1) The current industrial economy is fossil-fuel based and dominated by large multinational corporations, but this system is unsustainable due to declining fossil fuel reserves and the catastrophic impacts of climate change.
2) If no action is taken, increasing global population and prosperity will lead to an 8-fold rise in ecological pressures by 2050, exacerbating climate change and conflicts over dwindling resources.
3) We must transition to a "Cradle to Cradle" circular solar economy that uses renewable energy and eliminates waste through design to avoid ecological collapse and social unrest. Government must stimulate this transition through policy changes.
MIGHT THOREAU’S “CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE” IMPROVE INCOME INEQUALITY?Paul H. Carr
Re-Balancing Economics with Ethics
Pursuit of Corporate Profit vs
The Common Good of Society.
2. Maximized Economic Growth,
but increased Income Inequality.
3. Re-balnce with “Trickle-Up” Economics, rather than “Trickle-Down.”
My slides for JISC's Greening ICT Programme Meeting. There are notes from slide 26 onwards.
See: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/09/0909greenict.aspx
And more at: http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/tag/resilienteducation/
Justin Kenrick: Transition in Europe and Africa: Erasing the Global North/ So...STEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
This management briefing, published by Innovation Forum, sets out the latest trends in the extractives industry, with a data digest and the low-down on upcoming campaigns, finishing with a Q&A.
Launched in May 2011, the new global magazine Southern Innovator is about the people across the global South shaping our new world, eradicating poverty and working towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
They are the innovators.
Issue 1 covered the theme of mobile phones and information technology. Issue 2 covered the theme of youth and entrepreneurship. Issue 3 covered the theme of agribusiness and food security. Issue 4 covers the theme of cities and urbanization.
Follow the magazine on Twitter @SouthSouth1.
If you would like hard copies of the magazine for distribution, then please contact the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation in New York, USA (www.southerninnovator.org).
Learn about the Global South-South Development Expo here: www.southsouthexpo.org.
Also contact us about opportunities to sponsor the magazine here: southerninnovator@yahoo.co.uk. Sponsors help us to print and distribute more copies.
Editor-in-Chief: Cosmas Gitta
Managing Editor: Audette Bruce
Editor and Writer: David South
Copy Editor: Barbara Brewka
Web Design: Carina Figurasin
Design and Layout: Sólveig Rolfsdóttir and Eva Hronn Gudnadóttir
Illustrations: Sólveig Rolfsdóttir and Eva Hronn Gudnadóttir
ISSN 2222-9280
ISBN 978-0-9920217-0-2
southerninnovator.com
davidsouthconsulting.com
https://davidsouthconsulting.org
Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 3: Agribusiness and Food SecurityDavid South Consulting
Launched in May 2011, the new global magazine Southern Innovator is about the people across the global South shaping our new world, eradicating poverty and working towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
They are the innovators.
Issue 1 covered the theme of mobile phones and information technology. Issue 2 covered the theme of youth and entrepreneurship. Issue 3 covers the theme of agribusiness and food security.
Follow the magazine on Twitter @SouthSouth1.
If you would like hard copies of the magazine for distribution, then please contact the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (www.southerninnovator.org).
Learn about the Global South-South Development Expo here: www.southsouthexpo.org.
Also contact us about opportunities to sponsor the magazine here: southerninnovator@yahoo.co.uk.
Editor-in-Chief: Cosmas Gitta
Managing Editor: Audette Bruce
Editor and Writer: David South
Copy Editor: Barbara Brewka
Circulation Manager: Amanda Armoogam
Web Design: Carina Figurasin
Design and Layout: Sólveig Rolfsdóttir
Illustrations: Sólveig Rolfsdóttir
ISSN 2227-0523
southerninnovator.com
davidsouthconsulting.com
https://davidsouthconsulting.org
Il World Energy Focus è il nuovo mensile online della WEC's community, una e-publication gratuita per essere sempre aggiornato sugli sviluppi del settore energetico. Il World Energy Focus contiene news, interviste esclusive e uno spazio dedicato agli eventi promossi dai singoli Comitati Nazionali.
MIGHT THOREAU’S “CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE” IMPROVE INCOME INEQUALITY?Paul H. Carr
Re-Balancing Economics with Ethics
Pursuit of Corporate Profit vs
The Common Good of Society.
2. Maximized Economic Growth,
but increased Income Inequality.
3. Re-balnce with “Trickle-Up” Economics, rather than “Trickle-Down.”
My slides for JISC's Greening ICT Programme Meeting. There are notes from slide 26 onwards.
See: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/09/0909greenict.aspx
And more at: http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/tag/resilienteducation/
Justin Kenrick: Transition in Europe and Africa: Erasing the Global North/ So...STEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
This management briefing, published by Innovation Forum, sets out the latest trends in the extractives industry, with a data digest and the low-down on upcoming campaigns, finishing with a Q&A.
Launched in May 2011, the new global magazine Southern Innovator is about the people across the global South shaping our new world, eradicating poverty and working towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
They are the innovators.
