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The SUSTAINABILITY pick of the month:
Coming up Events:
Making it Happen: Sustainability in the Food Supply Chain
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SPECIAL EVENT
Unilever Sustainable Living Lab: All you need to know to tackle environmental impacts in the home
April 24 2013
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Stop and Reflect
Co-Editor: Tony Pearson
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Dear Reader,
I recently watched the 3 D movie about the life of the Monarch butterflies. They fly thousands of miles, from Canada to Mexico, every year, in a migration that takes about 6 generations to accomplish. They find the precise place to go, their feet smell where there are flowers to feed on every day during the flight. Their eyes see colors way beyond our human capacities, the small hairs on their body help in their orientation by perceiving temperatures and moistures. As if this were not enough, they go through an existential transformation, from caterpillar to butterfly, disintegrating totally inside the cocoon only to come out as a different animal. They have been doing this for several million years.
It made me reconsider why it is said that humans are the most evolved creatures on earth. We would not be able to accomplish the migration of a single butterfly (without polluting, using multiple devices or even fighting our way across). Is there a message for us we need to hear?
Enjoy the reading! (And check out the Quote of the Month at the bottom - to invite you to Stop and Reflect...)
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For long a time, we humans have successfully maintained the illusion that we are outside of, superior to, and not subject to, the rules of nature. We do so, however, at a huge cost, and payment is coming due, warns David Korten, author of the international best seller When Corporations Rule the World. He reflects on the words of Chief Oren Lyons, of the Onondaga Nation: "Our instructions [...] are to get along... with [nature's] laws, and support them and work with them. We were told a long time ago that if you do that, life is endless. It just continues on and on in great cycles of regeneration...If you want to tinker with that regeneration, if you want to interrupt it, that's your choice, but the results that come back can be very severe because .... the laws are absolute."
In Nature, energy comes from the sun, food is local, and there is no waste. Read More...
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Bridging the Gap
 How to bridge the gap between CSR and reality? Develop long-term leadership in short-term times.
Find this article by Derek F. Abell on
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Give yourself a little gift
Watch JR, the young French man who liked to do graffitis on the streets of Paris, until one day he found an old camera in the subway. That changed his life, and from then on, he is impacting many people's lives all over the world, in a most inspiring and surprising way.
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New Release
 BIG BANG BEING: Developing the Sustainability Mindset
What is the Sustainability Mindset, and how can we lead from there? What values and beliefs keep us anchored in unsustainable behaviors? What opportunities are we missing to see? Legacy Coach and LIM Partner, Isabel Rimanoczy explores these questions in an unusual format, that combines "just in time" coaching interventions , concepts, data, illustrations and poems. Click here to read some excerpts. |
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
The new sciences of chaos and complexity tell us that a system that is far from stable is a system ripe for change.
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