{"id":1431,"date":"2014-01-14T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2014-01-14T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:00:17","slug":"time-for-a-rethink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2014\/01\/14\/time-for-a-rethink\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for a rethink"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones\u201d (Maynard Keynes)<\/p>\n

Are we teaching industry, business, product design, materials and energy in a way which prepares the next generation for a future which is likely to take a quite different path to the present?<\/p>\n

High and volatile commodity prices, the soaring cost of energy, the depletion of known stocks of materials, and damaging environmental consequences are all signs of a faltering industrial economy which follows a linear take, make, dispose<\/em> path.<\/p>\n

There is a consensus for change among key thinkers about how our future should be shaped.\u00a0 Paul Hawkins (author of Natural Capitalism), William McDonough and Michael Braungart (Cradle to Cradle), Janine Benyus (Biomimicry 3.8), Gunter Pauli (Blue Economy), and Walter Stahel (The Performance Economy) argue for a new industrial revolution which would be characterised by these four key points:<\/p>\n