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Report on Recent Reports #5, Spring 2023
Reviews
World of Woes—and Proposed Global Remedies         The Alliance of World Scientists warns of “code red” on the planet and an unequivocal climate emergency (5:1).  The better-known IPCC Synthesis Report...
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Futures, Global Governance, Human Security
SSG Newslitter – February 2023
Essays
Welcome to SSG February NewsLitter, written by a news-wonk who is ever less certain about what he knows…let alone all he can not. December intentions for this second offering were...
Democracy/Rule of Law, Education/Training, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Population, Security
Report on Recent Reports #4, Winter 2022-2023
Original Content, Reviews
Polycrisis: Probable; Remedies: Possible                A wide variety of organizations and individuals have recently warned of multiple global crises.  Some have used the term “polycrisis,” defined by the Cascade Institute...
Development, Disasters, Energy, Environment, Risks, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals
SSG Newslitter – December 2022
Essays, Original Content
Welcome to the FIRST monthly SSG newslitter from the Security Principal. Yes ‘newslitter’. So much is happening, and at such pace, that the news each day is akin to wind-blown...
Risks, Security, Security and Sustainability, Sustainability
Interoperability Creates Hope
Essays, Original Content
The past is beating the dickens out of future Dr. Michael E. Mann made a fundamental contribution to the "Observed Climate Variability and Change" chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on...
Cooperation, Systemic Change, Transformation/Change
A Compass for the Anthropocene
Videos
This video discusses the Anthropocene, the Age of Humanity, a new geological era that began about 200 years ago. Most geological eras last for tens of thousands, if not millions...
Security and Sustainability, Systemic Change, Transformation/Change
Report on Recent Reports #3, Fall 2022
Original Content, Reviews
INTRODUCTION: Multiple Crises, Multiple Solutions.  The UNDP’s latest Human Development Report (3.1) provides thorough discussion of multiple crises and “the new uncertainty complex,” as well as fresh insights on how...
Foresight, Futures, Sustainable Development Goals
Report on Recent Reports – #2, Summer 2022
Reviews
Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals Advancing the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals requires evidence-based information and advocacy that is widely disseminated and cited.  Transdisciplinary approaches are especially required, exemplified...
Foresight, Futures, Sustainable Development Goals
Education for Sustainability and the SDGs: A Short Guide to Advocating Organizations
QuickLooks
Our world is amid multiple crises, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.  This includes a crisis in education and learning, notably at K-12 levels, where many...
Education/Training, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals
Putin’s Folly and Rethinking the SDGs
Essays
Download as PDF 1. Prologue: A Lose-Lose War At the time of this writing, the vicious and unwarranted Russian invasion of Ukraine is still underway, with no end in sight....
Human Security, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals