Our Vision
To show how people can live a good life in a better world by integrating knowledge from across the human and social sciences.
About Us
Founded in 2000, SDI is a virtual think tank that integrates theories and practices for sustainability from around the world. Perceived appropriately, everything from technological innovation to the human mind can contribute to the goal of a good life in a better world.
Contact Us
Email to: harrison@sd-institute.org
Our Guiding Idea
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund Burke 1770
Resources and Methods
Our first book published in 2000 showed that we cannot comprehend challenges like climate change, sustainability, and human development cannot from the perspective of a single discipline. It is only by integrating knowledge from a wide range of disciplines including political science, economics, psychology, ecology, biology and neuroscience that we can develop ideas that can contribute to a good life in a better world.