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The Bridge to Impact conference has four themes.
A bright, sustainable future isn't just about clean energy or heathy ecosystems. The United Nations has identified 17 goals, which others have grouped around central themes. We draw chiefly from the Stockholm Resilience Centre's SDG Wedding Cake and Alan AtKisson's Sustainability Compass in developing the strands for the 2026 Changemaker Conference. We are especially grateful to Compass Education for the use of their visuals and thinking.
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"N is for Nature: All of our natural ecological systems and environmental concerns, from ecosystem health and nature conservation, to resource use and waste."
– Compass Education
Know More:
A background explainer on planetary boundaries.
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"E is for Economy: The human systems that convert nature’s resources into food, shelter, technologies, industries, services, money and jobs."
– Compass Education
Know More:
Watch an essential background explainer on current economic models: The Story of Stuff. Check a quick explainer animation on circular economies.
Economics education, Regenerative economy for secondary schools and beyond.
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"S is for Society: The institutions, organizations, cultures, norms, and social conditions that make up our collective life as human beings."
– Compass Education
Know More:
A quick explainer video on building just societies.
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"W is for Wellbeing: Our individual health, happiness, and quality of life."
– Compass Education
Know More:
Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting. The Inner Development Goals construct.
Sustaining personal wellbeing as a changemaker.
U.N. Sustainable Goal #3:
Good Health & Well-being.
Additional Resources
SDG Wedding Cake explainer video.
A Sustainability Compass explainer video.
SDG Wedding Cake poster.
Interconnections between the 17 SDG's within the Sustainability Compass.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals website.
SDG Icons download and guideline resource center. Please read carefully before using.
SDG Wedding Cake visualization (below). Download here.
SDG Wedding Cake. Credit: Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University CC BY-ND 3.0.
The Sustainability Compass. Credit: Copyright Compass Education, All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.
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