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Sustainability 2.0 doesn’t add up

March 31, 2009

Sustainability = a good thing that requires a radicial shift in thinking Enterprise 2.0 = a good thing that requires a radical shift in thinking. Unfortunately, as every Year 9 student knows, these two statements do not necessarily prove that Enterprise 2.0 = Sustainability. This elementary mistake in logic undermines the value of the otherwise […]

A sustainable practitioner in… career pathways

March 17, 2009

We’ve spent the past couple of days integrating discipline-based sustainable practitioner words into generic career pathway statements. This has been prompted by the small resource we’re making that celebrates where we’re going in terms of education for sustainability. The primary intention is to reinforce momentum for our own staff and to help build credibility with people […]

Big picture, little actions

March 16, 2009

In the last few days I’ve been focussed on sustainability imagery. I’ve been taken by the huge variety, but also the constancy of the message – sustainability is big picture thinking, but it’s the little actions that make a difference. The same message is in Michael Lemonick’s really slick article in Scientific […]

More sustainability diagrams

March 16, 2009

Here’s more diagrams to explain sustainability (earlier post, 1-137). 138. 5 mindsets Earthly – focusing on the interplay between environmental and developmental agendas in the short- and long-term both globally and locally; Analytic – based on ‘systems thinking’ and encompassing assessment, planning and management; Careful – based on respect for complexity and uncertainty; Collaborative – focusing on the interplay […]

Visualising sustainability

March 15, 2009

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“Sustainable Lens: A visual guide” published by NewSplash available through Amazon. How to convey the essence of sustainability in a few sketched lines? I’m wading through the net and my bookshelves to find examples of the genre. I’m looking for schematics of the notion of sustainability itself rather than the underlying science – greenhouse, carbon, meso climate […]