What would a Tesco-value blockbuster look like? If you thought straight to DVD Jackie Collins adaptation you’d be absolutely right – the supermarket giant has launched a film making arm and announced its first project. There is a reward for anyone who arrests Tony Blair for war crimes. It currently stands at over £2,000 and [...]
Archive | January, 2010
speaking louder
This week’s graphical interlude comes courtesy of Birdlife International, who commissioned this poster to highlight the 52 British birds on the IUCN red list of endangered species. If you’re new to the blog or haven’t been paying attention, ‘speaking louder’ is my weekend series highlighting the visual language of sustainability. How do we portray environmental [...]
The New Economics, by David Boyle and Andrew Simms
This is a book I’ve been looking forward to for some time – something that brings together the various strands of thinking that make up the rather nebulous field of ‘new economics’, and presents them all in one place. It doesn’t disappoint, providing a useful introduction to the uninitiated, and a re-cap for those who [...]
Can you have progress without economic growth?
That’s one of the questions the Ecologist put to Deutsche Bank economist Pavan Sukhdev: You can in some circumstances but you can’t in others. What I am talking about is lifecycle. It is possible for a pupa to become a butterfly but it is not possible for a caterpillar to become a butterfly without first [...]
Britain’s unequal society
The richest 10% of British people are 100 times wealthier than the poorest 10%, new government research shows. The household wealth of the top decile of UK society is £853,000, while the poorest hold just £8,800. The findings were published this morning by the National Equality Panel, an independent government body tasked with analysing the [...]
Sign the petition to drop Haiti’s debt
Haiti owes £890 million, mostly to the IMF and the Inter-America development Bank. The World Bank has suspended repayments for five years, but why does the rich world need that £890 million back? Since much of Haiti’s debts were acquired under oppressive and corrupt governments, they should be counted as ‘odious debts’ and the people [...]
The Impossible Hamster Club
Giving a new meaning to the term freakonomics, here’s a quirky little video that nef released along with their Growth isn’t possible report yesterday. Pass it on at impossiblehamster.org
Growth isn’t possible, says New Economics Foundation report
Ongoing economic growth is not just questionable, but actually impossible in a world of climate change, says a new report from the new economics foundation. Released to coincide with the economic forum in Davos, Growth isn’t possible: why rich nations need a new economic direction warns that developed countries face a choice between a safe [...]
What we learned this week
Shell are facing a shareholder revolt on their tar sands project. The Co-op are leading the charge, but I wonder what they’re doing investing in Shell in the first place. China’s space programme is advancing with a typical mix of high ambition and low regard for human rights – thousands of villagers have been hired [...]
Speaking louder
A neat little play on MC Escher from the Jakarta Post – see here for a bigger version. HT Social Ads.
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