Folks

I've been looking for ideas/concepts in ESD to reach the heads and
hearts of my pupils(who've been sickened by the talk of recycling,
recycling, recycling....) and Land ahoy! I bumped into an article on
TNS*(I'm actually ashamed to say that I haven't heard about it until
a few days ago).

Some star concepts:

1.cradle to cradle(first coined by william Mcdough in his book by
the same title) - as designers design they must factor out the
concept of waste - design for disassembly ...

2.downcycling - combining(on recycling) highly sophisticated
compounds into substances of lesser technical value - ...

3.backcasting(opposite of forecasting) - framing goals with a future
desired outcome

4.molecular garbage - invisible pollutants(visible waste goes into
landfills) going into the air, water and soil...

5.reverse evolution - decreasing biodiversity(due to man's
activities) ...

6.precycling - we should be recycling as little as possible by
appropriate 'pre-cycling' ...

7.upstream thinking(known to systems thinkers) - looking at the
cause of a problem ...

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* TNS stands for The Natural Step, a scientifically based framework
to help organisations implement sustainability in thir practices.

You'll soon find you can't read enough of it:

www.detnaturligastet.se/
www.naturalstep.org.uk/ ................................
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Happy reading/awakening
Puni