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Sustainable MindsNick Jankel

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Friday, March 12, 2010

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What is ‘sustainability’?


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Friday, March 12, 2010thick word

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Friday, March 12, 2010Sustainability? What is it to you? How would you describe it to a granma? To a 5 year old?

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Ecological

Friday, March 12, 20103 types of sustainability

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Ecological Social


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Ecological Social Emotional


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“Africa is poised to experience a surge in civil wars, causing nearly 400,000 additional battle deaths by 2030 – all as a direct result of

rising temperatures”

• 23 November 2009

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Friday, March 12, 201054 per cent rise in the incidence of civil conflict

Between 1 and 3 million people, mostly children, die each year from malaria yet each day the Pentagon spends enough money to provide mosquito nets to cover every bed in Africa 5 years in a row

Depression will be the No.2 burden on health



Antidepressants tripled to 118 million a year




1 in 10 UK teenagers ‘afflicted’





Suicide kills more than murder and war combined





Suicide kills more than murder and war combined

10 million kids in US on Ritalin


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Why are these all of our problems?


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Friday, March 12, 2010less Dme, much more complexity and ambiguity3 billion more coming

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Friday, March 12, 2010pessure on depleted resources

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Friday, March 12, 2010lower budgets, high debt

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Friday, March 12, 2010greater and greater org and social challenges. if you could do it alone you would have done already!

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Friday, March 12, 2010global problems, too big for one person or org to solve

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Why is this happening?


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Finish these sentences with the first thing that comes to mind.

Friday, March 12, 2010Finish these sentences

Work is...Nature is...When it comes to buying less if find myself...Recyling is really...Sustainability is...Men are...

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Our society is based on powerful set of assumptions...


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1. The world is a mechanism full of parts

Friday, March 12, 2010MechanisDcCogs in the machinePosiDvists

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An intellect which at any given moment knew all of the forces that animate nature and the mutual positions of the beings that compose it... nothing

could be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Friday, March 12, 2010command and control works well in mechanisms

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2. There are limitless resources and they are there to be exploited

Friday, March 12, 2010To believe in limiltess resourves

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Friday, March 12, 2010Relying on growth might be fine if the economy existed in a void, but it does not. Herman Daly. Uneconomic growth ‐ making us poorer not richer

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3. If you have more resources, I have less - which would make me worse off

Friday, March 12, 2010told of sero sum game

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Friday, March 12, 2010To own land

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4. I need to compete to win those resources

Friday, March 12, 2010Taught to be compeDDve

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Friday, March 12, 2010raDonal uDlity maximisers

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5. I am an individual who must put my own needs above everyone else’s

Friday, March 12, 2010me mine more

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Friday, March 12, 2010authority , economics, raDonal self‐interestwork / spend cycle which impacts all 3 types of sustainability

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“Mind-forged manacles”

Friday, March 12, 2010William Blake

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What can we do about this?


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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

William Blake


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Adam Smith said that maximizing self interest and social interest where coincident, and I

think with the dramatic illustrations of Enron and Lehman Brothers show they are not.

Joseph Stiglitz

Former Chief Economist World Bank


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Friday, March 12, 2010Relkying on growth might be fine iof the economy existed in a void, but it does not. Herman Daly. Uneconomic growth ‐ making us poorer not richer

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But that is not enough.


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We have 100 months to go.


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We have 100 months to go.

Fully one third of all reductions must come from less consumption.


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Friday, March 12, 2010Kaufmman Foundation Half of the companies on the 2009 Fortune 500 list were launched during a recession or bear market, along with nearly half of the firms on the 2008 Inc. list of America’s fastest-growing companies.

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Friday, March 12, 2010A new sensibility

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Friday, March 12, 2010crowd sourcing / crowd involvementPaDent Opinion

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Friday, March 12, 2010AmbiDon of any size we need to collaborate

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In the world of large institutional networks we face issues for which hierarchical leadership is inherently

inadequate.

This is the big difference of our world.

That’s why ‘becoming a real human being’ really is the primary leadership issue of our time, but on a

scale never required before.

Professor C. Otto Scharmer

MIT Sloan School of Management

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Sustainability is a leadership challenge...


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... a personal leadership challenge.

Sustainability is a leadership challenge...


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Most of the resources, money and ideas to solve our greatest challenges are out

there.


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We just need to think differently.


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Nothing lies entirely within our power except our thoughts.

Rene Descartes


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Lupus est homo homini, non homo

Man is a wolf to man, not a man

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Lupus est homo homini, non homo,

quom qualis sit non novit.

Man is a wolf to man, not a man,

when he has not yet found himself.

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Altruism activates the mesolimbic reward pathway, a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food, drugs and sex. They also activate the subgenual cortex which are intimately related to social attachment and bonding in other species.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences


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Caring is hard-wired and fun

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Altruism activates the mesolimbic reward pathway, a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food, drugs and sex. They also activate the subgenual cortex which are intimately related to social attachment and bonding in other species.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences


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Chimps and infants both instinctively help adults without reward or training.

Frans de Waal & Michael Tomasello

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Chimps and infants both instinctively help adults without reward or training.

Frans de Waal & Michael Tomasello

We are designed to help others

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Your behaviours are influenced by others in your network far more

strongly than you might think, even by people

you’ve never met. Even obesity may be more

influenced by your peers than by your parents.

New Scientist, 2009


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We are not individuals, all alone

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Your behaviours are influenced by others in your network far more

strongly than you might think, even by people

you’ve never met. Even obesity may be more

influenced by your peers than by your parents.

