Sustainability Thinking

To create a sustainable world we need to change our way of thinking.   Old patterns of thinking will not create new patterns for society or any of the mega-institutions of society-business, government, education, religion, healthcare, science and technology, arts and culture, communication.    

Some Questions to consider :

How do we move

+   From the quarterly statement to the seventh generation?

+   From reaction to global crisis to creative solutions for the future?

+   From local and product specific to global?

+   From partial and linear thinking to systemic thinking?

+   From mechanical models to living systems?

+   From justification of previous action to acknowledgement of present challenges?

+   From a polemical approach to dialogue?

+   From doing and having to being?

+   From a command and control mentality to building relationships?

+   From monoculture to diversity?

+   From atomistic individualism to community?

+ From materials and products to services?

+ From efficiency to effectiveness?

+ From exteriority to interiority?

+    From anthropocentrism to universe awareness?

+ From absorption with human creativity to biomimicry?

+ From isolation to interrelationship?

+ From talking to listening?

+ From the objective to the subjective?

Andy Smith
February 8, 2001

Inspired by John Adams, Thinking Today As If Tomorrow Mattered (Eartheart Enterprises 200)