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Monday 19 March 2012

Strong Sustainability for New Zealand

This is a document that a large group of New Zealanders worked on only a few years ago to give people a description of what strong sustainability would mean in the context of a nation, as well as some fictional stories to show what might be required to get there.  The concept is a really good idea, and employing storytelling makes it quite easy to keep reading a document that long.  I'm not sure who the intended audience was, so I'll assume it is for a small group of interested individuals.  The idealistic nature is important to this document (it would be very disappointing if it didn't explore sustainability seriously enough) but it's a big leap with some vital and practical steps not articulated.  I think to have a more stimulating effect, such a concept would need to be delivered more succinctly with very careful framing for the particular audience(s), and obviously more exposure than quietly sitting on a website requiring payment before download.  Since the authors describe their message with so much passion for urgency, I'm surprised it is not freely accessible.

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  1. It is available in pdf at the bottom of the page: http://nz.phase2.org/strong-sustainability-for-new-zealand or directly here: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzdHJvbmdzdXN0YWluYWJpbGl0eXxneDo0ZGNmNWM1ZDgzNTY0MzU5
    I also enjoy this positive vision - nearly fiction! and yet so feasible...

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