Transcript Evolutionary Leadership for Building a Sustainable World

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Evolutionary Leadership for a Just, Flourishing, and
Sustainable World
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for Evolutionary Leadership
www.evolutionleader.com
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THE EVOLUTIONARY CRISIS
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The Evolutionary
Crisis leading
toward Collapse
The Critical Path
toward Sustainability
Sustainable Demand
Time
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The Funnel Model by The
Natural Step.
Robert, K-H. 2000
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In the course of history, there comes a
time when humanity is called to shift to
a new level of consciousness, to reach
a higher moral ground. A time when we
have to shed our fear and give hope to
each other.
That time is now.
Wangari Maathai
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THE CHALLENGES OF THE TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURY: SEVEN UNSUSTAINABLE CONDITIONS
 Climate
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change/ rising seas.
 Population growth
 Poverty
 Unsustainable economic systems and
addiction to consumerism
 Biosphere destruction
 War, Terrorism, WMD
 Hubris. Our Modern World view
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HOW DID WE GET
HERE
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What are the historical narratives that got us
here?
 What are the assumptions that got us here?
 What are the paradigms that got us here?
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is to facilitate a conscious cultural
evolution toward a socially just, ethical,
flourishing and sustainable global society.
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THE PURPOSE OF EVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP
Evolutionary leadership is based on a new
worldview that integrates the biological,
ecological, and social dimensions of life.
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The Evolutionary
Crisis:
An Unsustainable
World.
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The Work of
Evolutionary
Leaders.
Evolution of Self- Mind-Complexity
of Consciousness
Institutional EvolutionSystemic Sustainability
Cultural Evolution
Sustainable
World
The Great Transition Toward Sustainability
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Social Equity
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Ecosystems
550
2060
Forests (ha)
CO2(ppm)
4.5 billion
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Water
People in stress
Climate
billion
Hunger
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300
1980 2020
Development
Freedom
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Major Conflicts
Peace
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BENDING THE CURVE
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billion
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PROXIMATE AND ULTIMATE DRIVERS –T
ELLUS
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INSTITUTE)
Proximate Drivers
Values and
Needs
Economy
Knowledge and
Understanding
Technology
Power
Structure
Ultimate Drivers
Governance
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Population
Culture
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THREE TYPES OF EVOLUTION
TOWARD A JUST & SUSTAINABLE WORLD
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An evolution of mind- consciousness
An ecological mindset. An evolutionary mind. A
systems-oriented way of seeing the world.
 Institutional evolution
Business and other institutions need to evolve to
become “living institutions” that support the
sustainability of the whole planet.
 Cultural evolution
New values that promote a sustainable life style,
ecological harmony, social justice, respect, and a focus
on love and quality of living.
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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of development that
satisfy the needs of the present,
while at the same time
safeguarding the capacity of
future generations to meet their
own needs.
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 Forms
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Sustainability is
the possibility that
human and other forms
of life will flourish
on the Earth forever.
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SUSTAINABILITY
John R. Ehrenfeld
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WHAT DO EVOLUTIONARY LEADERS DO ?
They declare a vision for a future,
they generate worlds and actions through
language and conversations.
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Work on adaptive challenges
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Think big, systemic and strategic
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Promote learning, change, evolution
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Make choices , Mobilize people & Action
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Evolutionary Leaders are people that declare
possible what other people do not
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SEVEN
COMPETENCIES
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OF AN
EVOLUTIONARY
LEADER : A
SYSTEM FOR
PERSONAL AND
SOCIAL
EVOLUTION
2. Emotions &
Generative
Language
3.Systems
7.Evolutionary
Being &
Principles &
Thinking
Scenarios
1.Personal
Evolution/
Evolution of
Consciousness
6.Adaptive
4. Ontological
Work &
Designing
Collaboration
5.Systemic
Sustainability
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An evolutionary leadership competency
Personal
Evolution
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 Commits to transforming your personal
ontology/understanding of self : as a systemic being,
emotional, linguistic and relational/cultural being.
Commits to taking a stand/ a declared purpose for
social evolution, to contribute to bring forth a just,
flourishing, sustainable world.
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Commits to transform the type of observer that you
are: transform your mind, develop an evolutionary
mind/consciousness, your assumptions, mental models,
narratives. Become a new observer of the world.
 Commits to learn to learn for life. Including reading
and reading the world. This learning will expand your
evolutionary mind and the type of observer that you are.
