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
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World Instability Development Summit
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
Can we not raise our voices?
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
Bloggers unite: Linking sustainability
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