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Revolution, Recession AND Sustainability
Revolution and recession. For good reason, these two words have dominated headlines over the past year. Yet talk of such political and financial tumult has resulted in the neglect of a third issue, which is both critical and germane: sustainability. … Continue reading →
Fair Tax: It’s About Socioeconomic Welfare, not Warfare!
Some week ago week Paul Ryan, chairman of the House of Representatives budget committee, accused President Obama of waging “class warfare” with his proposed taxes on top-earners. Ryan went on to claim that any such attempt to dismantle Bush-era tax … Continue reading →
Categories: Leadership and Sustainability, News, Political Governance
Solutions for Rio – debate in the UK Parliament
More than 150 politicians, businesses and NGO:s participated in the discussion about the roadmap to Rio +20 and Stockholm+40. The threats of our civilisation was present in the discussion. Mark Edwards the producer of the Hard Rain exhibition clarified and present … Continue reading →
Categories: Brazil, Interviews, Leadership and Sustainability, News, Political Governance, Sustainable Cities
Sweden on the top of the list of biofuel use in Europe
Categories: Bioenergy, Brazil, Climate Change, News, Transport
Friends of Graemeen
Yunus, known as “the banker of the poor”, has become unstoppable, with 3.7 million people now having signed a petition; Mary Robinson leading Friends of Grameen with a powerful international coalition of supporters; and the French and American governments speaking up … Continue reading →
From Stockholm on the Road to Rio de Janeiro 2012
An interview with Dr Ashok Khosla, President of IUCN, one of the speakers at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability development in Stockholm between on 16-19 May 2011. The interview highlights the issues of ongoing international negotiations, relations … Continue reading →
Fish stock declining figures under debate
33 percent of all stocks are over-exploited and up to 13 percent of all stocks have collapsed says in a new study from Two University of Washington scientists have just published a study in the journal Conservation Biology. It’s not that … Continue reading →
Categories: Biodiversity, News
Durban a new disappoitment in the Climate negotiations?
Will the developing countries see any further steps on climate justice or will the negotiators struggle away from a possible deal? US climate negotiator Todd Stern and European climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard played down the chance of a breakthrough after a meeting … Continue reading →
Categories: Climate Negotiations, News
From Staff Benda Bilili to Congo’s minerals
I used the last friday evening to see a new film in Stockholm . Suddenly you are there. Meeting the sunlight of Kinshasa Zoo in Congo when the Staff Benda Bililis musical rhythm sounds get strong. My soul create emotions which took me to different directions … Continue reading →
Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?
Over the past 540 million years, life on Earth has passed through five great mass extinctions. In each of those catastrophes, an estimated 75 percent or more of all species disappeared in a few million years or less. Read more … Continue reading →
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