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Development/Growth

Sustainable Lifestyles: Pathways and Choices for India and Germany

21st April 2015

Harry Lehmann, Sudhir Chella Rajan Co-authors: Sneha Annavarapu, Claudia Kabel, Christian Löwe, Astrid Matthey (Indo-German Expert Group on Green and Inclusive Economy) Green Economy has been recognized by the Rio+20 Summit as “one of the important tools available for achieving sustainable development”. It is emphasized that Green Economy should “contribute to eradicating poverty as well as sustained…

ALTERNATIVES

Allan Savory: A Global Strategy for Addressing Global Climate Change

11th April 2015

Editor’s note: Allan Savory is the recipient of the 2003 Australian International Banksia Award for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a global scale. Below is Executive Summary of his paper on combating Climate Change. Executive Summary Simplistic and counter intuitive as it may be, the fate of civilization today hangs…

ALTERNATIVES

T. Vijayendra: Post Carbon Society And Transition

17th February 2015

The Industrial Society or the Carbon Society The present social system that we are living is called Industrial Society. It began with the Industrial Revolution (1760 -1830) in the West and was followed by social revolution in various countries – Holland, France, England and the USA, ending the age old feudal society and ushering in…

CLIMATE CRISIS

News update

30th December 2014

Bad loans will worsen if economy falters: RBI Indian Express The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has warned that the asset quality of scheduled commercial banks may worsen from the current level if the macroeconomic conditions deteriorate drastically. The central bank’s latest Financial Stability Report has also raised red flag on connected banks triggering a…

Bookshelf

Book: Just Enough – lessons in living green from traditional Japan

26th December 2014

Rob Hopkins, originally published by Transition Culture One of the most extraordinary books I have read in recent years is Just Enough: lessons in living green from traditional Japan by Azby Brown. Brown is director of the Konazawa Institute of Technologies Future Design Institute and has lived in Japan for the last 30 years. It is a beautiful…

ENERGY

Peak Shit! How Oil Spilled the Economy –1

17th September 2014

Part 1 – Energy Misuse Starts With School! By Stanley Ravi, POI member (Editor’s Note: Stanley Ravi got interested in Peak Oil when he attended a conference on the subject in 2004 in Bangalore. Since then, he has been involved with several Peak Oil and Transition related initiatives, including an attempt to set up one…

CLIMATE CRISIS

Melbourne University research on Energy, Climate Change, Collapse, Resilience and Transition

15th September 2014

(Editor’s Note: Some of the most important academic research into mankind’s present and future is being conducted at the Melbourne Sustainability Society Institute at the University of Melbourne. Here are links to some of their most important papers) Is Global Collapse Imminent? by Graham Turner. Dr Turner gathered data from the UN (its department of economic and social…

ENERGY

News update

14th November 2013

Six Key Trends Shaping the Energy Future The Paris-based International Energy Agency was established after the oil crisis of the early 1970s in a move by oil-consuming nations to keep better track of trends and improve energy security. Its annual World Energy Outlook, with hundreds of pages of analysis and charts, is considered the industry…

ALTERNATIVES

Peak Oil, dying cities and cities of tomorrow

10th October 2013

By T. Vijayendra Peak oil means when the production of petroleum products has reached a peak and hence forth it will only fall. This has already happened. It heralds the collapse of industrial societies. Cities are energy consumers, not producers. With the fossil fuel era coming to a close, and no viable alternative energy source…