EcoPractice

Philosophy

EcoPractice encompasses the following foundation concepts:

• A culture of sustainability is essential for the success of any sustainability vision, program, project, process or action.
• Culture is sustainability’s “overlooked dimension”: it influences our capacity to act sustainably, as an intrinsic, implicit state or “second nature”.
• The practice of sustainability facilitates the emergence of sustainability culture; and, in turn, a mature sustainability culture supports our sustainability-oriented actions.
• A sustainability culture exists when sustainable behaviour is evident in our everyday practices, especially where situations are complex and difficult, and sustainable solutions are hard to find.
• In complex social environments, a sustainability culture is not only constructed or designed: it emerges as a new pattern from the field of culture, values, attitudes and action.
• Culture is an emergent quality of complex social systems, and thus sustainability practice must be grounded in emergent patterns.
• Our social systems are living systems and thus are adaptive, resilient, complex, self-organising and enable new patterns to emerge.
• Sustainability culture is emergent, therefore EcoPractice applies an emergence-based model of sustainability culture: The Ecoplexity Model; and emergence-based patterns for sustainability practice: The Ecoplexity Patterns
• EcoPractice and the Ecoplexity Model and Patterns encompass: Simplicity and Complexity – Complicity and Implicity!