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Benno Hansen

FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: Jared Diamond - 0 views

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jared diamond sustainability

shared by Benno Hansen on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • “If I was Japan’s worst enemy trying to figure out a strategy to drive it into a crisis in 10 years’ time, my strategy would be to get the Japanese to do exactly what they are doing, which is to over-harvest their main source of protein.”
  • “There is a parallel based on the same fundamental mechanisms of the economic collapse that we’re seeing now and the collapse of past civilisations such as the Maya,”
  • only those societies able to stamp out unsustainable habits – over-logging, overspending, over-extension – have the ability to survive
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  • “When people talk about the greater efficiency of dictatorships, they are forgetting that a dictatorship is no more likely than a democracy to make a wise decision,”
  • “If we continue to operate non-sustainably, then in 50 or 60 years, the US and Japan and Europe will be in bad shape. But my friends in the highlands of New Guinea will be fine. Some of my friends made stone tools when they were children and they could just go back to what their ancestors were doing for 46,000 years. New Guinea highlanders are not doomed,”
  • “The first world lifestyle will be doomed if we don’t learn to operate sustainably.”
Benno Hansen

Coal Mining Costs Appalachia $9-$76 Billion per Year More Than it Brings In: New Study ... - 0 views

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  • illness and premature death in coal mining regions far outweigh any economic benefits
  • though coal mining brought in about $8 billion to the state coffers of Appalachian states, the costs of the shorter life-spans associated with coal mining operations were nearly $17 billion to $84.5 billion
  • Everyone who lives near the mines or processing plants or transportation centers is affected by chronic socioeconomic weakness that takes a toll on longevity and health.
Jean Peterson

Synthetic Grass: Green and Economical - 2 views

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Alex Parker

Global Tech I Offshore Wind Farm - Power Technology - 1 views

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shared by Alex Parker on 11 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Alex Parker on 11 Sep 14
     
    Global Tech I (GTI) is a 400MW offshore wind farm being built in the North Sea in Germany. It is situated in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), 180km away from the Bremerhaven Emden in the north-west.
biodegradable123

Bagasse products - 0 views

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    Bagasse products made from reclaimed sugarcane, bagasse is a smart ecological alternative to plastic products Products made from bagasse are organic, have a lower impact on the environment, and are more economic to produce than their paper-based counterparts, while still having similar strength.
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