tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73483765957472047272026-07-24T02:06:59.139-04:00Towards an eco-economy . Vers une éco-économie . Hacia una eco-economíaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger709125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348376595747204727.post-77239976216377921482020-01-28T03:27:00.000-05:002020-01-28T03:34:21.131-05:00

Robert Costanza is one of the founders of the International Society for Ecological Economics. This interview is reprinted from Yale Insight (2010); see links to his recent writings and the online Encyclopedia of Earth. Also CASSE, Wikipedia on ecological economics and ecosystem services. Robert Costanza Q: What is ecological economics? Ecological economics is a

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Thanks to the blog by Harvey Mead (former Quebec commissioner of the environment) for alerting us. This is an English version of his graph from Wikipedia. 

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This article is reprinted with permission, from his blog Ecospirit 16 Jan 2016. After years of fraught negotiations, we have a climate accord. Just getting 195 countries with different, often conflicting, interests to agree was a miracle of sorts. The document breaks new ground by aiming to hold the average temperature rise below 2C, to 1.5C, and reaching carbon neutrality by the “

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a Kenya farmer - Wikipedia The cash-strapped UN World Food Programme has just dropped one-third of Syrian refugees from its food voucher program. In Sep 2015 over 360,000 Syrian refugees in countries neighbouring on Syria stopped receiving food. Earlier in 2015 the WFP had already cut recipients from 2.1 million to around 1.4 million, as well as the value of the vouchers.  The WFP

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The author is a founder of the RainforestAction Network and consultant at the World Future Council founded by Jacob von Uexküll: 50 eminent global change-makers from governments, parliaments, civil society, academia, the arts and business. This position paper is re-posted with the author's permission from Foundation Earth, his new "ecological economy" thinktank. . Over the

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Krill photo: Stephen Brookes Nature Climate Change reported two years ago that krill were in danger from CO2 ocean acidification. The entire ecosystem could collapse within 200 years, says biologist Dr So Kawaguchi. It is already under stress from climate change: temperature rise, productivity change and ice melt. Another NCC article reported the dangers to other species.&

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islandscallops.com A collapse of West Coast scallop hatcheries is reported in Desmogblog (20 June 2014, excerpt):  In 2013, 25 years of smooth sea scallop farming at Island Sea Scallops suddenly came to an end. Years of dealing with a 10 per cent mortality rate, suddenly hit 90 to 95 per cent,CEO Rob Saunders told DeSmog Canada from his office in Qualicum

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Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) developed a unique philosophy of American non-violent anarchism (or libertarianism, according to some). After a revolutionary youth as a Communist, Trotskyist, union organizer, and anti-racist, he urged a “post-scarcity” utopia founded on ecology and local democracy. In the 1960s he wrote ground-breaking studies of chemical pollution, racism -- and ecology as a

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In his 2009 Legacy lecture, "An elder's vision for our sustainable future", David Suzuki points out that the Earth’s water, food and air are finite. If the Earth were a basketball, the biosphere — our only home -- would be thinner than a layer of varnish on its surface. What orthodox economics and our leaders assume, unlimited growth on a limited planet, is suicide. Human population doubles

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Bob McGahey is a Quaker deep ecologist, who trained with Joanna Macy, member of North Carolina Interfaith Power and Light,  and the ecojustice committee of the North Carolina Council of Churches. This post from his blog Ecospirit is republished with his permission ------------------ Honest hope. I have insisted upon it for several years now, ever since reading Dianne Dumanoski, who

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Published with the author's permission from his blog The Goat Rope. Rick has the AFSC regional office in West Virginia and writes frequently about its needs and politics. See this link for all the AFSC blogs. Otter Creek WV - Kent Mason I've read a lot over the years about the atrocities committed in Stalinist Russia, but I'm only just now getting around to reading (really listening to

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Art thou a child of the Light, and hast thou walked in the Light? What canst thou say? – Margaret Fell Aboriginal peoples led the Sep 21 climate March – from an Idle No More video In addition to the Peoples Climate March [1] in New York, I attended the Peoples Climate Summit (offering “new economy” alternatives to the official UN Summit plan to finance climate action and SDGs by

