Recommended Reading for AVF Business Sponsors
If you have taken the plunge and joined our AVF Business Sponsorship Community, here is a short list of recommended articles/books to get you started. The complete Climate Leadership Curriculum with our full bibliography will be provided in our Sponsorship Orientation.
WHY THIS WORK MATTERS NOW, MORE THAN EVER
“Declaration of Interdependence” Bcorps CEO Andrew KassoyWALK for a Viable Future The CEO and cofounder of B Lab Global explains how business leaders can create the most value for shareholders, stakeholders, and society by recognizing the interdependencies that bind them together.
CommonFire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex WorldA landmark study that reveals how we become more committed to the common good and sustain such commitments in a changing world.
Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of Life-Affirming 21st Century Organizations (Chapter One)
A holistic and systemic framework…a new way of leading and redesigning organizations and communities...that is urgently needed...a way that addresses the interconnected stress in our workforce, ecosystems and economy.
Finding a Way: Will People’s Responses to the Emergencies of the Coming Decades be Warm? or Cold?
"For years we have been troubled by what feels like a cold approach to developing solutions to environmental crises. Something has felt very off...
Hope lies in the very fact that as living beings we are wired for relationship...We exude warm data in our eyes, our smiles, our verbal and non-verbal conversations and in the importance we accord to being in relationships with others at the personal, family, community levels and in local, national and global contexts.
We also have the capacity to tap into ancient wisdom to add to our store of warm data and the capabilities that get unleashed when I see you in me and me in you. Our well-being and that of our planet is possible only if we permit ourselves to perceive and embrace the rich expressions of who we are as living human communities and to find a way, in relationship. This will require warmth and rigorous attention to relational integrity above the anxiety to control."
8 Principles for Post COVID Reconstruction
Diverse systems are critical because they are less likely to fail all at once or in the same way. These systems should be simple, replicable, and transparent.