Those who advocate moving towards sustainability debate how change can be achieved. This book focuses on what it means to take up leadership for sustainability, from a variety of organizational and social positions, and considers the consequences of different strategies and practices for influencing change.

Part 1: Taking up the challengePart 2: Educating for inquiring practice in sustainabilityPart 3: Ideas and practicesPart 4: Promoting alternative questioning, policies and practices in mainstream organisationsCatalysing a strategic approach to sustainability in a major IT companyChris PreistOn being a change agent for sustainabilityChristel ScholtenImbuing work with ecological valuesHelen GouldenThinking out of the box: Introducing action research into neighbourhood practice in the north-west of EnglandHelena KettleboroughChoose lifeJames BarlowLeadership for change in USA public food procurement: People, products and policyKaren KarpTwo worlds?Mark GaterPutting my learning into practicePrishani SatyapalPart 5: Establishing sustainability practices in organisations and industriesWorking below the parapetAlison KennedyProtesting and engaging for changeKené UmeasiegbuBuilding an iconic eco-factoryVidhura RalapanawePart 6: Paying attention to everyday practices of sustainable livingLike a river flows: How do we call forth 'a world worthy of human aspiration'?Helen SierodaSport as inquiry: Safe escape, activism and a journey into selfJon AlexanderPart 7: Seeking to shift systemic rules and awarenessLessons from the entrepreneurial pathCharles O'MalleyCreating places to stand and the levers to move the worldDavid BentLeading by natureJen MorganThe practice of making business responsiblePaul DickinsonThe gap between discourse and practice: Holding promoters of Amazon infrastructure projects to accountRoland WidmerPart 8: Connecting up stakeholders for more sustainable outcomesKatineJo ConfinoChallenging the system with the success of inquiryNick PyattCollaborative conservationSimon HicksPart 9: Itinerant change agents to professions and sectors'Holding up the tightrope' - helping us all act for sustainabilityCharles AingerDoing things right - and doing the right thingSimon CooperPart 10: Working through community and societyThe journey to CONVERGEIan RoderickGYVA.LT: An initiative to promote environmentally friendly living and sustainability in Lithuania Indre KleinaiteCultureWork for a world in transitionPaula DowneyPart 11: Working with young peopleGrowing food - growing peopleJane RiddifordLearning for sustainability: Living a new world-viewJoanne BaileyA journey of dialoguing: Peace and inner peaceLalith Gunaratne and Mihirini De ZoysaReflectionsBibliography