Sense and Sustainability
Published on 8. March 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-0-9559831-0-8 (ISBN)
Description
The transition to a low carbon economy will be challenging but necessary. This book makes the case for a practical education for sustainability based on exploring and testing frameworks especially the ideas and innovations behind the leading edge of design, business and industry today. Inspired by understanding living systems, this new circular economy is transforming the sense of what a sustainable future might be. Education contributes most to the future of our young people when it opens up discussion on how sustainable can be aspirational: in our view, it needs to be about 'better and better' not 'less and less'.
This highly illustrated book also comes with online materials and resources for continuing professional development.
An inspiring and timely book for educators.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Preston
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
335 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9559831-0-8 (9780955983108)
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Persons
From 2010 to the end of 2018 Ken Webster was Head of Innovation for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and helped synthesise contemporary understanding around the 'circular economy'. Ken is currently based in Wales and makes regular contributions to conferences and seminars around the world. His current interests include open vs closed circular economy approaches, regenerative agriculture and integrating the monetary and materials stocks and flows. He is currently Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University, Director for the International Society for the Circular Economy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and member of the Club of Rome's 21st Century Transformational Economics Commission. This volume is the latest in a series of cooperative projects developed with Craig Johnson over several decades beginning in 1986 and including co-authoring Sense and Sustainability (2008).