Imagine a healthy growth
Per Espen Stoknes is an associate professor and co-director of the BI Center for Sustainability and Energy. He is also a TED Global Speaker and trained psychologist with a doctoral degree in green economics.
How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming.
The biggest obstacle to dealing with climate disruptions lies between your ears, says psychologist and economist Per Espen Stoknes. Step away from the doomsday narratives and learn how to make caring for the Earth feel personable, doable and empowering with this fun, informative TED Talk
Stoknes’ TED Talk has been watched more than 3.3 million times.
Books
The economic system keeps crashing. It's time to install a new operating system.
Using powerful state-of-the-art computer modeling to explore policies likely to deliver the most good for the majority of people, a leading group of scientists and economists from around the world present five extraordinary turnarounds to achieve prosperity for all within planetary limits in a single generation.
Green growth
How to know healthy growth when you see it.
Can a healthy growth model outcompete and replace the gray growth system in time to keep within Earth’s safe operating space? Per Espen Stoknes’ theory of change is to help growth rethink and reframe itself over the coming decade.
Rewilding
The transformative power of rewilding within.
Rather than speaking about nature, we need to build a relationship with it. In this article, Per Espen Stoknes explains the importance of periodically unplugging from the online world to heal and regenerate our life force.
“Optimism and pessimism are tools we can apply when considering the wild different futures lurking beyond the horizon. And they are best used in parallel, like the left and right eye. It's not an either-or, but a both-and.”
― Per Espen Stoknes.