Paul Hawken was the keynote speaker at the Sustainable Industries Economic Forum in San Francisco on Thursday. He had some inspiring talking points (the forum’s goal was to ‘reinspire the inspired’), but one of the key takeaways was in how we should be viewing sustainability. He started by saying that sustainability should be viewed as a easily defineable. Sustainability means we survive. Living unsustainably means we don’t. But it was how he suggested we view this that was really interesting.
He wanted to suggest that sustainability is about seeing the world as a system.
This concept is not really a new one. The inter-connectedness of all has been talked about for centuries. It was the way our forefathers lived. It is just "modern" man has forgotten that. It is time we start remembering.
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