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Encouraging the sustainable management of forests is one of our most promising strategies for
conserving ecosystem services in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Forest management can provide income to landowners while conserving their forest‐provided ecological services like water filtration.
However,...
Go to our website www.solarUtopia.org which features our peer-reviewed report "A Solar Transition is Possible" with important updates, including an estimate of how much conventional petroleum is needed to bring about a full solar transition in just a few decades while supplying all of humanity with...
(Full title) “Calling ‘the better angels of our nature’: A Multi-Angle View of the Debt Crises” (January, 2012) (398 pages).
The document described in this post was initially meant to be the “Statistics and Observations” part for the Debt Crises part (Section #6) of the “IPCR Critical Challenges...
High Ground Communities -- first getting 60 US cities completely off fossil fuels to demonstrate the ability of renewables to replace oil and other fossil fuels, then working with the world in similar fashion. See document summary and go to my website at wix.com/peggymiller/highlandwinds and click...
The website of The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative now has a Discussion Forum. The IPCR Discussion Forum can be accessed from any IPCR website page at www.ipcri.net and also at http://ipcrdiscussionforum.proboards.com/index.cgi . The Discussion Forum is...
Beginning in February, 2011, The IPCR Initiative has been sending outreach messages by postmail to many people, in many related fields of activity.
Believing there is an urgent need to build bridges between diverse communities of people, this writer (founder and outreach coordinator, Stefan Pasti...
.I need example(s) of :-
1- policies that reduce poverty at the expense of the environment.
2- policies that reduce degradation at the expense of the poor people.
The product has been patented, lab tested, and field tested in Africa. It disinfects drinking water using UV light and is powered by a hand-crank (for the household version) or a bicycle (for the kiosk version). It combines a small business opportunity with providing safe drinking water, and...
The word democracy derives from the Greek word that literally means “people govern”. Generally, it is assumed throughout the world that the democratic way of decision-making is the best possible and therefore the most acceptable. The only problem is that nobody knows exactly what it means. It would...
With the Green Tax Shift and Green Subsidy Shift, reform the flow of public revenue. End subsidies, especially the destructive ones such as to agribusiness and the rest of corporate welfare. Shift taxes off wages, useful enterprises, and buildings, and onto pollution, extraction, and locations...
Clean water, sanitation, and shelter are human rights that also rank as necessities, along with clean air, food, and the freedom to enjoy social interaction with fellow humans. This solution is applied economics with immediate yields that extend beyond quantitative economic analysis to the realm of...
To replace fossil fuel energy with clean renewable energy, a price advantage is required. This can be achieved by surcharging world trade (imports and exports) and using the proceeds to make clean energy lower cost than fossil fuel energy. More details are in the pdf.
In environmental circles, more and more activists, writers, analysts, and policy-makers are emphasizing the need to create and communicate a vision of a human future, living in harmony with the natural systems of which we are a part. It seems the ubiquitous bad news about environmental conditions...
Bamboo takes four times as much CO2 out of the atmosphere as any tree. Bamboo is a member of the grass family. It can grow 12 inches in one day .Fibers from bamboo are very strong. If we started growing bamboo and using the fiber to make paper, paper bags, and other paper products we would take...
I know there are many people, maybe even a majority of folks out there who still choose to believe that our Planet can indefinitely sustain our present-day lifestyle and rate of consumption. Those folks should just click away because what follows is strictly for the rest of us – those who...
The Soil Carbon Challenge is an international as well as local competition to see how fast land managers can turn atmospheric carbon into soil organic matter.
If you want to find out how fast a human can run 100 meters, do you build a computer model, do a literature search, or convene a panel of...
Create a volunteer weatherization program that directly supports the existing local Department of Energy funded weatherization programs.
We at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC are training anyone who is interested in developing a similar program. We are seeing, conservatively, a 2 ton...
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SEARCH FOR COMPREHENSIVE DESIGNSOLUTIONS TO HUMANITY'S CRITICAL CHALLENGES LAUNCHED
SOCIALLY - RESPONSIBLE DESIGN'S HIGHEST AWARD GIVEN TO SOLUTIONBEST ABLE TO DRIVE SYSTEMIC CHANGE...
Developing a complex of solutions through discipline of 'applied industrial ecology' and integrative planning/design, fully engaging an eco-centric and culturally compassionate worldview to repairing places we have collectively made to be environmental sacrifice zones. The Tar Creek Superfund area...
Wide open range land. Narrow profit margins. Big sky. High taxes. Tall southern pines. Growing debt.
These are the reasons that the Private Landowner Network - PLN - does what it does. PLN treasures the beauty of a working landscape and respects the working landowner as much as any kind of open...
