Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the monthly archives:
Network and community effects are always more powerful than individual efforts. Building communities around Green profiles makes a lot of sense. Treehugger here asks about whether people will be willing to put up with more intrusive but smarter metering. It seems to me that if social software teaches us anything its that people are more [...]
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And that’s something you don’t hear from me too often. According to the New York Times the US will now be able to buy local cereal crops when administering aid, rather than shipping US surpluses abroad. Grain dumping overseas is a bad thing- it punishes local farmers by wrecking market prices, and uses up [...]
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That’s my new name for Yet Another Carbon Calculator.
Great discussion about offset calculators on an earlier post…
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Global Action Plan looks to be a very interesting organisation, predicated as it is on grassroots and behavioural change. According to Kable, GAP is currently doing some very interesting research which will be shortly published under the name The Inefficient Truth – what happens, for example, when government mandates force inefficiencies (what will be the [...]
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Forget Richard Pim’s garden wall made of wine bottles. Here’s a much more serious idea for the drinks companies like Cadbury Schweppes, Pepsi and Coca Cola – pick up on the spirit of the beautiful ideas by Dutch designer Nienke Vording and stop shipping vast quantities of bottled water around the country, which then all [...]
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Here is why.
My problem with Whole Foods as a customer is more prosaic- the food miles involved in getting their produce to market. But CEOs that have enough time on their hands to try and hurt other company’s share prices using forum posts, rather than focusing on customers and business problems, should reassess their priorities.
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How cool is this? In perhaps the ultimate example of ‘upcycling’ Richard Pim of Herefordshire has built a 19ft wide, 11ft high Garden ‘folly’ – or perhaps more modestly described, a shed – out of 3000 old wine bottles.
Pim got the idea after drinking wine in his garden, and holding the bottle up to the [...]
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I didn’t know this word until it came across from Doctor Dictionary today- “sere”. Its what we really want to avoid.
Word of the Day for Friday, July 6, 2007
sere \SEER\, adjective:
Dry; withered.
. . .a country that has been transformed from a place of lush abundance to a sere, mutilated, inhospitable land.
– Zofia Smardz, “A [...]
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SAP’s Amit Chatterjee points out that corporations are spending real money on this new-fangled sustainability thing. Dollars spent is always an interesting metric. You don’t pay McKinsey money to help you write a corporate social responsibility report. You bring them in to redesign parts of your business. This is a new kind of business process [...]
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