Our modern civilization has created a triple challenge that is threatening the future of humanity and the health of the Earth's life-support system, on which the welfare of all human and non-human life depends. Here at MARI, we aim to provide transformational education with the goal to foster holistic systems thinking, literacy in information, risk, and sustainability as well as carry out research related to the triple challenge. We want to bring into the public discussion use-ready knowledge on adaptation to modern global change to the public.
We welcome new members who want to collaborate with us on education, research and outreach.
[Apr. 19, 2025] A Call to Action for Humanity: The new book by Rutger Bregman is a “Call to Action for Humanity” (Trevor Noah). Read the extract in the Guardian.
[Mar. 21, 2025] Impact Learning Community in Sustainability Leadership in Fall 2025:
MARI VCC News
[Mar. 25, 2025] PhDs: writing is your job: “Your job is to have ideas and spread them so that they impact other people’s work. Writing is your job. Nothing else,” argues computational biomedicine researcher Dennis Hazelett in an open letter to early-career scientists. While offering encouraging advice on how to overcome writers’ block, read difficult prose and tackle your next scientific manuscript, Hazelett is unstinting in his assertion that “writing is the only thing you do that matters”. “Doing top-tier science requires deep thinking,” he says. “Deep thinking means writing.”
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[Jun. 16, 2025] SaveHr VCC opened: The "Hampton Roads Saving Civilization VCC" has been initialized and is open now.
