Integral Sustainability

Integrating Sustainable Business Strategies with People, Culture and Processes

Climate Change

A Head, Heart and Hand Approach

This is a great opportunity to learn about strategic processes and tools that are low-cost, easy to implement with achievable goals and aimed at saving your business money, increasing profitability and nurturing a more just and sustainable society.

Learn•how personal values, organizational culture, behaviors, and business models are the key elements for implementing sustainability initiatives

The Elements of Business Sustainability

Understanding what Needs to be Done

This investigation/conversation is for the non-scientist, everyday citizen and business-person who wants to be able to respond to the accelerating changes with well grounded assessments of best practices and a sense of optimism in the face of overwhelming odds.

Learn what’s at stake and who are the stake holders , and some proposed solutions the global community needs now and why.

Finding the Cheese

Business Success in the New Maze

As scientific knowledge about the nature of reality has developed and as understanding of how the dominant worldview and its beliefs have created massive negative impacts to the people and life of earth a new worldview has evolved. Smart businesses will adapt by reintegrating themselves into the natural ecological and social systems that they depend upon for existence.

Learn what could and maybe should be done to come into right relationship with everything “outside” the business.

Biomimicry

Working with Natures Wisdom

People have adopted a new worldview and are creating a new business environment (a new maze with radically different rules). People are in the process of building that new maze and moving THEIR cheese. Businesses that grasp this will prosper. This class lays out some of the opportunities in creating thriving and resilient local economies.

Learn the keys to a thriving local economy and the infrastructure for generating prosperity and viable communities in rural areas.

Zeri

Achieving everything you want that you think is impossible

We now know that we must rethink, redesign, and rebuild all human activities to work in harmony with nature so that human and other life can be sustained, so that it can continue more or less indefinitely. On what basis? Fortunately, the answers are all around us. They lie within nature’s wisdom developed over 3.8 billion years.

Learn new practical ways of thinking.

Zeri is a practical systems approach and methodology businesses can use to achieve total resource productivity (TRP) (zero waste), increased income, greater market share, and cultural viability – and do it in an ecologically restorative and economically sustainable manner.

ZERI is an international foundation led by Gunter Pauli, started in 1994, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with 14000 projects on 5-6 continents and in 50-60 countries. U.S. Projects were started in 2001.

Learn the benefits of the ZERI approach achieved through using 12 axioms of systems economics combined with  ZERI’s methodology as showcased by real world examples