Espoo and the EIA: Effective Environmental Governance or Struggling, Conciliatory Measure?
1 MEAs & Effectiveness With the negative effects of human activity increasing at national and international scales across the gamut of existence, the need for binding means commit governments and … Continue reading
Corporate Sustainability: Profit, Motive and Intention in Greenwash
A large-scale sustainable trajectory is impossible without the corporate sector, whose profit is neither necessary nor sufficient for sustainability, and where ethical motives, positive intention and measurable … Continue reading
Strengthening the UK Homes and Communities Agency: Supporting regeneration, integrating sustainability
Presentation given 07 March 2013. Here is a link to the presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/rkulczak/strengthening-the-uk-homes-and-communities-agency-supporting-regeneration-integrating-sustainability-presentation-130307 In the United Kingdom, delivering sustainability in regeneration and social, or affordable, housing is the responsibility of the … Continue reading
Wanting makes us happier than having!
Originally posted on SIMON WILD:
Great news for the environment bad, news for retail. Interesting study from the University of Missouri that has studied the happiness effect from stuff and…
Twitter Roundup, 21 August 2013
Interesting views opposing the anti-fracking groups re: previous tweet from @TheCommentator. Check the views in the comments. Not convinced. Hilariously, Green MP Caroline Lucas (arrested earlier) says democracy has failed … Continue reading
Twitter Roundup
The hideous Belgian Blue SUPERCOW. Can people be persuaded to alter their diets for health and sustainability? http://t.co/2Io9l6tmbC Sweden’s energy supply now over 50 percent renewable! http://t.co/xgNKG6SMqA Amazing reality for … Continue reading
How to be green – Solar Power is cheaper than carbon capture and storage (CCS)
Originally posted on SIMON WILD:
Getting to zero carbon or 80% by 2050 is a tough task, its going to cost money but as with anything that costs money we…
Sustainable Development: Actors and Politics, Stakeholder Agendas and Power Relations
Internationally, Sustainable Development attracts and subsumes a vast network with multiple stakeholders involved in the politics of SD. It is worth exploring their potential agendas in relation to SD and … Continue reading
“Suits and Savages”: A fair portrayal? Devil’s Advocate
See the short film here: http://blip.tv/zoe-young/suits-and-savages-why-the-world-bank-won-t-save-the-tiger-2501536 Whilst it might seem provocative, I’m going to play devil’s advocate argue in favour of international NGO initiatives, as it’s worth challenging Young’s tear-jerking … Continue reading
“Suits and Savages”: A fair portrayal?
Watch the film Suits and savages by Zoe Young (http://www.zoeyoung.net/films) and consider whether the classic bad guys are portrayed fairly and evenhandedly. See my Devil’s Advocate position in the next … Continue reading
Urbanisation Part I – Key Issues
Part one of a three part discussion entitled Urbanisation: towards a progress in understanding within the UN Sustainable Development Conference Arena 1 What’s it all about? Known variously as urban … Continue reading
North-South Climate Justice: Sustainable Development and Climate Change
Climate change (CC) is seen as a result of development, namely economic growth which accelerated during the period of industrialization in the global ‘North’. Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due … Continue reading
Exponential procreation or eternal damnation?
The Rio +20 outcomes from the perspective of a UK-based NGO focusing on population. Population: What Elephant? Somewhere around 31-October-2011 the human population reached 7 billion individuals, right around the … Continue reading
Is Resilience the new Holy Grail of Humanity?
According to Adger (2000), ‘resilience, in both its social and ecological manifestations, is an important aspect of the sustainability of development and resource utilisation’. But does resilience theory have the … Continue reading
From Limits to Growth to Global Change
Reflection on Buttel et al, From Limits to Growth to Global change (1990) This is a paper that compares and contrasts two dominant debates in environmental science and ideology, … 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
Planetary Boundaries – Safe Limits and Transgressing Important Boundaries
In 2009, Rockstrom et al published a paper entitled ‘A safe operating space for humanity’. The paper defines planetary boundary as: ‘the safe operating space for humanity with respect to … Continue reading
Population: A Problem for Sustainability?
It is estimated that on 31 October 2011 the human population reached 7 billion individuals. It was only 1999 when there were 6 billion people, and it is estimated to … Continue reading
Rio+20 Outcomes: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Following the press coverage in the run up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, one would be forgiven for thinking it was destined to fail. The advance draft texts … Continue reading
Originally posted on Truth11.com:
Jurriaan Maessen Infowars.com July 17, 2010 Bangladesh leader Zillur Rahman and others in Asia are pushing for population control. As we know, the globalists endeavor…
Rio+20: The Future We Want? WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO GET IT OURSELVES.
The Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development has turned out to be a major disappointment. Why are our leaders unable to step up and act in favour of universal … Continue reading
Debates in Sustainable Development – Cyclical and Twisted
If the challenge of defining sustainable development isn’t enough to spin your head, the cornucopia of its contexts, applications and arenas will – anything and everything from natural resource use … Continue reading
Economic Growth and Prosperity are Not the Same Thing
The sadly devolved Sustainable Development Commission published an incredible report entitled Propserity Without Growth, which perfectly explains, well, what it says on the tin… For us, the central salient point: … Continue reading
Challenges, what challenges? Where’s the remote…
Yes sir, but can we switch off the tube for a minute please, sir? Can we sit and think for a few minutes maybe? Shouldn’t we be concentrating on the … Continue reading
Dude, what’s up with Canada, eh?
What are they thinking? First of all, Canada, an area of magnificent unspoilt wilderness, continues to support their environmentally detrimental and carbon intensive tar sands mining in favour of, you … Continue reading
Congratulations Earth, You’ve Been Granted an “Instrument”
Durban Climate Talks Conclude without Great Substance. Hurrah, let’s all stand up and congratulate our climate change negotiators in Durban for finding the political will to grant our beloved Earth … Continue reading