Commits to becoming an evolutionary leader, applying
the competencies of evolutionary leadership to take
action, mobilize people, make a difference either locally
and or globally.
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An evolutionary leadership competency
Historical Narratives
Vocabularies
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Conversations and
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Emotions,
Language &
Generative
conversations
Speech Acts
Emotions
and Words
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LANGUAGE, CONVERSATIONS
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is through language that we observe and
bring forth our world. It is through
conversations that we coordinate our
actions, create relationships, and elicit
commitments to produce results.
 Everything human takes place in language
and conversations.
 Collaboration is about a shared vision and
is based on networks of conversations.
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 It
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An evolutionary leadership competency
Understands the dynamics and behaviors of systems.
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 Understands the four types of systems,
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Systems
Thinking
Understands the systemic structure of our global
problems
Designs systems in harmony with nature and systemic
sustainability.
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Types of Systems
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Social
Systems
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Technological
Systems
Living
Systems
Natural
Systems
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Yet we react to them in a way that is
fragmented and often counter-productive.
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Most of our world problems are systemic in nature:
poverty, population growth, ecological destruction,
global warming.
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THE SYSTEMIC NATURE OF OUR GLOBAL
PROBLEMS
There is a crisis of perception in our culture, we don’t see systems.
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THE EVOLUTIONARY CRISIS: A SYSTEMS
PERSPECTIVE
Culture &
lifestyle
of consumerism
Resource wars
& WMD’s
Obsolete worldviews &
Patterns of leadership
Poverty
AIDS
Hunger
Need for
oil supplies
& energy
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Unsustainable
Economic
Systems
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Environmental
destruction &
Climate change
Population
Growth
Oppression
of Women
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Leadership
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Evolutionary
Leadership
Science
Sustainability
Knowledge
Systems
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Competencies
Multi-Sector
Institutional
Application
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Natural Capitalism and an Ecological Culture
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Natural
Capitalism.
Ecological
culture and
institutions.
Natural ontology.
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R
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Designing with
sustainability
Population
stabilized /social
justice
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An evolutionary leadership competency
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 Understands sustainability as composed of three
dimensions: Human, Institutional, and
Environmental. All contribute to flourishing.
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Systemic
Sustainability
 Human sustainability supports the basic needs of
human beings.
 Institutional sustainability are the structures and
systems that support a sustainable society, such as
business, government, education, religion, the
family.
 Environmental sustainability conserves the
biosphere and the ecology on earth on which human
beings depend for their well-being.
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Entails understanding the biological
and ecological principles that sustain
life and seeing the organization
embedded in a complex living network.
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beings reclaim their sense of their
place in the natural world. It is the
ethical domain of doing the right thing.
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SYSTEMIC
SUSTAINABILITY
 A new paradigm in which human
Must include designing technology,
artifacts, and organizations with
principles derived from ecosystems
properties and dynamics.
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SYSTEMIC SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY
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INSTITUTIONAL
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HUMAN
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
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HUMAN SUSTAINABILITY :
HUMAN NEEDS
MET IN A JUST SOCIETY
Freedom
Participation
9 Fundamental
Human Needs
Understanding
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Affection
Protection
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Identity
Leisure
Creativity
Subsistence
Source:Manfred
Max-Neef, 1991
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Our key institutions ( Economics, Government,
Education, Religion, Media) transform their
purpose toward the caring and well being of
humans and biosphere, promoting a culturecivilization of flourishing, prosperity, and
sustainability.
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INSTITUTIONAL SUSTAINABILITY
Organizations and Institutions can evolve to
become Living Institutions that are
responsible and care for the whole.
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THE WORK OF EVOLUTIONARY LEADERS
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Creating networks of leaders and organizations that
support each other in the evolution toward a
sustainable world.
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Mobilizing people to transform our politics, institutions,
and culture, inspired by a vision of a better society,
a sustainable society.
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Changing the game from an unsustainable economic
system, a culture of conspicuous consumption, a
culture that glorifies material consumption as the road
to happiness,
to a value system based on
quality, human dignity, learning, love, spiritual
wisdom, and ecological sustainability
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An evolutionary leadership competency
 Ontological Design is being conscious that
everything we design should be done with ethics
and sustainability in mind, in this sense paying
attention to the systemic consequences of our
design, artifacts, etc.
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 Ontological Design is the conscious design of the
Self , Our Mind, and Becoming Human by Design.
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Ontological
Design:Ethics
And
Sustainability
 We are all designers.
 Ontological design is also recognizing that what
we design also comes back to shape us/ designs us,
in conscious or unconscious ways.
