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A new resource for young changemakers: The guide to storytelling

by 50 Percent | November 25, 2025 | News | 0 Comments

In the world we’re living in today, storytelling is one of the most powerful tools we have. Stories help us make sense of crisis, connect across differences and reimagine what our shared future could look like. That’s why we are launching the Young person’s guide to...

From mafias to common good: How libera transforms land and lives

by Mariachiara Fagan | November 7, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

An unexpected Italy Far from the crowded cities and mainstream tourist routes, a different Italy emerges, a country marked by silence and resilience, where transformation is not always visible for an external visitor. In rural areas of the peninsula, old villas once...

Backing Young Leaders: Are we adequately supporting young leaders during this volatile political time?

by Nolita Mvunelo, Principal for Cultural Transformations, The Club of Rome and Co-Director of The 50 Percent | October 9, 2025 | News | 0 Comments

The international community has embraced youth empowerment with unprecedented enthusiasm. From the UN's Youth2030 strategy to the recently adopted Pact for the Future, global frameworks increasingly recognise young people as essential partners in addressing climate...

‘Going Beyond the Poster Itself’: The Climate Museum’s #BeyondLies Campaign

Jan 9, 2025 | Articles

PhotoCredit: Yelena Odintsova. I couldn’t help but scroll back to the image I just passed on Instagram. I was looking at a graphic of a brown sole coming down on, as if wanting to stomp and crush, a person. ‘BEYOND INDIVIDUAL BLAME’, read the graphic, with a...

Youth Empowerment & Sustainability on Campus: A Conversation with Perry Dripps

Jan 6, 2025 | Articles

Author’s note: The interview has been condensed to fit. I was once a student on a college campus, and I’ve been around people like Perry Dripps, the Sustainability Engagement Program Coordinator at the Penn State Sustainability Institute that worked to empower...

Sustainable Consumption, Gender & Justice: A Conversation with Lucie Middlemiss

Jan 6, 2025 | Articles

PhotoCredit: Mike Jones. Author’s note: The interview has been condensed to fit. In July, I came across an article in The Guardian about the eco-gender gap, which essentially speaks to the ways that saving the world, at least on an environmental level, is deemed to...

Who will be left to warn?

Jan 6, 2025 | Articles

PhotoCredit: Black Light Media. If there is anything that has made me pause a few times this week, it is the photograph taken by Konstantinos Tsakalidis that’s circled mass media as well as social media. An old woman with wildfires raging behind her in the village of...

We Can’t Escape This: On Breathing & Social Justice

Jan 6, 2025 | Articles

PhotoCredit: Mido Makasardi ©️. The day after George Floyd’s murder, the neighborhood residents around S. Carrollton Ave. in New Orleans began their daily nine-minute silent protest, as silent as a protest can be with the St. Charles streetcar rumbling down the...

The Public Health Job Market in A Public Health Crisis

Jan 6, 2025 | Articles

PhotoCredit: Mikhail Nilov. “Since the beginning of 2020, I have submitted 700+ job applications-” I stopped reading the Facebook post written by a friend I made in graduate school where we were working towards a master’s of public health a few years ago. I exited...