Leyla Acaroglu (A-jar-a-loo) is a sustainability strategist and leading proponent of systemic life cycle based sustainability. She is the founder and director of Eco Innovators, designer, social scientist, strategist and educator she is a creative force who finds innovative and inspiring ways of catalyzing change. Her work spans a range of fields and projects including the development of one of the first online life cycle assessment tools – ‘Greenfly’, creative director of the award winning sustainability education project ‘The Secret Life of Things’, designed the ‘Design Play Cards’ and in 2012 was an Artist in Residence with Autodesk. She lectures at RMIT University where she is also undertaking her PhD in designing change. Leyla was invited to speak at TED2013 in Longbeach, has been named one of Melbourne’s Top 100 People of Influence, was a judge on the ABC TV show The New Inventors, radio presenter, op-ed writer for the New York Times, and has won several awards including two Melbourne Design Awards and a CORE77 design award for her work. In her humorous and compelling talk, Leyla explores why we need to rethink sustainability…
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Hello, Leyla! Congratulations on your talk. I started following you on instagram because I am more and more interested in sustainability. Please indicate me good books on this topic. I wish you a long and prosperous life =)
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Here’s the point-by-point translation. Notice carefully that nowhere does this document state that “achieving human freedom” is one of its goals. Nor does it explain HOW these goals are to be achieved. As you’ll see here, every single point in this UN agenda is to be achieved through centralized government control and totalitarian mandates that resemble communism.
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While subject is good to talk about, I found too much focus on dramatizing to drive home a point. To finger point use of CFC without being aware of what could led to the invention in the first place at that point of time or even if you know that, to condemn that sarcastically after 50-60 years shows disrespect. I believe Leyla could better by making the speech less dramatic but keeping it core to the matter of discussion – quite a few times she goes on a long different tangent to explain something which could have been explained briefly. Not taking away her knowledge but believe the same matter could have been communicated in half the time.
Every idea for sustainability is a good idea and is transitional ……but it’s being completely negated by all the millions of people who are doing the jobs that are harming the planet, all desperately wanting to hang on to their damn jobs at any cost!!! …….It absolutely MUST be made financially worthwhile for people to start sharing the jobs we NEED people to do and working LESS. You certainly can’t make them all unemployed and expect them to happily exist on something like a UBI or benefits while the rest have to carry on working 40 hours or more a week. There is no valid argument against it…we have to get people sharing the jobs we NEED people to do and working LESS.
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Proud of this Turkish women
Angela Merkel found a solution to the poverty problem: she brings all people who are poor to Europe and let’s them live from our social system. Very smart and sustainable, isn’t it?