Jenny Grettve

“Findings suggest that female leadership contributes to the promotion and implementation of environmental and social practices through several characteristics intrinsic to their nature, such as the ability to emphasize and listen and the predisposition to sharing and collaboration.” Like many other countries at the moment, Sweden is on a forceful

A letter read to the audience at ‘The Conference’ in Malmö, August 2023 Dear audience, Dear fellow living beings, I try those words in my mouth and they feel profound, almost pristine - ’living beings’. We rarely think of ourselves as living, we tend to think of ourselves as more

As I write this I am sitting in a beautiful garden overlooking a large magnolia tree. One persistent flower is still hanging on to its branch although the season is long over. Hordes of swallows are playfully cruising the blue sky, chatting to each other about insects and life, I

The Dilemma of the Mug What are our belongings and what does it mean to own them? From a superficial perspective, belongings are things or objects someone has found, made, bought, or been given. They are connected to us and we have legal rights to possess and do almost whatever

“What kind of growth would you like today? Angela Merkel suggested ‘sustained growth’. David Cameron proposed ‘balanced growth’. Barack Obama favoured ‘long-term, lasting growth’. Europe’s José Manuel Barroso was backing ‘smart, sustainable, inclusive, resilient growth’. The World Bank promised ‘inclusive green growth’. Other flavours on offer? Perhaps you’d

We are standing in front of a massive challenge; we need to shift the way we co-live with our planet. We have collected theories, thoughts and suggestions about how to do this over the last decades, and there has been a massive push forward on discussing and raising awareness of