Issue 1 covered the theme of mobile phones and information technology. Issue 2 covered the theme of youth and entrepreneurship. Issue 3 covered the theme of agribusiness and food security. Issue 4 covers the theme of cities and urbanization.
Follow the magazine on Twitter @SouthSouth1.
If you would like hard copies of the magazine for distribution, then please contact the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation in New York, USA (www.southerninnovator.org).
Learn about the Global South-South Development Expo here: www.southsouthexpo.org.
Also contact us about opportunities to sponsor the magazine here: southerninnovator@yahoo.co.uk. Sponsors help us to print and distribute more copies.
Editor-in-Chief: Cosmas Gitta
Managing Editor: Audette Bruce
Editor and Writer: David South
Copy Editor: Barbara Brewka
Web Design: Carina Figurasin
Design and Layout: Sólveig Rolfsdóttir and Eva Hronn Gudnadóttir
Illustrations: Sólveig Rolfsdóttir and Eva Hronn Gudnadóttir
ISSN 2222-9280
ISBN 978-0-9920217-0-2
southerninnovator.com
davidsouthconsulting.com
https://davidsouthconsulting.org
Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 3: Agribusiness and Food SecurityDavid South Consulting
Launched in May 2011, the new global magazine Southern Innovator is about the people across the global South shaping our new world, eradicating poverty and working towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
They are the innovators.
Issue 1 covered the theme of mobile phones and information technology. Issue 2 covered the theme of youth and entrepreneurship. Issue 3 covers the theme of agribusiness and food security.
Follow the magazine on Twitter @SouthSouth1.
If you would like hard copies of the magazine for distribution, then please contact the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (www.southerninnovator.org).
Learn about the Global South-South Development Expo here: www.southsouthexpo.org.
Also contact us about opportunities to sponsor the magazine here: southerninnovator@yahoo.co.uk.
Editor-in-Chief: Cosmas Gitta
Managing Editor: Audette Bruce
Editor and Writer: David South
Copy Editor: Barbara Brewka
Circulation Manager: Amanda Armoogam
Web Design: Carina Figurasin
Design and Layout: Sólveig Rolfsdóttir
Illustrations: Sólveig Rolfsdóttir
ISSN 2227-0523
southerninnovator.com
davidsouthconsulting.com
https://davidsouthconsulting.org
Il World Energy Focus è il nuovo mensile online della WEC's community, una e-publication gratuita per essere sempre aggiornato sugli sviluppi del settore energetico. Il World Energy Focus contiene news, interviste esclusive e uno spazio dedicato agli eventi promossi dai singoli Comitati Nazionali.
This Presentation is regarding the Global warming, the causes and cure. This was made by Shakeel Ahmed to be presented at Mehran University Institute of Science and Technology Development Jamshoro Sindh Pakistan.
Bill Rees: The Vulnerability and Resilience of CitiesJoss Winn
Bill Rees, originator of the ecological footprint, says we are already into overshoot. We can plan to reduce our use of Earth's resources, or plunge through a series of disasters.
Full keynote speech from "Resilient Cities" conference. Vancouver, October 20th 2009
Highlights of Thomas Friedman's arguments in "Hot, Flat, and Crowded." Lecture prepared by Dr. LaRae Donnellan and shared with her students at Florida A&M University
A photograph of the decisive decade we are facing, the perfect storm of environmental, economic and growth crisis we are facing and some possible ways to help the transition from this old unsustainable system to a new world order sustained by a new approach of global prosperity, justice and sustainability.
Slides of talk presented at various forums on occasion of the 40th anniversary of the launching of Limits to Growth, the first report to the Club of Rome published in 1972. This book was one of the earliest scholarly works to recognize that the world was fast approaching its sustainable limits. Forty years later, the planet continues to face many of the same economic, social, and environmental challenges as when the book was first published.
Carlota Perez en el 9th Triple Helix Conference Stanford 2011Manuel Molina
Acerca de Carlota Perez-- Investigadora, conferencista y consultora internacional, experta en el impacto socio-económico del cambio tecnológico y en las condiciones históricamente cambiantes para el crecimiento, el desarrollo y la competitividad.
Es Catedrática de Tecnología y Desarrollo, Universidad Tecnológica de Talín, Estonia; Investigadora asociada en CFAP/CERF, Cambridge Finance, Judge Business School e investigadora visitante en la Facultad de Economía, ambos en la Universidad de Cambridge, Inglaterra, y Profesora honorífica de SPRU (Centro de investigaciones sobre política científica y tecnológica), Escuela de Negocios, Gerencia y Economía, Universidad de Sussex, Inglaterra.
