A - Action does not proceed if it is not practical.

An action that is not diverted for further consideration represents a lowest

common denominator consensus. After consideration it is a highest common

denominator consensus.

B - Ideas/plans proceed to the fast track after advocacy and the achievement

of consensus amongst the relevant parties.

Action

MonitoringAction

IssueDetection /

Goals Action Plans

Fast TrackEnv.Monitoring

A A

Learning inputs from the whole system

B B

A GENERIC STRATEGY / ACTION SYSTEM

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Too HardBasket

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Solutions& Visions

Action ideas

Action Styles: Entrepreneur (1,4 or 3,4); Incremental reactive (1,2 or 8,2)

Comprehensive systematic (3,5); Env. ethical opportunist (1,3,4 or 8,3,4)

Env. pioneer (3,5,6) Green Innovations, 1994. Version 2.b

Conversion of Nature’s economy to the Human economy

There is a rapid switch in the ratio of Indirect vs Direct Costs of

developments as nature’s economy shrinks and the human economy grows

Moving goal posts?

• Accelerating scale and speed of sustainability challenge

• Prepare for strategies to suffer rapid obsolescence (due to failure to address fundamental issues and real uncertainty about real unfolding environmental and social change)

• Best option is to anchor on making a full and fast transition to a truly sustainable economy/society

Homeostatic management

Safety zone or mode

Restoration Prevention

Handling multiple issues

• Pick calibrating issues– eg. Climate change, peaking of world

production of conventional cheap oil, water shortage, food shortage/high prices

• Pick issues that must affect solutions– eg. biodiversity loss

• Unfreezing of old patterns permits free kicks (and added value)– Economic and social renewal

Generic model

Current world New worldTransition world

(driven by active intervention)

Each world has its own dynamics

Backcasting

Using stretch goals

Industry planning

• Use sectors to locate problems

• For solutions - build up from supply chains

• Then can reconstruct the model of regional economies and new industry sectors by aggregating new supply chains

Challenge and relax

• www.green-innovations.asn.au/Challenge&relax.htm

Concept(s) Theory of new system Skills

Inertia breaker