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New: A Silver Lining to the
Economic Downturn
New: Black Monday Revisited .
The Black Monday of October 6th 2008 has more in common with its name
sake from two decades earlier, than the news has explained.
Let's Talk About Sustainability
- An overview of the topic, with information on how to participate in the
Sustainability Project, and how to receive additional resource materials.
Transforming Toward Sustainability
Reprinted from Ottawa's Peace and Environment News (January-February
2008)
A Strategy for Long Term Well-Being -
The Sustainability Project's strategy for a better future.
Reduce, Reuse, Recession - A warning
from the economic cycle.
Education and Sustainability
Education is practically free, from the sustainability perspective.
Best bet for a Sustainable Future
One vision from the 20th Century that was not tried.
Outline for a Great Debate - an outline
of the sustainability or growth debate.
Life, Money & Illusion - seed for home
grown discussion.
Sustainability Cards
- A prime communications tool.
Seeds for Change - A full explanation
of how sustainability cards work.
Visioning; Sustainability and Community Planning
- Any exercise to envision the future is well served by clearly identifying
what is possible and desirable.
A Three R's Savings Plan - (RRRSP)
Exchange-a-Teen Suggested solution
for an age old problem.
Including Non-Monetary Values in
Decision Making
Of Ice and Energy - an article inspired
by the great ice storm of 1998.
Music of the Motors , Where will
you be?
A Riddle for Our Times.
The End of Shorter Hours - When
we chose consumerism instead of increasing leisure.
Measuring Well-Being
An introduction to measuring Genuine Progress
and the Canada Well-Being Measurement Act
The Genuine Progress Indicator
Global Monopoly Game
Making Markets Work for Sustainability -
a look at policy options drawn from The Ecology of Commerce by Paul
Hawken and For the Common Good by Herman Daly and John Cobb.
Under the Street Light - a look at
why the real issue is often missed.
How Economic Growth has Enriched the Few,
Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet. - a précis of
Richard Douthwaite's book The Growth Illusion.
Learning, Love and Laughter; A Solution
- Cause for hope in our troubled times.
Declaration of the Four Sacred
Things , a committment to the living Earth.
Garbage and Growth: The Problem is Rooted
in Values - a look at the connection between garbage and growth.
Save the Seas, the Land and Ourselves .
Reprint from Ocean Voice International.
The Parable of the Elephant
Disaster or Solution? - The Security and
Prosperity Partnership (SPP)
Better than the MAI - A critic of the Multilateral
Agreement on Investment.
Last Update: September 29, 2008
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