Thoughts from the Wellbeing Economy Festival
As you know from last week's story, the whole For Progress Namibia Project team attended and participated at the WE-Festival last week in...
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Nov 27, 2017
Kicking off at the WE-Africa Network Meeting We need a new system
This week the For Progress Namibia team finds itself getting ready for the Wellbeing Economy Festival, which will bring together some...
Oct 16, 2017
Universities as a catalyst for global change
How important are universities in advancing sustainability, and in fact, the Sustainable Development Goals? Very. In Namibia, there are...
Sep 24, 2017
Namibia's Sustainable Development Awards 2017
Last Thursday (21 September 2017), the Sustainable Development Awards were announced at a gala event in Windhoek. The initiative was...
Aug 27, 2017
Stories from Sweden Pushing the sustainability agenda
On my way out of Sweden today on the train to Copenhagen, passing the rolling forests and red painted wooden houses of the countryside....
Aug 25, 2017
Tackling Framing Effects of Dominant Knowledge Systems in Transformations
And we find ourselves this week in Stockholm, Sweden, representing our work on For Progress Namibia at the Resilience Conference,...
Aug 13, 2017
Plastic Bags. Let's stop.
You drive anywhere close to a town in Namibia, and you will undoubtedly see non-biodegradable polythene bags stuck to a bush, or blowing...
Jul 2, 2017
Seven ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
This morning, I was inspired by a tweet shared by Kate Raworth, an economist who wrote the book 'Doughnut Economics: Seven ways to think...
Jun 25, 2017
Let's talk about Real Economic Transformation in Africa
This week, acclaimed author and political economist Lorenzo Fioramonti is joining us in Windhoek. Progress Namibia has organised various...
Jun 18, 2017
What is a Blue Economy
Our fifth National Development Plan has recently been launched and through it we aim to achieve inclusive, sustainable and equitable...
Jun 14, 2017
Trump Fails the World
Progress Namibia was asked to contribute to developing a civil society response from Namibia to Donald Trump pulling out of the Paris...
Jun 4, 2017
As Trump smacks the climate, world must do better (Guest Author Lorenzo Fioramonti)
As Donald Trump’s America drops out of the Paris Agreement, it’s high time to ask whether conventional approaches to sustainable...
May 21, 2017
Towards wellbeing indicators in Africa A Case Study from Namibia
Some of the work from our project 'For Progress Namibia' has been published in the leading popular academic journal Solutions. With the...
Apr 9, 2017
Serving society rather than growth Business in a wellbeing economy (by Lorenzo Fioramonti and Just
One day an African fisherman had an American visitor join him on his small fishing boat. As they gently cruised the Atlantic ocean...
Apr 3, 2017
What type of growth do we want Stories from Bhutan and India
When you travel around Bhutan, a small country squeezed in by the Himalayas on one side, and the two giants India and China on the other,...
Mar 13, 2017
You can't have an economy without ecosystems
I was inspired the other day by the words of Phoebe Barnard and Lorenzo Fioramonti who co-wrote an article in The Conversation about how...
Feb 28, 2017
Envisioning sustainable neighbourhoods (Guest Author: Reinhold Mangundu)
Our Reinhold Mangundu has been volunteer teaching youngsters at the Physically Active Youth Centre in Katutura on sustainability. Here is...
Feb 27, 2017
The Privilege Walk A first of the 'Games for the SDGs'
Progress Namibia, along with partners Hanns Seidel Foundation (Think Namibia), Namibian Youth Coalition on Climate Change, National Youth...
Feb 21, 2017
Why We Should Value Trust First
Those of you who have been reading our Weekly regularly might remember the work we are doing on moving towards a wellbeing economy. As...
Feb 13, 2017
The Spinach King of South Africa
For some of you this story might be old news. But this is for those of you have not yet been inspired by the Spinach King, and Dan The...
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