The Social Side of Sustainability
The Social Side of Sustainability
If you had the power to cause an evolution in your organization, what would it be? Productivity? Accountability? Responsibility? Leadership?How would you get there?
Here we are at the cusp of a new sustainable era. We have the opportunity, or more accurately, the necessity to evolve from living and working in a dominant, control-oriented, mechanistic culture to a sustainable, unifying model grounded in partnering, kindness and the inclusion of all. The exponential growth we are experiencing today in the sustainability and environmental movements are literally the direct results of a “dying” era. We are living with the unanticipated consequences of having developed many technologies and methodologies that are destructive to life. It is no longer okay to “do it” or “make it” just because “we can.” Many of us are looking for life-affirming ways of seeing, doing and being that don’t compromise the present or the future well-being of life on earth.
As you know, evolving to a sustainable world is no easy task. The “human factor” in climate change is no longer in question. Each of us is being called to think about the consequences of our everyday actions in life and in business. The good news is that we can look at our future as wet clay – we have the awesome potential to model our ideal world.
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