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Sustainability Blues: Too Pop to Mean Much

Published 08/22/2013 VCReporter I got aboard the Sustainability Train early, in the late 1970’s. I saw it as a dazzling breakthrough concept. I won an international Mitchell Prize for an essay I wrote, “New Metaphors, Myths, and Values for a Steady State Future,” where I proposed local councils to promote and measure the level of sustainability in communities (see essay in Professional Work). Then with a colleague at CSU Northridge, I wrote a grant to measure to level of sustainable practices, called Footprints, in the City of Oxnard, CA. Three other colleagues came aboard and one had his graduate students take on big parts of the Project. We published a report entitled “Limits to Growth and

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