Category: Envisioning the sustainable future

In his excellent analysis of the probable effects of coming oil shortages, Matt Savinar puts his finger on something that goes counter to what a lot of sustainability- promoters advocate: increasing efficiency will run counter to promoting sustainability. As we have to reduce energy consumption by 80% we should work to create more efficient use…

This is the most alarming thing I have read about our future and sustainability. As I said earlier the world oil supply is already 60% used up. As supply falls as oil gets harder to extract, world demand will rise. Matt Savinar explores the economic and social consequences and .. more importantly the options. Unfortunately,…

OK. We’re sticking our necks out and sharing our powerpoint on the top ten things a company can do to work towards sustainability and surviving in the long term. I mean … no company will survive without taking sustainability on board will it? Click the links or the title.

Done some research on my standard of living image stream. My problem with STANDARD OF LIVING as a sustainability tool is that is often measured in terms of financial health: the quantity – in financial terms – of consumption by the members of that population. The sites posting definitions like this include the drawbacks of…

People rail about fuel- consuming unnecessarily big SUVs. I don’t. I rail against the USE of them. Example. If I were lost in a desert and needed rescuing I would be so happy for a gas-guzzling Humvee – safe, well-equipped, powerful, etc to get me out of there. Regardless of my green-ness I would not…

Researchers have shown that those who move around more in their daily lives also stay slimmer. In a way this goes against popular ideas that leanness requires a higher metabolism or hours at the gym. Not so it seems. Comparing groups of obese people with those of slim, the obese group tended to spend two…

In my quest to find out how a standard of living could be produced for all sustainably, that is efficiently and with minimum impact on the environment and health, I visited PORENA again. The country of PORENA abolished work as we know it some time ago after they realized paid work was actually fueling the…

Being one to practice what I preach, and having been looking into creating a 10,000 steps (a day) culture in organizations I started to find out my baseline. I have a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 27, weigh 93 kilos and used a pedometer for a week to see how many steps I normally take.…

Gym and sports centres don’t appeal to everyone as a way of keeping fit. The UK organization BTCV, founded in 1959 and the UK’s largest practical conservation charity, brings us the marvellous social invention of the Green Gym. The gym gets people from all ages and walks of life out working on conservation – planting…

Get walking! It is well known that intervention in nutrition and exercise produces positive results in adults at risk of high BMI (Body mass index, a measure of overweight.) It has also been demonstrated that this is possible to achieve with simple methods like increasing the number of steps the sedentary individual takes to a…