This toolkit was compiled at the request of the members of the Sol Sustainability Consortium. Its purpose is to provide a starting place and support for those who want to begin the process of educating, illuminating and shifting their organizations toward renewal, regeneration and nourishment of natural systems, communities and the financial bottom line. Clicking on each link will provide you with the website where the described materials can be downloaded, viewed, or purchased.

 

Web links

The Carbon Commons

Foundation for a Global Community

SoL

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)

Green Blue Institute

Environmental Careers Organization

Coalition for Environment Responsibility (CERES)

World Resources Institute

SEED Systems

Entrapraneurs for Sustainability

Books

Cradle to Cradle

Natural Capitalism

Learning for Sustainability by Peter Senge, Sara Schley, Bryan Smith and Joe Laur

Action

A place to list actions that can be joined (submit events/ actions to jessica.star@solsustainability.org)

Video/Animation

Wombat -
(http://globalcommunity.org/flash/wombat.shtml)
A funny, accessible and poignant online animation. Created for Global Mindshift by Jason Ables http://www.global-mindshift.org/

World Population - (http://www.populationeducation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=175&Itemid=4)
DVD or Video. A moving 5 minute piece showing the exponential growth of world population from the year 1C.E. through today and projected until 2030
https://www.populationconnection.org/

 

Articles

pdf Framework

pdf Learning and Change in the Sustainability Consortium

Beyond the Techno Fix

Bowdoin College Speech

Pegasus Innovations in Management Series: Creating Sustainable Organizations
Sara Schley and Joe Laur
A getting started primer for mangers and other seeking to leverage change.

Innovating Our Way to the Next Industrial Revolution
Peter M. Senge and Goran Carstedt
The industrial age has been an era of harvesting natural and social capital in order to create financial and productive capital. So far, the New Economy looks more like the next wave of the industrial era than a truly postindustrial one. Why should we care? Because, say the authors, the basic development patterns of the industrial era are not sustainable.

Integrated Frameworks for Sustainability
SoL Sustainability Consortium
An overview of various sets of sustainability principles and strategies.

Natural Capitalism Primer
Amory Lovins, Peter Senge, Don Seville
A systems thinking approach to natural Capitalism.

Presentation Document: Collaborative Partnerships to Improve Performance & Sustainability of Materials & Product Systems (http://www.fivewinds.com/publications/publications.cfm)
Environ Design 8, Minneapolis, 21-23 April 2004 (listed as Session 3F)

pdf The 2006 Cone Millennial Cause
Cause Branding is a business strategy that integrates a social issue or cause into an organization's brand equity and identity.

 

Calculators & Tools

Submit to: jessica.star@solsustainability.org

 

Simulations

Climate Interactive

FishBanks LTD(http://www.bpa.gov/Corporate/KR/ed/step/fishing_game/fishing.shtml)
A game for up to 60 people illustrating one of the dominant systemic structures in sustainability issues: the Tragedy of the Commons. The game illustrates a need for understanding sustainability principles, a systems thinking perspective, and for learning across traditional boundaries.
Online Simulator: (http://www.bpa.gov/Corporate/KR/ed/step/fishing_game/Fishing_Model.shtml)
 
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