Quick
fix or permanent, local or imported, synthetic or natural? Everyday we
are faced with a myriad of complex, often contradictory choices that
have a bearing on the climate and sustainability. Yet whether at home
or in business, without a method for understanding our thought
processes we often default to behavior that is destroying the climate,
natural environment and social wellbeing. How can we change our
thinking and behaviors to protect the climate and move towards
sustainability?
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In
this new book, renowned sustainability, business, and organizational
change specialist Bob Doppelt provides both an easy to understand
explanation and practical methods for transforming our
climate-damaging, unsustainable ways into sustainable thinking and
behaviors. |
Doppelt makes the case
that global warming and today's other ecological and socioeconomic
problems are not technical in nature, rather they represent a crisis of
thought. Every society has a shared “mental frame”—core beliefs and
assumptions—that shape the way people make decisions and behave.
Effective solutions will emerge only when new, sustainable forms of
thinking emerge. Sustainable thinking requires a clear understanding of
the systems humans are part of, the use of proven strategies for
facilitating personal, team, and organizational change, ethical rules
to guide behavior, and a creative rather than problem-solving
orientation.
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The Power of
Sustainable Thinking
How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate the Planet
Your Organization and Your Life
by Bob Doppelt
Earthscan Publications Ltd.,
2010
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