Category Archives: Sustainability

Guest Post: Renovate your Home the Eco-Friendly Way

When it comes to adopting an eco-friendly lifestyle, there is no single place that you have more control than in your home, where you can decide what comes in and what goes out (not to mention where it comes from … Continue reading

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Sustainable Development Programs in Higher Education

By Mariana Ashley In the last few decades, sustainability has become a major buzzword. While the term sustainability itself has several different meanings, since the early 1980s the term has been used to describe human sustainability on Earth. The United … Continue reading

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Neoliberalism vs the World – Part 2

The strength of the thought behind neoliberalism, is that it makes human behaviour understandable in economic terms through its efficient, reductionist rationality. Neoliberalism’s rationality is linked to an aspiration to reflect and construct prudent individuals who behave both as responsible … Continue reading

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Neoliberalism vs The World – Part 1

By Rob Plastow Despite their different qualities, forms and direct causes, there is an ideological concept that links the recent cuts in public spending, anthropogenic climate change and the banking crisis. It is of pressing importance to get to grips … Continue reading

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Exporting E-Waste – The UK’s Toxic Overseas Trade

By Thomas O’Rourke While no one would dispute the progress that electrical and electronic technology has brought to Western culture, the problem of how to handle the end life of more than 50 million tonnes of e-waste created each year … Continue reading

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Mad Men, smoking and ‘selling’ climate change

By Rob Plastow Charlie Brooker said that you don’t really watch Mad Men, you just sit there and let it seep into you. I’m not the biggest TV fan, I put the TV on mute during the ad breaks and … Continue reading

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US Energy Use and Climate Change

Have a look at this excellent flow diagram from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It shows America’s energy use in one image. There’s a lot of waste, a lot of fossil fuels and nowhere near enough renewables. The following year, … Continue reading

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New blog: Carbon Footnotes

All my articles and posts will be put up on a new blog Carbon Footnotes and I will be adding to it freely in a more personal capacity than I have otherwise done on this blog or at the Earthscan … Continue reading

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UK to offer grants for electric cars

by Stefan Mustieles The British Government has announced that 9 electric and ultra-low emission cars will be eligible for grants of up to £5,000. The government says that the grants “will be available to motorists across the UK from 1 … Continue reading

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Cancun COP 16: small islands plead for survival but US may walkout

News comes today of small island nations such as those in the Caribbean and Cape Verde, pleading at the Cancun climate conference for a secured future safe from sea-level rise: “All of us face disaster. We don’t want to be … Continue reading

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