There shall be transformation, or so goes the dictum of this year’s World Economic Forum – the annual meeting of the powerful, the smart and the wealthy in Davos, Switzerland. Never, it seems, were times as dire as now, resources that scarce and solutions so urgently needed. Even in the darkest of times, however, there … Continue reading
The aviation industry faces real challenges in seeking to become more sustainable. How to reduce the negative environmental impact of air travel in times where more and more people want to fly? How to adapt their businesses to the upcoming post-oil era and the threatening consequences of a changing climate? Some promising initiatives are on … Continue reading
If your company is at the cutting edge of sustainable innovation then this event might be of interest: The European Future Energy Forum in 2011 is focusing on the challenge of finding, developing and funding cutting edge technology and services to create a sustainable world. The conference will address the high-level issues affecting the future … Continue reading
Yesterday I went up to Auckland University business school to attend Prof James Hansen’s public lecture on climate change and moral implications – or so was the official title. What he mainly presented to the hundreds of people who were fast enough to grab a seat in cramped the lecture theatre (they had to stream … Continue reading
Europe – quo vadis? The Lisbon Council’s 2011 Eco-Innovation Summit convened on Thursday 13 January 2011 in Brussels under the timely theme of Cancún –and Beyond: Europe’s Next Steps on the Road to a Low-Carbon Economy and Sustainable Future. At the occasion of her first major speech after the COP16, Connie Hedegaard, European commissioner for … Continue reading
“After two weeks of sometimes fraught negotiations, finally agreement was reached in the small hours of Saturday morning. Every country – bar Bolivia – agreed a new package of measures to tackle global warming. Bolivia has come in for some strong criticism for standing alone for a strong and fair international agreement to tackle climate … Continue reading
Award-winning author Graham Harvey will be talking about the way in which farming and food production has gone in the wrong direction with its concentration on high-input cereals. He will argue that for a secure supply of good food we need some modernised version of George Stapledon’s ley farming with livestock produced principally on grass. … Continue reading
UK based publisher Earthscan would like to invite you to join a free webinar presented by the authors of biocultural Diversity Conservation and Sacred Natural Sites for an event that explores the important relationship people have with nature and how vital it is for the future of our natural world.
Global climate change is one of the greatest collective action problems facing mankind. Despite efforts by businesses, governments and households to ‘green’ their activities, the problem remains that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continue to rise. As such, the search for ecological, social and economic sustainability in the future continues to raise a number of difficult … Continue reading
Sustainability seminars you won’t want to miss… During 2010/11, Great Western Research (GWR) are organising a series of seminars in the South West on broad topics within ‘Sustainability’. These seminars can be viewed ‘live’ at Exeter, Bath, Bristol, UWE and Plymouth via Access Grid nodes in these universities. In addition, most of them are available … Continue reading
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