Reflections on Sustainability
Instead of spending 700 billion dollars on the ‘No banker left behind’ bail out, what else could the US government invest in?
Eric De Place has some ideas.
Forgiving the entire debt of Africa would cost around 350 billion giving the poorest continent in the world a much needed economic shot in the arm. This would alleviate […]
Macedonia has become the latest country to announce a ban on plastic bags. From January 2009 all plastic bags are banned in the retail and food sectors, bags are still legal for produce over 5kg but only if customers pay for them.
Great to see another government taking a stand.
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2008/09/29/feature-02
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/3761/2/
Photo credit: Cuckove
Simply one of the best and clearest summaries of climate change. Ever.
www.wakeupfreakout.org
At the end of the day there is only one question that matters, it is asked from and to our self, whispered in the stillness of the night and the answer heard only in our own heart:
Did you do everything you could?
Whether new […]
Wal-Mart has announced a not-so-ambitious plan to reduce it’s plastic bag usage by 33% over the next 5 years.
Even with such a modest target the retailing giant will cut the equivalent of 9 billion plastic bags per year and should be commended for their efforts (New Zealand uses somewhere around 1 billion bags per […]
As part of it’s 10th birthday celebrations google has just launched it’s ten to the 100th project. The idea is simple - 10 million dollar prize pool to fund ideas that will change the world.
Quick question, after hearing about this do you feel more positive towards Google as a company? I know I sure do, […]
Fish and Game have put in an application to prevent the Nevis River from being dammed and they need your help to save this last untouched river of consequence in central Otago.
Naturally the local power company opposes the application and conservation groups support it.
MFE have identified the Nevis as a probable hydro site and estimate […]
The current crisis sweeping the financial sector was not caused by greedy over leveraged companies, or at least not just that. The financial woes are a symptom of an economic system that is flawed at it’s very core.
Corporations are financial creatures and their lifeblood is money so an obsession with profit is understandable, even natural […]
Last October 6 Greenpeace activists scaled a smokestack at Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in the UK and caused £30,000 of damages from painting. They were prosecuted for causing criminal damage and yesterday they were acquitted! The defendants argued that they were acting according to their consciences in order to prevent a greater crime and the […]
As the demand for electricity continues to grow in New Zealand our rivers are dieing one by one, replaced by concrete walls and over sized ponds. Actually, dieing is the wrong word - it implies something natural and inevitable. Execution perhaps? Exploitation? Whatever name it goes by it is wrong to the core.
The problems with […]
This is an absolutely phenomenal talk by Benjamin Zander on TED entitled ‘Classical music with shining eyes’ but it is about so much more than classical music. Go ahead and watch it now, it is 18 minutes that will pay for itself many times over.
I see a striking parallel between the situation of classical music […]
