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Finding the Unicorn: Disclosing the panarchy dynamics of sustainable psychosystems
Within the sustainability field the continuing degradation of the physical environment and the constant loss of social continuity and connectivity are areas of considerable concern. Connected with each socio-ecological system is the less visible, but equally significant, component of human wellbeing that constitutes the psychological system. This presentation will explain the significance of understanding psychosystem dynamics in sustainability theory. Using models of psychological panarchy this research considers human thought as a complex ecology.
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Ten By Ten: Learning III for Sustainability
Ten sustainability educators, in ten global locations, involved in ten different integral sustainability education programs, engaged in a reflective practice to see what they might together have learned at a Learning III level about sustainability pedagogy. Calling this the 10x10 Inquiry, this guided process of inquiry collected over 100 Learning III perspectives (i.e. learnings from unlearnings about the process of teaching in sustainability education) from practitioners with over 100 years collective experience..
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Integral Sustainability Applications: Précis of Integral Sustainability Case Studies
The application of new theory into practice creates the difficulty of describing that work in words. Using the language of Integral Theory, a précis of twenty six case studies of Integral Sustainability work is provided as encouragement to the emerging practitioner. Separately each reflects a particular approach to the enablement of sustainability in social systems. Collectively they may be seen as one single practice for the evolution of society as a whole.
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Integral Sustainability: How to do Integral Interventions (Without Really Trying)
The research,
the basic theory, tools, methodologies and injunctions are all in place
for Integral Sustainability Practice. The world is not only ready, but
now asking. For those who are ready to let go and engage deeply in this
canon of practice, described in this presentation is how to do "Integral
Sustainability (Without Really Trying)" . (Presentation
to the Integral Institute - Integral Sustainability Seminar, Westminster,
Colorado, (September 11 2006) .
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Defining Sustainability: An Integral Triptych (A picture in three parts)
In this paper an Integral approach to defining and working with sustainability is presented. A limited AQAL approach (specifically quadrants, levels and the temporal line) is used to illustrate and encourage an exploration of Integral perspectives within the complexity of our different conceptualization of sustainability. A framework approach is described. This meta-perspective allows us to visualize complex maps of the many perspectives on sustainability to find out what we (and others) really mean by the term. (Submitted for publication in AQAL - the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice)
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Integral Sustainability Assessment: An Emergent Holarchy of Principles.
Sustainability assessment is the process which honours the intention of sustainability by determining whether what we are intending to do will be sustainable, before we do it. A partial approach that defeats that process also defeats our intention, and as a consequence, our hope for a sustainable world. In this paper seven levels of principles for sustainability assessment are described.
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Beyond Sustainability: The Emergence of a Sustainable World.
We seek to find common ground in the concept of sustainability, assuming that as our intent is to act for the wider benefit of all, we share a common goal. However, when we inquire behind the question of what it is we seek to sustain, we find significant diversity. By using the principles of emergence we can discover where mankind is going as a whole, to take us beyond sustainability, to where a natural future suggests we will be.
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Integrated Approaches to Sustainability Assessment: An Alignment of Ends and Means
This paper outlines research on a model for Integrated Sustainability Assessment (ISA). The model combines 20 key elements of sustainability assessment into a workable sustainability framework. The paper describes the 20 components used in an ISA process, provides a definition of ISA and each component of the ISA model used, explains the reason for the necessary inclusion of each component, the effect if omitted from an ISA process, and the descriptive labels for 20 conceptual types of sustainability assessment identified.
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Transforming Sustainability: An integral leader's sustainability framework.
In this paper a representation of sustainability using an integral approach is presented to guide the transforming leader. The framework described allows leaders to view sustainability in terms of the transition between levels and the development within quadrants, holistically from subsistence to existence.
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The Philosophy of Sustainability: Definitions of the Good, the Beautiful and the True.
In this essay an explanation of sustainability as a values based concept is explored looking at the philosophy of sustainability and the development of a workable definition from a base philosophical concept.
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Defining Sustainability: A Hundred Definitions of Sustainability
Whether our definition of sustainability is anthropocentric, biocentric, egocentric, ecocentric, econocentric, sociocentric, worldcentric or perhaps simply personally eccentric, they are all valid. Collected here is a retrospective look at over one hundred perspectives from an evolving list of thousands of definitions of sustainability, reflecting the different conceptualizations and applications of this emergent concept.
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