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To Reduce Our Carbon Footprint, We Need Another Kind of Extinction Rebellion

Roar Bjonnes

“The world’s richest ten percent are responsible for an estimated 47 percent share of global CO2 emissions,” writes Florian Zandt at Statista. This is the result of a recent study published in the journal Nature Sustainability. The study focused on how alleviating poverty worldwide would impact carbon emissions. To Reduce Our Carbon Footprint, We Need Another Kind of Extinction Rebellion

Five Ways Food Production Can Reduce Our Carbon Footprint

Roar Bjonnes

A quick look at five key steps we can take to make our food systems more sustainable.

Aluminum Produced in Norway Has the World’s Lowest Carbon Footprint

Roar Bjonnes

For over a hundred years, Norway has built industry using hydropower, which was also the beginning of the country’s modern society. Today, when reduced emissions are critical in stopping climate change, Norway has a great advantage: an entire industry powered by clean renewable hydropower.

Buen Vivir: The Good Life for People and Planet

Natasha Chassagne

Buen Vivir is a complex concept for social and environmental sustainability based on Indigenous worldviews – one that has evolved over time to include ideas from politics, academia and non-Indigenous communities.

Consumption: The Cause and the Solution to Environmental Destruction

Roar Bjonnes

Between 60-80 per cent of the impacts on the planet come from household consumption. If we change our consumption habits, this will have a drastic effect on our environmental footprint as well. But is it realistic to expect that individual lifestyle changes alone will have the needed impact on reducing CO2 emissions?

Beyond Carrying Capacity: Developing a Wellbeing Economy

Roar Bjonnes

The technology and economic growth enthusiasts will argue that new, more sustainable technology will counter any problems caused to the environment. We can grow indefinitely. There is some truth in both outlooks.

The Path to and beyond COP26 : Why it’s Important and what needs to Happen Pt III

Natasha Chassagne

The global capitalist system that rewards competition and the exploitation of nature for the accumulation of individual wealth can no longer be logically and ethically argued as best system for an economy bounded by social injustices and planetary restraints.

The Path to and Beyond COP26: Why it’s Important and what needs to Happen Part I

Natasha Chassagne

An overwhelming number of people around the world have listened to the climate science and now want those in power to act with urgency and resolve, rather than continue the conflated lip service we have heard from environmental negotiations over the past three decades.

The Future of the Electric Car: A Systems Change Perspective

Roar Bjonnes

Innovating scientists and economic policy makers committed to maximizing profit margins promise that we can stop global warming with great inventions coupled with a free market to sell them. The electric vehicle (EV) is one such great invention. But is it really that simple?

Local food and global food security

Emily Folk

Local food systems provide a truly sustainable alternative to unwieldy and environmentally damaging global food chains.

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To Reduce Our Carbon Footprint, We Need Another Kind of Extinction Rebellion

Five Ways Food Production Can Reduce Our Carbon Footprint

Aluminum Produced in Norway Has the World’s Lowest Carbon Footprint

Buen Vivir: The Good Life for People and Planet

Consumption: The Cause and the Solution to Environmental Destruction

Beyond Carrying Capacity: Developing a Wellbeing Economy

The Path to and beyond COP26 : Why it’s Important and what needs to Happen Pt III

The Path to and Beyond COP26: Why it’s Important and what needs to Happen Part I

The Future of the Electric Car: A Systems Change Perspective

Local food and global food security

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