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This summary is based on information from a number of NGOs and ecojustice coalitions. Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me:  Jesus, in Matthew 25:40. We are called to cooperate lovingly with all who share our hopes for the future of the earth: the Kabarak Call, approved at Friends World Conference 2012

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This summary is based on information from a number of NGOs and ecojustice coalitions. Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me:  Jesus, in Matthew 25:40. We are called to cooperate lovingly with all who share our hopes for the future of the earth: the Kabarak Call, approved at Friends World Conference 2012

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(c) Ocean University of China Research by oceanographers led by Prof  Bo Qiu, University of Hawaii using 3000+ ARGO floats  shows huge ocean eddies 60 miles across extending 3000 feet below the surface. The vortexes may last months or years. Until now the only data was surface eddies mapped by NASA satellites.  Ryan Abernathy, who studies the impact of ocean

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This inspiring video was produced by SPACE Rip, using incredible images from Landsat, a joint initiative between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. We thank Ecology.com where it was posted.

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The Joint Review Panel (JRP) was established by the National Energy Board (NEB) and the Minister of the Environment in December, 2009 to evaluate the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project (NGP). The three member panel was mandated to conduct a review of the environmental effects of the project and to determine if it was in the public interest. As part of the process, the JRP was required to

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John Fullerton  Thanks to John Fullerton and Capital Institute for permission to cross-post this article.  Thomas Berry tells us, “It’s all a question of story.  We are in trouble now because we don’t have a good story.  We are in between stories.  The old story, the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it, is no longer effective.” For better

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Though the German Green Party's Boell Foundation presents this deadlock as a crisis, it is actually good news. Further attempts by the rich countries, business & finance lobbyists to monetize / commodify the commons are being blocked at the UNFCCC's Green Climate Fund 2009 funding of the GCF by poor countries -- another example of the tensions that have existed in climate and MDG/SDG

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The Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) backed by 23 ecojustice NGOs on 19 March 2014 launched this Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (click here for the interactive map) of 1000+ environmental conflicts, a tool for faith-based and lay activists. With it you can search and filter with 100 fields or browse by commodity, company, resisters,

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Singer-composer David Broza was born in Haifa in 1955, lived in England, Spain (where he learned flamenco, a major element in his music), while still in his teens served in the Israeli army and played in cafes. Since then he has lived in the USA and Israel, where he has become one of the leading voices of the peace movement. In 1977, when he was 22, he wrote יהיה טוב (Yehieh Tov: Things

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Conservation and efficiency should be measured in negawatts (for energy) and negalitres (for water). These steps have been proposed to the UN General Assembly's OWG studying targets and indicators for Sustainable Development Goals.  The idea originally came to Amory Lovins when a coal-burning utility sent him a bill with a typo: "negawatt" instead of megawatt. Inspiration struck, when

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John Michael Greer John Michael Greer of the Ancient Order of Druids of America wrote this gentle satire, published 4 Dec 2014 in his blog. Cross-posted with his permission. Thanks to Phil Emmi for the reference. Man, the conqueror of Nature, died Monday night of a petroleum overdose, the medical examiner’s office confirmed this morning. The abstract representation of the human race

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Stuck in Vermont. I have moved, got married -- appropriately -- in a recycling plant, stood up to exchange vows in Burlington Friends Meeting. Here's to my new home and some of its bioregional disciples. Meet my new spouse Sophie, ex-concert flautist, artist, gardener, eco-agitator and tai chi-er (which she is doing in the pic): She is for the birds in these wintry times

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Cross-posted from the website of Franke James, environmental artist and activist, with her permission. See also our 2009 post about her green driveway. Here is the presentation I gave at the Ai Weiwei  event organized by the CJFE and the AGO. I have added notes in italics and a couple of slides, so you can follow along. And in fact… Nope. I never thought for a minute

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