by Marty Matlock | Oct 17, 2016 | Managed Systems, Policy, Social Systems, Triple Bottom Line
Sustainability is not just about the environment. The three pillars, or domains, of sustainability are social, economic, and environmental. Economic sustainability begins with economic equity and viability of families. For a family unit of a parent, spouse, and two...
by Marty Matlock | Jun 22, 2016 | Agriculture, Climate, Food Justice, Systems Thinking, Water
I am in China this week, where big numbers can be overwhelming. I am currently in Shanghai, a city of 27,000,000 people, sitting on a high-speed train headed to Beijing, a city of 22,000,000. Our own NYC, the best city in the world, has a mere 20 million in the...
by Marty Matlock | Feb 17, 2016 | AASHE, Academics, Higher Education
In March 2015 the National Association of Scholars published a report calling sustainability “higher education’s new fundamentalism.”¹ George F. Will, opinion writer for the Washington Post, picked up on this theme in an article in April, 2015 titled “Sustainability...
