Beyond sustainability

This conference examines the heart of technology and education about technology. It calls on us as the educated community of this planet to bring examples of heart and purpose to:

• Technology.
• The way we educate and promote technology.
• Technology’s underlying reason for being.
• How we are using technologies to improve the society and environment on our tiny home called Earth.

The way technology is used and its impacts are a result of the way it is taught. Its power to create, maintain or destroy is clear, yet how much educating of this heart and soul philosophy do we take responsibility for in our universities, businesses and organisations? This conference calls on those that are taking steps to share, collaborate and learn.

“In an awakening first world we are realising that there has been little at all that is ‘developed’ about the way we have conducted ourselves on this planet over the last half century. ‘Progress’, ‘advancement’ and our developed world’s economic paradigms have seen a degradation in our environment and social structures never before experienced.”

Global GDP has increased 6-fold since the 1950s and in that same time the number of people starving to death has doubled—derailing completely the concept that global economic growth is the answer to a better world.

“We see superpowers cutting research and development budgets on alternative carbon-zero fuels and yet approving the largest military budgets ever, principally to protect their access to the worlds largest pollutant, oil, whilst global warming and its fatal impacts on life on this planet continue.”