1. Suggestions for Prayer, Study, and Action
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Adoro te supplex, latens deitas
O thou our reminder
of Christ crucified,
Living Bread the life
of us for whom he died,
Lend this life to me then:
feed and feast my mind,
There be thou the sweetness
we were meant to find.
Bring the tender tale
true of the Pelican;
Bathe me, Jesus Lord,
in what thy bosom ran –
Blood that but one drop of
has the worth to win
All the world forgiveness
of its world of sin.
St. Thomas Aquinas, 13th century AD
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Uphold the Nuptial Covenant
between Husband and Wife
and between Humanity and the Human Habitat
Art by Farid de la Ossa Arrieta, Colombia Used with Permission
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2. News, Publications, Tools, and Conferences
NEWS
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PUBLICATIONS
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TOOLS & DATABASES
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CONFERENCES & JOURNALS
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3. Advances in Sustainable Development
Click on the image to visit the Church of Scotland's Poverty Truth Commission web site
To download the Findings of the April 2011 Poverty Truth Commission Report, click here.
Approaching the Limits to Growth, Paul Chefurka, March 2011.
Ecological Footprint Atlas, Global Footprint Network, 24 November 2010.
What's blocking sustainability? Human nature, cognition, and denial, Bill Rees, Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, Fall 2010.
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4. Advances in Integral Human Development
Click on the image to visit the Integral Research Center
Ph.D. Dissertation on Conscious Leadership in Action
Garrett C. Brown, Fielding Graduate University, April 2011
For a summary of the dissertation, click
here. For the complete unabridged text, click
here. For a PowerPoint presentation, click
here.
5. Advances in Integrated Sustainable Development
INTEGRATED ENERGY FLOW - USA 2009
Source: Lawrence Livermore Nationa Laboratory and Department of Energy, USA, August 2010.
Data based on DOE/EIA-0384 (2009).
Click here for a large image and readable annotation.
6. Sustainability Games, Databases, and Knowledgebases
Click on the image to visit the SSPP Toolkit web site
Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy (SSPP) Open-Access E-Journal
Researcher's Toolkit & Interactive Analysis Featured Datasets
7. Visualizations of the Sustainable Development Process
Sustainable Land Development Inititiative, TriplePundit, 2 December 2010.
Source: TriplePundit
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This is a hierarchical model that visualizes sustainable development in terms of three interacting dimensions, each with three interaction sub-dimensions:
Profit (economics)
Create Value
Eliminate Waste
Recognize Interdependence
Planet (the human habitat)
Natural Resources
Energy Flows
Humans & Nature
People (society)
Share Knowledge
Accept Responsibility
Quality of Life
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Fifteen Global Challenges for Humanity, Millennium Project, 2010.
Source: Millennium Project
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The lines show all the interactions between 15 challenges facing humanity. It provides a better visualization of the complexity of the process.
Assuming that the 15 challenges can be analyzed in groups of 5, the number of group combinations to be analyzed is 15!/10!5!, or 3003. If the order in which they are considered matters, then the number of challenge permutations to be analyzed is 15!, or 1307674368000.
Computers can crunch numbers, but resolving these 15 challenges together requires more than number crunching.
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The Perfect Recipe, Concita Ladelfa, EuroEcoTeens.Net, Energy and Environment Comenius Project, 23 November 2010.
Source: Comenius Project
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This is the best visualization. It shows that, in the ultimate analysis, the transition from consumerism to sustainability must happen in human minds and hearts before it can happen at any level - local, national, or global.
This model suggests the additional (and critical) insight that the transition is contingent on gender equality and cross-gender solidarity. Sustainable development will require the collaboration of all men and women of good will.
The transition from homo economicus to homo ecologicus requires gender equality, because the ecological mindset cannot take root and grow as long as humans are engaged in any form of domination; and patriarchy is the most pervasive structure of domination.
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8. Sustainable Development Modeling and Simulation
Click on the image to visit the Climate Interactive C-ROADS web site
Climate Rapid Overview and Decision Support (C-ROADS) Simulator
9. Sustainable Development and the International Community
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