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Created: Sep 01, 2008
Updated: Jul 05, 2009
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James Greyson
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James was a sustainability consultant for 15 years before he finally worked out that his positive impact on businesses and localities was being dwarfed by the monstrous advance of global problems. So he started working as a think-tank, BlindSpot, to explore what we're all missing that might actually work. The focus is on systems thinking and systemic change, meaning we need to see global problems as an indivisible whole and reverse the lot of them very fast, rather than try a bit at a time.
BlindSpot is now UN-recognised (it won an award) and publishes in the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme (their Advanced Research Workshops aim to think ahead of the pack). James is probably the most outspoken member of the UK Sustainable Development Panel, with input into policy advice and scrutiny of government. He does reviewing for journals and conferences, speaks internationally (yes I know but people travel for worse reasons) and continues to consult on diverse sustainability projects where there is a need for highly ambitious thinking.
On WiserEarth James offers the solution "Let's try forward gear", which compares historical unsustainability to being stuck in reverse gear. You can also find his:
• NATO work, Seven Policy Switches for Global Security (2009) and Systemic Economic Instruments for Energy, Climate and Global Security (2007) on reversing multiple global problems with systems thinking and systemic economic tools.
• Article for the UN as a summary of the NATO work, BlindSpot Climate Briefing
• Keynote slides at the Irish Waste Summit in Dublin (see National Waste Summit 'zero disposal' presentation)
• Economics presentation at the Middle East Waste Summit, From credit crunch to planet crunch - or revival? They really need this kind of help!
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Thanks Narda, have added a note about these 'realities'; how to fix the global reality so it can bring peace and security to that situation and also to all everyone else's situation.
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29 August 2009 (and dear James, thanks for letting me post this letter here).
I have always wanted and believed in the possibility of peace. Over the past few weeks, as I begun collecting and selecting data of peace initiatives between Palestine and Israel, I was deeply moved to see the radical extent of heart and mindset shift towards peace, through non violent conflict resolution acts in the region. The thought struck me - here is a direct proof that the reality of humanity is far greater than the reality of the situation; that peace, here, is not only possible but inevitable... and, that if this is so here, it must be true everywhere.
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is now less than a month to the International Day of Peace, 21
September 2009. If you hold peace dear in hope, I would like to invite
you to sign your name on the Peace Day Wall (below the image), and if you wish, please pledge your intent for the day in support.
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Sorry Deborah, just now found your comment. Great to know you and keep up your excellent work!
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thanks for this invite here. i work with DK GreenRoots community and am hoping to bring them aboard here.... there is a lot going on over there with twice weekly diaries and some incredible writers, activists and specialists in the e movement. Some fabulous plans for future development of the group. I am slated for a late Aug column which I am planning on Life Cycle Assessment.... I'll invite you to the space I created here to archive this work..... still awaiting word from the 2 group leaders about if they will use WiserEarth .... so this is a closed group right now.
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