Author: steve
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Presentation of Transition as Cooking by Rob Hopkins
Rob Hopkins' Transition Cookbook View another webinar from Stephen Hinton
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Industrial Capitalist City Culture and Transition Villages compared
Eco village culture to and industrial economy city culture r1 View more presentations from Stephen Hinton.
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Video of our eco-village, the eco-unit
An eco-unit is a type of eco village that aims to have its food produced close by and to recycle nutrients. I am part of a group that has been workng to set an eco-unit up in Sweden. Swedish TV were curious about us and came for a visit, making a 2 minute item for the local…
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Second Life Island Perfect Paradise celebrates three years anniversary
Perfect Paradise (PP) is virtual community in Second life (SL) focussed on learning about community and sustainability. I joined early on. My aim was to learn about community to be able to transfer the knowledge to my real-life (RL) community, now called Änggärdet. Below is an account, written for the Island Newsletter, of why I…
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Japan may bring us all down
In shock I watched videos of the tsunami devastating towns along the coast of Japan. And incredulously I watched the explosion at the nuclear power plant. What are the chances of a nuclear melt-down in at least one of the five plants along the coast each with several reactors at it? And, as this is…
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White paper shows how market forces can tackle carbon dioxide and phosphorus challenges
This updated White Paper How Flexible Emissions Fees Can Drive Transition to Fossil-free and Sustainable Living explains why we need to discourage supply chains from emitting waste into the natural environment. It also explains that what we call waste could be a resource in another supply chain if the economic context were to encourage recycling.…
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Can we have economic growth AND eliminate all pollution? TSSEF thinks so.
It may sound impossible to you as you have probably heard that environmental destruction is the price we pay for economic growth. However, it is just as clear that environmental destruction is the price future generations pay for environmental destruction. If you get what I mean. Many economists I have met have looked at me…