{"id":4160,"date":"2020-08-02T13:46:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T17:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sustainability\/?page_id=4160"},"modified":"2025-12-29T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:13:00","slug":"systems-thinking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/why\/systems-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Systems Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-row-layout-id4160_028c48-8e > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id4160_028c48-8e > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id4160_028c48-8e > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}.kb-row-layout-id4160_028c48-8e > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kb-row-layout-id4160_028c48-8e > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kb-row-layout-id4160_028c48-8e > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style><div class=\"kb-row-layout-wrap kb-row-layout-id4160_028c48-8e alignnone wp-block-kadence-rowlayout\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-mobile-layout-row kt-row-valign-top\">\n<style>.kadence-column4160_863fa2-7c > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column4160_863fa2-7c > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column4160_863fa2-7c > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column4160_863fa2-7c > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column4160_863fa2-7c > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column4160_863fa2-7c > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column4160_863fa2-7c{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column4160_863fa2-7c > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column4160_863fa2-7c > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column4160_863fa2-7c inner-column-1\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_c28c93-80, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_c28c93-80[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_c28c93-80\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_c28c93-80 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_c28c93-80[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_c28c93-80\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_c28c93-80 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_c28c93-80[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_c28c93-80\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h1 class=\"kt-adv-heading4160_c28c93-80 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_c28c93-80\">Systems Thinking<\/h1>\n\n\n<style>.kb-gallery-id-4160_e208ac-cf .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-4160_e208ac-cf .kb-slide-item .kb-gal-image-radius img{border-radius:10px 10px 10px 10px;;}.kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom.kb-gallery-id-4160_e208ac-cf .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption, .kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover.kb-gallery-id-4160_e208ac-cf .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption{background:linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8) 0, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%);}.kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_e208ac-cf.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery{overflow:visible;}.kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_e208ac-cf.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery .kt-blocks-carousel{overflow:visible;}<\/style><div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_e208ac-cf alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-slider kb-gallery-id-4160_e208ac-cf kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-carousel splide kt-carousel-container-dotstyle-dark kt-carousel-arrowstyle-none kt-carousel-dotstyle-dark kb-slider-group-arrow kb-slider-arrow-position-center\" data-slider-anim-speed=\"400\" data-slider-scroll=\"1\" data-slider-arrows=\"false\" data-slider-fade=\"true\" data-slider-dots=\"true\" data-slider-type=\"slider\" data-slider-hover-pause=\"false\" data-slider-auto=\"\" data-slider-speed=\"7000\" data-show-pause-button=\"false\"><div class=\"splide__track\"><ul class=\"kt-blocks-carousel-init kb-blocks-slider splide__list\"><li class=\"kb-slide-item kb-gallery-slide-item splide__slide\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-land169 kb-has-image-ratio-land169\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/2015-09-24_Campus_Scenes-4192-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"South facing image of the UF campus from the top of the Century Tower.\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/2015-09-24_Campus_Scenes-4192.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/2015-09-24_Campus_Scenes-4192.jpg\" data-id=\"9798\" class=\"wp-image-9798 skip-lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/2015-09-24_Campus_Scenes-4192-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/2015-09-24_Campus_Scenes-4192-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/2015-09-24_Campus_Scenes-4192-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/2015-09-24_Campus_Scenes-4192.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A vanishing point where orange (brick) and blue (sky) meet in a view of the UF campus facing south-southwest from the vantage point of the Century Tower.