The Power of Sustainable Thinking

How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your Life
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84407-595-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

The future will be powered by sustainable thinking in business, organizations, governments and everyday life.

This revolutionary book tackles climate change, sustainability and life success by starting with your mind. It provides proven ‘staged-based methods for transforming thinking and behaviour, beginning first with the reader‘s own cognitive patterns, then moving to how individuals can motivate other people to change, and finally to how teams and organizations can be motivated to change.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doppelt, Bob

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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, USA.