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Deep sustainability is a worldview that is grounded in an experiential and intellectual understanding of the unity that underlies the surface diversity of life.
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by Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, The Review
28 September 2015
Two events at Maharishi University of Management (MUM) this past summer brought together experts who share a deep respect for nature and the Earth, and a desire for a more holistic approach to making the world a better and healthier place to live.
The University's first annual Colloquy on Deep Sustainability, hosted by the Sustainable Living Department, invited 20 top experts from around the country to participate in a discussion about the future direction of sustainability initiatives.
Deep sustainability is a worldview that moves sustainability beyond energy efficiency and substituting newer technologies for older technologies. It takes a more fundamental and holistic approach and challenges people to rethink the fundamental nature of their relationships with each other and with the entire Earth—and redefines what it means to be truly human.
The Fourth Annual Deep Green Symposium, hosted by the Management Department, featured 16 invited speakers, including two from Harvard University, one from India, and many from MUM and around the country to present their research and perspectives on sustainability.
The speakers presented their research from philosophical, organizational, and technical perspectives. Faculty members Lonnie Gamble and Travis Cox defined deep sustainability as going beyond efficiency and substitution. Instead, it's based on a worldview that uses ecology as a metaphor rather than the machine, holism rather than reductionism. It complements science with many ways of knowing and is grounded in an experiential and intellectual understanding of the unity that underlies the surface diversity of life.
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