Oil Companies Accountable for Environmental Damages?
This blog highlights accountability cases with Chevron in respect of the Amazon and the second part refers to the BP Oil spill in respect of compensation from a fund rather than legal action.
Externalities is an economic term for pollution and other negative consequences caused by business entities but external to them. It is often… 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
Governance: The Planet is Pressuring Us To Be The Change
I would just like to comment on some of the issues raised below. What I see is the planet pressuring the peoples of the world to take action. It is raised in the press release at how quickly the world took action after World War II. It seems to me there was a shift in… Continue reading
Global Climate – Sink or Swim?
The title I wrote is really about do we create carbon sinks or do we swim (rising sea levels). I do feel these are the ultimate choices, as we have to adapt to climate change. Clearly humans are locked into business as usual and are unable to change quickly. So locking up carbon appears to… Continue reading
Worldshift-20 Declaration from Global Emergency to Global Emergence
I just discovered this declaration through researching Deepak Chopra. Deepak indicates that he sees the world as a projection of our consciousness. He is advocating networks for social and global transformation. To step out of ego and to work together to mobilise the planet. He advocates a new story and to remember who we really… Continue reading
Bill Mollison: I Want To Leave Our Children Gardens Not Deserts
Foundations of Permaculture is premised on the Ethics of Permaculture
1. Care of the Earth: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply
2. Care of the People: Provision for people to access those resources necessary to their existence
3. Setting Limits to Population and Consumption: By governing our own needs, we can set… Continue reading