Environment management systems play a vital role in encouraging sustainable, consumption, according to the UN Environment Programme
http://www.unep.org/pdf/Global_Outlook_on_SCP_Policies_ExecutiveSummary.pdf
Mark Yoxon's Unsustainable Jottings...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
More is More
Recent talk of technological fixes as a means to addressing the climate change problem might be bold and exciting, but can climate change be reversed by technology alone, or do we have to change our habits and ways of life as well. It is a divisive subject, but a recent paper by University of Oregon sociologist Richard York says that technology alone will not save us from it.
http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/analysis/do_we_need_to_change_to_stop_climate_change/
http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/analysis/do_we_need_to_change_to_stop_climate_change/
Monday, 26 March 2012
Monday, 6 February 2012
What does a low carbon glass wine bottle look like?
See Best Foot Forward's site for some interesting work on wine bottle fooprints: http://www.bestfootforward.com/
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Extreme weather, or evidence of climate change?
A useful discussion about how climate scientists are attempting to answer the question – is it an extreme event, or is it climate change? Attribution of a single weather event to climate change is difficult to demonstrate, but this article provides an accessible introduction to the approaches that are being used to try to uncover those links. The article is on the environment360 website, run by Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/whats_with_the_weather_is_climate_change_to_blame/2388/.
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/whats_with_the_weather_is_climate_change_to_blame/2388/.
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