Ecological Footprint Quiz | Earth Day Network Sign up for our newsletter What is the Ecological Footprint? The Ecological Footprint is a resource accounting tool that measures how much biologically productive land and sea is used by a given population or activity, and compares this to how much land and sea is available. Productive land and sea areas support human demands for food, fiber, timber, energy, and space for infrastructure. These areas also absorb the waste products from the human economy. The Ecological Footprint measures the sum of these areas, wherever they physically occur on the planet. What does the Ecological Footprint measure? Global hectares are hectares with world-average productivity for all productive land and water areas in a given year. How accurate are Ecological Footprint measurements? What can Ecological Footprint Analysis tell us about the future of the planet? What is the proper way to use the term Ecological Footprint? How is an Ecological Footprint calculated?
Brandon Snyder Brandon Snyder Image Comics Witch Titans Robots Alice in Wonderland Animals Attack Cyclops David & Goliath Mermaids The Hulk King Kong Hansel & Gretel Movie Monsters Return to Index De crisis van het kapitalisme: een andere economie is noodzakelijk én mogelijk In een lezing op 28 april 2011, tijdens een conferentie te Rome, georganiseerd door de ‘Rosa Luxemburg Stichting Brussel’* schetst Marc Vandepitte de contouren van een ander economisch model. Het kapitalisme wordt geconfronteerd met een ernstige crisis op verschillende fronten.i De wereld heeft daarom dringend behoefte aan een andere economische orde. Vertrekkend vanuit de meest fundamentele tegenstelling van het kapitalisme maken we eerst een diagnose van wat er fout gaat. Daarna formuleren we enkele krachtlijnen voor een mogelijk alternatief. Omwille van het belang ervan gaan we dieper in op de kwestie van economische groei versus ontwikkeling. Inleiding: gebruikswaarde en ruilwaarde De meest fundamentele tegenstelling van de kapitalistische economie is het onderscheid tussen gebruikswaarde en ruilwaarde is.ii Elk product of dienstverlening heeft zowel een gebruikswaarde als een ruilwaarde, maar het is uit de ruilwaarde dat winst wordt gegenereerd. Ongelijkheid en machtsconcentratie
Size of the Problem Waste starts with us and ends with us! When we buy a product we also buy any waste associated with the product. We are all responsible for waste, it starts with us and ends with us. The Importance of Recycling in New Zealand video shown below provides a simple and effective overview of why we need to act, and what we can do to help. Product choice has increased in all aspects of our lives. Not all waste is recycled. Clean paper and cardboard waste is easy to recycle and it means fewer trees are felled. Not all plastics are recycled. A cradle-to-grave approach to product and packaging design is not sustainable. NZ is way behind the rest of the western world in waste management. Take ownership of your waste footprint. The waste problem in NZ Projections show that, with current population trends and without increased intervention, the annual amount of waste disposed to landfills will almost double within 10 years in Auckland alone. Global Issue with Local Problems We need to change our mindset
Ufunk.net - Gadgets japonais et Arts insolites Can happiness be a good business strategy? | Guardian Sustainable Business How happy are you at work? Maybe you're reading this at work right now? Which could indicate that you work in a friendly workplace culture where you're empowered to do as you see fit and read whatever you want online. Nic Marks, of the New Economics Foundation (Nef), has spent the last 10 years of his life working in this field. "People who are happier at work are more productive – they are more engaged, more creative, have better concentration", says Marks. The current poster boy for happiness in business circles is Tony Hsieh. By 2005, Hsieh decided that a happy company culture was Zappos's number one business priority, from which everything else would grow. By removing the cynics, says Hsieh, the remaining 90% "became super-engaged". The UK government is not ignoring happiness. In light of this groundswell of interest, Nic Marks and Nef have just launched an online tool to help businesses measure and manage the happiness of their employees.
