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BEarthright - Spiritual Economics - 0 views

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shared by Joelle Nebbe-Mornod on 25 Jun 16 - Cached
  • Joelle Nebbe-Mornod on 25 Jun 16
     
    "If you own no land to support yourself, you must rent, hire or buy it from those that do, so that you may both live and make a living If you cannot use the planet to feed, clothe and provide for yourself then to stay alive, you must choose to either work for those who own your planet, to become a thief or a beggar, or to die. This servitude has taken on many forms throughout history: slavery, serfdom, day-labour, employment. The only variation being the share of the wealth produced left to the planet borrowers by the planet owners This simple reality underlies much of today's poverty, inequality, lack of freedom, unemployment and powerlessness, experienced as the sheer struggle to get by that looms so large in so many peoples' lives These latter day pharaohs, the planet owners, the richest 5% - allow the rest of us to pay day after day for the right to live on their planet. And as we make them richer, they buy yet more of the planet for themselves, and use their wealth and power to fight amongst themselves over what each posesses ~ though of course it's actually us who have to fight and die in their wars"
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Can Technology Save the Planet? - 0 views

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shared by randaa on 31 Mar 07 - Cached
  • randaa on 31 Mar 07
     
    please send your opinion for this question?Can Technology Save the Planet?
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Futuristic Mobile Homes: Trailer Trash or Treasure? | WebUrbanist - 0 views

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shared by Maluvia Haseltine on 22 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Maluvia Haseltine on 22 Jul 09
     
    Futuristic Mobile Homes These scaled-down, hgih-efficiency homes can make our footprint on the planet much smaller. Really creative ideas.
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Wave Power: Ocean Energy Technologies On Cusp of Commercial Status - View Message - 0 views

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shared by Mark Kabbbash on 19 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Mark Kabbbash on 19 Jun 09
     
    The earth is the water planet, so it should come as no great surprise that forms of water power have been one of the world's most popular "renewable" energy sources. Yet the largest water power source of all - the ocean that covers three-quarters of earth - has yet to be tapped in any major way for power generation. There are three primary reasons for this:
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Aprovecho Research Center - Improved Stoves for the Developing World - 0 views

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shared by Maluvia Haseltine on 05 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Maluvia Haseltine on 05 Feb 10
     
    Aprovecho Research Center has been the world's leader in open source development of all aspects of improved cooking stoves. ARC's goal is to empower people to help each other and the planet.

My Artificial Sports Turf Perth Tennis Court - 1 views

started by Jean Peterson on 28 Feb 11 no follow-up yet

What Switching to Fake Grass Can Do - 1 views

started by GreenPlanetGrass.com.au artificial lawn Perth on 04 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
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Solar Shingles For Our Homes - 0 views

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shared by Saso Gjorevski on 01 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Saso Gjorevski on 01 Jun 13
     
    The most renewable and most powerful resource on the planet is certainly solar energy. From solar collectors for water heating to photovoltaic panels for electricity, the sun has a lot to offer.
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Readers response: will Rio+20 make a difference to sustainable development? | Guardian ... - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 12 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Rio+20 can definitely make a difference to sustainable development is by following through on the clause in the draft document which commits member states to develop an international policy framework requiring companies to publish sustainability reports
  • there is a collective learning curve, and it takes as long as it does, and that some stages have to be gone through first
  • Rio+20 will make a difference, but I think we need to combine it with habitat 2015 and the 2015 World Conference on Women as well. We need to stop thinking of some conferences as make-or-break, and instead look at how each one can move us along further.
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  • By bringing together political leaders, civil society groups and businesses, Rio+20 provides an opportunity to jumpstart a renewed commitment toward a more sustainable planet. This won't come easily-- and it's only possible if we're willing to acknowledge that the world has shifted profoundly since 1992.
  • companies are starting to see sustainability as a competitive advantage. We need to hear these stories
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World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch | Environment | ... - 1 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 14 Jan 12 - Cached
  • humans are using 30% more resources than the Earth can replenish each year, which is leading to deforestation, degraded soils, polluted air and water, and dramatic declines in numbers of fish and other species
  • we are running up an ecological debt of $4tr (£2.5tr) to $4.5tr every year
  • populations and consumption keep growing faster than technology finds new ways of expanding what can be produced from the natural world
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  • by 2030, if nothing changes, mankind would need two planets to sustain its lifestyle
  • Sir David King, the British government's former chief scientific adviser, said: "We all need to agree that there's a crisis of understanding, that we're removing the planet's biodiverse resources at a rate which is as fast if not faster than the world's last great extinction."
  • 50 countries are already experiencing "moderate to severe water stress on a year-round basis"
  • 27 countries are "importing" more than half the water they consume - in the form of water used to produce goods from wheat to cotton - including the UK, Switzerland, Austria, Norway and the Netherlands.
  • A person's footprint ranges vastly across the globe, from eight or more "global hectares" (20 acres or more) for the biggest consumers in the United Arab Emirates, the US, Kuwait and Denmark, to half a hectare in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Afghanistan and Malawi.
  • The global average consumption was 2.7 hectares a person, compared with a notional sustainable capacity of 2.1 hectares.
  • Benno Hansen on 14 Jan 12
     
