Category: Envisioning the sustainable future

Predictions and hopes for the coming year… SLEEP. Yes, that time honoured thing we all try to get away without and end up paying a non-sustainable price will be a lot bigger in 2005. Look for companies increasingly selling a good nights’ sleep in their products, unions demanding working hours to allow for good sleep,…

Canal side walk in Lincoln, England Many times during my visit to England I was struck by the number of signposted, arranged, designated walks. From short city walk by canals and railway lines to longer walks in the national Parks. AVBP comments, designated walks are a great way to get people walking more, both in…

At end station high up in dales Wensleydale Railway plc is not only one of Britain’s newest train operating companies but also the only one run entirely by members of the local community. Locals assembled volunteers, started the company and raised more than £1M. The service runs 7 days a week and provides a lifeline…

Planetary Voices audio site features interviews with people passionate about the planet. Each interviewee is living their life out of a sense of strong conviction. Themes range from the environment through human rights to peace and embracing the taboo of death. Hear Suzanne Vega the artist, Ela Gandhi and Greenpeace chair Wolfgang Sachs among others.

Don’t get me wrong, triple bottom line accounting is a good thing. But we have been struggling to find a way to explain in a simple way what sustainability is all about. After trying various approaches we have come to the conclusion that the four aspect model is easier to understand gives rise to more…

Yes! Your favourite blog is now available as an e-book to give your friends to get them with the sustainability movement. It’s urgent and important but oh so fascinating. Max Wahlter, a journalist specializing in science and technology, decides his new career is in sustainability. Having come across an innovation technique called Image Streaming he…

Hats off to Hiroshi TAKATSUKI who draws under the Pen-name of High Moon. Hiroshi is a Professor at the Environment Preservation Center, Kyoto Universityp His cartoons make wonderful, thought provoking messages of the need to move to sustainability urgently. Click on the link and enjoy and share!

The amount of material transported into and out of New York is phenomenal. A good percentage of the food New Yorkers eat comes into the city to be processed at Hunts point. Some 30,000 trucks a day enter the area. Then there are the mail and parcels, container shipments, construction works etc. Twelve thousand tons…

Just want to relate an interesting experience with image streaming (IS). I went to visualise a sustainable society which handled logistics effectively. What I found was a city with underground tubeways, sending pallets on trucks in capsules. the trucks were powered by compressed air. “What IS this?” I thought. Carried on anyway. Doing my research…