How to Make Positive Change - 9 Top-Tips.

At the risk of talking to myself, I feel "How to Make Positive Change - 9 Top-Tips. is very appropriate for the aims of this blog and a reminder of many of my posts and tendency to diversify. It may help some of you who have left comments on How as opposed to Why.

"I cannot give the original source, but I think it is a useful list for thinking about how to plan large scale positive changes towards sustainability. "

To make change happen you need the following:

1. Discipline yourself in selection of Issues for action -- Limit your attention to issues you can influence
2. Discipline yourself in pursuit of issues over an extended time
3. Development of detailed analysis of the problem and preferred solution(s) -- Who are the stake holders? Why is the system operating as it currently does?
4. Develop a long term strategy
5. Develop multi-faceted strategy -- What if plan A fails? B? and so on...
6. Develop coalitions, collaborations, and partnerships with like-minded groups, organizations and individuals
7. Develop mutual communication, understanding and cooperation with like-minded movements in other countries.

Retrieved from "Appropedia.org/Making_change"

8. Read JM Pearce's paper on Climate2008 and brush-up on the fundamentals of LCA-Life- Cycle Analysis as I am cf. previous post.

9. Read and share as many of the excellent other papers in Climate2008 as you see fitting. A mouse scroll-over function allows one to read a short summary of each paper to help the reader chose according to his/her interests.

My ref for 7 Top Tips comes from JM Pearce's, Mechanical Eng. Queen's Univ. Kingston Ontario,Canada User: Appropedia.org

G8 University Summit conference focused on Global Sustainability, Concrete measures to take, International Co-operation by Academia in this "War"

For first time in history the presidents of major universities in G8 and other countries convened, from 29June to 1July08, at a G8 University Summit conference to discuss pressing international issues from the academic and neutral viewpoints.

Highly significantly, the main focus of the summit was global sustainability; designing concrete measures to address it's challenges, promoting international cooperation from the academic field, and contributing to such activities.

Due to the strong influence university education has, on the future national and international elite, this initiative is potentially one of the most significant actions taken in 2008 in order to help meet the gigantic challenges of climate change and limited resourses. It is fiting too that the natural mineral resource starved Japan housed this first get-together.

In parallel with the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit, the presidents of 35 universities (the presidents of 27 universities including United Nations University, and deputy presidents from 8 universities) from a total of 14 countries participated in this summit.

One can hope that more Universities may be able participate this year 2009 and in the future and that low carbon-footprint initiatives such as virtual labs, and conferences, networks follow say around a backbone of field work.

Reference:

G8 University Summit_Main Page

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