Environmental Sustainability
Module 10
The Great Work: Solving Our Complex Climate Crisis
8 Courses
Solving Complex Problems: Analysing Complexity Platform: Coursera Institution: Macquarie University Started: 28/03/2017 Finished: 15/03/2018 Solving Complex Problems: Evaluating Problems Platform: Coursera Institution: Macquarie University Started: 12/04/2017 Finished: 15/03/2018 Solving Complex Problems: Creating Innovation Platform: Coursera Institution: Macquarie University Started: 10/05/2017 Finished: 15/03/2018 Solving Complex Problems Capstone Platform: Coursera Institution: Macquarie University Started: 07/02/2018 Finished: 06/06/2019 An Introduction to Systems Thinking for Sustainability: SiD Theory Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Except Integrated Sustainability Started: 28/06/2021 Finished: 01/07/2021 Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Analyzing and Transitioning Complex Systems Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Except Integrated Sustainability Started: 13/01/2022 Finished: 18/01/2022 Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Practical application of the SiD method Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Except Integrated Sustainability Started: 18/01/2022 Finished: Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Drawing complexity on a paper Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Except Integrated Sustainability Started: Finished:
3 Books
The Great Work: Our Way into the Future Author: Thomas Berry Publisher: Broadway Books Published: 1999 Started: 22/10/2016 Finished: 30/11/2016 The Green Marketing Manifesto Author: John Grant Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Published: 2007 Started: 26/01/2019 Finished: 20/05/2020 What We Need to Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future Author: Chris Goodall Publisher: Profile Books Published: 2020 Started: 03/09/2020 Finished: 30/05/2021
“We might observe here that the Great Work of a people is the work of all people. No one is exempt. Each of us has our individual life pattern and responsibilities. Yet beyond these concerns each person in and through their personal work assists in the Great Work. Personal work needs to be aligned with the Great Work.
We cannot doubt that we too have been given the intellectual vision, the spiritual insight, and even the physical resources we need for carrying out the transition that is demanded of these times, transition from the period when humans were a disruptive force on the planet Earth to the period when humans become present to the planet in a manner that is mutually enhancing.“
Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way Into The Future, 1999:10-11
Solving complex problems is a process that calls on different and sometimes competing methods to solve complex, a.k.a. ‘wicked’, problems that are quite often hard to define, can be approached from different perspectives and can also have multiple solutions.
This module is made up of the Solving Complex Problems specialization on Coursera. The specialization is being transdisciplinary in nature and, being applicable to all the concentrations of my MTA Portfolio, it moved around my portfolio quite a bit until it finally found its home within Environmental Sustainability.
While there are many great works of our time, as represented in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, I think by far the most important goals, and the ones through which we should build to solve all the other goals, are the goals to solve the climate crisis.
The climate crisis is a hugely complex problem that is going to require a great deal of systems thinking.
The health and wellbeing of the natural world determines the health and wellbeing of every human living on it.
I believe solving the climate crisis is the greatest work of our time.