Presentation delivered by Professor Joan Martinez-Alier
(ICTA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) at the Rio+20 side event on the role of civil society and knowledge institutions in sustainable development: http://www.ipc-undp.org/PageNewSiteb.do?id=274&active=2
Noorte sotsiaaldemokraatide sotsiaalmeedia koolitus, 5.06.2010, Tallinn
The Inevitability of the Green Revolution
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2. Who is the guy who is speaking to you? - Guido Reehuis (1982) - 2000-2005 law school Maastricht - 2002-2006 member of City Council Maastricht - 2006-2008 political assistant to MEP J.M. Wiersma, Brussels - 2007-2009 member National Board Labour Party - 2008-2009 management consultant public C.G. - 2009- present attorney at law Paulussen Advocaten Paulussen Lawyers in Maastricht works together with cities, regions and even governments (California, Dutch and Danish governments) to bring about sustainable transition Roger Cox responsible for huge C2C campaign in NL.
3. Living in a dying era: The Industrial Age This time of digits and bytes still part of that era
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5. Corporations dominate the playing field (information 2008) Biggest corporation in the world: Royal Shell € 329 billion turnover = GDP of Norway or Saudi-Arabia Biggest corporate profit: Exxon € 45 billion profit = more than double GDP of Estonia Most employees: Wall Mart 2.1 million employees = roughly population of Latvia Biggest corporate loss: Fannie Mae € 59 billion loss (5.000 employees)
6. Multinational corporations and economies 50 of the 100 world’s biggest economies are corporations Seen economically the world map looks entirely different In top 10 are no less than 7 oil companies: Shell, Exxon, BP, Chevron, Total, Sinopec and ConocoPhillips Oil is basis of many products: Fuels; Plastics; Fertilisers; Devices such as telephones and computers; Chemicals; Tar; Asphalt; Toys; Boats; DVDs; ETCETERA. And think of transport: = Oil is the life blood of our Age. Many industries are dependent on the oil industry, which makes it the most impressive economic power in society.
7. Corporations and states Olie is being subsidised Fossil economy thrives on oil, oil is therefore direcly and indirectly being subsidised. Economic oil policy Access of oil is of national strategic importance (you need oil for tanks and for armaments). Therefore every political means is allowed to get access to oil (The Carter Doctrine). Examples oil policy: - oil wars (Iraq I and II); 1 billion taxpayers money per day - lobby governments in Russia (e.g. Shell and Gasunie) - subsidise oil prices to keep them low (VS, China, India, Indonesië) - tax cuts (globally, US: $ 17.8 billion per year) - protection of oil transports by NATO fleet (Gulf of Aden)
8. Corporations and states Huge intertwining between politics and oil companies After liberalisation now re-nationalisation of energy companies (e.g. Yukos in Russia, Shell and Sakhalin, Statoil and Sthokman) Dependency on oil makes “villain states” and other doubtful countries powerful: - Angola, Gabon, Nigeria, Iran, - Russia, Egypte, Kazachstan, Turkmenistan, - Venezuela, Saudi-Arabia, Syria, Sudan.
9. Corporations and states States also subsidise other oil-related sectors: Auto industry (building of highways); Electricity companies (coals and gas induced) (building of network, mandatory access of citizens to this network)
10. Corporations and states The top 50 of international corporations have bigger economies than 130 countries. BUT: Without democratic participation; Are no partner to international treaties; Have no stated responsibility towards society.
11. C CONCLUSION 1: Mega multinationals dominate western states And „ villain countries“ dominate mega multinationals. .
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14. FOSSIL FUELS ARE RUNNING OUT 200 150 100 50 0 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 Upper bound for oil reserves Upper bound for gas reserves Lower bound for oil reserves Lower bound for gas reserves Oil consumption,(4.46 billion tonnes per year) Gas consumption (2.3 trillion m3 per year)
15. If oil supply is endangered then: Economic disruption or…
23. Conclusion two: this is a economy of death which cannot last forever. Either we will bring about change ourselves, and make this indeed an inevitable revolution or the change is brought upon us by gruesome and deadly force . In any case: the Industrial Age is dying and will come to its last breath.
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25. The corporation is a rational acting machine? What is the link between: - IG Farben (AEG, BASF), Coca Cola and IBM? - Monsanto and modern slavery? - Shell and surpressed Nigerian villages? - BP in the Mexican Gulf? Financial crisis showed that corporations, by acting short-term, are not rational actors in this process but in fact contribute actively to their own suicide. AND EQUALLY IMPORTANT:
32. A building as a tree Absorbs Co2 Creates energy Clears the air Holds the water Creates biotope Better inner climate Modulary Recycling
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36. Regaining primacy of politics The power of saying no to the fossil economy also means the power of saying yes to a whole new system. Which is nothing less than a revolution. For a revolution you need full public support. Therefore: awareness of the challenges within the public is paramount
37. Role politics in revolutionary times First: inform yourself, ask the difficult questions Second: inform the public, make them your ally shrugging of your partisan colours. Either socialist or conservative, it really does not make a difference if we drown. Impossible to attain the support of the public? Many initiatives show that people indeed want to contribute, if you it the right way (Let’s do It initiative) But you need vision! Scare the hell out of people, but also show them perspective!