Category: Ideas for sustainability
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At last, a course in setting up an eco-unit is available
Many people dream of living in a way that burdens neither nature nor their personal finances. They seek a sense of closeness to and connection with nature. We have developed a course to help.
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I joined the Earth Charter today
The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It seeks to inspire in all people a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the whole human family, the greater community of life, and future generations.…
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Beta site for teachers launched
A new site, in beta format, has just launched to support maths and science teachers who want to convey a deeper understanding for sustainability to their students. The site just now offers a few open-ended problems for sutdents to practice their calculation and estimation skills on with problems around: How much land is available to…
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Walking cities: an update
One of the main themes of my recent book, “Inventing for the Sustainable Planet” is the city where people walk everywhere. For those of you who are new to my blog, I used the inventing method of Imagestreaming to envision what sustainable living would look like. Although the book is fiction, I hope it inspires…
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Transition and the Krakow declaration.
Update: Here is the latest version of the Declaration. (pdf) Krakow, Poland 20-22 May 2010. SURE, a pan-European initiative for sustainable urban-rural development concluded its two-step program with a conference to explore how at policy, regional, commercial and local level the people of Europe could connect with the challenge of sustainability and to respond in…
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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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BOOK REVIEW Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hansen
THANKS TO ARCHIE DUNCANSSON FOR THIS REVIEW reproduced by permission Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hansen, December 2009. In Storms of My Grandchildren, James Hansen, 68 years old and one of the world’s leading climate scientists, gives us the results of his lifelong work to understand the climate changes that are now occurring, and…
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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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AVBP launches executive briefing: Develop towards sustainability
Sustainability, it seems, costs money. I have heard that business leaders have been bombarded with in-depth training lasting weeks, costing thousands and deflecting a sizeable chunk of your attention from focus on results. Sustainabilty is something built in to every human as a survival tool. Most need a quick sharp introduction to get up and…
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Connecting people to sustainability: the uncomfortable truths
Attending a recent workshop on sustainable development and regional development, I got involved in a working group looking at the challenge of connecting people and sustainability. The whole exercise gave food for thought so I thought I would share my notes here on my blog. Suppose you were on the management team of an organization…