1. A Review of Practical Sustainable Development
3 Frameworks,
4 Models,
5 Methodologies,
Several Processes,
Some News,
and a Bunch of Ideas

2. What practical sustainable development requires
Trust, commitment, discipline
Agreement & Action
Experience, judgment, intuition
Strategies
“Best practices”, creativity
Innovations
Cooperation, thinking skills
Systems Analyses
Information, data, knowledge
Indicators
Concepts, imagination
Principles, Visions, Goals

3. What are people doing when they say they "do" sustainable development?
Environmental Management
Corporate Social Responsibility
Greening of Operations
Industrial Ecology
Stakeholder Engagement
Life-Cycle Assessment
Pollution Prevention (P2)
Sustainable Development
Design for Environment (DfE)
Green Design
Urban Reinvestment
Brownfield Redevelopment
ISO 14001
Waste Reduction
Closed Loops
Radical Resource Productivity
Radical Transactiveness
Sustainable Technology
Systems Thinking
Corporate Governance
Clean Technology
Eco-Efficiency
Eco-Effectiveness
Biomimicry
Triple Bottom Line
Inclusive Capitalism
Base of the Pyramid
Community Capitalism
Corporate Citizenship
Voluntary Regulation
Civic Entrepreneurship
Full Cost Accounting
EMS
Risk Management
Leapfrog Technology
Cradle to Cradle
Restorative Technology
Balanced Scorecard
Take-Back
Transparency
Digital Divide
Cultural Diversity
Natural Capitalism
Ecological Footprint
Product-to-Service
Integrated Product Mgmt
Natural Step
Building the Pyramid
Compass Index
SROI
Blended Value
GRI
Precautionary Principle
Green Procurement
Green Building

4. The Future of Sustainability Education
“Want to change the world?
Get trained as a sustainability strategist!”

5. Some Important Distinctions
Framework
Model
Methodology
Process
Tool
Sustainability
Sustainable Development
What’s the difference?

6. Sustainability is ...
A set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

7. Sustainable Development is ...
A strategic process of continuous change in the direction of sustainability

8. A Quick Roadmap Sustainability Framework Typical Models Methodologies
Processes
Other
Tools
Triple
Bottom
Line
Specific to enterprise
Management systems
Stakeholder engagement
Corporate Board training
The
Natural
Step
Funnel v. Cylinder
“Flexible Platforms”
Group dialogue processes
Metrics, Consensus documents
ISIS
Innovation Theory; Systems models created
Indicator selection; systems modeling
Group consensus-driven decision-making
Background reports; web documentation

9. The Triple Bottom Line is Also the Three Legged Stool is Also the ...
Environment
Economy
Social / Equity

10. The TBL Theory of Change:
Doing sustainable development requires:
Attempting to integrate (or perhaps just balance) environmental, social, and economic values ...
... which will suffice to make/inspire/guide change toward sustainability.

11. Development of The Natural Step
Started by a Swedish cancer researcher and physician, Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt, originally concerned about addressing the root causes of pediatric cancer
Based on an original scientific consensus about basic (“first”) principles -- about how cells work, how Nature works, how the planet works
Now a strategic planning framework, especially for defining and managing environmental sustainability
Has been used by communities, government agencies and companies all over the world

12. TNS: The Core Assumption
We live in a mostly closed system

13. The TNS “Funnel”: A model of systematic deterioration over time
POLLUTION
RESOURCES
Sustainability
DESTABILIZATION
TORN SOCIAL FABRIC

14. ... Which leads to the “Four System Conditions”:
In a sustainable society, nature is not subject to systematically increasing:
1. concentrations of substances extracted from the earth's crust;
2. concentrations of substances produced by society;
3. degradation by physical means;
and, in that society. . .
4. human needs are met worldwide.

15. The TNS Theory of Change:
Doing sustainable development requires:
A consensus on overarching principles for sustainability that are elegantly simple ...
... and agreement to use those principles ...
... to do “Backcasting”: building today’s to-do list from a future vision of success that meets principles ...
... and then taking action in ways that create flexible platforms -- that is, that don’t lock you into directions that prove to be dead ends / blind alleys.

16. Key Technique: Backcasting
Principles
for Sustainability
Time

17. The TNS “ABCD” Analysis “Backcast” from Principles
A: Awareness
Agree: Align around a common understanding of sustainability
B: Baseline Mapping
Assess: What does the situation look like today?
C: Clear Vision of the Future
Brainstorm: What would a sustainable community look like?
D: Down to action
Prioritize: Look for early wins, create flexible platforms.

18. News from the Real World

19. The Limits to Growth: “A Terrible Validation”
Original “Club of Rome Report” alerted world to the dangers of continued exponential growth of resource use and waste against natural and social limits
Unfairly attacked at the time , especially by economists
Core argument now validated ... unfortunately

20. The Hope Graph: Unsustainable The Time of Our Lives Sustainable 2000
“The Hope Graph” was created by Alan AtKisson to symbolize the period of transition at the beginning of the 21st Century. Unsustainable practices such as the use of fossil fuels in internal combustion engines will, and must, peak and decline; innovative replacements are currently on an exponential growth curve. The task of sustainable development is to accelerate the development and diffusion of new, more sustainable alternatives, thereby minimizing the damage or trouble caused by the use and potential collapse of non-sustainable technologies and pratices. In short, the task of sustainable development is to move the point of symbolic intersection up.
2000
2040

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