🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland | December 25, 2025 🌍 Following the successful webinar on November 28, 2024, titled "From Green to Sustainability," key sponsors including SwissCham Asia, Singularity Academy, Häring AG, REFIRE Group, XPENG, Swiss Business Council, and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bhutan to Switzerland are proud to announce the publication of a groundbreaking research paper. The publication, “From Green to Sustainability: Advancing a Holistic Paradigm for Regenerative Development – Insights from European and Asian Cases”, builds upon the rich discussions held during the webinar and presents four key case studies from Europe and Asia, including 👉 Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index and Gelephu Mindfulness City: Exemplifying well-being-centric governance and urban planning. 👉 Sustainable Timber Engineering in Green Construction: Showcasing innovative approaches to eco-friendly architecture. 👉 Hydrogen Energy Innovations: Driving advancements in clean energy solutions. 👉 China’s Electric Vehicle (EV) Revolution: Accelerating the global transition to sustainable transportation. 🌍 The study concludes that achieving a sustainable civilisation requires bold systemic changes, collective action, and an unwavering commitment to ecological integrity and intergenerational well-being. A key contribution of the research is the introduction of an Ecological Comprehensive Framework for Sustainability, which emphasises balance, adaptability, and collaboration. This framework offers a theoretical upgrade by integrating five interrelated elements, providing actionable insights for advancing sustainability globally. 🌍 The paper has been published in the Singularity Academy Frontier Review, a peer-reviewed academic-practice journal (ISSN: 2813-3641), renowned for fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and stimulating critical discussion on pressing global challenges. The issue, numbered #20241225, represents a milestone in bridging theory and practice in sustainability. The research was co-authored by an esteemed group of experts, including: ✨ Prof. Dr. ir. Ying Zhang (Singularity Academy, Switzerland) ✨ Ambassador Wangchuk Tenzin (Embassy of the Kingdom of Bhutan to Switzerland) ✨ Christoph Häring (Häring Group, Switzerland) ✨ Chris Guzy Chris (REFIRE Group, Canada) ✨ Ning Ning (Xpeng Ltd., Netherlands) ✨ farhat ali (Swiss Business Council, Pakistan) ✨ Claude Jaeck (Foreign Trade Advisor to the French Government, France) ✨ Dr. iur. Urs Lustenberger (SwissCham ASIA, Switzerland) To learn more about this research paper: https://lnkd.in/dxfpPnj3 #SingularityAcademy #SwissChamAsia #HäringAG #REFIRE #Xpeng #Bhutan #Switzerland #China #Europe #Asia #Sustainability #GreenBuilding #HydrogenEnergy #ElectricVehicles #GrossNationalHappiness #SDG9 #RegenerativeDevelopment
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💨 As soon as I saw this post yesterday I sought to share it. It takes me a while. Just before I was going to post I lost the whole thing. Taking a deep breath I was going to reconstruct in 30 minutes. Life took over. Hopefully this is not too late ... ⚡ Knowing my profile and reading below you will understand why I was excited! ❣️ It seems that when Tom Bosschaert speaks he will be talking about many of the things I deeply care about. 🏞️ It is interesting to me how people can 'graduate' to similar positions from 'different' backgrounds. Tom Bosschaert may say he was only 19 when he began. At the time he had not yet finished his training; and that was fundamentally in a design field. 🧬 My own background is in science and #systemic thinking. When did that begin? Formally at around the same age as Tom. Informally much younger. And my 'design training' also began before I was 8; can't exactly remember how young! 🧒🏼 What am I saying in all this? Fundamentally I believe, those of us who appear to have a holistic vision of 'how things work', I am looking forward to meeting Tom but have not yet done so, seem to have been influenced along those lines from early developmental experiences, whatever the so-called 'discipline'. 📚 My own perspective is that so long as we maintain the perspective of being life-long learners, again one of those caveats I claimed long before it was 'fashionable' to do so just because it is authentically me, we may come to an understanding of matters that are similar to those of people from very different disciplines. 🫶 The 'beauty' of our different backgrounds is that we can each bring fresh perspectives on each others work so through our joint #connections the effectiveness of the work will grow. This is surely the iterative wisdom of #Nature where everything works in harmony? 🌳 In today's world where #regeneration is SO needed, surely every and any way we can work together to achieve #regeneration more effectively we should take. What do you think? #regeneration #systemic thinking #food #Nature #connection
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