Caption: "Sadly, the only proven way to achieve global GHG reductions so far has been economic recession." Comment: Fortunately, shifting to 100% renewables would catalyze the global transition to durable prosperity and community well-being in a way that would eliminate GHG production AND grow the economy <<continued>>. (See also: strategic sustainability, natural capitalism, its four strategies, and RMI's Reinventing Fire [energy] Program.)
Quick access to key sustainability resources from an emerging whole systems and critical-path perspective: pioneers, leaders, powerful ideas, path-breaking initiatives, beyond best practices, important events. Comment. Search. Go to the Sust-Clips Index of categories. See also: the State of Sustainability (SOS)TM Journal for commentary.
April 13, 2012 at 08:30PM A 30-minute recorded webinar on Planning for Sustainable Development--Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability, (you sign on as a guest adding your name but don’t use the name "Guest," use your own - (No password is needed) and click the play arrow in the middle of the screen and it will play for you.) Go here for details.
January 12, 2012 at 03:39PM Most approaches to sustainable transportation involve incremental "greening" changes to the existing auto-dominated transportation-land use-urban form systems and settlement patterns. Often they are no more than minor per-capita VMT reduction programs that will only slightly slow the systematic increase in carbon, thereby NOT contributing to climate change solutions or adaptation. As such, they also do NOT address other planning, livability,
December 22, 2011 at 03:26PM If you missed TNS Network USA's Dec. 6th (2011) introductory webinar on strategic sustainability, here are a few additional resources for you that would be good substitutes.
- Workshop Follow Up Resources Document, provides links and short discussion of a range of next-step resources, mostly no-cost. See also the list of references in the Resources Section at the end of the Presentation, Part 1 (see link below), pages 92-93.
- Mock South Bay Community Strategic Sustainability Plan, refines and extends the results of the workshop exercise into a partial mock plan to illustrate how a strategic approach begins to differ from a traditional approach.
- The powerpoint presentations for the Strategic Community Sustainability Planning Workshop and some other resources are also on the main page.
If you want to follow up with TNS in particular, I highly recommend checking out the TNS Network USA's and TNS Canada’s work; in particular,
OK, that does it. Comments, questions, etc. are always welcome.
Of course, i also highly recommend the 1-hour e-learning course (or 3-hour, but the 1-hr was recently updated) too.
September 17, 2011 at 03:04PM Check out Gil Friend's (CEO, Natural Logic-Strategic Advisors to the Sustainable Economy) recommended resources for an introduction to sustainability--the challenge, an accurate understanding, an effective response.
