It is important to tackle these challenges as a group, because it helps us come up with new ideas and gives you different perspectives. UN Sustainability goal 17 is for partnerships to achieve all the rest of the goals.
We can only sustainably address all the goals together.
Why can’t you do it on your own?
Different perspectives are valuable; they let different people see things each other might miss. They also let us hear everyone’s needs and concerns and to find solutions the benefit everyone. This makes this fair (Goals 5, 10 and 17).
Using a piece of paper and a pen, draw (without using any words or letters) the process of making toast.
How does this task of drawing toast represent what you’ve learned about systems?
Watch this video up to the 2:35 mark.
Just like in the video, you will all have approached this task very differently. You will have focused on different things, shared or shown things in different ways. Looking at all your ideas gives someone a much clearer idea of how to make toast than just looking at one of them.