The Sustainability Toolkit

Just a Minute:
A series of educational public service announcements form the Earth Communication office. Potent, thoughtful one minute insights into a range of social and environmental issues and solutions.

World Population 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.

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.

Sustainability Mapping Tool
A spider mapping tool to illustrate an organizations ecological footprint, and chart progress.

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
Environ Design 8, Minneapolis, 21-23 April 2004

FishBanks LTD
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.