Our Environment
This section is about the broader environment around us. I apply the 'Triple Bottom Line' in my work - which means taking into account and trying to achieve a balance between the economic, social and environmental impacts of what I/we do.
I am curious about the possibility of a more balanced, more inter-connected, more compassionate world.
Two 'Fortnightly Stuff's' explore aspects of this environmental 'conversation':
'How to make money go further' - The effect of spending money locally.
'Planning for Petrol Prices' - Looking at the effects of Peak Oil.
Some organisations and individuals seeking sustainable solutions to the challenges facing us are in 'Good links'.
In 2010 Nic Marks from the New Economics Foundation gave a great 18 minute talk putting the issues of 'The Happy Planet Index' and our environment in context. For a link to his talk click here.
More information about the economic effects, some research sources behind local money flows can be found in 'Plugging the Leaks' (chapter 2)'Plugging the Leaks' from the New Economics Foundation.
Also from the New Economics Foundation gives further ideas on measuring impacts 'The Money Trail'
In a business context Arup, Foster + Partners, Scottish and Southern Energy, Solar Century, Stagecoach Group and Virgin Group have linked up and produced a report on Peak Oil. Click here for their website and report.
There is also the Lloyd's 'Rapid Climate Change' Report. The forward to this report reads:
"Since our first report on climate change, 'Adapt or Bust',
we have seen the most conclusive evidence yet that
the climate's current warming trend is directly linked to
human activity. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change has effectively closed the debate, and the latest
science suggests that change will take place faster
than previously thought. At the same time, we have
seen certain media coverage and messaging around
climate change questioned by some of the scientific
community as irresponsible 'Hollywoodisation' of the
facts. How rapidly can we expect climate change to
take place? What does it mean for our lifetime?"
And here is the link to Story of Stuff - www.storyofstuff.com a 20-minute, amusing and informative take on our production and consumption patterns.
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience" - Pierre Teilhard De Chardin