Category: Envisioning the sustainable future

I am flabbergasted to know that my Imagestreamed suggestion for handling a controlled reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, the set up of an international environmental fund (EMF, based on IMF) was very much like the original proposal from Keynes back in 1944 for a world stabilization fund. Unfortunately, his ideas were not accepted and the…

(Thanks to Greenfyre’s – I borrowed an idea or two) Karl Popper’s thinking was that scientists should work hard to disprove theories. If they don’t succeed then it is a working theory until disproved. It’s more rigorous that way.An analogy might be comparing if you have 2 reports of an elephant. In one case it…

For my part of Blog Action Day I would like to discuss poverty and sustainable development. We live in a world gone mad. By the hour, the ranks of the starving are swelling. Whilst we stare into an abyss of depleting mineral and ecological resources, pushed from behind by population pressures and the voracious needs…

Understanding sustainable development View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: relocalization capital)

Google are running a contest on ideas to help humanity. This is my contribution below. What one sentence best describes your idea? (maximum 150 characters) Give charitable foundations who offer water, food and accommodation supply and systems, the possibility to use the unemployed (who get benefits and a bonus) to help. Describe your idea in…

What gets me is that we are spending more and more money on cleaning up water to ready it for drinking. Medicines, herbicides etc, are slipping though the purification plants (which themselves require huge amounts of chemicals and energy). The reason we are spending more and more is because we are polluting more and more.…

I created this MINDMOVIE as an affirmation to myself and others on what it would be like to live in a sustainable village like an ECO-UNIT. Affirmations are pro sustainability inventions.

Dave Pollards excellent blog asks why we are looking for leaders now that the counter-sustainable nature of the economic system is coming to light, and blame is being laid left to right. One of Dave’s points is that we don’t have any leaders who have more of a clue than the rest of us. And…