<\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_d3a3aa-ab, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_d3a3aa-ab[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_d3a3aa-ab\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_d3a3aa-ab mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_d3a3aa-ab[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_d3a3aa-ab\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_d3a3aa-ab img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_d3a3aa-ab[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_d3a3aa-ab\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading4160_d3a3aa-ab wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_d3a3aa-ab\">Seeing the Forest <mark class=\"kt-highlight\"><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-0-color\">&amp;<\/mark><\/mark> the Trees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nose to the grindstone&#8221; may be a clich\u00e9 for staying focused on the task at hand. Unfortunately, we too often fail to think outside of the box and expand our frames of reference to scales above and below that which lies beneath our nose. Wicked problems necessitate the wisdom of systems thinking &#8230; that place where orange (brick) and blue (sky) meet &#8230; where we rise to a higher station and see <strong><em>both<\/em><\/strong> the forest <em><strong>and<\/strong><\/em> the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SBE program employs an inquiry-based learning approach. We facilitate students to explore their world, deconstruct their worldviews, and ask questions about why the world is as it is. As they move from initial inquiries into strategic scenarios, SBE students unearth potential paths from problems to solutions and back again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.<\/p>\n<cite>&#8211; E.O. Wilson in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/191841\/consilience-by-edward-o-wilson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge<\/a><\/em> (1998, p. 294)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4160_67312d-9b .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4160_67312d-9b .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4160_67312d-9b alignnone\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_d7df70-f4, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_d7df70-f4[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_d7df70-f4\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_d7df70-f4 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_d7df70-f4[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_d7df70-f4\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_d7df70-f4 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_d7df70-f4[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_d7df70-f4\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading4160_d7df70-f4 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_d7df70-f4\">Empowering the Human Endeavor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Humans have been <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2023483118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shaping the geosphere for at least a dozen millennia<\/a>. Yet much of our history suggests a capacity for living in harmony with the <a href=\"https:\/\/mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov\/basic-page\/about-earth-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spheres<\/a>, rather than our more recent turn toward appropriation, intensification, and colonization undergirding the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/courier\/2018-2\/unbearable-burden-technosphere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">technosphere<\/a>. Future possibilities in mitigating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockholmresilience.org\/publications\/publications\/2016-04-18-the-trajectory-of-the-anthropocene-the-great-acceleration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Great Acceleration<\/a> need not be a reenactment of our ancestral past. But progress or peril may depend upon our ability to honor and integrate the indigenous wisdom of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) with the tools and technologies (Tech) of the 21st century. By synthesizing both <strong><em>high-TEK<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>high-Tech<\/em><\/strong> solutions, a holistic sum greater than its parts may be possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a simple model of the human endeavor, our built environments may be centered around four fundamental human actions and beneficial states of being: (1) eat and drink to thrive; (2) dwell to survive; (3) move to arrive; and (4) commune to realize. Thus, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecologyandsociety.org\/vol24\/iss1\/art2\/\" target=\"_blank\">social-ecological systems<\/a> sustaining food, water, shelter, mobility, inter\/intra-personal communication, and self-actualization are among the most crucial to know and nurture if we are to coherently cope with the uncertainties and changes of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-gallery-id-4160_e3e00f-f0 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-4160_e3e00f-f0 .kb-slide-item .kb-gal-image-radius img{border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;;}.kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom.kb-gallery-id-4160_e3e00f-f0 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption, .kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover.kb-gallery-id-4160_e3e00f-f0 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption{background:linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8) 0, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%);}.kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_e3e00f-f0.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery{overflow:visible;}.kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_e3e00f-f0.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery .kt-blocks-carousel{overflow:visible;}<\/style><div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_e3e00f-f0 alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-slider kb-gallery-id-4160_e3e00f-f0 kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-carousel splide kt-carousel-container-dotstyle-dark kt-carousel-arrowstyle-none kt-carousel-dotstyle-dark kb-slider-group-arrow kb-slider-arrow-position-center\" data-slider-anim-speed=\"400\" data-slider-scroll=\"1\" data-slider-arrows=\"false\" data-slider-fade=\"true\" data-slider-dots=\"true\" data-slider-type=\"slider\" data-slider-hover-pause=\"false\" data-slider-auto=\"\" data-slider-speed=\"7000\" data-show-pause-button=\"false\"><div class=\"splide__track\"><ul class=\"kt-blocks-carousel-init kb-blocks-slider splide__list\"><li class=\"kb-slide-item kb-gallery-slide-item splide__slide\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-inherit kb-has-image-ratio-inherit\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DCP3210_FramingSustainability_4Actions.png\" width=\"972\" height=\"856\" alt=\"A flow chart infographic of sustainability.