Photo: Isabel Rimanoczy, taken at Art Miami 2022.

SUSTAINABILITY MINDSET INDICATOR (SMI) CERTIFICATE

For our Graduates of the Sustainability Mindset Action Lab!

You are invited - as a next step after the Action Lab - to participate in the Sustainability Mindset Indicator (SMI) Certificate.

This 3 hour workshop will give you a practical experience to use this tool with your students, do research and design specific interventions to support their mindset development. Reserve your space HERE.

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We did a short list of events, achievements and more generated out of this Working Group in 2022, and Where we are going in 2023. Read HERE and be amazed, inspired, and ready to celebrate!

Ruben Burga, Guelph University, Canada, orchestrated a special guest lecture for his +100 students with Isabel Rimanoczy. Students engaged exploring their contribution to the problems and discussed concrete action steps.

Jed Lindholm, Worcester Polytechnique Institute, Masssachussetts, invited staff, faculty and PhD students to a guest led session about the Sustainability Mindset Principles. His initiative to create a shared language with colleagues was welcome.

Isabel Rimanoczy led an interactive session for the doctoral students at Teachers College, Columbia University. The participants designed a 3 hour workshop to embed some SM Principles for their professional context: leaders, board and educators.

"The sustainable mindset is in fact the chosen pedagogy in University of Derby, UK, for its newly launched teaching and learning strategy around sustainable development."

Barbara Tomasella.

Stephen Ukenna, Nigeria

Anja Grabmeier, Germany

Madeline Ayoub, Australia

Barbara Tomasella, UK

Jonathan Torres, USA

Ekaterina Ivanova has brought the SMI to her students at the master‘s program on sustainable business management at the HSE Uni Graduate School of Business. Moscow.

Karen Cripps, Brooks-Oxford University, UK, applied for a research grant focused on using the SMI for B corporations in the UK. Karen Thompson is pioneering the use of the SMI for Project Managers.

Take the 5 min DEMO here!

A student's voice: "It was good to read the suggestions after every section, as it mentions ideas or attitudes I never thought about, but they would be easy to incorporate into my habits. I read the whole report more than once already as I try to learn from my weaknesses and take the advice and suggestions from the report." 

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Are you a graduate of the Fast Track or the Action LAB? You are ready for the 4 hrs. Certificate for Educators to administer and use the SMI with students.

Beate Klingenberg, Germany, presented the paper "Why knowledge management for sustainability needs a Sustainability Mindset" at the 23rd European Conference on Knowledge Management in Naples, Italy.

Barbara Tomasella, College of Law, UK, published an article in Social Enterprise Journal, in which she used the sustainability mindset framework, to evaluate students' sustainability competences in HEI's -learning experiences- recently published in

The DOI is: https://doi.org/10.1108/SEJ-03-2022-0027

Morgane Fritz, Excelia Business School, France, shares her publication based on sustainable supply chain management, which can help in various management courses to teach students about the importance of consumption behaviours, relations with the sustainable development goals, use of stakeholder mapping, among other important business-related items. Find here the open access link to the paper: A supply chain view of sustainability management

Jonathan Torres, Quinnipiac University, USA, shares: My work has explored how such a mindset is developed through the stories we tell about nature, human, and relationships. My recent publication explores how particular media stories (e.g., Stranger Things, Overstory, mother!) shape some of the cultural stories that define not only human relationships to more-than-human species but also the boundaries around categories like “human” and “nature.” Read it here.

The Circular Economy of a Xmas Tree

According to the American Christmas Tree Association, 80% of trees displayed in the Christmas season are artificial. Artificial trees are generally preferred because they don’t need watering, don’t leave a mess, and don’t have to be picked out and transported home. But is this indeed so? Click HERE to find out.