Welcome! - Rubbish Free SILJA GOETZ Conscious Capitalism: Can Empathy Change The World? | Thinktopia® In the late 19th century, a concept called the Progressive Movement crept through the vineworks of American business thinking. While there were many aspects of Progressivism–including cleaning up local government, one of the more high-minded Progressive theories worked like this: A working factory would be drop-shipped onto an agrarian community and provide prosperity for a local populace surrounded by the natural wonders of clean air and water. This was a utopian ideal that contrasted with the smudgy skies and open sewage of the contemporary 1800s urbanscape. Every so often, the men and women who aspire to construct corporate empires need something to live for: an ideal higher than healthy profits. The latest quest for new consciousness seems to be happening now. The entire staff of GOOD magazine recently left their posts to form a new magazine called Tomorrow that will focus on what’s new and, most of all, what’s good. “The answer is, many start out this way anyway,” explains Klein.
Get designs from all of your favorite TV shows by watchitDesigns Death To Core Competency: Lessons From Nike, Apple, Netflix Known for decades as a shoe company, Nike is undergoing a digital revolution. In recent years, it's launched everything from apps that are standard issue on the iPhone to wearable devices to web services. But why? Parker's thinking goes like this: In a world of rapid disruption, having a core competency—that is, an intrinsic set of skills required to thrive in certain markets—is an outmoded principle of business. Lead Nike engineer Aaron Weast chalks up Nike's success in the space to the company's willingness to disrupt itself (a core tenet of a group of innovators we've dubbed Generation Flux). Nike has arguably been trying to break through its core competency since it first began work on Nike+, its digital platform, in the early aughts. However, Nike wasn't necessarily equipped for its deep dive into digital. Ironically, it was one of Nike's early digital partners that first advised the company against straying outside its core competency. Netflix is another example.
Artist Shows Drawing Progression From Age 2 Through 24 Sometimes when we see amazing art it’s easy to just think “oh that person must be really gifted” but this progression gives hope that maybe anybody can create beautiful art if they are willing to put in the effort. Jake Lockett has been making art since he could pick up a pen at age 2 and shared with us a progression album on his website showcasing a couple pieces of art from almost every year from age 2 to his current 24 years of age. Each year his art grows a little more technical and then diverges into his unique style. It’s really awesome to see this artist’s journey laid out in picture form and would be interesting to see the childhood works from other highly regarded artists too. See Also A Modern Take on Ancient Art Although all of these pieces are more advanced than I was at each age; the highest technical skill level I’ve reached is Marc’s at age 6.
Finding a sustainable model of economic growth fit for the future | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional Riots, storms, oil spills, rising divorce rates. Most of us would say that these do not make our lives better. But, perversely, they might lead to higher economic growth measured in terms of GDP; people are employed in cleanup operations and rebuilding and lawyers to pick up the pieces. We tend to measure success through economic growth, primarily because it brings new jobs. And jobs are, of course, desperately need at a time when youth unemployment in the UK is at one million and nearly 60% of young people in Greece are out of work. Jobs can create a virtuous circle of buying power, demand for goods, further jobs, more tax revenues, higher welfare payments and higher standards of living for all. But economic growth – and even employment – is an incomplete indicator of wellbeing. But the model of economic growth we have seen in the past is not fit for the future. Business models built on outdated assumptions Traditional economics tells us that the market will sort us out.
How do we redesign a new economic theory framed by ecological systems? | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional Economics as we know it today is broken. Unable to explain, to predict or to protect, it is need of root-and-branch replacement. Or, to borrow from Alan Greenspan, it is fundamentally "flawed". But where do we look for inspiration in facilitating what is the mother of all paradigm shifts? Ecology offers the insight that the economy is best understood as a complex adaptive system, more a garden to be lovingly observed and tended than a machine to be regulated by mathematically calculable formulae. From anthropology we learn that economy and society are inseparable and that markets and money are relatively recent arrivals, a thin veneer layered onto a much older history of co-operation, gift and reciprocity. Psychology and neuroscience reveal that, as beings, we are more complex and multifaceted than the one-dimensional man of classical economic theory, motivated only by the selfish and individualistic acquisitiveness that miraculously guides the invisible hand.