Category: Envisioning the sustainable future

I saw this advert ”think outside of the box”. This company were selling a car.As a champion of sustainability my first reaction was ”If that is the best they can do when they think out of the box – come up with a CAR- god help us all” and ”If that is what they want…

A combination of well-kown technologies with a recent invention of sustainable, urban self sufficiency with permaculture. These videos are highly instructive and inspiring. Go garden Girl!

Sweden, although at the forefront of the drive to oil independence, sits powerless when industry finds national energy prices a little too high. The Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet reports on Thursday the 31 August 2006 that Rottneros, one of the world’s five largest makers of paper pulp, is closing its plant in Utansjö, in Northern…

Dave Pollard has ploughed thorugh anthropologist Hugh Brody’s far-reaching and scholarly personal memoir based on extensive study of indigenous cultures, The Other Side of Eden, written six years ago. Dave has crystallised out the essentials of a culture that is in harmony with the environment around it. These essentials are what we need to aim…

Once again Sweden, the first nation to proclaim its intention to become oil independent, acts disappointingly in a way far removed from what many believed were its true intentions. As reported in the Swedish daily newspapers on the 24th July, the Swedish State are to finance a research and development program to produce better environmentally…

Comments on the oil commission’s report have been very few in the Swedish media. Perhaps because it was released during the holiday period or because the issue is so complex, that in criticising the report you show how much you do not know. SvD, the right wing Swedish national daily newspaper, however, takes the Oil…

Reflections I was doing Internet research into how Unit Trusts (see earlier post) advertise their investment opportunities. I was struck by how far away the organizations that benefit from my money are from me. I just get barely a piece of paper from the bank or building society advisor. In the Unit Trust scheme I…

Last week, the commission on oil dependency, tasked with charting Sweden’s way out of dependency, issued its report. The Swedish Parliament and public sector is to review the proposals for decision after the elections in September. Disappointingly, the report fails to address the heart of the issue – dependency and management of risk for societal…