Personal Sustainability Practices: Faculty Approaches to Walking the Sustainability Talk and Living the UN SDGs(New Horizons in Sustainability and Business series)

Personal Sustainability Practices is a collection of 19 academic and practitioner perspectives on the topic of faculty personal sustainability. The book addresses the issues of whether, how, where, and when faculty who teach, research, consult, and perform academic and community service are, or need to be, practicing and communicating their own sustainability behaviors to students and other stakeholders. The contributors represent multiple countries, disciplines, academic levels and affiliations, and orientations on those issues and on the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals related to their personal sustainability practices. The chapter contributions highlight the several main concepts of systems, internal and external integration, curriculum development, and social movements. The key takeaway is that many sustainability scholars are practicing and communicating a wide variety of sustainability actions but that greater consistency and frequency among faculty sustainability values, expression, and actions are generally possible and necessary, and that further exploration of this overall topic is encouraged. Current faculty and doctoral students in the field of environmental or socio-economic sustainability, as well as business, government and nonprofit organization executives who interact with said faculty, will be inspired by the examination of values and personal practices.

Table of Contents:
Contents: 1 Introduction to Personal Sustainability Practices 1 Mark Starik and Patricia Kanashiro 2 Why focus on faculty personal sustainability? 13 Mark Starik, Patricia Kanashiro, and Gordon Rands PART I SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES IN ACTION 3 Design for the experience: a more sustainable future 22 Robert Sroufe 4 Teaching complex adaptive systems through multiple spheres of influence 34 Bernadette Roche 5 If everything is connected, where do you begin? 45 Jimmy Y. Jia and Rick Dickinson 6 Creating connections for progress toward sustainability 57 Kevin D. Carlson and John H. Grant 7 Cultivating the ecological imagination 69 Billy Friebele PART II INTERNAL/EXTERNAL INTEGRATION (VALUES TO ACTION) 8 Spanning a sustainability career: challenges, changes, and commitment – an interview with Dr. Paul Shrivastava 82 Shelley F. Mitchell 9 Living and communicating personal sustainability 93 Amy K. Townsend 10 Sustainability-oriented management education as personal practice and a “kit” for managers beyond the era of business as usual 103 Ralph Meima 11 Learning to think like a city: connecting civic activism with the classroom and the curriculum 114 Bruce Paton 12 What do you value? How valuing time leads to deeper environmental engagement 124 Thomas E. Stone 13 The story of a sustainability cabin: Muir vs. Pinchot 135 Van V. Miller PART III CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION 14 An ecocentric radically reflexive approach to walking the “Earth System talk” in sustainability education 148 Melissa Edwards and Wendy Stubbs 15 Does business ethics always have to be reactive? 161 Mark Heuer 16 Students in action: faculty encouraging outreach and involvement 172 Gary Cocke, Joanna Gentsch, William E. Hefley, and Carolyn Reichert 17 Student sustainability knowledge gained from classroom and field experience 183 Dave Nelson and George Ionescu PART IV FACULTY PERSONAL SUSTAINABILITY AS SOCIAL MOVEMENT 18 The power of faculty sustainability practices helping businesses drive social change: an interview with Jessica Yinka Thomas 196 Patricia Kanashiro 19 From personal to professional: a reflective account of academics engaging with sustainability 205 Louise Obara, Te Klangboonkrong, Gary Chapman, and Regina Frank 20 OS4Future: an academic advocacy movement for our future 217 Giuseppe Delmestri, Helen Etchanchu, Joel Bothello, Stefanie Habersang, Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O, and Elke Schuessler 21 The tie that binds: how economic literacy is a foundation for sustainability 229 Madhavi Venkatesan Index

About the Author :
Edited by Mark Starik, Senior Lecturer, Sustainability Management Program, University of Wisconsin Extended Campus, Madison, Wisconsin, and Contributing Faculty Member, College of Health Sciences and Public Policy, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Patricia Kanashiro, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Southern California, US

Review :
‘This book on personal sustainability is a unique and urgently needed volume for advancing sustainable development. As faculty, we disparage companies and managers, but seldom do we turn our scrutiny inward and focus on our own personal commitment and conduct. This is a unique and most inspiring volume and I enthusiastically recommend it.’