On passing 400ppm
Quite a few memes on Facebook today have dealt with the passing of the 400ppm CO2 level in the atmosphere. It’s going to carry on heading upwards for a few Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Sustainability
Storm after storm
Hurricane Sandy, floods in the UK, and now Typhoon Bopha, (which is being described as “Hurricane Sandy Times Two”). This is what climate change looks like. And every plane we take, Continue Reading →
Life Support on Spaceship Earth
The Earth is a spaceship flying through space. It has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied. Like all spaceships, it has a life-support system. We call our life-support Continue Reading →
Sustainability requires everyone
“It’s easy to mine the land and fish the seas and get rich. Yet [in the long run] … you cannot have a prosperous nation …that does not conserve its Continue Reading →
A realisation
CO2 is like an invisible blanket or duvet surrounding the earth. We have already created a duvet thick enough to warm the earth by two degrees, even if we stopped Continue Reading →
Net positive
A few weeks ago I blogged about the idea that sustainability requires us to do more than just minimise our impacts. It requires us to generate a net increase in Continue Reading →
This is what sustainability looks like
I wrote recently that to achieve sustainability we only need do two things: create more resources each year create more diversity each year. I said that Nature has done this Continue Reading →
Strategic sustainability
The first step in tackling any issue is to understand what the problem is. So what do we mean by ‘sustainability’? The word is often bandied about vaguely, without defining Continue Reading →
Inequality in societies
Inequality (far from being ‘survival of the fittest’) is actually bad for the group as a whole. It has spread NOT because it is an inherently better system for survival, Continue Reading →
Where the bee sucks, there suck I
This morning I realised for the first time what this means. It means that I depend on where the bee sucks. The quality of ‘where the bee sucks’ affects me. Not Continue Reading →