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He explains how all four circles affect the footprint and all need monitoring.<\/p>\n
Next question. You are in a community that is not acting in a sustainable way and you want to focus people onto sustainability ..how do you do that?<\/p>\n
I want to talk to someone and go somewhere to find the answer to this. How do you bring people together from diverse areas and focus on sustainability. And how do you formulate a sustainability challenge? I believe that advanced problem-solving techniques could be used if only we could formulate the assignment succinctly.<\/p>\n
I see a nice polished bench in a gigantic mall, familiar from last time. A large door, like an airport entrance is in front of me. To the sides are other lifts, exits and shops.<\/p>\n
Which way shall I go?<\/p>\n
Which lift?<\/p>\n
Bright light shines through the entrance in front of me so I exit through that.<\/p>\n
An escalator takes me up a flight to a covered walkway. I see gardens underneath, connecting out to green areas beyond. The semicircular roof, made of glass lets in a lot of light. In itself a good invention.<\/p>\n
Round the next corner and down an escalator I descend into a garden. A fountain coming from a Roman-urn like sculpture sends water into the pond around it. Goldfish swim under Lilly leaves floating on its surface. Look down at the small bushes surrounding the pond and out of the corner of my eye I see a park bench. I go over and sit down.<\/p>\n
A guy turns up, wearing a red shirt, sandals, he is bearded and looks a bit bohemian.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wanted to know about something?\u201d
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\u201cYes I did, I need to know how to focus on sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCome with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
I follow after him into a grey lift, which descends not vertically, but at angles downwards. It opens onto a corridor.<\/p>\n
I follow him down another corridor into a large underground area that looks like a control room of some kind. He invites me into a meeting room at the side.<\/p>\n
We sit down opposite each other. I check the room out: white board, flip charts, simple chairs, nothing out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n
How do you focus on sustainability, how do you get people together to work on sustainability? He looks down at his paper.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy not?\u201d I ask.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou asked how you focus on sustainability,\u201d he replies.<\/p>\n
I ask him laconically \u201cAnd what is that outside then?)<\/p>\n
The room monitors footprint, collects data and makes it available.<\/p>\n
The data is updated hourly.<\/p>\n
A large screen shows weather patterns, another, ozone layer status. A guy sitting at a terminal is collecting data via the Internet. Indicators as such are collected and collated.<\/p>\n
Another operator is compiling a table of fuel use, carbon dioxide release.
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Another population figures, and other water quality. In real time monitoring. A direct feed is available for TV stations and other media.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did you bring me here, my question was about focus?\u201d I exclaim.<\/p>\n
He replies \u201cThis is one way at least, it is very easy to do, and use the data for more studies.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ecological Footprint is a tool for measuring and analyzing human natural resource consumption and waste output within the context of nature\u2019s renewable and regenerative
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capacity (or biocapacity). It represents a quantitative assessment of the biologically
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productive area (the amount of nature) required to produce the resources (food, energy, and materials) and to absorb the wastes of an individual, city, region, or country.<\/p>\n
As you can see the footprint of the population of the world exceeded the world\u2019s capacity in the 70s. It is that serious.<\/p>\n
I work it out;\u201d But OK my question was how do you focus on sustainability and the answer is focus on footprint. I did not ask how you focus on solving sustainability issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou didn\u2019t ask that and therefore did not get an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything else?\u201d I ask.<\/p>\n
He draws the diagram of the four circles of sustainability. Enterprises, Communities, Individuals and the environment itself.
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He explains how all four circles affect the footprint and all need monitoring.<\/p>\n
I have at least some answers. I thank him and take my leave.<\/p>\n
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