Link: WorldChanging: Commentary: Reconciling Poverty, Sustainability, and the Financial Crisis
"The human economy is wholly contained within the global biosphere-and if the biosphere's productivity is undermined, the human economy will suffer." This gets said so often, but rarely do politicians get it.
Link: WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Don't Just Be the Change, Mass-Produce It
"We don't need more people living marginally greener lifestyles. We need thousands of people, millions of people, swarming out of their lifestyles and leading worldchanging lives..." (READ THIS)
Link: WorldChanging: Chocolate Can Save the Planet -- Hurrah!
"in eastern Brazil, there's a cacao plantation that's being maintained as a multi-canopied rainforest, creating a valuable agricultural crop while also maintaining the rainforest's ability to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere."
Link: Stay Another Day
"Our goal is to promote "destination friendly" tourism, by connecting travellers with organisations that are in some way helping to conserve local culture and heritage, support community projects benefitting local people or initiatives to lessen negative
Link: TED | Talks | Amory Lovins: We must win the oil endgame (video)
"Energy guru Amory Lovins lays out his plan for weaning the US off oil -- and revitalizing the economy in the process."
Link: The party's over and Liberals will soon be history - Opinion - smh.com.au
"By 2014, we will have a struggle between a new left and right - Labor and Green - and the issue will be simply how green, how to balance the need for a much simpler and more communal kind of life, with the need to give people comfort and amenity now."
Link: A Note To Employers: 8 Things Intelligent People, Geeks and Nerds Need To Work Happily
Link: Personal Kyoto: Achieve Your Own Personal Kyoto Protocol!
Pity something like this doesn't exist for Melbourne
Link: Neco - Australia's Eco Hardware Store.
Australian group that has the option to assist people with getting to a carbon neutral point.
Link: Houses of the Future: Cardboard House
A house built out of carboard - completely recyclable. Interesting design.
Link: Marine park ban on gas, oil searches - National - www.theage.com.au
Bracks Government show they're not all bad when it comes to intelligent policies

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