl up with my laptop for some less than light reading on what needs to happen if “human and natural communities” are going to find a harmonious path to a sustainable future. If you are ready to dive into 19 “What we are for” visions of a sustainable future, then the new book The Coming Transformation: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities is for you. (more…)

Michelle Knapik, Environment Program Director

The Dodge team is still on its summer quest for knowledge (inviting you to peer in as we peer out, particularly as we think about philanthropy and sustainability), and our latest conversation with Jaimie Cloud, Founder and President of the Cloud Institute took us behind the thinking – as in brain science and mental models – that influence our ability to create new ways of being (i.e., pathways to sustainability).

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