Building Sustainable Community and Self-Reliance
Posted by Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam on December 28, 2009 at 8:36am
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For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how are we going to:
- drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change);
- significantly rebuild resilience (in response to peak oil);
- and greatly strengthen our local economy (in response to economic instability)?
Convergence in policies and programme , realising the principle of simultaneity for actions across the domains of development is indeed the need of the hour for mitigating ecological and security thr…
Started by Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam in WORKGROUP:: LOCAL GOVERNMENT & OUTREACH Dec. 8, 2009.
The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues. The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the envi…
Tagged: culture, sustainability, consumerism, activism, society
Started by sushil yadav in Inbox. Last reply by Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam Dec. 8, 2009.
France wants a 'carbon tax' on EU imports Sachin Parashar , TNN 30 November 2009, 02:00am IST Read Full Article NEW DELHI/PARIS: In a dampener for India, the French government is set to insist that…
Tagged: carbon tax
Started by Les Squires in WORKGROUP: ZERO CARBON Nov. 30, 2009.
India offers to cut carbon intensity by 20-25% Saibal Dasgupta & Nitin Sethi, TNN 28 November 2009, 12:16am IST Read Full Article BEIJING/NEW DELHI: The battle for scoring PR points at the clim…
Tagged: copenhagen, carbon emissions, china
Started by Les Squires in WORKGROUP: ZERO CARBON Nov. 27, 2009.
Global warming: India in a fix as China pledges big emission cuts Saibal Dasgupta, TNN 26 November 2009, 09:30pm IST Read entire article BEIJING: China has announced that it will cut emissions by a…
Tagged: global warming
Started by Les Squires in WORKGROUP: ZERO CARBON Nov. 26, 2009.
The need for oil and gas is increasing everyday, with much of the world still developing. It is predicted that the world energy demand will increase at the rate of about 1.8% per year in the coming d…
Started by SamHill in WORKGROUP:: ENERGY Nov. 24, 2009.
India targets 1,000mw solar power in 2013 Nitin Sethi, TNN 18 November 2009, 12:42am IST Read Full Article NEW DELHI: The US and other advanced countries may be dithering in the fight against clima…
Tagged: solar power, New Delhi, tnn, solar
Started by Les Squires in WORKGROUP:: ENERGY Nov. 17, 2009.
New York Times By LYDIA POLGREEN Published: November 12, 2009 Read full article... . . . But these workers are young people from villages clustered around this small town deep in rural Karnataka St…
Tagged: outsourcing, small towns, rural youth, india
Started by Les Squires in WORKGROUP:: ECONOMY Nov. 13, 2009.
I'm visiting family in Delhi and Pune Dec 23-Jan 3. Are there permaculture projects underway there that I might visit or do some work at? I would also be interested in co-teaching/helping develop an…
Tagged: Pune, Delhi, permaculture
Started by Kris in Inbox Nov. 9, 2009.
It is important to understand the limits of the resources that fuel the socalled development .China and India in opposing caps, US ,Japan and others securing continuation of growth rates would all to…
Started by NAFMOR in WORKGROUP:: CRITICAL OPINION & ANALYSIS Oct. 31, 2009.
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