Interesting book to be included in my class at UNI about leadership and systems change. I have included a few choice parts just to give you a feel for his message.
"We need to revitalize our communities-including our educational communities- so that principles of ecology become manifest in them as principles of education, management, and politics.
During more than three billion years of evolution the planet’s ecosystems have organized themselves in subtle and complex ways so as to maximize sustainability. This wisdom of nature is the essence of ecoliteracy.
Understanding ecological interdependence means understanding relationships. Nourishing the community means nourishing those relationships.
Sustainable patterns of production and consumption need to be cyclical.
Solar energy in its many forms—sunlight, for solar heating and photovoltaic electricity, wind and hydropower, biomass, and so on—is the only kind of energy that is renewable, economically efficient, and environmentally benign.
Economics emphasizes competition, expansion, and domination; ecology emphasizes cooperation, conservation, and partnership.
The survival of humanity will depend on our ecological literacy, on our ability to understand these principles of ecology (interdependence, recycling, partnership, flexibility, diversity—sustainability) and live accordingly."
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