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Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder is out with a new book, ‘Anna – A fable about the Earth’s climate and environment’. Fiction, in other words, about climate change. Something we haven’t seen much of among international bestsellers til this date. But, when you give it a thought, then why is it
Starting in September 2013, the outdoor clothing and equipment company Patagonia is launching a two-year ‘responsible economy’ campaign which will challenge the very foundations of our current system, reported Jo Confino in the Guardian Sustainable Business Blog on 11 February 2013. The aim of the ‘responsible economy’ campaign is to
Fear is stronger than optimism in creating rapid social change, argued three debaters at ‘The Great Debate’ at the Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne on 15 February 2013. We are more than six billion people on the planet. In a generation or two, we could be close to nine billion
First, give five minutes of your time to listen to Martin Hiller (above), who is Director General of the Austrian organisation Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). At the World Sustainable Development Summit in Delhi in February 2013, Martin Miller talked about two new information-flow developments in the field
Head is spinning. I walk out of one of the world’s major conferences on sustainability and climate change with very mixed emotions. Gloomy images of extreme weather dramas and predictions of catastrophes mixed with an energetic urge to act and the hope that we, the human race, full of creative
Yesterday at the World Sustainable Development Summit in Delhi, someone talked about revolution. We are in need of a revolution, he said. But who shall be the rebels? Us who are here in Delhi? Someone referred to Gandhi, saying that we need to “be the change that we want to
As with most other conferences, attending the World Sustainability Development Summit has meant linking up with a long list of interesting and like-minded people. For instance I shared lunch with, among others, a dedicated sustainability-blogger: Pankaj Arora runs the ‘Linking Sustainability Blog – Creating Positive Impact of Sustainability in Business
Australia, January 2013. This month in Australia, 250 scientists from around the planet met in Hobart to contribute to the next major report from United Nations’ chief climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Recent heatwaves and raging bushfires in the south of the country have been a
According to a recent Gallup poll, a significant majority of the Danish population – 68 per cent – lost faith that world leaders will be able to solve the problems of global warming over the next 50 years, and nearly as many – 65 per cent – believe that the world in
This was the tv interview which was to become my personal ‘climate wake-up call’. That moment where I realised that the world leaders are not going to solve this CO2-emission and greenhouse-gas problem for us. The interview was with the Danish minister for environment, who had just returned from the