Tag: environment

  • Haida People’s Rogue Geoengineering Project Condemned by Scientists

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    NPR’s Morning Edition recently grappled with the issue of geoengineering.  The program discussed the Haida people’s 2012 attempt to bring salmon back to their waters, by using iron dust to create an algae bloom, and the scientific community’s response to it. In the summer of 2012, a small group of the Haida people, a native…

  • Why Monetize Sustainability?

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    Reposted from: André Reichel | Sustainability Research When talking about corporate responsibility, the issue of measurement comes up after a while. And rightly so, because if you cannot measure it you can hardly formulate goals, develop programs for implementation and evaluate your success in achieving them. But what is measured? The answer is simple: money. Regardless…

  • Link Between Sustainability and Environmentalism Fairly Recent

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    The link between sustainability and environmentalism is actually fairly recent: Before 1980, sustainability was an uncommon variant of sustainable, as in “capable of being upheld,” and it could be used in any context. But in 1980 that all changed when the International Union for the Conservation of Nature published the World Conservation Strategy, including an entire section called “Towards…

  • Soil Organisms: A Whole World Beneath Our Feet

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    Dirty Microbes by Molly Michelson explores the importance of soil organisms: Soil microbes include everything from bacteria to fungi, and article author Richard Conniff likes to call the lot collectively “the agribiome.” These microscopic life forms have the potential to solve many crises facing agriculture today—everything from climate change and drought to Salmonellaand other food-bourn illnesses, from the costs…

  • Resnick Sustainability Institute’s “RESONATE” Awards Focus on Paradigm Shifting Work

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    The Resnick Sustainability Institute at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has announced that it has established an award that will honor cutting-edge work that addresses some of the hardest problems in energy and sustainability. The award winners will be announced in the Spring of 2014. The Resnick Sustainability Institute’s “RESONATE” Awards will focus on…

  • Sustainability Does Not Travel Well

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    Pamela Mar explores the distinction between the meaning of sustainability in the East vs. the West and concludes that “sustainability does not travel well.” …the definition of sustainability – i.e. progress which stems from balancing economic, environmental and social priorities – may resonate globally, but the strategies for implementing it have to be tailored to…

  • Global Shipping Lanes Being Developed in the Arctic

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    Thinning ice in the Arctic is making new shipping lanes possible. Olivier Dessibourg writes about a new breed of ice breaking vessels that can clear wider swathes of ice to boost the development of global shipping lanes in the Arctic. The article appeared in this month’s New Scientist on-line magazine. THE clank of hammers, the…

  • This Week’s Rant

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    Under the category “Sustainability”, I find endless titles like: Sustainability is a “commerical imperative” – with a £1000bn reward The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)  counts Unilever, P&G, GM, Nestle, Coca-Cola, BP, Monsanto and Shell among its members. Ratings and rankings: How competition promotes corporate sustainability Here’s an interesting quote from Ratings and rankings: “At Ingersoll…

  • Sustainability a priority as forestry sector plans way forward.

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    BY ALF JAMES SUSTAINABLE development is integral to the success of the forestry business, according to Viv McMenamin, Mondi’s director: land and forestry. She says a sustainable plantation forest aims to maintain ecosystem functionality at a landscape level, conserve high conservation value ecosystems, enhance local welfare and be financially profitable by: • identifying and protecting…

  • New Paradigm: Earth Democracy

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    Vandana Shiva has long advocated that we change our worldview from separation from nature to connectedness with it.  In this excerpt from her essay New Paradigm:  Earth Democracy, she addresses the root of the problem and urges us to again become part of the Earth community: The same technological and economic systems that violate the…