Search Results - subject:"Sustainable Future"

Fighting Poverty by Healing the Environment

Loh, Christine - In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights …

Ecological restoration — the rehabilitation of degraded landscapes — is a bright spark in the effort to achieve sustainable development. If given a chance, damaged ecosystems can recover rapidly. Research shows that forest ecosystems recovered in 42 years on average, while ocean bottoms...

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Policy Reform to 350

McKibben, Bill - In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights …

Let us imagine for a moment that we are at 2100, and the atmospheric CO2 level is slowly subsiding back toward 350, and the worst is over. Let us try to figure out how we got there — reverse-engineer a century of halting but ultimately decisive progress…

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Why Everyone Should Be a Futurist?

Becker, William S. - In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights …

In hearing rooms, hallways, and conferences where the world's policymakers are wrestling with the big issues of our day, something important is missing.

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Time for a Bold Vision: A New, Green Economy

Jones, Van - In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights …

Many politicians want us to lower our expectations about the economy. I say it is time to raise them. We should go beyond the shriveled thinking imposed on us by today's mania for austerity. Even the Contract for the American Dream — 10 steps for fixing the economy, selected from over 25,000...

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Teaching a University Course in Sustainable Happiness

O'Brien, Catherine - In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights …

Can 10th grade Inuit students in Repulse Bay (Nunavut, Canada) teach the world governments something about ways to measure progress…

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Bringing Mozart to the Masses: Venezuela's Music Revolution

Victor, Maria Páez - In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights …

As a sociologist, I often roamed the dirt tracks of the poor sections of my hometown Caracas, and it seemed to me that from the open windows, I would always hear someone singing or strumming the Venezuelan four-string guitar, el cuatro, or see some fellow unselfconsciously walking by whistling...

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Can We Avoid the Perfect Storm?

Orr, David W. - In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights …

Evolution equipped us to deal with threats from dependably loathsome enemies and fearsome creatures, but not with the opaque and cumulative long-term consequences of our own technological and demographic success. As cartoonist Walt Kelly once put it, “We've met the enemy, and he is us”…

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Building Bridges between Science and Policy to Achieve Sustainability

Richardson, Katherine; Wæver, Ole - In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights …

sustainable future. Breaking with earlier conventions that saw development exclusively in terms of economic growth, the report … sustainable if the consumption of natural resources is kept within the amount that the earth is able to replenish. A sustainable … future may seem far away, but research advances over the past few decades have meant the vision outlined by Brundtland is …

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On Baselines That Need Shifting

Pauly, Daniel - In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights …

A flurry of articles in recent years shows that loss of knowledge about the past may have contributed to an acceptance of other losses, such as declines in biodiversity. I first identified this form of collective amnesia in a 1995 article describing how fisheries biologists assess changes in...

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Creating the Schools of the Future: Education for a Sustainable Society

Senge, Peter M. - In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights …

I believe that the Industrial Age system of education that has spread around the world in the past 150 years will change dramatically in the coming decades. The assembly-line progression of grades (first, second, third, etc.) coordinated by a fixed curriculum and headed by teachers in charge of...

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