sustainability

Further to my post about Helen Clark's speech and our PM's challenge to her citizens to make New Zealand the World's first truly sustainable nation, the government have launched Sustainable a well designed and useful website with tips and advice on reducing our carbon footprints and living more sustainably.

For several weeks we have been saving all the Christmas promotional sales and gift emails that rolled in from ethical and sustainable companies to post here in order to help you, dear reader, with your Christmas shopping.

The Urban Sustainability Group will be screening The power of Community, How Cuba Survived Peak oil. The film looks at how cuba dealt with severe shortages of oil by turning to alternative agriculture and shows how peak oil can be used to rebuild community. The shortages cuba underwent provide a useful picture of what the rest of the world is going to have to go through over the next decades and provides clues for how we can best deal with the challenges posed by peak oil

The film is an hour long and we will be sharing coffee and cake afterwards.

It's good to see that Suistainability studies will be taught in schools. I think children need to be taught 'how to live'..... not how to consume.

A dialogue for Action

Earth has entered a new era, one in which humans are the dominant force. The uncertainty, magnitude and speed of change in the Earth’s systems is without precedent since the retreat of the last ice age -
11,000 years ago - or possibly since the last permian period 250 million years ago......

the ticking time bomb of climate change, droughts, fires and torrential downpours... shrinking fisheries and rising oil prices,
water tables drawn down to their limits.