Quit Managing Your Time and Start Managing Your Attention
Lee J. Colan & David Cottrell – “The myth of time management never dies. Many people enroll in ‘time management’ classes and learn techniques like making to-do lists. That’s fine. Lists can be useful, even satisfying. It’s great to experience that rush—Ahhhh!—as we check something off the list. However, by the end of the day,...
International Youth Day 2009
SUSTAINABILITY: OUR CHALLENGE, OUR FUTURE Sustainability does not only refer to maintaining environmental balance and renewal. Sustainability encapsulates three facets of life: the environment, society and the economy. We live our lives in the overlaps and intersections of these facets, and our actions and attitudes help shape them. Their changing shapes in turn affect the...
A Checklist for Sustainability
David Carlson / David Report put together this interesting and inspiring report: A checklist for sustainability. Open publication People who looked at this item also looked at… The essentials in Copenhagen Number games: 2 degrees Celsius, 2050 and the G8. But does it all add up? Top 5 inspiration sources 350: 24 October is the...
Number games: 2 degrees Celsius, 2050 and the G8. But does it all add up?
G8 leaders have come out with a land mark climate change agreement on the back of meetings in L’Aquila in Italy (read the full communiqué here). Is this good news? In a word, yes. Is it jump for joy and do an embarrassing dance kinda news? In another word, no. Why? Well, the answer lies...
The essentials in Copenhagen
Rather than getting every small detail of a new global climate treaty done in Copenhagen, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer hopes the conference will reach agreements on four political essentials. Read more at COP15… People who looked at this item also looked at… A Checklist for Sustainability Top 5 inspiration sources 350: 24 October...
Breaking out of the Prisoner’s Dilemma
With six months left to the Copenhagen climate negotiations the world faces multiple crises. All are a direct or indirect result of an economic policy that stimulates value creation on the short term with disastrous effects on the medium or long term. Sustainable development forms the core of the solutions for these crises. Between 1992,...
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HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist
‘If we can improve the images of the world, perhaps we can improve the world’ Wim Wenders Wim Wenders’ words have perhaps never been more relevant to a movie than in the case of Home. Following directly on from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Home is, of course, a film with a message that sets...
Good 50×70 poster contest: Climate Change
Ever thought you can’t combine a serious topic like climate change and biodiversity with beautiful design? Here’s the proof you can! Good 50×70 called out a poster design contest on climate change. Click here to watch the results… People who looked at this item also looked at… Top 5 inspiration sources The Lotus – A...
Using Human Rights Law to Address Climate Change
What are the legal and human rights implications of climate change? As the evidence becomes stronger and the science more serious, people in countries, companies, institutions and professions everywhere are taking up the issue of climate change and sounding the alarm. Among these concerned global citizens are lawyers and legal professionals. To gather this community...
Green growth is essential to any stimulus
By Ban Ki-moon and Al Gore Economic stimulus is the order of the day. This is as it must be, as governments around the world struggle to jump-start the global economy. But even as leaders address the immediate need to stimulate the economy, so too must they act jointly to ensure that the new de...
The crisis can be an opportunity to rethink the global economy
Interview with Jacques Weber by Meriem Bouamrane With the financial and economic crisis tightening its grip around the world, many researchers, organizations and institutions are being galvanized into action. Terms like Green Deal or Global New Green Deal are circulating and, with natural resources becoming scarcer, there is talk of creating a tax system based...
Green Economy Initiative
Mobilizing and re-focusing the global economy towards investments in clean technologies and ‘natural’ infrastructure such as forests and soils is the best bet for real growth, combating climate change and triggering an employment boom in the 21st century. On 22 October 2008, UNEP and leading economists launched the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) aimed at seizing...
