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Need your help looking for sustainability diagrams

May 17, 2010

Some more (for the full collection), and a request for help. I’m looking for diagrams for these sustainability related concepts: risk management applied to sustainability (eg bowtie diagrams) family ties and sustainability systems thinking (not examples or evidence of systems thinking, rather systems thinking itself) complexity scale risk and uncertainty threshold concepts biomimicry (not just […]

Some puzzles, triangles and circles, a golden snitch and a pocket knife

May 13, 2010

I’m filling holes on the framework so a slightly strange collection for the corpus. 219 Ecology, Equity, and Economy Triangle by McDonough and Michael Baungart From the book, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Baungart 220 Alden Dow’s A way of life cycle (“Alden B. Dow Midwestern […]

Thirty more sustainability diagrams

March 24, 2010

I’m working towards structuring the collection into a book (watch this space). I’ve almost got a framework sorted out, so this lot is filling some holes. 189 “Bretherton diagram” (based on a concept of Francis Bretherton) highlighting some of the linkages between social systems, biogeochemical systems, and the physical climate system. (NCAR) 190 Priorities and […]

Sustainability Pictures X

November 6, 2009

Ten more for the collection. Breaking my rule of stand-alone images but these seemed quite evocative, even if they do take some explanation. See also these variations on earlier approaches: Venn diagrams coming together and showing changing dominance of sectors in a static animation, and a nice systems loop. 179. Brown’s 15 elements […]

September 25th should live in infamy

September 25, 2009

Today is Earth Overshoot Day. This is not a day to celebrate. Calculated by the Global Footprint Network, Earth Overshoot Day shows the day on which our total Ecological Footprint (measured in global hectares) is equal to the biocapacity (also measured in global hectares) that nature can regenerate in that year. For the rest of […]