Episode 2: Inner Development Goals - Unlocking a missing dimension of sustainability
This episode unveils a previously overlooked dimension of sustainability by exploring the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), an open-source framework outlining the inner capabilities, qualities, and skills essential for advancing efforts toward the UN SDGs. Your host, Marleen Mammen, along with two guests, Gustav Osberg (Doctoral researcher at the IIIEE) and Björn Schulz (Batch 29 of the EMP Master), will provide answers to the following guiding questions:
- What are the IDGs?
- How do they relate to the environmental sustainability transformation?
- How can individuals, businesses, and policies leverage them?
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>>> Sources used in the episode:
Websites:
White paper:
Scientific articles:
- Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action
- Transformative climate policy mainstreaming–engaging the political and the personal
- Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets
- Leverage points - Places to intervene in a system
- Inner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: Fostering new avenues for change through dialogue and reflection
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>>> Further readings:
Scientific article: IMAGINE sustainability: Integrated inner-outer transformation in research, education and practice
Book: Radical transformational leadership: strategic action for change agents - by Monica Sharma (2017)