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Reports, Videos and Papers
paper entitled World Wind Power Clinbs to New Record in 2001 that will be of interest.
The 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium published the Stockholm Memorandum: tipping the scales towards sustainability which concludes that the planet has entered a new geological age – the Anthropocene. It recommends a suite of urgent and far-reaching actions for decision makers and societies to become active stewards of the planet for future generations. This addition to the web site was suggested by Yves Bajard.
Jeremy Rifkin in this 61 minute video talks about the looming demise of the fossil fuel based second industrial revolution and its replacement by the third industrial revelution based on the internet and renewable energy. It is well worth your time. This addition to the web site was suggested by Sheila Murray.
Since what happens in the United States affects us to some degree you will find the article titled American Prospect: Decline and Rebirth published in Issue 4 (July 2011) of The Solutions Journal of more than passing interest. The author is Gustave (Gus) Speth who is a full member of the CoR. You can find him on Wikipedia.
This link will take you to a film trailer by Nora Bateson that introduces us to a film she produced about her father – Gregory Bateson, a noted anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist and filmmaker. Through contemporary interviews and his own words, Bateson reveals har father’s practical approaches to the enormous challenges confronting the human race and the natural world.This addition to the web site was suggested by Robert Hoffman.
The attached Globe and Mail update article by Thomas Homer-Dixon is the latest word on the peak oil controversy.
This article, titled Boom and Doom: Revisiting prophecies of collapse published in the January 2012 edition of the New Scientist is about the storm of controversay that happened when the Limits to Growth was published; and about the truths established in the book.
Richard Heinberg’s latest book, The End of Growth, is well written and has arrived with high praise. For an introduction to this book you can view a six minute video titled Who Killed Economic Growth.
This article, titled Boom and Doom: Revisiting prophecies of collapse published in the January 2012 edition of the New Scientist is about the storm of controversay that happened when the Limits to Growth was published; and about the truths established in the book.
The title of this article “Cassandra’s curse: how “The Limits to Growth” was demonized” accurately reflects its contents. It was written by Ugo Bardi, a former Secretary General of the Club Of Rome; and was published in the 9 March 2008 edition of The Oil Drum: Europe
The October 2011 Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development to Parliament has been archived here
A CoR paper entitled The World in 2052 can be viewed by clicking here
CHARLES BEAUBIEN ON AURELIO PECCEI On the 21st of September 2010 at the Billings Museum Charles Beaubien gave a presentation concerning the thoughts of Aurelio Peccei and Daisaku Ikeda as expressed in their book – Before It Is Too Late. The presentation is available on You Tube in three sessions. The first session can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vkECYW5IdQ, the second at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFU3_9huxzM&feature=relatednts, and the third at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YIJAYTHg38&feature=related
Links
CANADIAN
Canadian Environmental Law Association
Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy
Canadian Pugwash Group
County Sustainability Group
David Suzuki Foundation
Delphi Group
Foresight Canada
Global Issues Project
Pembina Institute
Population Institute of Canada
Science for Peace
Sierra Club Canada
Trottier Energy Futures Project
WiserEarth
World Changing Canada
INTERNATIONAL
Association for the study of Peak Oil and Gas
Biophysical Economics Workgroup
Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Convention on Biological Diversity
Earth Policy Institute
Earthscan – Publisher of climate change books
Ecotopia
Global Footprint Network
Green Cross International
Institute for New Economic Thinking
International Association for Great Lakes Research
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
International Network for Sustainable Energy
International Union for Conservation of Nature
Rainfirest Alliance
Royal Institute of International Affairs
Stockholm Environmental Institute
The Capital Institute
The Oil Drum
The Solutions Journal
World Population Clock
The World Watch Institute
World Resources Institute
Wuppertal Institute
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