Blog Posts tagged with : Consumption
The US is almost self-sufficient in oil: Problem solved?
Posted by on Nov 14, 2012The International Energy Agency proclaimed earlier this week what many have suspected: that there is drastic change underway in the world of energy supply and trade. The biggest headline from the World Energy Outlook 2012 is that the US will become the world’s biggest producer of oil by 2020 (though ceding that throne to Saudi Arabia five years later), and...
Blinders on for the economics of energy
Posted by on Sep 04, 2012Several days before Mitt Romney was crowned king of the Republican Party, he outlined his vision for energy for America. As far as visions go, this one is crystal clear: he wants to make America self-sufficient in energy by 2020. To support it, he proposes five key measures, including removing environmental restrictions on coal product...
Good reads on sustainability
Posted by on May 25, 2012In my post "A beginner’s guide to sustainability”, I promised that part two would be “A reader’s guide to sustainability”. That’s because I’m often asked what books I would recommend to someone who wants a good overview of the key issues on sustainability. It’s a reasonable question, but one that constantly begs a good answer beca...
Mutual respect: the way out of the consumption conundrum ?
Posted by on Feb 28, 2012Pamela Mar has posted this comment on her Fung Global Institute blog1:“Our collective challenge is to look beyond the current economic model, to an economy in which people count for more than what they consume, and in which they consume according to need instead of according to an artificially constructed desire.This is where Asia becomes important. Compan...
Apple’s audits: important but not the key
Posted by on Feb 22, 2012The furore over Apple’s “failures” to ensure labour and environmental standards compliance in its supply chain continues, with protests outside Apple stores, petitions online to “tell Apple how you feel” and an increasing number of high-profile expose-type articles looking at conditions in Apple’s suppliers. The counterparts to exposes and ...
