Long-term research reveals how climate change is playing out in real ecosystems Posted: 01 Dec 2012 05:59 AM PST Around the world, the effects of global climate change are increasingly evident and difficult to ignore. However, evaluations of the local effects of climate change are often confounded by natural and …
The Cybernetics of Sustainability: Definition and Underlying Principles
“We are happy to publish this paper by Michael Ben-Eli who is not only an innovative thinker but also a pragmatic activist in applying his insights in the Negev Desert with a Bedouin Community.” ~ Hazel Henderson, Editor Michael Ben-Eli The Sustainability Laboratory, New York Sustainability: Has the true meaning …
The Future we want: final document of the Rio+20 Conference
1. We, the Heads of State and Government and high-level representatives, having met at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, with the full participation of civil society, renew our commitment to sustainable development and to ensuring the promotion of an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable future …
States seek currencies made of silver and gold
“We publish this speech of Gijs Graafland, President of the Planck Foundation, Amsterdam, so as to encourage more “ out-of-the-box” thinking on how to re-sign our money and credit systems so as to reflect the realities of human communities and the ecosystems in which they are embedded. Hazel Henderson Editor–in …
The Economics of Happiness Trailer
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5131259/EoH%20trailers/EoH_Trailer_DvPal.mov The Economics of Happiness Trailer About the film ‘Going local’ is a powerful strategy to repair our fractured world—our ecosystems, our societies and our selves Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every …
The Economic Value of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Earthscan would like to invite you to join a free webinar presented by the lead editors for the first two volumes of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. The Economic Value of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Understand the development of the concept of ecosystem services, and the TEEB framework used for …
EC finds economic cost of losses in nature far greater than bank crisis
Nature provides human society with a vast diversity of bene?ts such as food, ?bres, clean water, healthy soil and carbon capture and many more. Though our well-being is totally dependent upon the continued ?ow of these “ecosystem services”, they are predominantly public goods with no markets and no prices, so …