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Category Archives: Sustainable Development
Recycling on the US–Mexico border
The United States (US)–Mexico border is one of few places in the world where a developed country has a common border with a developing country. The US economy is 25 times larger than Mexico’s and US income per capita is nearly 10 times that of Mexico, according to the World Bank.
A Difficult Path to Sustainable Employment
When most people consider sustainability, they think of environmental sustainability, not the elements of a sustainable society, including fair access to jobs for all. As a global society, we are obsessed with growth and increasing production.
Tagged Jobs, society, unemployment
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Man who Makes his own Underpants Strikes Again
Those of you who enjoyed John-Paul Flintoff’s Through the Eye of a Needle will be pleased to hear of his involvement in a new project to inspire and empower us all. I suppose we should not be surprised to learn that John-Paul’s new endeavour has been inspired, at least in part, by Tolstoy.
Tagged Literature, society, sustainability
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Shopper’s Addiction Now Almost “Official”
I have been arguing for a long time that consumption patterns in the US show signs of addiction. So do uses of technology beyond playing games on iPhones and iPads. The mindless use of technological artifacts to solve “problems” may also be a form of addiction. The “problem,” some incomplete concern, remains while the superficial symptoms may be temporarily mitigated or disappeared
Want-ology®
“IN the sprawling outskirts of San Jose, Calif., I find myself at the apartment door of Katherine Ziegler, a psychologist and wantologist. Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?” This opening from an article in the NYTimes, by Arlie Hochschild of Second Shift fame, really shook me up.
Tagged Human Behaviour, psychology, society
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The convenience city ultimatum
After 13 weeks of exploring the problems and opportunities of a sustainable Vancouver by 2050, what did 17 University of British Columbia students and three teachers come up with? Were they able to find a way to make housing affordable, our streets livable, and our burden on the planet much much lighter?
Sustainable Production Defined
The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production definition is as follows: “Sustainable Production is the creation of goods and services using processes and systems that are: non-polluting; conserving of energy and natural resources; economically efficient; safe and healthful for workers, communities, and consumers; and, socially and creatively rewarding for all working people.”
Sustainable Business as Defined by Paul Hawken
In business sustainability involves living within certain limits, understanding interconnections (economy, society, and environment) and an equitable distribution of resources and opportunities. Perhaps the best definition for sustainability as it applies to business comes from Paul Hawken.
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