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Overview & General - Reference
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Datasets from the Earth Policy Institute |
Earth Policy Institute -- Winter 2009 -- An up to date collection of datasets from Earth Policy Institute. This collection is the supporting data for Lester Brown's new book Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. (Full Article)
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US Foreign Policy is Straight Out of the Mafia |
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by Seumas Milne -- Nov. 7, 2009 -- Since government officials first formulated plans for a "grand area" strategy for US global domination in the early 1940s, successive administrations have been guided by a "godfather principle, straight out of the mafia: that defiance cannot be tolerated. It's a major feature of state policy." (Full Article ) |
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America's Failed Model for the World |
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by Stephen Hill -- Sept. 16, 2009 -- The European perception of the issues in the Untied States today, including healthcare, the response to Katrina, the financial crisis, U.S. wars, etc. (Full Article) |
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Free Guide on Corporate Sustainability |
by Tracy de Morsella -- Sept. 4, 2009 -- Corporate Sustainability in Context: A Pocket Guide to (Nearly) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Corporate Sustainability provides a very thorough overview about corporate sustainability. The report uncovers many valuable examples of innovation in corporate sustainability from companies less frequently in the spotlight as well as recognized leaders – in reporting, climate strategy, stakeholder engagement, sustainability marketing and communications. (Full Article)
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Simpol - John Bunzl - Interview |
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SIMPOL is "a growing association of citizens world-wide who aim to use their votes in a new, co-ordinated and effective way to drive all nations to co-operate in solving our planetary crisis. It believes that transnational citizen action is vital because global markets and multinational corporations so comprehensively overpower individual nations that no politician dares make the first move to solve global problems for fear of competitive disadvantage". (Youtube Interview) |
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Plan B 3.0 by Lester Brown -- Summary Presentation (Must See) |
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by Earth Policy Institute -- Mar. 25, 2009 -- This presentation provides a brief but engaging summary of Lester Brown's influential book Plan B 3.0. By helping interested parties spread the Plan B vision, we hope to encourage social and political involvement in critical environmental issues. It is designed to be shared, so feel free to pass along the link to others who might be interested. We ask only that you appropriately credit EPI and the photographers. (Download PowerPoint Presentation) |
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Review: Future Scenarios by David Holmgren |
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by Carolyn Baker -- Mar. 19, 2009 -- In Future Scenarios, (Chelsea Green, 2009) David Holmgren, the author of Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability offers four possible sketches of transition from industrial civilization to a post-petroleum world. The characteristics and likely outcomes of them compel us to view them more closely. (Full Article) |
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Environmental Defense Fund -- Jan. 30, 2009 -- The "cap" sets a nationwide limit on emissions, which is lowered over time to reduce the amount of pollutants released into the atmosphere. The "trade" creates a market for carbon allowances, helping companies innovate in order meet, or come in under, their allocated limit. The less they emit, the less they pay, so it is in their economic incentive to pollute less. (Full Article) |
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See "The Blind Spot" -- A New Documentary |
by Jan Lundberg -- Dec. 25, 2008 -- Blind Spot is an hour and-a-half documentary that tells a clear but most alarming story through profound interviews. The Blind Spot is about our awful situation, i.e., our fate. Our destruction of the beautiful Earth! Ending our own story through our stupidity! No other film with the exception of What a Way to Go has shown me in more stark or clear terms what we are up against. (Full Article)
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Politics Still Reign Over Principles at UN |
by Thalif Deen -- Dec. 11, 2008 -- A sharply divided Security Council has remained politically impotent against continued atrocities worldwide, in violation of humanitarian law and international conventions. The United States, France and Britain have continued to protect Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan while Russia and China continue to shield Zimbabwe, Sudan and Burma (Myanmar) against any strictures or sanctions for human rights violations. (Full Article)
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"2025" Report: A World of Resource Strife |
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by Michael Klare -- Dec. 2, 2008 -- This National Intelligence Council report notes "unprecedented global economic growth — positive in so many other regards — will continue to put pressure on a number of highly strategic resources, including energy, food, and water, and demand is projected to outstrip easily available supplies over the next decade or so." (Full Article)
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by Herman Daly -- April 24, 2008 -- The closer the economy approaches the scale of the whole Earth the more it will have to conform to the physical behavior mode of the Earth. That behavior mode is a steady state—a system that permits qualitative development but not aggregate quantitative growth. A paper by Herman Daly, who popularized the term "Steady State Economy" over 3 decades ago. (Full Article)
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ” Buckminster Fuller
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