The Global Footprint Network has just released their most recent data, and it says that we need 1.4 Earths to provide enough resources for our rate of consumption and to absorb our waste, including CO2 emissions. (http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/blog/) But we only have one Earth, so how is it possible to use more than we have? The [...]
Post-Copenhagen Assessment
Dear All. Below is the most thoughtful post-Copenhagen assessment I have seen yet. It is by Mathis Wackernagel of the Footprint Network. I especially like his assessment that it is pointless to “negotiate” over emissions because we all have to give up burning carbon. This is a point that several Our Task members have been [...]
Thoughts on Corporate Ethics
Like many Americans over the last year, I have been swept up in the masses of the underemployed. My field is, like its title, still developing. During economic hardships, programs in sustainability are cut due to budget shortfalls, and thus, no new hires. It was in this futile search for employment with some of Colorado’s [...]
