Category: Envisioning the sustainable future

Stephen Hinton analyses the report released from Sweden’s Oil Commission. Some nine months after Sweden officially announced it was to break its dependence on oil, the commission set up to answer the question ”how” presented its report Wednesday the 28th June. This report comes against the background of news reports of deep disagreement among the…

Stephen Hinton analyses the report released from Sweden’s Oil Commission. Some nine months after Sweden officially announced it was to break its dependence on oil, the commission set up to answer the question ”how” presented its report Wednesday the 28th June. This report comes against the background of news reports of deep disagreement among the…

(please see earlier article to explain what Technosphere is, and follow up article on characteristics) Instead of owning bicycles they are leased. At regular service they are repaired, parts replaced are recycled. Unreparable parts go into a nutrient recycle process. New bicycle parts are made or the recycled raw materials go to other processes, This…

Applying Technosphere thinking(click on the link to go to first essay).A typical description of a section of the Technosphere (or technome as an analogy with biome which is part of the biosphere) contains the following categories; Service Provided Systems involved Man-hours input Nutrients input Nutrients Output Main critical techno – biosystem interfaces How these are…

Economic growth is widely accepted as the best way to create an acceptable living standard. The World is seeing economic growth and living standards. Average world economic growth is happening at a rate of about 4% per year, in some places like China growth is exceeding 9%. Creating this growth requires an increasing spiral of…

PREAMBLE .The background to these sessions is my interest in investing in sustainability. In earlier sessions I visited one place that has been successful using a system called Unit Trusts. These can be placed in organizations providing for a standard of living in a sustainable way.Please read session one before proceeding if you have not…

PREAMBLE:In this imagestream I wish to address the dichotomy between industrial thinking and sustainable thinking. Many have been brought up in the industrialized world and find it hard to imagine alternatives. And yet alternatives are needed; industrialization cannot go on forever. In industrialized thinking you are a worker, you own a house maybe, shares or…

Can a film make a difference? Can anything? Al Gore deserves praise for his work in drawing attention to climate system disruption due to human activity. This documentary starring Mr. Gore is about to be shown in the US. Derserves to be seen. And talked about.

When circumstances change, your old ideas become challenged and the first reaction is to stick to them even harder. This picture shows how just that is happening in Sweden. During the week the Swedish Prime Minister announced his belief in Biofuel as a replacement for oil, and the Energy Agency, whilst admitting oil independance is…

For those of you who need motivation to get going and dig into your own creative resources to come up with ways to reverse this 100 slide into counter sustainable development, we recommend Kunstler’s book”The Long Emergency”. The book is now sumarized in video format. Follow this link.