As much as New Jersey is now doing on climate change, there is certainly more it could do. While there are well known external obstacles to progress, but beyond these, what deeper but questionable assumptions do we possibly hold about the way the world works that can cause us to get in our own way?
Matt Polsky has been a sustainability change-agent for almost 45 years. He has extensive sustainability experience working for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, where he was the Sustainability Team Leader, and the co-catalyst for their first work on climate change; for two local governments, where he helped them receive Sustainable Jersey certification; for environmental groups, where he helped one preserve 700 acres of open space; business; and as an adjunct professor, teaching 29 courses. He was a Senior Fellow for 12 years with FDU’s Institute for Sustainable Enterprise. He focuses on helping groups and key individuals understand sustainability more deeply, providing interdisciplinary perspectives, resources, and facilitating cross-sectoral communication. He has won 19 sustainability awards or resolutions. A perpetual student, he has a BA in Psychology from Rutgers College, an MBA in Economics and MA in Humanities & Social Thought from NYU. He is in the Sustainability Ph.D. program at Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
