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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 […]

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 […]

Need to visualise sustainability

March 13, 2009

I’m not sure how this happened, but I’m working on two sustainability books at the moment. One of them is highly visual and we’re working with communication design students to produce it. The book has a long running narrative, illustrated by short stories. Each of these is accompanied by a photograph which (tangentially at least) illustrates the […]