\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DCP3210_FramingSustainability_4Actions.png\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DCP3210_FramingSustainability_4Actions.png\" data-id=\"9596\" class=\"wp-image-9596 skip-lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DCP3210_FramingSustainability_4Actions.png 972w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DCP3210_FramingSustainability_4Actions-300x264.png 300w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DCP3210_FramingSustainability_4Actions-768x676.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A flow chart of four fundamental human actions, the goods and services that enable them across five lifecycle phases, the continuum defining their outcome system stable states, and the nine planetary boundaries changing and exchanging throughout the cycles.\n(Hal S. Knowles, III, University of Florida)<\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The goods and services that enable these fundamental actions consume stocks, and generate flows, of key natural and human capital resources (e.g., energy, water, matter, money, labor) as they go through five lifecycle phases: (1) production; (2) processing; (3) distribution; (4) consumption; and (5) post-consumption. The nature in which we envision and provision these goods and services leads to various social-ecological system states, each bounded along a continuum of positive-to-negative outcome extremes. The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resalliance.org\/panarchy\" target=\"_blank\">panarchy<\/a> of nested <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resalliance.org\/adaptive-cycle\" target=\"_blank\">adaptive cycles<\/a> of social-ecological systems and human-environment livelihoods change and exchange across the nine planetary boundaries of our ecological ceiling and the 12 human dimensions of our social foundation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/doughnuteconomics.org\/about-doughnut-economics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doughnut model<\/a> fusing the work of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stockholmresilience.org\/research\/planetary-boundaries.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rockstr\u00f6m, et al.<\/a> at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stockholmresilience.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stockholm Resilience Centre<\/a> with that of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kateraworth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Raworth<\/a> at the Oxford University <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eci.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Change Institute<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4160_06e013-34 .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4160_06e013-34 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4160_06e013-34 alignnone\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_8808de-0f, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_8808de-0f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_8808de-0f\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_8808de-0f mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_8808de-0f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_8808de-0f\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_8808de-0f img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_8808de-0f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_8808de-0f\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h3 class=\"kt-adv-heading4160_8808de-0f wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_8808de-0f\">Adaptive Capacity in the Doughnut of the Anthropocene<\/h3>\n\n\n<style>.kb-gallery-id-4160_9e7646-ff .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-4160_9e7646-ff .kb-slide-item .kb-gal-image-radius img{border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;;}.kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom.kb-gallery-id-4160_9e7646-ff .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption, .kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover.kb-gallery-id-4160_9e7646-ff .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption{background:linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8) 0, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%);}.kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_9e7646-ff.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery{overflow:visible;}.kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_9e7646-ff.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery .kt-blocks-carousel{overflow:visible;}<\/style><div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_9e7646-ff alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-slider kb-gallery-id-4160_9e7646-ff kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-carousel splide kt-carousel-container-dotstyle-dark kt-carousel-arrowstyle-whiteondark kt-carousel-dotstyle-dark kb-slider-group-arrow kb-slider-arrow-position-center\" data-slider-anim-speed=\"400\" data-slider-scroll=\"1\" data-slider-arrows=\"true\" data-slider-fade=\"true\" data-slider-dots=\"true\" data-slider-type=\"slider\" data-slider-hover-pause=\"false\" data-slider-auto=\"1\" data-slider-speed=\"3000\" data-show-pause-button=\"false\"><div class=\"splide__track\"><ul class=\"kt-blocks-carousel-init kb-blocks-slider splide__list\"><li class=\"kb-slide-item kb-gallery-slide-item splide__slide\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/13.7\/2016\/10\/01\/495437158\/climate-change-and-the-astrobiology-of-the-anthropocene\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-inherit kb-has-image-ratio-inherit\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/04\/NPR_ClimateChangeAstrobiologyAnthropocene-987x1024.jpg\" width=\"987\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"An animated infographic vertically representing the geologic history of the Earth over timescales from 4.6 billion years ago through the present.