Ian Lowe: Radical Solutions for Environmental Crisis
Professor Ian Lowe I’ve met on a few occasions and he is a leader here in Australia on Environmental issues. He has had a long career in this area and is currently the President of the Australian Conservation Foundation.
I feel the urgency in the book review. I would concur with that. I would add… Continue reading
Dialogue: The Global Forum of Parliamentarians and Spiritual Leaders
http://akiomatsumura.com/akio/global-forums
The Global Forum held five conferences throughout the 1990s in Oxford, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Jericho*, Kyoto, and Konya.
The Global Forum of Parliamentarian and Spiritual Leaders on Human Survival, Oxford 1988
Among its guests and speakers were:
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Nobel Laureate and political and spiritual leader
Mikhail Gorbachev, President of… Continue reading
Consuming Our Way To Extinction, Will We Break Away?
This information below focusses on the ecological footprint and living beyond our means through over-consumption.
http://gen.ecovillage.org/ross/166.html?lang=en
Breakaway – Living Beyond Our Means
By: Ross Jackson, PhD
“Breakaway” is a code word for what has been occupying most of my thoughts over the past several years and is also the working title of the forthcoming book… Continue reading
The Eve of Morality on Climate Debt Tribunal
Seems a good idea given users pay principles. I am sure corporations will just regard it as another cost to production and fight it. Yet the highest cost to production of resources is human activity which undermines its own life support. The environment or as Evo Morales so accurately states ‘mother earth’ is not a… Continue reading