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116 Articles match "Climate","Economical","Society"

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NEF Publications
A selection of publications from our partners at the New Economics Foundation of London: The Great Transition Creating a new kind of economy is crucial if we want to tackle climate change and avoid the mounting social problems associated with the rise of economic inequality. link].
The Green Changemakers - Saturday, September 4, 2010
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Talks on TED: Johan Rockstrom and Nic Marks
He's the founder of the Centre for Well-Being at the UK think tank New Economics Foundation (NEF). The founder of the Centre for Well-Being, an independent think tank at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), in London, Marks is particularly keen to promote a balance between sustainable development and quality of life.
The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Toward Green Resilience: Eco-effective Design and Climate Change Adaptation in Vietnam
Zen and the Art of Climate Change Adaptation Vietnam is drowning in concrete and water. Vietnam could use a similar system for urban sustainability and climate change adaptation. It persists in most quarters of advanced industrialized societies: surely a miracle technology will always come along when we need it. The answer?
The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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  • Climate Change Solutions.co.uk
    [link] SMART 2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age We now have evidence demonstrating that the ICT industry is a key player in creating a low carbon society and could do a lot more to help push the world in this direction by 2020. read more >> Tags: Transportation Energy Economics Climate-change
    The Green Changemakers - Saturday, April 24, 2010
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  • Heinberg on Life Beyond Growth
    What if the decades-long era of economic growth based on ever-increasing rates of resource extraction, manufacturing, and consumption is over, finished, and done? What if the economic conditions that all of us grew up expecting to continue practically forever were merely a blip on history’s timeline? That “normal” is gone. Always.
    The Green Changemakers - Friday, March 12, 2010
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  • Climate Change Studies Library
    [link] There is a perceived need to foster awareness about climate change in schools and universities and to engage young people and future professionals in the search for local solutions for a problem with has global dimensions. Tags: Project Climate-change Education Addendum.
    The Green Changemakers - Saturday, June 6, 2009
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  • From a "Survivor" to a "Wikipedia" Society
    By Neal Gorenflo 10.14.09, 8:46am On Monday, Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economic science for her empirical research on how commons are managed. Ostrom is part of a intellectual vanguard that's elaborating a new understanding of human nature and society. Context matters. link].
    The Green Changemakers - Monday, May 10, 2010
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  • Policy Action on Climate Toolkit
    The climate policies the world urgently needs Tackling climate change means rapidly changing the way we generate and use energy. PACT aims to help lawmakers and advocates to envisage and implement laws and policies that effectively protect the climate. Read more about climate change. October 2009. Renewable World. link].
    The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, April 6, 2010
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  • Climate Action: What Will it Take to Avert Disastrous Climate Change?
    For nearly any major disaster—natural, economic, or military—there was a moment when tragedy could have been prevented. Now we face the largest potential Katrina the world has ever seen, an imminent catastrophe we refer to blandly as “climate change.” In many parts of the world, the climate emergency has already arrived.
    The Green Changemakers - Thursday, December 3, 2009
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  • Economic Degrowth for Sustainability and Equity
    Faced with the multiple and complex challenges of climate change and social inequities (among others) due to Western consumption patterns, degrowth is about a voluntary reduction of the size of the economic system, proposing a framework for transformation to a lower and sustainable level and mode of production and consumption. reduces.
    The Green Changemakers - Saturday, June 26, 2010
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  • Civil Society Denounces US Bullying Tactics & Backroom Deals
    US has Undermined Climate Talks with Bullying Tactics and Backroom Deals Civil Society Denounces U.S. which is the largest historic emitter of greenhouse gases, to come to Copenhagen and try to strong arm the world into accepting a phony accord that will do nothing to prevent climate catastrophe is beyond irresponsible; it is criminal."
    Green (Living) Review - Monday, December 21, 2009
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  • Climate Change Policies in the Asia-Pacific:
    This White Paper is a summary of current climate change policies in the Asia-Pacific region and new recommendations, based on strategic research carried out at IGES so far. This White Paper proposes climate strategies that fully take into account the needs of developing countries in Asia and the Pacific. Introduction 2.
    The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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  • Orion for Educators - ssential Questions
    Climate Activism | Connecting Children to Nature | Rethinking the American Economy | What Is Security? Climate Activism Essential Questions Why is there a disconnect between what science is telling us and what the public and politicians are doing about climate change? What is the hardest thing about addressing climate change?
    The Green Changemakers - Thursday, July 23, 2009
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