How to be a grain of sand: Chris Hines

Change tools• Aims, problems, solutions,• Creating the environment for

change, media, regulators, politics

• Negotiating, stay at the table, friends and foes.

• Funding, team, make it fun!

“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”

Alice Walker, Author and campaigner

Sustainable Development

Rio, JoBurg, Your town!’92 – 150 Nations signed

up21 years on and it has

moved a long way.Big Issues: Peace,

equality, justice, health, women, children,

biodiversity, education, poverty, pollution…

Everything!• Sustainable Development impacts on every

single aspect of our lives:• The air we breath, the food we eat, the

products we use, the energy we consume, the waste we create, our transport systems, our communities, our health, our enjoyment, our quality of life and

happiness.

• Every organisation, business and individual has an impact – sustainability is about minimising the impact and maximising the efficiency.

Waste Neutral at Eden

Choice editingShift from “Value

for money” towards “values for money”: Professor

Tim Lang

The Fun Theory

Change tools• Aims, problems, solutions,• Creating the environment for

change, media, regulators, politics

• Negotiating, stay at the table, friends and foes.

• Funding, team, make it fun!

•Love •Friends and family•Support•Look after yourself! Feed yourself, go back to the sea!

The 21st Century Needs US!• Huge challenges.

• Tension is good – it drives change.• Light and quick – 70/30.• Be attractive. Make it fun!• Homo sapiens can do anything…• Be PASSIONATE !!! • Believe! Be optimistic and challenge the norm!