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 [...]

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. [...]

Introduction from the Heinrich-Böll Foundation An epoch in modern history has ended. The growth imperative of market capitalism is evidently endangering the ecosystem. Confidence in governments as reliable steward of people’s interests has been shaken. Therefore, a new path forward is coming into focus: The commons! The commons is about reclaiming, sharing and self-governing resources [...]

The GEF GreEn team found two interesting links from Germany, offering you a support in the search of a really green job. We hope that you can also share interesting sources of development with the rest of our community! http://www.greentechstaff.com/ There are people who want to participate actively in the shaping of the future and [...]

The Vision of The Blue Economy is to create 100 million sustainable jobs by 2020. According to them the key is in the innovation. How and Why? Watch and see…

Joshua Bishop, Sachin Kapila, Frank Hicks, Paul Mitchell and Francis Vorhies created before some time an interesting report, which we wanted to introduce you: Building Biodiversity Business. Here is an abstract from its conclusion: “Experience suggests that the biggest barriers to change are fixed ideas, habits and inertia, including the notion that biodiversity is best [...]

I wanted to share with you the thoughts of  Oscar Motomura, who is the founder and president of Amana-Key Development & Education, a Brazilian organization specializing in management education for leaders of private, governmental, and non-governmental organizations. Talking about entrepreneurship in each possible direction and perception and sustainability as a question of ethic and understanding [...]

On the basis of its work with thousands of educators, the Center for Ecoliteracy has developed a framework for schooling for sustainability that we call “Smart by Nature™“. “Smart by Nature™ is based on four guiding principles: 1) Nature is our teacher: To envision sustainable communities, we look to design principles evolved since the advent [...]

Yesterday I received the Friends of the Supergrid (FOSG) position paper on the EC Energy Infrastructure Package of 17 November 2010 and since I find it really interesting, I decided to share. In order to launch the debate with all interested stakeholders on how such a new Supergrid could develop, be regulated and financed, FOSG [...]

AUDIO INTERVIEW with Kristiina Pietikäinen, a Policy Officer – Digital Agenda from the The Information Society and Media DG of the EC