Plan to Survive: New Guidebook on Living with Climate Change Download it free here; Learn how to prepare for changing conditions, weather events, impacts on your health and on what to have handy to cope in the short and medium term. Prepared by specialists and practitioners with the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome […]
Land Use and Climate Change
World warned: change now or endanger food and climate Patrick GALEY How we use our land is threatening our overall sustainability and also exacerbating climate change. For Canada the trends in climate change will diminish our ability to produce most of the crops we now grow. Less rain in the Prairies, migration northward of the […]
What We Want to Sustain
Inclusion, empowerment and equality, must be ‘at the heart of our efforts’ to ensure sustainable development, says UN chief UN Newsnews.un.org/en © UNICEF The women of Bokiat Village, Timbuktu, present fresh onions from their vegetable garden where UNICEF, with the support of Sweden, rehabilitated a manual water pump. (13 March 2019) 16 July 2019 […]
Something More Important than $?
New Zealand Ditches GDP For Happiness And Wellbeing James Ellsmoor Contributor Forbes This Index would help governments use their budgets with the aim to increase the welfare of its citizens instead of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product New Zealand’s change in policy represents a shift that economists have long theorized could be a more effective […]
Greening European Islands
The European Union Is Helping These Islands To Go Renewable by James Ellsmoor (Forbes) With an aim to help make islands more self-sufficient, prosperous and sustainable, the European Union has recently launched its Clean Energy for EU Islands project. Twenty-six islands across 10 European nations have been selected due to their potential to successfully establish a […]