ONEPLANET Sustainability Review

Sustainability Research, Reviews and Signposting

Challenges, what challenges? Where’s the remote…

Yes sir, but can we switch off the tube for a minute please, sir? Can we sit and think for a few minutes maybe? Shouldn’t we be concentrating on the … Continue reading

21 February 2012 · Leave a Comment

Environmental Sustainability, Everyone’s Duty

However you look at it, either as sustainability, protection, stewardship, or just old fashioned respect, unless the overwhelming majority of us begin to take responsibility for the environment on multiple … Continue reading

7 February 2012 · Leave a Comment

Rio+20 and The Future We Want

Mount up! The Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development is 150 days away. Follow it here. In advance of the Conference, the Secretary-General has announced the release of a … Continue reading

15 January 2012 · 2 Comments

Thoughts for Environmental Activists, Climate Change ‘Believers’ and Skeptics Alike

According to the Buddhist faith, this passage contained within their cannon outlines the Buddha’s thoughts about believing: “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not … Continue reading

6 January 2012 · Leave a Comment

“If you’re not doing a job that is about improving the world, then you’re wasting your life.”

Whether you buy into the premise of the 10:10 campaign, e.g. the notion of climate change and pledging to reduce your carbon emissions by 10%, the campaign founder and die-hard … Continue reading

28 December 2011 · Leave a Comment

Part of the Problem? or Part of the Solution?

Rampant consumerism.
Widespread unsustainable lifestyles.
Unsustainable business practices.
Damaging and unsustainable travel and transport.
Extensive environmental degradation and biodiversity loss.
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These are some of the problems we face.
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Energy crisis.
Financial crisis.
Uneducated and un-empowered.
Environmental damage.
Food and water shortage.
Climate change.
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Are you part of the problem,
Or are you part of the solution?

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