The Climate Change Challenge
Source: FT.com (November 19th)
Have you got what it takes?
Forum for the Future’s Peter Madden launches a global competition offering worldwide publicity and big bucks for the best innnovations to tackle the climate change challenge.
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What's in yer drawers?
James Taplin, November 19th, Forum Blog.
With a bit of luck the answer isn’t a mobile phone since, having succumbed to the flash gadgetry of the latest music-playing-media-streaming-film-making-photo-taking-GPS- locating-file-sharing-life-organising-multichannel-communicating device, you will have recycled your old handset to a sustainable organisation that sends it for reuse in developing markets.
But what happens next?
On the plus side, ...
Hope, recaptured
Tim Nichols, November 18th, Forum Blog.
I left the United States four years ago in the midst of a destructive (in so many ways) war and on the verge of the re-election of Dubya, knowing I would be held accountable for the actions of my country and my government.
Now, I can easily endure the jokes about ...
Jonathon named environmentalist of the year
Alex Johnson, November 14th, Forum Blog.
Jonathon Porritt has been named environmental personality of the year, following in the footsteps of Al Gore.
Jonathon, a founder director of Forum for the Future and chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission, picked up a trophy crafted from recycled scrap metal at the edie Awards for Environmental ...
Sustainable Cities Index - update
Helen Clarkson, November 14th, Forum Blog.
It has been brought to the attention of the Forum that there may be some inconsistencies in some of the data used in this year's index, which may have affected some of the rankings. We are checking the report thoroughly and if there are problems we will be publishing corrected results as soon as possible.
How many people can the Earth sustain?
Jonathon Porritt, November 14th, Forum Blog.
Which element in the following quotation (taken from a report about climate change issued earlier this year by the Ministry of Defence’s internal think-tank) most powerfully grabs your attention? “The Earth’s population has grown exponentially in the last century, and rapid climate change of the kind that we have seen before ...
$75,000 prize for climate change innovation
Shannon Carr-Shand, November 13th, Forum Blog.
Today we are launching a global hunt for the best innovations to tackle climate change, with a $75,000 prize to help bring the best idea to market.
It’s critical that we harness the power of innovation to create a low carbon economy, and we want to overcome the barriers that ...
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