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THE WORK OF EVOLUTIONARY
LEADERS
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“The key challenge of this new century- for social
scientists, natural scientists, and everyone else- will be to
build ecologically sustainable communities, designed in
such a way that their technologies and social institutionstheir material and social structures - do not interfere with
nature’s inherent ability to sustain life.
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The design principles of our future social institutions
must be consistent with the principles of
organization that nature has evolved to sustain the
web of life.”
-Fritjof Capra
The Hidden Connections
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DESIGNING WITH SUSTAINABILITY
 We
can design technology, artifacts,
constitutions, rights, the self, culture,
organizations, and social systems.
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is one of the most powerful concepts
available to humans, social architects, and
leaders.
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 Design
 It
is the art of creating something that did
not exist before.
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THE RESOURCES AND THE
OPPORTUNITIES
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We also possess biological, psychological, and
sociological knowledge to educate and transform
humans.
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We have the scientific and technological knowledge to
solve our major world challenges.
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Our organizational knowledge and sustainability
principles will allow us to design institutions that
could support evolution toward sustainable societies.
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Designing a Sustainable Organization
Atmosphere & climate
Water
Fisheries & Forestry
Learning organization
Agriculture
Human rights
Sustainable Biodiversity/biosphere
Sustainable communities Organization
Energy & Transport
Sustainable consumption
Learning society
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Humanistic
Management and Human
Development
Planet
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People
Waste
Profit
Corporate Social Responsibility
Sustainable products and services
Qualitative growth
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An evolutionary leadership competency
Adapted from Leadership without easy answers. Ronald
Heifetz.
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•An adaptive challenge is a situation that requires new
knowledge, new learning, and even a change in
values, behaviors, and worldviews.
•Adaptive challenges requires both an assessment of
the current reality as well as a vision of a new reality.
•Leaders identify the adaptive challenges and then
evoke the collective intelligence of the group or
organizations to come up with answers and commit to
doing the work.
•A key question is adapt to what, and for what
purpose?
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Adaptive
ChallengesWork
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Collaboration
Culture/
Polity
Civil Society
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Evolutionary Leaders
work with
all three
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Collaboration among organizations within
each sector of society and between each
sector of society, as well as between
societies as part of a Global collaboration
movement.
Economy
society
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An evolutionary leadership competency
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 Understands our evolutionary history: Cosmic,
Biological ( we are one human family, we are 99.9
the same by DNA, we all came out of Africa),
Cultural.
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Evolutionary
principles and
Scenarios
 Thinking longer, deeper, and wider about our
place in nature, this moment on earth, and future
civilizations
 Envisions sustainable scenarios for humanity
 Concerned with the conservation of life/biosphere
on this planet
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A Vision of a Sustainable World
Conservation of
Biosphere, Ecology:
water, air, land,
species, ecological
systems, biosphere.
Business and an
ecological economy.
Sustainable technology.
Education for sustainability.
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Conservation of
Human beings:
Human beings as
loving beings, as part
of nature. Creating a
socially just world.
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Living Institutions:
A Humane and
Ecological Culture :
focus on quality,
learning, loving,
diversity, respect,
ecology, enough.
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Learning to Create Sustainable Societies
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Science
Learning
2012
Current
Unsustainable
World
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FUNNEL
Systems
2012 and beyond . . .
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Sustainable Society
THE EVOLUTIONARY JOURNEY: JONAS SALK
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Therefore, human beings have a responsibility for their
participation in and contribution to the process of
evolution. Acceptance and acknowledgement of this
responsibility and creative engagement in the process of
meta-biological evolution consciously would bring forth
a new reality.
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The most meaningful activity in which a human being
can be engaged is one that is directly related to human
evolution, this is true because humans now play an
active and critical role not only in the process of their
own evolution but in the survival and evolution of all
living things.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Becoming Human by Design. Tony Fry.
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Great Transition. Paul Raskin et al. wwwGTInitiative.org
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The Real Wealth of Nations. Riane Eisler.
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. William
McDonough & Michael Braungart.
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Natural Capitalism. Paul Hawken, Amory & L.Hunter Lovins.
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Envisioning a Sustainable Society. Lester.W. Milbrath.
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Sustainability by Design John R. Ehrenfeld. R
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Design Futuring. Sustainability, Ethics, and New practice. Tony Fry.
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The Necessary Revolution. Peter Senge, Sara Schley, others.
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The Hidden Connections. Fritjof Capra.
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