The global economy isn’t working for most people. Instead, it lifts a few ever higher, while the rest fight to get by. These essays look at rampant and growing disparities around a number of challenges, including economic inequality, access to opportunities, education, income, race, wealth, and more. It also offers ideas towards creating more just, sustainable outcomes. Essays from a diverse group of contributors, including academics, activists, artists, business & NGO leaders, economists, and journalists offer the reader an array of perspectives to help them develop a broader understanding of the challenges while giving them the opportunity to evolve their own views.
This book will challenge your thinking as it encourages you to reconsider long-held positions. We won't ask you to agree with any one of us, but that you do consider each of our positions and in the end that you refashion your own. Hopefully, our book will tilt you towards action in a world and a society that’s in desperate need of help.
What I do
It's all connected
Linear to Circular
Helping People, Planet, & Business
L2C helps firms analyze their waste streams, design programs tailored to create financial and environmental benefits, and implement related programs to move towards the circular economy. We're also developing a waste-to-value program that will create socially valuable products from materials sourced from informal waste collectors.
Morph
Carried by Purpose
Morph rescues useful materials from becoming waste and uses them to develop bags made for daily use as we work to improve the livelihoods of our collaborators. We aspire to a broad definition of economic utility as we work to help foster the circular economy and bring everyone we can along with us.
Wicked Problems Collaborative
Books are Good Food
The WPC focuses on humanity’s biggest challenges.
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Circular Design Lab
Systemic Design for the Masses
The CDL teaches communities to work on major social and environmental challenges. We design and lead workshops using systemic design-an approach that marries design and systems thinking-to help community members address wicked problems where they are. We’re also creating a framework and toolkit for systemic design.
Matters will not improve of their own accord
Why I Teach
Books are good food
Essays and whatnot
The Week
All you need to know about everything that matters
The RSA
21st century enlightenment
On the Plastic Problem
Serving Others
Circular Design Lab
The Future of Work
Our Treatment of Refugees
Supporting Social Innovations
End Coronavirus
A multi-disciplinary effort to eliminate COVID-19
Harvard Business Review
Ideas and advice for Leaders
The Circular Economy is Good Business
Sustainable Brands
Systems thinking in action
Radical Intrapreneurship
On the Role of Sustainability Leaders
Advocacy, Purpose, and Engagement
Impact Assessment
Inclusive Business
THINK
Ideas and innovative solutions to today’s most pressing problems
East Meets West in the Pandemic
The Necessity of Circularity
SALT Magazine
Compassionate business thinking
Challenging Your Beliefs
On Driverless Cars
Avoiding Corporate Calcification
Social Space
Innovation + impact
Questioning Tech
Re-envisioning Schools
The Nation
Thailand's Independent Newspaper
The Sufficiency Economy
SDG Helpdesk
A one-stop shop for SDG-related tools, knowledge, & more
aFFILIATIONS
Partner organizations
The RSA
21st century enlightenment
As a Global Ambassador of the RSA, I have hosted events like the Bangkok Talks series in collaboration with the School of Global Studies at Thammasat University. The RSA has also provided grant money to help support the Circular Design Lab.
Thammasat University - School of Global Studies
Innovators for sustainable solutions to complex global issues
I'm a former faculty member and current adjunct at Thammasat University’s School of Global Studies (SGS). I teach courses designed for active learning on social innovation, advocacy, and social enterprise in the ASEAN context.
Circular Economy Club - Bangkok
Local action. Global impact.
As Thailand’s Organizer for the Circular Economy Club, I host events that bring together circular economy proponents for collaborative learning and to develop possibilities.
The Pledge on Food Waste
Time to save food
I’m a member of the Board of Advisors for The Pledge on Food Waste, where I’ve provided guidance for the certification program’s creation and ongoing evolution.
Design Thinking Program
Create unique value
I’m an advisor to the Design Thinking Certificate Program at Missouri State University, which focuses on innovative thinking as a means of designing products and services.
Sit with the problem