Pathways Events

In 2024, Pathways to Planetary Health hosted a retreat on “Conscious Food Systems as a Pathway to Planetary Health” in partnership with the UNDP-convened Conscious Food Systems Alliance. Over 75 participants came together to deepen collective capacity to address the underlying worldviews at the heart of current social, environmental, and food-related predicaments. We gathered before Climate Week NYC ’24 and the UN Summit of the Future to transform how we mindfully step into these important occasions and to create a compassionate world. Click here to read the summary report with participant biographies.

The 2023 Pathways Symposium focused on “The Commons and the Common Good.” This event gathered a diverse group of 80 thought leaders, including scientists, Indigenous teachers, public sector leaders, impact investors, researchers, and on-the-ground change makers. The Symposium sought to define the ways in which the concepts of the commons and the common good could provide coherent grounding and mutuality amidst disruptive times marked by climate change, biodiversity loss, injustice, and racism. Read the 2023 Symposium summary report here.

A 2020 Pathways Symposium was held to focus on “Ethics in the Age of the Anthropocene.” It was conceived as a search for a contemporary ethics of the common good, shared well-being, and societal mutuality. It assembled more than 50 leading practitioners of applied ecology, conservation, impact investing, and sustainable business together with scientists, ethicists, journalists, meditation teachers, Indigenous Elders, philosophers, physicians, researchers, students, theologians, and writers.  Click here to read the 2020 Symposium proceedings.