Tag: sustainability
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The Sustainability Challenge: Ecological and Economic Development
Imagine picking up a newspaper and reading that the country’s largest petroleum company has petitioned the government to increase the gasoline tax at the…
Overcoming the Seven Sustainability Blunders
In response to growing environmental and social equity problems, hundreds of private and public “sustainable development” initiatives have blossomed across the globe since the…
A Global System Growing Itself to Death—and What We Can Do About It
The underlying purpose of today’s global economy, most assume, is to transform natural resources into a continuously growing quantity of goods and services for…
From Me to We: The Five Transformational Commitments Required to Rescue the Planet, Your Organization, and Your Life
Economic breakdown, rising unemployment, and escalating political hostility, coming at a time of intensifying climate upheaval – storms, floods, heat waves, and droughts –…
Sharing the Bounty, Stewarding the Planet: Systems Thinking for Emerging Leaders
To grapple with the complexity of current challenges, leaders today need training in a variety of sophisticated tools and methodologies. To that end, Sustainability…
Pea Beans in Ethiopia: Challenges of Creating New Business Models for Sustainable Livelihoods
Ethiopia is a wonderfully unusual place in Africa. It has never been colonized, only occupied by the Italians during World War II for about…
The Path of Creative Disruption: A Foundation for Sustainable Change
Sustainable change happens when people begin to see the world differently. It takes only a momentary abandonment of longstanding beliefs and assumptions for this…
Scenarios of the Future: The Urgent Case for Sustainability
I was in grade school when the original Limits to Growth (Universe Books, 1972) was published. The environmental consciousness that blossomed in the early…
Acting on Interdependence
The world works much better when we respect its interdependence. I learned this lesson 15 years ago, when my colleagues at Rocky Mountain Institute…
An Economy Designed to Sustain the Environment
You have probably heard of Lester Brown’s work before whether you know it or not. For the past 30 years, when an environmentalist or…