Rich countries owe poor a huge environmental debt
A striking article in this week’s Guardian: The environmental damage caused to developing nations by the world’s richest countries amounts to more than the entire third world debt of $1.8 trillion, according to the first systematic global analysis of the ecological damage imposed by rich countries. The study found that there are huge disparities in...
A green wall? Kenya, organics, and food miles
The restriction of long-distance organic trade would damage African farmers while having minimal effects on the environment, argue Stephen Browne & Alexander Kasterine. A rising concern with personal and environmental health in the world’s richer countries is influencing lifestyles and public debate alike. One significant trend is the increase in the consumption of organically grown...
How Can Sustainable Development Be Measured?
In september last year, the journal Ecological Economics published a paper on “Measuring sustainable development — Nation by nation.” The researchers came up with a way to normalize and measure the progress of sustainable development, no matter where it was taking place: [W]e use the UN Human Development Index (HDI) as an indicator of development...
Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters
Normally, I’m not very much in favor of contributing to an already over-dosed blogosphere of the US presidential campaign, but I can’t spare you this item. It’s a well-written essay by Andrew Sullivan about what Barack Obama could be the just the essential man for: first and foremost, bridging the widening gap of the cultural...
Fresh new theme
These days I’m playing around with some different new themes to clean up my cluttered blog. The current one - Sandpress - is just a step on the way to go. I love the cleanliness and the simplicity. Thanks to Arpit Jacob (Clazh.com) . It will take some days before all is up and running again, customized and...
Beyond abstract solidarity
[Open Democracy] James Mensch asks us to be careful of easy generalisations about “solidarity”. Is it necessarily exclusionary? or grounded in the past, the tribe? No, when we examine the lived examples of solidarity, we find a diversity of practices and habits that is not easily reducible to grand theorising. In our increasingly interdependent world,...
Who will be the Person of the Year 2007?
OneWorld.net provides its own selection of people who made the difference in 2007 in the field of international co-operation, human rights, environment, development or justice. Along them are brights minds such as Rajendra Pachaury/ the IPCC, The Burmese Monks, the $100 laptop designers and Vandana Shiva. Here’s the finalist overview…Â You can even cast your...
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Climate War
Britain’s International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) warned last month that fears about stability — once hidden by smoke from the debate over the scientific evidence for global warming — are bound to rise to the top of the agenda. “The security dimension will come increasingly to the forefront as countries begin to see falls...
Images des Maroc
Just back from Morocco and studying again… Here are some pictures from an interesting journey through the High Atlas, through the Sahara and along the Atlantic Coast. Related items Rebuild Your Future HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist Doen WIJ genoeg voor een betere wereld? Inspired to become a change agent for sustainability?...
