Climate Change, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint and of course the ever alluring eco-friendly, are now just words and phrases of the corporate machine designed to string along suspecting and unsuspecting members of the public. Remember the days, not so far back, when these terms meant something real other than jargon used to make you and [...]

We’ll never return to previous levels of growth, argues Richard Heinberg in his new book, “The End of Growth”. Transition Voice has a good write-up of the book: For a while, popular peak oil observers … have linked energy to the economy, citing peak oil as the precursor to a major economic crisis. Now, Heinberg [...]

Back in July I had my first project working for the Global Ecovillage Network: The Ecovillages and Sustainable Living Conference 2011 – Strategies for Resillience took place in Tamera, Portugal, where I could not only get to know many representatives from worldwide ecovillages but also witness the spirit of this movement. It was an atmosphere [...]

MIT’s Climate CoLab “seeks to harness the collective intelligence of contributors from all over the world to address global climate change”. We’ve come across one proposal in particular that we’d like to share: “Fix the system not just the symptom“. Reshaping the whole economy is the kind of action needed to fix the whole system. [...]

You can read more about the inspiring story of Heidemarie Schwermer in the article “Happy 69 Year Old Lady Has Not Used Money For 15 Years” at Wake Up World. So in 1996, she took the biggest decision of her life: to live without money. Her children had moved out so she sold the apartment in [...]

By Paul Hawken at GreenBiz.com Seventeen years ago he had a realization. At that time, Ray came home. He rediscovered a sacred earth with all its complexity, beauty and mystery, free from the constraints of this or that ideology, free from narrow-minded thinking, and he was freed to reimagine the relationship between humanity and nature [...]

By Ben Rooney, Tech Europe (Wall Street Journal), 1 June 2011 The biggest obstacle to European success in the digital economy is a lack of entrepreneurial culture, according to a panel of European investors and entrepreneurs. Speaking at an event in Berlin yesterday, the panel decried Europe’s lack of hunger, its antisuccess culture and called [...]

This column by Anand Giridharadas appeared in the Saturday-Sunday, July 16-17, 2011 edition of the International Herald Tribune under the title “Doing good by picking a few fights”. Every now and then, a new career path seizes the imagination of the global elite. Today it is social enterprise, in which earnest, problem-solving elites devote themselves [...]

Young people, if empowered, hold the key to effective community development and building a culture and attitude of lasting peace and non-violence within communities that have been torn apart by war and violence Forgotten Diaries is a project which raises awareness of the dire situation facing over 100 million children and youth living in conflict [...]

“How on earth can we live together – How can we agree to agree?” The Tällberg Forum 2011, 30 June to 3 July, starts in the realization that today’s established business models and governance frameworks are struggling to release the structural change that financial/ budgetary, social and environmental pressures are likely to require. Out of [...]