http://nsyght.com/rss/tag/wasteful Nsyght is a search engine powered by you, your bookmarks, and your friends. en-us 50 When enough people lock into the same narrative and connect the same dots and feel the danger facing their children, then [the objections from special interests] will be set aside. They will be. And we're close. We're not there yet. But we're close.<br />Submited by meryn 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:43:11 GMT http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/15051572/al_gores_fight_against_the_climate_crisis http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/15051572/al_gores_fight_against_the_climate_crisis Saving the biosphere and spreading sustainable prosperity is going to take a lot more than doing things in a more environmentally-conscious manner; it's going to demand we remake much of our material civilization.<br />Submited by meryn 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:43:11 GMT http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008207.html http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008207.html The same principles of management are necessary to make companies green as those that we’ve been discussing at the edge: democratization, openness, transparency, love, and a fierce embrace of what’s good.<br />Submited by meryn 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:43:06 GMT http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/leadinggreen/2008/06/the-dna-of-the-green-corporati.html http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/leadinggreen/2008/06/the-dna-of-the-green-corporati.html If you throw away consumption because of the utilization of non-human natural resources, you also throw away the utilization of human resources that comes with it and actually forms the bulk of consumption.<br />Submited by meryn 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:43:06 GMT http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/06/is_consumption_evil.shtml http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/06/is_consumption_evil.shtml Legislators on the European Parliament's Environment Committee overwhelmingly supported reforms earlier this year that would halt the steady rise in the region's garbage.<br />Submited by meryn 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:43:04 GMT http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008095.html http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008095.html It's time to question the political economy that dominates the developed world, time to ask whether it's providing benefits commensurate with the massive environmental deterioration it generates. It's time to question capitalism.<br />Submited by meryn 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:43:03 GMT http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/6/9/145747/7242 http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/6/9/145747/7242 All across the nation, factories and power plants are wasting energy -- lots and lots of it. If that energy could be captured and put to good use, greenhouse gas emissions could be substantially reduced, at a profit.<br />Submited by meryn 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:43:03 GMT http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/8/12/105752/270 http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/8/12/105752/270 [A tax on carbon] inserts basic information about carbon costs into every little decision we make, and we don't even have to think about it, because it's right there in the price.<br />Submited by meryn 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:43:02 GMT http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/6/2/135321/1922 http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/6/2/135321/1922 We have become so short on environmental resources that we can no longer afford to be wasting them on things that don't even improve our lives.<br />Submited by meryn 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:43:01 GMT http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/designers-if-it.html http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/designers-if-it.html The world's only organization focused on confronting the global environmental injustice and economic inefficiency of toxic trade (toxic wastes, products and technologies) and its devastating impacts.<br />Submited by meryn 22, November 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:42:52 GMT http://www.ban.org http://www.ban.org