New Scientist, 2009


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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin

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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin

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We must be collaborative to survive


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Planet

Government

Community

Family

YOU

Team

Organisation

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Planet


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Planet

Government

Community

Family

YOU

Team

Organisation

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Planet

Ego-centric


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Planet

Government

Community

Family

YOU

Team

Organisation

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Planet

Ego-centric

Ethno-centric


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Planet

Government

Community

Family

YOU

Team

Organisation

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Planet

Ego-centric

Ethno-centric

World-centric


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I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

Rainer Maria Rilke


It is a brave and generous act to make room in your mind for another's experience and to lend them your voice; let the participants appreciate that generosity in themselves and each other."

Participants sit in groups of four, facing each other. The facilitator asks them to bring to mind an aspect of the problem that concerns them, allowing a moment of silence. Invite each person, in turn, to describe the issue from each of four perspectives. (This occurs simultaneously in each group of four.) The four perspectives:

1. From their own experience and point of view, including feeling;2. From the perspective of a person whose views on the issue are very different, even adversarial, introducing themselves and

speaking as this person, using the pronoun "I" and the present tense of verbs;3. From the viewpoint of a non-human being that may be impacted by how we deal with the issue;4. In the voice of a future human whose life will be directly affected by the choices and actions we take now on the issue.

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How do we put this into practice?


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Re-amp.org

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To be truly radical is to make hope

possible rather than despair convincing.

Raymond Williams


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We must be a generation of radical Americans like the people that founded this country, like the people that

abolished slavery, like the people that defeated fascism in the last century, like the civil rights movement, like

the labor movement. We must do that now.

Rev. Billy, Church of Stop Shopping


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Friday, March 12, 2010100 + 600"Food feet, not food miles!"

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The community recognises two crucial points:

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That we used immense amounts of creativity, ingenuity and adaptability on the way up the energy upslope, and that there's no reason for us not to do the same on the downslope

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That we used immense amounts of creativity, ingenuity and adaptability on the way up the energy upslope, and that there's no reason for us not to do the same on the downslope

If we collectively plan and act early enough there's every likelihood that we can create a way of living that's significantly more connected, more vibrant and more in touch with our environment than the oil-addicted treadmill that we find ourselves on today.

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How do we foster sustainable mindsets?


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Friday, March 12, 2010Singing exercise


StressControlDomination etc

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Friday, March 12, 2010lehamn Brothrs ‐ Richard Fuld ‐ emba[led, paranoid, fearful worldview

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Judgements

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Judgements

Stress

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Judgements

Stress

Defence mechanisms

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Judgements

Stress

Defence mechanismsUnhelpful

behaviours

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Judgements

Stress


behaviours

Offence

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Judgements

Stress


behaviours

Offence

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Frustration


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The entire system is driven by

fear.


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We must encourage people whilst encouraging ourselves.


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R R R

Friday, March 12, 20103 levers for behaviour change

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Friday, March 12, 2010Pain principle. Useful to have successful criteria, heurisDcs and checklists.Shuts down creaDvity and risk. If we think people are intrinsically selfish, then Rules and Rewads are enough. But if we know they are inspired, co‐operaDve and altruisDc at heart then...

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RulesFriday, March 12, 2010Pain principle. Useful to have successful criteria, heurisDcs and checklists.Shuts down creaDvity and risk. If we think people are intrinsically selfish, then Rules and Rewads are enough. But if we know they are inspired, co‐operaDve and altruisDc at heart then...

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Friday, March 12, 2010Useful but not enough. Tends to drive egoDsDcal and non‐collaboraDve projects and even reduce inner moDvated arts.. Veers towards transcazDonality. Expensive. Can be useful in team compeDDon . Not great for intrinsically moDvated people who tend to be be[er innovators.

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Reward

Friday, March 12, 2010Useful but not enough. Tends to drive egoDsDcal and non‐collaboraDve projects and even reduce inner moDvated arts.. Veers towards transcazDonality. Expensive. Can be useful in team compeDDon . Not great for intrinsically moDvated people who tend to be be[er innovators.

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Friday, March 12, 2010Need an intrisnically moDvated drive to create and innovate authenDcally, ethically and maximum potenDal.

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Responsibility


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✗Responsibility


Judgements

Stress


behaviours

Offence

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Frustration


Judgements

Stress


behaviours

Offence

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Friday, March 12, 2010Fundamentally creaDve act of leadership.

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Response

Friday, March 12, 2010Fundamentally creaDve act of leadership.

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Response

AbilityFriday, March 12, 2010Fundamentally creaDve act of leadership.

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I have absolute confidence in human beings, in their

capacity to reason, to learn from mistakes, to

recuperate their roots, and to change in order to forge a

just, diverse, inclusive, equilibrated world in harmony with nature.

Evo Morales


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viral


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Build a grassrootssustainability culture

viral


mindat a time

One

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2% now and we get to design it.

20%+ in the future, but by force.

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But it is a choice.

Friday, March 12, 2010Stern Report

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If we do it right and with enthusiasm, it will not seem a depressing phase of denial but instead, as in 1940, a chance to redeem ourselves. For

the young, life will be full of opportunities to serve, to create, and they will have a purpose

for living.

James Lovelock


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“Come to the edge.”“We can't. We're afraid.”

‘Come to the edge. We can't. We will fall!”“Come to the edge.”

And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire


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