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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 with foreword by Hunter Lovins
'A valuable guide book for those courageous enough to transform their traditional cognitive biases towards more sustainable behaviour.'
Dr. Steve Schneider, IPCC member and lead author, Stanford University
Hardback
Sample Chapter
September 2008 •
240 pages •
234 x 156mm •
ISBN 9781844075959
The future will be powered by sustainable thinking in business, organizations, governments and everyday life.
This revolutionary book tackles climate change, sustainability and life success by starting with your mind. It provides proven ‘staged-based’ methods for transforming thinking and behaviour, beginning first with the reader’s own cognitive patterns, then moving to how individuals can motivate other people to change, and finally to how teams and organizations can be motivated to change.
'An empowering, just-in-time, practical guide for mobilized sustainability change agents.'
Bob Willard, author of The Sustainability Advantage and The Next Sustainability Wave
'This book will make you think. Hard. And systemically.'
Nick Pudar, vice president, Planning and Business Development, OnStar Corporation
'Every corner of society is beginning to take on this biggest of all problems - here's a very useful way of understanding how the process might be accelerated.'
Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and The Bill McKibben Reader
'Here, at last, is a book for all of us who have been frustrated by our inability to mobilize significant change around the issue of global warming.'
Denis Hayes, national coordinator of the first Earth Day, president and CEO, Bullitt Foundation
'This is not just another book on sustainability; it is far more important than that.'
Julian Agyeman, associate professor and chair, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, and lead author of Just Sustainability
'(This) well-designed book contains a cornucopia of insights and tecniques for decision-making, strategizing, motivating and achieving change on local and national scales...Highly recommended.'
Choice Magazine
CONTENTS
Foreword by L. Hunter Lovins
Introduction
Part I: The Imperatives of Change
The Gift
Making Our Fate
Climate and Sustainability Basics
Sustainability Thinking Blunders
Part II: The Path Forward
How We Think
How We Change
Transforming Your Personal Thinking and Behaviour
The Ethics of Sustainable Thinking
Motivating Others To Think and Act Sustainably
Motivating Teams and Organizations To Think Sustainably
The Power of Sustainable Thinking
Index
Bob Doppelt is director of Resource Innovations and The Climate Leadership Initiative in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, and Adjunct associate professor in the Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon, US. His background and expertise is in systems dynamics and change for sustainability. He is the author of Leading Change toward Sustainability: A Change Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society (Greenleaf Publishing).
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