\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/04\/NPR_ClimateChangeAstrobiologyAnthropocene.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/04\/NPR_ClimateChangeAstrobiologyAnthropocene.jpg\" data-id=\"14363\" class=\"wp-image-14363 skip-lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/04\/NPR_ClimateChangeAstrobiologyAnthropocene-987x1024.jpg 987w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/04\/NPR_ClimateChangeAstrobiologyAnthropocene-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/04\/NPR_ClimateChangeAstrobiologyAnthropocene-768x797.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/04\/NPR_ClimateChangeAstrobiologyAnthropocene-1480x1536.jpg 1480w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/04\/NPR_ClimateChangeAstrobiologyAnthropocene.jpg 1892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 987px) 100vw, 987px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">The Geologic History of Earth. Note the timescales. We are currently in the Holocene, which has been warm and moist and a great time to grow human civilization. But the activity of civilization is now pushing the planet into a new epoch which scientists call the Anthropocene. (Source: Ray Troll\/Troll Art via NPR)<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kb-slide-item kb-gallery-slide-item splide__slide\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kateraworth.com\/doughnut\/\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-inherit kb-has-image-ratio-inherit\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DonutModel_Economics_KateRaworth_WorldEconomicForum-1024x859.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"859\" alt=\"The donut model of social and planetary boundaries.\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DonutModel_Economics_KateRaworth_WorldEconomicForum.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DonutModel_Economics_KateRaworth_WorldEconomicForum.jpg\" data-id=\"9604\" class=\"wp-image-9604 skip-lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DonutModel_Economics_KateRaworth_WorldEconomicForum-1024x859.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DonutModel_Economics_KateRaworth_WorldEconomicForum-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DonutModel_Economics_KateRaworth_WorldEconomicForum-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DonutModel_Economics_KateRaworth_WorldEconomicForum-1536x1288.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/DonutModel_Economics_KateRaworth_WorldEconomicForum-2048x1718.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">The donut model of social and planetary boundaries. (Source: Kate Raworth, 2017)<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kb-slide-item kb-gallery-slide-item splide__slide\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hackernoon.com\/the-adaptive-cycle-panarchy-as-dynamic-maps-for-resilience-thinking-793fad49de5e\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-inherit kb-has-image-ratio-inherit\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/AdaptiveCycle_HackerNoon-1024x1015.jpeg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1015\" alt=\"Color coded drawing of the adaptive cycle.\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/AdaptiveCycle_HackerNoon.jpeg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/AdaptiveCycle_HackerNoon.jpeg\" data-id=\"4208\" class=\"wp-image-4208 skip-lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/AdaptiveCycle_HackerNoon-1024x1015.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/AdaptiveCycle_HackerNoon-300x297.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/AdaptiveCycle_HackerNoon-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/AdaptiveCycle_HackerNoon-768x762.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/AdaptiveCycle_HackerNoon.jpeg 1308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">The adaptive cycle, a core concept in resilience theory. (Source: Daniel Christian Wahl, Hacker Noon)<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scied.ucar.edu\/learning-zone\/earth-system\/anthropocene\">Anthropocene<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;defines Earth&#8217;s most recent geologic time period as being human-influenced, or anthropogenic, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans. The word combines the root &#8216;<strong>anthropo<\/strong>&#8216;, meaning <em>&#8220;human&#8221;<\/em> with the root &#8216;<strong>-cene<\/strong>&#8216;, the standard suffix for <em>&#8216;epoch&#8217;<\/em> in geologic time. The Anthropocene is distinguished as a new period either after or within the Holocene, the current epoch, which began approximately 10,000 years ago (about 8000 BC) with the end of the last glacial period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<cite>Source: Stockholm Resilience Center<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>While there is debate around the concept of the Anthropocene, especially <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2019\/08\/arrogance-anthropocene\/595795\/\" target=\"_blank\">arguments about if\/how human civilization might be classified more as mere geological event<\/a> (like the short but strong disturbance of an asteroid impact) versus the long emergency of a human degraded geologic epoch, the realization that humans wield the power and potential to alter the trajectory of life on Earth is fundamental to how SBE approaches our work. One suggestion for when the Anthropocene began is <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2020EF001917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the date we imagined its possibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4160_ad39e6-77 .