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Paul Murray Picture source: Panos Pictures and Mark Henley
Beyond Decadence
Engaging the
Sustainable Self
Paul Murray
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Our agenda
• What influences sustainability?• our role as individuals?• The significance of personal core values
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Paul Murray Image: John Macneil ww.popsci.com/environment/article/2005-06/how-earth-scale-engineering-can-save-planet
Sustainability
A technological
problem?
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or a people
problem?
© Panos Pictures and Martin Chivers
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Humanity’s Impact
I = P x A x T
I = Impact; P = Population; A = Affluence*; T = Level of Technological Advance
* or decadence?
(Source: Ehrlich and Holdren 1972)
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World Population Growth to 2100 Source: Population Reference Bureau 2010
Population: rising fast
2008: 6.7 billion
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Affluence: Rising fast
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Technology: the solution?Raises living standards?
Inspires us?
Reduces waste?
Reduces pollution?
Saves lives?
Improves mobility?
Creates jobs?
Improves efficiency?
DUPONT: reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 72% 1991-2007
DOW CHEMICALS: 22% energy efficiency gains between 1994-2004 and 2004; 25% more by 2015
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Technology’s limits?
Unintended outcomes? http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
Life cycle impacts?
Poor take up?Distraction?
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Human frailty: ChernobylSource: Panos Pictures and Gerd Ludwig
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BHOPAL
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ValuesHuman Behaviour Matters
Technology has its role
Governments have their role
Businesses have their role
Institutions have their role
Communities have their role
People influence all the above
People’s actions matter
People’s values influence their behaviour
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Behavioural influences
Behaviour
Economic climate
Social norms
External Infrastructure
Skills
Knowledge
Understanding
Beliefs
Attitudes & automatic thoughts
Prevailing Values
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Engaging The Sustainable Self
Changing the way we think: and act
Understanding: it’s not just up to others - institutions, governments, NGOs
YOU and ME: Personal Change
Mobilising our values, attitudes, beliefs
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Sustainability Training
Making meanin
g
Making connectio
ns
Cultivating
motivation
Feeling empow
ered
Becoming
equipped
Sustainable
behaviour
within & outside
work
Core Values
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Heart of the training: exploring core values
“I value most above other things ….”
1. .......................................................................................................................
2. .......................................................................................................................
3. .......................................................................................................................
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Earth Charter
Global transformation charter
Core principles/values
UN Millennium Declaration
Core
principles/values
Forum For the Future
Sustainability Charity Educational values
Oxfam
Development Charity Global citizenship
values
BT Plc
Global corporation Suggested corporate
values
Care and respect for
life
Ecological integrity
Social and economic justice
Democracy, non-
violence and peace
Respect for nature
Freedom
Equality
Shared
responsibility
Solidarity
Tolerance
Respect and
integrity
Commitment and cooperation
Co-operation and
learning
Openness
Compassion
Fun
Value and respect
for diversity
Concern for the environment
Commitment to
sustainable development
Commitment to
social justice and equity
Sense of identity and self esteem
Belief in people to make a difference
Respect for equity
Respect for the
integrity of natural systems
Respect for the
interests of future generations
Self determination
Diversity and
tolerance
Compassion for others
Recognition of the
rights of non-humans
Sustainability Values?
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Exploring your values can be • inherited from ......?• learned from ........?• influenced by .......?• mobilised by ........?
Are these REALLY our core values?
Are they ‘should have’ values?
Do our actions align with our core values?
(When no one is looking)
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Engaging our values• To cultivate positive attitudes
Care; compassion; respect; openness
• To cultivate empowering beliefs• To motivate learning• To motivate behaviours
TO CHANGE
TO NATURE
TO OTHERSTO OURSELVES
© Univ Plymouth/ Fotoflite/ Panos Pictures and Jez Coulson/NASA respectively
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Engaging the Sustainable Self
The Sustainable
Self
Awareness
Understanding
Motivation
Values attitudes
Empowerment
Beliefs
Knowledge
Skilful
MeansPractice
Right Awareness
Right Values
Right Attitudes
Right Beliefs
Right Knowledge
Skilful means
Right Practise
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Engaging the Sustainable Self affects
What we do How we feel
How we do How we influence
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The Sustainable Self
• Sustainability is as much about the individual as anything else
• The Sustainable Self learns from the past, pays attention to the present and is concerned for the future
• Sustainability starts where we sit• Engaging the Sustainable Self will promote
personal, community and planetary wellbeing
..“The thought manifests the word; the word manifests the deed”
(Thict Nah Hanh)
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Human cause
© Panos Pictures and Qilai Shan
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Human effect
© Panos Pictures and Mark Henley