Foreword by L. Hunter Lovins * Introduction * Part I: The Imperatives of Change * The Gift * Making Our Fate * Climate and Sustainability Basics * Sustainability Thinking Blunders * Part II: The Path Forward * How We Think * How We Change * Transforming Your Personal Thinking and Behaviour * The Ethics of Sustainable Thinking * Motivating Others To Think and Act Sustainably * Motivating Teams and Organizations To Think Sustainably * The Power of Sustainable Thinking * Index
Bob Doppelt is director of Resource Innovations and The Climate Leadership Initiative in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, and Adjunct associate professor in the Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon, US. His background and expertise is in systems dynamics and change for sustainability. He is the author of Leading Change toward Sustainability: A Change Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society (Greenleaf Publishing).
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their traditional cognitive biases towards more sustainable
behaviour.'
Dr. Steve Schneider, IPCC member and lead author, Stanford
University 'An empowering, just-in-time, practical guide for
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Julian Agyeman, associate professor and chair, Department of Urban
and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, and lead
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Choice Magazine 'successfully delivering a practical and inspiring
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Martin Sahlen, SGR newsletter 'In the Evangelical community, the
need is not just to change what we think but how we think. Thus the
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is Bob Doppelt's The Power of Sustainable Thinking. As Jesus said,
As a man [or woman] thinketh, so he [she] is.'
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