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The power of sustainable thinking : how to create a positive future for the climate, the planet, your organization and your life / Bob Doppelt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Earthscan, 2010.Description: xix, 218 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781849710794 (pbk.)
  • 1849710791 (pbk.)
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Contents:
The gift -- Making our fate -- Climate and sustainability basics -- Sustainability thinking blunders -- How we think -- How we change -- Transforming your personal thinking and behaviour -- The ethics of sustainable thinking -- Motivating others to think and act sustainably -- Motivating teams and organizations to think sustainably -- The power of sustainable thinking.
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Standard Loan Thurles Library Main Collection 333.72 DOP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available R18717LKRC

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The future will be powered by sustainable thinking in business, organizations, governments and everyday life.This revolutionary book tackles climate change, sustainability and life success by starting with your mind. It provides proven 'staged-based methods for transforming thinking and behaviour, beginning first with the reader's own cognitive patterns, then moving to how individuals can motivate other people to change, and finally to how teams and organizations can be motivated to change.

Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The gift -- Making our fate -- Climate and sustainability basics -- Sustainability thinking blunders -- How we think -- How we change -- Transforming your personal thinking and behaviour -- The ethics of sustainable thinking -- Motivating others to think and act sustainably -- Motivating teams and organizations to think sustainably -- The power of sustainable thinking.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Figures, Tables and Boxes (p. vii)
  • Acknowledgements (p. ix)
  • Foreword (p. xi)
  • Introduction (p. xv)
  • List of Acronyms and Abbreviations (p. xxi)
  • Part I The Imperatives of Change
  • 1 The Gift (p. 3)
  • 2 Making Our Fate (p. 15)
  • 3 Climate and Sustainability Basics (p. 23)
  • 4 Sustainability Thinking Blunders (p. 37)
  • Part II The Path Forward
  • 5 How We Think (p. 59)
  • 6 How We Change (p. 69)
  • 7 Transforming Your Personal Thinking and Behaviour (p. 87)
  • 8 The Ethics of Sustainable Thinking (p. 127)
  • 9 Motivating Others To Think and Act Sustainably (p. 147)
  • 10 Motivating Teams and Organizations To Think Sustainably (p. 169)
  • 11 The Power of Sustainable Thinking (p. 203)
  • Index (p. 211)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Bob Doppelt is director of Resource Innovations (http://ri.uoregon.edu) and The Climate Leadership Initiative (http://climlead.uoregon.edu) in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, and courtesy associate professor in the Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon, US. His background and expertise is in systems dynamics and change for sustainability. He is the author of Leading Change toward Sustainability: A Change Management Guide fox Business, Government and Civil Society (Greenleaf Publishing).

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