Now that I’ve used Getting Green Done to flesh out part of my argument, here’s the latest version of my framework.
The conventional economic framework, a.k.a. Econ 101, says the economy can be broken into 3 layers:
People are calculators: they rationally pursue their self-interest given near perfect information about the world
Organizations are calculators
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Tags: Framework · Model · Movement Perspective · Organizations Aren't Calculators · People Aren't Calculators · Practitioner's Perspective
[Part 2 of the Getting Green Done book review]
As we saw last week , in Getting Green Done Auden Schendler says the Enviro movement has to get comfortable talking about their mistakes as well as their successes. Here’s one of his.
When Schendler first started at Aspen Skiing Co., he told Eric Calderon, [...]
Tags: Green Economy · Practitioner's Perspective
Engineer Jan L. A.van de Snepscheut said, “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.” (p.9)
That’s one of the main points of a terrific new book, Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution, by Auden Schendler. Schendler is the executive director [...]