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4160_ad39e6-77 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4160_ad39e6-77 alignnone\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_8ea105-26, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_8ea105-26[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_8ea105-26\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_8ea105-26 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_8ea105-26[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_8ea105-26\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_8ea105-26 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_8ea105-26[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_8ea105-26\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading4160_8ea105-26 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_8ea105-26\">The Science of Choice &amp; Consequence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Change is the only constant. Trite, but true, the challenge of change is one of choice and consequence. Uncertainty is inevitable, but green protocols, systems thinking, and the evolving <a href=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/why\/geodesign\/\"><strong>M<sup>6<\/sup><\/strong> technologies of geodesign<\/a> evoke awe and awareness, reveal our reshaping of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/why\/\">Earthly spheres<\/a>, and renew the reverence necessary to ignite our intention as stewards of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.organism.earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our planetary place in space<\/a>. We choose to <strong><em>SBE, here, now<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like any species, our collective evolution and individual impacts leave a legacy. While the human story has been millennia in the making, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockholmresilience.org\/publications\/publications\/2016-04-18-the-trajectory-of-the-anthropocene-the-great-acceleration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Great Acceleration<\/a> of the 20th Century has produced the possibility of something new, a planetary perspective and presence. Launched in the space age through the profound paradigm shift of the <a href=\"https:\/\/overviewinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overview effect<\/a> (i.e., the change in consciousness astronauts realize upon seeing the Earth from above), modern information and communications technologies (ICTs) bring it down to those of us stuck on the surface. With head in the clouds and feet on the ground, we see the Earth anew as human perception shifts from <strong><em>me<\/em><\/strong> living <strong><em>on Earth<\/em><\/strong>, to <strong><em>we<\/em><\/strong> are <strong><em>the Earth<\/em><\/strong> living.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_bc98e6-9c, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_bc98e6-9c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_bc98e6-9c\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_bc98e6-9c mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_bc98e6-9c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_bc98e6-9c\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_bc98e6-9c img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_bc98e6-9c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_bc98e6-9c\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading4160_bc98e6-9c wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_bc98e6-9c\">Whole Transect Prosperity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Smart communities are still a nascent idea, though rapidly evolving as information management organizes around the open data movement and sensors become cheaper, more widely available, and more challenging to manage. Conveniently, the existing, open source <a href=\"https:\/\/smartcodecentral.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SmartCode<\/a> offers a starting metaphor in a smart community lexicon. The SmartCode model, a multiscale, form-based land development code, uses a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/transect.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">transect<\/a>\u201d approach to zoning and provides a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/01944360802686662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">guiding template for modular, locally-calibrated planning policies and implementation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-gallery-id-4160_5784fc-92.kb-gallery-ul.kb-gallery-type-fluidcarousel .kt-blocks-carousel figure .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-4160_5784fc-92.kb-gallery-ul.kb-gallery-type-fluidcarousel .kt-blocks-carousel figure .kb-gal-image-radius img{height:300px;}.kb-gallery-id-4160_5784fc-92 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-4160_5784fc-92 .kb-slide-item .kb-gal-image-radius img{border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;;}.kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom.kb-gallery-id-4160_5784fc-92 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption, .kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover.kb-gallery-id-4160_5784fc-92 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption{background:linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8) 0, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%);}.kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_5784fc-92.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery{overflow:visible;}.kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_5784fc-92.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery .kt-blocks-carousel{overflow:visible;max-width:100%;}<\/style><div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_5784fc-92 alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-fluidcarousel kb-gallery-id-4160_5784fc-92 kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-carousel splide kt-carousel-container-dotstyle-dark kt-carousel-arrowstyle-whiteondark kt-carousel-dotstyle-dark kb-slider-group-arrow kb-slider-arrow-position-center\" data-slider-anim-speed=\"400\" data-slider-scroll=\"1\" data-slider-arrows=\"true\" data-slider-dots=\"true\" data-slider-hover-pause=\"false\" data-slider-auto=\"\" data-slider-speed=\"7000\" data-slider-type=\"fluidcarousel\" data-slider-center-mode=\"true\" data-slider-gap=\"10px\" data-slider-gap-tablet=\"10px\" data-slider-gap-mobile=\"10px\" data-show-pause-button=\"false\"><div class=\"splide__track\"><ul class=\"kt-blocks-carousel-init kb-blocks-fluid-carousel splide__list\"><li class=\"kb-slide-item kb-gallery-carousel-item splide__slide\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/transect.org\/rural_img.html\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Rural-To-Urban_Transect-1024x345.