Tomorrow, from 8.30 PM onwards for one hour, the world will cast a first truly global vote: between the planet or global warming.
Last year, 2.2 million people and several companies in Sydney switched off their lights for one hour, resulting in an equivalent of 48.000 cars being taken off the road and saving 10,2% energy [...]

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MPs highlight need for UK to work towards creating an ambitious climate change, and a modern and sustainable economy

Sir, In 2009 we face two key challenges: economic recovery and climate change. We can and must tackle both together. The UK must move to a low-carbon economy: not just to secure an ambitious climate change deal [...]

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(published in NRC: 14/3/2009) – in Dutch
Geachte minister-president Balkenende,
De kredietcrisis leidt tot een noodzaak aan nieuwe investeringen, die een in het slop rakende economie van de ondergang moeten redden – daar bestaat momenteel veel consensus over. Echter, over waarin wij als samenleving moeten investeren is veel debat.
Als vertegenwoordigers van de jongere generatie – een generatie die [...]

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They simply don’t understand we have instincts that go beyond money. Things like coffee shops and conviviality.
What is called “economics” is really psychology on steroids. It starts with a model of human nature and extrapolates an entire scenario for how the world works from that. The model is homo economicus,the myopic protoganist of the economics [...]

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