David Bennett

Transitioner, gardener, composter. Chair Transition Network Sweden. Background in learning and performance consulting.
Learning to unlearn.

[David Bennett @dbswe]

Sweden can be first country in the world to set a target to reduce #consumptionbasedemissions, setting an example for the world. An ambitious target could inspire other countries to follow @emmanohren @SegerlindElin @MarleneBurwick @Fjellner @JoarForssell @rickardnordin @KAO_KD

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Current climate plans are based on a mistaken belief:
That, through incremental change, we can stop a complex system from crashing. But complex systems don’t work like this. They steadily absorb stress, then suddenly flip. We don’t know how close the tipping points might be.

[Donald Clark @DonaldClark]

COP coming to Glasgow. Leaders staying at Gleneagles Hotel & 20Tesla cars (£100K each) bought to ferry them 75km back & forth. Gleneagles has 1 Tesla charging station, so Malcolm Plant Hire contracted to supply Diesel Generators to recharge Tesla’s overnight. Couldn't make it up.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘ingordigiousness’: extreme greed; an insatiable desire for wealth at any cost.

[Resilience.org @buildresilience]

Roots of Resilience: How CAP, Farm to Fork, and Land Policies can Support an Agroecological Transition in Europe https://t.co/6JumDMvuz1

[Jason Van Schoor @jasonvanschoor]

From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy:
1/ ‘I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give some quick direct advice about what you should do.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Take 60 seconds out and watch this , you won't regret it. #NatureNow

[David Bennett @dbswe]

@GeorgeMonbiot So is the vision to gather everyone in "greenhouse cities"? Grow what you can there while leaving nature to rewild? With hi-tech recycling solutions for a space- and resource limited circular economy?

[Systems Innovation @Sys_innovation]

This is how we should be selling sustainability, not as a zero-sum game that we have to play to avoid catastrophe, but as an exciting journey of discovery systems

Intelligent Gamification meets Sustainability, a match made in heaven.

@Except_NL
@MetabolicHQ
@Forum4theFuture

[David Bennett @dbswe]

@DanielPink @LinkedIn Hard skills are reductionist, machine based skills that match the current destructive mindset. Obvious or complicated (#cynefin). Soft skills represent understanding of living (and learning) systems and are complex and relational and don't necessarily have 1 correct answer.

[David Bennett @dbswe]

@MartinHedberg Vi kan också forma en global rörelse och implementerar de nödvändiga byggande av tillit och förändringar i vår gemensamma kultur underifrån! Typ som #omställning!

[David Bennett @dbswe]

@MartinHedberg Detta som händer är stort för oss men geologiskt sett är det en fjärt för jorden.
Bra för ev. hubris om civilisationens storhet ;)
https://t.co/vtDJjOGmF2

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Remember:

1. The oceans are still being killed.
2. Forests still face total doom.
3. Fertile soil is still disappearing.
4. Megafauna still risk extermination.
5. Insects are still vanishing.
6. Climate chaos is still inevitable.
7. Extinction is still now.

It's still not news.

[David Bennett @dbswe]

@Sys_innovation Which is basically what is described in the iceberg model. Get to the beliefs and values, the stories, and you can effect system change.
See also Donella Meadows "Places to intervene in a system" from the Limits to Growth report.

[David Bennett @dbswe]

@Sys_innovation Which requires a waking of our innate knowledge of learning (eco)systems that we have forgotten.

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

Amor y fuerza a mi companer@s en Chile. #NoShock: “state of emergency declared in Santiago as violence escalates” https://t.co/iNfp8NkgVT

[David Bennett @dbswe]

Had forgotten the signs in the tube station in Tensta, Stockholm. A nice framing for day 2 of People need people led by @NoraBateson. #warmdata #warmdatalab #transition #omställning for @omstallning with @MartinHedberg