INTRODUCTION TO THE SUSTAINABILTY CHALLENGE
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Sustainability success is the critical challenge of the;21st century. Are we on track? What will it take? The no-change, business-as-usual scenario of an accelerating climate catastrophe and the larger sustainability crisis will likely lead to continuing difficulties and ecological-economic systems collapse.
Fortunately, creating a future of enduring economic security and prosperity is possible if we begin now. Success will require making sufficient progress towards an ecologically sustainable global economy and society over the next 20-30-years before the window of opportunity closes.
Humanity has the potential for responding successfully, but will it develop, institutionalize, and apply the required out-of-the-box innovative problem-resolving capacity in the limited time remaining? How? The same capacities that produced the problem cannot fix it. We can be successful and there is a role for everyone.
In response, Sustainability 2030 is accelerating success by (1) assembling the required accurate whole systems understanding and critical path approach to an effective response; (2) packaging it in web-based and traditional media content, tools, and training; and (3) undertaking critical-path strategic initiatives to produce the needed shift in the remaining time available.
The recent sustainability explosion is promising, but lacks the clarity, focus, speed, vision, innovative power, and scale needed for success. Its also difficult to access for credible knowledge as the basis for individual action.
Let Sustainability 2030 provide you -- as interested individuals, sustainability practitioners, professionals, leaders or employees in the public, private, or non-profit sectors -- with the knowledge services and products you need to clearly understand the systems-level predicament, its implications for your circumstances, and the best way for you to benefit and simultaneously have the maximum systems effect.
Sustainability 2030 is the critical path sustainability research, training, and strategic decision initiative of Scott T. Edmondson, Sustainability Strategist, with over 30 years of experience.
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Will humanity respond successfully to the accelerating climate catastrophe and the larger sustainability crisis by creating an ecologically sustainable global economy and society before the window of opportunity closes in the next 20+ years, thereby establishing the basis for enduring economic security and prosperity?
Mounting an effective response is the challenge of the 21st century. Making sufficient progress by 2030 is critical for success. Will we do it? Are we doing it now? How will we know? What will it take? Who needs to do what, when? How can questions and challenges of this magnitude be adequately comprehended and addressed?
Sobering and unsettling, but those are the burning questions -- and fundamental tasks -- of the first quarter of the 21st century.
These are the motivating questions for Sustainability 2030, a web-based research and systems-transforming initiative.
Fortunately, humanity has the capacity for success, but effective action will require accurate understanding, fast-tracked technological and institutional innovation, and a little luck. What do you need to know? Do you have the time to figure it out? Then let Sustainability 2030 support you with the understanding and intelligence needed for success.
Let Sustainability 2030 assemble, forge, and illuminate an accurate understanding of the sustainability threat, challenge, opportunity, and the requirements for an effective response. Use Sustainability 2030's products and services and benefit from its distinctive whole systems and critical-path approach and interactive research services.
- Acquire accurate understanding.
- Answer your questions.
- Access resources, products, and services to increase effectiveness.
- Subscribe to State of Sustainability (SOS)TM, a research and intelligence service.
- Learn about Sustainability 2030 - the organization & work program.
- Join the Sustainability 2030 Champions NetworkTM
- Contact scott-e@sustainability2030.com.
