Personal Sustainability Practices

Edited by Mark Starik, Senior Lecturer, Sustainability Management Program, University of Wisconsin Extended Campus, Madison, Wisconsin, and Contributing Faculty Member, College of Health Sciences and Public Policy, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Patricia Kanashiro, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Southern California, US

‘This book on personal sustainability is a unique and urgently needed volume for advancing sustainable development. As faculty, we disparage companies and managers, but seldom do we turn our scrutiny inward and focus on our own personal commitment and conduct. This is a unique and most inspiring volume and I enthusiastically recommend it.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to Personal Sustainability Practices 1Mark Starik and Patricia Kanashiro2 Why focus on faculty personal sustainability? 13Mark Starik, Patricia Kanashiro, and Gordon RandsPART I SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES IN ACTION3 Design for the experience: a more sustainable future 22Robert Sroufe4 Teaching complex adaptive systems through multiplespheres of influence 34Bernadette Roche5 If everything is connected, where do you begin? 45Jimmy Y. Jia and Rick Dickinson6 Creating connections for progress toward sustainability 57Kevin D. Carlson and John H. Grant7 Cultivating the ecological imagination 69Billy FriebelePART II INTERNAL/EXTERNAL INTEGRATION(VALUES TO ACTION)8 Spanning a sustainability career: challenges, changes, andcommitment – an interview with Dr. Paul Shrivastava 82Shelley F. Mitchell9 Living and communicating personal sustainability 93Amy K. Townsend10 Sustainability-oriented management education as personalpractice and a “kit” for managers beyond the era ofbusiness as usual 103Ralph Meima11 Learning to think like a city: connecting civic activismwith the classroom and the curriculum 114Bruce Paton12 What do you value? How valuing time leads to deeperenvironmental engagement 124Thomas E. Stone13 The story of a sustainability cabin: Muir vs. Pinchot 135Van V. MillerPART III CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT INSUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION14 An ecocentric radically reflexive approach to walking the“Earth System talk” in sustainability education 148Melissa Edwards and Wendy Stubbs15 Does business ethics always have to be reactive? 161Mark Heuer16 Students in action: faculty encouraging outreach and involvement 172Gary Cocke, Joanna Gentsch, William E. Hefley, and Carolyn Reichert17 Student sustainability knowledge gained from classroomand field experience 183Dave Nelson and George IonescuPART IV FACULTY PERSONAL SUSTAINABILITY ASSOCIAL MOVEMENT18 The power of faculty sustainability practices helpingbusinesses drive social change: an interview with JessicaYinka Thomas 196Patricia Kanashiro19 From personal to professional: a reflective account ofacademics engaging with sustainability 205Louise Obara, Te Klangboonkrong, Gary Chapman, and Regina Frank20 OS4Future: an academic advocacy movement for our future 217Giuseppe Delmestri, Helen Etchanchu, Joel Bothello,Stefanie Habersang, Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O, andElke Schuessler21 The tie that binds: how economic literacy is a foundationfor sustainability 229Madhavi VenkatesanIndex