Resources & Links

Risks & future scenarios

Stop reasoning in terms of probabilized risk, but in terms of possibility. http://villagillet.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/dupuy-mourning-the-future.pdf

Natural risks monitoring

Resources shortage

Frameworks:

Other Risk & scenario resources

General Sustainability Resources

  • Science for Environment Policy, DG ENV News Alert, 16 September 2010, Issue 209. Universita di catalona
  • IMF research conference videos of March 2011 on “Macro and Growth Policies in the Wake of the Crisis” addressing systemic issues the world is facing globally. I have started to watch the growth strategy session V. Lots of the topics we have been talking about are addressed here: development, agriculture, urbanization, population, complex adaptive systems, consumption models etc…
  • http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2011/res/index.htm
  • Mitsubishi’s CEO 15 yrs ago, lesson of the rain forest: http://combusem.com/TACHI.HTM . Future 500, whose mission is to forward relationships between corporations and NGOs to advance the triple bottom line, of which Tach Kiushi is the chairman of the international board. Seems his ideas have made their way… http://www.future500.org/who/
  • In this respect the “The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability” by Paul Hawken.
  • “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace” by Vandana Shiva

Possible Solutions Resources

  • The New Economic Forum model semi finalist of the Buckminster fuller challenge: http://challenge.bfi.org/2011Semi_Finalist_ANewEconomicModel
  • Senge’s Natural Capitalism Solutions: use resources productively, redesign industrial processes for craddle to craddle, manage institutions to restore human & natural capital
  • Hunter Lovins, president of ‘Natural Capitalism Solutions’ and co-author of “Climate Capitalism” Convincing Even the Skeptics to Go Green http://tinyurl.com/6fprpbr
  • Nicholas Georgescu Roegen: energy and economy myths. 2nd law of thermodynamics applied to economics http://dieoff.org/page148.htm

Other general resources

Food & agriculture – cities

See also UN call – Sustainability – Mary

Climate Change

Science & Technologies

Vision & art

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