These posts, featuring meeting reports and other information, may be of interest to those who want to know more about the Balaton Group.
2014 Annual Meeting: How can the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) advance sustainability?
Since the end of the Second World War, humanity has gone through an unparalleled period of expansion, based on the ethos of economic growth that did not – and did not yet need to – take into account the finiteness…
“A Systems Story” video inspired by Donella Meadows Fellowship
By Sarah Czunyi, Donella Meadows Fellow Systems thinking, as a discipline, tends to be quite technical – and thereby off-putting to more general audiences. Yet it is one of those ways of thinking that could and should benefit humanity as…
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The SDGs and Framing a New Narrative: About the 2014 Balaton Group Meeting
This story of the meeting was put together by Vala Ragnarsdottir, Jamila Haider, Christina Apetrei, Sarah Czunyi, Hunter Lovins, Lazlo Pinter and Oliver Greenfield. It draws on crowd sourcing of BG meeting participants on key concepts, statements from speakers, meeting…
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Panel discussion by Balaton Group members on the SDGs
Video now available. Listen to Balaton Group members discuss key insights from the 2014 Balaton Group meeting on ‘How can sustainable development goals (SDG) advance sustainability’. This year’s meeting reviewed the SDG process and approach from the Balaton Group’s trademark…
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Systemic Solutions for a Systemic Crisis: Club of Rome
By Vala Ragnarsdottir, Vice President, Balaton Group The Club of Rome (CoR) organized a meeting at Castell de Castellet (near Barcelona, Spain) on March 26-28, 2014 to discuss Systemic Solutions for a Systemic Crisis. To this meeting the CoR invited…
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Call for 2014 Fellowship Applications
Apply by April 11, 2014 for a Donella Meadows Fellowship to attend the next annual meeting of the Balaton Group. Established in memory of Donella Meadows, the Fellowship’s purpose is to empower young and emerging leaders in sustainability research and…
Leadership and equality are at the centre of Limits to Growth
September 2013 — The Limits to Growth presents arguably the most influential environmental message of the past 100 years. Critiqued for being apolitical, disregarding issues of distribution and equity, ignoring technological development, or infringing on freedom; politicians, industry and individuals…
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New technologies or values?
Which is more important for achieving sustainability: new technologies, or values? September 2013 — In many ways, it was a question that had rested at the heart of our discussions over the course of the week. There were certainly no…
Food Futures and Alternatives to Growth—Balaton Group Meeting 2010
The 2010 Annual Meeting happened in two parts: “Alternatives to Growth” (13-14 September) and “Food Futures” (15-18 September). The “Alternatives to Growth” seminar looked at economic and financial systems and alternatives such as those articulated in Tim Jackson’s “Prosperity without…
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