Asking kids how they feel about environmental problems can be a wake-up call for many adults. A child's sadness and anger at pollution issues and worries about the future can be deep and profound. Collaborating with well-known manga artists, Japan's Environmental Ministry has collected drawing from all over the country. I saved some of the images below the fold, hoping we can learn from their thoughts and ideas....
iPhone image via Good Clean Tech
It's hitting that time of year when we start keeping our eye out for the coolest calendar we can find to guide us through the upcoming year.
UK Hardware Store Deepens One Planet Business Commitment
An increasing number of voices in the past two weeks are reminding people that though many nations are facing some serious financial problems at the moment, collectively we’re facing a problem with longer lasting and greater existential consequences than anything we have seen before. In short we are destroying our planet’s natural capital at rates which will create ecological insolvency on a scale with dire implications for humanity and many other species. Reenforcing this idea is the latest Living Planet Report by WWF.
image: Footprint Network
Last year it was October 6th. In 2008, September 23rd is Earth Overshoot Day according to the calculations of the Global Footprint Network. That means that for the rest of the year more resources will be consumed globally than can be provided for on a sustainable basis by the Earth’s ecosystems. Basically, today is the day humanity starts running up ecological credit card debt. As the Footprint Network describes it,...
Humans- Cool Cartoon!
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Humans as a viral infection of earth. Some of you may have suspected that already. Let's hope it is an adolescent thingy that Earth will recover from soon, t...
photo: Gilbert Rodriguez
In a practical sense, to make the type of changes in theory and practice which many TreeHugger readers would probably like to see happen to make the world a more ecologically sustainable place, we may have to compartmentalize a bit. Overturning the whole system may prove difficult, but at least according to Yale University’s Gus Speth that is the type of change needed.
Speakers of Parliament, including U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, from G8 countries visited Hiroshima, Japan and laid flowers Tuesday at a memorial to the Hiroshima atomic bomb victims in 1945. It is difficult to discuss the horrific effects of the atomic bombs, inclusing the environmental terror that they inflict, but Japanese victims of the attack are glad that the elected leaders paid respect to the site. Akihiro Takahashi, who has served as the chief of the museum in Hiroshima, said he wanted to know what the G8 speakers, particularly Pelosi, thought about his presentation:
photo by Sheila via flickr
We’ve written about the concept of Eco-Footprint a number of times—what it is, how to calculate it, and how to reduce yours—and with the Olympics upon us it comes as no surprise that China’s environmental footprint might come into the spotlight.
photo by Michael McDonough
This next post is about something which I’ve found many environmentalists, and even more people who don’t consider themselves environmentalists, find very hard to discuss: Overpopulation and the corresponding Overconsumption of natural resources which we now face on this planet.
photo by David via flickr
Just a brief break for discussion: China Dialogue has posted a piece where a Chinese journalist of ‘a certain age’ comments upon how her, and society’s, ‘default settings’ have changed in regards to what is considered a ‘normal’ level of consumption. While normally we tend to focus on external solutions to environmental problems, sometimes how our own perceptions and expectations shape those external solutions.
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