About UsThe Alliance for Sustainable Wellbeing catalyses the thinking and practical action that will lead to Australia becoming a viable society - and thus a world leader in achieving ecological sustainability and social wellbeing.
Andrew Gaines is the convenor of the Alliance for Sustainable Wellbeing.
He is the author of Evolving a World That Works, Orienting to Creating a Viable Future, and Creative Conversations, and he has published on corporate social responsibility in the Journal of Corporate Citizenship and in the CSIRO Sustainability Netletter. Andrew lives Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, about two hours from Sydney. The story of how he became a committed optimist is
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Andrew is an innovative systems thinker who has original insights into what it will take to evolve a viable society. He is trained in The Natural Step, a reality-based approach to working out whether a business, a country or the global civilisation is sustainable or not. His academic background is in philosophy, and he has worked professionally in the areas of creativity training, the Feldenkrais method of body awareness and psychotherapy. 