Curtailment & Community - Community Solution NS10

The Heat Is On - The Economist

THE world's climate has barely changed since the industrial revolution. The temperature was stable in the 19th century, rose very slightly during the first half of the 20th, fell back in the 1950s-70s, then started rising again. Over the past 100 years, it has gone up by about 0.6°C (1.1°F).…

The Ecology of Cities - Earth Policy Institute

Double Green Design - KMD

Great hopes are being placed on the possibility of Green Architecture for reducing the environmental impacts of products and building systems, in terms both of energy consumption and conservation. However, green design alone is likely to be inadequate to realize the desired goals of most corporations. The corporation, for the most part wants to be environmentally responsible and cognizant of social issues, while maximizing productivity.
For almost all of us, the concept of energy efficiency and conservation has become increasingly important in our every day lives. The groundswell of support for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification continues to increase as the world recognizes its benefits. However, the thing about buildings is that they are, by their very nature, plunderers.

WISIONS of Sustainability - Wuppertal Institute

Background to WISIONS

Sustainable development is possible. Numerous innovative and valuable contributions, from different countries, fields and institutions, have shown that an appropriate reconciliation of economic, ecological and social factors is not unrealistic utopia. We have made a promising start, but the greatest challenge facing us in the 21st century is to learn how to use the world's resources more efficiently, and in an ecologically sound and socially balanced way.Yes, progress is being made, but a dozen years after the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, many people and developing countries still lack access to resources and clean technologies. At the same time, people continue to live using unsustainable ways of consumption and production.

To meet global challenges like climate change, water scarcity and poverty, it is necessary to foster projects of potential strategic global importance. We can do this by supporting them so they can be implemented locally. Also examples of good practice need to be actively promoted to a wider audience.

Sustainability in Finance

Banking and finance play a fundamental role in public policy and economic performance as well as in all forms of commerce and industry. They are crucial in determining whether society - from governments to individual consumers - succeeds in following an environmentally sustainable path.

However, those working in the financial sector are largely unaware of the rationale and pressures for sustainable development and its bearing on their work, while those in the relevant research and policy areas commonly overlook how vital the financial sector is for progress.

This site presents free downloads on the subject of sustainable finance and banking by dr Marcel Jeucken. Moreover, it presents information and order details for six books on this subject.

Sustainability Solutions Initiative

PRESS RELEASE

Ecological Internet's "Sustainability Solutions Initiative" Launches New On-line Eco-Think Tank to develop and disseminate information and policy proposals in regard to Global Ecological Sustainability Solutions http://www.EcoEarth.Info/ssi/

(Madison, WI) - Ecological Internet, Inc. today announced their new online environmental sustainability think tank. "Sustainability Solutions Initiative" will facilitate global discussion upon the policies necessary and adequate to achieve global ecological sustainability - where humanity can live well and equitably upon the Earth's natural capital for as long as possible.

Ecological Internet, Inc. is more known for its unique, comprehensive and much used environmental portals and search engines including such notables as Climate Ark at http://www.climateark.org/ and EcoEarth.Info at its name's URL (full list below). It is hoped that the new policy development effort can benefit from these existing distribution channels - used by tens of thousands of people a day.

As Dr. Barry, the President of Ecological Internet, explains "the heart of the global ecological crisis is that too many people are consuming too much and their developments have severely diminished natural ecosystems. There is little hope of the Earth and humanity regaining a state of balance absent a major surge in ecological based policies in virtually every human realm and/or a major human population collapse."

From carbon to solar - Jeremy Leggett

Some flashbacks from the past forty years, and some dreams for the next forty...

Alliance for a New Humanity - Deepak Chopra

About us

Values and Principles
The Alliance recognizes at the core of its vision the unity of all life, and a wholehearted adherence to the noblest aspirations of humankind, as proclaimed in all spiritual and humanist traditions that call for compassion and the celebration of life. The values and principles of the emerging movement for a new humanity, and of the Alliance, which is trying to serve it, are based upon the support of policies, causes and actions that favor respect for life, human dignity, freedom, ecological sustainability and peace. The basic tenet of the Alliance is a consciousness based on the inseparability of all life, i.e., that everything is connected and that therefore our well being is the well-being of everyone. This consciousness we believe cannot be just passive, otherwise it would remain irrelevant, it has to be expressed for the benefit of all through service that improves life for all mankind.

"Action without love is meaningless, and love without action is irrelevant." - Hafsat Abiola

The above stated core set of values and principles will be further developed until a more comprehensive and refined set is established to reflect the aspirations of all those who share the vision of the Alliance. These clearly stated values and principles will allow the big tent strategy to emerge on a grassroots basis by enabling the individuals and organizations to self-identify and participate in the various components of the Alliance strategy.