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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Sustainability - a talk based on the book ‘Sustainabi
 lity: a cultural history’\, by Ulrich Grober - Ray Cunningham
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CONTACT:Alexander Phillips
DESCRIPTION:Reclaiming ‘sustainability’ is based on the book ‘Sustai
 nability: A cultural history’\, by Ulrich Grober (Green Books\, 2012)\, 
 which Ray Cunningham translated from the original German. It argues that t
 he term ‘sustainability’\, although diluted and abused almost to death
  in recent years\, is too valuable to be abandoned\, and that the best way
  to defend and reclaim it is to gain a fuller understanding of its meaning
  and value by investigating its origins and the history of its use over ti
 me. The book takes us from the Old Testament via medieval Venice\, the cou
 rt of Louis XIV and the silver mines of 18th century Saxony to the West Co
 ast hippies of the 1960s and finally to contemporary economic and environm
 ental policy-making. This talk is a whistle-stop tour of the highlights.
LOCATION:Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027)\, Anglia Ruskin University\, Cam
 bridge
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