Seeding Stories For Change-The Poli Global Environments Network (GEN) is a community of inspiring changemakers who are actively seeking solutions to environmental and social problems and catalyzing long-term systemic change. Ideas borne from generative discussions at GEN events have grown into flourishing projects and collaborations. The GEN events are organized by Global Diversity Foundation (GDF), …

GEN Seed Project e-book: The Poli Read More »

By Mohammad Azim and Oscar Granström Plant-based diets are becoming increasingly popular in developed countries. One of the main reasons is that livestock farming is strongly linked to adverse environmental impacts. The largest meat and dairy companies emit huge greenhouse gas emissions and generate a lot of waste in the environment. As an example, the …

How crop-livestock sustainable farming can offer benefits over big meat and dairy conglomerates? Read More »

By Stephanie Koch* In the summer of 2021, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a new report “Climate Change 2021”. The general message is, unsurprisingly, what we all already know: Human-induced climate change leads to changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and biosphere, and those changes are happening on a large scale. Due …

Climate Science and the need for action Read More »

By Stephanie Koch* “Leave nothing but footprints” is rather well-known advice for visiting places in a sustainable way. But not even footprints are necessarily environmentally friendly, at least not carbon footprints. What a carbon footprint is? The concept of a carbon footprint is to show all the greenhouse gases that get emitted due to corporate …

In the footsteps of the carbon footprint Read More »

The products that we use in our daily lives can create massive environmental footprints and health burdens if we are not aware of where and how what we buy is manufactured. It requires about 2 billion barrels of oil to serve the plastic bag industry annually and it then takes anything from 400 to 1000 …

THE POLI: RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Read More »

In 1992, The Agenda 21 action plan was proposed to reduce the human impacts on the environment, forests, and biodiversity at local, regional, and global levels during the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro (Cohen, 2020; UN, 1992). However, the recommendation was not followed which has put ourselves and the Earth subject to great damage. …

How we can be a Catalyst for a resilient future in the time after Covid-19 Read More »

That the world population is constantly growing and that we are depleting natural resources (water, soil, minerals, etc) faster than ever to fulfill the demand from this population might not feel like news. But that the population is expected to go from about 7 billion to around 9.6 billion by 2050, according to United Nations …

Why do we require a sustainable consumption pattern? Read More »

The Poli är ett miljövänligt väskföretag med visionen att skapa en positiv miljö- och samhällsförändring genom hållbar resursanvändning, regenerativ design och etiskt företagande och ledarskap.