Category: Envisioning the sustainable future
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Swedish Transition hub takes off at Rural Parliament
This week, stakeholders in social economy and rural development in Sweden are gathering in the town of Sunne to hold what they call the “rural parliament”. It is a gigantic annual undertaking, bringing politicians, local government, international partners, rural development agencies and interest organisations together. The organisation, “All Sweden shall live”(HSSL) is host, and by…
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Sustainable provision of water and food – the Water and Food Award
This is an extract from my presentation as Application Manager of the Water and Food Award at the recent Ambassadors event at the Marriott hotel in Copenhagen on 2 March 2010. They say that at the beginning of every century, major changes, inconceivable in the previous century, manifest themselves. In the last century few thought…
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The Exhibition: a story about investing in sustainability
What would it look like if we set up the economy to drive the change towards sustainability? What would we invest in, what would we pay for? Would banks have another role? I set myself the assignment of creating a vision of things to come, and decided to approach it using the techniques of imagestreaming.…
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Product development choices
Energy is going to get more expensive unless you own your own renewable energy sources, like windmills or hydropower. Energy is needed for four major phases of a product’s life-cycle: extraction of materials, manufacture, operation and disposal/recyling. This means that products developed will migrate into the two areas where energy use is less, over the…
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Water and food security should be at the heart of transforming to a low carbon economy
With energy availability peaking and demand still rising, many are promoting the idea of transitioning to the low carbon economy. But what are the priorities? Light bulbs? Ethanol cars? From my perspective we should be concentrating on that which we need everyday and that takes at least one quarter of our weekly budget: food and…
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Brave new world, insects, whales and sustainability
On holiday recently I had a real serendipity experience with a couple of books. Part of the research for the blog involved looking at books which took a similar approach – that is to say envisioning a sustainable future in order to stimulate thought leadership. Imagine my surprise when I walked into a tiny village…
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Time for a holiday over New Year
Link to cartoon from Folke Thanks to all my readers for 2009! And I look forward to more exciting developments towards sustainability in 2010. HAPPY NEW SUSTAINABLE YEAR! Back around the 13th Jan.
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Grey water imagestream #2
What follows is the tapescript of an imagestreaming session aimed at furthering my understanding of grey water purification. This is session two. I have chosen to use the technique of imagestreaming rather than just searching the Internet as I find it provides me with deeper insights, and that it offers more innovative solutions. Last time,…
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I was at Copenhagen but didn’t do anything
Now, in the wake of COP 15 at Copenhagen, as the waves of commentary die down to a gentle swell, I continue my uneasy reflections. I was there, not for COP15 but on other business for the Water and Food Award. Copenhagen was a changed city – police and road blocks everywhere – but also…
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Imagestreamed solutions starts to become a reality in London
One of the deepest insights Imagestreaming has given me is that you can often be right without knowing why. Our mental powers combine with the creative side and the intuitive side to produce stunningly simple solutions. Another insight is that you can Imagestream a solution and find it, but not truly understand its significance. I…