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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 […]

Handprints to panarchy: 20 more sustainability diagrams

May 26, 2009

Diverse lot to add to the collection this time – from the very simple (how did I miss the balance images so far?) to those representing complex philosophical arguments. The handprint – as a complement to the footprint – is an extremely elegant way to describe the “doing good” or “restorative sustainability”. 159. Spectrum of […]

Otago Polytechnic’s Simple Pledge: towards sustainable practice

April 27, 2009

My compilation of images representing sustainability a few weeks back (goal, 158 approaches) was prompted by our desire to tell our story. The result is Otago Polytechnic’s simple pledge to do the right thing – illustrated in a book: Simple Pledge. These pages tell the narrative in words and pictures. The pages facing these ones […]

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 […]