Just read an excellent article over on AlterNet, discussing what impact Bill Gates’ big speech of a few days ago might have. Gates just announced that he’s putting his massive resources and personal clout behind the target of getting to zero carbon emissions by 2050. Globally. Zero. From the AlterNet article: Gates spoke about his [...]
Posts Tagged ‘well-being’
25 Mar
Bike there!
I got all excited this morning when I found out that Google maps is now supporting biking directions. Then, of course, I discovered that it’s not available in Canada yet. Boo! Had a lot of fun playing around with it though, as I’m planning a cycling trip through Vermont in a couple of months. It [...]
3 Mar
Rights of Nature
From the Towards an Eco-Economy blog comes an interesting referral to UK environmental lawyer Polly Higgins and her proposal to expand the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to all life forms. 60 years ago the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was born out of the devastation of the humanitarian crisis of the Second World War. [...]
16 Feb
Like I been sayin’…
The New Economics Foundation, a British think tank, released an interesting report the other day recommending that the work week be cut to 21 hours. “So many of us live to work, work to earn, and earn to consume, and our consumption habits are squandering the earth’s natural resources. Spending less time in paid work [...]
10 Feb
Drunk with power
Do you ever just marvel at the sheer amount of stuff available? I don’t mean just weird stuff, like that Slap Chop thing the guy’s always yelling about on TV, or salt shakers shaped like the Statue of Liberty, or Don Cherry’s Rock’Em Sock’Em Hockey videos. I mean just normal stuff. So I’m at this [...]
28 Jan
Freaks of nature
So I found some apples today, when due to some long and stupid circumstances I ended up going through the fridge of another tenant in my building who’d skipped out on his lease about a month ago. Needless to say, said fridge had gotten pretty nasty, but there was a bag of apples in which [...]
20 Jan
F(l)ail: How the Establishment Protects Itself While the Earth Declines
Today’s special guest post comes from Professor Peter G. Brown of the McGill University School of Environment, co-author of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy and author of two previous books. * * * HOW THE ESTABLISHMENT PROTECTS ITSELF, OR THINKS IT DOES WHILE THE EARTH DECLINES. 1. DROWNING IN OUR WORRIES. One of [...]
8 Jan
The word of the day: praxis
I read an article today on “The Religion of Sustainability”, in which the author calls for less theory and more practical work. Oh for the day when we all cared about the environment and the human race and that was our single mission. When we didn’t spend most of our time in meetings and forums [...]
31 Dec
Circles of concern, circles of influence
I just read an article in the current issue of The Canadian Friend that resonated very strongly with me. In “Making Peace With Our Place on the Planet”, Tony McQuail of Kitchener Monthly Meeting writes: Something that has been helpful to me is distinguishing between my circle of concern and my circle of influence. If [...]
18 Dec
Read all about it
Interviews! Today we’ve got a great interview with Peter Brown from The Lionel Show, which, as usual, WordPress will not let me embed directly. But fear not; just click here and it ought to either play or download, depending on how paranoid your media player settings are. Also there’s a print interview at Investor’s Business [...]
