Summary: This home page tracks methods and philosophy of World Sustainability within this site. The methods directory was updated 7/12/2010 as part of build of site architecture. This signals the intention to add depth to the treatment of World Sustainability.
A hallmark of the World Sustainability Web Site is the extension of thought to a deeper level, thus injecting philosophy. This reflects the heritage of Murray Bookchin and the inheritance of Social Ecology.
Legacy: The global crisis and the enabling analysis require the discovery of a consistent and presuppositionless ground capable of supporting a critical re-thinking of sustainability. Countefeit sustainability, shallow reformism, and the outright fraud of greenwashing thrive in the absence of such a grounding. Authentic sustainability required contemplation. In philosophy, this is called ontology and is prior and foundational to knowledge and ethics.
Ontology identifies a tension essential to framing and joining the global crisis and the disabling analysis, which I call "W > E," a type of overshoot in which the load placed on Earth (I = P * C * T) vastly exceeds the carrying capacity of the Earth.