Sustainability:
"As ecosystems are being disrupted, one third of all species on Earth will be lost;
http://3eintelligence.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/climate-change-arena-moves-to-brussels/
Systems:
"Rather than studying something by breaking it into its constituent parts, systems thinking looks at how the thing interacts with other constituents within a larger framework. Particularly useful in the study of complex problems, or situations involving the considerable interdependence of elements."
http://www.sustainabilitydictionary.com/s/systems_thinking.php
"-the part of this world that we can inspect and analyze is always finite. We always have to say the rest of the world does not influence this part, and it is never true. The world is totally connected."
Jacob Bronowski (1978, p. 96)
"None of us will escape the after-effects of the terrorist acts of September 11th-those events have changed the world. Now-
- Passenger planes can become bombs.
- Steel buildings a hundred stories high can fall.
- An entire industry-Airlines-can come close to collapse, laying off over a 100,000 workers, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, in just three days.
- And thousands of families can lose loved ones without warning in a time of peace.
And these are only the most obvious effects. We don't yet know all the long-term effects on our psyches, our dreams, our visions of ourselves as individuals and as a people."
Bateson, Gregory. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind. New York: Ballantine Books.
Bronowski, Jacob. (1978).The origins of knowledge and imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Capra, Fritjof. (1996). The web of life, A new scientific understanding of living systems. New York: Anchor Books.
Saint Louis, Catherine. (2001, September 30). The way we live now: 9-30-01; What they were thinking. New York Times Sunday Magazine.
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