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1. Suggestions for Prayer, Study, and Action
A version of The Lord's Prayer
from The New Zealand Prayer Book
Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker,
Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be,
Father and Mother of us all,
Loving God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom
sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and testing, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love,
now and for ever. Amen.
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MITIGATION and ADAPTATION
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May 2011
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2. News, Publications, Tools, and Conferences
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3. Advances in Sustainable Development
Humanity Can and Must Do More with Less, UNEP Press Release, 12 May 2011
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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
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
Ryan Katofsky, Matthew Stanberry & Lisa Frantzis, Navigant Consulting, Inc.
Workshop on "Renewable Energy: From Analysis to Action"
IEA Renewable Energy Technology Deployment Implementing Agreement
OECD Conference Center - Paris, 15-16 March 2011
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6. Sustainability Games, Databases, and Knowledgebases
7. Visualizations of the Sustainable Development Process
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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
The following is adapted from the Wikipedia article on Global Climate Modeling:
The IPCC used several climate change simulation models. This map shows the distribution of warming during the late 21st century predicted by the Hadley Centre Coupled Model (HadCM3) climate model if a "business as usual" scenario is assumed for economic growth and GHG emissions. For a description of HadCM3, click here.
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The IPCC uses several Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) to calculate future emissions and temperatures. This plot shows projections from several climate models assuming the SRES A2 emissions scenario ("business as usual"). The average temperature increase estimated for 2100 is 3.0°C.
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9. Sustainable Development and the International Community
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