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A virus, a pyramid, and a butterfly walked into a sustainable bar…

July 19, 2023

Adding to the collection of diagrams of sustainability. This time we add dimensions – so a triangle becomes a wedge and a pyramid And spirals and links become a pandemic. We finish with an ontological butterfly. 655. PlanetEarth Concept (if the planet is conceived as triangles) (Al-Thour 2016) 656. Washing machine (Mansell 2019) 657. SDGs […]

Sustainable Lens: A visual guide

December 23, 2011

It started out as notes for a designer, turned into a page with 100K hits, and now (drumroll..)… “Sustainable Lens: A visual guide”. Sustainable Lens traces the development of sustainability through its representation in diagrams. Sustainable Lens presents a model for seeing the world through a sustainability-driven perspective. Sustainable Lens is laid out in such […]

So long Pete

October 6, 2011

(part two). Our local MP (and neighbour) Pete Hodgson is retiring from politics. Here’s some of his valedictory: Valedictories are supposed to be about the past, but my head lives mostly in the future. So let me give one portfolio, climate change, a bit more attention, because the world’s response has barely begun. There are […]

Not buying on impulse?

April 14, 2011

Behind every gold wedding ring lies a genuine gold mine, and the possibility of a massive cyanide spill. Behind a tuna steak is a decimated tuna population. Behind a comfortable car is a strip mine, a hundred toxic chemicals leaching into nature, and war in the Middle East. This Alan AtKisson (2008) quote highlights the […]

Grand Challenges for Sustainability Science demand a change in approach

November 16, 2010

I’m really impressed with the integrative approach taken in the Grand challenges for Earth Sustainability Science report from International Council for Science and the International Social Science Council. I like the five grand challenges (below), but even more, I like the strong statement for a need for a change in approach. The report starts by […]