"The Not-Shopping List" (found via @bricktick http://bloglz.de/oshw-gift-economy/)
"The Not-Shopping List" (found via @bricktick http://bloglz.de/oshw-gift-economy/)
"How we will rid the oceans of plastic" - talk by @BoyanSlat, founder of https://www.theoceancleanup.com/ #ClimateChange #Regenerative
"The five largest meat & dairy companies together are having a greater negative environmental impact than an oil giant"
Source: IATP / GRAIN: http://climateaccountability.org/pdf/CarbonMajorsRpt2017%20Jul17.pdf
Analysis & Graphic by @klimareport (german only): https://www.klimareporter.de/gesellschaft/fleischindustrie-rechnet-klimalast-klein
I'm very much sick & tired of people saying we will "fix" climate change with some magical technical breakthrough. Eco-modernism, Techno-Solutionism etc. are self-delusional, dangerous silly talk. Don't forget: Tech was instrumental in causing the problem in the first place.
Economy for the Common Good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_for_the_Common_Good
Economy for the Common Good is a social movement advocating for an alternative economic model. It calls for working towards the common good and cooperation instead of profit-orientation and competition which lead to greed and uncontrolled growth. It makes much more sense for companies to create a so-called "common good balance sheet" than a financial balance sheet. The common good balance sheet shows the extent to which a company abides by values like human dignity, solidarity and economic sustainability.
"Chaos. Das neue Zeitalter der Revolutionen" - talk by Fabian Scheidler & Harald Schumann:
"Das Ende der Megamaschine" - talk by Fabian Scheidler:
"Chaos: Das neue Zeitalter der Revolutionen" - talk by Fabian Scheidler - discussion with Erwin Wagenhofer:
Immanuel Wallerstein: The Global Systemic Crisis & the Struggle for a Post-Capitalist World:
Ecoalf creates sneakers made from algae and ocean plastic:
"The Government of Andhra Pradesh has launched a scale-out plan to transition 6 million farms/farmers to 100% chemical-free agriculture by 2024": https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/andhra-pradesh-become-indias-first-zero-budget-natural-farming-state #Regenerative
Biophilia - "Literally meaning ‘a love of life or living things’, it is a hypothesis that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophilia_hypothesis
"Die Pflanze als Spiegel der Seele" - talk by Wolf-Dieter Storl (2h, German only)
Concept of the day: "Energy Return on Energy Invested" (EROEI) e.g. due to a range of factors, the EROEI of fracking is rapidly going negative, making it uneconomical. As water prices increase due to climate change, the EROEI of nuclear is becoming critical. Etc.
A day with Satish Kumar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish_Kumar
Many technocrats say the energy demand of human civilisation is bound to triple in the next 100 years. This is a failure of imagination, as the premiss (extrapolating the energy consumption anomaly which has been the past 100y) is missing climate change realities.In a nutshell: Energy consumption will come down substantially, forced by the dynamics of catastrophic climate change: Many supply-chains will collapse & with it consumerism, planned obsolescence etc. will crash (signs visible today). Resulting shift to "circular economy" at scale will heavily reduce energy need.
"Ecodesign, Ecolabels and the Environment: How Europe is redesigning our footprint on earth" - by @prepaid_africa: http://nitibhan.com/2018/06/04/ecodesign-ecolabels-and-the-environment-how-europe-is-redesigning-our-footprint-on-earth/ Written in 2007. How far have we come? #Regenerative
Ellen MacArthur - Learning & The Circular Economy
IKEA's Jesper Brodin & Marcus Engman on the start of the new African collaboration:
Wangari Maathai & The Green Belt Movement: