Rethinking AI, Climate & Systems
Smart Sustainability is not a content platform. It is a space for critical thinking at the intersection of artificial intelligence, climate change, and sustainability.
It was created with a simple but uncomfortable premise: The crises we face are not isolated. They are systemic.
Climate is not only an environmental issue. AI is not only a technological development. Sustainability is not only a corporate agenda.
They are all expressions of how we design, optimize, and justify the systems we live in.
What This Platform Stands For
Smart Sustainability explores the deeper structures behind visible problems:
- How AI reshapes power, labor, and decision-making.
- Why sustainability often turns into narrative rather than transformation.
- How economic systems reproduce the very crises they claim to solve.
- What it means to remain human in an increasingly optimized world.
This is not about reacting to trends. It is about understanding the systems that produce them.
In a landscape dominated by simplified narratives, fast content, and performative transformation, this platform takes a different path: It slows down. It questions. It challenges.
Not to reject progress — but to ask what kind of progress we are actually building.
About the Author
Communications Executive · Author · Sustainability Advocate
Born in Ankara, Turkey. He graduated from TED Ankara College and earned his degree from the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University — widely regarded as the cradle of Turkey's public and political leadership.
He began his professional career in the advertising and public relations department of Demirbank, one of Turkey's leading financial institutions of its time. He later held key communication roles at Dışbank and Fortis Bank, contributing to brand positioning and managing communication through major corporate transitions. In 2008, he joined Yapı Kredi, one of the country's most prominent banks, as Director of Brand Management. Since 2018, he has led Yapı Kredi's Corporate Communications department, overseeing brand strategy, stakeholder engagement, media relations, reputation management, and sustainability communication.
He currently serves as Vice President of the Corporate Communicators Association (Kurumsal İletişimciler Derneği – KİD). He is also a member of the Advisory Boards of Bilgi University's Faculty of Communication and Sustainable Brands Turkey. Since 2023, he has been teaching Sustainability Communication at Bahçeşehir University.
He is a weekly columnist for Nasıl Bir Ekonomi. His column "Akıllı Sürdürülebilirlik" (Smart Sustainability) examines the intersections of sustainability, technology, communication, and ethics.
He is the author of two books:
- "It's Not a Climate Crisis, It's a Crisis of Humanity" — reframes the environmental discourse around justice, ethics, and collective responsibility.
- "Artificial Intelligence: The Two Faces of Power" — examines how AI reshapes power structures, its impact on labor and data privacy, and the future of human agency.
His work operates at the crossroads of corporate leadership, academia, and journalism. His mission is to advance sustainable transformation through strategic communication and systems thinking.
Contact: rdoztaskin@gmail.com