As companies try to become more sustainable they look for like-minded service providers. So a solution would be to encourage a lot of young entrepreneurs who have in mind to start a typical service to do it as sustainably as possible.
E.g. a catering service for B2B events like mine. How to do it?...
Our experiences and expectations define our reality. We have heard so much about what is wrong, and what is unsustainable.
The Signs of Change National e-Conference is a national conversation showcasing the signs of change, no matter how small. The conference is not an academic talk fest....
Now, at this point we have all seen An Inconvenient Truth and we are inundated with a flurry of marking propaganda for green good, but the question remains in many of our minds "what can be done to stop global climate change?" One thing is for sure: buying supposed green goods will not. Sure, it...
I was very lucky to serve as the Climate Correspondent for Sea Change Radio (http://www.cchange.net/tag/climate-change/) at COP15. I witnessed firsthand the initial confidence felt by everyone attending the meeting. We were sure that the voices of the global community had been heard, and that our...
The hyperlink is a copy of http://dematerialism.wikispaces.com/ which has never been edited or commented upon. It begins with formal definitions from dematerialism; continues by presenting the salient features of my idea of a natural economy, a regrettable choice of terms; and ends up by...
Long-term sustainability may require a return to the human numbers of 10,000 years ago
Peter Salonius, 522 Route 8 HWY, Durham Bridge, New Brunswick E6C 1K5 Canada
email petersalonius [at] hotmail [dot] com...
One thing that holds society back from embracing more adaptive principles of operation is our tendency to hold on to erroneous myths that arose as past answers to questions of How the World Works. One such myth is that markets can exist in an undistorted state. The result of this myth is...
Capitalism with a Human Face:
A Proposal for the Establishment of a Sustainable Capitalism.
online: http://www.modelearth.org/modest.html
In popular theory non-regulated capitalism would take care of itself without much intervention and regulation. The mechanism of demand and supply would function...
Grassroots Government: The World's Ombudsman.
online: http://www.modelearth.org/world-gov.html
Today most people are not represented in their government properly, if at all, regardless where this might be in the world.
Even in the most advanced democracies of the "first world" countries it might...
Preventing a Ton of Cure:
Disaster Preparedness.
online: http://www.modelearth.org/art01.html
Disasters, be they natural or human made, do occur--they have been occurring all throughout human history, they occur even nowadays; they are nothing new to us. They do not surprise us.
Sadly though,...
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Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama,
I wish that you are well!
If we, the people, were really interested in establishing a lasting peace in the world, we would spend more on ways that would achieve peace non-...
Part of our problem is that humans are just too productive -- we're changing the landscape too much, working too many hours, making too much money, etc. And at the same time we're neglecting proper sleep, caring for our children, continuing education, citizenship participation...etc.
So my...
American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is an initiative of 665 institutions in the US working together to move towards climate neutrality in their operations and to incorporate climate and sustainability into the educational experience of all of their students - 5...
Let's be honest, most people could get just as much done working 6 hours per day.
The labor market is currently working inefficiently. In February 2000, France instituted the 35 Hour Work Week. It'd do a great deal of good to leap-frog them in terms of streamlining a workforce to achieve the...
Any of us would be hard pressed to name even one major system of our complex industrial society that is sustainable, that is, one that uses fewer material resources than are annually produced by natural systems. Human settlement patterns in the 21st century are one of the most significant examples...
Some Suggestions for Designing of a Sustainable Earth Co-operatively.
online http://www.modelearth.org/princmodsus.html
The need for designing a sustainable world co-operatively is explained at "The Need for Designing the Future Collaboratively" - http://www.modelearth.org/intro.html .
A design...
Home: The Very "Leverage Point" (note1).
online - http://www.ModelEarth.Org/leverage.html
by Mr. Jan Hearthstone - ModelEarth.Org
The most obvious place where a meaningful intervention would start a profound change for better in the whole world is the basic unit of any community--a home. It is at...
The Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act is a policy that works. Companies that use toxics in production and products are required to report on that use and to do detailed plans for changing to greener chemicals and materials. The actual changes are voluntary, based of good business decisions...
The data easily available for decision makers in the public space and for accountability are, at best, archaic. The accounting for money transactions and profit reporting in the organization are compromised by rules and regulations that override principles ... and the idea of social impact is...
Part I -- How do we know this?
Part II -- How do we implement it?
http://www.skil.org/position_papers_folder/HumanviabilityRPD.html
We would like to submit an article on the e-Stewards global certification program for electronics recyclers and Enterprises. For too long the world has looked the other way while electronic waste is exported from countries like the United States, Canada and Japan to developing countries. The...
