Category: Envisioning the sustainable future

High oil prices, and the Prime Minister’s announced intention to break oil dependency make Sweden something of an interesting study in Post-Carbon transition. The Swedish Daily, DN, today reports on a tenant owner cooperative which is starting its break with oil by transferring to a renewable energy source of heat – from the ground underneath…

Dave Pollard has complied a list of companies and products to boycott. Either because of their environmental performance or their fair trade practices. He also suggests a few to support. Put your money where your attitudes are today! Click on the title link or the link below.

Yesterday in conjunction with his speech at the annual Congress of the Social Democrat Party the Swedish Prime Minister, Göran Persson underlined the importance of breaking oil dependency before 2020 by announcing his intention to personally lead a commission to initiate activities towards this goal. The purpose is to create a holistic view of regional…

Many agree with the efficacy of the basic market economy model (goods’ and service’s prices are set by sellers, and increase with demand and decrease with competition) in generating a living standard However, many also see with dismay the downside of this way of organizing our daily lives: extraction and dumping of huge amounts of…

Pathways to local food systems using a complimentary currency system like COGS.Submitted by hipnot on Tue, 2005-10-18 08:34.Robert Waldrop’s paper presented at the recent Community Solution conference offered ideas on how to set up local food systems. Based on his paper this article explores how to use our COGS currency or a similar complementary currency…

We think so, which is why we are joining the COGS scheme. Click on the link for explanations.

Our team has just finished analysing the impacts of energy shortages on organisations in general. We believe all organisations should start to work out their energy intensity strategy. Failure to craft strategy in time may catch an organisation unawares before they have time to react. As a start we offer up our white paper on…

The methods used here as shown in earlier posts use the processQuest>image stream>tapescript>blogged script (cleaned up)>story from the future>prototyping for commercial release. We have taken to writing white papers as a way for engaging potential partners as a more “professional approach” to sustainable inventing. An image stream quest to find communities fully engaged in developing…

Don’t just read about my inventions – go do your own! The techniques I use are called “Beachead” invented by Win Wenger. I always tape my sessions and as often as not I just post a cleaned up version of the tapescript. The other methods of publishing are “articles from the future” or “white papers”.…

Matt Simmons, financial advisor to the energy industry has released this presentation which spells out the urgency of the situation. Energy production is at its maximum, exacerbated by hurricane Katrina. Demand is rising, and unless we start decreasing the energy intensity of the way we live the coming shortfall will not only impact economic growth,…