“ From our Advisory Board member, Tony Manwaring, CEO of Tomorrows Company www.tomorrowscompany.com .
Tony’s blog is www.forceforgood.com and you can also contact him at [email protected]
By Tony Manwaring, Chief Executive, Tomorrow’s Company
The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its costs. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. All this we will do.
President Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, 20 January 2009
Discussions about how to tackle climate change are framed by the paradigm of industrialisation which has shaped the world for the last 200 years of more – economic development that has been based on making use of natural resources, in particular coal and oil. Click here for the full article (PDF).