Much of my effort over the past five years fosuces\u00a0on working with civil society organizations at the UN on\u00a0the world sustainable development goals (SDG\u2019s). \u00a0 This year, needing to take care of other business, I’m sitting out. \u00a0 \u00a0It may be ironic, of course, as the challenges of implementing the UN 17 separate goals probably makes:<\/p>\n
Ultimately my years at the UN was mostly spent identifying the widespread absence of systems thinking in the SDG’s, watching somewhat painfully as the UN spent all its time creating lists of separate goals, as if unaware of their interlinkage. The interlinkage most neglected of course was that of *MONEY*, our main tool and problem. \u00a0 So my writing of that time may be a little out of date. \u00a0 I can tell that much of the\u00a0systems thinking I found so absent before\u00a0still is, however.<\/p>\n
I have lots of other writings on how “systems thinking” for our\u00a0world needs to become “systems making”, the next step toward true “homemaking on planet earth”. \u00a0 Finding how societies can make their\u00a0good homes on earth is the answer. \u00a0 Like ecologies of other kinds do, we can invent our way out of the deepening trap we now find our world economy in, using nature as a guide.<\/p>\n
I got fairly frequent applause at the UN, \u00a0enough to know people are listening, but to my knowledge no one ever followed up on my carefully\u00a0 reasoned recommendations, and no one ever asked me to be on a panel discussing them either. \u00a0 So here I’ve collected some of my old lists of observations on the process, and reiterate my offer to help people\u00a0understand the guiding patterns of natural system design that I’ve spent my life studying.<\/p>\n
A Youtube of one of my interventions for last year’s HLPF gets right to the heart of the matter too!<\/p>\n
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Notes on how the “UN Development Goals\u2026 leave out the Common Needs”(1)<\/p>\n
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Here are other short posts on the\u00a0systems thinking to bring into the\u00a0UN’s discussion to guide us toward the\u00a0long term goal of making Earth our good home:<\/p>\n
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Setting Our Whole system goal, Making the Earth our good home. Much of my effort over the past five years fosuces\u00a0on working with civil society organizations at the UN on\u00a0the world sustainable development goals (SDG\u2019s). \u00a0 This year, needing to take care of other business, I’m sitting out. \u00a0 \u00a0It may be ironic, of course, … Continue reading UN SDG’s and HLPF – the whole-system thinking needed<\/span>