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  • Creating sustainable futures
  • About
    • About BAM610
    • Navigating the course site
    • How to interact
    • Site map
  • Course feed
    • Section 1 feed
    • Section 2 feed
    • Section 3 feed
    • Section 4 feed
  • Section 1
    • Sustainability is entirely possible
    • Understanding systems
    • From the Holocene to the Anthropocene
    • Defining sustainability and sustainable development
  • Section 2
    • Understanding the challenge
    • Identifying trends and drivers of change
    • Baseline assets and platforms
    • Sustainability impacts assessment
    • Evaluating important relationships
  • Section 3
    • Developing a strong vision
    • Backcasting from sustainability principles
    • Framing the right strategic goals
  • Section 4
    • Inspiring creative solutions
    • Prioritising actions
    • Communicating for success
    • Choosing the right support tools

Site map

  • Creating sustainable futures
  • About
    • About BAM610
    • Navigating the course site
    • How to interact
    • Site map
  • Course feed
    • Section 1 feed
    • Section 2 feed
    • Section 3 feed
    • Section 4 feed
  • Section 1
    • Sustainability is entirely possible
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • Case for transformation
      • The desired and ideal future is already possible
      • Kalundborg Symbiosis
      • Living buildings
      • Start – Sustainability challenge
      • Tasks – Sustainability challenge
      • Outputs – Sustainability challenge
    • Understanding systems
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • What are systems and systems thinking?
      • Systems and unintended consequences
      • Using a systems approach to foster sustainability
      • Systems thinking and a unifying framework for strategic sustainability
      • Applying the Five Level Framework to smaller systems
      • Start – Understanding systems challenge
      • Tasks – Understanding systems challenge
      • Outputs – Understanding systems challenge
    • From the Holocene to the Anthropocene
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • How the Earth works
      • The Earth is an open and closed system
      • Matter changes form, but never disappears
      • All materials disperse and spread out if not contained
      • How the biosphere works
      • Geological and geochemical cycles
      • Start – Holocene to Anthropocene challenge
      • Tasks – Holocene to Anthropocene challenge
      • Outputs – Holocene to Anthropocene challenge
    • Defining sustainability and sustainable development
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • Models to define sustainability and sustainable development
      • A model aligned with our reality
      • How the human social system works
      • Basic human needs
      • Maslow – hierarchy of human needs
      • Needs drive human behaviour
      • Trust – the thread for weaving a good world
      • Defining sustainable development and sustainability
      • The Brundtland Commission definition
      • The Natural Step – System conditions for sustainable human activity
      • Summary – a scientific definition of success for humans
      • Start – Sustainable development challenge
      • Tasks – Sustainable development challenge
      • Outputs – Sustainable development challenge
  • Section 2
    • Understanding the challenge
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • The funnel model
      • Sustainable versus restorative paradigm
      • Living Buildings and Interface
      • Start – Understanding the challenge
      • Tasks – Understanding the challenge
      • Outputs – Understanding the challenge
    • Identifying trends and drivers of change
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • Planetary boundaries
      • Ecological footprint and hand print
      • Start – Identifying trends challenge
      • Tasks – Identifying trends challenge
      • Outputs – Identifying trends challenge
    • Baseline assets and platforms
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • Setting a baseline – current sustainability assets
      • Setting a baseline – organisational environmental management systems
      • Sustainable product certification and standards
      • Prioritising identified sustainability impacts
      • Start – Baseline challenge
      • Tasks – Baseline challenge
      • Outputs – Baseline challenge
    • Sustainability impacts assessment
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • Four system conditions for a sustainability assessment
      • Prioritising identified sustainability impacts
      • Articulating a set of clear sustainability challenges
      • Start – Impacts assessment challenge
      • Tasks – Impacts assessment challenge
      • Outputs – Impacts assessment challenge
    • Evaluating important relationships
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • Identifying relationships that will influence success
      • The importance of collaboration
      • Start – Evaluating relationships challenge
      • Tasks – Evaluating relationships challenge
      • Outputs – Evaluating relationships challenge
  • Section 3
    • Developing a strong vision
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • What is a vision, and why is it so important?
      • The qualities and characteristics of a compelling and powerful vision
      • Start – Developing a strong vision challenge
      • Tasks – Developing a strong vision challenge
      • Outputs – Developing a strong vision challenge
    • Backcasting from sustainability principles
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • Backcasting explained
      • Backcasting from principles vs. Scenario planning
      • Start – Backcasting challenge
      • Tasks – Backcasting challenge
      • Outputs – Backcasting challenge
    • Framing the right strategic goals
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • Strategic goals that give life to an aspirational vision
      • Addressing key sustainability challenges and opportunities
      • Strategic frameworks for sustainability
      • The Future Fit Business Benchmark
      • Planetary Boundaries framework
      • One Planet Living
      • Forum for the Future’s Five Capitals model
      • Start – Framing challenge
      • Tasks – Framing challenge
      • Outputs – Framing challenge
  • Section 4
    • Inspiring creative solutions
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • Having the right people in the room
      • The state of the climate
      • Transitioning towards new ways
      • Keeping an open mind to new possibilities
      • Start – Inspiring creativity challenge
      • Tasks – Inspiring creativity challenge
      • Outputs – Inspiring creativity challenge
    • Prioritising actions
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • Actions that are in the right direction
      • Actions that create flexible platforms for the future
      • Actions that provide a return on investment
      • Start – Prioritising actions challenge
      • Tasks – Prioritising actions challenge
      • Outputs – Prioritising actions challenge
    • Communicating for success
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • What are you saying to whom and how?
      • Nature’s way is highly effective
      • Start – Communicating challenge
      • Tasks – Communicating challenge
      • Outputs – Communicating challenge
    • Choosing the right support tools
      • Overview
      • Video signpost
      • Measurement and metrics – having the right information
      • Ensuring credibility – choosing the right tools
      • Who cares for the carers?
      • Start – Choosing the right tools challenge
      • Tasks – Choosing the right tools challenge
      • Outputs – Choosing the right tools challenge

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