Doughnut Economics can be summarised as an approach that adds the minimum acceptable social boundaries (people’s essential needs) to the maximum possible planetary boundaries (“environmental ceiling” or the Earth’s capacity to carry life). The Amsterdam City Doughnut was launched in…
David Suzuki is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. David Suzuki. Credit: Stephen Barnett from Darwin, Australia, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Repost from the David Suzuki Foundation. Published on January 5, 2021. The following is…
As a signatory of the Scientists’ Warning since 2017, I am sharing this article to raise awareness on the interconnected issues of population, consumption, and growth economy that impact our planet today – in some cases (e.g. species extinction) irreversibly….
Repost from Ecocities Emerging. 3 min read by Jennie Moore, Director, Institute Sustainability at British Columbia Institute of Technology and Director, Centre for Ecocities at BCIT The International Ecocity Standards were developed by Ecocity Builders with input from an international…
by Maria Spiliotopoulou and Mark Roseland. Journal: MDPI Sustainability. Published September 4th, 2020 Abstract Achieving sustainability goals is complex and requires policy coherence; yet effective action for structural change has been elusive partly because global issues must be primarily addressed…
Repost from The Medium. By Tim Ventura. Published on Nov 20, 2019 · 4 min read Back in 1968, Stanford Professor Paul Erlich prefaced his non-fiction best-seller, The Population Bomb, by saying, “The battle to feed all of humanity is…
Repost from The Conversation. Published August 20, 2020. By Chris Barrington-Leigh, Associate professor, Health and Social Policy and the School of Environment, McGill University, and Adam Millard-Ball, Associate professor, Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. In the midst of…
