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Democracy is endangered: is sustainability in peril?

9th January 2019 With democracy becoming an endangered species, is sustainability in peril? Even with David Attenborough speaking on behalf of The People at the Climate talks in Poland, you wouldn’t have guessed from the media coverage that arresting the ever-growing emissions of climate-damaging gasses was the most important challenge …

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Good Governance Systems

hen I wrote my book hesitated about including Barak Obama in my list of Positive Deviants.  While recognising the grim challenges of the American political system, he did seem to be a man determined to take them on without mortgaging his soul.  Since then he has had the toughest of times, …

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Sara Parkin

I’m Principal Associate of The Sustainability Literacy Project, and Founder-Director & Trustee of Forum for the Future. My 2010 book The Positive Deviant: Sustainability Leadership in a Perverse World is now a course book in many countries. By wide recommendation its sequel What Does Good Look Like? concentrates on an articulation of what sort of world we want to have. I owe many thanks to the Marmot Charitable Trust for their support and patience during the writing of this on-line book. Read more about me here.

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