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LEARNING
LINKS Overcoming the Seven Sustainability Blunders |
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FACE
TO FACE MA: The
world is becoming increasingly interconnected. The global economy,
for example, is interconnecting countries
and companies and supply chains that haven’t been as directly
connected before. The Internet is interconnecting people across
the globe. Various forms of communication systems, like satellite
communications, are interconnecting people and objects and things
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PEGASUS
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Causal
Loop and Stock and Flow Clinic Lunchtime
Topic Tables Loopers
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LEARNING
LINKS • A
“Silo” Approach to Environmental and Socio-Economic
Issues • No
Clear Vision of Sustainability •
Confusion over Cause and Effect • Lack
of Information • Insufficient
Mechanisms for Learning • Failure
to Institutionalize Sustainability Until we shift
our mindset to eliminate the concept of waste entirely, we’ll
never overcome these missteps and achieve the results that our mounting
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