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Building Trust for a Sustainable Society

February 7, 2012

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A sustainable society relies directly on our ability to re-generate social participation and spaces to create and sustain trust within our communities. Even if natural systems are good metaphors for designed social systems, they might be misleading.

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How Can We Live Together?

December 20, 2010

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Ten year-old kids in Copenhagen during COP15 explored a scenario where their family lived in a house with a big garden. Surrounding both was an invisible bubble that prevented everything but energy of the sun to come in and out. Would their families be able to live in such a place? What would happen? It [...]

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Multi-Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development

August 19, 2009

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This is the first draft conclusion of a paper around this topic. Multi-Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development Synergies Between Appreciative Inquiry and the Natural Step Framework Sustainability issues and current complex business environment require that companies consider the relationship with stakeholders at the strategic level. This relationship means a process of engagement in strategy design [...]

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