Positive Ecology
The transformation to sustainability and/as ways to happiness
What seems to be heard most often are the environmentalists predicting doom, and the deniers and delayers arguing that change would hurt us, personally and economically.Recently, we see an emergent understanding that a transformation to sustainability is actually not just about hard choices for "saving the planet," but about ways in which human happiness can ...learn more
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Updated: 24 days ago
From the DLC Website, "The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. This site contains an author-...
Areas: Conservation and the Commons, Global Governance, Global Pollution, Property Rights, Dialogue, Deliberation and Consensus-Building, Agroforestry, Philanthropy, Groundwater, Land Stewardship ...
Type: Other - Author: Indiana University
Type: Other - Author: Indiana University
Updated: 3 months ago
Climate change is not going away, itÕs getting out of hand. With luck it can still be reversed but not with the
kind of thinking that causes broad problems then offers narrow solutions. Humanity ne...
Areas: Land Reform, Fossil Fuels, Sustainable Minerals Industry, Arms Trading, Conflict Resolution, Militarism and Violence, Military Disarmament, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Peace Building, Weapons ...
Type: Other - Author: James Greyson
Type: Other - Author: James Greyson
Updated: 3 months ago
The Better World Handbookis the definitive
guide for the average person wanting to make a positive difference in
th...
Areas: Fair Trade, Gender Equality, Arms Trading, Rights and Equality of LGBT, Globalization Impacts, Socially Responsible Investment, Worker Rights, Living Wages, Peace and Peace Building, Petroleum in the Environment ...
Type: Book - Author: Ellis Jones, Ross Haenfler, Brett Johnson
Type: Book - Author: Ellis Jones, Ross Haenfler, Brett Johnson
Updated: 5 months ago
The Age of Stupid is the new film from director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer
Areas: Climate Change, Greenhouse Gases, Globalization Impacts, Consumption and Green Consumers, Fossil Fuels, Sustainable Living, Energy Security and Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Sustainability Education, Ecological Economics ...
Type: Video - Author: Franny Armstrong
Type: Video - Author: Franny Armstrong
Updated: 6 months ago
Jim Thomas 22/05/2009Hungry microbial organisms that eat coal and excrete clean-burning methane gas – fool’s gold or philosopher’s stone? Take a guess…Attention climate activists – here comes the n...
Updated: 6 months ago
Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:13 AM ESTworld-news, china, dams, goldenJoe McDonald, AP Business WriterImages Previous ImageNext Image(showing 1 of 10 photos)Workers walk past new construction, near the Xiaox...
Areas: Green Banking and Insurance, Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle, Natural Resource Conservation, Environmental Justice, Dams, Coastal and Marine Human Impacts, Fish, Fossil Fuels, Distributive and Economic Justice
Type: Website - Author: Joe McDonald
Type: Website - Author: Joe McDonald
Updated: 7 months ago
In November 2008 Six Degrees undertook a listening tour of coal
affected communities in Queensland. The purpose of the tour was for Six
Degrees to improve our understand of the impacts of the coal ...
Areas: Rural Farming Communities, Dialogue, Deliberation and Consensus-Building, Democratic Participation, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Fossil Fuels
Type: Other - Author: Six Degrees
Type: Other - Author: Six Degrees
Updated: 7 months ago
The Anchorage Declaration
24 April 2009
From 20-24 April, 2009, Indigenous representatives from the Arctic, North America, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Caribbean and Russia met in Anchora...
Updated: 7 months ago
Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform
her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and
discovers that nature holds the key.
With her father close ...
Updated: 8 months ago
The Case Against Shell
Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the Niger Delta
region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long h...