Category: Sustainable Development

30 May

The problem with debates, and the art of dialogues

What if we abandoned the kind of arguing we’ve been used to for long, and try to have a dialogue with our peers, instead?
12 Aug

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 [...]
07 Aug

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… Top 5 inspiration sources The essentials in Copenhagen Number games: 2 degrees Celsius, 2050 and the G8. But does it all add up? Related items The problem with [...]
06 Jun

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 [...]
20 Apr

Green growth is essential to any stimulus

By Ban Ki-moon and Al Gore function floatContent(){var paraNum = “3″ paraNum = paraNum – 1;var tb = document.getElementById(‘floating-con’);var nl = document.getElementById(‘floating-target’);if(tb.getElementsByTagName(“div”).length> 0){if (nl.getElementsByTagName(“p”).length>= paraNum){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName(“p”)[paraNum]);}else {if (nl.getElementsByTagName(“p”).length == 3){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName(“p”)[2]);}else {nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName(“p”)[0]);}}}} 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. [...]