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BBC – Travel – Living in: The world’s most eco-friendly cities : Eco-tourism
BBC – Travel – Living in: The world’s most eco-friendly cities : Eco-tourism. From offering plentiful bike paths and thriving farmers’ markets to ensuring cleaner air, a city’s environmental efforts don’t just help the planet – they benefit residents too. Related article: Living in – the world’s friendliest cities According to the Siemens Green City Index, […]
Building the new environmentalism | Ensia
Building the new environmentalism | Ensia. Forty-four years after the first Earth Day, we must ask a basic question: What is an environmental issue? Air and water pollution, yes. But what if the right answer is that an environmental issue is anything that determines environmental outcomes? Then the definition becomes something much broader, rooted in […]
Knowing what ‘just enough’ is: Azby Brown on Japan’s Edo period – Part One | Transition Network
Knowing what ‘just enough’ is: Azby Brown on Japan’s Edo period – Part One | Transition Network. One of the most extraordinary books I have read in recent years is Just Enough: lessons in living green from traditional Japan by Azby Brown. Brown is director of the Konazawa Institute of Technologies Future Design Institute and has lived […]
Sustainability requires that we learn to embrace change, not fight it | Ensia
Sustainability requires that we learn to embrace change, not fight it | Ensia. December 3, 2014 — Limits to growth are a fundamental and widely accepted principle of sustainability. You might even call them the first law of sustainability. Nevertheless, as ecological economist Richard Norgaard first noted, limits make a terrible metaphor for sustainability. They don’t inspire […]
The psychological dimension to sustainability | Feasta
The psychological dimension to sustainability | Feasta. As the 21st century unfolds it is increasingly clear that we are entering more deeply into times of travail. The symptoms, both personal and social, of systemic stress are all about. At the political level we see the re-emergence of various fundamentalisms, nationalisms, far-right politics and the normalisation […]
Buying Less Stuff Can Actually Make You More Happy | Carl Duivenvoorden
Buying Less Stuff Can Actually Make You More Happy | Carl Duivenvoorden. Tax time is never pretty, and for me last year was uglier than usual. By the measures of economics and Revenue Canada, I didn’t have a great 2013. But by the measures of sustainability and fulfillment, I had an awesome 2013. How could that be? […]
Pedalling the way to cleaner food – Sustainable Food Trust – Sustainable Food Trust
Pedalling the way to cleaner food – Sustainable Food Trust – Sustainable Food Trust. Anybody who has witnessed the spectacle of a seven-tonne lorry reversing over a canal bridge in Amsterdam will applaud fresh innovation in the city’s delivery systems. These narrow 17th-century bridges and streets are no home for huge vehicles, which often look […]
How to Shrink the Economy without Crashing It: A Ten-Point Plan Post Carbon Institute
How to Shrink the Economy without Crashing It: A Ten-Point Plan Post Carbon Institute. The human economy is currently too big to be sustainable. We know this because Global Footprint Network, which methodically tracks the relevant data, informs us that humanity is now using 1.5 Earths’ worth of resources. We can temporarily use resources faster than […]
What If We Put the Future First? | On the Commons
What If We Put the Future First? | On the Commons. What if we put the future first? What if we prioritized the well being of everyone’s kids and grandkids ahead of today’s myopic economic and political interests? What if we honored everyone’s right to sustainably use the commons? These are questions at the heart […]
Introduction: Why Resilience? | Solutions
Introduction: Why Resilience? | Solutions. While it is clear that the pace and pattern of global economic growth is unsustainable, we are slow in responding to this challenge. Sustainability advocates offer visions of a utopian future in which human needs are fulfilled and resource consumption is balanced with planetary capacity. But, in a turbulent world, […]
Sustainia wants us to start acting today, not tomorrow | Ensia
Sustainia wants us to start acting today, not tomorrow | Ensia. October 22, 2014 — Earlier this year, we asked if we might already have what we need to solve our greatest environmental challenges. Stop looking for the next big thing, we wrote, and start doing the last big thing better. Maybe, if scaled up appropriately or […]