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"345\" alt=\"Basic diagram of the transect model of planning from T0 through T6.\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Rural-To-Urban_Transect.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Rural-To-Urban_Transect.jpg\" data-id=\"9992\" class=\"wp-image-9992 skip-lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Rural-To-Urban_Transect-1024x345.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Rural-To-Urban_Transect-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Rural-To-Urban_Transect-768x259.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Rural-To-Urban_Transect-1536x518.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Rural-To-Urban_Transect.jpg 1572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">This is the current (post-2008) Transect diagram with six normative Transect Zones (T-zones) used for the zoning of urban areas as well as natural lands. It is intended to be as general as possible in order to serve model codes like the SmartCode. The elements are drawn in section above and in plan below. (Source: CATS)<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A transect organizes land uses into a series of symbiotic forms and functions along a discrete space-time continuum of human alteration, infrastructure intensity, and population density from natural environments to rural, suburban, and urban places. In other words, the transect is a snapshot in time of a cross section of place-based spatial relationships. Changes in these relationships can be tracked by comparing and contrasting successive temporal snapshots and\/or multiple spatial scales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These concepts are important in the ways that the SBE program frames land use change and the various processes, principles, and practices of green building, sustainability, and community resilience. While urban areas along the transect often get the most attention in targeted strategies for more sustainable solutions, the SBE program aims to build bridges between the most rural, to the most urban, livelihoods in pursuit of whole transect prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4160_c83845-23 .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4160_c83845-23 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4160_c83845-23 alignnone\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_388e4d-98, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_388e4d-98[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_388e4d-98\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_388e4d-98 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_388e4d-98[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_388e4d-98\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_388e4d-98 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading4160_388e4d-98[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_388e4d-98\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading4160_388e4d-98 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading4160_388e4d-98\">Revisioning &amp; Regenerating<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.kb-gallery-id-4160_d00a76-50 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-4160_d00a76-50 .kb-slide-item .kb-gal-image-radius img{border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;;}.kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom.kb-gallery-id-4160_d00a76-50 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption, .kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover.kb-gallery-id-4160_d00a76-50 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption{background:linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8) 0, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%);}.kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_d00a76-50.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery{overflow:visible;}.kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_d00a76-50.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery .kt-blocks-carousel{overflow:visible;}<\/style><div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-4160_d00a76-50 alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-slider kb-gallery-id-4160_d00a76-50 kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-carousel splide kt-carousel-container-dotstyle-dark kt-carousel-arrowstyle-none kt-carousel-dotstyle-dark kb-slider-group-arrow kb-slider-arrow-position-center\" data-slider-anim-speed=\"400\" data-slider-scroll=\"1\" data-slider-arrows=\"false\" data-slider-fade=\"true\" data-slider-dots=\"true\" data-slider-type=\"slider\" data-slider-hover-pause=\"false\" data-slider-auto=\"\" data-slider-speed=\"7000\" data-show-pause-button=\"false\"><div class=\"splide__track\"><ul class=\"kt-blocks-carousel-init kb-blocks-slider splide__list\"><li class=\"kb-slide-item kb-gallery-slide-item splide__slide\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/transect.org\/natural_img.html\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-inherit kb-has-image-ratio-inherit\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Humboldt_FirstTransect-1024x710.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" alt=\"Transect infographic of the Earth drawn by Alexander Von Humboldt in 1793.\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Humboldt_FirstTransect.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Humboldt_FirstTransect.jpg\" data-id=\"9990\" class=\"wp-image-9990 skip-lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Humboldt_FirstTransect-1024x710.