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Reflections on Earth Day

By |April 19th, 2018|Categories: Climate, Sustainability Column|

Michelle Berditschevsky: We humans seem to need this annual reminder in order to appreciate our life-support system in all its magnificence and to face what we are doing to the earth, including “the degradation of ecosystems, mass extinction of species, and global climate change.”

Mental Models and Community Collaboration

By |March 28th, 2018|Categories: Sustainability Column, Sustainable Communities|

Pamela Neronha: One of the challenges any community has is facing the fact that individuals in a community often lack a shared vision and goals; that we have mental models that prevent us from dreaming that vision into reality. We put 90% of our efforts into implementation, frequently promoting action of a policy that is not a shared vision.

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