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The eco-industrial revolution: Peter Senge’s system perspective (Interpreting Mellalieu’s Kekule dream Part 7)

As I continue to reflect on ‘Mellalieu’s Kekule dream’ I have revisited some slides I was preparing for a presentation to my students of Unitec BSNS Innovation & Entrepreneurship. I never quite finished the presentation, and came up with something else … a prototype launch of Enterprise GreenWorks.

However, the slide sequence here integrates several strands of learning and teaching I’ve been engaged upon over the last six months (Maani & Cavana, 2007; Mann, 2011). Currently, I am  reading the vivid example of Interface Flooring’s climb up ‘Mount Sustainability’ (Anderson, & White, 2009). All these strands of learning are building a stronger sense of my destiny in teaching others how to use systems thinking and decision support to design and implement industrial ecology approaches to ‘greening the business’.

Source reference for the images

Senge, P. M., Smith, B., Schley, S., Laur, J., & Kruschwitz, N. (2008). The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World (1st ed.). Doubleday Publishing.

Bibliography
Anderson, R. C., & White, R. (2009). Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose - Doing Business by Respecting the Earth. St. Martin’s Press.

Maani, K., & Cavana, R. (2007). Systems Thinking, System Dynamics: Managing Change and Complexity. Auckland, NZ: Pearson Education New Zealand. Retrieved from http://www.sys-think.com/books.asp

Mann, Samuel. (2011). The Green Graduate: Educating Every Student as a Sustainable Practitioner. Wellington, NZ: NZCER. Retrieved from http://www.nzcer.org.nz/default.php?products_id=2774

Further reading
Mann, Samuel. (n.d.). Mellalieu persistently and interminably asks the question - Computing for Sustainability. Retrieved May 4, 2009, from http://computingforsustainability.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/mellalieu-persistently-and-interminably-asks-the-question/#comment-1249

My manifesto

Mellalieu, P. J. (2009). Shifting frontiers, new priorities, creating pathways: elevating the case for tertiary education for sustainable development in New Zealand. New Zealand Tertiary Education Summit 2009 (TES). Presented at the New Zealand Tertiary Education Summit 2009, Wellington, New Zealand: Bright*Star Conferences & Training Ltd. Retrieved from http://preview.tinyurl.com/tes2009

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