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Humboldt_FirstTransect-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Humboldt_FirstTransect-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/01\/CATS_Humboldt_FirstTransect.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">This first transect was conceived by Alexander Von Humboldt in 1793. It is taken across the southern tip of South America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and is vertically exaggerated. This curious document has notations on the surface of the earth, beneath the surface, and also, apparently, the atmospheric conditions. (Source: CATS)<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In a synergistic way, both the visionaries at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dpz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duany Plater-Zyberk &amp; Company<\/a> who created the rural-to-urban transect approach, and the social change agents at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drawdown.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Project Drawdown<\/a>, including it&#8217;s co-founder <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drawdown.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Paul-Bio-700-words-with-photo.pdf?_ga=2.171479200.1839205918.1611946264-2111835012.1604955327\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Hawken<\/a>, make reference to the inspiration that came from Alexander von Humboldt&#8217;s Naturgem\u00e4lde. This detailed drawing, arguably both the first ecological transect and the first communications infographic,  represents the wholeness of nature as a &#8220;microcosm on one page.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SBE students learn how the Earth is an interconnected system, as they acquire the skills to comprehend, curate, and communicate these core connections to others as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drawdown.org\/solutions\" target=\"_blank\">Drawdown solutions<\/a> help us transition the collective human endeavor into a regenerative economy, within a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stockholmresilience.org\/research\/research-news\/2019-07-25-its-all-about-the-safe-operating-space.html\" target=\"_blank\">safe operating space (SOS)<\/a>, as one living planet. The SBE Program leans heavily into the form, function, and frameworks being developed and deployed from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drawdown.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Drawdown<\/a> and the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/regeneration.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Regeneration<\/a> approach.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4160_3dd9b6-62 .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4160_3dd9b6-62 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4160_3dd9b6-62 alignnone\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:64% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/projectdrawdown\/photos\/a.965266940160001\/1517094444977245\/?type=3&amp;source=54\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/Drawdown_2017_StrategiesInfographic_Nautilus-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Project Drawdown's top climate change solutions as of April 2017.\" class=\"wp-image-4156 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/Drawdown_2017_StrategiesInfographic_Nautilus-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/Drawdown_2017_StrategiesInfographic_Nautilus-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/Drawdown_2017_StrategiesInfographic_Nautilus-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/Drawdown_2017_StrategiesInfographic_Nautilus-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/Drawdown_2017_StrategiesInfographic_Nautilus.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Project Drawdown is &#8220;the world&#8217;s leading resource for climate solutions&#8221; and serves as the core teaching tool and a guiding framework for the SBE curricula and our emerging student leaders. While Drawdown speaks through the currency of greenhouse gases, its strategies respond to the SOS of our SBE calling as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org\/dymaxion-forum\/2014\/09\/thinking-trimtab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trim tabs<\/a> for spaceship Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drawdown.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/ProjectDrawdown_CloudGraphic-1024x390.jpg\" alt=\"Project Drawdown logo.\" class=\"wp-image-4154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/ProjectDrawdown_CloudGraphic-1024x390.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/ProjectDrawdown_CloudGraphic-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/ProjectDrawdown_CloudGraphic-768x293.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/ProjectDrawdown_CloudGraphic-1536x585.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/08\/ProjectDrawdown_CloudGraphic.jpg 1654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 35%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;<em>Regeneration<\/em>&nbsp;is a radical new approach to the climate crisis, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<cite>Paul Hawken &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/regeneration.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Regeneration<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/regeneration.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/10\/Regeneration_Cover_Spine01.jpg\" alt=\"Regeneration book cover.\" class=\"wp-image-11330 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/10\/Regeneration_Cover_Spine01.jpg 375w, https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/sbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/10\/Regeneration_Cover_Spine01-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Systems Thinking Seeing the Forest &amp; the Trees &#8220;Nose to the grindstone&#8221; may be a clich\u00e9 for staying focused on the task at hand. 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