[Trusties] Elisabet Sahtouris on skills needed for sustainability- read this article!

[Tim Winton]

http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Articles/theBridge0502.html

 

"If you use this butterfly metaphor in thinking of our transformation from
unsustainability to sustainability, you will immediately see four sets of
critical skills required to realize this great opportunity for co-creating a
better world: 

1.	the skills of thinking and seeing systemically or holistically 
2.	the skills of creating a positive vision of the future 
3.	the skills of finding like-minded people for cooperative efforts 
4.	the skills of using available resources in new ways 

You will have to be adventurous and creative to learn them, because you will
not find them in the traditional university curriculum. I believe choices
about institutionalized higher education should be made on the basis of
specific needs for reaching specific goals. If you want to be an imaginal
cell as a doctor or lawyer, for example, you will need to get those
credentials. But this will not be an adequate education for sustainability,
so know that your efforts to learn must go far beyond university education. 

Let's look at these skills one by one. 

1.	Thinking and seeing systemically or holistically 

This set of skills is absolutely essential to making strategic decisions
about how to contribute to sustainability with your life, or even how to
generate positive visions of humanity's future. "...

 

 

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Tim Winton

Permaforest p/l

+61 0427 937 904

http://www.permaforest.com.au <http://www.permaforest.com.au/> 

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