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Sustainability

HOME

September 14, 2009 Environment
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“In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution.” HOME is the new documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand that teaches us about the fragility of the one and only home we all share. It is a beautifully crafted and narrated film that tells the [...]

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Picture These Shocking Stats

June 20, 2009 Art & Design
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My understanding of good art is that it should challenge the status quo and give us reason to react. Chris Jordan’s work is simply effective by helping people to see and connect with the statistics with which we are inundated. “This is 1 million plastic cups. Which is the number of plastic cups that are [...]

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The Great Disruption

March 9, 2009 Economics
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Thomas L Friedman wrote a great column in the New York Times questioning whether the global financial crisis is indicative of a greater failure in our society.
“What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply unsustainable economically and ecologically and that 2008 was when we [...]

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