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SuNSTAINABLE DesignWays  DESIGN WORKSHOP learning skills for sustainable development    facilitated by Joanne Tippett When: August 16-21, 1999 Where: The Finnish Hall, Berkeley, California

Would you like to know how to apply sustainability principles in practice?

Are you looking for a way to design innovative solutions in businesses, organizations, land use and development?

Would you like to enhance strategic planning and productive stakeholder dialogue?

Meet like-minded decision makers and a co-operative team of experienced teaching staff in this dynamic workshop focusing on applying the principles of sustainable development, innovative thinking techniques and ecological design.

SuNstainable DesignWays™ is a design, planning and communication tool. It integrates The Natural Step™ framework of sustainability, holistic goal formation and permaculture design tools into an easy-to-follow, step-by-step process.

Design is the creative process of developing new ideas and possibilities and integrating them within the context of a particular organization, place and time. Every design created with the DesignWays process is different, dependent on people's goals and on the local context. The course will be project oriented, focusing on creative redesign of part of an urban area. The focus is on designing urban sustainability and sustainable business practices - and the skills you will learn can be applied to many other projects and at many levels of scale.

Read an article on SuNstainable DesignWays.  See examples of work carried out using the design process.