The Power of Sustainable Thinking: How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your Life [Paperback]

The future will be powered by sustainable thinking in business, organizations, governments and everyday life.This revolutionary book tackles climate change, sustainability and life success by starting with your mind. It provides proven staged-based methods for transforming thinking and behaviour, beginning first with the readers own cognitive patterns, then moving to how individuals can motivate other people to change, and finally to how teams and organizations can be motivated to change.Foreword by L. Hunter Lovins * Introduction * Part I: The Imperatives of Change * The Gift * Making Our Fate * Climate and Sustainability Basics * Sustainability Thinking Blunders * Part II: The Path Forward * How We Think * How We Change * Transforming Your Personal Thinking and Behaviour * The Ethics of Sustainable Thinking * Motivating Others To Think and Act Sustainably * Motivating Teams and Organizations To Think Sustainably * The Power of Sustainable Thinking * IndexBob Doppelt is director of Resource Innovations and The Climate Leadership Initiative in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, and Adjunct associate professor in the Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon, USA.'A valuable guide book for those courageous enough to transform their traditional cognitive biases towards more sustainable behaviour.'Dr. Steve Schneider, IPCC member and lead author, Stanford University'An empowering, just-in-time, practical guide for mobilized sustainability change agents.'Bob Willard, author of The Sustainability Advantage and The Next Sustainability Wave'This book will make you think. Hard. And systemically.'Nick Pudar, vice president, Planning and Business Development, OnStar Corporation'Every corner of society is beginning to take on this biggest of all problems - here's a very useful way of understanding how the process might be accelerated.'Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and The Bill McKibbels“