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. [...]

Transition Network’s role is to inspire, encourage, connect, support and train communities as they self-organise around the transition model, creating initiatives that rebuild resilience and reduce CO2 emissions. Here is a movie about the network ENCOURAGING and packed with nice examples… Comprehensive document (1MB pdf) about embarking on a transition journey: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/sites/default/files/TransitionInitiativesPrimer%283%29.pdf www.transitionnetwork.org

What will happen? What is at stake? How can we prepare for it? This open, flexible and evolving working document sets a basis for civil society co-ordination and co-creation. You will find some history, actors and above all VISIONS for a collective participatory dynamics. Let’s be ambitious and modest; idealistic and realistic; visionary and concrete! [...]

“Saqayti” – My fountain in Arabic – is an automatic border substituting to the public fountains in the poor regions of Morocco. Operating with prepaid cards, borders fountains facilitated the access to the drinking water, avoided the wasting and realized importants economies. Dominique Héron, the manager of the partnerships in Véolia Environnement company, made a [...]

Hey Everyone! There is a link about people who dislike (i make it softer) environmentalists. This subject is totally new for me and i am so curious about what you will think about that! In that article (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/goddamn-treehuggers-hate-environmentalists.php), the issue why people do not like environmentalists is discussed. Till now, i have never felt like [...]

Climate change is recognized as the biggest threat facing humanity, and we @ The Green Entrepreneurship community can stay ahead. First let’s work together and with other disciplines to develop meaningful practices and policies that will encourage green businesses: strive for designs that support ecosystem functions, biodiversity and health; buildings that provide comfort and resilience [...]

This writing is from a blog which I found really sincere and it reminds one more time why we should see all system interdependent. Before blaming everyone else, we may better to look at ourselves!! http://noimpactman.typepad.com/

By Jay Caetano, TechSquirt,  25 August 2010 New research from Sony Europe reveals: 6 in 10 children across Europe think that conflicting messages about the environment is confusing, leading them to feel helpless and apathetic about protecting their environment A quarter of European children don’t know how to get involved with environmental issues and don’t [...]

Recently everyone is talking about green energy or renewable energy. Some understand what they are talking and some of them actually have no idea what it’s all about and why it’s so important? So, we have two questions in front of us one is what’s this so called “Green energy/Renewable energy” and why it’s so [...]

Most of you may have heard of “The Limits to Growth” published by the Club of Rome in 1972. Many other papers and studies