Joan Weiner, who has a degree in social systems sciences, notes that although approaching sustainable innovation in a holistic way holds the challenge of bringing together the complex, interrelated sets of pieces into a new and continually changing system, the benefits are potentially great.

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And it's suited me, and the truth is that anyone that trains under any system, these systems are not sciences.

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