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Planet Friendly Goods Marketplace - Shopping wih the Future in Mind! - 0 views

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shared by Joshua Sherk on 06 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Joshua Sherk on 06 Oct 08
     
    Green products and stuff
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British coal industry flack pushes geo-engineering "ploy" to give politicians... - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 13 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • The geo-engineering option provides the needed viable reason to do nothing about AGW now….
  • “The ‘geo-engineering’ approaches considered so far appear to be afflicted with some combination of high costs, low leverage, and a high likelihood of serious side effects.“
  • they simply omit the costs of many of the potential negative aspects of producing a stratospheric cloud to block out sunlight or cloud brightening
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  • That the second author works for the American Enterprise Institute, a lobbying group that has been a leading global warming denier, is not surprising, except that now they are in favor of a solution to a problem they have claimed for years does not exist.
  • The American Meteorological Society (AMS) has just issued a policy statement on geoengineering, which urges cautious consideration, more research, and appropriate restrictions.
  • ignore the effects of ocean acidification from continued CO2 emissions
  • do not even mention several potential negative effects of SRM, including getting rid of blue skies, huge reductions in solar power from systems using direct solar radiation, or ruining terrestrial optical astronomy
  • cloud brightening would mainly cool the oceans and not affect land temperature much
  • cloud brightening over the South Atlantic would produce severe drought over the Amazon, destroying the tropical forest
  • Whose hand would be on the global thermostat? Who would trust military aircraft or a multi-national geoengineering company to have the interests of the people of the planet foremost?
  • threat to the water supply for agriculture and other human uses
  • benefits from SRM, including increased plant productivity and an enhanced CO2 sink from vegetation that grows more when subject to diffuse radiation
  • The real consensus, as expressed at the National Academy conference and in the AMS statement, is that mitigation needs to be our first and overwhelming response to global warming, and that whether geoengineering can even be considered as an emergency measure in the future should climate change become too dangerous is not now known.
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Plant life saved Earth from an icy fate - environment - 02 July 2009 - New Scientist - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 13 Jul 09 - Cached
  • About 50 million years ago, Earth was a hothouse – the poles were ice free, and crocodiles lived in the Arctic. Then, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere started dropping from around 1000-1500 parts per million (ppm), and the Earth began to cool.
  • By about 24 million years ago, the uplift of the Himalayan and Andes mountain ranges led to large-scale weathering of rocks, a process that removes massive amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. This reduced the greenhouse effect and cooled the planet.
  • Trees play an important role in the sequestration of atmospheric CO2 in magnesium and calcium carbonate rocks.
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Could engineering rainforests save the planet from global warming? - 0 views

news.mongabay.com/...0121-hance_reforestation.html Environment ClimateChange Sustainability
shared by Maluvia Haseltine on 06 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Maluvia Haseltine on 06 Jul 09
     
    Profoundly important dialog as to an innovative solution to combating global warming.
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Capitalism as a threat to the environment - The Irish Times - Sat, Aug 09, 2008 - 1 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 14 Jul 09 - Cached
  • "Today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that threatens the planet,"
  • current obsession with GDP growth at all costs must be abandoned
  • a shift to much more participative and popular forms of democracy
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  • a shift to a post-consumer society is needed
  • "tackling climate change is the pro-growth strategy for the longer term"
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Why Small Organic Farming Is Indeed Radical (and Beautiful) | Food | AlterNet - 0 views

www.alternet.org/...indeed_radical_(and_beautiful) Sustainability food environmentalism agriculture
shared by Benno Hansen on 08 Feb 10 - Cached
  • focus is on the quality of the crops grown and their suitability for human nutrition
  • I often think of how much further all that effort could have gone had I grown up on a "real" farm but then I realize that if I had, it would have required an equal effort to change from the "quantity first" focus that has so characterized American agriculture to the new "quality first" focus established by the organic pioneers.
    • Arabica Robusta
      Arabica Robusta on 08 Mar 10
       
      Food Rebellions! is a very useful book in this context, arguing that organic small farms actually produce more yield per acre (perhaps per unit of energy too) than large farms.
  • There is no reason that large farms, whatever path they may have been on, cannot learn to meet those standards if they understand that it is not the scale of the farm but the attitude of the farmer that the public is interested in.
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  • The small organic farm greatly discomforts the corporate/industrial mind because the small organic farm is one of the most relentlessly subversive forces on the planet.  Over centuries both the communist and the capitalist systems have tried to destroy small farms because small farmers are a threat to the consolidation of absolute power.  Thomas Jefferson said he didn't think we could have democracy unless at least 20% of the population was self-supporting on small farms so they were independent enough to be able to tell an oppressive government to stuff it.  It is very difficult to control people who can create products without purchasing inputs from the system, who can market their products directly thus avoiding the involvement of mercenary middlemen, who can butcher animals and preserve foods without reliance on industrial conglomerates, and who can't be bullied because they can feed their own faces.
  • Massive industrial conglomerates that look upon people as anonymous passive serfs, obedient cogs in a mechanistic world, now control far too many aspects of human existence.
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