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"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges." ~Benjamin Franklin
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Unfortunately, the sustainability movement’s politics, not to mention its marketing, have led to a popular misunderstanding: that a perfect, stasis-under-glass equilibrium is achievable. But the world doesn’t work that way: it exists in a constant disequilibrium — trying, failing, adapting, learning and evolving in endless cycles….“Resilience” takes this as a given and is commensurately humble. It doesn’t propose a single, fixed future. It assumes we don’t know exactly how things will unfold, that we’ll be surprised, that we’ll make mistakes along the way.Andrew Zolli
(Source: The New York Times)
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Jonah Lehrer gave a great talk today on creativity entitled “IMAGINE: How Creativity Works” for the National Creativity Network. He posits that the key to sustainable growth is innovation and creativity. So how does creativity work then? He explains in this hour long lecture.
Enjoy and tell us what you think!
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“Sustainability is, thus, an unnatural attempt to break this cycle and extend a certain stage of the life cycle and avoid decline. Whereas renewal is about development; sustainability is about preservation. The term sustainable development, thus, contains a paradox.”
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As we are about to prepare for an onslaught of Tumblr posts and reflections as we write our thesis in the coming weeks, we should probably remind ourselves not to go on a sustainability rampage.
