Exciting new PhD research opportunity secured by Richard Kulczak
Big news! In Jan 2014 Richard starts research work on the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Sustainable Built Environment at the University of Brighton under the watchful eye and guiding … Continue reading
Spend, Don’t Mend.
Monbiot. Awesome. Read it… Spend, Don’t Mend.. Advertising and consumerism dull our capacity for empathy. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th November 2013. Guilt is good. It’s … Continue reading
Monbiot: DDT 2.0
DDT 2.0 So important I’ve re blogged it here in full. Thank you Mr. Monbiot. “We’re just beginning to understand the wider impacts of neonicotinoids.” http://www.monbiot.com/2013/08/13/ddt-2-0/ By George Monbiot, published … Continue reading
Sustainable Development, Politics and Agency
Recently a private briefing on SD, Politics and Agency caught my attention. After a good but brief introduction to social agency through an explanation of sociology’s externalities and psychology’s internalities, … Continue reading
Food for Thought: Four Books and a Seminar
Two books have surfaced that are particularly exciting: The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis by Jeremy Rifkin and Requiem for a Species: Why we … Continue reading
The Ascent of Man – Engage in Environmental Policy
Jacob Bronowski wrote in his book, The Ascent of Man: We are all afraid – for our confidence, for our future, for the world. That is the nature of the … Continue reading
Will Technology be Our Safety Net?
Is technology a safety net, or does it just get in the way of what’s really important? Safety net for what? What is the problem we are trying to solve … Continue reading
Adapting our Behaviour.
This is the goal. Adapting human behaviour through information, knowledge, education, about the impacts we make, the choices we have, why we must act now, and how we can go … Continue reading
