I really enjoyed Raj Patel‘s book Stuffed and Starved, so I’m pleased to see that he has a new book out in January – The Value of Nothing. I’ll let him introduce it:
Archive | November, 2009
What we learned this week
No matter how big Google may seem, search engines only search 0.03% of the total internet. Economic growth may be the government’s avowed first priority, but there are politicians in all three major parties that believe the focus should switch from GDP to wellbeing. On the other hand, what if GDP was the only feasible [...]
Today is Buy Nothing Day
Celebrate by buying a big old pack of nothing from dothegreenthing‘s amusing Amazero site. Read Reverend Billy’s Buy Nothing Day message Buy Nothing Day UK And Tony Juniper on Buy Nothing Day
The Dubai bubble bursts
Economic collapse is never a laughing matter, but I won’t be shedding any tears over the Dubai headlines today. In case you missed it, Dubai World, the state-owned investment and construction company, has announced that it needs to delay the next repayment on its $80 billion debt. Stock markets took a bit of a stumble [...]
Rob Hopkins at TED
I see the TED folks have uploaded Rob Hopkins’ talk from this year’s conference. It’s a great introduction to the problems of oil depletion and the need to tell a better story than the usual doom and gloom – the transition story. If you like it, you can go and tell Rob here.
Happy Birthday DICE
This week I’ve been down in Canterbury visiting my brothers, and had the opportunity to drop in on the 20th anniversary of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. DICE is 20 years old, and has now trained more conservationists than any other institution in the world. Among this year’s crop is my brother Paul, [...]
Soil and Soul, by Alastair McIntosh
I picked this up over the summer at the Greenbelt festival, where Alastair McIntosh was speaking. I should have read it earlier really, as it’s book as deep and beautiful as the lochs described in its pages. A strange but compelling blend of politics and poetry, prophecy and protest. McIntosh begins with a rich and [...]
Conservatives unveil their environmental agenda
The Conservative party roll out a bunch of environmental ideas today, a taster of the greener side of their manifesto. Among them are plans to create green savings accounts and an investment bank, and make all government departments declare their emissions. Recycling policy would switch from stick to carrot, with people being paid to recycle [...]
The true cost of Europe’s cheap meat
There’s a lot of work going on in the field of meat eating at the moment, as it’s dawned on us fairly late that it’s pretty harmful to the environment. Here’s one of the latest instalments – the issue of soy meal. I saw it at a Luton Friends of the Earth event recently and [...]
What we learned this week
An estimated $100 million of hardwood timber has been pillaged from Madagascar’s protected rainforests since the political coup in March. Most of it is bound for China. Transport minister Lord Adonis took a tour of Britain’s railways recently, and this week released his ten ‘stations of shame‘. Alas, Luton comes 8th among Britain’s worst stations. [...]
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