Category: Why we need change
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World hunger hits one billion
A recent report in the BBC, one that I missed during my summer holiday, states that world hunger has reached a level never before experienced in the history of humanity. That one billion, or nearly one sixth of the world are starving should make anyone stop and think, and wonder why, when so many areas…
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Mr Oil is already making a long, slow exit. You might not be seeing it though…
Since the end of the First World War, oil has been flowing into almost every aspect of our daily lives: as fuel, as basis for chemicals, as plastic, fabrics etc. In fact today, it is hard to think of a product that does NOT contain a large portion of oil or oil energy. Oil is…
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The World’s oceans are littered with plastic
This amazing film gives remarkable insight into how plastic refuse circulates in our oceans. This plastic flotsam is a threat to our Very Beautiful Place and should give us cause to stop and think about the systemic malfunctions that allow release of such valuable materials into the biosphere.
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Age of Stupid
As temporary NING-master for the Transition Sweden movement, I was invited to a pre-screening of Franny Armstrongs drama-documentary-animation hybrid ”the Age of Stupid” The film revolves around an archivist in 2055, living in a devastated world, reviewing material from 2008 and asking why people did not react sooner. The film is a masterpiece of craftsmanship,…
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White paper on Powerdown
POWER DOWN … the main business challenge of the 2010’s. What organizations need to know about the impact of liquid fuels on communities as oil prices hike and availability wanes. For officers in the public and private sector alike, this paper describes 16 main aspects of the coming energy situation. Organisations need to consider these…
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Why we need a change: this is not your ordinary recession
My recent visit to England shows a country nose-diving into a new kind of recession: one that has no end. As the reams of newspaper articles laying out dismal prospects for 2009 appear before us, there is an underlying belief in that the recovery will come in a few or at most ten years, and…
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Connecting peace and sustainable development
Sometimes I can’t get things out of my head. It felt like a long shot, but as I stepped onto the plane to Berlin to attend a Words of Peace conference with Prem Rawat, I couldn’t ignore my intuition telling me that peace and sustainable development were linked somehow and that maybe the journey and…
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The Science of sustainable food production #Phosphorous
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World oil production and consumption set to fall
It may sound incredible, but there HAS to be a finite amount of oil in the world. The figures here are based on what is already discovered and what is thought to be available. And they are finding less and less oil by the year. So with the world population slated to grow by another…
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Why don’t they get it?
At the last meeting of our Oil Awareness group, one concern seemed to be shared by everyone present: ”why don’t they get it?”. What members are referring to is the feeling that colleagues, government, officers of authorities just don’t seem to ”get” the significance of 1) the vast amounts of energy we are using to…