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Waterless world
Image source: englishpianobloake @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/9457549@N04/3211458849/ Water was in the news at Davos last week, and yesterday the BBC published a piece by Dominic Waughray, Senior...
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Appropriate technology at Barefoot College
Solar energy systems providing power in remote, rural areas are installed by barefoot solar engineers trained by the Barefoot College Image source: http://flickr.com/photos/barefootcollege/ I came...
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It’s meat and drink
Image source: sundancechannel.com An article in the New York Times last week drew attention to two instances of local governments looking to reduce their ecological footprints in recent weeks. First...
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Political tipping points or natural tipping points?
ngopost.org Lester Brown’s book, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, asks whether we can cut carbon emissions fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet, whether we can close coal-fired...
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The Economist discovers the economic value of biodiversity
Any more of this left-wing, environmentalist, clap-trap and I might just be forced to subscribe to this magazine! Seriously, though, having managed to get up my nose for several decades now with its...
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Singaporeans need three planets
Image source: UNEP The WWF released its latest Living Planet Report yesterday, and I went along in person to the Botany Centre in the beautiful Botanic Gardens here in Singapore to get it from from...
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7 billion people
We live in an increasingly full world. During 2011 we pass the 7 billion mark. This means that world population has more than doubled during my lifetime. When J.F. Kennedy was President of the United...
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Gaia 1-0 China
Image source: thinkingouttabox.wordpress.com A report in the NYT the other day, Plan for China’s Water Crisis Spurs Concern, provides an update on the ambitious attempt by the Chinese government to...
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Our finest or darkest hour?
Paul Gilding tells us it is the end of economic growth. Not only is the earth full, but we have gone beyond its carrying capacity. In other words, we are over the credit limit on the ecological ‘credit...
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Hog wash: Economic development in China
There has been some speculation in recent weeks as why 16,000 dead pigs floated down the Huangpu River. The rotting carcasses threatened the water supplies of those depending on this river system...
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Economic Growth, Climate Change and the G20: A View from Civil Society
A summary of the proceedings from the APCSE conference on Economic Growth, Climate Change and the G20 is now available on Medium.com
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A summary of the proceedings from the APCSE conference on Economic Growth, Climate Change and the G20 is now available on Medium.com
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