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Ana Cristina Campos Marques
Curitiba - Brazil
Woman, engineer, teacher, consultant. Many years of working with sustainability at various segments of society (national and multinational companies, universities, communities).
But above all, a common human being, willing to help, share, transform!Photo by Cristina Rijskamp
(http://www.cristinarijskamp.com)
Author Archives: Ana Marques
Sustainability and news!
After some years I’m back! A lot of things happened in my life during this time… I’m not the same anymore, sustainability is also not the same anymore (or it is?). I recorded a video to share what I have … Continue reading
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Love & Sustainability
Hello! Let’s talk about love and sustainability! Wow, seems so different ideas, but they are much more connected than we might imagine 🙂 According to several ancient cultures, ignorance is a major cause of suffering. However, it’s not the ignorance … Continue reading
Conscious Leadership for Sustainability – Presentation in Oslo
I have had the joy and honor of being invited by the city of Oslo to present my research on the same Venue of Nobel Peace Prize! Â Photo 1 – Audience of my presentation in Oslo Following is a summary … Continue reading
Trust, Self-development and Sustainability
The world is facing complex sustainability challenges, manifested in many interdependent crises, including climate change, deforestation and desertification, hunger and poverty, lack of drinking water, public health issues, political conflicts, institutional failure, loss of biodiversity, among others. All these crises … Continue reading
Trust and Common Resources Conservation
Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Science, studied cases around the world in which communities successfully regulated common resources (like forests or fisheries) use through cooperation. The research overturned the conventional wisdom about the … Continue reading
World´s end X Sustainability
Much has been said about the end of world in 2012 … I sincerely hope this be true … Now you must be wondering…how a person who intends to write about “sustainability” wants the word´s end? Calm down, I’ll explain … Continue reading
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Tagged Consciousness, Happiness, Sustainability, World´s end
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Constructive Developmental Theory
Hello! We will see one very interesting theory about consciousness development. This is one of the theories that I will use in my PhD research for the development of conscious leadership for sustainability. Researchers in the past thought that just … Continue reading
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Theory U – Part 2
Hello! Let´s continue with the Theory U! As we saw in the last post, “Presencing,” a blend of the words “presence” and “sensing,” refers to the ability to sense and bring into the present one’s highest future potential—as an individual … Continue reading
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Tagged Inovation, Leadership, Otto Scharmer, Sustainability, Theory U
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Theory U
Hello! Today we will start with a citation from Peter Senge: “Strategic planning towards sustainability requires engaging in profound change, an inner shift in peoples values, aspirations and behaviors guided by their mental models, as well as an outer shift … Continue reading
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