Category Archives: Environmental Sustainability
Unsustainable Products, Services and Business Practices: Legislation, Taxation or Self-Regulation
“Getting the true cost of production integrated into market prices so that purchasing choices lead to optimum outcomes” is what Paul Hawken hopes will contribute to a system of production … Continue reading
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
Will Technology be Our Safety Net?
Is technology a safety net, or does it just get in the way of what’s really important? Safety net for what? What is the problem we are trying to solve … Continue reading
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
Natural Resource Depletion, Enviro-Degredation
The OECD ties Natural Resource Depletion and Environmental Degredation directly to human well-being. In order to properly respect the environment and our biosphere to ensure it remains in tact for … Continue reading
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
Dude, what’s up with Canada, eh?
What are they thinking? First of all, Canada, an area of magnificent unspoilt wilderness, continues to support their environmentally detrimental and carbon intensive tar sands mining in favour of, you … Continue reading
Tar Sands? Holy Mother Earth – What are They Thinking?
Talk about raping the planet?!? Yeah, you can get oil out of the bitumen that is eked out of tar stands extraction, but holy Moses is it a bastard on … Continue reading
Congratulations Earth, You’ve Been Granted an “Instrument”
Durban Climate Talks Conclude without Great Substance. Hurrah, let’s all stand up and congratulate our climate change negotiators in Durban for finding the political will to grant our beloved Earth … Continue reading
