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The Year Without a Summer shows why addressing climate change is our number one priority. But the reality is, as Prince Charles has said, that “we are simply not reacting quickly enough.” Continue Reading →
When Jonathan Porritt blogged yesterday that David Cameron was not attending the Rio+20 talks but Unilever and Aviva were, he saw it as “a sign of our unsustainable times.” I Continue Reading →
With the news from the G20 in Rio being widely-classed as ‘disappointing‘, a quote from the book I am reading on organisational-system change seems appropriate.
In this latest article, George Monbiot tells us that “Hope is the rope from which we all hang.” Twenty years ago, he says we thought the world’s environmental problems could Continue Reading →
Success equals “the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill Read more here.
Why do we find it so difficult to tackle the imminent irreversible collapse of all life on our planet, when we seem able to tackle the European sovereign debt crisis at much higher speed — in months Continue Reading →
“FT Breaking News” last night brought an announcement from José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission. He had told the paper that the EU needs to go “beyond the Continue Reading →
Why is it that the Germans are so green? (The greenest country in the world, according to some.) Why have they decided to phase out nuclear power by 2022? How come they managed Continue Reading →
I’ve been having an interesting discussion (offline) about the management consultants’ report reviewed yesterday, which outlines ten “megaforces that will affect every business over the next two decades.” The report does Continue Reading →
After talking about Bateson’s views on hubris yesterday, I thought the best thing to write about today would be to find an example that tests them. Climate change and the financial crisis Continue Reading →