• The Challenge and the Goal
• A Question of Direction
• Why We Will Succeed
• Seeds For Change
• Audio Visual Resources

• Things You Can Do
  • At the Personal Level
  • At the Community Level
  • At the Government Level
• "Life, Money & Illusion
  • What the book is about
  • Book Reviews
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  • Where to find the book
• Touring with the Message
  • Where we are going
  • Where we have been
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  • Discussion Outline
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• Measuring Well-Being
  • History
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  • Current Program
  • Well-Being Measurement Act
  • Measuring Well-Being document
• Mutual Provision - Economy
  • Economic Concern
  • 3/5ths of Ecology
  • The Invisible Hand
  • Supply and Demand
  • The Genuine Progress Index

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About Us

Mike Nickerson

Mike Nickerson first encountered sustainability as a co-director of the Institute for the Study of Cultural Evolution. The organization's study of the aspirations and concerns of citizens' groups culminated in 1974 with the point form summary, now known as the Guideposts for a Sustainable Future. The background detail of the study was published in 1977 under the title Change the World I Want to Stay On. In 1990 Mr. Nickerson completed production of the Guideposts for a Sustainable Future video along with an accompanying workshop kit. In 1993 his second book Planning for Seven Generations was published in paperback. His most recent book, Life, Money and Illusion; Living on Earth as if we want to stay," first published in 2006, has been republished (fall 2009) in a second edition by New Society Publishers.

Mike coordinated an initiative to establish a Genuine Progress Index for Canada. He is the Executive Director of The Sustainability Project and spends several months of the year travelling across Canada, making presentations and facilitating meetings on "how to live on Earth as if we want to stay". He lives near the village of Lanark, Ontario and supports his interest in cultural evolution doing custom woodwork. He would like to spend more time growing things.

Donna Dillman

Mother of four adult children, Donna witnessed and participated in the birth of her youngest granddaughter. This fueled her desire to act on behalf of grandchildren everywhere and resulted in her campaign against uranium exploration and mining in Eastern Ontario in 2007. Donna went 68 days without food and resumed eating just before Christmas when a Citizens' Inquiry was called by several non-government organizations.

Her passion is 'relationship' - how we relate to ourselves, to each other and to the planet that sustains us. She believes that, as we move forward into a post petroleum world, we will, of necessity, be living in closer community; that it is crucial that we be willing to look inward with compassion to aid in building intimate relationships within communities, and that we truly can and must 'change the world, one person at a time.'

Donna is on the board of directors of the Sustainability Project - an educational, non-profit organization that promotes green values.

Community Coalition Against Mining Uranium (www.ccamu.ca)
Citizens' Inquiry into the Impacts of the Uranium Cycle

Kenrick Chin

Kenrick Chin is an electronics and computer engineer. He cycles 5K to work when weather permits and works from home whenever he can. Ken teaches electronics and computers at McMaster University and in his leisure time enjoys gardening, sailing, photography, classical guitar, jazz guitar and bass. He and his family live in Dundas, Ontario, population of twenty thousand, where he is promoting sustainability. He is a founding member of Transition Town Dundas.

Visit Ken's website: The Steady-State Initiative