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Value chain and deep ecology
There’s a article in the Harvard Business Review that caught my eye recently (Thanks Dave). It’s by Yvon Chouinard, Jib Ellison, and Rick Ridgeway (Patagonia and Blu Skye). They ask “what if externalised costs could be quantified and assigned? What if we could get to the point where the lowest-priced T-shirt was also the one […]
Posted in: management
So long Pete
October 6, 2011
(part two). Our local MP (and neighbour) Pete Hodgson is retiring from politics. Here’s some of his valedictory: Valedictories are supposed to be about the past, but my head lives mostly in the future. So let me give one portfolio, climate change, a bit more attention, because the world’s response has barely begun. There are […]
Sustainability through the years
October 5, 2011
So there I was, trying to figure out how to get Endnote/Word to give me full references sorted by page number of my book (watch this space, book is very nearly done) and I accidentally generated the references sorted by year. And then I spent some time exploring them ordered this way. Here they are: […]
Posted in: visualisingsustainability
Abuse of intergenerational equity
September 4, 2011
Intergenerational equity is a cornerstone of sustainable development (Our Common Future, Brundtland): Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs This definition of sustainability has both current and future generations at its core. These are described as intragenerational equity and […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, Dunedin
On not finding a useful image
August 15, 2011
I’ve spent the day looking in vain for visual representations of Commoner/Ehrlich/Holdren’s IPAT equation: Impact on the Planet = Population X Affluence X Technology (IPAT) or I = P * A * T or in words: Environmental degradation = population × consumption per person × damage per unit of consumption Ray Anderson argued that equation […]
Computing for Sustainability 
October 7, 2011
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