Keith Brooks - LinkedIn Profile
Keith recently completed a Masters of Environmental Studies (MES) from York University where he explored how societies respond, or fail to respond, to social and environmental issues. Merging insights from the field of complexity theory with cultural theory and media studies, and incorporating the concepts of tipping points, thresholds and the inertia of the status quo, Keith developed a case to argue that both nature and societies evolve through a series of "punctuated equilibria" - long periods of relative stasis, which are periodically interrupted by briefer periods of more radical, structural change. Exploring the interplay between stasis and change, this theory and has some important implications both for the need for change and our capacity to affect change. Initially provoked into this line of inquiry by his interest in the environmental crisis and our seeming inability to practically approach sustainability, Keith is now interested in social change and social innovation more generally. Having thought deeply about these subjects and volunteered in a number of different initiatives, Keith is now looking to become fully immersed in the act of "world-changing", hoping to find full time employment with a mission-driven and innovative organization.