Northern Arizona University

Ron is the founder and Managing Director of Hozho International, a firm focused on working with business clients to develop creative strategies and business model innovations that deliver both greater financial performance and environmental sustainability. If you would like Ron to speak to your group on these issues, please contact him directly or through EcoSpeakers.com.

   

Ron Hubert

M.S. Candidate in Environmental Sciences and Policy

Williams College, 1965 – Philosophy & Psychology
University of Southern California, 1989 – MBA (honors)
Northern Arizona University, 2004 – Conservation Ecology

The way we plan, build and live in our cities is a major source of our unsustainability, yet the 1,500 US cities trying to become more sustainable are following policies and practices that are either sub-optimal or counter-productive. Sustainable community managers often confuse sustainability with what is to be sustained, choose indicators based on what data is available rather than the information needed, seek to optimize outcomes rather than system functionality, and ignore the evolutionarily proven operating principles of natural systems for the dysfunctional, hierarchical control philosophy of most social systems.

My research identifies successful city sustainability programs in the US, then compares them with less successful sustainability initiatives to discover how the programs differ. Research with sustainability program leaders in each city will identify the design and operating principles (the Critical Success Factors) that lead to improved chances of success. The research will also investigate how, why, and under what conditions these CSFs work. Increasing the effectiveness of community sustainability programs through better knowledge of the CSFs will better protect environmental resources (more...)

Email: rdh53@NAU.EDU

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