A Common Purpose
The Onesa Institute is dedicated to accelerating knowledge exchange between communities of knowledge and practice for a sustainable economy.
Too often important new ideas and practices are developed in one innovative business, one path-breaking community, or one insightful researcher center, but lack the means to spread, germinate elsewhere, and cross-fertilize with other novel ideas.
The possibility of creating a truly sustainable economy here and now is a bold endeavor that requires many hands and many minds to bring to fruition.
The Onesa Institute serves as a mechanism for bringing together leading thinkers and doers, and for bringing their fresh new ways of thinking and doing to others who are looking to put them to practice.
The Challenge
A sustainable economy is an economic system that works in service of humanity by strengthening the ecological and social sustaining processes on which human life and wellbeing depend. Unfortunately, today’s economic systems are organized in a way that systematically undermines these life-sustaining processes. Rethinking and renewing our approach to economic activity so as to build an economy that systematically strengthens, rather than undermines, these processes is truly one of the grand challenges of our time.
The ecological and social imperatives for sustaining wellbeing are increasingly clear. But efforts to achieve a sustainable economy in practice raise questions about how to meaningfully interpret these ideas for social units such as markets, organizations, and acts of entrepreneurship.
The Onesa Institute is helping to meet this challenge by bringing together leading thinkers and doers who are advancing the knowledge and practices needed for a sustainable economy. By bringing together social innovators from all sectors of the economy to share, compare, and co-innovate, processes of collective learning and socio-economic change can become both more rapid and more effective.
Activities
To support the advancement and adoption of knowledge and practices for a sustainable economy, the Onesa Institute engages in three primary types of activities:
Network hub
The Onesa Institute serves as a hub making resources accessible and linking leading researchers and practitioners dedicated to creating a sustainable economy. It is a place for pushing the envelop in new ways, and for engaging with others who are doing the same.
Forums for dialogue and exchange
The Onesa Institute provides a number of forums to facilitate dialogue and exchange between communities of knowledge and practice. These include the use of print and online publications, web 2.0 technology, and periodic special events to bring people together with a common purpose.
Dedicated projects
The Onesa Institute also undertakes dedicated projects intended to make advances in knowledge and practice available to communities of researchers or practitioners that are in a position to put such knowledge and practices to good use.
Organization
The Onesa Institute is legally registered as a US 501c3 non-profit, non-partisan, non-denominational organization. It exists to serve international communities of knowledge and practice for a sustainable economy.
The Institute is powered by the collective contribution of its diverse members, located in many regions of the world. To facilitate these activities, the Institute is governed by an executive committee with guidance provided by an advisory committee of leading scholars and practitioners.
A Common Purpose
The Onesa Institute is dedicated to accelerating knowledge exchange between communities of knowledge and practice for a sustainable economy.
Too often important new ideas and practices are developed in one innovative business, one path-breaking community, or one insightful researcher center, but lack the means to spread, germinate elsewhere, and cross-fertilize with other novel ideas.
The possibility of creating a truly sustainable economy here and now is a bold endeavor that requires many hands and many minds to bring to fruition.
The Onesa Institute serves as a mechanism for bringing together leading thinkers and doers, and for bringing their fresh new ways of thinking and doing to others who are looking to put them to practice.
The Challenge
A sustainable economy is an economic system that works in service of humanity by strengthening the ecological and social sustaining processes on which human life and wellbeing depend. Unfortunately, today’s economic systems are organized in a way that systematically undermines these life-sustaining processes. Rethinking and renewing our approach to economic activity so as to build an economy that systematically strengthens, rather than undermines, these processes is truly one of the grand challenges of our time.
The ecological and social imperatives for sustaining wellbeing are increasingly clear. But efforts to achieve a sustainable economy in practice raise questions about how to meaningfully interpret these ideas for social units such as markets, organizations, and acts of entrepreneurship.
The Onesa Institute is helping to meet this challenge by bringing together leading thinkers and doers who are advancing the knowledge and practices needed for a sustainable economy. By bringing together social innovators from all sectors of the economy to share, compare, and co-innovate, processes of collective learning and socio-economic change can become both more rapid and more effective.
Activities
To support the advancement and adoption of knowledge and practices for a sustainable economy, the Onesa Institute engages in three primary types of activities:
Network hub
The Onesa Institute serves as a hub making resources accessible and linking leading researchers and practitioners dedicated to creating a sustainable economy. It is a place for pushing the envelop in new ways, and for engaging with others who are doing the same.
Forums for dialogue and exchange
The Onesa Institute provides a number of forums to facilitate dialogue and exchange between communities of knowledge and practice. These include the use of print and online publications, web 2.0 technology, and periodic special events to bring people together with a common purpose.
Dedicated projects
The Onesa Institute also undertakes dedicated projects intended to make advances in knowledge and practice available to communities of researchers or practitioners that are in a position to put such knowledge and practices to good use.
Organization
The Onesa Institute is legally registered as a US 501c3 non-profit, non-partisan, non-denominational organization. It exists to serve international communities of knowledge and practice for a sustainable economy.
The Institute is powered by the collective contribution of its diverse members, located in many regions of the world. To facilitate these activities, the Institute is governed by an executive committee with guidance provided by an advisory committee of leading scholars and practitioners.
